[twitter-dev] Getting any users home timeline

2009-09-04 Thread dp
So the statuses/friends_timeline api call gives an authentated users and his friends statuses. Basically that authentacted users home page. Now is there any similar way to get any users home timeline. statuses/ user_timeline gives the statuses for any user specified by a userid. But it gives

[twitter-dev] user_timeline API call returning a HTTP 301 response??

2009-09-04 Thread RoseWired
Hey Guys, I am the developer of a Twitter to Facebook sync app, and I noticed that in the last 12 hrs I have been occasionally receiving the following response to my user_timeline API call: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN htmlhead title301 Moved Permanently/title /headbody

[twitter-dev] Allowing password update or stopping allowing email update via api

2009-09-04 Thread fbparis
I was wondering why we can not set user password via the user_update method. Email can be updated this way, and a bad app could then use the http://twitter.com/account/resend_password form to steal some twitter accounts. Maybe the user_update method shouldnt be able to update email. Or maybe

[twitter-dev] Re: large user base push notification solutions?

2009-09-04 Thread nibirut...@gmail.com
Apple push notification for iPhone works when the app is closed. In that case the iPhone client is not able to pull data. Meanwhile users want any mentions or DMs to pushed to them when the iPhone client is closed. So we must use a server to check DM Mentions for users. On Aug 21, 8:10 pm,

[twitter-dev] Counter for rate limit remaining requests unreliable, often reaches 0 unduly

2009-09-04 Thread Reivax
I'm having this problem for a few days, and I've been monitoring ALL requests sent to twitter, here is what I saw : The value of the X-RateLimit-Remaining header is totally unreliable. For instance, the response to a request will have it at 120, while the next response will have it at 40. Then

[twitter-dev] Re: large user base push notification solutions?

2009-09-04 Thread nibirut...@gmail.com
Great ideas. thanks a lot. Based on your data: 40,000 users, pull every 15 minutes, that means 44.5 requests/ second. Do you pull the data for everyone , or are there any short cuts that we can save server load? Also, did you do DMs as well? if so then you will need to deal 90

[twitter-dev] Re: Counter for rate limit remaining requests unreliable, often reaches 0 unduly

2009-09-04 Thread fbparis
According to the last api request you've done, X-RateLimit-Remaining can be user limit or IP limit (depends if you made an authentified request or not). This can explain the X-RateLimit-Remaining values you've posted. On Sep 4, 11:03 am, Reivax xavier.yo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having this

[twitter-dev] How to find people by api

2009-09-04 Thread HelloPK
Hi all, How we can find the people with the twitter API. We are not getting which method using for the. Anybody help me. Thanks Samal Pramod.

[twitter-dev] Re: Counter for rate limit remaining requests unreliable, often reaches 0 unduly

2009-09-04 Thread Reivax
All requests are done authentified. Thanks Xavier On Sep 4, 11:26 am, fbparis fbou...@gmail.com wrote: According to the last api request you've done, X-RateLimit-Remaining can be user limit or IP limit (depends if you made an authentified request or not). This can explain the

[twitter-dev] formatting post time

2009-09-04 Thread reblis
I would like some information about how to make the post date / time appear with one break below the tweet and right justified even if the tweet is left justified. I'm currently using Widgets by Twitter. should I be using something else to achieve this? Thanks, ~reblis

[twitter-dev] Search API cache HELP

2009-09-04 Thread pxpilot
From time to time some new Tweets would not be included in the query result, it seems like cache on the query on twitter side but it doesn't make any sense. For example right now http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+nyfw+OR+%23nyfw+from%3AThisThatBeautyrpp=20 does not include the last 2

[twitter-dev] A few simple Search API questions

2009-09-04 Thread owkaye
My app needs to retrieve tweets that match a specific phrase: 1- How many searches are allowed from a single IP address per hour? I'm thinking of doing one per minute, is that too many? 2- I cannot find examples of phrase-based searches in the API docs. Can someone post a working example of

[twitter-dev] Re: How to find people by api

2009-09-04 Thread JDG
no method exists. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 03:21, HelloPK samalpra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, How we can find the people with the twitter API. We are not getting which method using for the. Anybody help me. Thanks Samal Pramod. -- Internets. Serious business.

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile oAuth

2009-09-04 Thread twittme_mobi
I am also interested in mobile oath solution. twitter guys should think of something before deprecating basic auth On Aug 20, 8:01 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I have a mobile based twitter client in the field and have implemented oAuth for this client. Some of the devices

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth + Mobile nightmare

2009-09-04 Thread twittme_mobi
in addition to storing the access token somewhere , wouldn't it be better if twitter deliver mobile friendly version of the oauth pages? On Aug 19, 12:14 am, 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

[twitter-dev] Whitelist domain name instead of IP

2009-09-04 Thread twittme_mobi
My IP is already whitelisted but is it possible to whitelist the domain, because my app will be in trouble if they change my IP from the hosting center?

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread pxpilot
Search API will rock if it would only be reliable what we see looks to be some sort of a funky cache, a query (atom) can be missing some latest tweets and then after a while they show up, if you tweak the query you can see 'em. you ever seen this problem? also what did you do special with user

[twitter-dev] Re: Read Status in API

2009-09-04 Thread Chris
On Aug 7, 2:56 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I've heard Al3x mention adding flags so that application A tells twitter the user read their friends timeline up to stats xyz so when they start using application B it can jump over already read statuses. I have no idea the status

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

2009-09-04 Thread Chris Babcock
There are some faulty premises in operation here. While these don't affect the substance of the answer to the OP's question, you do tend to follow them beyond to some unnecessary conclusions. On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:21:38 -1000 Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: You're asking the wrong

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
The Search team is working on indexing latency and throughput, along with a many other things. There have been big improvements recently and more are on the way. In the mean time, if you need closer to real-time results, consider the track parameter on the Streaming API. -John Kalucki

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread Reivax
John, the original message of this thread is about rate limit being totally erratic, as several users have noticed. here is the detail of what I'm seeing: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/40c82b4dbc0536bd Here is another user reporting the problem :

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
Various APIs have their own rate limiting mechanisms. The www, search and streaming rate limits are all customized to their usage patterns and share little to no code and/or state. -John On Sep 4, 9:49 am, Reivax xavier.yo...@gmail.com wrote: John, the original message of this thread is about

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
Dewald, I'm not on the search team, but there are a lot of discussions over there this morning about search api rate limits and related issues. Search rate limiting issues (vs. www.twitter.com or api.twitter.com) probably boil down to one of three categories: 1) Search service interruptions -

[twitter-dev] Search API limits

2009-09-04 Thread owkaye
How can I retrieve the maximum number of tweets in a search? Can rpp be set to more than 100? What if I do not send a rpp value, does twitter default to returning more than 100 per page? Owkaye

[twitter-dev] Change in API

2009-09-04 Thread Sean Fawcett
Hi: A couple of months ago, I received an email from Twitter about some changes in the API. I was, at that time, up to my eyeballs with a time sensitive project and did not have time to follow up. Now, I notice that a very simple function that I created, allowing a user to fill in a text field

[twitter-dev] Re: Change in API

2009-09-04 Thread Peter Denton
It may be that posts were changed to gets. On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Sean Fawcett s...@fawcettassociates.com wrote: Hi: A couple of months ago, I received an email from Twitter about some changes in the API. I was, at that time, up to my eyeballs with a time sensitive project and did

[twitter-dev] screen_name param for /statuses/mentions and/or xml format for search results?

2009-09-04 Thread Hoss
Background... I'm attempting to build an app that can display a conversation graph of all the tweets to/from people in a small group ... the use case being a set of friends, or coworkers in an office all wanting a quick view of the various public tweets and public reply tweets posted by other

[twitter-dev] Re: screen_name param for /statuses/mentions and/or xml format for search results?

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Badera
ATOM _is_ XML ... not sure what the problem is? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Hosshoss...@gmail.com wrote: Background...

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

2009-09-04 Thread chepe263
First, Why you are here??? For me, i'm trying to develop with twitter api for fun and learning. Now i know more about php that a month ago. I'm doing this with the hope of doing a best site that twitter, giving more options to cuztomize to the user and new services (and the hope of winning some

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile oAuth

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Renkel
OAuth is great, in certain circumstances. In others, it's not so great. Circumstances for which it is great include: - consumer web sites; and - consumer client applications that have access to a reasonable browser on the client device in both cases with the qualification that the

[twitter-dev] Followers/IDs Change/Error?

2009-09-04 Thread Zensae
Hi All, Until today this: http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml had always been working OK for me. One query to it returned all my followers (around 10,000.) Today it seems to have changed to showing me just 5,000 on the first page, which is OK except for the fact that when I try to get Page 2

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

2009-09-04 Thread Abraham Williams
I just accidentally banned someone posting to this thread from the group. If you find it was you please email me offlist and I will get you back on. My apologizes, Abraham -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project

[twitter-dev] Getting screen_name from id without gazillion API calls?

2009-09-04 Thread dizid
Hi, When i request friends (or followers) from the Twitter API i want to get the screen_name's based on the id's. I use users/show for this, inputting the id and getting back de screen_name. This costs ALOT of API calls and i run into the API rate limit fast, especially with many friends. Is

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API limits

2009-09-04 Thread David Fisher
The rpp defaults to 15 or something if you don't specify it. Sounds like you need to mess around and play with things a bit more. The key to max search results isn't in paging or rpp, but in max_id. Be careful what you ask for. Retrieval of everything available can take a long time (hours)

[twitter-dev] OAuth changes?

2009-09-04 Thread Bobby Gaza
Hi, I was curious if anyone has seen any calls to statuses/update stop working using OAuth/PHP Pecl. I recently started getting errors of Incorrect Signature with some code that had been working perfectly fine for the past month. I'd be happy to elaborate more, but just shooting out this general

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers/IDs Change/Error?

2009-09-04 Thread freefall
Just came here to ask the same question. Looks a change to me. On Sep 5, 1:38 am, Zensae ch...@sandman.com wrote: Hi All, Until today this:  http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xmlhad always been working OK for me.  One query to it returned all my followers (around 10,000.) Today it seems to

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers count

2009-09-04 Thread freefall
Until today you could use: http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml and get the total - this was way more accurate than getting it from user/show. They appear to ahve just lowerd this total to 5000 so that will no longer work (unless that's a bug). On Sep 3, 7:24 am, Waldron Faulkner

[twitter-dev] Followers Friends IDs Are Seriously MESSED Up!

2009-09-04 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Not only do the social graph calls now suddenly, without any prior warning of announcement, return only 5,000 ids, it is messed up even when you do the paging as per the API documentation. Case in point. @socialoomph has 16,598 followers. If you page through the follower ids with page, you get

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting screen_name from id without gazillion API calls?

2009-09-04 Thread fbparis
statuts/friends and status/followers i guess On Sep 5, 3:01 am, dizid glasw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When i request friends (or followers) from the Twitter API i want to get the screen_name's based on the id's. I use users/show for this, inputting the id and getting back de screen_name.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API limits

2009-09-04 Thread owkaye
The key to max search results isn't in paging or rpp, but in max_id. Hi David, I do not understand how max_id can help me. If I want to get the 10,000 most recent tweets that match the phrase michael jackson changing the max_id value doesn't seem like it's going to help at all. In fact,

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers Friends IDs Are Seriously MESSED Up!

2009-09-04 Thread Dewald Pretorius
For @dewaldp I get, via the API social graph methods with paging: Friends: 764 , Followers: 3,977. While on my web profile the numbers are: Friends: 747 , Followers: 3,911. On Sep 4, 11:56 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Not only do the social graph calls now suddenly, without any

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers Friends IDs Are Seriously MESSED Up!

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
We're aware of the problem with the following API not returning more than 5,000 followers. Apparently this call has recently been unreliable was often timing out and returning 503s. A change to fix the 503s limited the results to 5000 followers prematurely. We're going to get this back to the

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers/IDs Change/Error?

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
Working to fix this. On Sep 4, 6:45 pm, freefall tehgame...@googlemail.com wrote: Just came here to ask the same question. Looks a change to me. On Sep 5, 1:38 am, Zensae ch...@sandman.com wrote: Hi All, Until today this:  http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xmlhadalways been working

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers Friends IDs Are Seriously MESSED Up!

2009-09-04 Thread Howard Siegel
There have been times when a friend or follower id has been reported multiple times. Did you check to see if any of the friend or follower ids that you get back were duplicates? - h On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 20:17, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: For @dewaldp I get, via the API social

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers Friends IDs Are Seriously MESSED Up!

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
Several months ago there were multiple subtle problems with consistency in following lists. We've since rolled to a new system that have numerous constraints in place to prevent duplicates and provide much stronger consistency guarantees. There is, however, a known issue around pagination. You

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers count

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
The 5k limit is a bug. Working to fix. On Sep 4, 6:51 pm, freefall tehgame...@googlemail.com wrote: Until today you could use:http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml and get the total - this was way more accurate than getting it from user/show. They appear to ahve just lowerd this total to 5000

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers Friends IDs Are Seriously MESSED Up!

2009-09-04 Thread Jesse Stay
Can Twitter remove the following per hour limit for a little bit after they fix this (at least for whitelisted IPs and/or OAuth)? This has caused us, and I'm sure many other apps to pre-emptively unfollow people that they were not supposed to. This is a BIG problem! I completely agree with

[twitter-dev] unexpected 401 unauthorized from streaming api

2009-09-04 Thread jfgorski
I'm running into a problem reconnecting to the streaming api. On reconnect I get 401 unauthorized. I run for example curl 'http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json? follow=123,12085,11' -ugsnap_api:... -vv and it works and I get the output * About to connect() to