[twitter-dev] Started getting Incorrect Signature but I verified the signature is correct

2009-08-28 Thread jmathai
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here (but I've been doing it for 2 days now). I'm having trouble with a specific call. I plugged the values into Eran's form to validate that my signature was correct (assuming his form is correct). They match. Anyone else having problems with this?

[twitter-dev] Re: heavy throttling by search.twitter.com API from GAE application

2009-08-28 Thread BenHedrington
I agree I have been using the Twitter search APIs for more than a year on 3 App Engine apps, this is seriously handicapping my usage of the API. -Ben Hedrington On Aug 27, 1:42 am, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I still think something is going on (or at least different) - I have

[twitter-dev] Re: White Listing Application

2009-08-28 Thread sctoy
Hi Chad, Thanks for your help. The username is 'beemainc'. I appreciate it. Steve On Aug 26, 3:41 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Steve, It was discovered yesterday that recent whitelist rejections were going out without the reason attached (this is a big bummer). If you can

[twitter-dev] Re: Has replies/mentions behavior changed again or it is broken?

2009-08-28 Thread Richard
I've had a few people reporting this problem to us too. On Aug 28, 12:28 am, dean.j.robinson dean.j.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Just checking out my @ mentions and noticed there are a whole bunch missing, took a little while to register what was going on, but it looks like only tweet that begin

[twitter-dev] Re: non json response

2009-08-28 Thread Anirudh
Hi, Just got hold of a log entry. We had this issue on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 11:02am Indian Standard Time (+0530 UTC). Our site is brandadda.com . Hope this is useful. Best, Anirudh S On Aug 26, 9:27 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Ben, It's a known issue and we are trying

[twitter-dev] OAuth revoke works for logged users only

2009-08-28 Thread luca70
Hi everyone, I was testing the Twitter OAuth revoke procedure, POSTing to http://twitter.com/oauth/revoke?token=... The method works fine if the user is logged into twitter, otherwise I get a 500 error. Is there a way to show a login prompt, as for the autorization step?

[twitter-dev] Can we get Application Name and Details from API

2009-08-28 Thread AccountingSoftwareGuy
Is there a way using the Twitter API to get the details of a registered API application if we know the consumer key secret of the application. Basically, we have a generic class that does not know anything about how it will communicate with the Twitter API until a consumer key and secret is

[twitter-dev] Proper HTTP settings for search API

2009-08-28 Thread mahall
Hopefully I'm not starting a new thread for a previous topic but I was unable to find similar one. Is there a proper list of settings for an HTTP request to the search API? We are doing requests from a couple of servers (different IPs) and only run into rate limiting issues (You have been rate

[twitter-dev] Re: Incorrect Status Count

2009-08-28 Thread markdmia
Not much action on our posts. What do you think? Do we need to report this issue as a bug? Have you reported bugs to Twitter before? On Aug 25, 11:36 pm, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I think there's been some problems with status counts recently - specifically some being

[twitter-dev] Re: non json response

2009-08-28 Thread Anirudh
Hi, Just wanted to add that this problem is not restricted to json, but exists with the atom api too. I'll try to find some more info. Will post it here if I get it. It has happened previously too. We had to write a function to prevent to check for html and if yes prevent it from being parsed by

[twitter-dev] Where is a way to change an application owner or add a new developer as application administrator

2009-08-28 Thread matoeil
Hi, I create a few time ago an application binded to my personal account, but I want to change this in order to link my application to my company account. where is a way to change an application owner or add a new developer as application administrator? Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Interface used

2009-08-28 Thread Abraham Williams
Use the source value from the status: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Return-Values On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:29, CryFromTheSoul osman.an...@gmail.com wrote: hi, can i know using the twitter API that what interface is used to send the message in twitter ? -- Abraham Williams | Community

[twitter-dev] whitelisting q

2009-08-28 Thread Joseph Cheek
Hi all, I'm hopeful that someone on-list can answer this as I have been over the faqs and am still not sure I understand. Whitelisting gives me more API calls (20,000 vs 150 per hour) but still only 1000 status updates per day, correct? I'm developing a bot that responds to updates with a

[twitter-dev] Mass Direct Message Deletion

2009-08-28 Thread shiplu
In API doc I see direct_messages/destroy method does the work. curl -u user:password --http-request DELETE http://twitter.com/direct_messages/destroy/88619848.xml It requires id. so It'll delete 1 message per request. Is there any way to delete more than 1 DMs per request?? A request like this

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and HTTP Authentication under same Application Name?

2009-08-28 Thread Joseph Cheek
it's not conspicuous enough. You need to enclose it in blink tags. 8-))) Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Raffi Krikorian wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget“fromMyApp”appendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication :P --

[twitter-dev] Automated URL shortening

2009-08-28 Thread Matt Terenzio
Are the rules on whether a URL is automatically shortened or not openly available anywhere? I was pushing a URL like this through the API: http://www.domain.com/story/1234567 and it is not shortened in the tweet. I decided to implement my own short URLs and started pushing this through:

[twitter-dev] friends/ids order

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Boctor
Hi all, Does the friends/ids API return the list of friends in follow order? By follow order I mean the first in the list is the first person followed and the last on the list is the last person followed. I have been assuming that this is true, but it appears that this might have changed

[twitter-dev] Wondering if this would be against TOS

2009-08-28 Thread Peter J. Walsh
tl;dr: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application that passes data to/from devices using twitter, and was wondering if this would be a violation of the TOS? or if you prefer, the longer version: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application. An application that controls other

[twitter-dev] Build a Library based on OAuth

2009-08-28 Thread slexten...@alice.it
Hello, I just want a confirmation. I need to build a library to enhance my CMS. I need that news added on my portal are added to Twitter too. I got my Twitter account, and I got my Twitter application. To add a tweet by code I allowed my app on my twitter account. I derived from a debug session

[twitter-dev] Some1 Can Explain Me This Process?

2009-08-28 Thread Gustavo Melo
I was trying to change my old app for the new OAuth authentication. I'm using *.NET C#* I could get my *token* and *tokenSecret*. Ok. So i try to test *verify_credentials.xml* looks like this: http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml ?*oauth_consumer_key*=xx *oauth_nonce*=xx

[twitter-dev] Re: Build a Library based on OAuth

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Badera
Noo. You should always be prepared to request new tokens on behalf of users, and you should always be ready to swap your app's consumer key and secret. Never store any sort of hardcoded string -- like your tokens -- in your applications. Worst case, put them in a

[twitter-dev] Re: Some1 Can Explain Me This Process?

2009-08-28 Thread Duane Roelands
I believe that the % values in the signature need to be uppercase, so instead of %2bgUJx2ydmVWdoLgdGrFWfwy0efg%3d your sig should look like %2BgUJx2ydmVWdoLgdGrFWfwy0efg%3D On Aug 27, 3:29 pm, Gustavo Melo pipoc...@gmail.com wrote: I was trying to change my old app for the new OAuth

[twitter-dev] Re: Some1 Can Explain Me This Process?

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Badera
OAuth credentials are verified by default. If you have tokens that work with Twitter, you know you have valid credentials. If that token fails during a call, you must ask the user to reapprove with a new token. There is never a need to verify credentials on the OAuth side of the fence -- you

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated URL shortening

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Badera
Shortening is sometimes turned off due to system issues or bit.ly issues. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Matt Terenziomteren...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Wondering if this would be against TOS

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Badera
1. If you're not putting messages in front of someone, it's not spam. If you're not aggressively following and @'g people, it's probably not spam. 2. It would probably be better to do it all with one account -- most users don't wish to sign up for and maintain more than one. But people having

[twitter-dev] Re: Wondering if this would be against TOS

2009-08-28 Thread Duane Roelands
There are other applications already deployed that let you do things like control your computer via Twitter, and I haven't heard any complaining about them with regard to TOS. I have a second Twitter account that I use for testing my application, and I'm not aware of any TOS provision that

[twitter-dev] Re: Has replies/mentions behavior changed again or it is broken?

2009-08-28 Thread Chad Etzel
If you can find specific examples and send them to a...@twitter.com that will help us. Also if you can file a ticket that will help track it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Thanks, -Chad On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Richardrichardbar...@gmail.com wrote: I've had a few

[twitter-dev] Re: Proper HTTP settings for search API

2009-08-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Mike, The Search API does not use or need authentication. It is highly recommended to use a descriptive user-agent in your requests. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:18 PM, mahallmikeh...@citizennet.com wrote: Hopefully I'm not starting a new thread for a previous topic but I was

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/ids order

2009-08-28 Thread Bioscience News
I noticed a flip flop in the order on the afternoon of 7/21/09 . It looks like the order is newest to oldest, but do validate for yourself. Grab an id from each end of your array and run it through /users/show.xyz : http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show Then look

[twitter-dev] Re: Receiving Invalid 403 Errors - You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.

2009-08-28 Thread bosher
I should add the sites IPs have been whitelisted... On Aug 28, 6:37 pm, bosher bhellm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My Twitter service just launched today -http://tweetmenews.com/ After having a surge in users joining the site, I'm now receiving the following error messages: 403:The request

[twitter-dev] Receiving Invalid 403 Errors - You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.

2009-08-28 Thread bosher
Hello, My Twitter service just launched today - http://tweetmenews.com/ After having a surge in users joining the site, I'm now receiving the following error messages: 403:The request is understood, but it has been refused. An accompanying error message will explain why.

[twitter-dev] Re: Receiving Invalid 403 Errors - You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.

2009-08-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Are you sending the news items to your users via DMs? If so, your service will be severely restricted by the 1,000 DMs per day limit. Dewald On Aug 28, 10:37 pm, bosher bhellm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My Twitter service just launched today -http://tweetmenews.com/ After having a surge

[twitter-dev] Re: 408s - I'm receiving frequent 408 error messages today

2009-08-28 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
I'm also seeing a lot of these today. Anyone know what this means? It isn't listed on the API wiki page that I can see. --Noah Kantrowitz On Aug 25, 6:51 pm, bosher bretthell...@gmail.com wrote: Using oAuth, trying to send a direct message I'm receiving frequent408error messages. Is anyone

[twitter-dev] Re: Receiving Invalid 403 Errors - You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.

2009-08-28 Thread bosher
I wanted to give an update here. The issue has been resolved and was due to my account going the over limit. i.e. I messed up... Thanks for the speedy support Twitter/Chad On Aug 28, 6:51 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sending the news items to your users via DMs? If

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth redirects fail....

2009-08-28 Thread Dhaval Parikh
Hi all Is there any one facing the same issue? my app doesn't get redirected back to my app even though secret key and token are generated. This happens to only few people. For some it works. Wats the solution? Is this a twitter problem? Thanks On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Vincent Nguyen