Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Seeing weird, malformed HTTP responses? We're on it.

2010-07-20 Thread Matt Harris
We continue to work on the issues and will be posting updates to http://status.twitter.com as we have news. Please check there for the most up to date details. Thanks for your patience and support as we work through these issues. Best, Matt On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jason LaFollette

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Having problems after OAuth login

2010-07-20 Thread Matt Harris
We are experiencing a number of issues at the moment which are preventing the API and website from operating correctly. You can read more on this mailing list thread [1] and stay up to date with progress by checking http://status.twitter.com Best, Matt 1.

[twitter-dev] RT (retweet) path trace . . .

2010-07-20 Thread hkimscil
Please pardon my ignorance . . . Is there any way to trace the retweet paths. Since the Twitter added a button for retweet, the origins of any retweeted message becomes the first person who started the tweet message. But, as I understand, some people retweet retweeted messages. Or some retweet

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing weird, malformed HTTP responses? We're on it.

2010-07-20 Thread artesea
Except that I find status.twitter.com is the last place to look for any information about faults. We're getting the flak from users for around 3-4 hours before anything relating to the issue appears on status, and the only official tweets come from the twitterapi account which none of the users

[twitter-dev] Drip results of tweets incremented by 1 over each update

2010-07-20 Thread Vijay
Hi, I am trying to show tweets on the client side using juitter widget. I want to display tweets sliding down by 1 tweet at each update cycle.I tried to use the id from the latest search.json result and use it in the since_id= in the next search but that doesn't get me the result i desire. Eg:

[twitter-dev] Re: Can't retrieve requestToken because of a Redirection

2010-07-20 Thread Mounir Regragui
Seems like it's working now! (I didn't change my code !!) So good news then :) On 15 juil, 17:19, Mounir Regragui reg.mou...@gmail.com wrote: And yes, the clock on the phones are correctly set :) On 15 juil, 17:16, Mounir Regragui reg.mou...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, I got the wrong

[twitter-dev] OAuth echo base string(TwitPic)

2010-07-20 Thread Mounir Regragui
Hi everyone! So I would like to add a feature to upload a picture to twitter via twitpic! Seems like it is using something called OAuth echo, that has additional parameters to the standard OAuth! I would like to know how to build my base string, so i can generate a signature. Should I use the

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth echo base string(TwitPic)

2010-07-20 Thread Nik Fletcher
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_echo -N On Jul 20, 10:02 am, Mounir Regragui reg.mou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone! So I would like to add a feature to upload a picture to twitter via twitpic! Seems like it is using something called OAuth echo, that has additional parameters to the

[twitter-dev] Country based search

2010-07-20 Thread rachit gupta
Hi All, I am a developer from India, working on integrating Twitter with few of my application. I wished to know, if there exists a way through which we can get Twitter search result only from a particular country not using the Geocode functionality, because Geocode functionality cant be

[twitter-dev] Re: SPAM tweets from API, need help!

2010-07-20 Thread Shabaz
Thank you Taylor. Yes I changed my password as soon as this thing came on my page. Thank you again for your help :) On Jul 14, 9:45 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Shabaz, At some point you may have inadvertently (or intentionally) given your login and password to

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Rendy Pranata
I think its now fixed On Jul 20, 3:41 pm, acreadinglist andrew.c...@gmail.com wrote: Add me to the list. On Jul 19, 7:24 pm, JeremyE jeremyeastb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having the same exact issue while developing my app. Internal Server Error 500 from Twitter. Trying to get my access

[twitter-dev] NotImplementedError: Only tempfile.TemporaryFile is available for use

2010-07-20 Thread Pyrocks
I am using twitter Api to send message from my application to Twitter profile page after authenticate the user in python.It is giving the error like NotImplementedError: Only tempfile.TemporaryFile is available for use. My code is like code class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler): def

[twitter-dev] Re: A feed greater equivalent to the old gardenhose?

2010-07-20 Thread Tweetcepts
I was just told by Brian Sutorius that in fact it's not possible to acquire a feed equal to the old gardenhose (let's say roughly 15%). That the only choices are either the now weaker gardenhose or the full firehose. Is there someone at Twitter that can confirm either way? On Jul 16, 10:20 am,

[twitter-dev] NotImplementedError: Only tempfile.TemporaryFile is available for use

2010-07-20 Thread Pyrocks
I am using twitter Api to send message from my application to Twitter profile page after authenticate the user in python.It is giving the error like NotImplementedError: Only tempfile.TemporaryFile is available for use. My code is like code class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler): def

[twitter-dev] Twitter account representing an application

2010-07-20 Thread Blixt
If I have an application that will be tweeting (always through its dedicated Twitter account) every now and then, do I have to make this application perform the whole OAuth handshake every time the token expires? It would have to post username and password to the Twitter log in form too I guess,

[twitter-dev] OAuth and Streaming API

2010-07-20 Thread Kostya Nikolayev
Is OAuth functioning for the Streeming API at the moment? I'm trying to make it work for the first time now and getting HTTP/ 1.1 500 Internal Server Error. Had it been working before yesterdays (2010-Jul-19) crisis? Had the crisis affected Streaming API? Has it been fixed for Streaming API?

[twitter-dev] Life of an access token

2010-07-20 Thread Sushil
Hi! What is the life of an access token? Once obtained, can it be used to post status updates anytime?

Re: [twitter-dev] Life of an access token

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi, Our system currently issues access tokens that do not expire, but may be revoked by the user at any time through their account settings. With the user's expectations properly communicated, an access token can be used to post updates any time. Taylor On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Sushil

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: A feed greater equivalent to the old gardenhose?

2010-07-20 Thread John Kalucki
Brian is correct. There are only two sampled rates on the Streaming API: Spritzer and Gardenhose. There are no other sampled rates available without a code change. We're having discussions about these sampled feeds, but the current settings are the maximum that we can provide at the moment. Note

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter account representing an application

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi, For a single login scenario like this, it's likely easiest to just use the My Token feature we have on the developer portal -- go to http://dev.twitter.com/apps and select your application (or create one if you need to), then when viewing your application's details page, select the My Token

[twitter-dev] Re: Checking if a user still has authorized access of my application

2010-07-20 Thread PBro
Thanks for your answers. verify_credentials is working:) On Jul 16, 5:35 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Tom is correct. The easiest way to check if your application is still allowed by the user is to call verify_credentials. This is a read-only call without any parameters

[twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread PBro
Hi, We are developing an application with which we want to give a message to a user that one of his friends has posted a new tweet. This application is expected to have 40-60 thousand users, so separate api-call's isn't the best option. What would you advise as best practice for retrieving new

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter account representing an application

2010-07-20 Thread Blixt
Great! Thanks! :) On Jul 20, 4:19 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi, For a single login scenario like this, it's likely easiest to just use the My Token feature we have on the developer portal -- go tohttp://dev.twitter.com/appsand select your application (or

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread BJ Weschke
The streaming API. On 7/20/2010 10:43 AM, PBro wrote: Hi, We are developing an application with which we want to give a message to a user that one of his friends has posted a new tweet. This application is expected to have 40-60 thousand users, so separate api-call's isn't the best option.

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Kostya Nikolayev
Taylor, Has Sreaming API OAuth been affected ? Authenticating with the following oauth header gives 500 to me: OAuth oauth_nonce=N9wgHt2uPw8HqRwtOpjuVDSeuVYmc8UGDF8H0237v0, oauth_signature=ALUT7tKXK%2Fw57SnJulj8x1l%2F7%2Fk%3D, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_timestamp=1279638245,

[twitter-dev] Find all mentions

2010-07-20 Thread Sachin
Using the GET statuses/mentions request I can return all the @mentions and RT's for the authenticating user. The API documentation says that no authentication is required, but since there is no user ID parameter I can see that it does in fact require authentication (reading the forums have

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Kostya, I'm able to connect to the streaming API over OAuth fine at the moment. Can you share the full URL, HTTP method, and parameters that you are trying to access? If possible, also your signature base string? Taylor On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Kostya Nikolayev

Re: [twitter-dev] Find all mentions

2010-07-20 Thread John Kalucki
The best way to do this is to take a higher level of Streaming API access, then compute and persist the results on your end. For example, if you take a feed of all Retweets, or the full Firehose, you can perform retweet calculations for all public users. With track, you could track mentions of a

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread John Kalucki
Yes. GET stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json follow=userid,userid,userid You'll need to request a higher access level. -John Kalucki htttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:52 AM, BJ Weschke bwesc...@btwtech.com wrote: The streaming API.

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Kostya Nikolayev
Taylor! This is what I'm sending: POST /1/statuses/filter.json HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: stream.twitter.com\r \nUser-Agent: TweetStream\r\nAuthorization: OAuth oauth_nonce=0IblKRcN17LUBG6zMnQk6DVrObhzcZowIVpPLtsRviU, oauth_signature=rbGAlSp1VIbuXbk4Wr99jumyi5o%3D, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1,

[twitter-dev] is search results reduction permanent

2010-07-20 Thread Azeem
Hi, I understand Twitter reduced api search results by a factor of 10 and is asking developers to migrate to Streaming API for large scale search queries. Is this decision to alter search results permanent? If no, is there a time-frame when this decision will be reversed?

[twitter-dev] Re: Get just the IDs for a lists members

2010-07-20 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
Yeah, this was actually requested in the issue tracker back in December: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1296 On Jul 19, 10:23 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: There's no way to get this at this time, but it'd be a good feature to request on the

[twitter-dev] Re: Find all mentions

2010-07-20 Thread Sachin
Thanks for the help. I realize now that Klout actually does authenticate users when they sign up. Will look into the stream API. Cheers. On Jul 20, 11:33 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: The best way to do this is to take a higher level of Streaming API access, then compute and

[twitter-dev] 500 error when requesting access token

2010-07-20 Thread Ryan
Having trouble with the OAuth process at the point where my callback requests the access token. Since the callback URL matches the one in my app settings, I did not think passing back the oauth_verifier was needed. But I get this error in XML: ?xml version' = '1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash

Re: [twitter-dev] 500 error when requesting access token

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ryan, oauth_verifier is always required on the access token step in the OAuth 1.0a protocol, regardless of oauth_callback matching a pre-registered one or not. We'll pass the oauth_verifier to you on your callback step which you then need to send along with your access token request. You may

Re: [twitter-dev] 500 error when requesting access token

2010-07-20 Thread Ryan McKillen
Taylor, thanks. No changes to my code, but it's suddenly working. Maybe some API hiccups that got resolved on your end...

[twitter-dev] Twitter OAuth Problem

2010-07-20 Thread Gabe
Hi, I have been using Abraham's OAuth library and I *almost* have it working. I'm a longtime C++ developer but new to Twitter API. Anyway, it took me a while to use the callback.php file as the actual call back. That (I thought) was the missing element, I was under the impression that the

[twitter-dev] oAuth down again?

2010-07-20 Thread EastSideDev
oAuth was working a few hours ago, I'm pretty sure it's down again. To avoid having us guess, can Twitter have a link to a page to give us up to the date status?

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread ap
Looks like the oAuth access token issue is back! Started getting 500's from Twitter API a few minutes ago. On Jul 20, 11:38 am, Kostya Nikolayev kostya1...@gmail.com wrote: Taylor! This is what I'm sending: POST /1/statuses/filter.json HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: stream.twitter.com\r \nUser-Agent:

[twitter-dev] Re: create a new app

2010-07-20 Thread Tara
I've been getting this error when I try to save changes to an existing app, too.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth Problem

2010-07-20 Thread Gabe
I think I might have answered my own question. It seems when I created the new app registration I forgot to check the box at the bottom which says to use Twitter for login. Now Twitter won't let me change it. I expect that will fix it. On Jul 20, 2:02 pm, Gabe oneill.g...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth Problem

2010-07-20 Thread Elmseeker
in twitteroauth.php you will find 4 lines function accessTokenURL() { return 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/ access_token'; } function authenticateURL() { return 'https://twitter.com/oauth/ authenticate'; } function authorizeURL(){ return 'https://twitter.com/oauth/ authorize'; } function

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Is this a server application (Software as a Service) or do you want this to run on a desktop? If you deployed it as a desktop application, you could use the User Streams capability. The nice thing about User Streams is that you get more than just messages when someone you're following

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth Problem

2010-07-20 Thread Gabe
I did notice something odd about that. My app page on Twitter says the opposite tho - to remove the api.. I will try your suggestion and thanks!! On Jul 20, 2:57 pm, Elmseeker elmsee...@gmail.com wrote: in twitteroauth.php you will find 4 lines function accessTokenURL()  { return

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: A feed greater equivalent to the old gardenhose?

2010-07-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Spritzer is now 1% (was 5%). Is Gardenhose now 3% (was 15%)?? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting John Kalucki j...@twitter.com: Brian is correct. There are only two

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth Problem

2010-07-20 Thread Gabe
Actually I was able to turn the switch on and also make these changes. Neither fixed the problem. Still getting the 401 error. I know OAuth has been down today but it is working at least for now. On Jul 20, 2:57 pm, Elmseeker elmsee...@gmail.com wrote: in twitteroauth.php you will find 4 lines

[twitter-dev] Method statuses/filter from Streaming API return only incoming tweets and no updates

2010-07-20 Thread Rostand
Hi All, I need for master research project the public timeline of approx 300 users. That is, all the outgoing messages (updates, retweets.., DM) + all incoming messages (replies, @user...). I first thought that the option 'follow' from the Streaming API following will do.

[twitter-dev] Simple oAuth php cURL token_request example not working

2010-07-20 Thread Derrick
The code below simply gives me Failed to validate oauth signature and token : really battling to spot the problem here. // Set url $url = http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token;; // Params to pass to twitter and create signature $params['oauth_callback'] =

Re: [twitter-dev] Method statuses/filter from Streaming API return only incoming tweets and no updates

2010-07-20 Thread John Kalucki
Without an authentication token for a user, there's no way to get their DMs and other private and protected information. Follow gives you tweets and retweets by those users, not tweets bound for those user's timelines. You can use track to find mentions, including replies. -John Kalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Method statuses/filter from Streaming API return only incoming tweets and no updates

2010-07-20 Thread Pascal Jürgens
Hello Rostand, I did my master's thesis using twitter data. My recommendation: - You can not will not and should not get DMs. They are *private*. Even if you do a closed study with 300 consenting people, it's unethical. If you're in the US, the ethics committee of your university will have you

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: A feed greater equivalent to the old gardenhose?

2010-07-20 Thread John Kalucki
It's ~1% and ~5%, for some meaning of percent that doesn't mean exactly percent. The algorithm is documented on dev.twitter.com, although the values are stale. Please note that at least a year ago, I wrote: Sampling proportions are subject to continuous unannounced refinement. Our goal is to

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread John Kalucki
We don't allow a single account to follow 60k users, so User Streams isn't going to work. -John On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:22 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: Is this a server application (Software as a Service) or do you want this to run on a desktop? If you

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
We may have had a hiccup period as we finished correcting last night's remaining issues. Are you still seeing the 500s? On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, ap aashish.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like the oAuth access token issue is back! Started getting 500's from Twitter API a few minutes ago.

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread ap
Taylor, Looks like things are back to normal now. Thanks! On Jul 20, 4:59 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: We may have had a hiccup period as we finished correcting last night's remaining issues. Are you still seeing the 500s? On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, ap

Re: [twitter-dev] Access personal Twitter direct messages from PHP script

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Khachik, For single-user applications like this, we've made it particularly easy to retrieve an access token for your own account -- on dev.twitter.com/appsjust navigate to the details page of your application and select the My Token button on the right-hand sidebar. This will provide you an

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Ah ... I thought he wanted 60K subscribers to each get an alert when one of the people *they* were following tweeted. I suppose 60K users of a User Streams application would put a worse strain on your infrastructure than one Firehose connection, though. ;-) I wasn't aware there was a hard

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: create a new app

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
This issue should be resolved now -- app creation and editing should work fine for you now. Do let us know if you continue to see the issue. Thanks! On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Tara t...@mac.com wrote: I've been getting this error when I try to save changes to an existing app, too.

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread John Kalucki
The trick is getting the 60k followers. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: Ah ... I thought he wanted 60K subscribers to each get an alert when one of the people *they* were following tweeted. I suppose 60K users of a User Streams

[twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Kostya Nikolayev
Taylor, Did the details I posted help to identify the issue? Thanks, Kostya On Jul 20, 9:56 pm, ap aashish.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like the oAuth access token issue is back! Started getting 500's from Twitter API a few minutes ago. On Jul 20, 11:38 am, Kostya Nikolayev

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread Fabien Penso
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:54 PM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: The trick is getting the 60k followers. The trick is getting 60k users ;)

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Kostya, I'm unable to reproduce your issue, unfortunately. Are you still getting a 500 error when trying to connect to streaming via OAuth? Have you tried using a different access token or even API key? Does the same code/keys work against the REST API? Taylor On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:58

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth and Streaming API

2010-07-20 Thread Mark McBride
Kostya, the streaming API OAuth implementation should not have been affected. Are you still seeing these issues? If so, can you send me a message off list with connection details (the user making the request, the app the access token belongs to, the URL requested, the app being used)?   

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Just give away something valuable to 59,999 for free and the other one will pay all the bills. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Fabien Penso

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Matt Harris
Hey Kostya, I've taken a quick look at your POST headers and noticed a couple of things: 1) Whilst it shouldn't matter the streaming API can be very particular about the headers you send so I recommend you quote your OAuth values, e.g. oauth_nonce=Rb34D3rVEetj 2) Your OAuth token looks like a

[twitter-dev] Re: SSL Certificates renewal on Tuesday 20th July

2010-07-20 Thread themattharris
A quick update on this renewal process.. As the site only fully recovered this morning from the issues of yesterday we postponed rolling out the new SSL certificates. We now plan to make the SSL change at 5PM PDT (1AM GMT). Best, Matt On Jul 19, 5:56 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Garbled http headers and XML payloads - addressed?

2010-07-20 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Has this issue been addressed? We've seen a huge increase in the last 36 hours and it's affecting us... Just to say it we started seeing these once or twice a day since the world cup ended... And then this nasty spike... Jeffrey Greenberg Tweettronics.com

[twitter-dev] YFrog/ImageShack and invalid username or verification url error

2010-07-20 Thread DWF
Anyone else seeing this? We're implementing OAuth Echo for uploading photos. We've knocked down Posterous TwitPic with few issues. So we know our signing is working. We now have an ImageShack API key and when we attempt to upload we get this response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? rsp

[twitter-dev] Re: A feed greater equivalent to the old gardenhose?

2010-07-20 Thread Sanjay
This is kind of a bummer. I just recently started using the gardenhose feed so comparing what is now available to what was available at gardenhose launch really doesn't satisfy me (and I suspect others). I started to build around the 6-8k/minute stream and this reduction to 2k/minute is

[twitter-dev] Whitelist confirmation . . .

2010-07-20 Thread hkimscil
Hello, this is a followup message to the previous post at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/36a11ab23b42f22/48c15312a2aab773?lnk=gstq=hkimscil#48c15312a2aab773 . I am not still getting a confirmation for whitelist; and beginning to think that I may not

[twitter-dev] Problems Loading Profile Images

2010-07-20 Thread Ron
Anyone noticing problems loading profile images (slow, no image returned, hanging...)? Seems to show up mostly on Public and Search endpoints.

Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://twitter.com/ModelSupplies ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting John Kalucki j...@twitter.com: The trick is getting the 60k followers. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010