[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread srikanth reddy
With a whitelisted IP you can make 20k auth calls per hour for each user. Once you reach this limit for a user you cannot make any auth calls from that IP in that duration. But the user can still use his 150 limit from other apps.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth update return HTTP 401 issue

2009-08-06 Thread weijun shen
Hi Nicholas, I have successfully updated status by OAuth, but I have two problems now. Firstly, I failed to update profile image by OAuth. How to OAuth sign the bytes of the image with http content-typemultipart/form-data ? Secondly, As far as I know, there are several ways to to

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Fishel
Wowzers (bonus points for getting the reference) It appears as if each user does get 20k (according to the linked threads) this is I think what they intended and makes apps a LOT easier to develop as you can now do rate limiting (ie caching and sleeping etc...) based on each user and not on an

[twitter-dev] Re: Tracking Retweets

2009-08-06 Thread Abraham Williams
People using Identi.ca may also be using RD for ReDent. Abraham 2009/8/4 Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com cool, Thanks! On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: I would add: Retweet[:]? Retweeting[:]? those aren't being used as often now, but I still see

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

2009-08-06 Thread Goblin
Alex, is that *not* estimated or was it an iPhone being daft and changing now to not? On Aug 5, 7:11 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: 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,

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Bob, Don't base your app on the assumption that it is 20,000 calls per hour per user. You get 20,000 GET calls per whitelisted IP address, period. It does not matter if you use those calls for one Twitter account or 10,000 Twitter accounts. If the API is currently behaving differently, then it

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jesse, Amen to that. When one does customer support for long enough, you quickly realize that: a) People do not read instructions, and b) Many people are not as computer literate as you'd wish them to be. If you send people all over the place, many go, WTF, and abandon the process out of

[twitter-dev] Re: Tracking Retweets

2009-08-06 Thread caio ariede
I think the better way is matching the @nickname of original message + some words of the tweet But this some words of your tweet can be a link, if it contains one. Caio Ariede http://caioariede.com/ On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: People using

[twitter-dev] Using twitter for internal enterprise communication

2009-08-06 Thread michel777
Dear group, some questions for using twitter in a closed group (enterprise): 1) is there already a solution using twitter for a closed group ? 2) is it possible to integrate LDAP for authentication / authorization ? 3) is also possible to communicate via https + client certificate ? Thanks in

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 400 Bad Request

2009-08-06 Thread 0m4r
Hey Alan, thanks for your answer... you know what, you are right, I don't know exactly why, but I'm not performing an HTTP GET but an HTTP OPTION. This can be related to FireFox 3.5 (see http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/07/cross-site-xmlhttprequest-with-cors/) but even if this is the reason I have

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-06 Thread John Kristian
It's a subtle distinction: users aim to use the application, not the Twitter website. They expect Twitter to ask for their permission, but they don't expect to start using the Twitter website. So they're a little surprised when Twitter asks them to log in. The page doesn't make it clear that

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

2009-08-06 Thread John Kristian
Call setRequestMethod before you call sign. The signature is a function of the method, among other things. On Aug 4, 7:18 pm, msea85 carru...@gmail.com wrote: URL url = new URL(http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml;); HttpURLConnection request = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

[twitter-dev] using twitter images

2009-08-06 Thread DTANG
I am using the twitter REST web service to pull my tweets, but i want to use the twitter logo/icon on my homepage next to my tweets so its obvious to people that im using twitter. How do i get this image/icon? through the api? or can i just go find it at google images?

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

2009-08-06 Thread John Kristian
http://wiki.oauth.net/ProblemReporting would have been helpful here. On Aug 5, 3:52 am, Michael E. Carluen mecarl...@gmail.com wrote: 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, which

[twitter-dev] Mentions count parameter

2009-08-06 Thread michelem
Hi, I'm playing with the statuses/mentions method and I noticed that the count parameters doesn't return the right number of statuses. If I set count=10 it returns me only 7 statuses also if I have a lot more. Is there an explanation? Thanks -- michele

[twitter-dev] Keep Alive in twitter API

2009-08-06 Thread pmduque
Does the Twitter API support keep alive connections so we can send more than a request per connection? Thks, PMD

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Verify Credentials

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Babcock
On Aug 5, 10:15 pm, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Babcock
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Amen to that. When one does customer support for long enough, you quickly realize that: a) People do not read instructions, and b) Many people are not as computer literate as you'd wish them to be. If

[twitter-dev] Problem with in reply to status id

2009-08-06 Thread digi
hello there, I have been trying to fix this for so long but It is not working. I am developing a wndows mobile application for twitter in C# am trying to reply to a status id. The message gets posted but it is not posted as a reply but just an update message. I dont know what I am missing...

[twitter-dev] Re: Using twitter for internal enterprise communication

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:15 AM, michel777 laszlo.miha...@gmx.net wrote: Dear group, some questions for using twitter in a closed group (enterprise): 1) is there already a solution using twitter for a closed group ? 2) is it possible to integrate LDAP for authentication / authorization ?

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

2009-08-06 Thread John Kalucki
Josh, It seems that you can accomplish most of your goals by using the / track feature in the Streaming API. You can then make far fewer calls to the Search API to cover dynamic cases, or fill in whatever else is left. I suspect you'll have a better user experience with far fewer coding and rate

[twitter-dev] Re: using twitter images

2009-08-06 Thread shiplu
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM, DTANGdtan...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the twitter REST web service to pull my tweets, but i want to use the twitter logo/icon on my homepage next to my tweets so its obvious to people that im using twitter. How do i get this image/icon? through the api? or

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep Alive in twitter API

2009-08-06 Thread Abraham Williams
No it does not. Abraham On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 03:42, pmduque pmdu...@gmail.com wrote: Does the Twitter API support keep alive connections so we can send more than a request per connection? Thks, PMD -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker |

[twitter-dev] Re: Using twitter for internal enterprise communication

2009-08-06 Thread Abraham Williams
If you are looking to host your own check out http://laconi.ca/trac/ Abraham On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 06:09, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:15 AM, michel777 laszlo.miha...@gmx.net wrote: Dear group, some questions for using twitter in a closed group

[twitter-dev] Re: using twitter images

2009-08-06 Thread Abraham Williams
https://twitter.com/about#download_logo On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 06:45, shiplu shiplu@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM, DTANGdtan...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the twitter REST web service to pull my tweets, but i want to use the twitter logo/icon on my homepage next to

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep Alive in twitter API

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Abraham is correct. Keep-alives are disabled because of the sheer number of requests that the servers must handle. Keeping any connections open longer than necessary is detrimental to performance. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Abraham Williams4bra...@gmail.com wrote: No it

[twitter-dev] Current Twitter site status

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello all, Some of you may already be aware that the main Twitter site is under a DDoS attack. Please keep a close eye on http://status.twitter.com/ and this list for details and updates. Thanks, -Chad Twitter Platform Support

[twitter-dev] Re: Current Twitter site status

2009-08-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Some of you may already be aware that the main Twitter site is under a DDoS attack. Please keep a close eye on http://status.twitter.com/ and this list for details and updates. Brutal. :-( -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser *

[twitter-dev] Re: Current Twitter site status

2009-08-06 Thread Stuart
2009/8/6 Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com: Some of you may already be aware that the main Twitter site is under a DDoS attack.  Please keep a close eye on http://status.twitter.com/ and this list for details and updates. Encountered seemingly neverending redirects - that can't be helping!!

[twitter-dev] Re: Search is no longer indexing Portuguese (pt) tweets

2009-08-06 Thread JDG
Have you actually opened a support ticket for this? On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 09:53, caio ariede caio.ari...@gmail.com wrote: This issue is killing my app! http://307.to/ Caio Ariede http://caioariede.com/ On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:58 AM, caio ariede caio.ari...@gmail.comwrote: But why

[twitter-dev] Re: Search is no longer indexing Portuguese (pt) tweets

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Caio, If you have not yet opened an issue, please do so here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list I will also ping the Search team about this. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:54 AM, JDGghil...@gmail.com wrote: Have you actually opened a support ticket for this? On

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Verify Credentials

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Fishel
Chris, I too thought that one should call verify credentials with Oauth. How are you suggesting we verify that the token is still active, another call to oauth_authenicate/authorize? Thanks -Bob On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Chris Babcockcbabc...@kolonelpanic.org wrote: On Aug 5, 10:15 

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Chris, If I understand you correctly, you're saying one should login for the user in the OAuth process? Wouldn't that involve scraping the Twitter web interface? Or am I outside the ballpark with my understanding? Dewald On Aug 6, 10:36 am, Chris Babcock cbabc...@kolonelpanic.com wrote: On

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Fishel
Well it seems as though Twitter is saying that 20k calls per user is the intended functionality. Chad or someone else can you confirm this? Also if the correct functionality is 20k per ip per hour will you then fail over to 150 per user per hour or is it cut off? Thanks -Bob On Thu, Aug 6,

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Inspector Gadget, er... Bob, Yes, the current whitelisted IP rate-limit allows 20k calls per hour *per user* on Basic Auth or OAuth or a combination thereof. Go, go gadget data! -Chad Twitter Platform Support On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Robert Fishelbobfis...@gmail.com wrote: Well

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Verify Credentials

2009-08-06 Thread Jesse Stay
What Robert said. You still need to verify. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Robert Fishel bobfis...@gmail.com wrote: Chris, I too thought that one should call verify credentials with Oauth. How are you suggesting we verify that the token is still active, another call to

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Good questions. I agree the phrasing surrounding this topic in the documentation is not extremely clear. I am digging for answers. -Chad On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Jesse Stayjesses...@gmail.com wrote: Chad, did that change recently?  I was told by Alex and others there that it was 20,000

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Chad, Are you 100% sure of that? I mean, in terms of rate limiting that simply does not make sense. For my site, TweetLater.com, it would mean I have an effective hourly rate limit, per IP address, of 2 BILLION IP GET calls per hour! (20,000 per user for 100,000 users). It sounds wrong to me.

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Dewald, I asked The Powers That Be about it, and that was the response I got. However, I am double and triple checking because that does sound too good to be true :) -Chad On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Dewald Pretoriusdpr...@gmail.com wrote: Chad, Are you 100% sure of that? I mean,

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Jesse Stay
Chad, did that change recently? I was told by Alex and others there that it was 20,000 calls per hour, period, per IP. When did that change and why weren't we notified? This will save me a lot of money if it is indeed true. Jesse On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
That would be the same as having no rate limit at all, because really, which app would beed to make 20,000 GET calls per hour on one Twitter account? If that's how it is enforced currently, then that is the reason why the API often gets so overloaded and slow. Dewald On Aug 6, 2:04 pm, Chad

[twitter-dev] What Twitter account is used for important announcements?

2009-08-06 Thread Kee Hinckley
I used to subscribe to SMS notifications from the @twitter account, which was used to send notifications about blog updates and site downtime. That was great. Then a few weeks some idiot in PR apparently took over the account and now it sends frequent postings about asteroid strikes,

[twitter-dev] Re: API converting + text character to white space...

2009-08-06 Thread JDG
+ is the RFC-defined way to send a space. You have to encode your parameters using the API, so + will become %xx, where xx is the hex ascii code for +. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:15, HatMan webmas...@metromilwaukee.com wrote: John+Jane will appear as John Jane when the text is sent via the API

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Just some background. I talked with Doug about this a few months ago, because I observed in the Rate Limit Header of get calls that the 20,000 number decremented by user, not by IP address in aggregate. Doug informed me that he was going to hand the issue over to Matt, who was on vacation at

[twitter-dev] Re: What Twitter account is used for important announcements?

2009-08-06 Thread Peter Denton
Hey Kee, @apiannounce was recently created for changes to the api. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Kee Hinckley naz...@somewhere.com wrote: I used to subscribe to SMS notifications from the @twitter account, which was used to send notifications about blog updates and site downtime. That was

[twitter-dev] Re: What Twitter account is used for important announcements?

2009-08-06 Thread Howard Siegel
Don't know if there is an @twitterstatus account, but there is the Twitter Status Blog at http://status.twitter.com/. - h

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread Jesse Stay
I got the same response from Alex awhile back (and I think confirmed by Doug). And I'm seeing the same results, as well. I'm pretty sure it's 20,000 per IP without regard to user. Jesse On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Just some background. I talked

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

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Payne
We've just heard from our operations and deploy staff that we won't be able to deploy any code (for the API or otherwise) until Monday due to the DDoS attack and other issues. That means that the revert to the old rate limiting policy for this method won't go out this week. My apologies. On Thu,

[twitter-dev] Re: Current Twitter site status

2009-08-06 Thread David Fisher
Is the Search API being effected? I thought at first that I had messed up my code, but I rolled back pretty far and I'm still getting really odd errors /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/httparty-0.4.3/lib/httparty/request.rb:56:in `setup_raw_request': undefined method `request_uri' for #URI::Generic:

[twitter-dev] Re: Current Twitter site status

2009-08-06 Thread shiplu
I see. Thats the reason why I can register my new app ! ! ! :( -- A K M Mokaddim http://talk.cmyweb.net http://twitter.com/shiplu Stop Top Posting !! বাংলিশ লেখার চাইতে বাংলা লেখা অনেক ভাল Sent from Dhaka, Bangladesh

[twitter-dev] Re: Current Twitter site status

2009-08-06 Thread John Kalucki
Monitor the Twitter Blog, but yes, various services are still recovering and/or flapping. For the next few hours, I'd assume it's a problem on Twitter's side, not on your side. On Aug 6, 11:43 am, David Fisher tib...@gmail.com wrote: Is the Search API being effected? I thought at first that I

[twitter-dev] Tutorial article posted - Twitter OAuth using Perl

2009-08-06 Thread Scott Carter
I just posted an article that goes into quite a bit of detail about how to create your own Twitter OAuth solution using Perl. http://www.bigtweet.com/twitter-oauth-using-perl.html I included quite a few code samples and several references. Hopefully this might save a fellow Perl hacker some

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

2009-08-06 Thread Grant Emsley
Perhaps a better approach to the lockout: Lock the account for x minutes after 15 *unique* bad passwords. So if the user changes their password, and another program keeps trying with their old password, that only counts as 1 attempt. It still only gives them 15 guesses, but would cause fewer

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-06 Thread Coderanger
Some users aren't comfortable giving their Twitter password to another website.  For them, it's sort of a good thing to be sent to Twitter's I would hazard a guess that they really are the long tail. Only a small percentage of people would care, most would not but they are going to be penalized

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-06 Thread srikanth reddy
@Dewald Pretorius For my site, TweetLater.com, it would mean I have an effective hourly rate limit, per IP address, of 2 BILLION IP GET calls per hour! I believe 20k limit per user is the desirable behavior, but i don't think twitter will allow you to make infinite calls in which case they will

[twitter-dev] API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Chad, I know it's a little late in asking, but should we switch off cron jobs that make a lot of API calls while this DoS is going on, or while you are recovering from it? I don't want my IP addresses to be blocked because they are making a lot of calls! I've seen in the past that Ops lay down

[twitter-dev] friends timeline change: Temporary or permanent?

2009-08-06 Thread TjL
I just tried this curl -D - -s --netrc 'http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=3166251802count=200' and got back this: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location: /statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=3166251802count=200?0115dfe8 Since my program is

[twitter-dev] Re: What Twitter account is used for important announcements?

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, For API related issues, there is the @twitterAPI account. For overall Twitter related issues, http://status.twitter.com/ and/or http://blog.twitter.com/ should be your first stop for information when the site/service itself is having problems. It is hard to send out information through

[twitter-dev] Re: What Twitter account is used for important announcements?

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello, For API related issues, there is the @twitterAPI account. For overall Twitter related issues, http://status.twitter.com/ and/or http://blog.twitter.com/ should be your first stop for information when the site/service

[twitter-dev] Re: friends timeline change: Temporary or permanent?

2009-08-06 Thread Chad Etzel
This is an artifact from the current DDoS situation. We're working hard to restore everything back to normal. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:57 PM, TjLluo...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried this curl -D - -s --netrc

[twitter-dev] Re: Tutorial article posted - Twitter OAuth using Perl

2009-08-06 Thread Jesse Stay
Scott, I am for this week. Leaving back to my home in Salt Lake on Monday though. Jesse On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Scott Carter scarter28m-goo...@yahoo.comwrote: I just posted an article that goes into quite a bit of detail about how to create your own Twitter OAuth solution using Perl.

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

2009-08-06 Thread steve
I will start investigating the streaming API - thanks. steve On Aug 5, 3:18 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[twitter-dev] Twitter API Wiki Ruby example

2009-08-06 Thread peter_tellgren
I would like to know if I am the only one not being able to see the Ruby OAuth Example on the twitter API wiki. When going here: http://twitterapi.pbworks.com/OAuth+Example+-+Ruby Path: twitter.com - API - OAuth Examples - The official Twitter Ruby on Rails OAuth tutorial I get this: Access

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

2009-08-06 Thread msea85
Tried that, tried moving sign() all over the place to no avail. for what its worth, I seem to be able to do GETS just fine. URL url = new URL(http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml;); HttpURLConnection request = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); consumer.sign(request);

[twitter-dev] local dev + sub-domains and oauth

2009-08-06 Thread peter_tellgren
I am running a site where I use sub-domains for the different languages I support on the site. e.g. en.example.com/.. for English and fr.example.com/.. for French I just wonder if I go from my en.example.com/twitter site to the twitter to have my user accept my site as a consumer do I have to

[twitter-dev] Read Status in API

2009-08-06 Thread Chris
I'm sorry if this has already been discussed. I have a hard time believing this hasn't already been discussed. Is there a way to add a flag in the API on whether a tweet/reply/dm has been read or not? This would allow syncing of read status across various devices. It would be a nice addition.

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread Jonathan
I would also appreciate an answer to this question. My calls to the Search API are failing because of circular redirection, and curl http://twitter.com returns nothing at all from my production server, which seems like a sign that its IP has been blocked. My app works fine from my dev

[twitter-dev] OAuth and twitter.com home authentication strange behavior

2009-08-06 Thread stephane
It's probably linked to the current DDOS but the authentication flow shows some strange behavior : 1 - I try to initiate an OAuth authentication from www.twazzup.com - twazzup server gets a timeout trying to connect to twitter for oauth token (ApplicationError 5 on appengine) 3 - I go to

[twitter-dev] HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread briantroy
This just started today. It was working fine before and early this morning. I'm send in user updates from a widget via API. My server is whitelisted and I've got a registered service. I get a HTTP 409 on every attempt to submit a status. Not sure why... You can try it here:

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with in reply to status id

2009-08-06 Thread digi
I hate to bump this... but I need help... anybody On Aug 6, 9:39 am, digi ishmeetah...@gmail.com wrote: hello there, I have been trying to fix this for so long but It is not working. I am developing a wndows mobile application for twitter in C#  am trying to reply to a status id. The

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread Account Support
I turned our crons off, just to be safe. Plus there isn't much of a point of running them when the majority of the api calls still aren't getting through. On Aug 6, 1:35 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Chad, I know it's a little late in asking, but should we switch off cron

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Payne
We're talking to our operations team about it, who in turn is talking to our hosting provider. It seems that some aggressive IP filtering may have been catching some web-based third-party Twitter applications, as well as data centers used by mobile providers. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:52,

[twitter-dev] Re: rate limit has reverted from 20000 to 150 for my IPs...

2009-08-06 Thread chinaski007
Even worse... IPs are showing 0/150 remaining hits constantly, thus bringing my app to a total HALT. On Aug 6, 1:39 pm, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: UGH!  All of my whitelisted IPs have reverted from 20k/hour limit to a 150/hour limit. Anyone else?? What the heck?!

[twitter-dev] rate limit has reverted from 20000 to 150 for my IPs...

2009-08-06 Thread chinaski007
UGH! All of my whitelisted IPs have reverted from 20k/hour limit to a 150/hour limit. Anyone else?? What the heck?!

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread briantroy
Sorry... these are HTTP 408s... On Aug 6, 1:20 pm, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: This just started today. It was working fine before and early this morning. I'm send in user updates from a widget via API. My server is whitelisted and I've got a registered service. I get a HTTP

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with in reply to status id

2009-08-06 Thread Duane Roelands
Difficult to spot the error without knowing the values of message and in inreply. Are you sure these values are correctly populated when this code executes? On Aug 6, 4:25 pm, digi ishmeetah...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to bump this... but I need help... anybody On Aug 6, 9:39 am, digi

[twitter-dev] Re: rate limit has reverted from 20000 to 150 for my IPs...

2009-08-06 Thread Haewoon
me, too. In my case, one of 10 IPs has reverted. On Aug 7, 5:43 am, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: Even worse... IPs are showing 0/150 remaining hits constantly, thus bringing my app to a total HALT. On Aug 6, 1:39 pm, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: UGH!  All of my

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread Jennie Lees
Getting the same thing using the track function of the API. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:43 PM, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry... these are HTTP 408s... On Aug 6, 1:20 pm, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: This just started today. It was working fine before and early

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread Mario Menti
Thanks Alex - just to confirm, no requests from twitterfeed have been getting though ever since the DOS attack. It does appear to be IP based, as requests from non-production machines (ironically the non-whitelisted IPs) get through, but all production IPs appear to be blocked. On Thu, Aug 6,

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread Tinychat
Same here. 408's on all production servers. Tested on dev servers and thats ok. Might be related to accidental bans from the ddos carpet bombing blocks. On Aug 6, 4:20 pm, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: This just started today. It was working fine before and early this morning.

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread twitscoop
Hi Alex, Same thing happening to twitscoop. Our production IP is being blocked for all streaming apis, oAuth api etc. Do we need to send an email to the usual api address or have you identified the third-parties being affected ? Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help. Many

[twitter-dev] Streaming API -- Recheck your clients -- post DDoS cleanup

2009-08-06 Thread John Kalucki
Some users were unable to connect to the Streaming API at various times during the DDoS. This has been fixed for the majority of Streaming API clients. The connection count is now approaching yesterday's count. If your Streaming API client is still receiving 409 redirects, connection timeouts,

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread John Kalucki
This should be fixed for the Streaming API. -John On Aug 6, 1:59 pm, Jennie Lees trin...@gmail.com wrote: Getting the same thing using the track function of the API. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:43 PM, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry... these are HTTP 408s... On Aug 6,

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API Wiki Ruby example

2009-08-06 Thread Hedley Robertson
Yes http://twitterapi.pbworks.com/OAuth+Example+-+Ruby Has been busted for me for about a week now. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:11 AM, peter_tellgren peter.tellg...@gmail.comwrote: I would like to know if I am the only one not being able to see the Ruby OAuth Example on the twitter API wiki.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and twitter.com home authentication strange behavior

2009-08-06 Thread Rich
I can't get oAuth to authenticate on any of my clients either. It works when the client has previously authenticated... but trying to get a new token it fails when clicking 'Allow' On Aug 6, 7:42 pm, stephane stephane.philipa...@gmail.com wrote: It's probably linked to the current DDOS but the

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread Hayes Davis
I'm also seeing this same behavior for my whitelisted production IPs for CheapTweet.com and TweetReach.com. (Those were whitelisted under the @CheapTweet and @appozite accounts, respectively.) It works in development, but no requests are getting through to twitter.com on our production servers.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and twitter.com home authentication strange behavior

2009-08-06 Thread Andreu Pere
The same behaviour for my application. When the app wants to start the oAuth workflow in order to authenticate and login the user, the server returns a timeout from https://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?parameters On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: I can't get

[twitter-dev] Re: rate limit has reverted from 20000 to 150 for my IPs...

2009-08-06 Thread chinaski007
Okay, IPs now appear to be back to 20k. On Aug 6, 1:51 pm, Haewoon haewoon.k...@gmail.com wrote: me, too. In my case, one of 10 IPs has reverted. On Aug 7, 5:43 am, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: Even worse... IPs are showing 0/150 remaining hits constantly, thus bringing my

[twitter-dev] Re: rate limit has reverted from 20000 to 150 for my IPs...

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Payne
Things are going to be a little wonky until we're out of the woods on this DDoS attack. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 13:51, Haewoonhaewoon.k...@gmail.com wrote: me, too. In my case, one of 10 IPs has reverted. On Aug 7, 5:43 am, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: Even worse... IPs are

[twitter-dev] API Calls to unauthenticated methods

2009-08-06 Thread Matthew F
Seems like calls to account/rate_limit_status are throwing errors (presumably all unauthenticated calls are too), is this due to the ddos attack? If so when/will they be back up again?

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread Matthew F
I'm getting 408s trying to authenticate with OAuth On Aug 6, 10:20 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: This should be fixed for the Streaming API. -John On Aug 6, 1:59 pm, Jennie Lees trin...@gmail.com wrote: Getting the same thing using the track function of the API. On Thu,

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Recheck your clients -- post DDoS cleanup

2009-08-06 Thread Shannon Clark
Not specific to only developers but at the moment http://search.twitter.com is not loading on my iPhone though search via an iPhone app (twitterfon is what I tried) is working. Shannon Sent from my iPhone On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:19 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Some users

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls During DoS Attack

2009-08-06 Thread stephane
Same thing here on google appengine side for www.twazzup.com Stephane @sphilipakis www.twazzup.com On Aug 6, 2:30 pm, Hayes Davis ha...@appozite.com wrote:  I'm also seeing this same behavior for my whitelisted production IPs for CheapTweet.com and TweetReach.com. (Those were whitelisted

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls to unauthenticated methods

2009-08-06 Thread Rich
I did have similar problems, occasionally I still get some problems with this though. oAuth still down for me though. Personally I hope the little that caused this gets brought to justice. On Aug 6, 10:22 pm, Matthew F mcf1...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like calls to

[twitter-dev] Re: API Calls to unauthenticated methods

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: I did have similar problems, occasionally I still get some problems with this though. oAuth still down for me though. Personally I hope the little that caused this gets brought to justice. Without damages, it's hard to

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and twitter.com home authentication strange behavior

2009-08-06 Thread Rich
Especially annoying seeing as I've gone totally oAuth now. I don't blame Twitter, just the idiots that initiated the DDoS attack On Aug 6, 10:33 pm, Andreu Pere andreup...@gmail.com wrote: The same behaviour for my application. When the app wants to start the oAuth workflow in order to

[twitter-dev] my question re: DDoS is ...

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Badera
Given that DDoS is typically motivated by a) efforts at hacker cred or b) efforts at extortion ... has Twitter HQ received a ransom note during all of this mess? Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera - This email is: [ ] bloggable [x]

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and twitter.com home authentication strange behavior

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Street
My app also dies straight during auth http://twicli.com/auth On Aug 6, 10:45 pm, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Especially annoying seeing as I've gone totally oAuth now.  I don't blame Twitter, just the idiots that initiated the DDoS attack On Aug 6, 10:33 pm, Andreu Pere

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with in reply to status id

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Street
The message will not include 'in reply to X' if you are 1. replying to an invalid status id 2. replying to a status id that you posted yourself from the same account On Aug 6, 9:50 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: Difficult to spot the error without knowing the values of

[twitter-dev] Re: Tracking Retweets

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Andrew Badera wrote: Witty I think is using the recycling symbol ... As is Gwibber. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com mailto:petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Does anyone have a list of RT conventions they are using to track? Right now, I

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