[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth Authentication Fails

2010-08-26 Thread Mark Pavlidis
FYI, the fix was deployed yesterday afternoon and I have verified the problem has been resolved. On Aug 25, 2:37 pm, Mark Pavlidis mark.pavli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt, Has this fix gone out yet? I'm still seeing the error. Thanks, Mark -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming API rate limiting frequency-track

2010-08-26 Thread John Kalucki
You can test new keywords with a default access account to get an idea of their velocity, then roll it into your main account. Exactitude isn't helpful, as word frequency varies as the tweet volume varies. The limit rates are fixed and have not changed in over a year. -John Kalucki

[twitter-dev] Advanced search criteria - Search API

2010-08-26 Thread johnw
I'm trying to do some searches via the API and I have it working for straight strings but when I try the emoticon syntax described here (http://search.twitter.com/operators) for attitude I get this back from the API: code:17,message:No user matches for specified terms e.g. Twitter :) returns the

[twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-26 Thread Spode
I must admit, I'm a little confused on some aspects of this. Will the new IDs continue on from the old IDs sequentally? Or will they be completely incompatible with the old IDs? I have a database of several million tweets that JournoTwit users use. I don't want to have to start differentiating

[twitter-dev] Search API not returning tweet

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Lee
I'm trying to understand why this query doesn't return a tweet : http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23tea%20from:jamesb%20from:frankieroberto%20from:andrewpendrick%20from:monkeyhelpr%20from:topfife But this one does :

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter button not showing up in IE7

2010-08-26 Thread Artem Russakovskii
Thanks Matt, that fixed it, although in a weird way. If I now load any page in IE7, the button shows up fine. However, if I refresh, no matter how many times, the button does not appear. It seems to only show up the first time when switching urls... any ideas? On Aug 25, 2:04 pm, Matt Harris

Re: [twitter-dev] followed_by_my_follows or follows_in_common via API?

2010-08-26 Thread Abraham Williams
You are welcome to use my Intersect API: http://github.com/abraham/intersect/blob/master/README Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Wed,

[twitter-dev] REST API Limits going down

2010-08-26 Thread David Toussaint
Hi, My company is offering a regional tweet-monitoring tool (http:// twittercrawl.de) and is collecting all tweets from Germany. For doing this we decided to use the REST API and got our IP-Address whitelisted a little while ago. Everything is working fine except that we are getting reduced

[twitter-dev] home_timeline request fails after deleting a tweet

2010-08-26 Thread jsleuth
I'm running into an interesting problem. If I post a tweet via the api and then delete it, the next request made to the REST api will result in an http 500-technical error from the api. A second request will execute just fine... except that the api won't give me a full count of tweets-- it drops

[twitter-dev] Re: REST API Limits going down

2010-08-26 Thread Nik Fletcher
Are you using OAuth for your application? If not, the wind-down of Basic auth is probably the reason for this decrease - and you'll be without Basic Auth at the end of the month http://countdowntooauth.com/ -N On Aug 26, 4:49 pm, David Toussaint david.toussa...@azionare.de wrote: Hi, My

[twitter-dev] Twitter API 101

2010-08-26 Thread VirtualCoder
Hi Folks, I am totally new to Twitter - both as an end user and as an API developer. Therefore, I have bunch of simple questions and would be grateful if some of you explained some of these simpler things both to me and others in the same boat. ;) (1) Is Twitter API push or pull technology. The

[twitter-dev] My head is spinning

2010-08-26 Thread VirtualCoder
I was here and my head is spinning from trying to understand what it says. http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] Re: REST API Limits going down

2010-08-26 Thread David Toussaint
Thanks for your reply! I thought using a whitelabeled IP does not require any auth method? Am I wrong? On 26 Aug., 17:58, Nik Fletcher nik.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using OAuth for your application? If not, the wind-down of Basic auth is probably the reason for this decrease - and

[twitter-dev] Re: REST API Limits going down

2010-08-26 Thread David Toussaint
Thanks! I am aware of that switch already but I was not aware that it is necessary to use any Authentification method if the IP is whitelisted. On 26 Aug., 17:58, Nik Fletcher nik.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using OAuth for your application? If not, the wind-down of Basic auth is

[twitter-dev] xAuth — how long wait for accept?

2010-08-26 Thread brainsolid
I would like to use xAuth and I send a request to a...@twitter.com one week ago. There is still no any answer so I would like to know, how long I must wait for accepting my request? Please, share your experience. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth — how long wait for accept ?

2010-08-26 Thread jsleuth
If my memory serves it took them about a week to authorize us for xAuth. It's a by-hand process and my impression is that the function is understaffed. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: REST API Limits going down

2010-08-26 Thread John Adams
Whitelisting only affects your rate limits. It does not remove authentication or change security requirements. -j On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, David Toussaint david.toussa...@azionare.de wrote: Thanks! I am aware of that switch already but I was not aware that it is necessary to use any

[twitter-dev] Problem with Zend Oauth and writing Access Token in mySQL database

2010-08-26 Thread twittwit
Hi, I use Zend Oauth to connect my app to Twitter as described here: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.oauth.introduction.html It works perfectly saving the Twitter Request Token and the Twitter Access Token in the session using serialize and unserialize like this (abbreviated): 1:

[twitter-dev] TwitterOauth

2010-08-26 Thread Gary Zukowski
Is anyone else having problem with TwitterOauth and friends? I'm trying to create friends with: ret = @client.friend(twittername) And the response I get is a null ret and test show up on the console. Any ideas? Thanks, Gary Zukowski -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with Zend Oauth and writing Access Token in mySQL database

2010-08-26 Thread twittwit
Oh by the way, the weird characters aren't displayed correctly here. So in reality there were black blocks, some with question marks inside - like #x81; � -- http://www.torsten-horn.de/techdocs/ascii.htm -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates

[twitter-dev] Friends

2010-08-26 Thread garyz
Is anyone else having problem with TwitterOauth and friends? I'm trying to create friends with: ret = @client.friend(twittername) And the response I get is a null ret and test shows up on the console. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via

[twitter-dev] 401 errors calling access_token

2010-08-26 Thread Marc Mims
I occasionally see 401 responses calling access_token. At the point of call, I have valid request tokens. The user has been redirected to Twitter, has authorized the app (as evidenced by the fact that the user is redirected to the apps's callback URL). The application uses the oauth_token

[twitter-dev] 401 errors calling access_token

2010-08-26 Thread Marc Mims
I occasionally see 401 responses calling access_token. At the point of call, I have valid request tokens. The user has been redirected to Twitter, has authorized the app (as evidenced by the fact that the user is redirected to the apps's callback URL). The application uses the oauth_token

[twitter-dev] Update status automatically which containing #klhb

2010-08-26 Thread Fayadh Ahmad Kamal
Hello there, I am new to Twitter API and noob. I wonder if someone out there could teach me how to develop an API that will update my status automatically which contains #klhb tag from my followers? Here's an similar account http://twitter.com/KLroadblock I want to have exactly like

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter as a Publish/Subscribe service

2010-08-26 Thread themattharris
Hey VC, Using Twitter for the purpose you describe seems similar to accounts which provide a notification about a new blog post or a news article. In those cases some context is provided about the link in the Tweet so that the timeline is meaningful to somebody who stumbles across it. You don't

[twitter-dev] How do track number of mentions for a keyword?

2010-08-26 Thread Quy
I see all these tools that can track the number of mentions of bmw or apple on Twitter during the day/week. What is the easiest way using the Twitter API to count the number of mentions for a keyword during the day? Do I have to get access to the firehose or streaming API? Quy -- Twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] How do track number of mentions for a keyword?

2010-08-26 Thread John Kalucki
Every account has access to a default level of track access on the Streaming API. The default access should be sufficient for most keywords. Higher access levels are available on request. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Quy

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Error messages during authorize and redirect processes (OAuth)

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks for finding this one. It's definitely not great this happens. To allow us to track the issue and to make sure it gets fixed can you file a bug report on our issues list: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list thanks, Matt On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Richard Barnett

[twitter-dev] Help with the API

2010-08-26 Thread Tiago
I'm writing an application and I need to know the impact of some twitter account, but i don't know how, does anybody know that? and other thing, how can i know the number of retweet, because with the api i can get only 100 retweets, and i need know the number of all of them. -- Twitter developer

Re: [twitter-dev] Advanced search criteria - Search API

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
Hey John, You need to URL encode (percent encode) the :) for this to work. If you are unsure how to form the search query I find using http://search.twitter.com/search first helps. When I do that and press search the correct encoding is displayed in the URL address bar. For example, visit

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API not returning tweet

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
When I run your queries above I see, in both cases, the Tweet from monkeyhelpr. When you ran the queries it may have been the Tweet was new and the caching on search.twitter.com hadn't fully updated. If you need real-time results you may want to consider using the Streaming API. The query you are

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet button fails to parse URL

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks for letting us know about this John, i've let the team know so they can fix it. Best, Matt On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:29 AM, John j...@wordie.org wrote: Hello, When I try and populate a Tweet button link with a data-url attribute of the form:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth Authentication Fails

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
There were a number of threads about this on the mailing list so I decided it would be better to send a new message announcing the fix, so my apologies if you missed the announcement. Thanks for confirming the fix worked for you though. Best, Matt On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Mark Pavlidis

[twitter-dev] Re: How do track number of mentions for a keyword?

2010-08-26 Thread Quy
How do I know what streaming API role level access I have (shadow/ birddog/restricted,etc)? I think I applied for higher access but not sure how to check? On Aug 26, 6:03 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Every account has access to a default level of track access on the Streaming API.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
Hi Spode, Thanks for your questions, i've answered them inline. Will the new IDs continue on from the old IDs sequentally? Or will they be completely incompatible with the old IDs? All existing IDs will stay the same. The new IDs will be greater than the old ones and there is likely to be a

Re: [twitter-dev] home_timeline request fails after deleting a tweet

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
Hi Jeff, This sounds very strange. Can you share some code so we can see what type of calls you are making to the API and try to debug. Thanks, Matt On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:52 AM, jsleuth jsle...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running into an interesting problem.  If I post a tweet via the api and

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How do track number of mentions for a keyword?

2010-08-26 Thread John Kalucki
The number of keywords allowed are documented here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#statuses-filter Try queries with a varying number of keywords and see where you get a 4XX... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Quy

[twitter-dev] Re: home_timeline request fails after deleting a tweet

2010-08-26 Thread quenotacom
I am having exactly the same problem ... 500 after delete ! quenotacom On 26 ago, 21:53, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Jeff, This sounds very strange. Can you share some code so we can see what type of calls you are making to the API and try to debug. Thanks, Matt

[twitter-dev] Strange problem searching from:shakira

2010-08-26 Thread quenotacom
Hi, I am having a 0 records / statuses when i try to search shakira screenname, is there any special consideration for that account? http//search.twitter.com/search.atom?from=shakira Thank you in advance. Quenotacom -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc

[twitter-dev] Change in error response objects

2010-08-26 Thread Marc Mims
It looks like error responses have changed, at least for users/show. I used to get: {error:User has been suspended} Now, I get: {errors:[{code:63,message:User has been suspended}]} Other methods still return the old format, e.g., statuses/show. I get:

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming API rate limiting frequency-track

2010-08-26 Thread Karthik K
Thanks John, but my application needs to add/remove keywords on a regular basis, and i am planning an algorithm which does something like calculate current frequency for main account which is near approximation for the current time (calculating based on last 10 mins,1 hr,1 day frequencies) and