Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
You can simply set your account to protected... Tom Sent from my iPhone On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:59 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: Quoting John Kalucki j...@twitter.com: Every search engine, social network, blogging platform, content aggregator, and to a

[twitter-dev] Introduce myself

2010-11-18 Thread Mauro Asprea
Hi all, my name is Mauro Asprea and I build an amazon wishlist auto-tweet application. Hopefully it will be released within next 10 days :D One feature I would like to see in the twitter api, is the ability to ask for more user data such as the email address. Right now the only way to login a

[twitter-dev] Enabling Geotagging to user tweet

2010-11-18 Thread Francis Chong
We are developing an twitter app with geotagging. From the Twitter Geotagging API Best Practices http://twitter.com/account/settings/geo , we noted user can enable or disable geotagging from their account. If the setting is disabled, we should redirect user to geo setting page. The problem is

[twitter-dev] Sample code to retrieve Twitter followers/Friends

2010-11-18 Thread shwetu
Hi, I am new bie on Twitter. Can anyone plz provide me sample code to Retrieve Twitter followers/ Friends? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] include_entities parameter not working

2010-11-18 Thread Joppe
I can't get the entities property when i make a timeline call. It simply doesn't work in my application (CodeIgniter http://www.haughin.com/code/twitter/ twitter library) and on the twitter dev test console: http://dev.twitter.com/console I tried all timeline calls with include_entities=true,

Re: [twitter-dev] Sample code to retrieve Twitter followers/Friends

2010-11-18 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
ids/followers @abraham's twitteroauth library in php. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkiss http://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/ http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:06 AM, shwetu wrote: Hi, I am new bie on Twitter. Can anyone plz provide me sample

Re: [twitter-dev] include_entities parameter not working

2010-11-18 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi, Our console is woefully inadequate for testing these kinds of things. I recommend Apigee's Twitter API console instead: http://app.apigee.com/console/twitter That said, entities should work for you if the request is properly formed. I don't know much of anything about CodeIgniter or how the

Re: [twitter-dev] URGENT: Advice on building the correct API stream

2010-11-18 Thread Neil Sheth
I have asked our developers to implement the statuses/filter API stream, however they have come back with the following: 1) We will not be able to fetch previous tweets for the accounts because count parameter can not be used for default role (but can be used for increased access level roles e.g.

Re: [twitter-dev] URGENT: Advice on building the correct API stream

2010-11-18 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Neil, This is where you fallback to the REST API. If you need to catch up you can do so to the best of your abilities (and availability) via REST (as you'll have plenty of remaining API calls since you'll only be using REST for backfill and supplemental metadata). The implementation is not

Re: [twitter-dev] URGENT: Advice on building the correct API stream

2010-11-18 Thread Adam Green
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Neil Sheth sheth.n...@gmail.com wrote: I have asked our developers to implement the statuses/filter API stream, however they have come back with the following: 1) We will not be able to fetch previous tweets for the accounts because count parameter can not be

Re: [twitter-dev] URGENT: Advice on building the correct API stream

2010-11-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Adam Green 140...@gmail.com: In general, if you are planning on capturing *all* tweets for a set of words or users, and *never* losing any, you are setting an impossible goal. Aiming for a very high level of accuracy is all you are going to achieve. With the right coding 99% or better

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Dewald Pretorius
John, I'm not sure how you draw that comparison. Google/Yahoo/Microsoft do not sell the content of the sites that they index. Neither do WordPress or Blogger sell the content of the blog posts. Facebook/Buzz do not sell the content of people's status updates. They monetize around the content,

[twitter-dev] How do I find the URL of a Twitter user WWW page, having only their twitterID?

2010-11-18 Thread Kaspa
The title says it all. Been looking for some time now. (I know I can lookup the API for user detail and then use that. That's not what I want, I want a way of directly putting the URL together) Are URLs that directly use userIDs in some way prohibited? -- Twitter developer documentation and

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew Terenzio
We have every right in the world to gather this data for analysis without any permission. It's public. Redistributing it will be subject to fair use and copyright law but not gathering it and making broad analysis. That is what search engines do and so far the courts have said they have a right to

Re: [twitter-dev] URGENT: Advice on building the correct API stream

2010-11-18 Thread Neil Sheth
Hi Adam, Thanks for your advice, just wanted to ask if you have a link to the solution you mentioned for point 2 i.e. the Search API? Regards Neil On 18 November 2010 15:19, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Neil Sheth sheth.n...@gmail.com wrote: I have

[twitter-dev] Q : retrieve the following/followers list (for Obj-C)

2010-11-18 Thread Azzam Alsudais
Hi everyone, I'm new to Twitter API, and currently working on my Graduation Project for my Bs. in Computer Science.. My project is simply an iPhone app, and I need to integrate my app with Twitter, so that I can retrieve the user's following/followers lists Any method or code to do that ?

[twitter-dev] Number of favorites per tweet

2010-11-18 Thread Tijs
For a given tweet, I'd like to check the number of favorites. I've been search for a solution and read through the API documentation, yet it looks like there's no easy way to currently do this, right? Anyone to suggest an alternative? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

Re: [twitter-dev] URGENT: Advice on building the correct API stream

2010-11-18 Thread Adam Green
Neil: If you mean a link to the Twitter doc on the search API, that is here: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search I've also written a detailed comparison of the search API vs. the streaming API that may help your coders pick the right solution:

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I find the URL of a Twitter user WWW page, having only their twitterID?

2010-11-18 Thread @Red_Eyes
Try this: http://twitter.com/?id=21358135 (That's my ID, BTW) Regards On Nov 18, 6:00 pm, Kaspa kacper.sul...@gmail.com wrote: The title says it all. Been looking for some time now. (I know I can lookup the API for user detail and then use that. That's not what I want, I want a way of

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I find the URL of a Twitter user WWW page, having only their twitterID?

2010-11-18 Thread @Red_Eyes
You can do it, but you have to be logged in first which suggests that this would be a rate limited lookup. eg: http://twitter.com/?id= Regards On Nov 18, 6:00 pm, Kaspa kacper.sul...@gmail.com wrote: The title says it all. Been looking for some time now. (I know I can lookup the API

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How do I find the URL of a Twitter user WWW page, having only their twitterID?

2010-11-18 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Doesn't seem to work with #newtwitter. Tom On 11/18/10 11:14 PM, @Red_Eyes wrote: You can do it, but you have to be logged in first which suggests that this would be a rate limited lookup. eg: http://twitter.com/?id= Regards On Nov 18, 6:00 pm, Kaspa

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How do I find the URL of a Twitter user WWW page, having only their twitterID?

2010-11-18 Thread Abraham Williams
Second tip: http://blog.abrah.am/2010/04/little-known-twitter-and-twitterapi.html Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am @abraham https://twitter.com/abraham | github.com/abraham | blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Thu, Nov

Re: [twitter-dev] URGENT: Advice on building the correct API stream

2010-11-18 Thread Neil
This is great advice, many thanks. Will keep your blog and personal email address in mind for the future Sent from my iPhone On 18 Nov 2010, at 21:56, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote: Neil: If you mean a link to the Twitter doc on the search API, that is here:

Re: [twitter-dev] Enabling Geotagging to user tweet

2010-11-18 Thread Abraham Williams
You can send users directly to https://twitter.com/account/geo which is mobile friendly. http://blog.abrah.am/2010/04/little-known-twitter-and-twitterapi.html Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am @abraham https://twitter.com/abraham | github.com/abraham |

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread Chrys Bader
*bump* I've run my base string through an oAuth verifier (http://quonos.nl/ oauthTester/), and it all checks out! Any ideas? On Oct 27, 4:50 pm, Chrys Bader chr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, This is my first post in this group, hi! I am having trouble making a request

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Scott J
I would like to know the answer to this as well. What will the limits be on the statuses/filter? On Nov 17, 9:44 am, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan, The Gnip blog post states: [QUOTE]Twitter Decahose. This volume-based product is comprised of 10% of the full firehose.

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread themattharris
Hey Chrys, A couple of things to check first: 1. Have you been granted xAuth access? 2. Double check the timestamp of your request is within 10 or so minutes of the time returned by Twitter's servers. Our server time is in UTC. 3. Verify your encoding is correct. For example: a password like ab$

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread Chrys Bader
1. Yes 2. Interesting point. I'm probably not sending a UTC timestamp! 3. We take care of this Thanks! I'm going to play with the timstamp. On Nov 18, 5:53 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Chrys, A couple of things to check first: 1. Have you been granted xAuth access?

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread Chrys Bader
Ok, I looked into it. According to the iPhone SDK documentation, I am indeed sending the UTC (GMT) timestamp. Still not sure what else could be wrong? Is this the right Content-Type? Content-Type = application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8; On Nov 18, 5:53 pm, themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Harris
OK, but is the UTC timestamp actually accurate? we've heard of a number of phones whose date/time are wildly wrong. It maybe find but it's quite common. Your content-type is fine. Matt On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Chrys Bader chr...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I looked into it. According to the

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread Chrys Bader
Yes I compared the UTC timestamp that my phone is generating with the actual UTC timestamp, and they were the same. Is there anything else I can show you for more information? No matter what, I just keep getting a 401 response from Twitter. On Nov 18, 6:41 pm, Matt Harris

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread Chrys Bader
Does the order of the params in either the Authorization or Base string matter? Here are my Request Headers: Authorization = OAuth oauth_timestamp=\1290134876\, oauth_nonce= \D3EC42D2-A37F-4298-987D-0F9603B0C9C7\, oauth_version=\1.0\, oauth_consumer_key=\xxx\,

[twitter-dev] Re: Number of favorites per tweet

2010-11-18 Thread L. Mohan Arun
I was after this same thing a few weeks ago and was told there is no way to get this information from the official Twr. API as of now... But somehow twitfave does this. And they have an API: http://twitfave.com/home/about/api The portion you need is in getting information about a single tweet -

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread L. Mohan Arun
We have every right in the world to gather this data for analysis without any permission. It's public. No. You don't get to compile posts from a discussion forum into a product, under the idea that such posts are public domain. They are not. - Unless you own the forum or have a deal with the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I don't care what your newsletter says. I'm talking about American law. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM, L. Mohan Arun mar...@gmail.com wrote: We have every right in the world to gather this data for analysis without any permission. It's public. No. You don't get to compile posts from a

[twitter-dev] Re: Regarding using twitter api or twitter stuffs in my website

2010-11-18 Thread L. Mohan Arun
You dont need api for this. Just grab profile widget frm here and embed the code in your site. http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets Mohan Arun L. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: geocode question

2010-11-18 Thread L. Mohan Arun
Many people have done something similar - plotting tweets on a map. http://twitdom.com/twittermap-2/ www.trendsmap.com how to do this code-wise? It must be in the API. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
Well, they do have their ToS the law has so far placed in favor of usage of apps and apis regardless of ToS as long as it is legal. Yet, due to massive litigation. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkiss http://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/ http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ --

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Just to clarify. I never said they were Public Domain. Twitter or the user own the copyrights. Probably both. I meant it has been made public information, thereby granting some rights to those it was made public to. I wouldn't have a right to redistribute a book written by you, but I have every

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Number of favorites per tweet

2010-11-18 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
I personally from one machine have most of Twitter in the past 2 months indexed. Yes it's possible. The Twitter Advocates who are dickheads [yeah you guys] suspended all of my apps but one [luckily I don't use my personal account of course for my work when I mentioned methods for this].

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Right. usage of the API is completely under Twitter control and TOS. I understand that. And yes, all of this is new and subject to litigation. Not worth the headache unless a rug was pulled out under and existing established business and agreement, which is probably only a few companies if any

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread jmathai
I agree with blogging platforms and social networks but not the rest. Being an owner of a website does not imply that I'm a Google user. Nor is a musician a user of the used record store. On Nov 17, 8:48 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Every search engine, social network, blogging

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Ryan Sarver
The basic level of statuses/filter will remain unchanged On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Scott J sc...@globalizenetworks.com wrote: I would like to know the answer to this as well.  What will the limits be on the statuses/filter? On Nov 17, 9:44 am, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Twitter Ruby Gem version 1.0 released

2010-11-18 Thread sferik
After 8 weeks in active development, it's my pleasure to announce version 1.0 of the twitter gem is now available. You can install it from rubygems.org by typing: gem install twitter There is also a new Twitter account, which you can follow for announcements, updates, and news about the gem