[twitter-dev] Re: Developing WETweet and questions on Following and Un-Following people through the API

2009-03-04 Thread Doug Williams
Jeff, The friendship methods will allow you to create and destroy friendships on the behalf of authenticated users. Their usage is explained at [1]. These methods allow you to follow and unfollow users. Notification methods are not necessary unless you would like to enable/disable device

[twitter-dev] Intercepting replies in realtime

2009-03-04 Thread kprobe
I've seen the doc on the replies API method in the documentation. Is there a way to capture a reply automatically in order to process it in real-time? Perhaps a callback.

[twitter-dev] Tracking the friend timeline

2009-03-04 Thread Nial
Over at http://birdhive.net, we track our friend timeline to find people who have marked tweets with the #bh hashtag. Until very recently, I thought that passing the optional since parameter in my request would return all tweets in that timespan. It was only recently that I realised it just

[twitter-dev] Bug: in_reply_to_screen_name

2009-03-04 Thread Adrian
field: in_reply_to_screen_name exists for statuses /statuses/friends/USERNAME.xml but in /statuses/friends/USERNAME.json it does not. thank you.

[twitter-dev] Re: 500 internal error

2009-03-04 Thread Paul Haenel
Nope its just running in a safari browser adn it works great. Im using this javascript function for Base64 http://www.webtoolkit.info/javascript-base64.html. here is the full code again: function setTwitterStatus(twitterStatus){ var twitterStatus = 'status='+twitterStatus; var req =

[twitter-dev] Re: Developing WETweet and questions on Following and Un-Following people through the API

2009-03-04 Thread Jeff Bishop
Doug, Thank you. One question though. If I try to follow someone that is protected will the Twitter API go ahead and submit the request without a problem or do I need to do something different? I understand I could check the protected node for its value to determine if the user was a

[twitter-dev] Re: Suspended or Deleted Account Feed ...

2009-03-04 Thread 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limiting message in search

2009-03-04 Thread Dimebrain
Thanks Paul, I'll log your message here as an issue and see what I can do. And as far as WebException is concerned, you can just cast its Response property to HttpWebResponse rather than go digging in the header. That's exactly what I do to retrieve the root's Response object. So that means you

[twitter-dev] Re: Developing WETweet and questions on Following and Un-Following people through the API

2009-03-04 Thread Doug Williams
Jeff, In my tests, the request was successfully set, and my protected test user was notified of a pending friend request. Regards, Doug @dougw On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jeff Bishop jeff.bis...@gmail.com wrote: Doug, Thank you. One question though. If I try to follow someone that is

[twitter-dev] Re: Intercepting replies in realtime

2009-03-04 Thread Stuart
2009/3/4 kprobe goo...@kprobe.com I've seen the doc on the replies API method in the documentation. Is there a way to capture a reply automatically in order to process it in real-time? Perhaps a callback. Look at www.gnip.com. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/

[twitter-dev] Re: Intercepting replies in realtime

2009-03-04 Thread Doug Williams
There is currently no callback, subscription or push pattern available for API methods. Thanks, Doug @dougw On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM, kprobe goo...@kprobe.com wrote: I've seen the doc on the replies API method in the documentation. Is there a way to capture a reply automatically in

[twitter-dev] Re: Tracking the friend timeline

2009-03-04 Thread Stuart
2009/3/4 Nial nia...@gmail.com Over at http://birdhive.net, we track our friend timeline to find people who have marked tweets with the #bh hashtag. Until very recently, I thought that passing the optional since parameter in my request would return all tweets in that timespan. It was only

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug: in_reply_to_screen_name

2009-03-04 Thread Doug Williams
Adrian, There is an issue that was just opened for this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=323 As always, star to show your priority. Thanks, Doug @dougw On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Adrian spiritpo...@gmail.com wrote: field: in_reply_to_screen_name exists for

[twitter-dev] Re: Tracking the friend timeline

2009-03-04 Thread Chad Etzel
If you don't want to limit it to only your friends you could just search for #bh and do what you will with the results... unless there is a conflicting #bh tag being used for something else? -Chad On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Nial nia...@gmail.com wrote: Over at http://birdhive.net, we

[twitter-dev] Re: in reply to metadata missing for manual replies

2009-03-04 Thread simX
Back and forth with atebits over e-mail: I, personally, found the false positives much more acceptable than the current situation where you have to hunt for originating tweets for false negatives. Doing anything interesting like automatically crawling conversation webs is flat out impossible

[twitter-dev] Re: Consistent 502 errors for users with large friend follower lists

2009-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Protocol Buffers is yet another RPC scheme that requires compilation of the data types. If on the other hand you define simple data types this can be much simpler and finessed, and including dealing with such RPC issues as endian-ness. wondering if is there any sort of compression of XML

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Nick Halstead nickhalst...@gmail.comwrote: We have tried to stick very closely to the RESTful + twitter style API The documentation is here - http://www.tweetmeme.com/apidoc.php An example of the url fetcher -

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Christian Heilmann
Nick Halstead wrote: Today we launched an API for tweetmeme, for those who havent tried it, we aggregate all the twitter URL's to rank the most popular stories. Well the upside of this is that we have massive database of all the short URL's - and where they resolve to, included in this we also

[twitter-dev] regex for smiley indexing?

2009-03-04 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Hey Twitter folks I *love* that you guys index messages by smiley vs. frowny emoticons! It looks like you normalize a wide range of happy and sad emoticons together. I'm doing some searches in [[ :) ]] and trying to then identify what the original smiley in the message was and it's a little

[twitter-dev] Re: regex for smiley indexing?

2009-03-04 Thread Nicole Simon
I would assume that they do use a simple OR. Nicole -- Jetzt im Buchhandel: Twitter - Mit 140 Zeichen zum Web 2.0 Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/6at9c5 http://mit140zeichen.de - http://twitter.com/m140z Kontakt: http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon https://www.xing.com/profile/Nicole_Simon skype:

[twitter-dev] Re: in reply to metadata missing for manual replies

2009-03-04 Thread TjL
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:38 PM, atebits loren.brich...@gmail.com wrote: 1. If a client is making users jump through hoops to reply to a specific tweet, the client is doing it wrong. [snip] The end of auto-linking was a fantastic change for two reasons: 1. it keeps everything simple (no new

[twitter-dev] Re: regex for smiley indexing?

2009-03-04 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Mar 4, 1:52 pm, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: I would assume that they do use a simple OR. Sure, but an OR of what?

[twitter-dev] oauth not working via https://twitter.com

2009-03-04 Thread dean.j.robinson
For example: https://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=OMxcOPndHoO57JMFURt8GyzKpnREj9oKf6aG6f3pU that url doesn't work (returns stanard twitter page not found), but this one does http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=OMxcOPndHoO57JMFURt8GyzKpnREj9oKf6aG6f3pU This doesn't always

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth not working via https://twitter.com

2009-03-04 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi all, This is related to the login error (http://status.twitter.com/post/83602310/problems-logging-in ) and people are working on it. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Mar 4, 2009, at 03:32 PM, dean.j.robinson wrote: For example:

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API to unshorten URL's from twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Sam K Sethi
We have already implmented Tweetmeme's API in our test site and will pish it live on Friday. Good job Nick. Thanks in advance Sam www.twitblogs.com/ssethi This email is: [ ] bloggable [ ] twittable [ ] ask first [X] private Sent from: Poplar Eng United Kingdom. 2009/3/4 Nick Halstead

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth not working via https://twitter.com

2009-03-04 Thread dean.j.robinson
Thanks for the speedy response Matt. Much appreciated. On Mar 5, 10:49 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all,      This is related to the login error (http://status.twitter.com/post/83602310/problems-logging-in ) and people are working on it. Thanks;    — Matt Sanford On Mar

[twitter-dev] Re: in reply to metadata missing for manual replies

2009-03-04 Thread simX
On 4 Mar, 14:25, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: There *should* be a way to start a conversation chain without setting an in-reply-to being added where it doesn't belong. That's where it makes sense that you would type in @NAME by hand. Twitter shouldn't be held hostage to the way it used to be