[twitter-dev] Re: Update on Twifficiency

2010-08-18 Thread Ben Metcalfe
more appropriate but would also deal with the issue of surprising auto-tweets when the app developer doesn't highlight it up front. What do people think? Thanks, Ben Metcalfe On Aug 18, 1:45 pm, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, Over the past 24 hours, we've received some

[twitter-dev] Re: t.co issue -- querying for original url in streaming search apis

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Metcalfe
I would love to see twitter include the original unwrapped url in a key/value in the annotation field (else otherwise it's own specific key/value in the payload). There are loads of use cases for this: from search/discovery through to reducing latency for twitter clients that want to show the

[twitter-dev] Re: Using MagpieRSS Authentication with the Twitter API

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Your best best, IMHO, is to follow the sample code on this wiki to request the API payload via CURL and then dump the response into the MagpieRSS parser. It's just easier that way, I find - as authentication via CURL is known to work out of the box. This will also make your code more future

[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Atom is XML On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos carlos.crose...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is