[twitter-dev] missing user fields in retweets?

2010-09-20 Thread gabriele renzi
Hi everyone, As of this morning (CEST) we started seeing some errors in our logs due to User objects in status messages representing retweets being in compact form (id only) e.g. curl api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/25002162945.json | jeg -p { coordinates: null, favorited: false,

[twitter-dev] Re: missing user fields in retweets?

2010-09-20 Thread gabriele renzi
self-reply: apparently, when asking the same status in XML format we get all the fields, and other retweets seem to contain the full user object, so this seems more of a glitch on twitter's side. Again, if we have missed some change in the API spec, I'd be happy to hear about it and I'm sorry for

[twitter-dev] garbage in json api response?

2010-09-03 Thread gabriele renzi
Hi everyone, I am noticing that my home timeline and that of a few other people is returning some messed up stuff, basically intemingling something that looks like a random sequence of bytes to normal messages. You can in theory verify this by accessing my home timeline (@riffraff) and

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread gabriele renzi
* What is an annotation more exactly exactly? First off let's be clearer about what an annotation is. An annotation is a namespace, key, value triple. A tweet can have one or more annotations. Namespaces can have one or more key/value pairs. first, annotations are cool, thanks. But why

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread gabriele renzi
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: More namespace nesting would of course increase people's ability to taxonomize. It's a splippery slope though and we are trying to balance expressiveness with simplicity. Providing for arbitrarily nested namespaces

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread gabriele renzi
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:21 PM, dhavaln dhaval.b.na...@gmail.com wrote: but this will create islands of information and information retrieval based on annotations will be difficult for other applications. i.e. amazon.com:book-rating{isbn:34345434, rating: 5} it should be easier for other

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming api documentation error (?)

2009-10-03 Thread gabriele renzi
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks, Gabriele. Fixed! glad to be helpful, but it's only fixed in one of the two sentences, check the above one :)

[twitter-dev] streaming api documentation error (?)

2009-10-02 Thread gabriele renzi
Hi everyone, I'm in the process of implementing a consumer for the streaming API, but while perusing the documentation I noticed an inconsistency in http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation When a network error (TCP/IP level) is encountered, back off linearly. Perhaps start at