Even i think its something to do with twitter's side, may be they are
blocking your IP. Wait for several hours or a day and then try again.
When you are rate-limited, you get a message like:
You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm.
On Aug 16, 10:53 pm, Josh Roesslein
If you're using twitter-async, please consider providing feedback on
the proposal below.
http://wiki.github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/seeking-input-for-exception-refactoring
Thanks,
Jaisen
Maybe of interest, I have made some articles about VbScripts and
Twitter.
You can use VbScript to post to Twitter:
http://sitejunction.awardspace.com/vbscript_tweets
Make a digest of your Followers with VbScript:
http://sitejunction.awardspace.com/vbscript_tweets/list_followers/
Post to
Please post an update to status.twitter.com, so our users can be as
patient as we are.
best,
jonathan
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Chad Etzeljazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
The API team is actively debugging the OAuth issues as we speak.
Please be patient as we nail down the
Is this downtime specific to only oAuth related requests, or all API
requests? My site has not been functioning for the past day and all I
am getting back are http codes of 0.
Is my app perhaps blocked?
On Aug 16, 2:40 pm, bosher bhellm...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the update Chad..
On Aug
Hello Chad,
thank you for that information. I wanted to avoid the search-api-
method, because it often laggs or does not work at all due to high
traffic.
Regards
monkey
On 15 Aug., 22:22, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
You probably want to use the Search API for
After the Saturday reset, here's what we're seeing:
Reliable performance:
- search
- statuses/update
- statuses/user_timeline
- account/rate_limit_status
- ..ids
- friendships/create
Unreliable with frequent fails:
- statuses/followers
- statuses/friends
Returns rate limit error, despite other
Hey All,
Definitely experiencing OAuth issues as well. Still in development
on my local machine but I keep getting time out errors upon trying
authenticate Oauth here:
http://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate
*Work-A-Round*
So I could keep things going (and keep coding), my quick
I don't feel that OAuth is a good solution for desktop applications.
If a user doesn't want the application to access their Twitter
account, why'd they download it in the first place? It seems very
redundant.
But the real problem is for mobile devices, especially for devices
that don't
helpme my twitter suspended
In my inbox there tree message follow the status, but when i check
inbox threre are no message...
i think this is cause of my account suspended
helpme, tu unlock/unsuspend my account
@muhazir
http://indodesain.com
I'm working on an app that needs to pull specific information from
tweets. I'm trying to figure out the best way with minimal impact on
the tweeter. I've come across the twitterdata [http://
twitterdata.org/] movement, and the concept makes sense, however, I am
not too sure about the buy-in from
You can call this command and check your rate limit:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0rate_limit_status
But mainly it's a common problem. It'll clear up in a few hours. I
recommend caching if you want it to work 100% of the time.
Rob
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at
Hi all
I am developing a twitter client application.How can i implement Find
people.(there is no api support for it)
I tried Process.Start(@\Windows\iexplore.exe,http://m.twitter.com/
search/users?q=balu);
But its asking credentials.
How can i pass the credentials through URL so that i could
Hi,
I'm trying to implement a simple little app which can (a) send status
updates and (b) modify the user's profile image.
I started off using Shannon Whitley's code from
http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=681
which got me up and running just fine for the statuses/update method.
However I
Hi Will,
Its good to get some replies, I was getting a little worried that no-one
wanted to talk it through ;)
I have already seen changes in syntactical use of RT some people are
starting to use , however, my main point is that things change and
codifying RT as a solution is restricting emergent
I think there is a difference between the user-invented RT- and the
user-invented @mentions scheme (correct me if I'm wrong): the
@mentions / @replies API calls didn't take away any functionality or
restrict the replies in any way the users were using it before.
With the retweet-API, we cannot
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:49:49 -0400
Jason Martin legos.j...@gmail.com wrote:
On another note, how Open Source friendly is OAuth? I'm not sure
if people who write open source software want to be giving out their
Consumer Secret key in their source code
Reasoning from a faulty premise.
When
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:43:50 -0700 (PDT)
janole s...@mobileways.de wrote:
If you just don't agree with a tweet and want to express it via a
retweet, how can you do so with the proposed API? Seems to be
impossible or am I missing something?
The new retweet API does not circumvent any of the
I'm not so sure that one can describe the relative silence on this
thread as patience.
It can probably be ascribed to developers abandoning Twitter and being
too busy coding for other platforms to even bother writing on this
thread.
To have exactly the same thing happen to third-party apps for
Chris,
For sure the, that is what I see happening with the Retweet API, the fact
that there is no status text on
http://twitter.com/statuses/retweet/id.format indicates just that - which is
why I would like to see favourites API drastically enhanced in tandem.
Currently this Retweet API serves
I use Elliot's library on www.twitlonger.com and it is really easy to
work with. Integrates nicely, easy to maintain and, quite frankly,
when there's something out there to do the boring bit it's a much
better idea to use that than writing your own.
On Aug 14, 7:51 pm, Peter Denton
Question: is to tweet an official word in the english language
both american and english? as in widely used?
does the US and UK trademark system reject such applications?
In the german TM system, a word which is widely used cannot
be trademarked. Like you can use Water as a image mark
(logowise
I am planning a new Twitter app and I am seriously considering not
using the OAuth API this time. Since I launched my last new app about
four weeks ago, it has been down for about 25% of the time. Since my
users use OAuth and Twitter to sign in on, the app is broken. It makes
me look very bad,
(Cards on the table: I say the following as someone who thinks that
retweets are one of the biggest useless annoyances on Twitter.)
1) This change/addition would be great IFF retweets were then NOT part
of replies/mentions. I've got a script that checks for mentions and
then emails me them, and
I have checked the twitter forum and this bug is not present.
My problem is a bug/problem.
I run a twitter follower counter on my account- @mrlandmark. This
service sends a tweet out when a follower gets so many followers
themselves. However since july 23rd when you did some updates i have
bee
Another question. Is OAuth being required for new apps?
On Aug 17, 8:13 am, netlatch netla...@gmail.com wrote:
I am planning a new Twitter app and I am seriously considering not
using the OAuth API this time. Since I launched my last new app about
four weeks ago, it has been down for about
I can't spot information on languages in the wiki. Please can someone
advise what values are in the language parameter in tweets from the
search api. All possible iso language codes? two and four codes, e.g.
en-us and en, or just the two-letter codes? Whatever the user wants?
Thanks a lot,
Ben
Second time this happen this month: I can't connect to twitter from
the IP where my scripts run. First time everything went back to normal
after a few hours but this time it's been blocked since yesterday.
I've contacted twitter to know if I was doing something wrong or if
the IP was blacklisted
Hey there,
I have a script that syncs my statuses from Twitter to a local
database, before converting them to e-mail and pushing them into an e-
mail folder. Using the local database, it enumerates any older than 7
days before making /statuses/destroy requests to delete them.
This is where the
but you would need a server-side proxy to talk to the API if you're using
javascript in order to avoid the issues with cross-site scripting.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:12, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote:
It sounds like what you're looking for is a Javascript library, though
I'm
On Aug 17, 6:27 am, Chris Babcock cbabc...@kolonelpanic.org wrote:
When you know your code is going to be seen you either avoid doing
stupid things like hard coding credentials or you learn fast that
configuration data is not code.
Fair enough. So how do you do it? How do I
It sounds like what you're looking for is a Javascript library, though
I'm not familiar with any.
It certainly sounds feasible; you could do Ajax calls to talk to the
API. The trick would be in how you choose to persist the OAuth
tokens.
*wheels turning in head*. A Twitter client that resides
Favorites are like secret ballots. That has its place in society, but
it doesn't serve the same needs as standing behind some alpha primate
and banging your chest in time to stand behind his message. Favorites
mark things for personal consumption. They are contemplative and
reflective. It's done
Which eliminates one of the biggest features of OAuth for a lot of
app-writers -- the ability to put their app in the source parameter, thus
eliminating the biggest piece of marketing they have.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:59, Chris Babcock cbabc...@asciiking.com wrote:
On Aug 17, 6:27 am,
Are there still issues with the API this morning? We have many of our
UberTwitter users reporting timeouts when trying to retrieve timelines
and send tweets. We are not using OAUTH.
Any info would be greatly appreciated!
-CodeWarden
exactly. and for those who think their closed-source oauth app hides
their app key and secret, have you ever run strings on your binary?
(for those keeping score, it's basic auth: 2, oauth: 0)
thanks!
Joseph Cheek
@cheekdotcom
JDG wrote:
Which eliminates one of the biggest features of OAuth
Favorites are like secret ballots. That has its place in society, but
it doesn't serve the same needs as standing behind some alpha primate
and banging your chest in time to stand behind his message. Favorites
mark things for personal consumption. They are contemplative and
reflective.
When you know your code is going to be seen you either avoid doing
stupid things like hard coding credentials or you learn fast that
configuration data is not code.
Fair enough. So how do you do it? How do I distribute a desktop or
mobile device application - open source or closed
Hi Michael,
Thank you very much for this. Going back to look again at that page
again the ISO link is right there, as you say. I don't know why my eye
skipped over it like that. I guess too much/not enough caffeine.
Thanks again, sorry for the time waster.
Ben
On 17 Aug 2009, at 15:24,
The explanation I've had makes sense. If you call from a whitelisted
IP, it charges to the IP limit, regardless of authentication. IE, it,
checks that first.
On Aug 12, 5:30 pm, Zaudio si...@z-audio.co.uk wrote:
I get the same with my apps; an authenticated and unauthenticated call
to get rate
Same here (twitterfeed), we're getting very large numbers (tens of
thousands) of 500 timeout errors on status updates. Although the extent
isn't quite as bad, the symptoms and messages look like they did during the
DDoS attack, so I suspect they are again throttling/blocking some
high-volume apps.
Favorites are open to be read, it is just that not many people use it and I
can't actually find who favorited my tweets - (probably no one in my case ;)
- if I had that information I could do a lot of things (with out resorting
to the RT stream).
Paul
2009/8/17 Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com
I totally agree.
It's going to work but will need full adoption from all major apps.
It's going to be confusing seeing different # retweets because certain
apps retweet without the RT API
On Aug 17, 4:21 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
Favorites are like secret ballots. That has
If you want to have your app name in the 'from source' attribute
then yes only oAuth can be used now.
On Aug 17, 1:25 pm, netlatch netla...@gmail.com wrote:
Another question. Is OAuth being required for new apps?
On Aug 17, 8:13 am, netlatch netla...@gmail.com wrote:
I am planning a new
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mario Mentimme...@gmail.com wrote:
Same here (twitterfeed), we're getting very large numbers (tens of
thousands) of 500 timeout errors on status updates. Although the extent
isn't quite as bad, the symptoms and messages look like they did during the
DDoS
Lots of issues here (tweetlater) too. High-volume calls are again
blocked by the edge defenses with connection refused.
Exactly the same as last weekend.
Dewald
On Aug 17, 12:19 pm, CodeWarden paul0...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there still issues with the API this morning? We have many of our
*bump*
The issue we're seeing at TweetPhoto is that no one can login to their
account when using basic auth. Was informed by Twitter support that
they are aware of the issue and are looking for a fix.
On Aug 17, 8:53 am, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
Lots of issues here (tweetlater) too.
For a long time, I've thought that retweeting was the most interesting thing
about Twitter - and not just explicit retweeting, but also implicit
retweeting (people posting the same URL around the same time, which may or
may not really be an intentional retweet). I've thought of them as similar
to
We are still experiencing timeout errors when trying to OAuth. We have
been down since Saturday and I have not seen an update yet today.
If the Oauth issues have been resolved, are there any IP ranges being
blocked from API usage. Our application is hosted on Rackspace.
An update on this would
I am still having OAuth issues and have not seen a recent status
update. We have been down since Saturday.
We are receiving timeout errors when trying to OAuth. Have these
issues been resolved? If so, are there any IP ranges being blocked.
Our app is hosted on Rackspace.
I would really
So, the general message is: Mayhem rules.
I have no issues with Basic Auth (on low volume API calls). Login no
problem.
Dewald
On Aug 17, 1:04 pm, Sean Callahan seancalla...@gmail.com wrote:
The issue we're seeing at TweetPhoto is that no one can login to their
account when using basic auth.
I am still experiencing OAuth issues. Have they been resolved or are
there still problems?
We have been down since Saturday.
Our application is hosted on Rackspace and is receiving timeout errors
when attempting to OAuth. If the Oauth issues have been resolved are
any IP ranges currently being
Ryan,
We have been experiencing OAuth issues since Saturday and would like
an update on status.
We are currently receiving timeout errors when trying to OAuth.
If the OAuth issue has been resolved are there currently any IP ranges
being blocked from the API. Our app is hosted on Rackspace.
An
The ReTweet syntax is not that simple though. Some people prefix a tweet
with RT @username, others suffix the tweet with (via @username) and I have
seen people using a unicode recycling symbol to signify the retweet.
Formalising should take issues like that out of the way.
However, I do agree
Sounds like twitter may have implemented a checker for that DoS
attacked. Something like, if the server gets hit by the same IP after
500 continuous call within 3 minutes... it will return null for the
next 10 mins? I'm just guessing here.
Rob
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:34 AM,
The Twitter OAuth login is working about 50% of the time for us.
Sometimes we get failures making the initial request for a token. If
that works, and the user gets to the Decline/Accept screen, when they
click Accept the connection often times out before they get a
response.
This has happened to me with dabr.co.uk too. It was fine, then
blocked, unblocked, and now blocked again over the weekend.
I see talk of OAuth downtime/problems recently but no mention of
general API blockages or how to avoid this occurring again.
On Aug 17, 12:57 pm, pmduque pmdu...@gmail.com
This is interesting Chris, as I have had the same question. How would
you propose to distribute a usable FLOSS twitter app that uses Oauth to
authenticate itself but doesn't include the app's consumer key and
consumer secret? fetch the key and secret at runtime from a secure
server somewhere?
I have both practical and philosophical concerns and questions with
this proposal. Since I'm a little late in commenting on this, some of
these have already been raised. Where I know that is the case, I'll
keep it short, but include it to show my support (or not) of the
issue.
This post contains
Everyone,
I am meeting with Ops right now to get a status update and will follow
up with the list as soon as we are done.
Stay tuned.
Best, Ryan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:39 AM, jonat...@scribblelivemitc...@gmail.com wrote:
The Twitter OAuth login is working about 50% of the time for us.
Much agreed with Chris. I think the reason people use RT differently
(resend original message, add + comment or - comment) is because of
the fact that Twitter never standardized RT. Sometimes user changes
the text randomly for the shear reason the msg is over 140. I'm not
saying Twitter should
I haven't been able to log into Twitter the last few days using https
https://twitter.com
It seems Twitter does not want to provide the security of SSL when
logging in anymore?
http works OK, but I would prefer to use https when logging in.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Hmmm, It seems when I fist open my browser and go to https://twitter.com
nothing loads, I go to http://twitter.com then back to https://twitter.com
it seems to load. I don't get it
On Aug 17, 11:53 am, Vision Jinx vjn...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't been able to log into Twitter the last few days
@chris
You cannot ask every user to get new consumer token/secret.
There is no way you can protect a consumer secret.
@Joseph
fetch the key and secret at runtime from a secure
server somewhere? that could be trivially intercepted.
As far as i know this is the best way to hide the consumer secret.
I've been developing a Java/MIDP Twitter client for the past two
months, and i still need a couple more months to publish a beta
version. A few days ago i found out that the update source (app name)
is no longer customizable unless the client uses OAuth for
authentication, which means that any
Judging from the posts only some OAUTH apps are experiencing downtime
this round. Both of mine are down like they were the last time there
was a DDoS attack. What am I missing? Why is this time more selective?
Is there a list of some sort to get on?
This post, containing philosophical issues with the proposed retweet
API, is the promised companion to my post containing practical issues.
I realize this retweeting API and UI are probably a fait a complis
(sp?), modulo addressing practical concerns that I and others have
raised, but I'll throw
jim.renkel wrote:
7. If retweets and status updates are numbered from the same sequence
of IDs, then presumably statuses/destroy can be used to delete a
retweet. If retweets and status updates have separate ID sequences,
then I don't see any way to delete a retweet. I think the ability to
Hi, does anyone have a list of complete HTTP requests (with details
such as query string parameters etc.) for using oAuth with Twitter
I'm looking for the sequence of HTTP requests for a simple scenario -
like login and then calling update.xml with a string.
For example the first request may be
My app, too, appears to be blocked. I can't even get status codes -
the requests just timeout with no response.
On Aug 17, 12:24 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
So, the general message is: Mayhem rules.
I have no issues with Basic Auth (on low volume API calls). Login no
I am experiencing this problem as well. All of my requests to the API
just all of a sudden started timing out a day or two ago. I have no
idea who to contact to resolve the problem.
On Aug 17, 9:04 am, David Carrington david.carring...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has happened to me with dabr.co.uk
This is a good discussion - I've yet to find a canonical answer for how this
*should* be done for client-side/consumer apps.
If you are distributing a server application, then putting the application
registration instructions in a README is perhaps not such a big deal.
Desktop/mobile apps are
Paul Kinlan wrote:
Favorites are open to be read, it is just that not many
people use it and I can't actually find who favorited my
tweets - (probably no one in my case ;) - if I had that
information I could do a lot of things (with out
resorting to the RT stream).
I tried it and you are
We are still experiencing OAuth Issues. I haven't seen an official
status update this morning. Have these issues been resolved?
We have been down since Saturday and are receiving timeout exceptions
when trying OAuth. If the issues have been resolved are any IP ranges
currently being blocked. Our
I must admit that I didn't put enough weight on the fact that the new
retweet API will not incorporate the ability to edit/append/comment on
the original tweet. I do have to agree with you, Paul on how common
place that practice is.
My mindset was that why hold back a feature that solves one
I believe that my Twitter application's API requests are being
blocked/banned as a result of the recent DoS mitigation steps. Who should I
contact to find out for sure?
Beier,
But you can up vote a tweet you like by favoriting it - it is just that
favoriting is very very underused - so much so that a lot of clients don't
seem to support it. A RT is about injecting something you like into your
followers feeds because you think it will be of value to them. It has
Favorites are open to be read, it is just that not many
people use it and I can't actually find who favorited my
tweets - (probably no one in my case ;) - if I had that
information I could do a lot of things (with out
resorting to the RT stream).
I tried it and you are right, I can
Thanks for your questions. Responses inline...
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM, jim.renkeljames.ren...@gmail.com wrote:
I have both practical and philosophical concerns and questions with
this proposal. Since I'm a little late in commenting on this, some of
these have already been raised.
Paul Kinlan wrote:
The issue with favorites is that are personal to a user
and a tweet so are not visible in the UI to everyone
else (which is something that the RT seems to be trying
to solve), and also track re-tweets as they are two
different things.
You can get a users favorites pretty
I was starting to worry that something was wrong with Twobile (basic
auth). Any news from the mothership on what's happening?
On Aug 17, 10:42 am, Aaron Forgue for...@gmail.com wrote:
My app, too, appears to be blocked. I can't even get status codes -
the requests just timeout with no
We've added a retweet_id to the retweet_details section to allow for,
e.g. deletion of retweets. The retweet_id can be provided as an
argument to statuses/destroy.
The example payloads have been updated to include retweet_id.
--
Marcel Molina
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/noradio
All,
Thanks for bearing with us as we continue to fend off a Distributed
Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In order to help us better assist
you, please supply the following information when reporting API
connectivity and performance issues to a...@twitter.com:
1. The IP of the machine making
Just sent out an update on the sort of information we need to help you
guys out. We're working on it. Expect things to open up for a bit as
we tune some settings for the next hour.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:07, Sean P.seantpa...@gmail.com wrote:
I was starting to worry that something was
If anyone knows how to get the information for 2) when you are making
several calls per second, and the information for 5) when you are
leasing a server from a hosting provider, who leases the server from a
place like The Planet, please let us know.
I am convinced that I'm not the only one who
Good point. There are a lot more broken things that have higher
priority. Top of the list, notify all third party clients that do not
attach a message ID to a reply.
Threading of tweets is so fundamentally broken it should be way up on
the list. Sure, not twitters fault, but the third
Brian,
Good catch on deleting a retweeted tweet! It was on my list of issues,
by I forgot to include it in my post.
Hopefully, the twitter folk will respond to this as fast as they added
retweet_id so ya can delete retweets! :-)
Jim
On Aug 17, 1:33 pm, Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org wrote:
On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org
wrote:
Paul Kinlan wrote:
Favorites are open to be read, it is just that not many
people use it and I can't actually find who favorited my
tweets - (probably no one in my case ;) - if I had that
information I could do a lot of
Hi,
Since Saturday I have been experiencing trouble with the update profile
image and update background image endpoints.
I keep getting back a 500 server error. This is new, untested code so the
issue might be on my end. But since it's a 500 error
the error might be on twitter's end. Has anyone
I don't think favourites is fundamentally wrong, I just think it is under
used and under developed. The star is next to the tweet, but people are
open to use it how they want, much like many people use RT in many different
ways and that isn't to say your usage is wrong. Usage is what makes
Silly me. I thought someone was talking about distributing source code.
Building an enduser distribution is somewhat to entirely different.
First, there really isn't any point to using OAuth for a client unless
the client code lives on the network. The whole advantage of the scheme
is that the
Alex - Is there ANY way you guys could post information to your status
page that a DDOS or issue is going on? Something we can point our
customers to so they don't think it is our service/product? Right now
many of my users think the problem is our product, when in fact, it is
simply the IPs
Will wrote:
My mindset was that why hold back a feature that solves one problem
just because it doesn't solve two. What I didn't take into
consideration is that it creates another problem - disparate methods
of retweeting because people will revert back to the old method of
retweeting when
The favourite model is very similar to how Flickr works, though
Twitter lacks the ability to see who marked your tweet as a favourite.
It feels like one of those features that got built and then put to one
side while scaling took over as the main issue. I'd love to see more
done with
Thanks David. So it seems to be a twitter issue not our code. I guess I'll
just wait a bit until
it gets fixed.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:51 PM, David Carson carson63...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Josh,
I spent yesterday trying to implement profile image updating for the
first time, with no result
Hi Ryan,
Still meeting? Anxiously waiting since we are now dead in the water
for 3 days now.
Thanks.
Adam
On Aug 17, 1:39 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote:
Everyone,
I am meeting with Ops right now to get a status update and will follow
up with the list as soon as we are done.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:32:58 +0530
srikanth reddy srikanth.yara...@gmail.com wrote:
@chris
You cannot ask every user to get new consumer token/secret.
There is no way you can protect a consumer secret.
I did have a blind spot operating here. When someone says, Open
Source, I'm usually
It's worse than that. You don't even have to intercept the key, just
use the application itself to obtain tokens for other users' accounts.
How are they going to tell the difference between their copy of TweetX
and someone elses' in their auth dialogs?
Sorry. I didn't get this. How are you going
Hi folks,
Could someone educate me about how Twitter search works? The Twitter
documentation merely mentions: Returns tweets that match a specified
query.
Is that that the results are guaranteed to have all the words that are
searched? Or any one of them? Or is this a best effort scenario.
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