[twitter-dev] DHE ciphersuites disabled?

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Smith
I noticed about a week ago that my application stopped working. Now I have tested it and it appears that api.twitter.com is now blocking DHE cipher suites such as TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, whereas previously these DHE cipher suites were working perfectly. The DHE cipher suites have a

[twitter-dev] Re: Sorry, your query is too complex. Please reduce complexity and try again.

2010-05-24 Thread Nick
The search term is anything that says: near:Australia ie coffee near:australia It seems that since near:australia is a radius larger than 1300km 880mi it is failing because twitter seems to have put in some limitations for the radius. On May 24, 3:32 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] how can i insert twitter

2010-05-24 Thread mastan pcr
How can i insert twitter in my website . so that users of my website posted data can be seen in twitter.

[twitter-dev] Partner

2010-05-24 Thread Carlos A. Alamillo
Dears sirs, I am the representative of a Spanish company based in Madrid. We are really interested in developing a channel with our customers via Twitter. Nevertheless, we need the support of a developer and a public relations company on Twitter. We would like you let us know a Twitter official

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Need tips on avoiding having application banned

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Pythonista, You are on the right track about rate limiting. We allow for scheduled tweets as long as the system you build for dispatching them cannot be easily abused. If your application has some abusive users, it's most likely your application would only get a temporary suspension while you

[twitter-dev] Stream.twitter.com lost a loadbalancer at 11:50 UTC

2010-05-24 Thread John Kalucki
It recovered right away, bounced again at 12:05 UTC, and appears to be OK for the moment. This appears to be the same issue we found in March: http://bit.ly/9d7jSB Network operations is looking into this issue. Be sure that your streaming client looks for keep-alives. If neither data nor

[twitter-dev] #oob missing?

2010-05-24 Thread Tonyw
I'm thinking (or was) of using the new oauth in a c++ app. But the docs are vague to say the least. Given that this is actually missing - http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth#oob is there any hope!? ;) tony

Re: [twitter-dev] #oob missing?

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Tony, Yes, the documentation is yet to be written, but will be coming as soon as I can finish it up. I'll be happy to help you through it until then though. To ready your application for out-of-band OAuth, first configure your application on dev.twitter.com/apps to be a Client mode app (no

Re: [twitter-dev] Changing an app from Client mode to Browser mode.

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Joe, Our settings for specifying whether your application is a desktop/client or web application can be kind of confusing. First you need to set the radio button to web mode, and then enter a callback URL in the field that is revealed. This is a default callback URL, but I don't recommend

[twitter-dev] Re: #oob missing?

2010-05-24 Thread ramy
sorry to jump in like this, but i've followed the authentication steps and the server never responds, i started a thread earlier this week detailing my problems here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/a7e0f3968c6eed74 I've tested the encoding and signing

[twitter-dev] Re: #oob missing?

2010-05-24 Thread Tonyw
thanks for that :) so... and bear with me here, assuming i get that to work, i eventually get back an oauth_verifier and this is something i write down and keep forever for my app to use in the future to send tweets? and each time i send a tweet, i need to - use the oauth_verifier to get an

[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie question - please help.

2010-05-24 Thread gus
Thanks Georgios, your website does exactly what I need. Except that I don't need to use a website, but to built this functionality into my application, that will show real-time results for a certain groups of tweets competing for popularity. I don't want my app to scrape your pages (for example by

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: #oob missing?

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Clarifications: The oauth_verifier is only necessary to retrieve an access token. Here's a quick map of what elements you need to persist short-term vs long-term: * You use your consumer key and secret to issue a request token request, in response you get back two fields you need to persist in

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: #oob missing?

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
r.d., I'll follow up with you on that in the other thread. T On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM, ramy ramy.daghst...@gmail.com wrote: sorry to jump in like this, but i've followed the authentication steps and the server never responds, i started a thread earlier this week detailing my problems

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Out-of-band/PIN Code Authentication not working?

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ramy, Glad that you reset your credentials -- no problem there now. At first glance, everything here seems correct. I'm not sure why you are not getting a response back from our servers. On the computers that you are executing this code, is there some kind of web proxy you are using that may

[twitter-dev] Re: Out-of-band/PIN Code Authentication not working?

2010-05-24 Thread ramy
Hi taylor I'm executing the code on my everyday laptop connected at home, that is to say, behind a basic connection that's coming through a router, no fancy proxy business. I have not tried this on other networks or on other computers, but will give both those alternatives a try tonight. I ran

Re: [twitter-dev] how can i insert twitter

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Denton
try looking into @anywhere tweetboxes. If you're not a developer, its an easy way to implement the functionality. http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:29 AM, mastan pcr mastan@gmail.com wrote: How can i insert twitter in my website . so that users of my website posted

[twitter-dev] why not e-mail?

2010-05-24 Thread claudio-g-c
are there any plans to integrate status updates via e-mail directly into Twitter in the near future?

[twitter-dev] Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Ryan Sarver
Wanted to make sure everyone saw this post from Dick. Please let us know what questions you have. The actual Terms will be posted shortly. http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html Best, Ryan

[twitter-dev] TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Mo
You guys couldn't have hinted about this to me at the developer meetup or at Chirp before I built up a team? Thanks. It's fitting that the author of the post is named Dick. http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Liz
Ryan, It's confusing to me that Dick says there will be no third party ads (8th paragraph) but under Fostering Innovation, #2, he talks apps about selling ads. Does this decision do away with services like Sponsored Tweets? I appreciate such a thoughtful blog post (and hope there are more in the

[twitter-dev] xAuth between client and server.

2010-05-24 Thread Rufo Sanchez
I'm currently developing an iPhone app that interfaces with Twitter. On initial purchase and setup, the application would function completely independent of our service, interacting directly with Twitter, and can continue to be used without our service. This is the typical use case of xAuth, so no

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Shannon Clark
I'm not at Twitter but I read the blog post as saying that ads around the Twitter timeline (as part of the UI of an application or website) are fine but ads IN the Twitter timeline (as paid tweets) are not. Shannon Sent from my iPhone On May 24, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Liz nwjersey...@gmail.com

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth between client and server.

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Rufo, The best way to approach this scenario is that you would: A) Collect access tokens through xAuth on your iPhone application. B) Using some secure means, you would transmit the access token to your server-side application, associating them with the user C) For new users to your

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jeepers. With one blog post Dick has killed the business of more than a few companies that have been doing what they've doing for many months, if not spanning more than a year. I fully understand Dick's rationale, but, phew, why don't you guys consider grandfathering in businesses that existed

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Larry Wright
That's how I read it as well, but there's certainly some gray area there. Some twitter clients just display an ad at the top of bottom of the app, those would seem to be ok. Some I've seen recently put things in the timeline that look exactly like tweets (except for a line at the bottom that says

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Mo
Just so that I'm clear, the fact that Twitter chose to do this isn't a surprise. It's the fact that I've been participating in events, developing, networking, and building a team all year AFTER getting affirmations from individuals at Twitter that I had nothing to worry about in building a

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Duane Roelands
The way this reads, you can't even have a WordPress blog that puts ads near a Twitter stream.  Please correct me if I'm misinterpreting this. You're misinterpreting it. There's not a problem if you're displaying a Twitter feed on a page and there are ads -near- it. What is now forbidden is

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Denton
I want to voice support of this decision. I build third party apps that are 100% about consuming, purposing, and displaying tweet streams. If different clients inevitably begin selling tweet injections, I really don't want to deal with those on my end. The tweet stream should remain a pure data

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Mo
Ryan, I asked explicitly about this at the Developer meetup earlier this year, and received No Comment for an answer. Twice. Maybe there needed to be a lot of discussion about this before a decision was announced, but ... wow! To Liz's point there is no language in the blog post about

[twitter-dev] OAuth requests ask for HTTP Authentication

2010-05-24 Thread unrob
I'm building a single-user application that uses OAuth, using the access tokens found on my application's dashboard, building my http headers like so: POST /1/statuses/update.json HTTP/1.1 Authorization: OAuth oauth_nonce= \zlMped4OwDfPLqsqm61qdc2LoCSTTnERcEGb5clE\, oauth_signature_method=

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Mo
Peter, The strength of Twitter is that the user has control, not a developer. If they want to post an offer on their page, or anything else for that matter, for pay or just because they want to share one, they should be allowed to. The Twitter infrastructure is a great filter for weeding out

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Lil Peck
Does this mean that any tweet that promotes any event or item that is not free (Such as, Tickets to the 2011 National Finals Rodeo go on sale tomorrow.) violates the TOS?

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Liz
Peter, I think the problem is that business have been created, received funding and developed over the past year, with the full knowledge of Twitter, and this just undercuts destroys them. I think people can understand the rationale (and the desire for Twitter to eliminate competition) but this

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Lil Peck
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Liz nwjersey...@gmail.com wrote: And users own their own tweets. and allow adult-oriented content and photos but for some reason, users can't Tweet ads. That sounds like control of content to me. Amen

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Liz, You are 100% correct in summarizing the problem. Not only were those businesses built with the full knowledge of Twitter, Twitter even had specific rules governing sponsored tweets (had to be clearly marked as sponsored, etc.). I'm really baffled by this decision of Twitter, because I don't

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread Aaron Rankin
Hi, Is there an ETA for enabling oauth on stream.twitter.com? Thanks, Aaron On May 13, 1:11 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: OAuthis not enabled on stream.twitter.com. You can try on chirpstream.twitter.com. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Lucas Vickers lucasvick...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] OAuth Echo Example (PHP)

2010-05-24 Thread Greg
Hello Developers, Does anyone have any example how to use TwitPic's OAuth Echo in PHP? I've been looking all over - but I'm little confused on how to sign the request? Any takers? Thanks, Greg

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Harshad RJ
As I interpret it they don't want clients to inject ads in the stream at the display end. Not at the posting end. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Lil Peck lilp...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean that any tweet that promotes any event or item that is not free (Such as, Tickets to the 2011

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth between client and server.

2010-05-24 Thread Rufo Sanchez
Taylor, We're definitely going to make it very clear when you opt-in that you're linking your account to an outside service. Glad to hear the exchange of xAuth tokens from our app to the server won't be a problem. Thanks for the clarification! Rufo On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Taylor

[twitter-dev] Re: UserStream : bug with oauth connection

2010-05-24 Thread Fabien Penso
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua and I tried to debug something and found a bug in the userstream. If you connect for 2 users and send DMs between them, while being connected with oauth token, only one of them (the sender) receives it in the

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Eric Woodward
At this point I am not why anyone that cares enough to be in this group is surprised. It is clear that Twitter is going to take *everything* for themselves. I don't understand why anyone would continue to develop on Twitter's platform as anything more than a hobby. First it was us (Twitter

[twitter-dev] Does a tools already exist?

2010-05-24 Thread federico
I want to remove all followers who I am not currently following, for security reasons. Is there way to do that at once or should I write the script?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread Mark McBride
OAuth is now enabled on stream.twitter.com. I'll also send a note out to the announce list ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Aaron Rankin aran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there an ETA for enabling oauth on stream.twitter.com? Thanks, Aaron On May

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: UserStream : bug with oauth connection

2010-05-24 Thread Mark McBride
We'll take a look. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua and I tried to debug something and found a bug in the userstream. If you

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread 140dev
Does this mean that the streaming API will also make the switch from basic authentication to OAuth at the end of June? On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: OAuth is now enabled on stream.twitter.com.  I'll also send a note out to the announce list  

[twitter-dev] Re: having trouble with geolocation in tweets

2010-05-24 Thread Ken Hoff
Worked like a charm. Thanks so much! On May 21, 2:29 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Ken, Few things I would check: #1 - is the account that you are using geo-enabled ? You can configure this option on the account settings

[twitter-dev] Re: Out-of-band/PIN Code Authentication not working?

2010-05-24 Thread ramy
according to this post http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c3a43500531dd28f Mike's document shows that the POST field should be: POST https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token HTTP/1.1 while mine is: POST /oauth/request_token HTTP/1.1 for some reason

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread John Kalucki
We haven't announced our plans for streaming and oAuth, beyond stating that User Streams will only be on oAuth. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:57 PM, 140dev 140...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean that the streaming API will also make the switch from basic authentication to OAuth at the end of

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread JC
Hey Adam, I'm very confused now and it would be great if the folks over at Twitter would post a clarifying FAQ about what is allowed and what is not allowed, I just saw this recent quote on C|Net that throws a hammer into the clarity issue: Twitter confirmed to CNET that this does not have any

[twitter-dev] Encrypted data over Twitter

2010-05-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
What is Twitter's policy concerning encrypted data over Twitter? Specifically 1. Are encrypted direct messages allowed? 2. When annotations are deployed, will encrypted meta-data be allowed? Note - I am *not* asking about public tweets - I would consider public encrypted tweets to be spam,

Re: [twitter-dev] Error getting request token

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Onema, I'm unfortunately not familiar with this family of PHP libraries and how they handle opening HTTP connections using that custom non-standard URI scheme (ssl://) -- it might be handling the correct protocol for you behind the scenes. Error #0 is not an error sent by the Twitter API so

Re: [twitter-dev] Lists and Replies

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Pete, Lists only show @replies of users who are also on the list -- as you've observed. The Streaming API may be the best fit for you to monitor all tweets issued by a set of users. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#follow Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Sorry, your query is too complex. Please reduce complexity and try again.

2010-05-24 Thread Nick
The issue is more than that, basically anything near:Australia is being blocked because the radius of australia is above the (i think) 1349km radius that has been forced. So no terms that are near:Australia are working because of the fact that Australia is larger than your radius limits. On May

[twitter-dev] Search API no longer goes back 7-10 days?

2010-05-24 Thread IDOL
We've noticed over the last few days that we can only retrieve the last ~300 tweets containing certain search terms which are included in at least a 1,000 tweets a day. In the past we were always able to go 15 100 tweet pages deep in to the history of a particular query. Now we're limited to

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread Jonathon Hill
Hey we need documentation! Jonathon On May 24, 4:50 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: OAuth is now enabled on stream.twitter.com.  I'll also send a note out to the announce list    ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Aaron Rankin

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread Zac Bowling
The format is fairly simple and almost self explanatory. Check out this for a working sample: http://github.com/zbowling/earlybird Zac Bowling On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Jonathon Hill jhill9...@gmail.com wrote: Hey we need documentation! Jonathon On May 24, 4:50 pm, Mark McBride

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo Example (PHP)

2010-05-24 Thread Justin Hart
If you dont mind the Zend Framework stuff, I've got one over here: http://pastie.org/975634 Hopefully you can translate that to whatever you're using. On May 24, 1:42 pm, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Developers, Does anyone have any example how to use TwitPic's OAuth Echo in

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread PeterE
I think developers, other than those who have built a business serving in-stream ads, are freaking out for no reason. Let's start with the in- stream ad companies. If you built these applications and did not see this coming you deserve this. Apps that used the Twitter API to serve in-stream ads

RE: [twitter-dev] DHE ciphersuites disabled?

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Smith
Thanks for the response, Bob. I know a fair amount about this kind of thing. Feel free to contact me you'd like any more information or suggestions on a good ephemeral Diffie-Hellman parameters and/or ways of mitigating the TLS handshake performance costs. Regards, Brian From:

[twitter-dev] New social events on User Streams

2010-05-24 Thread John Kalucki
User Streams now delivers unfollowing, block and unblock events from (created by) the signed-in user. This allows an application to update its state when the user makes a change on another client instance. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.

Re: [twitter-dev] New social events on User Streams

2010-05-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting John Kalucki j...@twitter.com: User Streams now delivers unfollowing, block and unblock events from (created by) the signed-in user. This allows an application to update its state when the user makes a change on another client instance. Perfect! Thanks!

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Ryan Sarver
Adam, Thanks for the email and happy to try to clear things up. 1. The TOS go into affect today and section *4. Updates* states that everyone has 30 days to comply with any changes to the ToS. If you 2. The TOS **does not** restrict the content coming from a user, whether posted through an app

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Ryan Sarver
I want to make sure this part is clear -- this policy change isn't meant to say that we are going to start policing if the content of something a user tweets is an ad or not. The policy change affects 3rd party services that were putting ads in the middle of a timeline. So if Liz is paid by

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com: I want to make sure this part is clear -- this policy change isn't meant to say that we are going to start policing if the content of something a user tweets is an ad or not. The policy change affects 3rd party services that were putting ads in the