[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 6:36 pm, "Joel Strellner" wrote: > There are 3 API's that I know of that you can use: > > Twitturly (Ours - Private beta only at the moment) > Tweetmeme > BackTweet > > Between the 3 of us, I am sure you can accomplish whatever your end-goal is. Thanks - they are better than nothing

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Joel Strellner
that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others) On Jul 15, 5:57 pm, Matt Sanford wrote: > Have you thought about using one of the APIs built for this,   > like backtweets [1]? I thought about them, but only as a last resort. Did not know about backtweets - they look good, bu

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:57 pm, Matt Sanford wrote: > Have you thought about using one of the APIs built for this,   > like backtweets [1]? I thought about them, but only as a last resort. Did not know about backtweets - they look good, but they also have a limit of 1000 calls/ day. I had also looked into

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, Please be aware there are update limits in addition to the rate limit. There are also the spam and abuse marshals looking out for accounts acting suspiciously. Posting a bunch of link-only tweets seems like it's very likely to run afoul of them and get the account suspended.

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > Hmmm... just tried a few and sure enough, the bit.ly URLs generated by > Twitter seem to be unique to Twitter, although consistent. Apparently > Twitter has enabled bit.ly URL tracking. There's a horrible solution to > that, too... tweet th

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:45 pm, Bill Kocik wrote: > Status updates don't count toward  your rate limit > (although Twitter may separately notice a large number of updates > which are nothing more than URLs and mark you a spammer or something, > but that's another discussion). Interesting, thanks! I did n

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Bill Kocik wrote: > > > So for 10 URLs, you post 10 status updates, then retrieve your own > last 10 updates in one call by retrieving your own timeline via / > statuses/user_timeline(and that's the one hit against your rate limit). If Twitter will shorten multi

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bill Kocik
On Jul 15, 11:21 am, Bjoern wrote: > Argh, except that Twitter rate limits will bite me :-( What I have > implemented is a search web site that shows associated tweets to the > URLs, so potentially it would generate a lot of requests (one page of > search results is 10 URLs to check). > > Bett

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:18 pm, Bjoern wrote: > Actually that is a pretty good idea, thanks!!! Argh, except that Twitter rate limits will bite me :-( What I have implemented is a search web site that shows associated tweets to the URLs, so potentially it would generate a lot of requests (one page of sear

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:04 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: > There's a horrible solution to > that, too... tweet the original URL and then read back the status to get the > Twitter-specific bit.ly URL.  Ugh. Actually that is a pretty good idea, thanks!!! It is horrible, but I can't think of a better way atm. I thin

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bjoern wrote: > > > > On Jul 15, 4:27 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > > > > > But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in > users > > > > That is an option, but in my experience, it is rela

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 4:04 pm, Vision Jinx wrote: > They also have an API... > > http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation > > http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation#REST_API Yes, but they don't offer a way to see all variations of a URL, so it does not help much. Björn

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 4:17 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: > The solution is to go about this the opposite way. > > Bit.ly will return the same shortened URL for any request using the same > source URL.  So, use bit.ly to shorten the URL, then search Twitter for the > bit.ly URL you get back.  The same is true fo

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 4:27 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > > > But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in users > > That is an option, but in my experience, it is relatively rare. If you want to create a bitly url via the API, you h

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > >> > But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in users That is an option, but in my experience, it is relatively rare. Nick

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Bjoern wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> The problem is: how to find tweets that point to a certain URL. Most >> of those tweets would use a shortened version of the URL, and most of >> them probably bit.ly. Bit.l

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Bjoern wrote: > > Hi, > > The problem is: how to find tweets that point to a certain URL. Most > of those tweets would use a shortened version of the URL, and most of > them probably bit.ly. Bit.ly does not provide a way to list all > shortened versions of a URL,

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Vision Jinx
Hi, I am not sure I fully understand what your trying to do but maybe something here will help. :) for a bit.ly url like http://bit.ly/2FgTDX To preview it you can add either a + to the end of it or insert /info/ http://bit.ly/2FgTDX+ http://bit.ly/info/2FgTDX They also have an API... http: