On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
With reference to @twittersuggests, is other unsolicited @reply spam
now also officially sanctioned by Twitter?
When has Twitter ever given you the idea that they were playing by the
same rules as everyone else?
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Arnaud Meunier arn...@twitter.com wrote:
Neither our TOS nor our Automation Rules Best Practices
(http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915) have changed since the launch
of @twittersuggests experimental feature :)
I think that's pretty much what I said :)
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Dave Methvin dave.meth...@gmail.com wrote:
The Twitter API lets me get the followers of Y but it seems wasteful and
slow to request what could be a list of hundreds of followers in the social
graph and look for X on the client side. Is there a better and faster
the thing: it's Twitter's playground.
They can do whatever they want with it.
Just because they do it, doesn't mean you can do it.
I don't know what sort of universal, nature law you think applies
here, but it doesn't.
TjL
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Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc
http://doesfollow.com/rid00z/dmethvin doesn't say that he is either.
Sounds like a glitch.
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Dave Methvin dave.meth...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, that sounds like exactly the functionality I want. However, it does
not seem to show the relationship correctly. For
to do and then do 1/100th of it 4 years later.)
TjL
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To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
If they are authenticated requests, they will count towards the
account whitelist limit, but not the IP limit.
If they are not authenticated, they count towards the IP limit…
TjL
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I have a small question
undoable change. It works one way for years, then
accidentally gets changed but you can't figure out what happened or
how to undo it?
TjL
they're building around Twitter's API?
If Twitter is getting rid of whitespace, that means I can strip out a
bunch of code in certain places.
I'd like someone to comment on this officially.
TjL
a permanent change.
Thanks Chad
TjL
http://twitter.com/status/show/5008681027.xml| was entered with
newlines between the words. It does not show the newlines.
http://twitter.com/status/show/4999223282.xml shows that this was
working just a few hours ago.
Both were entered on the web.
Is this a bug or an intended change?
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Neicole neic...@trustneicole.com wrote:
Boy, this concerns me. People definitely need to be able to add their
own comments to the RT.
No they don't. If they want to comment on it, let them write a comment
and post an URL to the original message.
If you could
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com wrote:
what? Every time my app submits a tweet with the reply id set, that
limits the people who can see it?
Were you not around for The Great @Reply Upheaval of 2009?
ouch! deleting tweet IDs in my messages ASAP...
As long
is moving to standardize
where you can send a message with 140 characters regardless of
whether that's 140 e or 140 é or 140 or 140 or 140 ?
I think that's what is being said, I just want to make sure I'm
understanding properly.
Thanks!
TjL
It's been nearly 6 months. Has this question been answered? If so I missed it.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Alex Paynea...@twitter.com wrote:
Unfortunately, nothing definitive. We're still looking into this.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:56, Craig Hockenberry
craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com
caching is the best answer i have found
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM, dizidglasw...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
When i request friends (or followers) from the Twitter API i want to
get the screen_name's based on the id's.
I use users/show for this, inputting the id and getting back de
now,
through API methods.
I assume this is a temporary situation, but it is kind of handy :-)
TjL
of conversation threads (which people have
been requesting for longer than RTs have even been 'a thing' and which
I've never heard anyone be against and can't imagine what an argument
against would even look like) is confusing to me.
My 2¢
TjL
/account/rate_limit_status.xml
I should be doing
curl --location --referer ;auto --netrc -s -D -
http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
(where http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml; is just one example)
TjL
ps - I'm not doing this through PHP, it's all on the commandline
is designed to look for HTTP Status 200, it's failing.
I can re-code it to deal with the 302, but if this IS just a temporary
change (hence the 302) I might just wait it out.
TjL
is probably the right place to start.
I'd recommend finding another name for the time being.
TjL
ps - with all the one post wonders out there, I hope that Twitter
will eventually go through and purge accounts that haven't been used
in a year.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:27 AM, chinaski007chinaski...@gmail.com wrote:
[the same post three different times]
WE GET IT. YOU DON'T LIKE OAUTH.
Your (probably statistically insignificant) tests with Google
Optimizer reveal that your users are more likely to sign-up for Basic
Auth than OAuth.
if there's a reason to use one format over
another. Right now Atom seems like an unreliable choice.
TjL
, as those are the two ways I access email. It
*should* work fine with OS X's Mail app, Outlook, or any client.
TjL
ps - I might also suggest it as a possible revision for how Twitter
might format their own Direct Message emails. You'll note that much
of the message itself is clearly visible when
quot; into a that will
confuse this too.
Thanks
TjL
in their browser.
(Perhaps it will help to know that what I am looking to do is be able
to provide a link in TwitReports which a user can click on and find
current info about a follower, even if s/he has changed their Twitter
name since the TwitReport was sent.)
TjL
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and
grab your URL key from there.
Have a look at the /expand method in their API:
http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
Or,
, but tracking @derek
failed miserably as it dropped the @ and I instantly got swamped with tweets
mentioning derek.
Yeah, I'm thinking about using the search API for a roll my own
track functionality too.
TjL
plan is to check it out for a few days, and if it seems to work
I'll write up a description of how it works and post the code as well.
If anyone would like to see it in its current state, drop me a note
(preferably offlist, so everyone doesn't have to see it) at
luo...@gmail.com
TjL
on
and
notifications = false means you do not?
Sounds like a job for either 0 and 1 or true and false.
Am I missing something?
TjL
already).
This seems HUGELY inefficient (i.e. there will be a LOT of minutes
throughout the day which return no new mentions) but I can't think
of a more efficient way of getting them in a fairly timely manner.
Thanks for any pointers.
TjL
.
TjL
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi all,
The change in from address was meant to fix the 'allow images' but in the
process broke some ISP spam filters, some spam reporting, and a great many
people's mail filters. We're working on rolling
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-direct_messages%C2%A0new?SearchFor=direct+messagesp=4
gives this example:
# curl -u user:password -d text=all your bases are belong to
useuser=user_2 http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml
I tried this
# curl -u luomat:PASSWORD -d
I've been trying without success to find a Twitter 3rd party app that
I thought I saw awhile ago:
Put in your username and it shows all your followers on one page with
their icon and their latest update.
Anyone know what it's called?
I need to start bookmarking these Twitter services.
TjL
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#account/updateprofileimage
says
image. Required. Must be a valid GIF, JPG, or PNG image
So it's safe to assume that anything I pull out of profile_image_url
is going to be either .gif or .jpg or .png?
TjL
auto-follow, and the usefulness is
decreased, all because some people have to piss all over everything by
turning it into some marketing tool.
For what it's worth.
TjL
I'm not sure where to mention this, but as someone with some red/green
color-blindness, the Status per Feature section of
http://status.twitter.com is mostly useless to me.
I would recommend changing to some method that doesn't rely on color
as the only method of conveying that information:
web
a general site announcement for end users, but
we would like to give developers more warning to prepare.
I look forward to seeing how well my scripts tolerate the downtime :-)
TjL
in case anyone can make use of them.
Not sure if they would be of interest to anyone else, but since I had
already written them up, I figured might as well share them here.
TjL
to suggest (even don't do that) without a
more clear understanding of what you are trying to do.
THAT SAID: I don't know of any way to do this with the API anyway,
even for the various ideas of what I think you might mean.
TjL
for :-)
As usual, I've commented the script heavily to try to explain what
each part does. Anyone who can suggest improvements, please do!
TjL
entities) but I thought I'd ask
TjL
people could use it while we talk it over.
Thanks! I've already added a Follow link to TwitReport's email report.
TjL
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
The low barrier to entry with the Twitter API it a great feature we
don't want to lose. We think about it often, and I think about it all of the
time in relation to OAuth. I see this as a concern as much as cron jobs and
rel=nofollow
target=_blankhttp://twitter.com/direct_m...
Can someone un-do this change? There is no reason to add either
nofollow or target to these links, and you've FUBAR'd the entire
URL as a consequence.
I would like the DM to be sent just as I've requested, without Twitter
improving it.
TjL
/create/spam?te...@flp5eg; \
'http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml?user=twitreport'
it still shows up FUBAR'd in http://twitter.com/direct_messages but
SMS and Twitterrific show it as expected.
TjL
the information that we see in the
Following Block on a user's twitterpage (the icons of 36 people they
follow, starting with those who joined Twitter first) other than
content-scraping, which I know is something that should be avoided?
Thanks
TjL
for any pointers.
TjL
I had this happen to me awhile ago for no reason that I could explain.
I put in a support request(*) and a few days later I was back in there.
Support request to http://help.twitter.com or
http://www.getsatisfaction.com/twitter not here
TjL
not follow SCOTT (obviously replace Twitternames
as appropriate :)
If you get
friendstrue/friends
then they do.
Obviously they will not be able to send YOU a DM if you don't follow them.
HTH
TjL
indicator that the person is a free iPhone
spammer.
TjL
in question.
However, this doesn't work:
http://twitter.com/direct_messages/create/spam?stat...@$twit
Is there another way or am I stuck using 'd spam'?
Thx
TjL
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote:
This isn't documented anywhere, as far as I can tell, but
http://twitter.com/direct_messages/create/spam?text= . . . seems to work.
HEY look at that.
Thanks!
TjL
) but what's the better
word for it? Has anyone come up with one?
Followees isn't it but it's as close as I've come.
Attention Getters (those who get my attention) vs Attention Givers
(those who give their attention to me) would be another way of putting
it, but both seem too long :-)
TjL
going to add this?
If not, is someone else working on it?
TjL
/Google Apps
I started with #1, got frustrated and gave up, moved to #2, and am now
getting requests for this functionality so I'm thinking about #1 vs #3
although frankly #4 is the best solution :-)
TjL
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
There is no supported way to get a user ID given an email address. The
undocumented parameter Abraham mentioned has been deprecated and will cease
to work shortly.
Will it be replaced by another way?
Seems like an
users.
TjL
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Kyle Tolle kyle.to...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to authenticate with an account even for pages that
don't require it? If not, there definitely should be.
Sure, just always use your auth creds when you send a request.
TJL
FWIW, I've had trouble uploading a profile picture using the web
interface itself (it seems to accept it, but then doesn't show it). It
hardly seems like the most robust feature. Normally I just keep trying
and waiting a few minutes to see if it actually went through.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
I think it does if you use: @user -to:user
OH YAY!
I've been trying to figure out how to do that.
Thanks
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
We're discussing a local proxy that could be used for testing. It's
definitely a known problem.
Um, am I reading this correctly?
is 'curl --netrc' not going to work anymore once OAuth is implemented?
TjL
guess my next question is this:
Why turn off basic auth once OAuth is enabled?
Why not just leave them both?
(Not trying to be flip, I don't understand what's wrong with having
both doors.)
TjL
on, but how to use Twitter is really OT for the list.
TjL
but not JUST that.
If there is an on-scene reporter who wants to take on an official
Twitter account, that'd be one thing, but if it's going to be
automated, I think it's missing the point.
TjL
there is an argument for a
left tag, but there's really no need to encode a right tag.
Figured I'd throw that out there FWIW
TjL
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
We consider the issue neither acute nor grave.
UNFOLLOW.
Oh, wait, crap.
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, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
IMO, trend bots should have to be registered with Twitter (they say
what
could just block bots and have them excluded from results.
Personal choice, FTW.
Now it just needs to be implemented :-)
TjL
trending bots.
Add a banner on search.twitter.com which links to a blog post on the
Twitter blog for more information.
TjL
there,
That looks like a bug, please open a Google Code issue (http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry
) and we'll take a look.
— Matt
On Mar 6, 2009, at 01:05 AM, TjL wrote:
is 'count' not working for friends timeline if you use XML?
I read this:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API
BAH! It was indeed pilot error. Sorry for the noise.
That's what I get for coding at 4am.
TjL
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting weird results. Sometimes I'm getting 'count' honored, and
sometimes getting 20 regardless of what I ask for.
Still checking
and
watch for any length of time you'll see scads of trending topic bots
popping up.
I think the most I counted at one point was like 12 out of the top 20 results.
It's insane.
TjL
You can find a lot of examples that use curl on the commandline (that
is, not with PHP) at
http://twitreport.tntluoma.com
FWIW
TjL
issue and
possibly more hassle than it's worth.
TjL
at 'doesfollow' and 'id-to-name'
as some good basic ones.
TjL
) but I'm not sure where else to go.
TjL
We had a conversation about this about a week ago which led to a
feature request you may want to 'star':
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=311
to
Users are too lazy to do it the right way.
And yes, if their twitter client makes real replies too hard, they
should be updated to make it easier or they should fall into disuse.
TjL
to no chance that you'll reach
the length of having *3* SMSes (320 characters)
TjL
in the past week or so. Before that it was possible to send
longer DMs even though the counter was below 0.
TjL
? discussion, so I'll let that go.
TjL
I confused the question:
Are you looking for the overlap in friends or a mutual friendship
between two people?
Dumping friend IDs and looking for duplicates is the right way to do the former.
TjL
it or if Twitter
does.
If it is Twitter it seems strange that it works for awhile.
FWIW
TjL
and
are encoded but only count as one.
Related: There's no real need to encode the is there?
TjL
c) is something else
TjL
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Pete Warden searchbrow...@gmail.com wrote:
From a UI point of view I'd prefer to have a dedicated Twitter landing page
that you could send people to that just contained a 'Do you want to follow
X?' rather than having the ubiquitous 'Go to this page and then
shows this information already if
I put in two Twitter names?
Don't want to reinvent the wheel :-)
TjL
ever comes
to Twitter except from Twitter.
No one is suggesting taking away the follow link as it exists. But it
has limitations.
TjL
that this doesn't do any error-checking to make sure that
the auto-follow has worked.
FWIW
TjL
) or like the options found at
http://twitter.com/devices
Are these functions not available through the API or am I just missing them?
TjL
by loading http://twitter.com/devices in my browser).
I turned it on/off at the commandline, no change on the web.
(I couldn't find a way to check the current device state
[off/sms/im] via the API either.)
TjL
One last thing (I think)
The /devices page gives the option to get ONLY 'DM's sent as device
updates, but I don't see how to do that in the API either.
TjL
the wrong question?
TjL
restoration.
How is search.twitter.com able to find them if they are deleted? Are
there two DBs of statuses?
TjL
http://twitter.com/users/show/brookr.xml | egrep
notifications.*/notifications | sed 's#.*notifications##g;
s#/notifications##g'
true
XML is returning 'true' for almost every follower.
TjL
ps - FWIW,
curl -s --netrc -d POST
'http://twitter.com/account/update_delivery_device.json?device
I don't think cacheing explains my bug. I have never had device
updates for these people; in fact I only just added a device this
afternoon and the default state is false.
TjL
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi there,
I believe both following
shows
threaded (at least time-sorted) messages sent and received. I seem
to always forget what I've been talking about with people and then
they DM me and I have to go back and try to piece it together.)
Thanks
TjL
obviously had no authentication with it and seen the number at zero.
I'm not sure if these limits are IP based or what.
TjL
that
powers twitreport, and put them all up here
http://twitreport.tntluoma.com/
in the hopes that they might be of some use to someone
FWIW
TjL
[*] why? two reasons: 1) Twitterrific pops up, I can cmd+tab to
Terminal and fav it on the commandline. NO MOUSE NEEDED. Also, 2) I
can KNOW
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