[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Maizels
We'd really like to see a fix for this too. Having a few hundred unexpectedly large images floating around is playing havoc with our memory usage. Regards, Andrew Maizels PeopleBrowsr On Mar 26, 2:53 pm, Jason Schroeder jasch...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a 480x480 _normal

[twitter-dev] Re: How can I automatically retweet from a list of followed accounts?

2009-03-30 Thread Beier
Also be aware that auto Retweeting may not work as well as you expect because of 140 char limits. adding RT @username may trim off some chars at the end of tweet. It's pretty hard to implement a program to condense long tweets to fit 140 chars On Mar 27, 4:33 pm, Jim mccoy@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-30 Thread Jesse Stay
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.comwrote: How often does this cache update? I'm curious how accurate and reliable this would be, since people are constantly modifying their social graph. In the case of the id/screen_name thing, the data wouldn't change

[twitter-dev] Re: Using max_id to navigate to pages after 15

2009-03-30 Thread basha
Hi I am Alos facing the same problem. If any one knows the solution please tell me. i too tried max_id with since_id. when i try with max_id only i got tweets correctly as karthik said. but when i tried max_id with since_id , the response seems that the api is ignoring max_id when given with

[twitter-dev] Re: first try

2009-03-30 Thread Bill
Hi. Thanks. Well I tried it from a shared server. I got some success but then I added httpRequest('twitter.com'); echo pResponse:br /hr /pre$response/prehr //pn; httpRequest('twitter.com', '/statuses/update.xml?status=I am testing the Twitter API', 'POST'); echo pResponse:br /hr

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-30 Thread TechRavingMad
You can always provide your own cache. It doesn't take that much to get a complete name-ID cache locally. What does take a lot of calls is keeping it up-to-date. Since you can change names on ID's it's not always accurate (though the ID never changes). It's a huge task to get that initial

[twitter-dev] Generate random Twitter poems

2009-03-30 Thread intrinsi
This script generates random Twitter poems: http://intrinsitivity.com/tweets/poems.php It grabs the public timeline in JSON format and uses JavaScript, mostly jQuery, to filter (3 tweets, 42 chars max) and append #poem to the end. Results range from pretty funny to outright incomprehensible.

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-30 Thread softprops
On Mar 30, 3:32 am, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.comwrote: How often does this cache update? I'm curious how accurate and reliable this would be, since people are constantly modifying their social graph. In

[twitter-dev] Some profile images are PNG, but reported as JPGs

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Parker
A number of profile images (http://twitter.com/wootshirt is a good example. I'd give the exact URL, but it keeps changing...) have a URL that indicates it's a JPG (ends in .jpg) and a returned Content-type of image/jpeg, but are in fact PNGs. This is fine for browsers, as they work around this

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth authorization page formatted for iPhone/Pod?

2009-03-30 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi all, I think I mentioned it the end of last week, but perhaps not. I'm working on the mobile pages since it was one of the beta-isms surrounding OAuth. There is no ETA yet but it's being worked on. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Mar 30, 2009, at 04:51 AM, dean.j.robinson wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Clint Shryock cts...@gmail.com wrote: How then would you propose acceptance to this group is determined? I don't know, that's why I'm asking. I've never admin'd a google group before. I think it's in Twitter's best interest to allow information on their API

[twitter-dev] Twitter API with WCF

2009-03-30 Thread leo
I am working on a wpf twitter client that talks to the twitter api with wcf. My experience had been pretty good so far and had not run into a lot of issues. However, I just realized that the status/update method in the twitter api does not support the source parameter. I've looked at a number

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API with WCF

2009-03-30 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Leo, The update method should take a source parameter, but you have to register one first. Check out http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#INeedSomething Thanks; — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Mar 30, 2009, at 08:04 AM, leo wrote: I am working on a wpf twitter client that talks to the

[twitter-dev] Re: Some profile images are PNG, but reported as JPGs

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Tom, There is a feature that has been requested that will provide permanent URLs for profile images [1]. However, your issue sounds different. If you don't feel that the issue linked below meets your needs, can you please create a new issue so we can track this? 1.

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Badera
Chad: what you state IS quite desirable, but is, unfortunately, equally not feasible. You can moderate join requests, you can moderate members' posts, but the distinction you seem to be looking for in your original email is near-impossible to establish. Perhaps membership to the list should be

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Chad, A number of people have asked on- and off- list where they should display their app and ask for feedback. Do you think that a separate group for feedback and suggestions for workable apps would be beneficial? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 30, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: help me out, por favor

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Peter, I'm a little confused as to what you are looking for from a support point of view here. What exactly is your question regarding the TOS and how can I help? Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Peter Denton

[twitter-dev] Re: direct_messages since_id parameter doesn't work

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Ben, I can see the same problem. There is now an open issue for this problem [1]. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=399 Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Ben Burleson ben.burle...@gmail.comwrote: I use

[twitter-dev] Re: direct_messages since_id parameter doesn't work

2009-03-30 Thread bjhess
Ditto here. Note to self, never trust since_id in the Twitter API. This has burned me before. It really burned me this time. -- Barry http://iridesco.com http://bjhess.com On Mar 30, 2:06 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Ben, I can see the same problem. There is now an open issue

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
It's one of our top issues right now. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 23:05, Andrew Maizels andrew.maiz...@gmail.com wrote: We'd really like to see a fix for this too.  Having a few hundred unexpectedly large images floating around is playing havoc with our memory usage. Regards, Andrew Maizels

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Tangren
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Chad: what you state IS quite desirable, but is, unfortunately, equally not feasible. You can moderate join requests, you can moderate members' posts, but the distinction you seem to be looking for in your original email

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Doug, This forum is the appropriate place to bring up questions about the API, regardless if you have an application in development. Therefore, please don't feel like you cannot speak up just because you don't have code you can show off. Chances are if you have a question, so do other developers.

[twitter-dev] Re: Coldfusion Twitter status posting help

2009-03-30 Thread Craig328
Fair enough. I did see the basic authentication mention in the wiki guide. I can parse together the username:password and put it into base64...I just don't know how to pass that to Twitter. Do you know where I can find an example online? I've looked and found examples like I posted above that

[twitter-dev] Re: Using max_id to navigate to pages after 15

2009-03-30 Thread Beier
Maybe I'm not getting it, but from Search API documentation page, I don't see max_id as an available parameter. was it added recently? On Mar 11, 2:34 am, ronin ronniel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Doug, I tried the approach that Karthik mentioned but it didn't quite work. So after the first 15

[twitter-dev] Re: TweetGrid for iPhone - please test

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
You might consider letting people using desktop Safari/WebKit use it anyway. I can imagine people using it as a Fluid app. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 14:04, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have created a TweetGrid native webapp for iPhone/Pod.  The native is in quotes because

[twitter-dev] Re: public_timeline, invalid profile_image?

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
We're on this. Thanks for the reports. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 18:27, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing it too. 2009/3/29 Günter Grodotzki guen...@grodotzki.ph since some days I am always getting: http://static.twitter.com/images/default_profile_normal.png as profile-image

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Chad, A number of people have asked on- and off- list where they should display their app and ask for feedback. Do you think that a separate group for feedback and suggestions for workable apps would be beneficial? If

[twitter-dev] DM since_id does not work!

2009-03-30 Thread Abava
request messages with since_id attribute returns old messages: request new messages since 82395201 Get new message: 73801853 Get new message: 74232720 Account: http://twitter.com/t411

[twitter-dev] Re: Coldfusion Twitter status posting help

2009-03-30 Thread Abava
check out this JSP taglib: http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/twittertag.htm you can use it in CF as well On Mar 29, 10:32 pm, Craig328 craig...@gmail.com wrote: I've been banging my head on this issue for the past 3-4 days to the point that my skull has attained a soggy, squishy

[twitter-dev] Re: DM since_id does not work

2009-03-30 Thread Matt Sanford
This is a known issue [1] and we're working on it right now. Thanks; — Matt Sanford [1] - http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=399 On Mar 30, 2009, at 01:02 PM, Abava wrote: request messages with since_id attribute returns old messages: request new messages since

[twitter-dev] Re: direct_messages since_id parameter doesn't work

2009-03-30 Thread bjhess
Wondering if you possibly broke some sort of ActiveResource (Rails) compatibility here? My call, which worked just fine this morning and the past 12 months, now fails with a 400 Bad Request. DirectMessage.find(:all) Thanks, -- Barry http://iridesco.com http://bjhess.com On Mar 30, 2:13 pm,

[twitter-dev] Re: DM since_id does not work!

2009-03-30 Thread Chad Etzel
Please search the groups and the Current Issues... they are working on this now. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Abava dnam...@gmail.com wrote: request messages with since_id attribute returns old messages: request new messages since 82395201 Get new message: 73801853 Get new message:

[twitter-dev] Re: DM since_id does not work!

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
This is a dupe of the same topic that is currently on the front page [1]. Please remember to search before posting. 1. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/e0b6e371409b00b Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 30,

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I acquire the twitter data mining feeds

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Richard, Can you please contact me off list as this seems like an individual issue rather than a group problem: doug {at} twitter [dot] com Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Richard richard.rui@gmail.com wrote: I read the

[twitter-dev] Re: direct_messages since_id parameter doesn't work

2009-03-30 Thread bjhess
Nevermind … rate limit. ~Barry On Mar 30, 3:06 pm, bjhess bjh...@gmail.com wrote: Wondering if you possibly broke some sort of ActiveResource (Rails) compatibility here?  My call, which worked just fine this morning and the past 12 months, now fails with a 400 Bad Request.  

[twitter-dev] Re: TweetGrid for iPhone - please test

2009-03-30 Thread Chad Etzel
That's a good idea. I'm not a regular mac user, so I hadn't thought of that use-case. I'll try to relax the iphone-only magic later today. Thanks for the suggestion! -Chad On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: You might consider letting people using desktop

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter in iframes

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
Not until the clickjacking problem is solved by the browser vendors. End of story. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 14:31, Ryan ryan10...@gmail.com wrote: I can see that twitter recently has inserted a (graceful) iframe buster which clears out the html. Why is twitter in iframe such a bad thing when

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter in iframes

2009-03-30 Thread Ryan
clickjacking does not really affect pages like http://twitter.com/britneyspears. whatever... I understand you got to protect yourself from misuse. On Mar 30, 5:38 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Not until the clickjacking problem is solved by the browser vendors. End of story. On

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
What I would like to do is make the basic information much more accessible, which would ensure that the more fundamental questions are answered implicitly while the conversation can cultivate around more productive topics. The link to the FAQ doesn't curb the thrice weekly request for source

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter in iframes

2009-03-30 Thread Matt Sanford
Actually, that 'follow' button it a great clickjacking target, unless you already follow @britneyspears … which is cool. I'm not here to judge. :) — Matt On Mar 30, 2009, at 02:52 PM, Ryan wrote: clickjacking does not really affect pages like http://twitter.com/britneyspears .

[twitter-dev] Social Graph followers/ids returns nothing

2009-03-30 Thread Jesse Stay
I'm getting this sporadically and randomly, but I was wondering if anyone else is seeing it. Occasionally I'm seeing /followers/ids return just blank results. I seem to be getting a 200 response, but nothing returned. Is anyone else seeing this? Jesse

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter in iframes

2009-03-30 Thread Zac Bowling
Wow. That would be one evil clickjacking attack concept if it could work. Are pages on m.twitter.com protected from clickjacking as well? Zac Bowling On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Actually, that 'follow' button it a great clickjacking target, unless

[twitter-dev] Re: Some profile images are PNG, but reported as JPGs

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Parker
2009/3/30 Doug Williams d...@twitter.com: There is a feature that has been requested that will provide permanent URLs for profile images [1]. However, your issue sounds different. If you don't feel that the issue linked below meets your needs, can you please create a new issue so we can track

[twitter-dev] Wrong Friends Count

2009-03-30 Thread Jesse Stay
I'm running friends/ids for the user CoffeeCupNews, and while the Twitter UI says he has 17,336 friends, friends/ids is returning 14,872 friends. Is something stuck in cache right now? Jesse

[twitter-dev] Re: Coldfusion Twitter status posting help

2009-03-30 Thread Craig328
Abava, thanks. Unfortunately, the CFML engine I'm using runs on .NET so I can't use the JSP stuff without a lot of wrappers and such. On Mar 30, 4:04 pm, Abava dnam...@gmail.com wrote: check out this JSP taglib:http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/twittertag.htm you can use it in CF as well

[twitter-dev] since_id returning older messages

2009-03-30 Thread Jake
I am trying to retrieve direct messages using the since_id to fetch only the new ones. The documentations says Returns only direct messages with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID. However, the API is giving me messages with an ID lower than the since_id that I pass.

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Let's please keep this list focused on developers working with/on the twitter api... other uses, like the promotion of application or looking for help with alpha testing of applications is not appropriate (though we can sympathize with the problem). RE: doug's question about making 'basic

[twitter-dev] Re: since_id returning older messages

2009-03-30 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Jake off...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to retrieve direct messages using the since_id to fetch only the new ones.  The documentations says Returns only direct messages with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID. However, the API is

[twitter-dev] statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Devs, Before today calls to statuses/replies [1] would return only tweets that were prefixed with a @username. As clients began to recognize the value in mentions of a @username anywhere in the tweet, they opted to perform a search for @username to get the superset. Twitter agrees [2] that the

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Chad Etzel
...and there was much rejoicing! Hooray / -chad On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:44 PM, atebits loren.brich...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic change - thanks! On Mar 30, 5:39 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Devs, Before today calls to statuses/replies [1] would return only tweets that

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
Something to keep in mind: our UX team has decided to represent this feature as @$username on the web. If you don't have room for that label in your Twitter app's GUI, consider an @ symbol. If you don't like that representation, at least considering renaming Replies to Mentions in your GUI to

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Are replies created by setting the in_reply_to_status_id with the statuses/update method affected by this change? There are some clients that set the id when doing things like retweeting -- and these may or may not have a reference to a user's screen name in them. Will these tweets continue to

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph followers/ids returns nothing

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
We've had reports of this for users with many followers/following. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 15:48, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting this sporadically and randomly, but I was wondering if anyone else is seeing it.  Occasionally I'm seeing /followers/ids return just blank

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Doug Williams
Craig, Great questions. The in_reply_to_status_id will be honored only if the value is a status_id that was authored by a user that is also mentioned in the tweet. Therefore, if you include a status_id for this parameter and that is either 1) invalid or 2) does not belong to a user mentioned in

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Jesse Stay
What would be a nice addition would be the ability to have a mentions meta tag with the Tweet stating those mentioned in the Tweet. Those in the mentions meta tag don't necessarily have to be in the Tweet. Consider this similar to Facebook's tagging for photos and videos, and UIs could build

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I can also see there being a need to filter out some of your mentions: if you're one of those users who gets a lot of retweets, seeing RT @chockenberry SAID SOMETHING FUNNY is going to get pretty annoying as thousands of people echo what you say. Is there going to be an option so that only

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Great, this will be a helpful change. Any discussion of codifying Retweets in a similar way in the search API? It seems like they are also a subset of Mentions where 1) starts with RT 2) includes a @mention 3) rest of the content (fuzzy) matches a previous tweet by the @mention tweeter.

[twitter-dev] Re: changing source URL

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Cairns
I got this email: Thanks for requesting a source parameter link for your application, QuickSilver Unfortunately, we've rejected your request. Here's why: quicksilver as a source parameter is taken. Please provide something unique 'quicksilver_launcher' for instance. Please address the issues

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Mike Champion
Great, this will be a helpful change. Any discussion of codifying Retweets in a similar way in the search API? It seems like they are also a subset of Mentions where 1) starts with RT 2) includes a @mention 3) rest of the content (fuzzy) matches a previous tweet by the @mention tweeter. -mike

[twitter-dev] Re: changing source URL

2009-03-30 Thread Julio Biason
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chris Cairns nochan...@gmail.com wrote: I know its taken. But i must be able to use it. QuickSilver is open-source. It means that some other client took the quicksilver id already. Both clients you mention could use the same name but different ids. -- Julio

[twitter-dev] Re: changing source URL

2009-03-30 Thread Abraham Williams
You can use existing sources in your application. It will just link to already associated URL. Examples: https://twitter.com/home?status=testsource=quicksilver https://twitter.com/home?status=testsource=twhirl On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 20:37, Chris Cairns nochan...@gmail.com wrote: I got this

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Thanks for the clarification, Doug. Overall, I think this is a very positive change. Just a little spooked that it came out of the blue like it did - maybe next time it would be wise to give us a bit of a heads up before deploying... More questions: On http://twitter.com/account/notifications,

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Chad Etzel
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Yes, but it seems TMTOWTDI with RTs because I've also seen xyzpdq (via @omglol), retweet @omglol: xyzpdq, etc. There's too much variation in syntax. TMTOWTDI ?? There's More Than One Way

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Jesse Stay
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: Yes, but it seems TMTOWTDI with RTs because I've also seen xyzpdq (via @omglol), retweet @omglol: xyzpdq, etc. There's too much variation in syntax. TMTOWTDI ?? There's More Than One

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Also, I see Alex is talking about @$username - is that documented somewhere? I didn't find it when I went looking in the REST API doc (or the search doc either, for that matter). Alex means it as a pattern, i.e., @doctorlinguist, @al3x, etc. -- personal: