[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 Fishel wrote: > > Well it seems as though

[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, 200

[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 Babcock wrote: > > > > On Aug 5, 10:15 pm, Jesse Stay wrote:

[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, JDG wrote: > Have you actually opened a support ticket for this? > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009

[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 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 wrote: > >> But why this tweet: >> >> http://search.twit

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

2009-08-06 Thread caio ariede
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 wrote: > But why this tweet: > > http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=pt&q=framework+from%3Acaioariede > > Isn't appear in this search: > > http://search.twitter.com/se

[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 wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:09:48 -0

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-08-06 Thread John Kristian
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 UI to authenticate; it builds confidence that their credentials won't be abused. I'm looking for a sweet spot, where the user knows Twitter is participating

[twitter-dev] Re: Current Twitter site status

2009-08-06 Thread Stuart
2009/8/6 Chad Etzel : > > 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!! http://titsup.ne

[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] 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: 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 Williams<4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > No it

[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 wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM, DTANG 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

[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 wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:15 AM, michel777 wrote: > >> >> Dear group, >> >> some questions for using twitter in a closed group (enterprise): >> >> 1) is there alrea

[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 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 | http://abrah.am | http:

[twitter-dev] Re: using twitter images

2009-08-06 Thread shiplu
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM, DTANG 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 can i just go

[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 for internal enterprise communication

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:15 AM, michel777 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 ? > 3) is also po

[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... Ple

[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 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 you send

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Verify Credentials

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Babcock
On Aug 5, 10:15 pm, Jesse Stay wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Chris Babcock > wrote: > > > > > 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

[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] 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] 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" 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 is really not va

[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: 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 wrote: > URL url = new URL("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";); > HttpURLConnection request = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); > consumer.sign(req

[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 n

[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 th

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

2009-08-06 Thread Josh Shabtai
Hi there. I was just about to start a thread on this topic myself, as I've developed a Web application that seems to be running into some issues related to the search API. A disclaimer: I'm pretty inexperienced as a developer, so apologies for any redundancy and/or misuse of terminology. I rece

[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 a

[twitter-dev] Re: Tracking Retweets

2009-08-06 Thread caio ariede
I think the better way is matching the @nickname of original message + 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 Identi.ca may also be usi

[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 fe

[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: 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 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, 2009 at 07

[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 > cool, Thanks! > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > >> >> I would add: >> >> Retweet[:]? >> Retweeting[:]? >> >> those aren't being used as often now, but I still see them around. >> >>

[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 en

[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-type"multipart/form-data" ? Secondly, As far as I know, there are several ways to to impl

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