[twitter-dev] Re: converting existing users to OAuth

2009-03-23 Thread bbc
I second that. It would be much better to convert existing user base automatically behind the scene other than asking them redo the whole process, which is kinda hassle to our users On Mar 21, 8:13 am, Simon tro...@gmail.com wrote: What is the status on this? We really a need a quicker way to

[twitter-dev] Nice problem - tweets over 140 chars still being logged

2009-03-23 Thread Adrian
I just logged a Tweet 181 characters long using the Twitlet bookmarklet. http://twitter.com/twitya/status/137357

[twitter-dev] Re: curl/php encoding

2009-03-23 Thread Hippyjim Starbrook
Thanks Abraham I'm aware of the difference a doctype would make to *browser* rendering. Problem is - the info is not for a browser. It's being passed to another application, that can only take a text response of a certain size. That means adding all the usual html page headings etc just won't

[twitter-dev] Re: rate_limit_status called from .NET WebClient class

2009-03-23 Thread Andrew Badera
Do an http trace, see if different headers are getting sent. Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - (518) 641-1280 - Tech Valley Code Camp 2009.1: http://www.techvalleycodecamp.com/ - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM, J.D.

[twitter-dev] Re: curl/php encoding

2009-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I'm aware of the difference a doctype would make to *browser* rendering. Problem is - the info is not for a browser. It's being passed to another application, that can only take a text response of a certain size. That means adding all the usual html page headings etc just won't work.The

[twitter-dev] Re: List of Twitter users ranked by followers

2009-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
What I want to do seems so simple but I have done extensive research and found no answers. I want to be able to have a list of specific Twitter users and have it automatically update and rank by the amount of followers. How would I go about this? I'm very new to this and will take any

[twitter-dev] Re: SIze of numeric return values

2009-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Does anybody convert the numerical values in the returned xml-string to integers? I_m thinking of values like favorites_count, followers_count, (user) id and (status) id, timestamp among others. Is it resonable to convert them to 32 bit unsigned integers? Or do they sometimes return negative

[twitter-dev] Questions about TOS

2009-03-23 Thread Justin Hart
I have a tool which will allow users to follow everyone on the #TCOT list (in batches of 25). Someone brought up a concern that this might infringe on Twitter's TOS? Any thoughts on this. see below: http://tweetforchuck.com/tcot/

[twitter-dev] Good tool or spam?

2009-03-23 Thread Justin Hart
I have a tool developed for the #TCOT community which will allow a user to follow everyone on that list in batches of 25. Is this kosher or does this run up against the Twitter TOS? Here's the tool: http://tweetforchuck.com/tcot/

[twitter-dev] Re: Can OAuth approval process work in an IFRAME?

2009-03-23 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi all, I want to add one comment on this. If you can IFRAME it, you can click-jack it using the opacity, z-index, some CSS positioning tricks. Allowing the 'Yes, I want free porn' button to auto-authorize someone's app to post as a user is a Bad Thing™. I saw the popup flow from

[twitter-dev] Profile Images with no file extension

2009-03-23 Thread Shannon Whitley
I just discovered that there are profile images with no file extension. This is an example: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70479542/eliteblogger_logo Is this something that we should expect? I have been using the extension to determine the content-type.

[twitter-dev] Re: Good tool or spam?

2009-03-23 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Justin, Any sort of automated following runs a risk of having users suspended as suspected spammers [1]. My suggestion would be to approach the lack of groups in some other way. Thanks; — Matt Sanford [1] - http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/18311 On Mar 23, 2009, at

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about TOS

2009-03-23 Thread Doug Williams
Matt answered this question here http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/ad19386088649bb1 . Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Justin Hart ldsblog...@gmail.com wrote: I have a tool which will allow

[twitter-dev] Re: White listed IP Address?

2009-03-23 Thread Doug Williams
Justin, You can make an unauthenticated request to the account/rate_limit_status method, which will return the rate limit information for the requesting IP. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#account/ratelimitstatus Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support

[twitter-dev] Re: Good tool or spam?

2009-03-23 Thread Chad Etzel
I have seen that there is a #tcot directory somewhere (not sure how all-inclusive it is). I would suggest having people browse through there and choosing who they want to follow personally. Also since most tcot-ers religiously use the #tcot hashtag, there are many tools to keep up with such

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth application icon reset?

2009-03-23 Thread Doug Williams
Star it! http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=374 This issue is on deck as we speak. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: When I visit: https://twitter.com/account/connections

[twitter-dev] Re: General OAuth questions

2009-03-23 Thread Nial
Just a little bump. Regarding question 2, having asked on the OAuth mailing list I've since setup an auto-update system whereby my widget is capable of remotely updating the consumer key and secret, should they ever be used maliciously by a third party. The first question stands, though! On Mar

[twitter-dev] Re: General OAuth questions

2009-03-23 Thread Abraham Williams
Feel free to launch. Just be aware that OAuth support is in beta, has known issues and might have future issues. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:18, Nial nia...@gmail.com wrote: Just a little bump. Regarding question 2, having asked on the OAuth mailing list I've since setup an auto-update system

[twitter-dev] OAuth authenticated requests to rate_limit_status

2009-03-23 Thread Joshua Perry
I made an issue for this, when authenticated via OAuth requests to rate_limit_status seems to return the IP specific rate-limit status and not the users. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=376 Please star it if you are using OAuth and you show or use the rate-limit.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-23 Thread Jason Schroeder
Any hope Twitter will re-size these existing images? Thank you! -Jason TwitterBerry On Mar 17, 7:25 pm, Jason Schroeder jasch...@gmail.com wrote: That image is also 256x256px. Cheers, Jason On Mar 17, 7:09 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: no response when updating @any_user

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
You might try some of the debugging steps listed here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#Myappwontwork On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 18:30, davidzimm d...@zimorama.com wrote: whenever I try to send an update or direct message everything just works fine and dandy but when I begin the update directed

[twitter-dev] Re: datatype for key and secret?

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
Yes, VARCHAR. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:56, Chris Westbrook westbch...@gmail.com wrote: What is a good mysql datatype to use to store the user token and secret?  I am new to mysql and am not that familiar with the different types.  Thanks. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.

[twitter-dev] Re: Buggy user details?

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
Indeed there is, and we have some code waiting to go out that should fix it. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 17:12, Allen marketingpr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes when I get information on users/show using this get http://twitter.com/users/show/user.xml it gives me a notification tag, and other

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
Thanks for the feedback. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 20:46, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: If it was built and twitter charged something similar to the rate that Amazon's SimpleDB charges for processing power required to preform the query, I would gladly pay. Zac Bowling On Sun, Mar

[twitter-dev] Missing @ replies in reply timeline

2009-03-23 Thread zbowling
I was going to enter a bug, but I noticed a lot of people complaining about this so it may be a known issue. I've been missing a lot of @replies directed at me (usually from specific people). Sometimes they show up in my @reply list later but it takes it a while. If I wasn't using search to

[twitter-dev] Twe2

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi, www.Twe2.com was blocked from accessing the twitter site last Thursday. I have been told that the block was accidental and that full access should be restored. To me, it is apparent that we have not been restored to the previous levels; I belive this to be the case for the following

[twitter-dev] Twitter Developer Nest: London - Live Stream Tomorrow

2009-03-23 Thread Jonathan Markwell
Hi Everyone, We're going to try and live stream the massively over subscribed Twitter Developer Nest event tomorrow evening from London, UK. Please keep an eye on http://twitter.com/devnest for a link from around 18:30 GMT tomorrow. We'll be using the tag #devnest throughout the evening. If

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

2009-03-23 Thread Joe Mayo
Hi Alex, Would like to be added to developer list. Here's my info: Joe Mayo Twitter UserName: JoeMayo URL: http://www.mayosoftware.com/ Technology: .NET Author of LINQ to Twitter: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/ Author of multiple books, including C# 3.0 Unleashed/Sams and LINQ

[twitter-dev] Re: rate_limit_status called from .NET WebClient class

2009-03-23 Thread J.D.
Cool, thanks James.

[twitter-dev] Background Image Problem

2009-03-23 Thread ctmtcolumbus
I am also having the same problem. Did anyone else get this fixed?

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
Checking with our UX team about that. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:01, Jason Schroeder jasch...@gmail.com wrote: Any hope Twitter will re-size these existing images? Thank you! -Jason TwitterBerry On Mar 17, 7:25 pm, Jason Schroeder jasch...@gmail.com wrote: That image is also 256x256px.

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing @ replies in reply timeline

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
I got bit by this earlier today. When I asked our backend team about it, the answer was, as usual, database replication lag. If you see weird behavior like this, that's probably the explanation for the time being. They're working hard to get it under control. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17,

[twitter-dev] Re: API Documentation

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
Are you sure they work? We accept requests with all sorts of parameters, but we only pay attention to the supported ones. A request for my favorites with a count of 1 still returns me 20 statuses. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:51, rhysmeister therhysmeis...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, The

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-23 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Checking with our UX team about that. Good... it's bugging me, too, because I display them on blog pages to show who has cited URLs. In the meantime, I suppose it wouldn't be too much of a browser performance hit to resize

[twitter-dev] Re: converting existing users to OAuth

2009-03-23 Thread bbc
Doing that for tens of thousands of Twitter users would be impossible. If the API can provide something that returns the token if I provide the login credential, then that would be much easier to handle existing users. On Mar 23, 5:20 am, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: Remind me

[twitter-dev] Re: curl/php encoding

2009-03-23 Thread Hippyjim Starbrook
Cameron - you're a star! That's exactly the bit of magic I needed. Instead of ENcoding it, i shudda been DEcoding! Thanks so much. On 23 Mar, 12:39, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I'm aware of the difference a doctype would make to *browser* rendering. Problem is - the info is

[twitter-dev] Re: using the twitteroauth library in php

2009-03-23 Thread rpsfan
Thanks again Abraham for the code, it was super easy to implement OAuth in my service. Just copy and paste and enter the keys twitter gave us. Im a total noob and your module was perfect for this noob! Now Im trying to publish our user's data in their Twitter streams after they OAuth(ed)

[twitter-dev] Re: converting existing users to OAuth

2009-03-23 Thread Doug Williams
This impending conversion is something we are discussing internally. Any feedback regarding fears, challenges, or wishes and how we may be able to ameliorate them will be thoroughly considered. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM,

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

2009-03-23 Thread Doug P.
Hello, I'd like to be on the list: Real Name: Doug Pfeffer Twitter: pfeffunit email: doug.pfeffer at gmail latest apps: http://rappersontwitter.com, http://mytwitterweighsaton.com, http://mytwitterweighsaton.com/emojicons tech: rails, php, mysql, objC/cocoa Thanks! On Mar 12, 5:24 pm, Ollie

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

2009-03-23 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks for all the recent submissions, guys. I'll update them accordingly now. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Doug P. doug.pfef...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to be on the list: Real Name: Doug Pfeffer Twitter: pfeffunit

[twitter-dev] I'd like to be in this list!

2009-03-23 Thread And Developers
I'd like to be in this list! name: Gantulga Nanzad username: andevelopers email: andevelop...@gmail.com company: And Developers LLC (www.andevelopers.com) location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia focus: Perl, PHP5, MySQL, Twitter API, WordPress Regards, Gantulga Nanzad

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Images with no file extension

2009-03-23 Thread Shannon Whitley
Great. Thanks for the info. On Mar 23, 5:10 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There are a couple known bugs in our image processing that should soon be rectified by a branch we have waiting to go out. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:17, Shannon Whitley shannon.whit...@gmail.com wrote: