A number of chat groups have grown up around Twitter. One of the big
requirements for these groups is to produce a transcript for each chat
session.
While the content is free, there is a cost associated with the collection of
tweets and generation of the transcripts for each group. Many
It looks like the same error is being reported by other users:
https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=2178
I saw your profile once and received the Fail Whale on a couple of other
attempts.
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Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc
API
I need to attack this issue too, so I'm looking forward to suggestions.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Ray Slakinski ray.slakin...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm working on a program that uses the stream api to listen for tweets
from a list of users, if that list of user changes it appears to me
that I
I just noticed that the oAuth window appears to be resetting the height so
that the entire page is visible (no scrolling). For Firefox and Chrome
that's fixed the issue. Thank you!
However, there is still a problem with IE. It is worse now. The user no
longer sees the scrollbar and cannot
I was surprised to see a newly formatted oAuth Authenticate Page. The
new page doesn't account for the scores of oAuth implementations that
popup a new window.
There is an ad-hoc standard for the window height and width that makes
for a decent user experience. The new format will cause issues
Hi Matt,
This is a big change and it negatively impacts many web applications
that popup a browser window to display the oAuth screen. The popup
windows were sized for the old content, and the new content will force
the user to scroll. It's not a great experience.
I wish there would have been
Matt,
Thanks for the reply. I'm referring to a popup browser window that
displays the full url. The technique is not designed to mask the
oAuth process, it's designed to improve the experience for the user.
Devs have been using this technique since Twitter released oAuth.
The popup allows the
Site Streams are working very well for me. If the beta is indefinite,
I don't plan to wait much longer before using them in production.
This technology is really impressive, and I'd like to thank all of the
Twitter devs who worked on it.
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Twitter developer documentation and resources:
://twitter.com/rno
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Shannon Whitley
shannon.whit...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm able to add and delete list members using list/members for *my*
account, but the same process is failing with another account. I know
that the oAuth tokens are good because I can retrieve the list
I'm able to add and delete list members using list/members for *my*
account, but the same process is failing with another account. I know
that the oAuth tokens are good because I can retrieve the list
members.
A 403 error is generated when when I try to add or delete members for
this other
For user events such as follow, unfollow, etc., would it be possible
to include information from the latest status (at least created_at)?
This would be helpful in identifying stale accounts.
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Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter:
My source parameter finally changed on its own. I'm not sure what
triggered the change, but it's correct now.
Thanks!
On Mar 8, 6:02 pm, Shannon Whitley shannon.whit...@gmail.com wrote:
I had previously setup a Twitter application and used it under one
name. I've recently changed the name
I was hoping that Ryan was just a few weeks early for his April Fools'
post.
Don't build clients? It sounds like a bad joke.
I wrote a letter to Ryan on my blog in response to this post:
http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/index.php/2011/03/a-letter-to-ryan-sarver/
I know you guys can't be
to
grabbing a user's home_timeline and rendering it. that's thinking too
small, and @*rsarver* is telling you that.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Shannon Whitley
shannon.whit...@gmail.comwrote:
I was hoping that Ryan was just a few weeks early for his April Fools'
post.
Don't build
I had previously setup a Twitter application and used it under one
name. I've recently changed the name and updated the Twitter app
settings (trying both http://twitter.com/oauth and http://dev.twitter.com/apps).
Everything is fine except for the source parameter. It still shows
the old value.
Hi,
I was wondering if this issue was corrected. I'm having a problem
updating the background profile image. The API is returning 200 and
the user's profile data, but the image isn't updated.
On Jul 19, 6:54 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
wrote:
Thank you for the
This call was working fine for me using basic auth. I've been
converting my code to oAuth on my test machine. I now receive a 200
reply and the user's profile data, but the image is not updated.
On Aug 9, 8:33 am, MeltingIce meltingice8...@gmail.com wrote:
I too am waiting for the
ap,
I'm experiencing the problem too. It's good to hear that Taylor et al
are on the case.
I've been keeping track of the major oAuth issues that developers report to
me. I've also hit these a few times myself.
1. The date/time on your machine must be accurate. Make sure you’ve
performed a recent sync with a known time source.
2. If you’re trying to call a Twitter API method
I've been working on a project that uses all .NET code to connect to the
streaming api (HttpWebRequest native JSON parsing). Several people have
already released code samples and many of the libraries have this
functionality, but I needed to build my own app. There were enough issues
along the
me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Shannon Whitley
swhit...@whitleymedia.com wrote:
I've been working on a project that uses all .NET code to connect to the
streaming api (HttpWebRequest native JSON parsing). Several people
have
already
One example where it would be useful:
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with a currently authorized user. The
same token and secret are pulled from Twitter each time during the oAuth
process, but any calls to the Twitter API respond with unauthorized.
I asked the user to revoke access to my
This has to be the softest launch ever, especially for such an important
feature (three years in-the-making). You're saving me time, aggravation,
and money. Thank you!
Are there any limitations? I've been using it for a few weeks and it seems
stable.
--
Subscription settings:
I spoke with the devs at Chirp and I'm planning to use the token during the
auth process. They confirmed that it is short-lived though.
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
My understanding is the @Anywhere access tokens are short lived of only a
few
I've updated Twit Connect for WordPress to include @anywhere. It adds
hovercards, follow buttons, and tweetboxes. I really like the tweetbox on
the WordPress comment form.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitconnect
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Pelechati amach...@gmail.com wrote:
I think this will be a great addition to the platform. I suppose it will be
up to each software client to determine how (classic) retweets are handled.
The annotations could be copied and edited. I assume new retweets will
simply reference the original tweet and its annotations.
On Fri, Apr
I had an app suspended because it was on the same domain as another app and
it appeared to have the same functionality. I was setting up a test
version. Guess that's a no-no.
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks to Dewald's advice, I started a new
I've been hitting this a lot lately with data for my own id. It's a
huge issue. I'm happy to see that it's been marked as a high
priority, but it's been around for months. Do we have an estimate for
a fix? Thanks!
Desktop oAuth with .NET
http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=856
This example includes an updated version of oAuth.cs and
oAuthTwitter.cs It includes some changes to url encoding that one of
my blog readers submitted. Those two files could be used in the web
versions with minor adjustments.
Hi,
I'm Shannon Whitley. I prefer .NET coding, but I do a lot of work in
PHP these days (thanks to WordPress and Facebook).
A few of my projects are listed on http://whitleymedia.com, but my
favorite is still a Twitter Excel client (that some suggested should
be named Excreet).
I run Chat
Hi,
What is the expected wait time after submitting a request for xAuth
access?
I'm trying to let a client know how long the development cycle will
take, but a lot depends on this approval. My request is currently
pending from Thursday or Friday of last week.
Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback, Andy. I'll run your thoughts past GoGrid and
see what they can do. I could offer 2008 at the same price as 2003
(if I drop the memory), but in my experience it's not even worth
trying to run 2008 on less than a GB of RAM.
I also want to know more about the ease with
I develop various applications using .NET tools (and PHP). For many
of my projects, I really need to run my own servers; shared webhosting
just doesn't cut it (and that's going to be especially true when I get
access to the firehose -- soon, I hope).
I've been frustrated over the past year.
Hi Robby,
Thanks for the explanation on the read/write access. I hesitated to
signon when I saw the access requirement. Many saavy users will
hesitate as well. I want to see you get as many users as possible and
this will probably come up again when you move to the next phase. It
might be
ClickableNow is a service that enables clickable Twitter backgrounds
via a browser add-on. We launched the service last week and so far
we've seen about 10,000 visitors to the website (http://
clickablenow.com).
We're now looking to add an additional page to the website to list
developers who
I recall seeing a post from a Twitter employee that static 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
I was thinking the same thing about the referrer. I rushed over to
check on my apps after reading this thread. I know this has been
broached before, but it sure would be nice to have a beta site for the
devs to test against before changes go live.
On Jun 19, 7:04 am, Doug Williams
It looks like an intermediary page has been inserted between the oAuth
login and the redirect back to the application. The HTTP referrer is
now null. I was using the referrer to pass and retrieve dynamic
variables associated with the login. Is this new page a necessary
addition to the oAuth
. With
a dynamic callback you can set whatever you like and not have to base
it on (easily spoofed) referrers.
Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter Dev
On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Shannon Whitley wrote:
It looks like an intermediary page has been inserted between the oAuth
login
In case anyone is having a similar issue, I changed my code to store
the data using the user's IP address. This should work okay until
Matt delivers the update. A cookie would also be an option, just not
for my app in this case.
On Jun 3, 2:37 pm, Shannon Whitley shannon.whit...@gmail.com
I don't think anything has changed. You can take a look at SPIURL -
http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/
On May 13, 10:35 am, 51productions chrisgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm building a little sidebar on a website with a twitter RSS feed,
and I'd love to be able to use the user icons with it. I do
I've been using the referrer to capture callback data. You might want
to try that.
On May 1, 2:29 pm, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Matt. I'll try to handle it in my session for now. BTW, I think
I've finally got Perl working - will be doing a post and transferring over
to
Thanks for all your hard work, Matt.
In one of my solutions, I am getting around the absence of the
oauth_callback by using the referrer. I know referrer is unreliable,
but I'm going with it for now. When the call comes back from the
authorize page, the referrer still contains the information
machine. This should also let you do
development once your project launches.
Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter API Developer
On Apr 24, 2009, at 07:47 AM, Shannon Whitley wrote:
Thanks for all your hard work, Matt.
In one of my solutions, I am getting around
Thanks, Matt! Even though it kills my latest project, I'm still in
agreement that turning oAuth back on without oauth_callback is
preferable to leaving it off.
oauth_callback is very important to me, though, so I would lobby for
bringing it back in some form as quickly as possible.
Apr 23,
Adding my S.O.S. here too.
On Apr 22, 3:31 am, gissmog giss...@gissmog.de wrote:
Hello,
is there a page where I can get the current status of the oauth
feature?
I justed started implementing the oauth feature and I'am not able to
continue ;-(
How do the other developers behave in this
Whatever your definition of public beta, I'd just love to at least
know what's going on.
On Apr 22, 8:15 am, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, OAuth is still in public Beta. Or did I miss the
memo? (wouldn't have been the first time). I doubt it is wise at
I wish someone could have been there when I created the Twit Connect
WordPress plugin.
http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=683#twc_button
I begged for someone to help me create a button, but I had to make my
own. Thanks to Peter, I'll now be able to standardize on the next
version.
On Apr
I've done a lot of work recently with Twitter's oAuth implementation.
I'm happy with the the solution for my web apps. Having said that, I
don't think it should be the way to authenticate. Basic Auth has
been so easy to implement that I think it has fostered very creative
solutions from people
I just discovered that there are profile images with no file
extension. This is an example:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70479542/eliteblogger_logo
Is this something that we should expect? I have been using the
extension to determine the content-type.
Great. Thanks for the info.
On Mar 23, 5:10 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
There are a couple known bugs in our image processing that should soon
be rectified by a branch we have waiting to go out.
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:17, Shannon Whitley
shannon.whit...@gmail.com wrote
Very timely. I was thinking through this last night. I may develop a
general application for this purpose.
On Mar 22, 3:17 am, GraemeF grae...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Elliott,
This scenario worked well with basic authentication; you could just
delegate the login to Twitter. Now I don't see
Yep. That must have been the problem.
On Mar 19, 3:54 pm, Dimebrain daniel.cre...@gmail.com wrote:
That makes sense, .NET's HttpUtility.UrlEncode method doesn't encode
in uppercase hexadecimal, and the OAuth 1.0 spec requires that.
On Mar 19, 7:20 pm, Shannon Whitley shannon.whit
I'm running into this as well. My POSTs are not working (401 error).
GETs are fine.
On Feb 16, 11:50 pm, Ryan W rwilli...@gmail.com wrote:
Any luck with this? Running into the same problem here, wondering
what the right combination of data to put in URL params vs post data
vs headers, etc.
I'm testing oAuth with IE7. The authorization page is displaying a
javascript error. The same url opens fine in Firefox.
Url =
http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize/?oauth_token={token}oauth_token_secret={secret}
Error = Object Required
JS Line = if(window.top === window.self)
.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:49, Shannon Whitley
shannon.whit...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm testing oAuth with IE7. The authorization page is displaying a
javascript error. The same url opens fine in Firefox.
Url =
http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize/?oauth_token={token}oauth_token_secret
Checkout bit.ly, tr.im, is.gd, snurl.com, adjix.com -- They all have
easy REST APIs and very helpful developers. You can shoot me an email
(swhitley [at] whitleymedia [dot] com) if you'd like some sample C#
code.
On Mar 11, 4:14 am, shapper mdmo...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone knows if there
Here's a commonly used function for the date fix:
// Make date parseable in IE [Jon Aquino 2007-03-29]
//
http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2006/12/twitter-increasing-number-of-twitters.html
function fixDate(d) {
var a = d.split(' ');
var year = a.pop();
return a.slice(0,
You may want to look at the SPIURL project:
http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/
It provides static urls for each Twitter profile image.
On Feb 22, 8:43 am, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote:
I take that back, Ricardo. I looks like this has already been
officially requested.
Be sure to star it if
On Feb 15, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Shannon Whitley wrote:
I hope Twitter will reconsider these changes. With My Tweeple, I was
able to provide a preview of a user's updates by displaying the page
in an iframe. It was very convenient for the user to review someone's
tweets before deciding to follow
I hope Twitter will reconsider these changes. With My Tweeple, I was
able to provide a preview of a user's updates by displaying the page
in an iframe. It was very convenient for the user to review someone's
tweets before deciding to follow someone. It also appears that
Twummize.com no longer
I was really looking forward to implementing these API methods. After
dealing with the pagination for so long, this seemed perfect. Then I
realized that I have to call /users/show for every user to get the
most current bio etc. So instead of making 10 calls for a user with
1,000 followers, I'm
I've developed a Google App Engine project that creates static links
for user profile images.
This is the format for the static link:
http://spiurl.appspot.com?screen_name={screen_name}
You can use my service or download the code here -
http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/
It is a slower
I'll be following the @twitterapi bot from now on. This took me by
surprise.
8 days notice is not a lot of time for everyone. Considering
development, testing, and release cycles, even a small change can take
longer than 8 days for larger applications.
I am having problems with My Tweeple as well.
We should also consider the user experience. Some of my friends
change their avatar daily (if not hourly). If each application caches
the avatar, the user might end up with a different avatar on each
application. That would especially apply to applications that do not
need to update data
I agree too. This request could really cut down on API calls.
On Oct 8, 4:25 pm, Nicolas Grasset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to get a static profile picture URL when using the API,
since picture updates will break old links?
My
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