[twitter-dev] Re: Is /users/show broken or is it just me?

2010-04-29 Thread Ryan Rosario
a new set of user IDs?    ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Posted. R. On Apr 25, 3:51 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: I can reproduce this, so we should be good to go.  Can one of you

[twitter-dev] Re: Is /users/show broken or is it just me?

2010-04-27 Thread Ryan Rosario
Thanks. Posted. R. On Apr 25, 3:51 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: I can reproduce this, so we should be good to go.  Can one of you open an issue on the code tracker so we can track it?    ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Ryan Rosario

[twitter-dev] Re: Is /users/show broken or is it just me?

2010-04-25 Thread Ryan Rosario
I've found that all of my 500 isses are related to poison users. For whatever reason, I can never get their followers. I retry on 500, so I end up with an infinite loop of 500s for these users. When 500s happen with other users, my program usually succeeds after 1 or 2 retries. The only way to

[twitter-dev] Re: Is /users/show broken or is it just me?

2010-04-25 Thread Ryan Rosario
wrote: this shouldn't happen - feel free to give a sample of the poison user IDs, and we'll investigate them.  we already have one, and we'll look into more. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.comwrote: I've found that all of my 500 isses are related to poison

[twitter-dev] Re: Is /users/show broken or is it just me?

2010-04-24 Thread Ryan Rosario
I am having a ton of problems with that as well (500s). Actually, I think mine is with respect to friends and followers. Code has not done anything useful since last night :-(. Ryan On Apr 24, 8:35 am, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: I've been seeing an unusually high volume of HTTP

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-15 Thread Ryan Rosario
on 500 led to an infinite loop. R. On Jan 14, 5:22 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, perhaps some greg pass magic going on on the account behind the scenes. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: count=200 worked for the hundreds of other

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Rosario
kevinweil :) I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable. On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given you access? On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Rosario
If I remove the count parameter from the Curl call, it works, but with any count parameter, I get a 500. On Jan 14, 4:39 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: kevinweil :) I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable. On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Rosario
, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: If I remove the count parameter from the Curl call, it works, but with any count parameter, I get a 500. On Jan 14, 4:39 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: kevinweil :) I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-21 Thread Ryan Rosario
to call:http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?id={insert_id_here} users/show will throw a 404 on a non existent user. -Chad On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: *bangs head on desk...again* Now that I know what what my Twitter ID is, and I know that I am

[twitter-dev] 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Rosario
I have been running into a recurring problem that I have been facing for the past couple of days, on numerous machines. I am extracting 200 tweets for a large number of users, using the numeric user ID (user_id). After a small number of requests (between 10 and 50) I receive nothing but This

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Rosario
+body traces for some of these requests? (be sure to obscure the authentication header). Using curl -vvv would be good. -Chad On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: I have been running into a recurring problem that I have been facing for the past couple

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Rosario
: 2 This is on the second authenticated call. On the unauthenticated call X-RateLimit-Limit was 150. I assume both calls were made from the same IP address? Dewald On Oct 20, 3:10 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: Below are the responses. I tried various combinations

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Rosario
at 3:13 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: Correct. I thought that was weird, but didn't know what to make of it. Same IP. The unauthenticated call was from an IP that is not whitelisted, so 150/hr. The second call was from the same IP, but authenticated as a whitelisted

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Rosario
20, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: Correct. I thought that was weird, but didn't know what to make of it. Same IP. The unauthenticated call was from an IP that is not whitelisted, so 150/hr. The second call was from the same IP, but authenticated

[twitter-dev] IP Blacklisted?

2009-10-19 Thread Ryan Rosario
I have been trying to run a Hadoop Streaming job for pulling tweets from the API, but I cannot even ping twitter.com from the machine I am using. This just started today. I read that making concurrent HTTP requests is fine, but if the IP was indeed blacklisted, then I must be exceeding some

[twitter-dev] Re: IP Blacklisted?

2009-10-19 Thread Ryan Rosario
It appears to have been an OS or firewall issue that I will need to resolve. I rebooted the system and I can ping Twitter again. Thanks, Ryan On Oct 19, 9:42 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Please send your ipaddress and a traceroute ASAP. On Oct 19, 9:36 am, Ryan Rosario uclamath

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems Connecting to the API

2009-10-19 Thread Ryan Rosario
I keep getting {request:/statuses/user_timeline.json? user_id=TheUserIDcount=200,error:This method requires authentication.} when I try to pull a user's tweets. This never used to happen. Earlier today I did not need to authenticate to do this. Even when I pass my username and password, I still

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems Connecting to the API

2009-10-19 Thread Ryan Rosario
this? I just tried several user timelines (w/o authentication) from my home computer (outside of twitter network) with no errors... -Chad On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote: I keep getting {request:/statuses/user_timeline.json? user_id=TheUserIDcount=200

[twitter-dev] Serial or Parallel? Does it make a difference for the API?

2009-10-16 Thread Ryan Rosario
I am working on a fairly large research project so I am in the process of trying to retrieve the most recent 200 tweets for 400,000 users. It didn't seem like a problem because individual queries took about 1 second to return. Among 5 machines then, this should take about 22.2 hours assuming each

[twitter-dev] Non-standard HTTP Errors? httplib.BadLineStatus

2009-10-15 Thread Ryan Rosario
I use Python for most of my development with the Twitter API, and I have been using urllib2 to extract content. After running my scripts for some period of time (sometimes 5 mins, sometimes several hours) I get an httplib.BadLineStatus exception. All I could find on this error is that it means

[twitter-dev] Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread Ryan Rosario
I am doing some research using the Twitter API and I would like to get a random sample of Twitter users. Any ideas of how this can be accomplished? So far, I have scraped 2 weeks from the Streaming API and extracted 3 million user IDs from the stream. Any arguments as to whether or not this

[twitter-dev] Re: Randomly Sampling Users: Suggestions?

2009-10-12 Thread Ryan Rosario
That sample will be biased towards more active posters and may include some demographic biases due to seasonal activities during the limited time frame of the sample. That answers my question, and that is what I was afraid of. I think for my purposes (language detection), a random sample of

[twitter-dev] Some Meaningless Output from Gardenhose

2009-09-15 Thread Ryan Rosario
Hi, I am working with a weeks worth of data I collected from Gardenhose for research. About 4% of the tweet JSON records are just the following. What do these mean? Is this a bug, or some type of privacy restriction on that tweet? {delete:{status:{id:##,user_id:}}} The #s