Re: [twitter-dev] Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates

2010-02-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting John Kalucki j...@twitter.com: We've been pushing scale, operational and efficiency branches recently, and haven't exposed anything user-facing in quite some time. If we can't keep well ahead of the organic tweet growth, we're in a tough spot. At 50 million tweets a day, and an

[twitter-dev] Re: Why does status/followers require auth?

2010-02-24 Thread Terence Eden
Raised as an issue http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1480 On Feb 21, 6:06 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: This also applies to the social graph methods which is very frustrating for my Intersect extension. [1] Abraham

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Woolway
Hi folks, I'm Tom Woolway, and I work on the TweetDeck desktop client (and hack around on various other things), based in London, UK. I now primarily work with AS3, but in a past life used to be write stuff in C and Python. I'm also heading to Chirp, look forward to meeting a lot of you there.

[twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Warden
I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the Twitter API. It would be a free release limited to academic researchers, an anonymized version of the network connections of several million users with public profiles. What I'm hoping to release is something like this:

Re: [twitter-dev] complete Retweet functionality in thirdparty apps

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Woolway
Abraham, Are there any plans to make this any easier for developers to implement retweets-of-me in the short term? The best solution (for client devs) would obviously be a stream of the latest retweets, with the full original status object inline, but as it looks like this isn't going to happen,

[twitter-dev] Inconsistent responses for particular users -- data for users/show, but Not found for statuses/friends

2010-02-24 Thread Josh Bleecher Snyder
Hi, I'm getting what look like inconsistent responses from the API for a particular small handful of users. I'm sure I'm doing something stupid, but I can't figure out what; any insight would be appreciated. Here is a sample pair of problematic calls/responses: curl

[twitter-dev] You aren't allowed to add members to this list

2010-02-24 Thread YARG
Hi, I'm updating a .net lib so it can handle lists. List creation is OK but when I try and assign a member (an account which I also own) to the newly created list I get the error: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/1/twitterapi/team/members.xml?

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-24 Thread Berto
Hey all, I'm Berto Murillo (@mstberto) and I'm from Missouri. Graduated last year and am now a Software Engineer. In my spare time, I've built two Twitter clients (C++ and Java). The feature I'd like to see most added has already been said multiple times, and that's the conversation method.

[twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates

2010-02-24 Thread Jonathan Strauss
On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues in play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real solution. Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this feature was the

Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Denton
Hello everyone My name is Peter Denton (@petermdenton). I am a PM, designer, and front end developer. I built www.twibs.com and am working on a sentiment analysis engine with a team of people, expecting to complete in around a month's time. I am amazed at the communal aspects on the dev mailing

Re: [twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Pete Warden p...@petewarden.com: I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the Twitter API. It would be a free release limited to academic researchers, an anonymized version of the network connections of several million users with public profiles. What I'm

Re: [twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread John Kalucki
It's possible, if not likely, that releasing this data would be against one or more Service Terms. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Pete Warden p...@petewarden.com wrote: I'm looking into releasing a data set based on

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API connection abandonment separation anxiety issues

2010-02-24 Thread John Kalucki
Network operations believes that they found and fixed the proximate cause of the connection abandonment issue -- a periodically overwhelmed LB CPU. The LB should close connections in this case, but for some reason it wasn't closing them over the last two weeks. Load will be more carefully managed

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates

2010-02-24 Thread John Kalucki
I don't know if you could detect this via Facebook updates. You could, perhaps, start following them on the stream and poll their timelines in parallel until you determine that their tweets are flowing -- then turn off the polling. -John On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Strauss

Re: [twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Warden
The value lies in the particular properties of a real social graph, as opposed to an artificially generated one. The sort of questions it's useful for are primarily social rather than mathematical. For a summary of some existing research on similar data sets, see:

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-24 Thread Jonathan Strauss
On Feb 19, 12:54 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? I'm Jonathan Strauss, and I'm co-founder of a startup called the Snowball Factory[1] that builds performance marketing tools for

Re: [twitter-dev] You aren't allowed to add members to this list

2010-02-24 Thread Abraham Williams
You are trying to add members to @twitterapi/team which is an account/list you don't own. If you are adding user_id 94564101 to listb by usera you should use: https://api.twitter.com/1/usera/listb/members.xml?id=94564101 Abraham On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:31, YARG sg...@yarg.com wrote: Hi,

[twitter-dev] Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)

2010-02-24 Thread Alam Sher
Hi, What is the best practice if I have 20K twitter user base and I want to track user's specific keywords via statuses/filter? Should I distribute the processing on multiple nodes, lets say open a streaming connection tracking keywords for 5K users each (on different IPs or same IP with

[twitter-dev] 1 tweet accounts

2010-02-24 Thread twangybird
Can anyone help me discover a method of finding dormant Twitter accounts in which the owners only submitted one tweet to twitter. I'm trying to have a developer build me an application that would find lots of accounts exactly like this one: http://twitter.com/gastown the criteria is that: 1)

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth implemented, but still not seeing the from [App] in tweets

2010-02-24 Thread Abraham Williams
If you are still having this issue and have double checked that the statuses are actually getting posted with your consumer key then you should probably email a...@twitter.com with as much detail as you can. Abraham On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 21:50, Manu manukp@gmail.com wrote: Hi Abraham,

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)

2010-02-24 Thread John Kalucki
The documentation should be pretty clear on this topic. One main connection, and perhaps an auxiliary connection to manage query velocity. You must not proliferate connections to work around rate limits. Instead, you must apply for higher access. Connections are expensive.

Re: [twitter-dev] Inconsistent responses for particular users -- data for users/show, but Not found for statuses/friends

2010-02-24 Thread Abraham Williams
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends.json?screen_name=johncow just worked fine for me. It might have been a temporary issue. Abraham On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:02, Josh Bleecher Snyder joshar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm getting what look like inconsistent responses from the API for a

Re: [twitter-dev] complete Retweet functionality in thirdparty apps

2010-02-24 Thread Abraham Williams
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:44, srikanth reddy srikanth.yara...@gmail.comwrote: @Abraham One thing you cant do with the API is Preventing users from retweeting their friends retweet which has already been retweeted by the user .To check this Go to Retweets By Others tab just retweet a

Re: [twitter-dev] complete Retweet functionality in thirdparty apps

2010-02-24 Thread Abraham Williams
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:00, Thomas Woolway tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Abraham, Are there any plans to make this any easier for developers to implement retweets-of-me in the short term? The best solution (for client devs) would obviously be a stream of the latest retweets, with the full

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)

2010-02-24 Thread Jonathan Strauss
On Feb 24, 2:06 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: The documentation should be pretty clear on this topic. One main connection, and perhaps an auxiliary connection to manage query velocity. Hey John, Do you recommend this kind of 2 connection setup for updating our user list when using

[twitter-dev] Twitter returns 'Failed to validate oauth signature and token'

2010-02-24 Thread Fernando Jorge
Hello, my name is Fernando and recently posted a message here talking about the failure to capture the access_token on Twitter by JavaScript.Eu received in response, a message telling me to use the library's official OAuth JavaScript. Well, I made the change and now, Twitter returns 'Failed to

Re: [twitter-dev] Inconsistent responses for particular users -- data for users/show, but Not found for statuses/friends

2010-02-24 Thread Josh Bleecher Snyder
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends.json?screen_name=johncow just worked fine for me. It might have been a temporary issue. Confirmed -- works again for me. Looks like it was a temporary bump, indeed. Thanks, Abraham. -josh On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:02, Josh Bleecher Snyder

[twitter-dev] Client/Service Publishing Statistics per Day

2010-02-24 Thread Scott Wilcox
Hi folks, A preview of something I'm currently working on. Statistics of the day so far in numbers. Check out the preview at http://dor.ky/research/twitter-source Ideas/Comments/Suggestions most welcome. Once this is issued live, it'll only show the previous days figures. At present these are

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)

2010-02-24 Thread John Kalucki
This technique works for updating any filter predicate. The count parameter should work on a shadow account. It won't work on a default access account. We have a number of very large integrations using this technique with Birddog access -- it should scale down to Shadow access just fine. The

[twitter-dev] retweet status URL?

2010-02-24 Thread escarp
We've been looking around for a few hours, but something we thought would be relatively easy has proven somewhat tricky. Is there a basic URL syntax for sending a user to a page to retweet a status ID? We display our statuses on our site, and just want to provide a simple link to redirect someone

[twitter-dev] How can i get the links with in the tweet.

2010-02-24 Thread sivakrishna59
Hi to All, How can i get the links with in the tweet, thru my api connect from ruby on rails application. For ex: somthing like that in you tube but watch it again no prob means ok take care of url after view http://www.youtube.com/user/NyrosTechnologies in that , i would like to get href info

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth implemented, but still not seeing the from [App] in tweets

2010-02-24 Thread Manu
I'll probably try one last time over the weekend and if still cant crack it, will send a mail with the details. Thanks, -Manu. On Feb 25, 2:41 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you are still having this issue and have double checked that the statuses are actually getting posted