[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API + PHP and Python

2009-07-24 Thread Joseph
Have you resolved this problem? suggestion: did you try writing the raw output to a file (like every hour, and then create another file, and so on), and then have another script process the JSON? On Jun 8, 1:16 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am stumped.  For several days

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-24 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
Isn't this what I said? -- Hwee-Boon On Jul 24, 2:36 pm, srikanth reddy srikanth.yara...@gmail.com wrote: @jim.renkel. Thanks a ton. I think now it is clear. It appears to me that each user of a white-listed site gets 20k requests per hour, independent of any other users of that site or

[twitter-dev] Re: API Curl: Status update result: http_code =0!

2009-07-24 Thread lda
Thx worked On 20 Jul., 20:27, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, I think I may have an idea... You both are setting the status in the query string (more like a GET request) and setting curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1). But, It doesn't look like either of you are setting a

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth_token and secret length

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Badera
http://groups.google.com/group/oauth/browse_thread/thread/d4b7f1f9174041ca?hl=en Side note, top-posted for your pleasure simply because of the demanding, twice-accented-by-exclamation point note in your sig. I prefer a bottom quote myself, but I think it's your exclamation points that pushed me

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth_token and secret length

2009-07-24 Thread shiplu
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/oauth/browse_thread/thread/d4b7f1f9174041ca?hl=en Thanks. But I have read that already. I thought twitter would have a max length defined. -- A K M Mokaddim http://talk.cmyweb.net

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

2009-07-24 Thread TinBlue
Why will it not apply to OAuth? OAuth is having this problem too!! Not happy! On Jul 23, 12:15 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Scott,This change will only affect Basic Auth, and will not affect OAuth applications. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Scott

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

2009-07-24 Thread TinBlue
What do you mean the change won't affect OAuth? My application has been suffering from this issue ever since you made the limit change. My application has the ability to use either Basic or OAuth. My twitter users get blocked with the 403 error after a few minutes of usage because they reach the

[twitter-dev] Re: Change your avatar's Twitter

2009-07-24 Thread Leo Baiano
I would like to know if anyone knows an example using PHP to change image 2009/7/23 Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com: How to replace the image of the avatar through the Twitter API or any other form automatically?

[twitter-dev] need help with OAuth library usage in cocoa app

2009-07-24 Thread Fares Farhan
Dear Twitter developers, First, I apologize if I misplace the question. I've cloned Isaiah's git repository of his AOuth implementation from http://github.com/yourhead/OAuth_ObjC_Test_App/tree/master but I experienced an issue that after the web sheet closed, there is no place that I can put

[twitter-dev] Re: need help with OAuth library usage in cocoa app

2009-07-24 Thread Isaiah
My example was built right as the pin code method was invented/ implemented in the API. So my example still uses the Browser method that doesn't require a pin code. If you go to your application settings page in twitter and set your Application Type to be Browser you should be good to

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

2009-07-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jim raised a huge weakness with the authentication rate limiting that could essentially break third-party apps. Anybody can try to add anybody else's Twitter account to a third-party app using an invalid password. If they do that 15 times with a Twitter account, the real owner of that Twitter

[twitter-dev] I'd like to get on the Developer for Hire page

2009-07-24 Thread kovshenin
I believe I have to request this, cause requesting a develoeprs account with the raised limits and whitelisted IP didn't get me into that list. I'm a Twitter developer and I'd like to be listed there together with my recent Twitter app called Foller.me (http:// foller.me) Thank you.

[twitter-dev] Re: Update multiple users at once

2009-07-24 Thread Abraham Williams
You can use curl_multi_* to make multiple requests in parallel. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-multi-exec.php On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:30, DavidH david.h...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers for that: it's what I thought but just wanted to check. Guess I'll have to queue separate cron

[twitter-dev] New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
On Twitter's new site, http://business.twitter.com, under the heading Best Practices, the following is listed as a spamming practice: Following churn: Following and unfollowing the same people repeatedly, as well as following and unfollowing those who don't follow back, are both violations of

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-24 Thread st...@implu.com
I'm experiencing the same issue with implu. With 14,408 follows, I should go up to page 145. However, the last page of data is 101 and 102 onwards returns nothing. http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/implu.xml?page=102 The following call does seem to return all the friends/ids however.

[twitter-dev] Re: follow limits

2009-07-24 Thread Dean Collins
If you have 7000 people following you already it's not the 2000/1900 follow restriction it's just the daily follow limit API. Wait until tomorrow and try again etc. This will obvious take 5 days for you to get all follow backs implemented. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-24 Thread Joseph
Just as aside, does anyone know if each call to a new page counts against the API limit? On Jul 24, 8:08 am, st...@implu.com st...@implu.com wrote: I'm experiencing the same issue with implu. With 14,408 follows, I should go up to page 145. However, the last page of data is 101 and 102

[twitter-dev] Re: New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread Vision Jinx
What? Re: as well as following and unfollowing those who don't follow back, are both violations of our terms of service. What gives Twitter the right to dictate who you want to follow or not? That is like Gmail saying you can't remove contacts from your contacts list. When I signed up it

[twitter-dev] Re: New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread RandyC
The way I read the actual text it suggests that following and then unfollowing in a short period of time is the violation...not that you can't unfollow someone who didn't follow you. In fact, isn't following someone who doesn't want to follow you back a form of stalking for some people? I've

[twitter-dev] Re: New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Badera
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Vision Jinx vjn...@gmail.com wrote: What? Re: as well as following and unfollowing those who don't follow back, are both violations of our terms of service. What gives Twitter the right to dictate who you want to follow or not? That is like Gmail saying

[twitter-dev] Re: New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread Dale Merritt
you knew that was going to happen. How about bulk follows, if that its done in a thoughtful way? On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: On Twitter's new site, http://business.twitter.com, under the heading Best Practices, the following is listed as a

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

2009-07-24 Thread Joshua Perry
Jim's concern is valid, fortunately OAuth is immune to brute-force attacks once the access key has been issued to an application. For this reason alone I would urge people to switch to OAuth if at all possible. I would hope (and assume) that if login attempts for an account are locked out

[twitter-dev] Re: New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread Joshua Perry
Think about a bot who just bulk follows random people, it then would kept track of users who didn't blindly or automatically follow back and dump them quickly and try following another batch of users so that it wouldn't bust it's follow ratio limit. Using this strategy a bot could eventually

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-24 Thread Karthik Murugan
yes, each page request counts against the API limit On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: Just as aside, does anyone know if each call to a new page counts against the API limit? On Jul 24, 8:08 am, st...@implu.com st...@implu.com wrote: I'm experiencing

[twitter-dev] Re: New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread David Fisher
What gives Twitter the right to dictate who you want to follow or not? Its their service. They can dictate what they want. Their playground, their rules. The ToS clearly says they can alter their terms at any time and if you don't want to comply you can leave. That being said, this is to

[twitter-dev] Re: New Twist To Follow Terms Violations

2009-07-24 Thread Vision Jinx
Thanks for the comments RandyC and Joshua Perry! I just started a Twitter account so I could develop free Twitter apps and tweet things I thought my friends would find interesting and in a short period of time I gathered a few followers (more then I actually expected). I don't know the twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-24 Thread Bill Kocik
If this is correct (and I don't think it is), then it's very different from what has always been my understanding. I've stated a few times on this list my belief that if you're going to be supporting a significant number of simultaneous users, whitelisting works against you. No one has ever

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-24 Thread Bill Kocik
On Jul 24, 4:13 am, Hwee-Boon Yar hweeb...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't this what I said? I don't think it is. I think your take is correct. What's telling is this bit of text from up the chain: It appears to me that each user of a white-listed site gets 20k requests per hour. I don't believe it's

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
The API removes suspended accounts lazily at read time which is why you may receive incomplete pages (less users than the count parameter specifies). We are still working to report correct follower numbers in a timely matter which was the reason for last night's maintenance work (see

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-24 Thread Dossy Shiobara
I suspect this lazy updating of the summary data (follower counts) explains why people keep saying I used Twitter Karma, and all of a sudden I lost hundreds of followers! :-) On 7/24/09 4:39 PM, Doug Williams wrote: The API removes suspended accounts lazily at read time which is why you

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

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
Well said Joshua. Dewald, you have identified the risk of using basic authentication. If your users being locked out due to malicious behavior, you should either implement further user-level rate limiting on your side or adopt OAuth. Are there any other glaring omissions in our thinking or

[twitter-dev] Anyone experiencing any issues with API performance just now?

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan Joyce (Storm ID)
At twibbon.com we are seeing long latencies and frequent failures on API calls, as of 15 minutes ago. No mention on status.twitter.com. Anyone else experiencing any issues? Jonathan Joyce Founder Twibbon.com

[twitter-dev] Is it possible to receive a list of twitter users starting with a given string ?

2009-07-24 Thread VaN
Hello, For example, I'd like to display all the twitter users starting with guy, in AJAX. I would have a text input. the user would write down guy, I would send that string to the twitter API, that would send me back a list of all the users with the name starting with guy. Is this thing

[twitter-dev] The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

2009-07-24 Thread HatMan
Working in C# trying to send a tweet using Basic Auth with my own current credentials from a Vista machine running IIS7. Any reason why I am getting 401 Unauthorized? try { string user = Convert.ToBase64String (System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(metroUserName + : +

[twitter-dev] Re: need help with OAuth library usage in cocoa app

2009-07-24 Thread Fares Farhan
Thank you for your prompt reply Isaiah, Thank you also for the offer of emailing you directly, but I think your code is also precious for other newbie like me who want to know more about this OAuth thing :) About changing application type to be Browser, then there is Callback URL: box that I

[twitter-dev] Re: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

2009-07-24 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 13:43 -0700, HatMan wrote: Working in C# trying to send a tweet using Basic Auth with my own current credentials from a Vista machine running IIS7. Any reason why I am getting 401 Unauthorized? try { string user = Convert.ToBase64String

[twitter-dev] Re: need help with OAuth library usage in cocoa app

2009-07-24 Thread Isaiah
Thank you for your prompt reply Isaiah, No worries. Glad to help out. Thank you also for the offer of emailing you directly, but I think your code is also precious for other newbie like me who want to know more about this OAuth thing :) It wasn't so easy to figure out a nice way to do

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

2009-07-24 Thread Marco Kaiser
I think Dewald's concern is very valid - and even though OAuth might solve it, the reality is that most (if not all) desktop and mobile apps are using Basic Auth today for various reasons, so if you implement this policy as described, there's a pretty high risk that many users can be locked out of

[twitter-dev] id field is missing in status from streaming API frequently

2009-07-24 Thread AJ Chen
twitter streaming api has lots of statuses missing id? the following exception appears almost continuously in my log. it indicates the id field is missing in status from streaming API. twitter4j.TwitterException: JSONObject[id] not found.:{delete:{status:{id:2813410502,user_id:47157439}}}

[twitter-dev] Re: id field is missing in status from streaming API frequently

2009-07-24 Thread John Kalucki
It appears that you are treating status deletions as statuses. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Jul 24, 3:18 pm, AJ Chen cano...@gmail.com wrote: twitter streaming api has lots of statuses missing id? the following exception appears almost continuously in

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

2009-07-24 Thread Abraham Williams
I would much rather have Twitter lock me out of my account for an hour then let some script kiddie brute force my password. Thanks Twitter. Abraham On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 14:51, Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I think Dewald's concern is very valid - and even though OAuth might

[twitter-dev] Re: id field is missing in status from streaming API frequently

2009-07-24 Thread Abraham Williams
To clarify what John said. Those reference existing statuses that users are deleting and you are being notified to also delete them from you database. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 15:20, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that you are treating status deletions as statuses. -John

[twitter-dev] Re: need help with OAuth library usage in cocoa app

2009-07-24 Thread Fares Farhan
Magic! Now it works.. thanks a ton Isaiah :) On Jul 25, 4:40 am, Isaiah supp...@yourhead.com wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply Isaiah, No worries.  Glad to help out. Thank you also for the offer of emailing you directly, but I think your code is also precious for other newbie like

[twitter-dev] Re: Search / track term

2009-07-24 Thread Joel Strellner
No. If you are tracking 3 things, for example, the only way to determine which of those 3 terms matched, would be for you to search within the tweet for your terms and determine it yourself. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: If I'm tracking a hash tag

[twitter-dev] Re: id field is missing in status from streaming API frequently

2009-07-24 Thread AJ Chen
John, thanks. Yusuke, it may be a good idea for twitter4j library to exclude the deleted statuses as they are received. currently, twitter4j throws an exception for them, which is less informative. thanks. -aj On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: It appears

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