[twitter-dev] Re: Find twitter account from email address?

2009-09-03 Thread Abraham Williams
Here is the issue that involves this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=353 Abraham On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 22:44, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote: No. This has been discussed. The API does not allow it. The impression I have and agree with is the API will not allow

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers count

2009-09-03 Thread Waldron Faulkner
Same oddness w. friends count as well? I'd guess so. My problem is that if I try to get followers using paging, I get different numbers (and different followers) than if I pull the entire list w/o paging. Also, followers disappear and reappear from one hour to the next. On Sep 2, 5:44 pm, Jason

[twitter-dev] Rate Limit Weirdness?

2009-09-03 Thread Waldron Faulkner
Strange events w/ Rate Limit requests. I'm calling the API from my whitelisted IP and getting results that are all over the map. It's almost as if Twitter is load-balancing my requests to two different environments, each of which is keeping its own count of my rate limits. So my app chugs along

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread PJB
$_ =~ s/\-([^\[]+?)\-/process($1)/ges foreach (@tweets); On Sep 2, 6:50 pm, Dante Soiu dsoiual...@gmail.com wrote: And not computer language, Dante Soiu

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit Weirdness?

2009-09-03 Thread srikanth reddy
I have seen some inconsistency with my desktop app(Oauth) which is not whitelisted Adding a tweet to favorite does not update the X-RateLimit value. Also If i remove a tweet from my favorites ( favorites\destroy), i get 404 error (But this is removed from favorites) and the ratelimit is reset

[twitter-dev] Private user's 'following' information: why am I denied access via API but can get through Twitter.com?

2009-09-03 Thread Tweet Thief
Summary Question: If a user is 'private' on Twitter, why can I see their followers on Twitter.com (IFF I log in) but not through the API? Details: For example, I went to http://twitter.com/just_me_hi/followers/ and can see all of her followers, despite the fact that she is private (Note: I can

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Streaming API

2009-09-03 Thread anthony steven
Thanks Paul, Btw, do you know what is the procedure I should do to sign the EULA (End-User License Agreement) with Twitter? The reason I need the method is because currently I'm doing a research about Tweets Analysis. Thanks, Anthony On Sep 3, 5:15 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread PJB
I think the UK Telegraph (?) article yesterday put it perfectly... the problem is two-fold: Twitter itself is pretty insecure (unfixed javascript hacks, etc), and third-party apps are even LESS secure (non- encrypted db storage of Twitter authentication on mysql injectable hosts, etc etc). My

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

2009-09-03 Thread Rich
Any idea how long the friends_timeline will be available for, obviously there might be some considerable development time assocated with switching (and in the case of iPhone applications getting Apple to review the whole process too!) On Sep 3, 1:19 am, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Nicholas Granadongran...@gmail.com wrote: PJB ... really? There really no need to flame-bait this thread. I think Scott put it perfectly. Cheers, Nick There was even less need for you to chide him for it. What contribution did you, a list user, just add by

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:00 AM, PJBpjbmancun...@gmail.com wrote: I think the UK Telegraph (?) article yesterday put it perfectly... the problem is two-fold: Twitter itself is pretty insecure (unfixed javascript hacks, etc), and third-party apps are even LESS secure (non- encrypted db

[twitter-dev] Re: api user rate limit from different ip addresses

2009-09-03 Thread NATO24
Thanks Jim and Andrew, that's exactly what I needed to know. The request are coming from the client machine, so I will be safe. There was just some verbiage in the Twitter docs that said that it used the account and ip address for rate limiting, but it didn't really define what that meant in

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-09-03 Thread LucaPost
ok ok... so I guess the Search API json response will include a: 'geo': { type:Point, coordinates:[37.78029, -122.39697] } block for each of element of the 'results' array BTW: I believe 'geo': null would be formally more correct than 'geo': {} for tweets missing geoLocation metadata. On

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

2009-09-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hey abir. Great discussion, the geolocation code is exciting opens up so many possibilities. thanks! we're excited as well. 1. Would you guys consider the geolocation code, opt-in on a tweet basis? It would be an optional input on a tweet basis with the default=off; This way users can

[twitter-dev] Re: Bump Issue 949 - Deleting status returns error

2009-09-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi naveen. please don't bump issues on the mailing list. i believe we're releasing a fix for this issue: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/6bd4a43cfd2c9ac0/ca4cffb84e03930f?lnk=gstq=alex#ca4cffb84e03930f Still waiting to get some kind of

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

2009-09-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi jim. its only properly documented there (that will be fixed soon!), but all user objects will have the geo_enabled element in it. Raffi, Is it only the account/verify_credentials method that will return the geo_enabled sub-element in the user element, or all methods that return a user

[twitter-dev] Re: Private user's 'following' information: why am I denied access via API but can get through Twitter.com?

2009-09-03 Thread Jim Renkel
Hmm! I'm not sure what the problem is you're having, but my site has no problem seeing her followers. You can see this at: http://twxlate.com/?a=fllwrsu=just_me_hi Hope this helps. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

2009-09-03 Thread Marcel Molina
The friends_timeline will likely be around for an amount of time on the scale of months, rather than weeks. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Richrhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea how long the friends_timeline will be available for, obviously there might be some considerable development time

[twitter-dev] Re: Find twitter account from email address?

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Babcock
Ok, the long answer is no too. Here is the long answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNjQecyjE8 Chris Babcock

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-09-03 Thread LucaPost
ok ok... so i guess that in the search API json response we will see an extra: geo: { type:Point, coordinates:[37.78029, -122.39697] } for each element of the 'results' array. BTW: I believe geo: null, would be more manageable and formally correct then: geo:{}, when geolocation metadata are

[twitter-dev] Re: available languages

2009-09-03 Thread LucaPost
wondering... how does the language of a tweet actually get set ?! is it taken from the profile settings (location?), http headers set from the user OS or from actually analyzing the text content and assigning to a language with a dedicated algorithm?! On Aug 17, 4:59 pm, Ben Eliott

[twitter-dev] Re: New ReTweet API

2009-09-03 Thread jim.renkel
I asked this, and similar but more detailed questions, in my Aug 18, 7:35 pm post to this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/1e07e332ec3d449d/2d10a6a22e55133e?lnk=gstq=ReTweet+API#2d10a6a22e55133e but, unfortunately, have not yet received an

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Dale Merritt
yea, like fb and ytube and ggle On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net kakm...@gmail.comwrote: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC

[twitter-dev] status id

2009-09-03 Thread Ki
i assume status id is auto generated. are there any situations where the id is manually set? for example, from id 1000 to 2000 for consecutive status updates that comes into twitter?

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Joel Strellner
Yeah, it's a fad, just like vowels and capitalization are. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Dale Merritt mogul...@gmail.com wrote: yea, like fb and ytube and ggle On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net kakm...@gmail.comwrote: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Haneda
Yes. On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Badera
Sometimes. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Scott Hanedatalkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Yes. On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts? -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread JDG
Ask Again Later On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 16:54, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Sometimes. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Scott Hanedatalkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Yes. On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM, ka...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Ted Neward
Kinda asking the wrong group, aren't you? Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com   -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter- development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Banh
if you're a developer... and u love to code... then i don't think it's a hard decision. #my2cents On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Sometimes. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Scott Hanedatalkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Yes. On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:41 AM,

[twitter-dev] Cookie warning

2009-09-03 Thread Ted Neward
Hey, all. When I use Jakarta Commons' HttpClient to access Twitter, I get a warning about the cookie usage: WARNING: Cookie rejected: $Version=0; _twitter_sess=BAh7CzoRdHJhbnNfcHJvbXB0MDo OcmV0dXJuX3RvIjRodHRwOi8vdHdpdHRl%250Aci5jb20vc3RhdHVzZXMvc2hvdy8zNzQ0NDIyMD U2Ln

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

2009-09-03 Thread Dan
I figured out this problem; it was not related after all. I needed to set the user-agent when using curl, with the curl_setopt command (in PHP). Once I did that I did not have problems using the Search API. On Aug 29, 7:03 pm, Dan danec...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is related.  

[twitter-dev] having issues with widget - trying to palce on my website - who do I talk to ?

2009-09-03 Thread Jesse Gideon
trying to paste the code on my website for the twitter widget - after doing nothing happens ? see -- http://www.fresh2order.com/test.php help

[twitter-dev] Twitter AIR/JS API

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Mesiab
For those of you developing in AIR or JS, we've open sourced our Twitter API library. Collaborators encouraged: http://code.google.com/p/adobe-air-twitter/ -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Mesiab
You're asking the wrong folks. Most of the developers here do not have any real capital investment in their projects to speak of. Fewer still have a profit model. Is Twitter a Fad? The easy answer, yes. The long answer? Yes, but it needn't be... Unless Twitter makes a very real move to

[twitter-dev] Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-03 Thread Zac Witte
I'm not sure the filter is actually catching everything that I'm supposedly tracking. There are ~20,000 tweets per minute right now according to tweespeed. I'm getting about 1000 tweets/m and skipping on average 1500 tweets/m according to the limit notifications. That means my filter is matching

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Open Connect

2009-09-03 Thread monkeyvu
Thanks :-) On Sep 3, 2:24 pm, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: This is the closest,http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter On Sep 2, 7:10 pm,monkeyvuphamanhvu101...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does Twitter support Open Connect which like the Facebook does? Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit Weirdness?

2009-09-03 Thread Guillaume Thonier
We are seeing this exact problem with our app (OAuth). Different sets of requests return different counts for the rate limit. It goes up and down and sometimes reaches 0 which is incorrect. Any idea? On Sep 2, 11:47 pm, srikanth reddy srikanth.yara...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen some

[twitter-dev] Search Operator OR needs more work!

2009-09-03 Thread Mike
Hi, I'm very amazed by the API.. but when using the OR operator I was hoping to see something like what Google does. for ex: If I'm searching 3 keywords with OR operator. Google will list items that has more keyword occurrences first. Twitter search will return results with one keyword

[twitter-dev] Re: Search Operator OR needs more work!

2009-09-03 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, All results from the Search API are always returned in reverse chronological order (most recent first). Number of keywords present in the result does not play into it. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Mike michael...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm very amazed by the API.. but

[twitter-dev] Re: Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-03 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Zac, The filter streams are limited in the amount of data they will deliver. If you are filtering a high-volume term (such as http), you will definitely not be getting all results. -Chad On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Zac Witte zacwi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure the filter is

[twitter-dev] Re: Throttling of filter stream

2009-09-03 Thread John Kalucki
Zac, It's possible that the track filter is missing something, but there's probably other misunderstandings that are clouding things. I don't know how Tweespeed comes up with their numbers, but the Streaming API only makes available a proportion of all public statuses. Spam accounts, for

[twitter-dev] api error when updating statuses?

2009-09-03 Thread AJ Chen
wired response from status update: I update my status with different tweets, but for a period of time, the responded statuses are always the same and wrong status. for example, 2009-09-03 21:30:51,149 DEBUG report.TweetMgr (TweetMgr.java:tweet(63)) - newsweb2x tweeted: Shuttle X500V All-In-One