[twitter-dev] Unable to follow people via API

2009-08-19 Thread Lakshman
Hi, Trying to follow people using the API, is providing me a 403 Forbidden response. But this doesn't aways happen, and following famous users doesn't cause any problem. Am I running into any limits/filters? What are they? I verified the inconsistency in following responses manually. The

[twitter-dev] Getting Back In Twitter Search

2009-08-19 Thread Handride
I was kicked out of Twitter search because I was only using my Twitter ID as an RSS. This is no longer the case who do I appeal to show that my twitter ID TBAblogs would help make search more relevant? Are there any real people watching?

[twitter-dev] Re: legal issues - is tweet an official verb in the US language?

2009-08-19 Thread David Fisher
Unless someone here is a lawyer, we should probably avoid legal debate- consult with each our own counsels, and move on to doing what we do best (coding). I find these debates are often filled with FUD, misinformation, speculation, a misunderstanding of law, etc The easiest way to get around it

[twitter-dev] Statuses/destroy is returning 400 even though tweet is deleted sucessfully

2009-08-19 Thread deepikagupta
Hi, I am facing an issue with statuses/destroy API call. It returns 400 (bad request) even though mentioned tweet id is delered sucessfully. The method was working fine few days back but started gicing trouble recently. Anyone having same trouble? Is anything wrong with this API call?

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth + Mobile nightmare

2009-08-19 Thread André Arruda
Great, thanks everyone :) On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: That's what you should be doing. There's no reason to get a new Access Token every time. Per the OAuth spec, you should probably code your app to handle an expired token gracefully. The spec states that

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform Status Update, Tuesday 2:00pm PST

2009-08-19 Thread deepikagupta
Hi, I am facing problem while Deleting any Tweet from my application. http://www.twitter.com/statuses/destroy/id.xml always gives me 400 status code but also deletes the tweet. So in my application it is caught as an exception only and error message is shown to user even though tweet is deleted.

[twitter-dev] Re: sending a tweet from an ASP.NET form action

2009-08-19 Thread subquark
thank you, I am looking for what terminology to use in searching, not for someone to do it for me. I am new to twitter so not even sure what it is. =p And looking for resources so I can self-educate. I have done ActionScripting for 10 years and am use to providing links to good resources as

[twitter-dev] Re: Statuses/destroy is returning 400 even though tweet is deleted sucessfully

2009-08-19 Thread srikanth reddy
yes i too encountered this (both status/destroy and direct_messages/destroy are giving 400 error but the status gets deleted successfully. The response text says something like somehow we could not delete this tweet. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:38 PM, deepikagupta deepikaggu...@gmail.comwrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: sending a tweet from an ASP.NET form action

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew Badera
When in doubt, read the documentation. GIYF. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Getting-Started ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:32 AM,

[twitter-dev] Re: no SSL on http://twitter.com/login?

2009-08-19 Thread divesnob
For some reason my reply yesterday didn't make it? I do realize that you can just change http to https. The problem here is that twitter is sending people to http://twitter.com/login . Here's a screencast describing what I mean. http://www.screenjelly.com/watch/vSrv36yxa4g -matt On Aug 17,

[twitter-dev] Re: no SSL on http://twitter.com/login?

2009-08-19 Thread Damon Clinkscales
If you look at the form carefully, you'll see this: form method=post id=signin action=https://twitter.com/sessions; -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:07 AM, divesnobmdarl...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason my reply yesterday didn't make it? I do realize that

[twitter-dev] Re: no SSL on http://twitter.com/login?

2009-08-19 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:07 AM, divesnobmdarl...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason my reply yesterday didn't make it? I do realize that you can just change http to https. The problem here is that twitter is sending people to http://twitter.com/login . Here's a screencast describing what

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-19 Thread jim.renkel
Another question occurred to me as I think about this more and start designing the code that I will use with my site (http://twxlate.com). The statuses/retweeted_by_me method complements the statuses/ user_timeline method: user_timeline Returns the 20 most recent statuses posted from the

[twitter-dev] Post status to Twitter mobile version via querystring

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Paladino
A friend of mine is working on an iPhone app that will provide an option to post some text to Twitter via the status querystring. For example, http://twitter.com/?status=My%20status%20update. This works fine from a desktop or laptop, but when on an iPhone, Twitter recognizes that it's a mobile

[twitter-dev] Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread arawajy
Dear Developers, I have a list of 400,000 e-mail addresses of my clients. I want to know Is it possible to develop a script to check if they have a twitter account or not?. I will then want to generate 2 separate lists based upon the result; one for the twitter users and one for the non-twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Join us in the #twitterapi IRC channel on freenode

2009-08-19 Thread PJB
Usenet, IRC... I am starting to feel like its 1993 all over again! Maybe next we can get a game of Netrek going on NeXt stations! ;) On Aug 18, 3:35 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: We've heard your requests for greater transparency and more frequent communication in the last

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:07 AM, arawajyaraw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Developers, I have a list of 400,000 e-mail addresses of my clients. I want to know Is it possible to develop a script to check if they have a twitter account or not?. I will then want to generate 2 separate lists based

[twitter-dev] Re: Join us in the #twitterapi IRC channel on freenode

2009-08-19 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/19/09 11:55 AM, PJB wrote: Usenet, IRC... I am starting to feel like its 1993 all over again! Maybe next we can get a game of Netrek going on NeXt stations! ;) I'm in. Twitter Netrek League! I can probably still fly a mean DD. -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com |

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread David Fisher
Sounds like something you should be able to do in an email to them or with a message on your website. On Aug 19, 1:29 pm, arawajy araw...@gmail.com wrote: I want to invite them to follow the company on Twitter. On Aug 19, 8:25 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Scott Haneda
Good point. Why not just send them an email, and offer to let them follow you? This puts it as a opt in on their part. You can then follow them back if you desire, which I assume you do. Probably not a good idea to do anything of this nature when you are talking about 400K. On Aug 19,

[twitter-dev] Re: about 8 hours ago from API

2009-08-19 Thread Duane Roelands
Eagle1, In order to customer the from API, your application must authenticate with Twitter using OAuth. There are several libraries available that implement OAuth. What language/platform are you targeting with your development? --Duane On Aug 19, 4:00 pm, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: about 8 hours ago from API

2009-08-19 Thread djc8080
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format?source=appname

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Mahmoud Abdur-Rahman
Due to some reasons, the management chose to just invite the ones who're already using twitter, without having to contact every customer and without adding a link on the site.Regards, Mahmoud On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, David Fisher tib...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like something you

[twitter-dev] Twitter's Tweet Trademark Torpedoed

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Johnston
[refer to the article itself for the inline links - @samj] Twitter's Tweet Trademark Torpedoed http://samj.net/2009/08/twitters-tweet-trademark-torpedoed.html Last month Twitter founder Biz Stone announced in a blog post (May The Tweets Be With You) that they have applied to trademark Tweet

[twitter-dev] about 8 hours ago from API

2009-08-19 Thread Eagle1
Hi there ! I wanted to know if it is possible to remove that text when you tweet from an API. Or to change the API word... thanks for help !

[twitter-dev] oAuth consumer keys, tokens...how sensitive are those keys?

2009-08-19 Thread Andriy Ivanov
I've written Desktop app that uses oAuth to communicate with twitter. All the keys/tokens/pin I save in Settings file in my project (.NET). Is it safe to do so or what is the better approach to save this kind of data? What if all the tokens get in hand of evil, they can impersonate the user using

[twitter-dev] Re: about 8 hours ago from API

2009-08-19 Thread Eagle1
I'm using a fast and simple function to send my updates... working with curl

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Ben Hall
I think the search my username feature has been removed. It now is just Name... You could use the gmail\yahoo\aol integration - http://twitter.com/invitations?service=gmail @Ben_Hall On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Scott Hanedatalkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Good point. Why not just send them

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's Tweet Trademark Torpedoed

2009-08-19 Thread David Fisher
This is good news. No one will be getting sued over Tweet then. Yet, keep in mind that Twitter probably *could * shut off access to the API to any company they choose, as its their playground and their rules. Not that they'll start doing that at all however. On Aug 19, 1:57 pm, Sam Johnston

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's Tweet Trademark Torpedoed

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew Badera
Excellent as always Sam. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Sam Johnstons...@samj.net wrote: [refer to the article itself for the inline links -

[twitter-dev] User agent

2009-08-19 Thread Scott Haneda
Playng with the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0update part of the API today. I can post easily with curl: curl -u user:password -d status=foo bar baz The Tweet says it is from API. How do I set the user agent as I have seen other developers do? It

[twitter-dev] Re: API profile image update

2009-08-19 Thread Mitchel Berberich
Hi Josh, can you please give me / us an hint about what exactly you have done wrong trying to update twitter images in the first place? If you follow the link I posted to Twitter Development Talk, you can see that you are not the only one having the problem with error 500. I don't know why this

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's Tweet Trademark Torpedoed

2009-08-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
caveat: ianal how does this help users? Doesn't this just mean that use of the term tweet will be in the hands of either Peter F Wingard., Launchability, Inc., or Sean Thomas Callahan? why is that better than in twitter's hand? Sean Callahan's entry, tweetphoto, looks mightily similar to

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's Tweet Trademark Torpedoed

2009-08-19 Thread Dale Merritt
Its not who is first to apply, or even who is first to be approved, it is first to use in commerce, and whoever can prove that, and more important, can afford to prove that, owns the trademark; that is if Tweet can even qualify to be a trademark. For Twitter, now the process is; if Twitter felt

[twitter-dev] Re: about 8 hours ago from API

2009-08-19 Thread Abraham Williams
Here is the FAQ entry: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget%E2%80%9CfromMyApp%E2%80%9DappendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 14:05, Eagle1 nathan.rud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there ! I wanted to know if it is possible to remove that text when you tweet from an

[twitter-dev] Re: Post status to Twitter mobile version via querystring

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Paladino
Looks like this has already been discussed with no work-around: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/0ea702e91df11dfd?pli=1 On Aug 19, 11:57 am, Michael Paladino paladinomich...@gmail.com wrote: A friend of mine is working on an iPhone app that will

[twitter-dev] Re: User agent

2009-08-19 Thread Chad Etzel
Please see: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ Question 2, part i Thanks, -Chad On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Scott Hanedatalkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Playng with the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0update part of the API today.  I can post easily with

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Mahmoud Abdur-Rahman
Thanks Scott,This is already the approach I've followed and it worked. I created a contact (CSV) file and imported it into a gmail account. It was around 1700+e-mail addresses which correspond to one segment of the customers. I got the list and I copied them and started to omit the information I

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Mahmoud Abdur-Rahman
Yes, We'll send an e-mail to invite them. But we'll only send the e-mail to the customers who're already using twitter. This is why we need to filter the 400K and find out and then send a custom invitation. I know it looks a bit strange but it has its business justifications.Regards, Mahmoud On

[twitter-dev] Re: about 8 hours ago from API

2009-08-19 Thread JDG
That doesn't work on new apps. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 15:07, djc8080 djc8...@gmail.com wrote: http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format?source=appname -- Internets. Serious business.

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Scott Haneda
My only statements regarding ethics or morality is that with a list of 400K people, there will be many ways in which those 400K people interpret what you are doing. So you were able to do 1700 emails so far, can you figure out what the limit is? At that point, I would probably use a

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Scott Haneda
From the google docs on importing: • You can import 3,000 contacts at a time. • Non-ASCII or non-Latin characters may not be accepted. • Any information formatted as a group or distribution list won't transfer into your Gmail Contacts list. • Importing

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Jesse Stay
Here's the use-case we should be considering for this, and I think it's valid and I'd love to see Twitter allow this: With the ability to identify matching Twitter users by e-mail, you can now suggest to your users people in their friends list on your own website that have Twitter accounts and

[twitter-dev] Re: User agent

2009-08-19 Thread Abraham Williams
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget%E2%80%9CfromMyApp%E2%80%9DappendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 17:09, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Playng with the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0update part of the API

[twitter-dev] Re: about 8 hours ago from API

2009-08-19 Thread Chad Etzel
Right now there is no way to add a custom source from curl using Basic Auth. You can, however, force it to say from web by adding source=web in the POST variables. Thanks, -Chad On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Eagle1nathan.rud...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using a fast and simple function to send

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Abraham Williams
This used to be apart of the API but was removed for security reasons: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=353 Abraham On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:07, arawajy araw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Developers, I have a list of 400,000 e-mail addresses of my clients. I want to know

[twitter-dev] Re: legal issues - is tweet an official verb in the US language?

2009-08-19 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 19, 8:59 am, David Fisher tib...@gmail.com wrote: Unless someone here is a lawyer, we should probably avoid legal debate- consult with each our own counsels, and move on to doing what we do best (coding). I find these debates are often filled with FUD, misinformation, speculation, a

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Duane Roelands
This is a terrible idea. 1. It's unethical because Twitter users have never authorized Twitter to use their email addresses in this way. The TOS specifically states We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service. Your profile and materials uploaded

[twitter-dev] Re: Do My Customers Have a Twitter Account?

2009-08-19 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I fully agree with you, Duane. Dewald On Aug 20, 12:17 am, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: This is a terrible idea. 1. It's unethical because Twitter users have never authorized Twitter to use their email addresses in this way.  The TOS specifically states We claim no

[twitter-dev] Re: C# + OAuth + account/update_profile_image = 500 Internal Server Error

2009-08-19 Thread David Carson
Got this sorted out and working, and thought I should share the two pitfalls which were causing me problems. First of all, unbelievably, the 500 Internal Server Error was being caused by an extra carriage return between my last HTTP header and the first multipart boundary. Seriously. I had two

[twitter-dev] Mobile oAuth

2009-08-19 Thread Mark Sievers
Hi There, I have a mobile based twitter client in the field and have implemented oAuth for this client. Some of the devices are either very low memory or have primitive browsers that dont support the rendering of the 'allow' / 'deny' access page ( http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize ). I have