[twitter-dev] Re: Are the Consumer Token and Secret assigned to a specific Server IP address

2009-08-05 Thread srikanth reddy
I dont think even access token is linked to IP.( i actually verified the tokens on different IP) Stealing access token alone is not enough to use protected service. You need consumer secret, access secret to sign the request and i believe access token is linked to consumer and is unique for

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-05 Thread Coderanger
I would agree, this area needs some TLC as my post suggested: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/0f57965561504a1c?hl=en

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

2009-08-05 Thread Goblin
Did the rollback happen? On Aug 3, 6:56 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: The rollback should be deployed tomorrow. Sorry for the delay. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 23:36, Jesse Stayjesses...@gmail.com wrote: A timeframe would be very helpful. This is turning out to be a headache as I'm

[twitter-dev] following twitter conversations by topics

2009-08-05 Thread AJ Chen
After playing around with auto-discovery of topics in twitter conversations for a while, it seems to me that following topics is another effective way to communicate on twitter. So, I've added a new set of features on http://web2express.org website to make it easy for people to follow and tweet

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter clients on Twitter.com

2009-08-05 Thread Rich
Thanks Chad I thought it would be something like that, just hope my Twitter iphone push client gets noticed by you guys ;) On Aug 4, 11:48 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Richard, Please see:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowcanIgetmyappinthesidebarpromotionbox Thanks, -Chad

[twitter-dev] Re: Are the Consumer Token and Secret assigned to a specific Server IP address

2009-08-05 Thread Michael E. Carluen
Josh, Srikanth- Thank you very much for your suggestions. I did check the cache, and revalidated the IP scenario again, but with no luck. The problem was actually caused by an incorrect server clock setting on the new server. The server clock was giving a utc offset equivalent to -54000,

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter clients on Twitter.com

2009-08-05 Thread Dean Collins
We get our suggestions from users adopting a particular application and this feedback occurs how exactly? - I doubt there is anyway for you to track people who have purchased www.MyTwitterButler.com licenses. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net +1-212-203-4357

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-05 Thread Duane Roelands
If your users don't understand why they're seeing the Twitter login screen, then your application needs to do a better job of explaining it. On Aug 4, 2:05 pm, John Kristian jmkrist...@gmail.com wrote: a user who's focused on the application won't see the first page and wonder, Why must I log

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter clients on Twitter.com

2009-08-05 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: We get our suggestions from users adopting a particular application and this feedback occurs how exactly? - I doubt there is anyway for you to track people who have purchased www.MyTwitterButler.com licenses.

[twitter-dev] Re: Knowing how to judge Search API rate limits

2009-08-05 Thread steve
Thanks Chad - I will cut the numbers down as detailed. I have added code to handle 503 responses and to wait for the time dictated by the retry field, so if I *do* hit the buffers, at least it will be handled. I'll log the fact as well, so that I can tune the pauses. I'll give it a go and hope

[twitter-dev] Read Status in API

2009-08-05 Thread Chris
I've searched everywhere if this has been suggested as I can't imagine it has not been. Is there a way to add a flag to the API that denotes whether the tweet/reply/dm has been read? That way the read status can be synchronized across various devices?

[twitter-dev] Re: Preserve original URL in Twitter API

2009-08-05 Thread taiyo fujii
search.twitter.com have interface (It seems undocumented) for tinyURL, bit.ly and others. http://search.twitter.com/hugeurl?url=http://tinyurl.com/[alias] - [original URL] Will it to be implemented on twitter API? On Aug 5, 6:16 am, burton burtona...@gmail.com wrote: I had this idea at lunch

[twitter-dev] Getting a 500 Error with oAuth Plus Signpost (Java)

2009-08-05 Thread msea85
Background: I am using Signpost (http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/wiki/ TwitterAndSignpost) to try and post some updates to Twitter via oAuth. I get through the oAuth authentication just fine, get my access token and secret and make sure they are loaded into the Consumer object. I then

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Verify Credentials

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Babcock
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:40:27 -0400 Bob Fishel b...@bobforthejob.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Bob Fishelb...@bobforthejob.com wrote: From the api documentation: Because this method can be a vector for a brute force dictionary attack to determine a user's password, it is

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Verify Credentials

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Babcock
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:40:27 -0400 Bob Fishel b...@bobforthejob.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Bob Fishelb...@bobforthejob.com wrote: From the api documentation: Because this method can be a vector for a brute force dictionary attack to determine a user's password, it is

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

2009-08-05 Thread Antony
Would it be possible to have an update on this issue? It seems it's stifling a lot of developers, me included.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search returning slightly different text than actual tweet

2009-08-05 Thread stephane
So now all links with query that are not tinyfied are broken in search results (web and API)... any ETA for a bugfix ? Cheers, Stephane www.twazzup.com On Aug 4, 10:20 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: There is a current issue where the Search API is omitting question marks from search

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

2009-08-05 Thread Antony
It would appear not - just tried our app and after 15 page loads it breaks. Our site uses OAuth to sign users in, so we use verifycredentials on each page request to ensure the session is still valid and return user details. On our system it is quite likely that the user will see more than 15

[twitter-dev] xml results from search with location?

2009-08-05 Thread Bill
Hi. I know how to get an xml formatted result set from a search, eg: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter and I know how to do a search that shows the location, eg: http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.xml Is there some way to get the location and focusing on a particular

[twitter-dev] Re: Knowing how to judge Search API rate limits

2009-08-05 Thread John Kalucki
Steve, It sounds like you should consider the /follow method in the streaming API. You'll get similar results with no latency or rate limits. If you need to follow more users, apply for the /shadow method. If you also want mentions, you can use /track. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter clients on Twitter.com

2009-08-05 Thread Rich
Hey I might have mentioned it, but I purposely didn't give names, websites, etc as I didn't want to abuse things! On Aug 5, 12:35 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: We get our suggestions from users adopting a

[twitter-dev] Re: Preserve original URL in Twitter API

2009-08-05 Thread Rich
Oooh that would be useful. If the API devs give us permission I'd love to implement that! On Aug 5, 2:13 am, taiyo fujii taiyos...@gmail.com wrote: search.twitter.com have interface (It seems undocumented) for tinyURL, bit.ly and others.

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

2009-08-05 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Alex, Did the change go live on Tuesday? I have very irate users due to this issue. There are spam bots out there that got hold of users' credentials. The users have changed their Twitter passwords to get rid of the spam tweets published in their timelines, but now those bots are locking them

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Publishing Issue?

2009-08-05 Thread Dewald Pretorius
And just for clarity, I'm excluding duplicate tweet filtering from my question. I'm referring to unique tweets that one would expect to be published.

[twitter-dev] Re: Read Status in API

2009-08-05 Thread Josh Roesslein
The twitter api has no such flag available. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Chris cpot...@siolon.com wrote: I've searched everywhere if this has been suggested as I can't imagine it has not been. Is there a way to add a flag to the API that denotes whether the tweet/reply/dm has been read?

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

2009-08-05 Thread Alex Payne
The change did not go live yesterday due to some deploy issues. It's not estimated to go out tomorrow. Once again, sorry for the delay. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 07:48, Dewald Pretoriusdpr...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, Did the change go live on Tuesday? I have very irate users due to this issue.

[twitter-dev] Re: following twitter conversations by topics

2009-08-05 Thread AJ Chen
please check the about page on http://web2express.org. basically, it uses OpenCalais semantic analysis service as well as OpenNlp tools. I like these free tools. Another one is the stanford parser, but it's slower. The key is to make the whole process of auto-discovery superfast so that the

[twitter-dev] Re: following twitter conversations by topics

2009-08-05 Thread Scott Haneda
Can you tell me more about this auto topic discovery feature? I am not seeing anything of that nature on the twitter Web site at all. On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:29 AM, AJ Chen wrote: After playing around with auto-discovery of topics in twitter conversations for a while, it seems to me that

[twitter-dev] Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-05 Thread Bob Fishel
From the Rate Limiting documentation: IP whitelisting takes precedence to account rate limits. GET requests from a whitelisted IP address made on a user's behalf will be deducted from the whitelisted IP's limit, not the users. Therefore, IP-based whitelisting is a best practice for applications

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Verify Credentials

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Stay
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Chris Babcock cbabc...@kolonelpanic.comwrote: I would strongly recommend OAuth for verifying users, or at least making it an option, as there is a DoS attack possible against service providers who rely on this API for access to their app. Chris Babcock I'm

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-05 Thread Jesse Stay
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: If your users don't understand why they're seeing the Twitter login screen, then your application needs to do a better job of explaining it. Duane I don't think this has anything to do with that. Having worked on