[twitter-dev] Re: @anywhere login code samples

2010-04-15 Thread sull
I get 401 Unauthorized when I use this example code with my API key of course. On Apr 15, 6:08 am, siggy wrote: > Hi there, > > Some of the @anywhere sample code in the "Working with the current > user" section required some tweaks to get working. > > The text specifies a User Callback function

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-08 Thread sull
 If we were > > able to use an anchor tag, and the HTML did not count against the 140 > > character limit, then the need for a URL shortener service would not > > be needed. > > > On Jul 8, 10:27 am, sull wrote: > >> ironically, my example urls are shortened her

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-08 Thread sull
ironically, my example urls are shortened here ;) On Jul 8, 12:20 pm, sull wrote: > this is a topic of interest to me for a long while. > been meaning to start a thread. > > i'm often bothered by the automatic shortening of urls when in fact > the url does not need to be

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-08 Thread sull
://plea.se/twitter-dont-shorten-this-url-with-bitly-since-it-does-not-need-to-be-shortened-with-8-available-characters-remaining http://twitter.com/sull/status/2534470050 @sull On Jul 8, 4:50 am, Swaroop wrote: > "However, if you paste in a link that is less than 30 characters, > we'

[twitter-dev] Re: How to list followers, including icons and usernames?

2009-06-29 Thread sull
yes it's a tough one all i wanted was to populate a dropdown menu with followers names for direct message form. would prefer a more efficient way. but i am doing a follower import/update. it's expensive on first session but not so bad if the user comes back and only has a small batch of new fo

[twitter-dev] Re: How long until Basic Auth support is dropped?

2009-06-26 Thread sull
I use both. OAUTH for users to login but I also post to my app's own twitter account and for that I use Basic http auth since the credentials are hardcoded. I would never setup an app that asks for a users password using Basic and strongly encourage others to only use OAUTH. But feel that Basic is

[twitter-dev] Re: "Whoa there" error after Oauth authorization.

2009-06-25 Thread sull
confirmed. this has been happening to me over the past week as well. On Jun 25, 10:51 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do remember running into this a few days ago but assumed it was a > random occurrence. > > I did just replicate the issue though by: > > Log out of twitter. >

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-24 Thread sull
9 months? wow. What about reported spammers/squatters? Do you look at analytics of signups to see if automated software was involved? Do you cross-check email domains used? So an account that has been sitting idle since 2007 with a single post that might get deleted at some point will get an add

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-24 Thread sull
nice. i've used http://www.changedetect.com for this in the past. will give your service a try. On Jun 24, 2:22 am, drew wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I wrote a quick tool to email you when the Twitter name you want is > available:http://www.tweettaker.com/ > > It seems Twitter currently might not

[twitter-dev] Re: Specify Page Size on page enabled API Methods

2009-06-18 Thread sull
count parameter would be helpful for any endpoint that contains a page parameter option. On Apr 29, 3:48 pm, devangel wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion.  Count doesn't seem to have any affect for > _/followers.xml. > > Cheers > > On Apr 28, 4:31 pm, Matt Sanford wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > >    

[twitter-dev] Re: get all friend screen_names

2009-06-18 Thread sull
19 am, sull wrote: > it's not critical, so i was mainly trying to make sure that i was not > missing something in the API. > > i'm just doing a check on the response with the page parameter.  if > it's empty, then i've reached the last page and will combine the

[twitter-dev] Re: get all friend screen_names

2009-06-18 Thread sull
ved. On Jun 18, 12:47 am, Developer In London wrote: > why would you need the screen_names of all the friends? usually you can use > the twitterID for making any API calls > > 2009/6/18 sull > > > > > > > > > i actually started out using statuses/friends

[twitter-dev] Re: get all friend screen_names

2009-06-17 Thread sull
very true. except that i am allowing direct messages in an app and a user would select a friend to send a dm to from a dropdown menu. having the ids lets me programatically continue, but the user is not able to make an association between a numeric id and the screen_name its connected to. sull

[twitter-dev] Re: get all friend screen_names

2009-06-17 Thread sull
doing to get complete friends list? thanks. sull On Jun 17, 10:30 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > statuses/friends would probably be faster. > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 20:11, sull wrote: > > > i found it odd that i cannot seem to get a simple API re

[twitter-dev] get all friend screen_names

2009-06-17 Thread sull
i found it odd that i cannot seem to get a simple API response with all of a user's friends screen_names, only user ids. do i need to make a request from users/show after i do friends/ids ? am i missing a direct call or more efficient method? thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth - Application Website

2009-06-17 Thread sull
this happened to me last week. it also happened again when i made edits to the registered app but those edits did not take effect (though the changes were displayed properly from oauth_clients management page. both times, deleting my app from twitter and recreating it helped. On Jun 17, 1:23 pm,