Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Chirp on Justin.tv

2010-04-19 Thread Doug Williams
The videos are preserved at http://justin.tv/twitterchirp/all. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:41 PM, 46Bit m...@46bit.com wrote: Just to check - if we're unable to watch the live stream I presume saved videos will be available afterwards? On Apr 13, 8:06 pm, Doug Williams d

Re: [twitter-dev] Chirp on Justin.tv

2010-04-13 Thread Doug Williams
For completeness sake, the URL below will host the video on the Chirp site: http://chirp.twitter.com/live.html http://chirp.twitter.com/live.htmlThanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Dewald, This will be public (no access code needed

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Chirp is coming to San Francisco April 14 and 15

2010-04-06 Thread Doug Williams
Jonathan, Lead the way! I'll happily point to any any efforts you are doing around coordination with the @Chirp account, etc... Thanks, Doug On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 15:06, Jonathan Strauss

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: @twitterapi meetup @ Twitter HQ

2010-03-01 Thread Doug Williams
We're going to use moderator to drive some of the discussion tonight. Ask and vote for questions here: http://bit.ly/bhRx7L Thanks, Doug On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 27, 1:00 am, Orian Marx (@orian) or...@orianmarx.com wrote: If TwitterHQ isn't

[twitter-dev] Do you want to work at Twitter?

2009-10-21 Thread Doug Williams
/Twitter_Platform. The work here is fast and dynamic, and we don't always know where the road will lead. Which is what makes it fun. We look forward to hearing from you and all of your ideas to make the Platform great. Thanks, Doug Williams http://twitter.com/dougw

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Williams
-downtime Thanks, Doug On Aug 15, 11:08 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all --If you have been monitoring our status blog [1] or been to Twitter.com today you have noticed that we are once again experiencing problems due to external causes. The issues causing

[twitter-dev] Re: Pagination limit for REST API(3200)

2009-08-03 Thread Doug Williams
Hi there -- Check out #6 in the Things Every Developer Should Know article [1]. 1. https://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know Thanks, Doug On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, dp dharmesh.par...@gmail.com wrote: When the REST API limit for using count/page reaches 3200 for a

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow up

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks for the kind words, from the Twitter team. Cheers, Doug On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:52 PM, MRWILLAN timothywil...@gmail.com wrote: I like to take this time to personally THANK Twitter Development for the work your doing and fixing in the line of spam follow up and tactical problems, I

[twitter-dev] Re: OAUTH: Basic Auth is simpler/more reliable/more secure/better received than OAuth!?

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
of potential failure every single time the user logs in. It's a Ux nightmare, IMO. While it does solve a problem, I don't think OAuth is the end or ideal solution. Are there plans to improve this process? Jesse On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Well said

[twitter-dev] Re: OAUTH: Basic Auth is simpler/more reliable/more secure/better received than OAuth!?

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
- is that working now? Jesse On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Jesse, That is not true. With the Sign in with Twitter flow (not the standard OAuth flow which is also available) -- If the user is logged in and has previously approved the app, they will be immediately

[twitter-dev] Introducing Chad Etzel, Twitter Platform Support

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Williams
Hi all -- We are excited to announce that Chad Etzel has joined our team part-time to support the developer community. He is the one man show behind TweetGrid [1] amongst other projects [2]. We reached out to Chad to join our team after his continual and valuable participation in the community

[twitter-dev] Re: Where did Advanced Search go?

2009-07-30 Thread Doug Williams
You can access advanced search here: http://search.twitter.com/advanced Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Vincent Nguyen kureik...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, me too! Dunno where it went?? 2009/7/30 Joseph northwest...@gmail.com From twitter.com. I'm pretty sure it was there a couple

[twitter-dev] Re: OAUTH: Basic Auth is simpler/more reliable/more secure/better received than OAuth!?

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Williams
Well said, Duane. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: First, let me state from the start that I am no fan of OAuth, Twitter's implementation of it, or the way that they've behaved with regard to it. Now, with all that being said. If

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Williams
, successful, authorized logins? I'm hopeful that this approach means that our apps will not be affected yet again by changing to a new auth approach. I appreciate you all keeping this thread informed. Ray On Jul 27, 11:23 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks to everyone who

[twitter-dev] Re: Logging Out of Twitter Through API

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Williams
The account/end_session method does not log the user out of Twitter.com. It simply invalidates the session token that is created with the current API session. There is no method that will log a user out of Twitter.com. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Id question

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Williams
Guna,Check into the in_reply_to_status_id parameter for the statuses/update method [1]: in_reply_to_status_id. Optional. The ID of an existing status that the update is in reply to. - Note: This parameter will be ignored unless the author of the tweet this parameter references is

[twitter-dev] Re: Json coming data description .

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Please see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Return-Values Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, cem cbay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am getting data from twitter in an array but I need detailed definition of fields there for example what will the value fallowing get if the user is

[twitter-dev] Re: user is fallowing me ?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
We've got a method for that: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships-show Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:39 AM, cem cbay...@gmail.com wrote: w can I know from my application that the user sent the reply is fallowing me . I fallowed myself from another

[twitter-dev] Re: jSon description

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
I see this is the second post for this same question. Please refrain from posting multiple times. It adds value to the list. You are running into a bug that has been discussed here in the past. The value of the following field was unreliable due to caching constraints. A few weeks ago we

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
to give me a level of comfort that I can safely switch over to OAuth. On Jul 24, 5:46 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Well said Joshua. Dewald, you have identified the risk of using basic authentication. If your users being locked out due to malicious behavior, you

[twitter-dev] Re: search.twitter.com only returns 30 days of content?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
No. We currently only return around 7 days of data with search. You can learn more about this, and the reasons behind it, in our Getting Started materials provided on apiwiki.twitter.com. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM, jms justen.ste...@gmail.com wrote: We recently hosted

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Marcel is shipping a fix for this as I type. Thanks, Doug 2009/7/27 João Pereira joaomiguel.pere...@gmail.com Same here. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, goodtest goodtest...@gmail.com wrote: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
and ensure you are correctly signing requests as per the spec. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Marcel is shipping a fix for this as I type. Thanks, Doug 2009/7/27 João Pereira joaomiguel.pere...@gmail.com Same here. On Tue, Jul 28

[twitter-dev] Re: Search Posting speed

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
We index tweets very quickly, normally within a few seconds. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Green McP alex.m.mcpher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, How quickly are Tweets available in the search results? Should I assume a minute until it's guaranteed to show up? Five minutes?

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API for DM for multiple users ?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
There is currently no Streaming API to receive DMs for a given user. If you have a great use case for this please share it here. We like to have justification for new streaming methods. If you have ideas to help augment a business case for engineering resources, we would love to know about them.

[twitter-dev] Re: What's the difference between 'statuses/replies' and 'statuses/mentions' ?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
statuses/replies is an alias for statues/mentions. It is completely due to history where mentions used to be called replies. Rather than break apps that relied on statuses/replies, we made an alias to ensure backward compatibility. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Kuo Yang

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: Doug: Does this mean that Marcel made a fix for this? Or rather that we should examine our code to find the culprit? Thanks, Peter Bray On Jul 27, 6:24 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Updating you guys on this problem. A bug

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
regression bug in this new fix? On Jul 27, 7:14 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: If you are still seeing errors you should check your code to ensure that you are sending the correct signature. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:10 PM, winrich winric...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter: What did you change in OAuth?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Duane,I will gather some specifics and post them here. We appreciate your patience. In the mean time, you can use the OAuth playground to see where your signature is failing: http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/ Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Duane Roelands

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
Please use the OAuth playground [1] to test your signatures against the expected result. I am working to gather specifics to help your debug process (i.e. what changed?) in the mean time. 1. http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/ Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:29 PM, winrich

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api server seems to be down (getting invalid signature) since 5.15 pm pst

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
If you are using a client library, please specify the library and version. There is a chance that you are all running into the same library-based incompatibility and could work together (or with the maintainer) to determine the fix. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Doug Williams d

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems with http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.atom

2009-07-26 Thread Doug Williams
I was unable to reproduce with a script. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:12 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-friends_timeline lists URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.format

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
doesn't mean that you are done with the traversal. I've modified my scripts to crawl N number of pages, where N is (number of followers/100). Total number of followers can be retrieved by users/show - Karthik On Jul 6, 11:31 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Duane

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Williams
and welcome. Jim Renkel On Jul 21, 6:00 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Devs --A change shipped last week that limited the number of times a user could access the account/verify_credentials method [1] in a given hour. This change proved hasty and short-sighted as pointed out

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-23 Thread Doug Williams
What John was referring to above were the statements in the EULA which you sign to access the gardenhose which prohibit this type of redistribution. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Twittledeewebs...@twittledee.com wrote: So, I actually think that this is a very interesting

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Joseph,I assume you mean the sentiment portion of the Search API? That is not available as structured data through an API call. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do any of

[twitter-dev] Re: Create Favourite API Not returning new status

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Verified and accepted this defect. In the future, let's keep noise down on this list by leaving this discussion to the issue tracker itself. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Coderanger d...@coderanger.com wrote: I recently posted this as a bug and was hoping if anyone else

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Scott,This change will only affect Basic Auth, and will not affect OAuth applications. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Scott haw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update Doug. Does this still apply to OAuth apps? Also, if a user goes through an app and unsuccessfully

[twitter-dev] Lowering rate limits for unidentified Search API traffic

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
All --Last month we sent out the following call to developers [1] to add identifying User Agents and HTTP Referrer strings to their Search API traffic. This is part of a drawn out push to incent as much of our search traffic as possible to include this identifying data. To identify your

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
that the server I am working from is whitelisted? How can I make sure that it is? If it's not, then I won't be able to release my application because everyone will get suspended who uses it then? Thanks, Serge On Jul 20, 11:11 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Serge, Looking at the account I'm

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Chad,Your assessment is spot on. At the heart of search there are a number of data stores that accept queries (reads) while at the same time perform writes from an indexer. Heavy load -- large numbers of queries, large number of writes or both, or both -- can cause the write replication between

[twitter-dev] Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Devs --A change shipped last week that limited the number of times a user could access the account/verify_credentials method [1] in a given hour. This change proved hasty and short-sighted as pointed out by the subsequent discussion [2]. We apologize to any developer that was adversely affected.

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Let's bring the discussion on the update to the new thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/2d68c74567bc9809 Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Martin, The change certainly went out prematurely

[twitter-dev] Re: status ping?

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Andy, What is your goal? Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/18 Andrew Badera and...@badera.us: What's the best/lowest impact fashion of polling Twitter for status if

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
All, This change was thrown out on the pipeline rather quickly. We admittedly should have done a better job voicing this rollout well in advance though it was not a normal week at HQ for a number of very public and private reasons. Users are now limited to 15 calls to account/verify_credentials

[twitter-dev] Re: API Developers Alliance

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
We have discussed establishing a more formal relationship with developer representatives to help bring outside perspective and balance to our larger platform decisions. We are still a few quarters away from where we envisioned this model being viable. If Peter and others could come up with a

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Hard to check into your suspension without a username :) I'd take this off-list but I am hoping there is a learning opportunity here. Whitelisted accounts are able to get suspended. Whitelisting affects REST API GET requests and DM update limits only. It does not protect you from suspension, it

[twitter-dev] Re: What is users/show time caching for profile_image_url ?

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Kevin, Please do not bump your thread here. It adds no value and contributes noise. That said, there is an open issue for this [1]. Be sure to add a star to receive updates to the defect. The defect is due to a replication delay and typically takes less than 90 minutes for the replication to

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
the status on my support thread to solved while it clearly isn't. Thanks for looking in to this. Serge On Jul 20, 8:43 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Hard to check into your suspension without a username :) I'd take this off-list but I am hoping there is a learning opportunity

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
We are going to roll this change back and re-evaluate how we can better accomplish our goals. There are problems and shortcomings of this strategy that we need to mitigate. I will update this thread when we have a concrete plan to share. I do not have a definite date or time for the rollback but

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Williams
Martin, The change certainly went out prematurely which is admittedly a mistake on our end. I will have details tomorrow morning to share about our fix. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Martin Omandermoman...@google.com wrote: Doug, Thanks for letting us know about the new

[twitter-dev] Re: Matt Sanford, signing off.

2009-07-19 Thread Doug Williams
We will certainly miss having you on the team, Matt. Regards, Doug On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM, surya sravanthi sravanthi.su...@gmail.com wrote: All the bast Matt!!! Thanks for all you r help . On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Matt Sanfordm...@twitter.com wrote: Hi

[twitter-dev] Re: Direct Message Limit for a Game we are creating what playspymaster does

2009-07-17 Thread Doug Williams
Abir,By default, accounts are limited to 250 direct messages a day. Whitelisted accounts are able to make 10K direct messages a day. Design for these constraints and ensure notifications are opt-in, and we are happy to support your app. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Abir

[twitter-dev] Re: Does Rate Limiting Apply to Users or Clients?

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
Agreed. I will massage the copy today. Of course I'm assuming people read the documentation but it is at least a start. Again, if you have suggestions, please email a...@twitter.com. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Lee, The rate

[twitter-dev] Re: Avatar returning the same large file for mini, normal, bigger

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
That looks like the result from a rather old bug (which has been closed) that allowed images to upload without resizing. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:22 PM, TCI ticoconid...@gmail.com wrote: ... which is evidently slowing down pages that download these images and then scale them

[twitter-dev] Re: All updates for a user

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Williams
You can page through a user_timeline [1], up to the last 3200 tweets [2]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline 2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therearepaginationlimits Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed update doesn't return an error message?

2009-07-14 Thread Doug Williams
problem I ran into yesterday. Is there any other data that would help troubleshoot this? All the best, /Martin On Jul 13, 5:52 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Martin, This sounds like issue 795 [1]. When you get the 200, are you sending the same (duplicate) text as the last

[twitter-dev] Re: make links from description clickable

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Tom, We do not allow HTML in tweets. Only plain text. Any links sent will be automatically linked on Twitter.com but it is up to third-party clients to handle any linking within their application. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/13 Tom

[twitter-dev] Re: change my image ; old profile_image_url seen in response to users/show

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
This seems like a caching invalidation bug. We will be discussing it at tomorrow's team meeting and I am hopeful the fix will be coming shortly. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Rudifa rudi.far...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Clint After I posted my questions I went out for a

[twitter-dev] Re: favorited always returns false in favorites/create

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Confirmed on my end. Can you please create a new issue for this [1]. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Thorsten Suckow-Homberg t...@siteartwork.dewrote: Hey there, when calling /favorites/create/[id].xml the response

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets not getting to search.twitter.com

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Randy, Please see the help article on this very subject [1]. If this is for a developer or API related project please contact us off list so we can discuss [2]. 1. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646 2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Martin, That's interesting. Is there a pattern to this? Can you offer steps for recreation? It would be helpful to have full header information when this does happen so we can look to see if a specific machine that is returning incorrect information. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:26

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed update doesn't return an error message?

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Williams
Martin, This sounds like issue 795 [1]. When you get the 200, are you sending the same (duplicate) text as the last successful update? If so, this is the expected behavior. However, if you are sending new (non duplicate) text and you are hitting the update limit, you should be receiving a HTTP

[twitter-dev] Re: Going all the way back -- the 3200-tweet limit is annoying / frustrating

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Williams
You can post bugs and feature requests here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list This specific issue will be moved to the V2 Roadmap but please to create one so we can track the request. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:53 AM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: Post a reply

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Williams
profile image urls would be delivered sometime in June 2009. Do we have any updates? Thanks. On May 21, 6:14 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner work but we're

[twitter-dev] Re: User Search API

2009-07-11 Thread Doug Williams
Samir, User search is something we would like to offer in the future through the API. The project is not highly ranking on the current overall roadmap, so there is no ship date to report. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM, SamirR samir.ray...@gmail.com wrote: Are there plans

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-10 Thread Doug Williams
All -- We are rolling back the twimg.com change because a number of issues became apparent when we moved it into production -- one being the lack of SSL support in the caching layer that many have noted. We do hope to make this change rather soon, but we have problems to fix before moving forward

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth pin only works first try?

2009-07-09 Thread Doug Williams
Indeed, this is by design. As Grant said, it is to prevent brute force attacks. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.comwrote: I thought it might be by design, but couldn't find that mentioned anywhere. I guess it is necessary to prevent apps

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying very hard to use OAuth - need help!

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
Abraham Williams has a great PHP sample here that is simple and easy to use: http://twitter.abrah.am/ Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Echieo ech...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, I'd really like to use OAuth for my new twitter application, as I know Twitter is trying to

[twitter-dev] /search ending service for unsupported HTTP methods after July 15, 2009

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
The documentation for the /search method [1] specifies that all queries should be performed with an HTTP GET. On or after July 15, 2009, we will begin enforcing the use of HTTP GET for all queries. Requests sent to the /search method which are not performed with an HTTP GET will be met with an

[twitter-dev] /search ending service for unsupported HTTP methods after July 15, 2009

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
The documentation for the /search method [1] specifies that all queries should be performed with an HTTP GET. On or after July 15, 2009, we will begin enforcing the use of HTTP GET for all queries. Requests sent to the /search method which are not performed with an HTTP GET will be met with an

[twitter-dev] Re: Pull email address after authentication?

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
It is not possible to view a user's email address. Additionally, it is not possible to perform a user lookup based on an email address. If you do not trust an application enough to not change your email address, we suggest you not use that application. As always, please email a...@twitter.com if

[twitter-dev] Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
Folks -- We are going to be moving images to a new domain (twimg.com) to streamline our image hosting and offer better performance. We hope this will have limited impact as will only change the image URL. Example URLs include: Profile images:

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-08 Thread Doug Williams
an aribitrary sub-domain (*.twimg.com). Thanks, Doug On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Folks -- We are going to be moving images to a new domain (twimg.com) to streamline our image hosting and offer better performance. We hope this will have limited impact

[twitter-dev] Re: When requesting user updates api returns 502 error

2009-07-07 Thread Doug Williams
. On Jul 7, 12:54 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Kaan,Please provide more details about what you are doing and how you are trying to obtain the data. Without any of these details, it's hard to deduce why you are getting a 502 Timeout. Thanks, Doug 2009/7/6 Kaan ŞENGÜL gka

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Doug Williams
The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our abuse support staff at the moment. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? Zac Bowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth company name

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Peter, Verification of companies is in the future for Twitter. There is no publicly released ship date to mention but it is safe to say that within the next year that this should be coming to the service. Thanks, Doug On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: i think the

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
You should either page through statuses/friends until you get an empty response set or use statuses/show to get the number of friends expected and intelligently page to the end of the list. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Dmitriy Vyukov dvyu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! It's

[twitter-dev] Re: Is there a partial blacklist?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Please email the API team for questions pertaining to development or application accounts [1]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM, tweetalkr petewing...@gmail.com wrote: My web app was flagged by Google two weeks ago as an attack site

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: Do you ever get an empty response set? I was experimenting with the pagination and I found that if you request page 20 (for example) for someone who only has one page of friends, you simply get the page 1 response set. On Jul 6, 1:09 pm, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: When requesting user updates api returns 502 error

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Kaan,Please provide more details about what you are doing and how you are trying to obtain the data. Without any of these details, it's hard to deduce why you are getting a 502 Timeout. Thanks, Doug 2009/7/6 Kaan ŞENGÜL gka...@gmail.com I'm working on a project that needs one person's

[twitter-dev] Re: Are status IDs sequential?

2009-07-06 Thread Doug Williams
Yes they are sequential, meaning that you can and should use the last tweet a user has read as the since_id for subsequent calls. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: Is a tweet with a higher status ID always newer than a tweet with a

[twitter-dev] Re: daily follow/unfollow/update limit

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
1000/day. 5 days ago I disabled SocialToo which was set to follow 100/day. I have since tried to add followers (the last 4 days) yet have been restricted do so at all. Can you please help me understand what I can do to add followers again? Thanks for your attention. On Jul 2, 8:13 am, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: Need extra parameters

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
Try the page parameter. Here's the documentation to get you started [1]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ravinder Chopra ravinderc.impi...@gmail.com wrote: hi I think i need extra parameters

[twitter-dev] Re: Taken Usernames

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
Josh, Check out our help article on user names [1]. If you own the trademark, please submit a ticket through the support site and explain your situation. They have a 10 day backlog so please be patient. 1. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/14608 Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at

[twitter-dev] Re: Stream API : Tracker and Follow together

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Williams
Yes, you can use two Streaming API methods from the same IP address. As you already know, it will require two accounts when connecting simultaneously. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Cary Knoop carykn...@gmail.com wrote: I am writing an application and ideally I like to use

[twitter-dev] Re: daily follow/unfollow/update limit

2009-07-02 Thread Doug Williams
The limits have not changed. We enforce the limits within hour intervals. Could the behavior you witnessed be explained by this enforcement policy? Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Developer In London ebilliona...@gmail.comwrote: I saw on the API documentation the daily limit is

[twitter-dev] Re: daily follow/unfollow/update limit

2009-07-02 Thread Doug Williams
It initially seemed like you were asking about the update limit but now you are talking about following limits. Can you be more specific on the behavior you are seeing and why you feel it is an issue? We can argument the documentation to clear the confusion but I'm not following your exact

[twitter-dev] Re: API calls to handle accepting follow requests?

2009-07-02 Thread Doug Williams
Jeff, This is on the roadmap. Please see the Following section here [1]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jeff Bishop jeff.bis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Are their API calls to allow one to not have to use the web site to Follow

[twitter-dev] Re: Counting retweets

2009-06-30 Thread Doug Williams
Retweet is not a top level feature for Twitter. People have suggestions for formats though [1]. A cleaver regex should help you parse if a tweet is a retweet. http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1hl=en#complete=1hl=enq=retweet+formataq=foq=aqi=fp=LH9toxtiWpk Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jun 30,

[twitter-dev] Re: Search twitter for within certain timestamp

2009-06-30 Thread Doug Williams
Raza, Twitter search only gives since: and until: operators granularity at the day level. Any parsing on more specific (hour, day, second) timeframes is left to the client. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Raza mahrozer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to search the

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter User List

2009-06-29 Thread Doug Williams
Can you be more specific about your end goal? What is it that you are trying to do? Let's figure out if there is a better way to get you there. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Arunachalam arunachala...@gmail.comwrote: Even if i have my account whitelisted, which have 20,000

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter User List

2009-06-29 Thread Doug Williams
Please do not scrape our site. We have processes in place that will automatically block your spiders. If you feel that you have a compelling need for vast amounts of data please email the API team [1] with a detailed description of your needs and the value you hope to create and let's have a

[twitter-dev] Re: How to list followers, including icons and usernames?

2009-06-29 Thread Doug Williams
Aaron, The best way to get all of the information including latest status from each follower is to use the statuses/followers method. It will return the latest status for each follower (no matter how long they have been idle) in line with their profile information. Thanks, Doug -- Do you follow

[twitter-dev] Re: API search, json results, 404 pages, and docs

2009-06-29 Thread Doug Williams
Scott, Can you include the details of what you are attempting to do and how you are going about doing it? 2500 uniques an hour is pretty strong, what site will this application be running on? Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Reposting. I

[twitter-dev] Re: in_reply_to_status_id validation has changed

2009-06-29 Thread Doug Williams
to the conversation thread. Is the web interface just behind the times? Or are we encouraged not to use this newly-relaxed feature? Thanks, Nick On Apr 30, 6:02 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Before today, the value of the in_reply_to_status_id field was validated by two

[twitter-dev] Re: Following/Follower delay

2009-06-25 Thread Doug Williams
Randy, We're still working on the fix and this is currently the top priority of the services team. It's a pretty extensive code deployment so it is taking some time. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:27 AM, RandyC bioscienceupda...@gmail.com wrote: After about 14 hours since the fix was

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-25 Thread Doug Williams
What do we do now? Regards Vinayak On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Idle and deleted are the same in our process. So nine months of inactivity (deletion, suspension, or date of last login/tweet) is required before we release a screen name. Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: A new Twitter library for Python (Tango)

2009-06-25 Thread Doug Williams
I'll add it to the libraries section today. Thanks for contributing! Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: great work, I am playing with it now. I am going to see if it works with GAE. you should get it added here

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: reliable link to web status

2009-06-25 Thread Doug Williams
With one call to the statuses/show method [1] you could have all of the information you need to construct the permanent URL. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0show Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:31 AM, jesse je...@mailchimp.com wrote: I've been

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