[twitter-dev] Re: New opt-in API features available today, May 26th: entities, retweets in timelines, custom oauth_callback schemes

2010-05-27 Thread Tim Acheson
Thank you for fixing the issue of retweets not being included in timeline data! I reported the issue as soon as it arose, when the retweet feature was first introduced, and have been monitoring the situation ever since: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1312

[twitter-dev] Re: How to retrieve url link written in a tweet please?

2009-12-27 Thread Tim Acheson
Example of C# code for ASP.NET: new Regex(@https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?).Match (tweetText) I strongly reccomend the open source Linq2Twitter library for obtaining data from Twitter in .NET applications. I use LInq2Twitter to put my tweets on my personal homepage:-

[twitter-dev] Re: How to retrieve url link written in a tweet please?

2009-12-27 Thread Tim Acheson
If you want to do this with pure JavaScript, I strongly reccomend following this complete tutorial:- http://www.jamessenior.com/post/Building-Twitter-Search-using-the-ASPNET-Ajax-Library-Beta-e28093-Part-1.aspx

[twitter-dev] Unable to get complete timeline for a user (including retweets) without logging-in! New API method urgently required.

2009-12-22 Thread Tim Acheson
Problem: There is an important limitation in the API regarding retweets. With the new retweets feature, in the current API, it is not possible to get a complete timeline for a user (unless you have the user's password). This is bad. Firstly, it means user timelines retrieved from the API will

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting retweets in user timelines

2009-12-22 Thread Tim Acheson
I strongly agree with the OP. Problem: Unable to get the complete timeline for a user including retweets (without logging in)! There is an important limitation with the API regarding retweets. With the new retweets feature, in the current API, it is not possible to get a complete timeline for a

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweets and the Public Timeline

2009-12-22 Thread Tim Acheson
I strongly agree with the OP. Problem: Unable to get the complete timeline for a user including retweets (without logging in)! There is an important limitation with the API regarding retweets. With the new retweets feature, in the current API, it is not possible to get a complete timeline for a