[twitter-dev] OAuth problem

2011-05-24 Thread Joseph
Hi i am a newbie here so please... patience I have a simple problem i am using Twitter4j as a client library (just a detail as my problem does not related to it) twitter4j does its job, i can get a request token , i can get an authorize url , i can even get a valid access token all works fine

[twitter-dev] Android Intent and URL shorterning

2011-02-22 Thread Joseph
Hi First off, I am able to successfully call to the official app with my crafted Intent. My issue is about preventing urls that I pass in the EXTRA_TEXT field of the intent from being converted to bitly-shortened links. I am using my own url shortening service and would prefer for my urls to be

[twitter-dev] Problems with starting twitter account

2010-11-24 Thread joseph k
First off, I would like to say that the issue that I am having is already putting a bad taste in my mouth in reguards to your website. I signed up for an account the other day, and since yesterday its been telling me that i need to confirm my email address which I have tried to do numerous times

Re: [twitter-dev] Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
awesome idea! I know I can find a use for it. Some concerns, however, below... Joseph Cheek Marcel Molina wrote: the sentence Namespaces aren't intended as a way for people to claim their little slice of the tweet space. and the sentence If you want a given key to mean one thing

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Annotation details

2010-04-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
-))) Joseph Raffi Krikorian wrote: I'm thinking of something like the RFC process for Internet protocols. really - i think that's just too formal. just mail the list, or hit me/marcel up over email. Part of this stems from my concern over something I thought I heard yesterday about

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
comments inline... Dewald Pretorius wrote: Marcel, I'd strongly urge you to consider a more structured and controlled environment for annotations. agreed, but... Ideally, I think an OAuth app must register a namespace, or subscribe to an existing namespace of another app, before it can

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
not necessarily - twitterbots are easy to build. you can't rely on lack of usage by humans to kill a twitter app. Raffi Krikorian wrote: if there happens to be a rogue app, then users will stop using it. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Subscription

Re: [twitter-dev] Adding line breaks in tweets

2009-11-23 Thread Joseph Cheek
the behaviour of HTML clients. bottom line: I don't think you will find a client that will honor a NL. you might be able to get a few nbsp;s in to emphasize your URL by separating it from your text, but it's iffy and (at six chars for a single blank space) expensive. Joseph Cheek jos

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 404 (The specified key does not exist) when requesting user avatar image from amazon ec2

2009-09-24 Thread Joseph Cheek
/twigroups_avatar_normal.png Requesting this image from local machine, or directly from browser goes fine. -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-24 Thread Joseph Cheek
twitter's usefulness (sorry, twitter...) i know this is akin to COBOL programmers in the fifties saying hmm, i wonder if we should concern ourselves with what will happen to our apps in the year 2000? and giving it no further thought, and i apologize, but i'm ok with that. Joseph Dewald Pretorius wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-24 Thread Joseph Cheek
already past 32-bit signed but not 32-bit unsigned, right? twitpocalypse moves the max to 2^32-1, right? or did i misread it? Chad Etzel wrote: This has already happened. Tweet ids are now bigger than a 32 bit int can store. That's what Twitpocalypse 2 was all about. -Chad -- Joseph

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-24 Thread Joseph Cheek
it was announced - increase the new *maximum* status ID [emphasis mine] to 4294967296. $ echo $[ 65536 * 65536 ] 4294967296 thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Chad Etzel wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Update on the Retweet API (we collapse retweets, not you we're adding statuses/retweets)

2009-09-23 Thread Joseph Cheek
brought about by deleted tweets) breaks the programmatic ability to follow a thread. Not sure. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Cameron Kaiser wrote: Still, I'm sort of with Dewald and others that I'm really having a hard time seeing what

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-23 Thread Joseph Cheek
Linux for a long time and I'm pretty good at it)/plug. thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com www.twitter.com/cheekdotcom | Dewald Pretorius wrote: I've run into a serious issue and I don't know if I am overlooking something. When retrieving ids with cursoring, and then doing

[twitter-dev] Re: How to append source parameter in curl ?

2009-09-22 Thread Joseph Cheek
available (almost any other language, actually). Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Ershad K wrote: Thank you very much for your kind reply. I have registered my application in twitter and got some keys. I'm new to programming would like to know

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-20 Thread Joseph Cheek
also some accounts aren't indexed by search (or stream/filter, either). I created an account for testing and it's posts don't get indexed either. You could be running into that issue. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom retsoced wrote: okay

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
I ran into this problem too. I adjusted my search to use http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml instead - it seems to work much better. Search isn't consistent and it isn't real-time. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom retsoced

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
I actually haven't done this in PHP, only in bash. The thing about stream is that you need something that returns data without buffering it. I'm sure there's a way to do this in PHP, but I haven't tried it yet. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
curl buffers, even when called with -N. You won't get satisfactory results with curl unless you get a lot of data. Use wget instead. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: I'd suggest trying to get this to work with curl

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
You also need a keep-alive of greater than 30 seconds. And by default PHP funtions timeout after 30 seconds, so you'll need to change that to keep the script running indefinitely. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Jim Gilliam wrote: I ran

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
filter.xml in PHP? The API doc don't really spell it out. Can you just pass a parameter in the URL like filter.xml?track=term? On Sep 19, 9:15 am, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com wrote: I ran into this problem too. I adjusted my search to usehttp://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses

[twitter-dev] Have tweet ID, need the URL prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph
If I have a tweet ID, how do I access the tweet using a url. I'm assuming there's an http://www.twitter.com//1234567890?

[twitter-dev] statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
Quick q: is there any time that a search for a screenname won't return every tweet that statuses/mentions will? i can see that it would return more, but will it ever return less? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
so statuses/mentions will retrieve mentions from protected users' timelines, even if you are not authorized to see them? Joseph JDG wrote: I believe that search does not return statuses of protected users (even when authenticated, though I may be wrong and should be corrected if I am

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
will they be included in statuses/mentions? Joseph Hwee-Boon Yar wrote: Along the same line, updates from accounts considered spamming wouldn't be included in search results too. -- Hwee-Boon On Sep 17, 12:07 am, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that search does not return

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Cheek
out of curiosity, how can you tell if your account is flagged as spammy, and what can you do about it? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: This is taken from the Twitter Rules, not the TOS, so this isn't expressly against

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Cheek
ok. i have an account that never shows up in search results or in track.xml. i thought that might be it, but i guess not. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: The account will be suspended. It won't work, and it won't

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph Cheek
64bit ints, but i'm not sure about the db... will need to check... might be signed32... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Nicholas Moline wrote: And nobody thought about the significance of accelerating anything called a *pocolypse

[twitter-dev] Re: Website!

2009-08-31 Thread Joseph Cheek
Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-08-31 Thread Joseph Cheek
are you really just opening stream.twitter.org? Normally you would want to open http://stream.twitter.org/path/to/url.xml... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: You can set both the track and follow parameters when using

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated URL shortening

2009-08-29 Thread Joseph Cheek
I have seen my URLs both shorted and not; it appeared to me that the gating factor was the length of the tweet - if the non-shortened version fit in 140 chars, it would leave it alone. this was just based on observation, however. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http

[twitter-dev] Re: Receiving Invalid 403 Errors - You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.

2009-08-29 Thread Joseph Cheek
i believe the dm limit is 250 per day. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Dewald Pretorius wrote: Are you sending the news items to your users via DMs? If so, your service will be severely

[twitter-dev] whitelisting q

2009-08-28 Thread Joseph Cheek
with a certain hashtag and am concerned that if there are more than 1000 updates per day with that hashtag that I will only be able to respond to the first thousand. What's the proper thing to do in that case, split it among several different accounts? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and HTTP Authentication under same Application Name?

2009-08-28 Thread Joseph Cheek
it's not conspicuous enough. You need to enclose it in blink tags. 8-))) Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Raffi Krikorian wrote: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget“fromMyApp”appendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication :P

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Joseph Cheek
it doesn't appear that he's scraping at all. he's just starting a process to show the user's twitter page and wants to have the user logged in already. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom Andrew Badera wrote: Actually ... IS that PocketIE, or is that Internet Explorer on a desktop

[twitter-dev] blocks/exists q

2009-08-26 Thread Joseph Cheek
blocks/exists tells if i am blocking a user - is there a way to tell if a user is blocking me? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: get the id's of twitter users who have authenticated with OAuth?

2009-08-25 Thread Joseph Cheek
This won't work for mobile/desktop apps. Any ideas for mobile/desktop app tracking? thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom JDG wrote: they do. when you get an access token, the screen name and their ID are returned to you along with the token. Use it. Store it. On Tue, Aug 25

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Joseph Cheek
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22follow+me+on+twitter%22+gmail.com as an example... JDG wrote: surely you're joking. PLEASE tell me you're joking, because my skin is crawling. On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:01, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com mailto:do...@panoptic.com wrote: On

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's Tweet Trademark Torpedoed

2009-08-19 Thread Joseph Cheek
to twitter in color and form. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Sam Johnston wrote: [snip] That's too bad for Twitter but it's great news for the rest of the community as it's one less tool for locking in Twitter's rapidly growing microblogging

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

2009-08-18 Thread Joseph Cheek
nor can oauth assure the provider that a desktop app is legitimate when the app authenticates itself to the provider. John Kristian wrote: An OAuth Consumer that's deployed to users' desktops or mobile devices can't keep a secret. One should assume its consumer key and consumer secret will be

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

2009-08-17 Thread Joseph Cheek
exactly. and for those who think their closed-source oauth app hides their app key and secret, have you ever run strings on your binary? (for those keeping score, it's basic auth: 2, oauth: 0) thanks! Joseph Cheek @cheekdotcom JDG wrote: Which eliminates one of the biggest features of OAuth

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

2009-08-17 Thread Joseph Cheek
? that could be trivially intercepted. Joseph Cheek @cheekdotcom Chris Babcock wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:49:49 -0400 Jason Martin legos.j...@gmail.com wrote: On another note, how Open Source friendly is OAuth? I'm not sure if people who write open source software want to be giving out

[twitter-dev] Search API confusion

2009-08-08 Thread Joseph
If I do a search request, and I include the following: ors=%23wine+%23winery I Only get results for #wine Wouldn't this request be the same as doing a search with any of the words: #wine or #winery? or is the search API intercepting every hash tag, and if I have more than one hash tag, it

[twitter-dev] Search API and using since_id and max_id

2009-07-31 Thread Joseph
I want to retrieve all tweets that meet a certain criteria, so I tried using the since_id as a starting point, and incrementing by a reasonable delta for subsequent calls, and using that value for a max_id. I was expecting to get different results when I do: Run 1: since_id=2815106475

[twitter-dev] Where did Advanced Search go?

2009-07-30 Thread Joseph
From twitter.com. I'm pretty sure it was there a couple of days ago. Am I not caffeine'ated enough, or is the feature really gone?

[twitter-dev] Open streams limits

2009-07-27 Thread Joseph
Using the streaming API, is it possible to open up more than one stream using the same login credentials, or would that be a considered bad behavior? For instance, I would like to open up a stream to track one set of keywords, and another to track another set of keywords.

[twitter-dev] Re: Open streams limits

2009-07-27 Thread Joseph
more keywords or a higher rate than the default /track level, contact us. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Jul 27, 6:31 am, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: Using the streaming API, is it possible to open up more than one stream using the same login

[twitter-dev] track syntax

2009-07-27 Thread Joseph
I am trying to use the track streaming API, but I'm having trouble with the syntax. The example shows how to use a tracking list stored in a file in the format: track = word1, word2, etc.. I tried the following (following a successful fsockopen call to stream.twitter.api: POST /track.json track

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

2009-07-27 Thread Joseph
sent it to the whole dev community. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:18, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to use the track streaming API, but I'm having trouble with the syntax. The example shows how to use a tracking list stored in a file in the format: track = word1, word2

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API + PHP and Python

2009-07-24 Thread Joseph
Have you resolved this problem? suggestion: did you try writing the raw output to a file (like every hour, and then create another file, and so on), and then have another script process the JSON? On Jun 8, 1:16 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am stumped.  For several days

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

2009-07-24 Thread Joseph
Just as aside, does anyone know if each call to a new page counts against the API limit? On Jul 24, 8:08 am, st...@implu.com st...@implu.com wrote: I'm experiencing the same issue with implu. With 14,408 follows, I should go up to page 145. However, the last page of data is 101 and 102

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

2009-07-23 Thread Joseph
. On Jul 23, 12:42 am, Bjoern bjoer...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jul 22, 8:49 pm, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I meant. Short of doing a search, with tude[]=%3A) and store it in my cache (which will eat up a lot of API calls), do you have any hints on how to extract this out

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

2009-07-23 Thread Joseph
Tom, thanks for the link. I've been to the site in the past. I just revisited, and entered Sarah Palin in the search box. It returned 50 tweets, labeled 39 as neutral, 5 positive and 6 negative. I checked the actual tweets, and here's what I found: - Neutral: I only found one (maybe). The other

[twitter-dev] Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph
Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do any of the data structures returned by API calls have it? The search API allows the search for a tude, but as far as I can see, tude is not part of the data structure returned.

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

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph
That's what I meant. Short of doing a search, with tude[]=%3A) and store it in my cache (which will eat up a lot of API calls), do you have any hints on how to extract this out of the API? Thanks, Joseph On Jul 22, 10:52 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Joseph,I assume you mean

[twitter-dev] Search API

2009-05-31 Thread Joseph
If I do a search the API, is there an easier way to get all output, than doing multiple calls, each specifying a page number?

[twitter-dev] what's the best way to replicate a twitter bot's followers list?

2009-05-22 Thread Joseph Smarr
At our next company hackathon, I'd like to make a twitter bot for Plaxo where you can follow it and get DMs with all your Plaxo notifications (e.g. John commented on your status update, etc.). The biggest challenge I'm facing is how to know when a notification gets generated that the recipient is

[twitter-dev] rpp and page

2009-04-21 Thread Joseph
This is for a search: there are two parameters that do not seem to be working (or I can't figure out where the correct documentation is): rpp (for number of entries per page returned, and page (number of pages returned per search). And it seems as if no matter what I enter for since and to (since

[twitter-dev] Re: rpp and page

2009-04-21 Thread Joseph
). On Apr 21, 10:34 am, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote:  page (number of pages returned per search). I'm not sure if you meant what you wrote here, but page is the page number of the search results for one query

[twitter-dev] Re: rpp and page

2009-04-21 Thread Joseph
://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:41, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: This is for a search: there are two parameters that do not seem to be working (or I can't figure out where the correct documentation is): rpp (for number of entries per page returned

[twitter-dev] Re: Read and store Twitter responses

2009-04-20 Thread Joseph
This may not be the best thing to do in the case of statuses. Optimization implies that you have two tables (minimum), one for the user info, and one for the tweets. Doing a batch update, means that you're skipping the step of checking to see if the user is already in the database, so for every

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Element

2009-04-19 Thread Joseph
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to process the Status Element, but followers_count is always coming back empty. All other fields (user.id, user.name, etc.) are OK. Any ideas? this is in response to an API call to get public_timeline (which

[twitter-dev] Status Element

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
I am trying to process the Status Element, but followers_count is always coming back empty. All other fields (user.id, user.name, etc.) are OK. Any ideas? this is in response to an API call to get public_timeline (which returns the Status Element).