Hi Guys,
I am seeing something that I can't work out with the Lists API
http://api.twitter.com/1/imrobg/lists.json reports no lists {lists:[],
next_cursor:0, previous_cursor:0 }, however if you see
twitter.com/imrobg he has lists and they are visible. Likewise if you query
I thought this too when I first saw the new list api. Is the Twitter
team moving away from id/screenname based query parameters and simply
using screen names?
I suppose the point being that Daniel was making is that screen name
is superflous when using authentication especially since all the
I agree with Jesse, this feature was key for me in Friendfeed, it is very
powerful. You could also search lists (hint hint ;))
Personally I would would be happy with my @PaulKinlan user being put back
into search results, it has not been included in any search for several
months now - but that
There was some talk recently about Twitter blocking consecutive tweets that
are identical. With some of the reasoning that duplicate tweets are a
violation of the terms of service.
Paul
2009/10/28 Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com
Hello,
I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user
Hi Guys,
This isn't technically an API issue but a usage issue of the new to arrive
Lists API.
Retweets (outside of the API) have had an issue where by it is pretty easy
to fake a users tweet, for instance someone could easily produce a tweet as
a RT that I have never ever said:
RT @PaulKinlan
am in the fortunate position that allowed me to set up a nginx proxy
quickly, but I suspect a lot of other people couldn't do that.
I hope something can be sorted for the large number of GAE based
Twitter apps.
Paul Kinlan
On 6 Oct 2009, at 17:50, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi All
think it is twitter's problems
On 1 окт, 01:45, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have an app on the App engine using the search API and it is getting
heavily rate limited again this past couple of days.
I know that we are on a shared set of IP addresses
Hi Guys,
I have an app on the App engine using the search API and it is getting
heavily rate limited again this past couple of days.
I know that we are on a shared set of IP addresses and someone else could be
hammering the system, but it seems to run for weeks without seeing the rate
limit being
Funny you should say that I have raised a feature request about this earlier
today.
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1081
2009/9/29 Cristovão Morgado cristovao.morg...@gmail.com
Is it possible to know what application added a friendship, posted an
update?
Some miss
Hi Guys,
I am having an issue with a very very small percentage of my users who can't
use oauth, it simply won't work for them - the get directed to a Something
is Technically Wrong page.
For 99.9% of my users it works fine so I don't think it is an issue my end
(although I am not discounting
Hi,
Just a question, I am starting to see very heavy throttling to the Twitter
Search API from the Google App engine.
I am receiving 503's enhance your calm very frequently. I have a custom set
User-Agent string and I am probably doing less than 1 search per second.
It has been happening for a
Hi Chad,
Has this limit changed recently? I used to query it far more frequently from
the app engine. Obviously, Google use a lot of different IP addresses so I
presuming it can fluctuate. But over the last couple of days I have noticed
far more that I used to get.
If it is by IP first what is
for a long
time). Then as soon as you see a tweet on the stream you know it is for
some of your users and you can fire it straight to them. the only issue is
that these API's only get proper replies and not mentions.
Currently none of the Streaming API's will help you for DM's (AFAIK).
Paul Kinlan,
http
Weird - there was no emphasis intended on the favoriting as a first class
citizen paragraph - damn iphone :)
2009/8/18 Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com
Hi zac,
I dont think I said there is a decrease in usage just that it is developed
by the community and as such may wane in popularity
://twitterneni.com
On Aug 15, 7:00 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
When I saw the original message stating that the retweet API I was about
to
say straight away that I despise the idea, but I thought I would refrain
-
give it some thought. I still despise the idea and I
Chris,
For sure the, that is what I see happening with the Retweet API, the fact
that there is no status text on
http://twitter.com/statuses/retweet/id.format indicates just that - which is
why I would like to see favourites API drastically enhanced in tandem.
Currently this Retweet API serves
Favorites are open to be read, it is just that not many people use it and I
can't actually find who favorited my tweets - (probably no one in my case ;)
- if I had that information I could do a lot of things (with out resorting
to the RT stream).
Paul
2009/8/17 Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com
Beier,
But you can up vote a tweet you like by favoriting it - it is just that
favoriting is very very underused - so much so that a lot of clients don't
seem to support it. A RT is about injecting something you like into your
followers feeds because you think it will be of value to them. It has
,
there is no simple stream of all favorites as they occur - the list goes on.
Paul
2009/8/17 Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com
On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org wrote:
Paul Kinlan wrote:
Favorites are open to be read, it is just that not many
people use
Hi zac,
I dont think I said there is a decrease in usage just that it is
developed by the community and as such may wane in popularity as
another type of emergant mechanism takes it's place.
I would argue that retweet should stay roughly as is and not be
directly codified into the core
You probably want either the follow streaming api or if you have a couple
more users the shadow
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#follow
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#followshadow
See birddog above. Allows following up to 50,000 users.
URL:
Sandros,
I think you are very mistaken, I would say the same if Twitter wasn't
running a business based off of growing their base using a Free API, Twitter
chose to have a free API and it is supported as such,
no guarantees or warranties - however that isn't the point - the Free API is
the
Not to mention that http://search.twitter.com still appears to be completly
blocked from the app engine.
Paul
2009/8/9 Naveen Ayyagari knig...@gmail.com
1. OAuth rarely works - I tried a number of your apps and it seems to work
1 out of 6-7 times. As a note, it worked better with Safari,
OAuth, Search and the friendship methods are working for me...
Paul
2009/8/9 Bill Kocik bko...@gmail.com
On Aug 9, 3:13 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote:
Please test your apps from their standard configs to see what results you
get and let us know. I am primarily interested in
I know this is a me too, but twollo is entierly down (From Google App
Engine). The frustrating this is that everyone thinks Twitter is working on
now, an annoucement saying everything but the API is working would be
better.\
Paul
2009/8/7 Sam Street sam...@gmail.com
My app http://twicli.com
I concur with stephane, all request from the app engine fail for twollo too.
Paul
2009/8/6 stephane stephane.philipa...@gmail.com
Same thing here on google appengine side for www.twazzup.com
Stephane
@sphilipakis
www.twazzup.com
On Aug 6, 2:30 pm, Hayes Davis ha...@appozite.com wrote:
The situation is getting beyond a Joke now
I have paying customer who I am issuing refunds and credit notes to because
twollo is unable to access Twitter.
Did the denial of service attack come from the app engine or something?
Paul
2009/8/7 Rich rhyl...@gmail.com
I'm getting occasional
Hi Chad,
I think we all appreciate the pressure you are under and the flak that
you are taking for events outside your control, and we all wish we
could help more.
But for an open communications company that is postioning itself as
the future platform for messaging - there has been so
I was actually wondering about raising a feature request to remove all
follower and following counts from all twitter pages and the API :) to help
prevent spam.
Paul
2009/7/29 Vincent Nguyen kureik...@gmail.com
Thank for your replies!
This is realy an know issues! But why Twitter still don't
On twollo.com I have not seen any issues yet with the changes - no one has
ever complained about the Sign in with Twitter option. But I am very glad
that Twitter implemented OAuth, I don't have to manage the credentials in
the same way - Authenticate using Twitter has been a god send for me, and
Hi,
The numeric user id is part of the access token (I believe it is the first
part), however, on twollo.com I immediately call verify_credentials.json to
get the account details of the authenticating user.
Paul
2009/7/21 CG learn@gmail.com
Hi all,
Sorry for a newbie question again but
Hi,
Yes.
friendships/createhttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships%C2%A0create
friendships/destroyhttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships%C2%A0destroy
friendships/existshttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships-exists
authentication mode promoting oauth over
normal password.
Paul
2009/6/17 Simon tro...@gmail.com
On Jun 16, 2:58 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Since you have all the passwords, could you not just log into the users
account and authorise access to your oauth based application
2009/6/17 Simon tro...@gmail.com
On Jun 16, 2:58 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Since you have all the passwords, could you not just log into the
users
account and authorise access to your oauth based application?
No, it's way too many users. I don't
to direct users who want to
switch to OAuth, through the laborious steps. :(
Paul
2009/6/17 Simon tro...@gmail.com
On Jun 16, 2:58 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Since you have all the passwords, could you not just log into the
users
account
Brant,
As the developer of Twollo I take an exception to you saying Twollo is an
abusive application and violates the TOS. We are do not exist to abuse the
system, the number of user on our system is large and the vast majority of
our users are good users who have a genuine interest in finding
You could do the Stackoverflow method of quietly silencing/ignoring the
users that are spamming/abusing the system which is why I suggested not
sending the XYZ is now following you email for people that look like they
are abusing the system.
Paul.
2009/6/11 Caliban Darklock cdarkl...@gmail.com
Hi,
As the developer of Twollo here are my thoughts.
*Auto un-follow:*
I have not implemented it, I am unlikely too - it has lost me users for not
doing it. I developed Twollo to help you find people to follow. I have *a
lot* of requests to develop a feature that will auto-un-follow after X days
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
As the developer of Twollo here are my thoughts.
*Auto un-follow:*
I have not implemented it, I am unlikely too - it has lost me users for
not doing it. I developed Twollo to help you find people to follow. I
Hi Wallace,
http://www.Twollo.com does something similar to what you are describing (it
hosted on the Google App Engine). You can store the users oAuth token
secret, access token (and request token if you don't have the access token)
and then use these at a later date to send authenticated
Hi,
I believe the access_token last indefinitely (or at least a very very long
time). The request token is very short lived though.
Paul
2009/6/6 Wallace wallace.b.mccl...@gmail.com
Paul,
Ah, so you are saying that a token never expires? I did not realize
that. I had assumed that the
but would like to add it to my
app.
cheers
James
On Apr 13, 4:54 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Matt,
Yeah I saw the change log, but thought that the presence in the UI
was the
other half of the deployment. Sorry about that, I am pretty eager :)
Ah well, I look forward
I know it is not exactly the same service, but when I authenticate against
the Twitter Stream API using basic auth and python I set the Realm = None
when I call add_password on the basic auth handler.
Paul
2009/5/31 Jason Emerick jemer...@gmail.com
I would recommend just added the authorization
2009/5/22 Neicole neic...@trustneicole.com
I'm interested in the demographics of Twitter Developers. I'd
appreciate it if you'd answer a few questions. Just respond to this
post with your answers:
1. Are you male or female?
Male
2. Are you married or single?
Erm, Living with girlfriend
Hi Guys,
I developed http://www.itsabot.com, which was designed to detect twitter
bots. I am happy to open this up as a larger project if people want - and
move it into an open source project with spam accounts, not just bots.
Paul
2009/5/19 sillyt...@googlemail.com sillyt...@googlemail.com
Hi,
Just to let you know, I developed www.twe2.com exactly for this purpose.
However, we have just been blocked by our SMS provider.
It is a shame really because we sent 2 million SMS's to the Twitter
community,
Paul
2009/5/11 Arik Fraimovich arik...@gmail.com
Someone already developed an
:
twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Kinlan
*Sent:* Monday, May 11, 2009 9:44 AM
*To:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* [twitter-dev] Re: Send @replies/mentions via SMS?
Hi,
Just to let you know, I developed www.twe2.com exactly
Hi Guys,
I am having a couple of issues with using Authenticate using OAuth and
force_login = true parameter.
Can someone confirm that I am being an idiot? :)
If I am currently logged in to twitter all my requests are authenticated
against that user regardless of the username password
.
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 01:20, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Abraham,
That is pretty handy to know, does account/end_session not do a similar
thing? It would be good to know if so because I authenticate using oauth on
twollo and people do have multiple accounts and end_session
Hi Abraham,
That is pretty handy to know, does account/end_session not do a similar
thing? It would be good to know if so because I authenticate using oauth on
twollo and people do have multiple accounts and end_session is something I
was going to use on logout of twollo.
Paul
2009/5/2 Abraham
for a non-standard port? HOSTS file is
just for the domain/authority, and you can't specify a port in the
callback URL on the settings page?
On Apr 23, 7:31 pm, Jochen Kaechelin giss...@gissmog.de wrote:
Am 24.04.2009 um 00:29 schrieb Paul Kinlan:
Hi,
During development I tend to modify my hosts
?
Cheers,
Ben
On Apr 26, 11:41 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
I managed to set a port on the page when I was doing some google app
engine stuff.
But saying that my dev server now runs on port 80 on my machine so it
isn't a problem much.
Paul
On 27 Apr 2009
the problem :) I am using
TwitterOAuthClient (python) for my oauthy goodness.
Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan
I have just checked the library and whilst it sorts the keys, I don't think
it sorts the library sorts actual query string when it makes the request. I
will have to check that bit out.
Paul.
2009/4/27 Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com
On 4/27/09 5:29 PM, Paul Kinlan wrote:
Bellow
I belive the request tokens are expired quickly and not the access tokens.
Paul.
2009/4/24 @pud pkap...@gmail.com
Hi,
I realize a precaution taken during the recent oAuth scare was to
expire access tokens relatively quickly.
Let's say I have a service that automatically sends tweets for
Hi,
During development I tend to modify my hosts file to point the
callback URL domain to my box for instance. This is quite good because
all it affects is my box.
Paul
On 23 Apr 2009, at 23:16, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
The oauth_callback parameter was just disabled do
Hi,
I have just noticed this too as it has affected twollo.com, I swear it used
to be true/false.
I am wondering if it is now an enumeration, following, not following,
blocked or something.
Paul.
2009/4/21 askp a...@askpedia.com
I'm getting inconsistent values in the following field of the
Hi,
I have just started to implement oAuth for http://www.twollo.com, and when
registering my app for oAuth I noticed:
Use Twitter for login: Yes, use Twitter for login
Does your application intend to use Twitter for authentication?
This is excellent news, for reasons I have mentioned in
...@twitter.com
Hi Paul,
This was mentioned in one of the change log notices last week. Well, I
mentioned that we're half-deployed. I'm awaiting a few more pieces before
there is an official announcement.
Stay Tuned;
— Matt Sanford
On Apr 13, 2009, at 08:40 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:
Hi,
I have
the service through a proxy.
Any suggestions for sorting this our would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan
Twe2 Ltd.
http://blog.twe2.com
On the topic of bots, http://www.itsabot.com works pretty well most of the
time.
Paul
2009/3/9 TjL luo...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM,
, Paul Kinlan wrote:
Hi,
I am noticing something that I think is odd at the moment.
Some of our users are not getting searches that are enclosed in quotes via
the API, yet they work directly from the website.
For example there is a difference between the following query on the API
and Website
. Try replacing it with a +
or
a space and see what you get.
Thanks;
— Matt
- Show quoted text -
On Mar 3, 2009, at 08:06 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:
Forgot to add, I am checking our client library now too.
Paul.
2009/3/3 Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com
Hi Matt,
I
.
-Chad
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
It works with the +, but I knew that :)
With a space (in IE) it encodes it as %20 when it makes the request and I
can see it through fiddler (as below) and it comes back.
GET /search.json?q=exeter%20city
(\exeter
city\).Since(last_id).Return(10).Request();
It Reads: Create a Request of type Search using a Query Containing exeter
city Since the last id returning up to 10 results.
It is on google code http://code.google.com/p/tweetsharp/
Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan
2009/3/3 Burhan TANWEER btanw
, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Daniel,
I am using tweet# a lot, and it would be good if you catch the 503 error
status on the rate limited requests (including the Retry-After header in
the
response), I have had to implement it in tweet# for our product.
Kind Regards,
Paul
Hi,
I am still concerned that the introduction of oAuth is going to cause
a lot of problems for applications that use twitter username and
password as a login and account registration mechanism for their
services.
I would like to start a list of the services that primariraly use
that awkward round trip to sign up?
And does recurring login mean apps are going to have to store
credentials?
I'm just curious.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am still concerned that the introduction of oAuth is going to
cause a lot of problems
Thanks Chad, that is what I am trying to get across, we will definitely need
to drastically alter our workflows.
I am definitely not trying to spread FUD, the problem is there is definitely
uncertainty about the process as a whole which I would like us all to talk
about and ways to work with
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks Chad, that is what I am trying to get across, we will definitely
need to drastically alter our workflows.
I am definitely not trying to spread FUD, the problem is there is
definitely uncertainty about the process
but rather the username.
2009/3/1 Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.comwrote:
One thing I have noticed is that in tweet# api the twitter id is marked as
obsolete, so that is why I have not used it The thing is, if you use
I think it was one of my threads. I think it was along the lines of you can
store the access key in cookie, but why you would want to publish the fact
you are doing it.
The thing being that the access token when used in a request is accompanied
by a signature that can only be generated if the
Hi Sam,
I think most things other than a basic username and password will confuse
most people, which is why asking for their twitter username and password is
done (rightly or wrongly) because people know it, use it all the time on
twitter and don't have to remember yet another password.
I will
, at 02:47 PM, Santosh Panda wrote:
Hi Paul,
We see the same issue couple of times but infrequently. In another threaded
mail, few more developers have conveyed the same.
cheers,
Santosh Panda
www.twitblogs.com
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi
for an access token, we then
call verify_credentials.json. Sometimes (quite often) when we call this
method we get a 401 Un-authorised exception. If no-one else see's this then
I will have to see if the library I am using has the problem.
Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan.
Just to add my two pennies in, I have seen this error quite a bit on my test
environment. It normally happened when I sent the user to the oauth page on
twitter quite close to the first time I did it - occurs because I was using
oAuth as an authentication mechanism.
Kind Regard,
Paul Kinlan
awesome, no twitter 3rd party service would ever need a username and
password.
Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan.
2009/2/19 Blaine Cook bla...@twitter.com
On Feb 17, 8:58 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
As to your second point: yes, do NOT store keys in unencrypted cookies.
Access tokens were
the ability to *access *your
data on Twitter
Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan
Twe2 Ltd - www.twe2.com
* work with OAuth. Which language/lib are you
using? Maybe someone using that same lang could chime in...
-Chad
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
Is it me of does verify_credentials method not work with oAuth? I
understand why people might
Hi Chad,
I definatly can't get anything other than a 401's on GET requests to
verify_credentials when using oAuth. But I can successfully get the direct
messages for the user that is oAuthed in.
Paul.
2009/2/15 Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com
Hmm,
Getting Direct Messages work, but if I
Hi,
I know this is probably a cheeky questions, what is there an eta for
the fix? My site www.itsabot.com is getting a lot of authentication
problems at the moment.
Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan.
On Jan 9, 12:33 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
This is a bug, deployed as part of a related
, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
Cookie support was, as you mentioned, never actually support, and it's
definitely disabled. There's a method you can use to find if the user
is logged in, but not WHO the user is. That's intentional.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:33, Paul Kinlan paul.kin
details.
Kind regards,
Paul Kinlan
On 9 Jan 2009, at 22:03, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
Apologies. If there's some way that we can help within the realm of
API methods that we support, let me know.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:39, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com
wrote:
It's
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