[twitter-dev] Is the home timeline dropping tweets?

2009-12-17 Thread SM
I've noticed both on twitter.com and via the API that a tweet from a person I follow isn't showing up in my home timeline. I can see older tweets from this person in my home timeline and in my @ timeline, but not the latest one.

[twitter-dev] visiblitiy of @mentions in Tweets

2009-12-17 Thread MuratMetu
Hello, I am new to Twitter development, I want to know is it possible to change visibility of mentions in my tweets. I want to mention somebody via @username in my Tweet x, but also I want Tweet x to be visible only for the user spesificed with username. I don't want to use direct message since

[twitter-dev] Re: API Rate Limit

2009-12-17 Thread vikas
Thanks for the reply, things are much clearer now, I assume that if a user on a white-listed IP has exhausted his 20k quota, then he is still entitled with 150/hour limit which he can use for authenticated requests on a non-whitelisted IP. Vikas On Dec 16, 9:26 pm, Abraham Williams

[twitter-dev] Getting Popular Topics Today and This Week

2009-12-17 Thread firnnauriel
It seems grouping and counting, then ranking the topics returned by Daily and Weekly trend API does not give the correct top topics shown in home page of twitter.com. Can anyone tell me how the Popular topics today and Popular topics this week works in http://twitter.com/? i.e. after parsing

[twitter-dev] URLification

2009-12-17 Thread Ken Dobruskin
When adding a URL surrounded by parentheses or followed by a period, these marks are included in the resulting link. Is a trailing whitespace the only workaround? It's ugly and wastes a character.

[twitter-dev] Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Dimebrain
The following retweet methods have started returning 404's in our unit testes: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweeted_by_me.json http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweeted_to_me.json http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweets_of_me.json

Re: [twitter-dev] Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Andrew Badera
Personally, my unit's testes don't call the Twitter API ... Seeing the same 404s on retweet calls however. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at

Re: [twitter-dev] Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Marco Kaiser
They are working for me, both on the API and the website - are they back for you, too? Or are just some users affected? Marco 2009/12/17 Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com Retweets are disabled on twitter.com. I don't see any status message announcing it though. Abraham On Thu, Dec 17,

Re: [twitter-dev] Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Marco Kaiser
okay - just noticed that they work on my whitelisted account, but not on a regular account. so yeah - looks as if RTs are down right now in general. Marco 2009/12/17 Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.com They are working for me, both on the API and the website - are they back for you, too? Or

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Rich
I wish when they disabled features like this they told us! On Dec 17, 1:12 pm, Marco Kaiser kaiser.ma...@gmail.com wrote: okay - just noticed that they work on my whitelisted account, but not on a regular account. so yeah - looks as if RTs are down right now in general. Marco 2009/12/17

[twitter-dev] Re: URLification

2009-12-17 Thread dbasch
Periods and parentheses are valid url characters. Assuming that an adjacent period or closing parenthesis is not part of the url is a gamble. The most sensible urlification includes all valid characters until it finds one that clearly delimits the url such as a space.

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification

2009-12-17 Thread Ken Dobruskin
True, but Yahoo! Mail and others do get it right. It's been a few years I no longer worry sending an email with a URL at the end of a sentence. I wonder how they do it. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:48:31 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification From: dba...@gmail.com To:

Re: [twitter-dev] hits, visits, etc to my tweets

2009-12-17 Thread Raffi Krikorian
no, unfortunately there isn't. there may be a third party service that does this, however. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Frank gn...@windstream.net wrote: Is there any way the number of hits on my tweet? I am interested only in the number of folks who have viewed or visited ... not the

Re: [twitter-dev] hits, visits, etc to my tweets

2009-12-17 Thread Andrew Badera
How might you envision a third party service delivering this, Raffi? Wouldn't it be a bit difficult without tracking code on-page? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera

Re: [twitter-dev] hits, visits, etc to my tweets

2009-12-17 Thread Terry Jones
Frank == Frank gn...@windstream.net writes: Frank Is there any way the number of hits on my tweet? I am interested Frank only in the number of folks who have viewed or visited ... not the Frank names nor the numbers of posts? This might include mostly Frank unregistered viewers If your tweet

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting Popular Topics Today and This Week

2009-12-17 Thread Raffi Krikorian
It seems grouping and counting, then ranking the topics returned by Daily and Weekly trend API does not give the correct top topics shown in home page of twitter.com. Can anyone tell me how the Popular topics today and Popular topics this week works in http://twitter.com/? i.e. after parsing

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread cadams500
Yes, I'm getting 404 errors as well. This was not happening yesterday. http://twitter.com/statuses/show/5211439124.xml does not return a 404 http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/retweets/5211439124.json returns a 404 So, obviously the status is there, but the retweet api isn't working; or maybe

[twitter-dev] iPhone image uploading

2009-12-17 Thread Infinity 320
Hello guys! I have found on the twitter-site this faq: The image update methods require multipart form data. They do not accept a URL to an image not do they accept the raw image bytes. They instead require the data to be delivered in the form of a file upload filed as defined in RFC1867.

Re: [twitter-dev] iPhone image uploading

2009-12-17 Thread Andrew Badera
If that really a response from Twitter? Looks more like it's on your app's side (SWAG) ... ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Infinity

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Thomas Woolway
Looks like RT is back up. Tom On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:39 PM, cadams500 ch...@emaildatasource.comwrote: Yes, I'm getting 404 errors as well. This was not happening yesterday. http://twitter.com/statuses/show/5211439124.xml does not return a 404

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search cache or delayed data?

2009-12-17 Thread Will Ashworth
I built an application that aggregates data a few times per day based on a hashtag search term. My search results for tweets I've done as tests are not showing up in the search. What's the delay time before they show up? My client is asking and I have no idea what to tell them. The application is

[twitter-dev] Problem signing for statuses/update

2009-12-17 Thread jdangerslater
I'm having a problem signing status updates, but only when any of these characters is contained in the post: ! * ( ) ' For all other posts everything works fine. At first I noticed that these characters weren't being escaped, so I fixed that ( I used this:

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search cache or delayed data?

2009-12-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I built an application that aggregates data a few times per day based on a hashtag search term. My search results for tweets I've done as tests are not showing up in the search. What's the delay time before they show up? My client is asking and I have no idea what to tell them. The

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search cache or delayed data?

2009-12-17 Thread Will Ashworth
Okay. Do we at least know how delayed? I posted a test tweet as we launched the website yesterday with my publicly accessible Twitter account and that was at 3:40 PM PST yesterday. It's been almost 24 hours and I still don't see it come up in search.

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification

2009-12-17 Thread Ken Dobruskin
A closing parenthesis followed by a space seems like a pretty safe bet too. I'm sure those rules have been worked out long ago - the RFC was published in '94. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:55:14 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification From: dba...@gmail.com To:

[twitter-dev] app suspension

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Denton
Hello All, I have basically a test oAuth account for an application. It has been suspended and I really am baffled as to why. My live app is not suspended, just this test app, used for a separate domain. My app does not broadcast, except in one very limited use-case and no users have been

[twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Bleecher Snyder
Hi all, The tweepy twitter client uses api.twitter.com for the host for oauth calls: REQUEST_TOKEN_URL = 'http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token' AUTHORIZATION_URL = 'http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize' AUTHENTICATE_URL = 'http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate'

[twitter-dev] Re: app suspension

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Denton
Update on this item: Twitter responded and said the cause of suspension was because of the name of my app. It was named stats and twitter api deemed this could be confusing to users. So, something else to keep in mind if you incur an app suspension. Thanks! Peter On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread shiplu
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Josh Bleecher Snyder joshar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The tweepy twitter client uses api.twitter.com for the host for oauth calls:    REQUEST_TOKEN_URL = 'http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token'    AUTHORIZATION_URL =

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hey, Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention. I have opened an issue for it here [1]. I will look into this and see what I can do to help resolve it. Shiplu is probably on the right track about this being cookie related. Will post updates here and on the issue as I make progress. Thanks,

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
Sorry left off the link to the issue. [1] http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy/issues#issue/8 Josh On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention. I have opened an issue for it here [1]. I will look into this

[twitter-dev] Current policy on following apps

2009-12-17 Thread Adam Green
I'm interested in building a following app for a specific vertical market. The api docs and tos seem to conflict with reality. These documents imply that all apps that automate following are forbidden, but there are many apps that do this listed in the Twitter app directories. I only want to build

[twitter-dev] Getting Whitelisted For a Major Customer Of Ours

2009-12-17 Thread Abir
Hey Twitter Folks: 1. Working with a major customer of ours + live with marketing programs + promotions on your platform. 2. Could you help us get whitelisted? + there is a business opportunity for Twitter to acquire 500K-1Million users. 3. Who should we talk to figure things out? Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Re: URLification

2009-12-17 Thread dbasch
I agree. I searched the issues db and didn't find it. Not sure if it belongs as an API issue but I submitted it anyway. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1298 On Dec 17, 2:49 pm, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: A closing parenthesis followed by a space seems like a pretty

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification

2009-12-17 Thread Raffi Krikorian
its not an API issue -- the API doesn't do any auto-URLification. however, i'll pass this thread off to the web client team. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, dbasch dba...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. I searched the issues db and didn't find it. Not sure if it belongs as an API issue but I

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting Whitelisted For a Major Customer Of Ours

2009-12-17 Thread Raffi Krikorian
http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Twitter Folks: 1. Working with a major customer of ours + live with marketing programs + promotions on your platform. 2. Could you help us get whitelisted? + there is a

Re: [twitter-dev] Current policy on following apps

2009-12-17 Thread shiplu
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Adam Green a...@vibemetrix.com wrote: Select the most active Twitter users in a specific market. Follow a small number, perhaps 50,  per day. If these follows are not followed back in a week, unfollow them. The above part seems abusive. My personal opinion

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting Whitelisted For a Major Customer Of Ours

2009-12-17 Thread Abir
Thanks Raffi appreciate it. On Dec 17, 1:16 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Twitter Folks: 1. Working with a major customer of ours + live with marketing

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Dimebrain
Yeah it seems like app developers using retweets need to account for this in their designs since this isn't the first time RTs has gone down. On Dec 17, 12:23 pm, Xavier Grosjean xavier.grosj...@yoono.com wrote:  Yoono is the only twitter client that switches back to old retweet mode when new

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Michael D. Ivey
I say I say I say, it was a joke, son. - Foghorn Leghorn Sent from my iPhone On Dec 17, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Dimebrain daniel.cre...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, how do you approach API testing if not live? Wouldn't mind comparing notes. On Dec 17, 7:07 am, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us

[twitter-dev] API Versioning Revisited

2009-12-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
The yo-yo ride of the retweet API gave me this idea. It depends on proper versioning of the API by Twitter. Twitter creates an API call that returns the current working API version. We query that method and use that version of the API for our calls. If something goes down, Twitter simply pushes

Re: [twitter-dev] API Versioning Revisited

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
I am not sure how beneficial this would really be. Versioning from what I understand is for changes to the API that might break applications that have not yet updated. It wouldn't really provide any security against bugs/quirks in Twitter's backend which can cause downtime. So even older versions

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Dec 15, 9:58 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Bandwidth is likely to only be a small fraction of your total cost when consuming the firehose. If you want to focus on this small part and ignore all the other dominating costs, the prudent systems engineer would provision 2x to 3x

[twitter-dev] Re: API Versioning Revisited

2009-12-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Josh, This will not protect us against a case where something central to Twitter functioning malfunctions, but it will protect us against new or changed features malfunctioning. Dewald On Dec 17, 10:45 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure how beneficial this would

[twitter-dev] How to get Following count of user

2009-12-17 Thread Gaurav Shaha
Hello All, I am sending request to http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/'.$user.'.xml?cursor=-1 url for getting the following list. I am not able to get the count of the following. Also i had read that this url provide only 100 records so how can i get all the follwer count of twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] How to get Following count of user

2009-12-17 Thread Abraham Williams
Try using: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users show there is a followers_count element. Abraham On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 22:03, Gaurav Shaha gauravshah...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I am sending request to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: API Versioning Revisited

2009-12-17 Thread Abraham Williams
So say Geo is version 3, RT is version 4 and Lists is version 5. All of which are still in beta. If something goes wrong with Geo do they revert to 2 and disable RTs and Lists? Abraham On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 21:03, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Josh, This will not protect us

[twitter-dev] Trying to balance followers/ following/ seeking business development contact at Twitter

2009-12-17 Thread steve8004
Hello: I know Twitter has rules about how many people an account is allowed to follow vs. followers. However, I've been getting more people to follow me, yet I can follow more people at this time. Is it possible for someone from the development team to take a quick look at my account and see if

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-17 Thread Raffi Krikorian
For one thing, I do a lot of location-based processing. I'm quite interested in what's happening in Portland, Oregon, and not so much about the rest of the world. As far as I can tell, there's no geocode parameter for filter. In addition, I can do a search back in time with Twitter search -

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Excellent! That's exactly what I need! If something gets past the filter, I can always backsearch for it. On Dec 17, 9:19 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: For one thing, I do a lot of location-based processing. I'm quite interested in what's happening in Portland, Oregon, and not

[twitter-dev] Regarding the search API based on Geo location

2009-12-17 Thread praveenkumar nakka
Hai, I was using search API to get tweets from Twitter. When i append geo code to the URL i got following error like this URL : http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%22holiday+list.+Pick+me%21%22phrase=rpp=100page=10geocode=36.778261%2C-119.4179324%2C500.0km .TwitterException: *Server

[twitter-dev] Reg Fetch tweets by append GEO Code to URL from Search API

2009-12-17 Thread praveenkumar nakka
Hai, I was using search API to get tweets from Twitter. When i append geo code to the URL i got following error like this URL : http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%22holiday+list.+Pick+me%21%22phrase=rpp=100page=10geocode=36.778261%2C-119.4179324%2C500.0km .TwitterException: *Server

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Bleecher Snyder
Hey Shiplu, I've found that this works, until the user tries to sign out or sign up during the authorization; if this happens, they get a 404. If, however, twitter.com is used as the host: I think this happens due to cookie. People sign in twitter.com. not in api.twitter.com. When a user

[twitter-dev] Replies on user timeline

2009-12-17 Thread Quy
I am working on a twitter site and wanted to know if it makes sense to include @replies in a user's timeline. There can be a lot of noise if I try to show the last 20 tweets of a celebrity for example and all the tweets are @replies that are only relevant to the replied user. Do most sites just

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Bleecher Snyder
Hey Josh, Good to see I reached you, albeit not through the channel I'd anticipated. :) I really think the issue is quite simple; sorry I haven't expressed it clearly enough. If you look at the source of the http://(api.)?twitter.com/oauth/authorize page, you'll see that the sign up link is a

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search cache or delayed data?

2009-12-17 Thread Will Ashworth
I'm checking out a tutorial I found for the stream API (having not worked with JSON much) and am getting an error. fgets(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource This is happening when I run it locally under WAMP as a test and also on a live production server (Media Temple). Any

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Duncan Mackenzie
Personally, my unit's testes don't call the Twitter API ... were you expecting them to? those would be some really amazing balls On Dec 17, 4:07 am, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Personally, my unit's testes don't call the Twitter API ... Seeing the same 404s on retweet calls

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Getting retweets in user timelines

2009-12-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser
As of today, I've noticed that retweets created via the new system are represented in user timelines as RT @username...--are others seeing this, and is this something new? Is this leftovers from the old to new retweeting transition, or is this going to be a permanent method for representing

[twitter-dev] Status update 11:27pm PDT

2009-12-17 Thread Ryan Sarver
Just wanted to drop an email to everyone and let you know that we are investigating the issue and will follow up with more details as we determine the cause and are able to share information. Thanks for your patience, Ryan

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification

2009-12-17 Thread Harshad RJ
Although not an API issue, it might be good to track it as such, because Twitter clients can then follow exactly the same policies that Twitter web interface does. If there is a standard regular expression that can be used for detecting a URL, it could be published as a guideline in the API