[twitter-dev] using whitelisted account for getting multiple user statuses

2009-07-21 Thread BG
My application retrieves status of multiple Twitter users. I have a whitelisted account for a username. The Twitter API documentation recommends that I use whitelisted IP Addresses to get the statuses. However, my IP addresses change pretty often, so I would like to know if it is possible to make

[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie to seek advice on the flow of a twitter app with OAuth

2009-07-21 Thread CG
you can use localhost ? really ? just update the callback to http://localhost/xxx ? On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM, CG learn@gmail.com wrote: Please ignore my question, I already solve it. It seems like it required

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread sjespers
Thanks for looking in to this and for unsuspending my account. Did you also confirm that the server I am working from is whitelisted? How can I make sure that it is? If it's not, then I won't be able to release my application because everyone will get suspended who uses it then? Thanks, Serge

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Serge, You can always verify the whitelisted status of your IP or user through a call to account/rate_limit_status. For instance, here are my results: doug$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash reset-time

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread sjespers
Thanks. So I was able to verify that my server is whitelisted. However, is 2 API calls enough for a proxy? Let me explain. I'm building a Twitter client in Flash Lite. Flash Lite currently only supports ActionScript2. Because there is no AS2 Twitter API, I'm using a server side API proxy. So,

[twitter-dev] How to use Sign-in-with-Twitter in Web App with username and password ?

2009-07-21 Thread CG
Hi all, Sorry for a newbie question again but I am a bit confuse with the Sign-in-with-Twitter feature .. I came across some Twitter app , which let user key in their twitter account and password , then authenticate the user via API call . I came across also Sign-in-with-Twitter feature in

[twitter-dev] Re: How to use Sign-in-with-Twitter in Web App with username and password ?

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi, The numeric user id is part of the access token (I believe it is the first part), however, on twollo.com I immediately call verify_credentials.json to get the account details of the authenticating user. Paul 2009/7/21 CG learn@gmail.com Hi all, Sorry for a newbie question again but

[twitter-dev] Re: Is it possible to control the source name

2009-07-21 Thread victor castleton
Thank you for the info; @ any rate is has slow down considerably, it seems to be manageable for the time being. VJC -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of victor castleton Sent: Wednesday, July

[twitter-dev] encoding password

2009-07-21 Thread RV
Hi, I have been using the twitter api for 2 weeks now and everything seems to work, but i have 1 problem with a certain user to get his user feed. Í'm using curl to retrieve the data but im getting the following error: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash

[twitter-dev] json - user.following

2009-07-21 Thread Stoned
Hi, I am making a Twitter Mod for Garry's Mod (HL2 Modification). When checking out the Tweets which I receive with json I was wondering about this: http://gtweet.pastebin.com/m3b888a6 As you can see, some Tweets have the entry user.following = true / false and some just don't have it. Can

[twitter-dev] Search API error {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently}

2009-07-21 Thread matthew
I am polling the search API every 60 seconds and intermittently receiving the following error: {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently} Is this behavior to be expected or is there some problem? Matthew Schrock

[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?

2009-07-21 Thread Justin Hart
Hi, what app were you using? Just the website? On Jul 20, 4:20 pm, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 when i was inputting but the post count is 133? On Jul 20, 3:11 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you look

[twitter-dev] Search API error {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently}

2009-07-21 Thread matthew
I am polling the Search API and intermittently receive the following error: {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently} Is this to be expected or this something going wrong on the server side? Matthew Schrock

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API error {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently}

2009-07-21 Thread Chad Etzel
That usually happens when the search servers get out of sync and the since_id tweet hasn't been indexed on the other server(s) yet, so it thinks it's a tweet from the future. -Chad On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM, matthewjesc...@gmail.com wrote: I am polling the Search API and intermittently

[twitter-dev] Re: tex

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
Please see http://help.twitter.com/ for questions about using Twitter over SMS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 20:07, canpaulcanpau...@gmail.com wrote: i have a metroPCS cell phone i cant get your texes whats up with that. -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API error {error:since_id too recent, poll less frequently}

2009-07-21 Thread matthew
Chad, Good to know. Thanks for your help. Matthew On Jul 21, 2:13 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: That usually happens when the search servers get out of sync and the since_id tweet hasn't been indexed on the other server(s) yet, so it thinks it's a tweet from the future. -Chad

[twitter-dev] Re: using whitelisted account for getting multiple user statuses

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
It's possible to apply whitelisted rate limits to authenticated requests, whether the request is made with Basic Auth or OAuth. If the requesting user is whitelisted, the higher rate limit will take effect. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 23:38, BGbinug...@gmail.com wrote: My application retrieves

[twitter-dev] Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi API Team, A few of us have been discussing off list a funky behavior we have been noticing and now users are starting to notice. There is a problem for sites/apps like TweetGrid and TweetChat which auto-refresh tweets based on the Search API using the since_id. People are noticing that these

[twitter-dev] Re: encoding password

2009-07-21 Thread Chad Etzel
If you are POSTing the user/pass down to a script that uses curl to get the information, you should urlencode the username and password before you POST them then urldecode them once received by the curl'ing script. An sign in a variable will screw up your POST variables if not escaped/encoded

[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?

2009-07-21 Thread Abir
yes just the twitgoo website On Jul 21, 8:38 am, Justin Hart onyxra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, what app were you using?  Just the website? On Jul 20, 4:20 pm, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 when i was inputting but the

[twitter-dev] How many ID's are returned on API Call - blocks blocking ids

2009-07-21 Thread Tim
I'm wondering how many ids are returned when you ask for the authenticated users blocked id's. The other id calls return 5,000 per page, but I was unsure on blocks. Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Chad,Your assessment is spot on. At the heart of search there are a number of data stores that accept queries (reads) while at the same time perform writes from an indexer. Heavy load -- large numbers of queries, large number of writes or both, or both -- can cause the write replication between

[twitter-dev] Help on posting a link on Twitter...

2009-07-21 Thread Travis Williams
I could really use some probably simple help on posting a Google Map link to Twitter, which comes from an app of mine through the API. Basically I'd want to post the entire link like this to twitter from my app: Here is the data I send twitter in the API: is sharing the location for NAME.

[twitter-dev] Re: Help on posting a link on Twitter...

2009-07-21 Thread Tim
I'm assuming your link should have an instead of a second ? . Bad http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q?q=100.0,50.0%20%28SPOT%20NAME%29; Good http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qq=100.0,50.0%20%28SPOT%20NAME%29; On Jul 21, 2:53 pm, Travis Williams travw...@gmail.com wrote: I could

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Kocik
On Jul 21, 3:48 am, sjespers se...@webkitchen.be wrote: Because there is no AS2 Twitter API, I'm using a server side API proxy. So, the Flash Lite app connects to mtwit.net mtwit.net connects to Twitter.com mtwit returns XML data to my app. Is there some reason the app cannot connect

[twitter-dev] Registering our application as browser-based or desktop

2009-07-21 Thread Bradley Wagner
Hi, I work on a Content Management System solution in which we're currently trying to integrate Twitter. Here is the issue: Our software is installed, so while it is browser-based there is not a consistent URL to redirect people to and thus nothing that really makes sense to fill out when

[twitter-dev] Re: Registering our application as browser-based or desktop

2009-07-21 Thread Hedley Robertson
If you set the oauth_callback with a value of oob, it will not redirect the user, but provide the PIN style authorization behavior. See this older post on the new style of calling these params: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/472500cfe9e7cdb9 Hope this

[twitter-dev] Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Devs --A change shipped last week that limited the number of times a user could access the account/verify_credentials method [1] in a given hour. This change proved hasty and short-sighted as pointed out by the subsequent discussion [2]. We apologize to any developer that was adversely affected.

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Let's bring the discussion on the update to the new thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/2d68c74567bc9809 Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Martin, The change certainly went out prematurely

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Scott
Thanks for the update Doug. Does this still apply to OAuth apps? Also, if a user goes through an app and unsuccessfully attempts to login 15 times will that app be blocked from authenticating anybody for an hour or just that user? The previous change seemed to block the entire app from making

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Josh Perry
To be honest ever since the x-rate-limit HTTP headers were added we removed the call to verify_credentials from our Twitter API layer. Every time that our Twitter API layer does an HTTP request it squirrels away the header values and any requests to our API from the application for rate-limit

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Brooks Bennett
Thanks for posting this Chad! Doug, please keep us updated on how things progress with this issue so we can pass along guidance to our user-base. Hopefully the improvements will come in the near-term. Thanks for all that you guys do! Brooks On Jul 21, 3:45 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Twitter credentials

2009-07-21 Thread raj
1.Is there any twitter api method (php) to get credentials both username and password 2.How to use oauth_token returned in call back url, with this token is there any way to get twitter credentials both username and password, Thanks for your help in advance!

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter credentials

2009-07-21 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:32 PM, rajrajsmaru...@gmail.com wrote: 1.Is there any twitter api method (php) to get credentials both username and password 2.How to use oauth_token returned in call back url, with this token is there any way to get twitter credentials both username and password,

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter credentials

2009-07-21 Thread Petermdenton
Raj, You might also want to describe what you are trying to do, and some can help you to understand the way they do it. Thanks Peter On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:32 PM, raj rajsmaru...@gmail.com wrote: 1.Is there any twitter api method (php) to get credentials both username and password 2.How

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Jesse Stay
Josh, is there a way, without verify_credentials, to identify that users have changed their Twitter passwords (and therefore you are no longer able to authenticate for them)? For client apps, I don't see this being as much of a problem, but for server-based apps that run regular scripts on behalf