[twitter-dev] Are statuses deleted method

2009-02-23 Thread Abraham Williams
Currently there is not a good method of finding out if statuses have been deleted other then running statuses/show/*id. *A possible solution is to add a method that accepts an array or a csv string of say 100 statuses. It could return FALSE if none of the statuses are deleted or the ids of

[twitter-dev] Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result

2009-02-23 Thread ylerouzic
When I try to retrieve a user (using http://www.twitter.com/users/show/stephenfry.json), the double quotes are not escaped in the user description (description:I'm blacked out: Stand up against Guilt Upon Accusation for New Zealand http:\/\/creativefreedom.org.nz\/ blackout.html), which means

[twitter-dev] Re: Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result

2009-02-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
When I try to retrieve a user (using http://www.twitter.com/users/show/stephenfry.json), the double quotes are not escaped in the user description (description:I'm blacked out: Stand up against Guilt Upon Accusation for New Zealand http:\/\/creativefreedom.org.nz\/ blackout.html), which

[twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, I added this info to the ticket. Thanks; — Matt On Feb 23, 2009, at 06:21 AM, Karthik wrote: Can you accept the request for the colon character too? I may use the prefix $IN for Indian stocks and would like to retrieve only the updates containing the term $IN:REL for

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Image(s)

2009-02-23 Thread Shannon Whitley
You may want to look at the SPIURL project: http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/ It provides static urls for each Twitter profile image. On Feb 22, 8:43 am, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: I take that back, Ricardo. I looks like this has already been officially requested. Be sure to star it if

[twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character

2009-02-23 Thread Karthik
Thanks a lot :) On Feb 23, 7:52 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there,      I added this info to the ticket. Thanks;    — Matt On Feb 23, 2009, at 06:21 AM, Karthik wrote: Can you accept the request for the colon character too? I may use the prefix $IN for Indian

[twitter-dev] Re: Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result

2009-02-23 Thread Abraham Williams
I get the same thing. Are you perhaps viewing it in something that would convert quot;? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:42, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: When I try to retrieve a user (using http://www.twitter.com/users/show/stephenfry.json), the double quotes are not escaped in

[twitter-dev] Re: Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result

2009-02-23 Thread Abraham Williams
and by that I mean the same thing as Cameron. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:23, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I get the same thing. Are you perhaps viewing it in something that would convert quot;? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:42, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: When I

[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs

2009-02-23 Thread jstrellner
I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and your app should remove them. Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would probably be more efficient. So while it would

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and 401 Unauthorised Request

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, I am working on a fix for the case where a brand new token takes a few seconds to propagate to all of our database slaves. During that time you would see errors like Invalid / expired Token and then they would suddenly start working. They may even work on some requests and

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and 401 Unauthorised Request

2009-02-23 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi Matt, Excellent news, thanks. Paul. 2009/2/23 Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com Hi there, I am working on a fix for the case where a brand new token takes a few seconds to propagate to all of our database slaves. During that time you would see errors like Invalid / expired Token and

[twitter-dev] 'import sys' unnecessary?

2009-02-23 Thread Rogério Schneider
Hi folks. During some tests on a patch I saw some weird things in the code, maybe you can help me to understand it all. -- $ pychecker twitter.py Processing twitter... Warnings... twitter.py:29: Imported module (sys) not used twitter.py:2064: Local variable (e) not used -- Maybe we could

[twitter-dev] 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
So I have kind of weird request. My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons. I'm curious if there is any tools internally at twitter that

[twitter-dev] Re: Help!! Oauth weirdness, invalid / expired token.

2009-02-23 Thread Abraham Williams
How long does it take for a request token to expire? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:29, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Emmanuel, Since we improved the error messaging a bit that error message now leads to something useful. When we tried to lookup your token it was not found. Was

[twitter-dev] Re: Help!! Oauth weirdness, invalid / expired token.

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, A request token is expected to be very short lived, since it's only used to exchange for an access token. Right now they do not expire but in an upcoming change we're going to limit them to a one hour life span to improve performance and scalability. The life span of an

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Ricardo Sousa
If i'm not wrong there's no limit for POST ans as this is a post request type you should have no problems in creating a quick script that makes you unfollow everyone. Thx On Feb 23, 4:41 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: So I have kind of weird request. My boss, who is following

[twitter-dev] Re: In Reply To

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Payne
Added to the FAQ: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIgetallrepliestoaparticularstatus On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 22:36, Duane Storey duanesto...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to query all the replies to a particular status ID? I scanned the API but didn't see anything. Thanks. --

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Damon Clinkscales
Zac, I would space the calls a bit, but I've been told by Alex previously that a mass unfollow wouldn't be limited. -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: So I have kind of weird request. My boss, who is following 24,386

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Terry Jones
Hi Zac Zac == Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com writes: My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons. ... you can contact me off list at

[twitter-dev] Re: is there an Intro to Twitter API with PHP?

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Payne
Twitter API: Up Running from O'Reilly is exactly what you're looking for. It assumes a smidge of basic PHP/programming knowledge, and goes from there. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157791/ (Full disclosure: I was a technical editor on this book. I don't get a cut for every book sold or

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that.

[twitter-dev] Re: Are statuses deleted method

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Payne
For the moment, when we delete statuses, we really DELETE (in SQL terms) statuses! In the future we'll probably just hide them, as we do with deleted users whose accounts are still being held for possible user-triggered restoration. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 00:47, Abraham Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Payne
Yes, please do: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner jstrell...@urltrends.com wrote: I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Payne
That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
Haha, being that you know who I work for and the we own Twhirl, I probably shouldn't comment about Tweetdeck. :-) Loic loves everyone, but he had an auto-follow bot that followed everyone that followed him. Got a little crazy. The biggest issue was Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling

[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs

2009-02-23 Thread iematthew
Just curious, but how does one go about setting the type of an issue in the bug/feature request system? I haven't seen any option for doing so, so my Enhancement gets entered as a Defect. On Feb 23, 2:39 pm, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Yes, there are more important things.

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. Oh, thanks. I did a quick search on follow limits

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
The biggest issue was The gold it's in the -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Don't treat fictional people as if they're real. It only encourages them. -- (*)

[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Payne
Just start typing? Or Matt and I will re-file it. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:44, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Just curious, but how does one go about setting the type of an issue in the bug/feature request system? I haven't seen any option for doing so, so my Enhancement

[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Just start typing? Eh? I don't see an option to choose between Enhancement or Defect either when creating a new issue. Is it hiding somewhere? -Chad On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:44, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, I looked into this a bit and it looks like non-admins are not seeing the field. Hoping I can make Google Code play ball, otherwise I'll keep doing the triage comments. — Matt On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
Script is running now. It has a 1.5 second delay between calls to be nice to twitter (hope that is enough). Already down about 2,000 people. using the twyt python library (with some modifications to support the new social graph api) and simplejson. --- from twyt.twitter import Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Sanford
I usually lack any whale humor, but here goes: v vv | | v | v | .-, | | | .--./ / | _.---.| '-. (__..- \ \ a| ',.__. ,__.-'/ '--/_.''` T H EW H A L E S L E E P S T O N I G H T On Feb 23,

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
Oh thats awesome! Every now and then I'll get a 503 Bad Gateway error but that is to be expected at least a few times for 24,000+ calls :-) Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: I usually lack any

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Lakshman Prasad
Why twyt library? I have hacked on twitter API aswell; but I used the http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ wrapper from Google. Is there a wiki page that lists all different wrappers and explains why one is to be used over the other? Thanks. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Zac Bowling

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Lakshman Prasad
Ok, If you are starting it anyway, Please include me in that. Happy to hack on twitter API, anyday! twitter id: twitter.com/scorpion032 Company:uswaretech.com/ Email: laksh...@uswaretech.com Thanks Alex, in advance! On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread CaMason
Why not... twitter id: twitter.com/CraigMason company: Stasis Media (http://www.stasismedia.com) email: i...@stasismedia.com -Craig On Feb 23, 10:34 pm, Lakshman Prasad scorpion...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, If you are starting it anyway, Please include me

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
I see that one but when I hit the download page, it said the last update was Sept 2007, so I looked at the other one on the list, and its last update was Febuary 2009, so I used that one. That's all. Was hoping the new one had the social graph api but it didn't but it was easy enough to add it.

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Dimebrain
Thanks for offering to collect this info, Alex. Twitter Username: @dimebrain URL: http://dimebrain.com Email: i...@dimebrain.com Technology: .NET, C#, Silverlight and WPF On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Badera
Andy Badera Higher Efficiency, Inc. http://twitter.com/andrewbadera and...@higherefficiency.net Emphasis on .NET solutions and integration work. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Robert
Hi Alex, Here is my contact info: Twitter: @metarobert Email: rob...@arlesnet.com Web: http://32hours.com Author of BeTwittered Thanks for putting a list together! Robert On Feb 23, 10:33 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2/23/09 4:59 PM, Matt Sanford wrote: I usually lack any whale humor, but here goes: v vv | | v | v | .-, | | | .--./ / | _.---.| '-. (__..- \ \ a| ',.__. ,__.-'/ '--/_.''` T H EW H A L

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Nick Arnett
Me, too. twitter id: twitter.com/NickArnetthttp://twitter.com/CraigMason company: http://TwURLedNews.com email: nick.arn...@gmail.com My expertise is in finding business intelligence in social media, which I've been doing for about 10 years (I invented

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Abraham Williams
Abraham Williams http://twitter.com/poseurtech PoseurTech LLC http://poseurte.ch abra...@poseurte.ch PHP, Drupal, My/SQL/ite, OAuth, fun things. This might be better on a user writeable page so Al3x does not have to keep editing it. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:33, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Westley Annis
Username: WestleyAnnis url: http://www.da-parish.com email: west...@da-parish.com Technology: PHP -Original Message- On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Terry Jones
Hi Zac Loic loves everyone, but he had an auto-follow bot that followed everyone that followed him. Got a little crazy. Sorry, I don't buy that for a second :-) Looks to me like a Twitter personality overhaul. I mean who do you want to be, someone with 24K followers who just follows a very

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread fastest963
You know me: Name: James Hartig Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 7:56 pm, Westley Annis west...@da-parish.com wrote: Username: WestleyAnnis url:http://www.da-parish.com email: west...@da-parish.com Technology: PHP -Original

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread fastest963
You know me: Name: James Hartig (@fastest963) Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 1:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter

[twitter-dev] friendships/exists broken?

2009-02-23 Thread pierre
Hello, This API call is returning true while twitter.com shows that user_a is NOT following user_b: http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json?user_a=749963user_b=14720560 Verified using curl providing user_a's username/password to authenticate the call. Just noticed about an hour ago.

[twitter-dev] Re: friendships/exists broken?

2009-02-23 Thread Hayes Davis
I'm seeing the same thing. It's returning true for me no matter what when I make the call in the way Pierre describes. It also seems to be returning the raw true in the response body like it used to instead of the JSON repsonse I thought it was changed to back in January. Hayes --

[twitter-dev] Re: friendships/exists broken?

2009-02-23 Thread Aditya
+1 on the error. On Feb 24, 8:39 am, pierre pomid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This API call is returning true while twitter.com shows that user_a is NOT following user_b:  http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json?user_a=749963user_b=14720560 Verified using curl providing user_a's

[twitter-dev] Re: friendships/exists broken?

2009-02-23 Thread Hayes Davis
Further investigation shows the XML format is working fine. Seems to be a problem only with the JSON version. Hayes -- http://cheaptweet.com

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Price
On Feb 23, 11:07 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: That's all. Was hoping the new one had the social graph api but it didn't but it was easy enough to add it. I'll add this to twyt tomorrow. Or even sooner if you send me your patch :-) Cheers, -- Andy Price

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
I'm shocked by the fall out today in the twitterverse about Loic now only following 22 people right now. The @loic traffic is amazing. Scoble is battling with him. Pretty interesting. My patch stinks :-) don't have gnu diff around to give you a proper patch. I just added these two functions to

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Price
I've committed this to twyt's bzr repository with minor tweaks (comments and method names) and credited you in the commit log. It'll be included in the next release. Many thanks. On Feb 24, 7:12 am, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm shocked by the fall out today in the twitterverse