[twitter-dev] Re: capture the event click on the Tweet Button

2011-01-09 Thread David
The standard tweet button is loaded via an iframe and comes from a different domain, so attaching a click handler to this would violate javascript's same origin policy and therefore is disallowed as a security measure. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/do

[twitter-dev] Re: ~25% loss rate Streaming API vs. Search API

2011-01-09 Thread Bess
Streaming API is build by Twitter while Search API is build by Startup Summize acquired by Twitter. Search API is rate-limited. If you just use Twitter search feature, you may see everything. Using Search API to display API returned results is limited by your developer API. Streaming API may not

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: ~25% loss rate Streaming API vs. Search API

2011-01-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:29:12 -0800 (PST), Brian Maso wrote: What I did is opened up three separate normal browser tabs in Firefox, each using the Twitter search web interface to search for three different hashtags ("#ces", "ces11", and "nfl" -- examples of three tags that should have decent ongo

[twitter-dev] Re: ~25% loss rate Streaming API vs. Search API

2011-01-09 Thread Brian Maso
What I did is opened up three separate normal browser tabs in Firefox, each using the Twitter search web interface to search for three different hashtags ("#ces", "ces11", and "nfl" -- examples of three tags that should have decent ongoing traffic). At the same time I have an application capturing

[twitter-dev] Search API or RSS feed?

2011-01-09 Thread lilpirate
Hello people, I'm building a twitter application based upon your followers' tweets. I need to fetch tweets of all followers for a user. I was using status/user_timeline initially. But after interacting with @twitterapi, I found there are better ways to do this.They suggested I first followers/i

[twitter-dev] Explanation of the components of the json string returned by the twitter api

2011-01-09 Thread JJJJJJ2010
Hi there, Twitter documents it's api methods well, but as far as I can see there is no explanation of all the elements that are returned in the json string. I haven't managed to find anything when googling. Obviously some of the info is self-evident, but I think some of it is a bit vague and I'm n