[twitter-dev] Demographics

2011-04-28 Thread BC
Is there a way to see the demographics (age, sex, location) of a user's followers with the twitter api? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing Twitter Devnest - May 12th (sign up now)

2011-04-28 Thread Corey Ballou
Hey Jason, We'd love to help you guys host a #devnest out here in Charlotte, NC if you ever swing by our way. Regards, Corey On Apr 27, 6:50 pm, Jason Costa jasonco...@twitter.com wrote: Hi everyone, On May 12th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, we're going to be hosting a developer event, Twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Announcing Twitter Devnest - May 12th (sign up now)

2011-04-28 Thread Trevor Dean
I hope one of the cities outside the U.S will be Toronto, there is a lot of twitter development happening down here. If you want to do a #devnest in Toronto please let me know, I would love to be a part of it and help in anyway possible. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Corey Ballou

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Announcing Twitter Devnest - May 12th (sign up now)

2011-04-28 Thread Nicholas Chase
I'll second that, Corey! Nick On 4/28/2011 7:45 AM, Corey Ballou wrote: Hey Jason, We'd love to help you guys host a #devnest out here in Charlotte, NC if you ever swing by our way. Regards, Corey -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API

[twitter-dev] [xAuth-iphone]Follow action doesn't work

2011-04-28 Thread Matt Wang
Dear Sir or Madam, I am programming for Number 10 iphone application.Currently,this application has xAuth access and can post information via twitter. However, when I try to call [twitterEngine enableUpdatesFor:@follower] for adding a follower. it will return a 401 error. here is my code: -

Re: [twitter-dev] Demographics

2011-04-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi there, You may be able to determine the user's location by their profile location field, but it's not a reliable source of information since it is free-form and potentially inscrutable, fictional, hilarious, and sometimes parseable. Some users geotag individual tweets with more reliable

Re: [twitter-dev] Having Problem in the first step to use Twitter API with OAUTH for JAVASCRIPT

2011-04-28 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Well, it's definitely possible with JavaScript and even as a Web Application, but only in one of these cases : * User marks the web application as trusted, to avoid cross-domain restrictions * Twitter implements Mozilla's cross-domain XHR method * From a file:// location or another location

Re: [twitter-dev] Having Problem in the first step to use Twitter API with OAUTH for JAVASCRIPT

2011-04-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
You cannot perform secure OAuth 1.0A in client side Javascript. It is insecure, unsupported, and entirely unrecommended. Unless you want to develop a server-side based Twitter API integration, you may want to look at Web Intents ( http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents ) or @Anywhere instead (

[twitter-dev] Re: Having Problem in the first step to use Twitter API with OAUTH for JAVASCRIPT

2011-04-28 Thread Victor
Thanks Taylor for the answer. I guess it's very insecure beacuse all the person can see the javascript code including the keys. ¿It is that the case? I have read part of the documentation of twitter or OAUTH, but i haven't seen a clue of that we can't use javascript for authentications. In fact i

[twitter-dev] Re: Having Problem in the first step to use Twitter API with OAUTH for JAVASCRIPT

2011-04-28 Thread Victor
Thanks Tom Yes, i read that part in the API that the consumer must do his best to hide all posible form of reveal the codes. Thats is my second achievement, the first is try to get this work ¿so can you help me? (more) . I doesn't undesstand whyi can see the answer using a form, and why i

[twitter-dev] Site Streams strategy

2011-04-28 Thread Mark Krieger
I have Site Streams implemented for a number of twitter accounts on my testbed system. It is working like a charm, and for this system at least, the home timeline, mentions and messages are all super fast (obviously). It saves API calls, it is nice, I am pretty happy. I wonder: What other data

[twitter-dev] Five-Oh-Two Fest

2011-04-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Twitter, are you aware that your API is throwing 502s left right and center on blocks/create/nnn.json and report_spam.json? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

Re: [twitter-dev] Five-Oh-Two Fest

2011-04-28 Thread Matt Harris
Hey Dewald, There is an issue filed on the public issue tracker for this but as reported in the ticket, this seems to work sometimes and not at others: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=2156 To help us track this down, an iIf you are happy to, can you paste some

[twitter-dev] New oAuth Authenticate Page

2011-04-28 Thread Shannon Whitley
I was surprised to see a newly formatted oAuth Authenticate Page. The new page doesn't account for the scores of oAuth implementations that popup a new window. There is an ad-hoc standard for the window height and width that makes for a decent user experience. The new format will cause issues

[twitter-dev] Visual refresh of the OAuth screens

2011-04-28 Thread Matt Harris
Hey Developers, Some of you may have noticed already that earlier today we deployed a redesign of the OAuth screens. We know both you and your users have been asking for better clarity about what an application can see and do with an account and these screens are a step towards doing that. One

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing Twitter Devnest - May 12th (sign up now)

2011-04-28 Thread jasoncosta
Thanks guys - we're still in the early stages of planning right now, but definitely appreciate the feedback and enthusiasm. Stay tuned! On Apr 28, 5:05 am, Nicholas Chase nch...@earthlink.net wrote: I'll second that, Corey!  Nick On 4/28/2011 7:45 AM, Corey Ballou wrote: Hey Jason,

[twitter-dev] Re: Visual refresh of the OAuth screens

2011-04-28 Thread Shannon Whitley
Hi Matt, This is a big change and it negatively impacts many web applications that popup a browser window to display the oAuth screen. The popup windows were sized for the old content, and the new content will force the user to scroll. It's not a great experience. I wish there would have been

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Visual refresh of the OAuth screens

2011-04-28 Thread Abraham Williams
Here is a screenshoot of the new page. https://picasaweb.google.com/4braham/Screenshots#5600743120809142002 Note that app descriptions are now shown to users incase you were lazy (like me) and didn't include a real description. Abraham - Abraham Williams | InboxQ http://inboxq.com/

[twitter-dev] Re: Visual refresh of the OAuth screens

2011-04-28 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
I think it's good to be giving users more information on what they are granting access to, but by leaving out a number of things there are misleading implications. In particular, this list does not mention that users will be granting access to all their private DMs. I also find it interesting the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Visual refresh of the OAuth screens

2011-04-28 Thread Matt Harris
@Shannon: thanks for the feedback on this. The new screens are fluid in size so wrap to the available space. Hosting in a local iframe isn't something we've encouraged in the past. We prefer the user to be taken to the authenticate or authorize page in a tab/new window that they can see the URL

[twitter-dev] Where is the RSS feed link on #newtwiiter?

2011-04-28 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I can't seem to find the link for my account's RSS feed on #newtwitter. Did it go away? Is that feed deprecated? It's right where it always was on the old Twitter. ;-) -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net A mathematician is a device for turning

[twitter-dev] Re: Visual refresh of the OAuth screens

2011-04-28 Thread Shannon Whitley
Matt, Thanks for the reply. I'm referring to a popup browser window that displays the full url. The technique is not designed to mask the oAuth process, it's designed to improve the experience for the user. Devs have been using this technique since Twitter released oAuth. The popup allows the

Re: [twitter-dev] Where is the RSS feed link on #newtwiiter?

2011-04-28 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Hey Edward, You're not getting old :) We removed the RSS link on #newtwitter, but the exact same content is available through /1/statuses/user_timeline.rss For example: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=rno Arnaud / @rno http://twitter.com/rno On Thu, Apr 28,

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search Api and geolocations

2011-04-28 Thread harik
hI ... I am trying to map the tweets which I can retrive using Twitter Search API. This is what I have observed. When I search for tweets based on location(lat n long) using the query: search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=37.781157,-122.398720,1mi I see that (in the xml format) there is

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search Api and geolocations

2011-04-28 Thread harik
hI ... I am trying to map the tweets which I can retrive using Twitter Search API. This is what I have observed. When I search for tweets based on location(lat n long) using the query: search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=37.781157,-122.398720,1mi I see that (in the xml format) there is