[twitter-dev] Geo question: Near by could be wrong

Hey guys, I noticed that going to http://search.twitter.com and searching for: near:Toronto Will show me tweets posted in Toronto. However, what if I'm a user living in Toronto, but I'm visiting San Francisco at the time I posted a tweet? That would make my tweet incorrectly show up as being

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: upcoming geo features (a.k.a A place is not just a latitude and a longitude - it has a name)

Raffi, I find the biggest hurdle with geo-tweets right now is that very few twitter users actually have it enabled. And I believe for a very good reason as sending the exact coordinate of a tweet has serious privacy issues. For example, a girl takes a picture of her new hairdo from her bedroom

[twitter-dev] OAuth login UX suggestion

Hey guys, We just released a twitter webapp that uses oauth to authenticate users. It works great, but I always see users typing in their username/ password then hitting enter to login. However, pressing enter just selects the Sign in button, it doesn't actually submit the form. It leaves the

[twitter-dev] Streaming API -- filtering with punctuation

Hey guys, Is it at all possible, in some way or another to specify a filter with a period? I've been working on an image streaming service and up till now I have been just filtering on: twitpic,yfrog,pic However, we'd also like to stream in links from ow.ly, but I would have to filter on ow to

[twitter-dev] Strange streaming/search behaviour

Hey guys, I've run into an issue while building my app that uses the Twitter Streaming API for some users. I found that for some public accounts none of their tweets go through the streaming API. For example: @casiestewart Her profile is public, but try to find her tweets in the stream, or even

[twitter-dev] Global twitter profile image URL

Hey guys, I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each user's profile pic? This would be very handy for third party apps built on top of Twitter. Grabbing the profile_image_url which links directly to the S3 URL, is susceptible to change and requires a lot of effort on

[twitter-dev] Loading list of friends from twitter api

Hey guys, I'm using the twitter ruby gem to get the usernames of someone's followers after they signs in to my app. What happens if that person has thousands (even millions) of followers? How does twitter return this information? Is it ordered by the users with the most recent updates? I suppose