[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-29 Thread Damon Clinkscales
Exact dupes sent via the API are dropped. I believe that it's intended to prevent runaway apps from posting the same thing over and over (say if an app had a bug...nevar!). This feature actually saved my bacon once. It's not new, though. It's been that way for at least 18 months. -damon --

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:48:02PM +0700, Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Jai jaishank...@gmail.com wrote: What is the criteria for dupliate tweets? then how the polling applications works? they may have several tweets with similar text? Duplicate tweets =

[twitter-dev] update_delivery_device method

2009-10-29 Thread DustyReagan
I was playing around with the account/update_delivery_device method. It seems to behave like this: device=sms:im - Does nothing device=none - Turns device updates off Neither sms or im turn device updates back on. Are there any plans for this method to be updated or deprecated?

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API - 403 bursts and (maybe) a caching issue.

2009-10-29 Thread janole
I'm experiencing the same. Empty results from the Search API when using the since_id parameter. This is really bad and my users are complaining about the Saved Searches tabs not updating. If you're lucky you end up at a caching server with up-to-date information, but it seems as if you can't

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-29 Thread Jelle De Laender
So it only look at the previous tweet from that user? Or the previous tweet send by your application (via the API) for that user? So for example: If you have 2 static messages A and B, and your app posts tweet A, B, A, B, A, B, ... it shouldn't be a problem? My webapp can tweet 2 static

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile search based on Bio field

2009-10-29 Thread Jim Gilliam
Topsy provides an API for searching user bios. http://code.google.com/p/otterapi/wiki/Resources#/profilesearch On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:38 PM, MuratMetu muratm...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, we are new to twitter development, we want to know is there any open source API that provides us to send

[twitter-dev] More permission-levels for applications

2009-10-29 Thread Wouter van Vliet
Hi Y'all, (if this discussion has already been covered, please refer me to the proper post - did a search, but couldn't find it) At this moment, there are just two levels of access an application can acquire for an account. Read and/or Write. And it's all controlled by the application builder.

[twitter-dev] API call accounting by account rather than IP for non-authenticated requests

2009-10-29 Thread Terry Jones
I just submitted a whitelisting request, along with a comment along the following lines: I think it would be good if Twitter did API call accounting based on the HTTP auth header whenever one is sent - even if the call itself does not require auth. I'm at home right now and although my account

[twitter-dev] Any response from Twitter?

2009-10-29 Thread orian
Can someone from the API team please comment on this?

[twitter-dev] Re: Making crossdomain.xml less restrictive on api.twitter.com?

2009-10-29 Thread orian
Can someone from the API team please comment on this? On Oct 21, 1:31 pm, orian orianm...@gmail.com wrote: Now that api.twitter.com has gone live, can we please have a less restrictive crossdomain.xml so that Flash apps can access the API without requiring the use of a proxy? This was being

[twitter-dev] Re: Any response from Twitter?

2009-10-29 Thread JDG
comment on WHAT? On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:33, orian or...@orianmarx.com wrote: Can someone from the API team please comment on this? -- Internets. Serious business.

[twitter-dev] Re: Any response from Twitter?

2009-10-29 Thread orian
Ugh sorry that was supposed to be a response to this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/e35a708400b529b3 On Oct 29, 11:33 am, orian or...@orianmarx.com wrote: Can someone from the API team please comment on this?

[twitter-dev] Re: Making crossdomain.xml less restrictive on api.twitter.com?

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, After discussing this internally, we have decided that we will make the crossdomain.xml policy more open on the api.twitter.com domain. We don't know exactly what that entails yet or when it will go into effect, but this is something that we want to open up. Expect another post when

[twitter-dev] Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread hima
Hi I am trying to collect users data from twitter, like the number of followers, number of tweets, the time the user' account is alive and similar statistics. I have done this before in august and got appropriate results with my code.I ran the code again a week ago and it worked and gave me

[twitter-dev] JavaScript error

2009-10-29 Thread voorwiel
FYI, viewing any profile page on twitter.com throws a JavaScript error in IE8 : 'undefined' is empty or no object, twitter.js, line 1, URI: http://a3.twimg.com/a/1256778767/javascripts/twitter.js?1256779295 Sorry for posting this in the API development group, but I see no other way to file a bug

[twitter-dev] Re: Net::Twitter dev release with Lists API support

2009-10-29 Thread Marc Mims
* Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com [091028 21:37]: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: In my own testing, I've noticed that the update_list call always returns a 500 status, even though it succeeds.  That's probably a Twitter bug that will be worked out.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread Naveen Ayyagari
I have seen these in our users logs as well. I wasn't sure if it was twitter or a mobile gateway they were using. On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:41 AM, hima wrote: Hi I am trying to collect users data from twitter, like the number of followers, number of tweets, the time the user' account is

[twitter-dev] Re: Net::Twitter dev release with Lists API support

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Elcomb
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: Did you install the full developer release, or just the Net::Twitter::Role::API::Lists module?  Are you using Basic or OAuth authentication? Changes were made to both Net::Twitter::Core and Net::Twitter::Role::OAuth to

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread Adam Green
I'm also getting intermittent 502 errors, so I don't think this is code specific. I am calling the search API and getting a 502 error every couple of hours. The vast majority of API calls are working. Repeating the call after a 502 error generally works. On Oct 29, 11:41 am, hima

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread Dave Briccetti
I’ve learned that wrapping every Twitter Web service call with retry logic is essential. http://github.com/dcbriccetti/talking-puffin/blob/master/twitter-api/src/main/scala/org/talkingpuffin/twitter/Http.scala

[twitter-dev] 503 with gigantic retry-after value

2009-10-29 Thread Benjamin Darfler
We are using the search api and respecting the 503 and retry-after values however I've seen a retry value in the 40 YEARS range a few times in the past week. Whats up with that? Ben

[twitter-dev] Re: 503 with gigantic retry-after value

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Ben, It sounds like that value is a unix timestamp, which is a bug. The retry-value should be a seconds from now value... The search team is investigating. Thanks for reporting. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Benjamin Darfler b...@bdarfler.com wrote: We are using the search api and

[twitter-dev] DM Delete API

2009-10-29 Thread Jesse Stay
I have a service that automatically deletes DMs that match certain keywords on behalf of users. This has been particularly beneficial in the wake of the recent worms going around. Our users get a couple when the worms start propagating, but after that, they're protected because of some of the

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread Andrew Badera
++ to that. But be gentle. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Dave Briccetti da...@davebsoft.com wrote: I’ve learned that wrapping every Twitter

[twitter-dev] Search API: Can you have OR relationship with author and keywords?

2009-10-29 Thread Mike
We are trying to do a search where the results can come from two keywords, or from an author. It seems that the search API has an AND relationship between the author and keywords. If you specify an author, it searches for the keywords only within that author's tweets. For instance, our author

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: Can you have OR relationship with author and keywords?

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
If you do something like: from:louisvillemojo OR louisville OR kentucky it will do what you describe, but if you want to do something like from:louisvillemojo OR (louisville AND kentucky) then it will not work. You would have to do 2 separate queries in that case. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread hima latha
I tried running the code on every other day for like a week now. I tried it continusly but it is not working anymore. Has this got to do with any Ip addresses being blocked? To confirm this, I tried running the code on different computers but with no success. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM,

[twitter-dev] Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread leonspencer
The new lists are a great way reduce the clutter in timeline. However, I immediately notice management problems with the lists where tweets are duplicate in timeline and list for tweets that have nothing to do with the list. For example, let's say I have a sports list:

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
This sounds like a 3rd party API application opportunity to me... -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:11 PM, leonspencer spencer_l...@yahoo.com wrote: The new lists are a great way reduce the clutter in timeline. However, I immediately notice management problems with the lists where tweets are

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Leon Spencer
I don't think a 3rd party app would work - with Oauth or like a TweetDeck. The searches and updates would do well beyond Twitter limits and impact user's ability to perform other functions. Plus having the hashtags would reduce load on bandwidth anyway, right? Each time you pull this lists

[twitter-dev] White listing rejected - no reason

2009-10-29 Thread Arnaldo de Moraes Pereira
Hello, I've submitted my application to be on the white list, but this request has been rejected, without a reason. For some weeks now, I've been receiving 400 Bad Request http responses frequently and didn't reach the rate limit, not once ( http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting says the app

[twitter-dev] Re: White listing rejected - no reason

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
Email your username to a...@twitter.com and we can look up the reason and help you figure things out. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Arnaldo de Moraes Pereira eggh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've submitted my application to be on the white list, but this request has been rejected,

[twitter-dev] Blocked from stream.twitter.com

2009-10-29 Thread Robert Hartung
Hello, i mady my own little application for twitter which ended in many problems and errors finally. I rewrote my Stream API and now it works perfectly but unfortunately I am not able to connect from the server to stream.twitter.com:80 - on any other server I am able to connect to it - Any

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocked from stream.twitter.com

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
I've forwarded your information. We'll reply to you privately. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Robert Hartung robert-hart...@web.de wrote: Hello, i mady my own little application for twitter which ended in many problems and errors finally. I rewrote my Stream API and now it works

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
If you are getting a response from the servers (even error codes) then you are not blocked. A blacklisted IP looks like it goes into a blackhole and no data is returned, ever. Are you able to ping and traceroute to twitter.com? -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:11 PM, hima latha

[twitter-dev] Re: API call accounting by account rather than IP for non-authenticated requests

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
This is the current behavior, as far as I can tell. I just made a call to users/show to a public account (one which normally would not require authentication), but I used my username/password in the request. The rate-limit for my username decremented and the rate-limit for my IP did not. Is

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread JDG
pull the whole list and do the filtering in-memory yourself. It's not a perfect solution, in terms of bandwidth or processing, but there it is. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 17:22, Leon Spencer spencer_l...@yahoo.com wrote: I don't think a 3rd party app would work - with Oauth or like a TweetDeck.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Harshad RJ
I am more interested in the converse use-case; I would like to tweet about my sporting life only to the sporties list created by me. Is this possible / planned ? (Alright, I will be honest; replace sports with tech for me) On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread JDG
the only way right now to direct your tweets to a subset of users is to make them protected or to DM users. The whole point of tweeting, so far as I can tell, is to let everyone read it (at least, in the case of public tweets). On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 20:47, Harshad RJ harshad...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Harshad RJ
If *to tweet* is *to blog*, I am basically looking for blog categories. I was hoping lists might be a way to categorize the tweets. But if there was direct support for categories then both the OP's use-case and mine would be covered. When you follow a person, you could specify which categories to

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Dave Briccetti
I doubt I will follow many (or any) lists. But I will scour them periodically for individuals to follow.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Leon Spencer
JDG, I appreciate your response. That works if your trying to develop your on separate client/dusplay e.g. TweetDeck. But that doesn't help with updating the list displayed in Twitter. This more of a Twitter.com issue than a Twitter API issue. But I posted here anyway in hopes development

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Leon Spencer
Cool. Don't get me wrong. I think the lists are great for indirectly following people. I don't know how this impacts follower limits given on Twitter.com you don't have to follow someone to add them to one of your lists. And like you I don't use list to follow people. I mainly use them to