[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Doug Williams
I've heard that list sizes greater than 150K-200K start to return timeouts at higher rates. Although I'd enjoy hearing first-hand experiences and recommendations. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: In my case specifically it's the Social Graph

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Jesse Stay
Yes, that's what appears to be happening. My experience starts at around 500K+. I'm okay with waiting with my script if you guys need to take longer to retrieve the info. Or if you'd prefer we paginate I'll start doing that as well. Maybe a hard limit of 200K and you have to Page to get above

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Jesse Stay
Also, how do you recommend we deal with the larger users that would like to follow back their followers? With the hard limit of 1,000 follows per day, there is no way they'll ever catch up, as some of them have more than 1k new followers per day as is. If this limit were more dynamic based on the

[twitter-dev] Re: Debug mode?

2009-06-04 Thread jmathai
Similar to Tim's suggestion, I'd also check out http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/10/beginners-gui-1.html ... shows step by step conversion values which you can use to pinpoint where your library might be having problems. On Jun 3, 10:27 pm, Tim timot...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe this

[twitter-dev] Re: Debug mode?

2009-06-04 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 6/4/09 12:07 AM, JDG wrote: My signature base string for that looked like: GET%26http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token%26GET%26http%3A %2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token%26oauth_consumer_key %3D9CCTnLpstYI8RIxGE7yhQ%26oauth_nonce

[twitter-dev] Twitter4J 2.0.7 released

2009-06-04 Thread Yusuke Yamamoto
Hi all, Twitter4J 2.0.7 is available for download. http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html#download It is(or will be) available at the Maven central repository. http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/homeip/yusuke/twitter4j/ Snapshot builds can be found at:

[twitter-dev] Re: random sampling of users....do we know anything about user id range?

2009-06-04 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:13 PM, TechRavingMad techraving...@gmail.comwrote: There are a little over 44.5 million twitter IDs as of right now (10:10pm cst 6/3/9) with what seems to be about 10 being added every second. However, Twitter has been quite clear about not saying if status IDs

[twitter-dev] Re: Typo and Problem with Twitter's Redirect

2009-06-04 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, I just finished a patch that will delay showing the link for 5 seconds. If your site responds and the user is connected in less than that they won't have a chance to click the link. If the page is still displayed for some reason after 5 seconds the link will appear. There

[twitter-dev] Help needed, to search photos in twitter

2009-06-04 Thread Chethan
Hello, can anyone please tell me how to search for photos in twitter/ twitpic, (ex: http://www.twitpicsearch.com, http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid), it would be really helpful if you could provide me with some sample code, I am using PHP and jQuery Thankyou

[twitter-dev] Re: Debug mode?

2009-06-04 Thread JDG
Thanks everyone! I will try all these suggestions 1. The hueniverse guide is where I got started. It's actually incredibly useful. 2. I will definitely try the explorer. 3. Thanks, Dossy! I've been staring at those for so long that I didn't see the multiple GETs (I'm almost positive that I didn't

[twitter-dev] Language code in search query parameter.

2009-06-04 Thread Richard Johansson
Hello, Is it possible to use the language parameter as part of the q parameter in a search? Im thinging something along: /search? q=ombudsman%20lang:se. This would let users save searches in their various clients, without the clients having support for the specific langage parameter. Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Max_id bug or just misunderstood semantics?

2009-06-04 Thread jahbini
A message from my logging system: request was http://search.twitter.com/search.atom ?max_id=2012539218q= %22susan+boyle%22rpp=100 response was Range -susan boyle - from 2,012,539,246 to 2,013,509,906 The exact request sent out was:

[twitter-dev] Re: Help needed, to search photos in twitter

2009-06-04 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Chethan, I wrote the TwitPicGrid page you cite. I just do a simple Search API search and append twitpic to the query. Since all twitpic posts have http://twitpic.com/x; in the tweet, this search will get the links in the result set. Then, since most people describe the content of the

[twitter-dev] pics, videos, files, etc

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Denton
Hello all, This is more of a twitter api question, once removed, but wanted to get everyone's experiences with attaching media like twitpic, yfrog, etc via their API. I have used twitPic, but how is yFrog? Does anyone offer a whole package, files, vids, pics in one api? Thanks Peter

[twitter-dev] Re: Debug mode?

2009-06-04 Thread Abraham Williams
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 22:53, @jigglyonee ghil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm passing, hopefully, the correct parameters. A typical query string looks like this:

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Doug Williams
We would like users to be judicious with their following habits and only follow users who contribute value to their timeline. This justifies the following limits we impose. We are aware that many users would like to accept all incoming directs. This, along with the quid pro quo following to build

[twitter-dev] Sreaming API: /follow closing immediately

2009-06-04 Thread Chad Etzel
I am playing with the follow methods, and they have been acting funny all day. Lately it just closes immediately. Right now I am just testing with curl: $ curl -v -d @follow.dat http://stream.twitter.com/follow.json -uuser:pass * About to connect() to stream.twitter.com port 80 * Trying

[twitter-dev] Re: Sreaming API: /follow closing immediately

2009-06-04 Thread John Kalucki
There was a problem today with the authentication database used by one Hosebird servers. This caused an unlucky proportion of connections that require an elevated Role to be rejected. This has been fixed. Note that Hosebird limits logins by user, not by resource. If you are consuming /gardenhose

[twitter-dev] Re: Regarding Twitter/OAuth PHP libraries constructors

2009-06-04 Thread Abraham Williams
It makes sense to me. Part of why my library is like this is because the Fire Eagle class and the OAuth code is like this. One issue with build isAuthenticated into library is they then have to be aware of however you are storing the access tokens/etc. I would probably be easier for you to extend

[twitter-dev] Re: Sreaming API: /follow closing immediately

2009-06-04 Thread Chad Etzel
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:51 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Note that Hosebird limits logins by user, not by resource. If you are consuming /gardenhose and /follow from the same account, the first connection may be thrown off by the second connection. Ah, well that would certainly

[twitter-dev] Re: Debug mode?

2009-06-04 Thread JDG
That's the whole point, though. I'm still at the point where I'm trying to *get* an oauth token. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 13:51, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 22:53, @jigglyonee ghil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm passing, hopefully, the correct parameters. A

[twitter-dev] Forgive Forgive Forgive - XML 2 CSV XSL

2009-06-04 Thread Mark
I would like to take the follower .xml output and convert to csv. From googling I believe I need to create an XSL or XSD and then use MSXML example: MSXSL C:\twitterout\adventuregirl69.txt C:\Users\mark\Documents \twitteratom2txt.xsl –o out.xml I don't know xsl trying to learn from examples,

[twitter-dev] API Changes for June 4, 2009

2009-06-04 Thread Doug Williams
Hi All, You can now take saved searches anywhere you go thanks to Matt's efforts: - Feature (REST): Added access to saved search data: saved_searches, saved_searches/show, saved_searches/create, and saved_searches/destroy. See also: Google Code Issue 605:

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: We are aware that many users would like to accept all incoming directs. Sounds like a checkbox in your profile to me.

[twitter-dev] Re: Enable ability to block apps via Twitter or the API

2009-06-04 Thread Developer In London
Sorry, but I still cant agree on why asking for a API key on the normal API cannot solve this. A whole application can be banned/throttled/controlled using the API key if needed this way. At present applications register and gets API keys anyway, so all this will do is add an extra layer of

[twitter-dev] problems with trend current api method

2009-06-04 Thread techyJoe
I have a problems with the some API methods: specifically, trend current , trend daily, and trend weekly methods.For starters, my code will retrieve the JSON string containing the trend current json string. Using Curl, the Json string response is captured and decode into a php array using the

[twitter-dev] Re: how to deal with truncatedtrue/truncated ??

2009-06-04 Thread Abraham Williams
I don't the Twitter web allows for more then 140 characters to be posted anymore. On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 04:27, Jochen Kaechelin giss...@gissmog.de wrote: Let's say I have a update with more then 140 characters. Twitters webfrontend will cut the status and add ... which points to

[twitter-dev] Re: Forgive Forgive Forgive - XML 2 CSV XSL

2009-06-04 Thread David Fisher
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3701 Gets it done in Ruby. I haven't tested it, but it looks right and simple On Jun 4, 4:04 pm, Mark marktheac...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to take the follower .xml output and convert to csv. From googling I believe I need to create an XSL or XSD

[twitter-dev] Re: Help needed, to search photos in twitter

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan
Hello - I developed the application Twitcaps (http://twitcaps.com) and I can tell you that what I am using in my search API calls is twitpic.com, yfrog.com or twitgoo.com (or any other arbitrary image provider, img.ly, etc). I found that by including the .com at the end, I wound up with more

[twitter-dev] Re: random sampling of users....do we know anything about user id range?

2009-06-04 Thread David Fisher
I'm hoping that Twitter counts users when reporting their numbers, and not accounts. The reason being that I've signed up probably... 5 accounts myself (main, API testing, business, etc, etc). I'm not sure how many the average user signs up, but it's definitely on average more than 1. I'm

[twitter-dev] Has anyone created a ping bot account?

2009-06-04 Thread Chad Etzel
Has anyone created a ping bot account that sends tweets every minute or so? I could create my own... but something about a wheel, and reinventing... -Chad

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Jesse Stay
Sean, why not let the users decide that though? If I enable the option for my account it's my responsibility to weed out the spam. If I don't want the spam then I won't enable it on my account. Giving users multiple options is a good thing. Jesse On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Sean Scott

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Sean Scott
Jesse, If the implementation is to make that a preference which is turned off by default (no DM by non followers) that users can toggle, then i am totally for it. As you point out its then the users responsibility to clean their inboxes if they get hit by spam after turning the feature on. So

[twitter-dev] Re: Has anyone created a ping bot account?

2009-06-04 Thread shiplu
A ping bot account that sends current time every secends. #!/bin/sh MSG=`date` # Interval in seconds INTERVAL=1 while [ 1 -lt 3 ] do curl -u TWITTERUSER:TWITTERPASS -d status=${MSG} sleep ${INTERVAL} done Hope you get the idea. -- A K M Mokaddim http://talk.cmyweb.net http://twitter.com/shiplu

[twitter-dev] Re: Help needed, to search photos in twitter

2009-06-04 Thread Chethan
On Jun 5, 7:09 am, Jonathan twitcaps.develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello - I developed the application Twitcaps (http://twitcaps.com) and I can tell you that what I am using in my search API calls is twitpic.com, yfrog.com or twitgoo.com (or any other arbitrary image provider, img.ly, etc).