[twitter-dev] Streaming API -- ordering guarantees: deletions may come before status updates

2009-08-13 Thread John Kalucki
Note that there are no hard delivery order guarantees in the Streaming API: ordering is best effort. This issue is most apparent when using the count parameter for deep lookback during Streaming API server restarts and also during the apparent race condition between status creation and status

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Babcock
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:17:38 -0600 Bioscience News bioscienceupda...@gmail.com wrote: All this stuff about following being equated to spamming is nonsense. First, the act of following someone usually generates a message. When you first join Twitter, it's exciting to get new followers and you

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Babcock
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: It may be an irritation and it may cost you money, but it is NOT spam. You opted in to receive the notifications on your phone, and hence it is NOT spam. If you have an email account sent notices to your IMs

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth/authenticate error/bug

2009-08-13 Thread Zach
Yeah, there is a major issue with both oauth/authenticate and oauth/ authorize. Using oauth/authorize, a 403 forbidden is produced if 1) user logs in via my app and then tries to log into twitter.com or 2) user logs into twitter.com and then tries to log in via my app I believe that

[twitter-dev] Re: how to use sessions/present

2009-08-13 Thread jirgn
thanks abraham, i´m not sure how to call this function in javascript. when i tried it using a ajax request i had trouble with cross domain restrictions. is it possible to do define a callback like script type=text/javascript function myCallback(isSessionPresent){ //processing } /script

[twitter-dev] Re: unfollowing limits

2009-08-13 Thread Ninjamonk
Thanks Adam, I that did not come up on my search of the group, very odd. On Aug 13, 1:56 am, Adam Cloud cloudy...@gmail.com wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: Hey, I am

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
In the final analysis, I think we should express sympathy for the API team. They're great guys, and they are busting their butts to help us succeed. This action appears to be an example of where another part of the Twitter organization did something that makes their lives hell. Chin up, guys. I

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-13 Thread Neil Ellis
+1 and well explained Chris, thanks. On 13 Aug 2009, at 08:38, Chris Babcock wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: It may be an irritation and it may cost you money, but it is NOT spam. You opted in to receive the notifications on your

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
Spam is anything in your inbox caused by a third party and not desired by you. Period. Get over the semantics already. If it were possible to opt-out of all bambibot, SEObot and other spambot accounts on Twitter, then sure, getting bot follow notifications in your inbox would NOT be spam.

[twitter-dev] blogger.js runtime error on line12?!

2009-08-13 Thread roxxlive
Can someone help me to fix this problem? Everything working fine on firefox. But on IE there is a window shown up with a runtime error in the blogger.js on line 12. document.getElementById('twitter_update_list').innerHTML = statusHTML.join(''); I´d searched the web for about 3 hours now,

[twitter-dev] Re: problem: friends/ids occasionally returning empty sets

2009-08-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Like Duane said, just code around it. It's wise to do that for all GET methods. You may just be hitting a replicated Twitter database that has not replicated correctly, or is suffering some kind of lag. Best to make your code resilient against those issues. Dewald On Aug 12, 3:35 pm, PJB

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-13 Thread Mike Langford
In short, Twitter has filed a trademark application and in doing so they must attempt to defend the name if they hope to be awarded trademark protection. Twitter allowed its original application to lapse and refiled on April 29, 2009.

[twitter-dev] API Changes for August 12, 2009

2009-08-13 Thread Alex Payne
A day late and a bug short... - FIXED: /account/verify_credentials no longer enforces a rate limit that's inconsistent with the rest of the API. Thanks. -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: All friends and followers of a Twitter user

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Denton
Yes. See: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to download (from Twitter via their API) all the friends and all the followers of a specific Twitter user? I'm guessing yes but confirmation before I

[twitter-dev] Re: All friends and followers of a Twitter user

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Denton
oops, sorry, sent accidentally. see: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation Social Graph Methods friends/idshttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friends%C2%A0ids followers/idshttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-followers%C2%A0ids On Thu, Aug

[twitter-dev] How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
This is really bugging me now! So far I've tried the following; post_data = status=Hi carla or post_data=status='hi carla' or post_data=status=Hi%20Carla Nothing works! What is required to post spaces to twitter?

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread JDG
did you try Hi+Carla? that's the RFC-compliant way. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 13:47, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: This is really bugging me now! So far I've tried the following; post_data = status=Hi carla or post_data=status='hi carla' or post_data=status=Hi%20Carla

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, catcallsg.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hey dude, I'm using version 0.1 of your DLL because 0.3 did not compile in VS2005. So, I try posting an update to twitter using spaces replaced with + signs as the standard RFC compliant way of making a POST and I've

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Craig, I just ran a test, and I can also confirm what you have found. Unauthenticated calls decrease per IP 20,000 Authenticated calls decrease per-IP per-user 20,000 Dewald On Aug 13, 4:27 pm, CaMason stasisme...@googlemail.com wrote: The behaviour at the moment is definitely as-described

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Since it is his library I am using which needs a fix. I am asking him two things; 1. Is this a known error in 0.1 2. When will 0,3 turn into a working version. So, what was your input again? On Aug 13, 9:23 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
My input was that you're asking in the wrong place, and that there are working alternatives to demanding fixes in that tone. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: All friends and followers of a Twitter user

2009-08-13 Thread owkaye
Hi Peter, I got it working already, that was easy ... and FAST thanks to your help! Owkaye friends/idshttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-M ethod%3A-friends%C2%A0ids followers/idshttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API -Method%3A-followers%C2%A0ids

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Furthermore - I have wrote an entire program with full Twitter Interfacing from Searching to Following to Finally Updating and now I find I cannot post spaces with the library. I cannot rewrite my entire code base because you suggest LINQ2Twitter. I am using this guys library and he really

[twitter-dev] Re: Uploaded new pic to Twitter and it isn't showing up

2009-08-13 Thread Alex Payne
This is an intermittent bug as we improve our static asset hosting. In the future, please use this group for questions that are strictly API-related. Thanks! On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:51, SharayahR handballch...@hotmail.com wrote: Ok so every single time I upload a picture to Twitter to

[twitter-dev] Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Marcel Molina
Retweeting has become one of the cultural conventions of the Twitter experience. It's yet another example of Twitter's users discovering innovative ways to use the service. We dig it. So soon it's going to become a natively supported feature on twitter.com. It's looking like we're only weeks away

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
Perhaps you need to reconsider your design abstractions -- you should be able to virtually plug and play. You should have an assembly sitting between your app and the Twitter library, if you're using third party, and use your intermediary assembly as an adapter or facade. That makes it a lot

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Dim post_data As String = TextBox1.Text Dim url As String = http://twitter.com/statuses/ update.xml?status= post_data Dim xml As String = oauth.WebRequest(RequestMethod.POST, url, String.Empty) This is my code. I'll try URL Encoding the string next. Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-13 Thread jim.renkel
IANAL, but I don't think all is doom and gloom, or at least not as doomy and goomy as previous posts to this thread (Including one of mine, if it is not read as tongue-in-cheek, as intended) portray. Yes, if you have a trademark, you have to aggressively defend it or risk losing it. No,

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-13 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi There, What you all have been confirming is correct. The intended behavior is 20k per IP unauthenticated, and 20k per IP *per user* authenticated. This is not a bug. -Chad On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Abraham Williams4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I've been reading I have confirmed emails

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Beier
This is super awesome! Can't wait!

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Vincent Nguyen
Very useful! Hope it will be soon! It help us avoid search tweet to tracking reweet! 2009/8/13 Beier beier...@gmail.com This is super awesome! Can't wait!

[twitter-dev] Re: Uploaded new pic to Twitter and it isn't showing up

2009-08-13 Thread Clint Shryock
Alex- Is there any news you can relay about the status of the static asset hosting move? The API for updating profile images has been busted for a while now, by that I mean uploading new images works, but the new image is not reflected via the API for some time. I'm following several issues on

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-13 Thread Bill Kocik
Holy Thanks, Chad. :) On Aug 13, 4:58 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi There, What you all have been confirming is correct. The intended behavior is 20k per IP unauthenticated, and 20k per IP *per user* authenticated. This is not a bug. -Chad On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:43

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: BOJAN RAJKOVIC Yeah, this is the guy. He is a member here. He'll prolly tell me to use the updated version of his DLL but sadly the updated version does not work as far as I can tell. So, I am using version 0.1 of

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Yeah - after much searching I discovered the URL encoding for space is %2B - but this still did not work. I really think there is a problem with oauth.WebRequest() in the DLL? I know there is a Twitter Interface but there is no documentation on how to use it either (that Rackovic wrote) On Aug

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread janole
Will it be possible to comment on the retweeted tweet? If not, people might just continue to use the current RT ... convention. Retweeting can be a way of acknowledging a tweet or disapproving a tweet etc. If you search for RT in search.twitter.com you'll see a lot of commented retweets. Ole

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Hi Bojan Rajkovic, When I tried using 0.3 DLL it stated a file was missing. Fox something? Perhaps it's a vs2008 only DLL? What do you think? Also, I am using 0.1 DLL which works perfectly except it does not post spaces - I get a 401 unauthorised. I declare Oauth.Twitter as oauth2 then use

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Denton
just to clarify, so someone doesn't happen upon this thread and start using %2B for spaces. a space is %20 On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:33 PM, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi Bojan Rajkovic, When I tried using 0.3 DLL it stated a file was missing. Fox something? Perhaps it's

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Yeah - but to clarify - A URLEncoded + (which is a space in RFC POST) is %2B - so that was my point. Don't try and correct me - I am an expert coder. On Aug 13, 10:39 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: just to clarify, so someone doesn't happen upon this thread and start using %2B

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-13 Thread jim.renkel
Just to make things crystal clear, it should be stated that the 20k rate limits apply only to GET requests to the so-called REST-API. Other request types (I.e., POST) and / or other APIs (I.e., search, streaming) have other rate limits. Jim Renkel On Aug 13, 3:58 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Josh Roesslein
This new api looks very cool. Good work twitter API team. :) Josh

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
But you're trying to encode a SPACE not a + Mr. Expert Coder. You've got to be a troll. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
PS you know there are builtin encoding functions, right? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: But you're trying

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
YabadabaFrigginDoo!! I have no idea what kind of application would need to continuously make 5 authenticated calls per second on a particular Twitter account, but hey, if you can think of one, you know you won't be rate limited. Dewald On Aug 13, 5:58 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Dewald Pretoriusdpr...@gmail.com wrote: YabadabaFrigginDoo!! I have no idea what kind of application would need to continuously make 5 authenticated calls per second on a particular Twitter account, but hey, if you can think of one, you know you won't be

[twitter-dev] Can someone suggest a VB.NET Twitter API Interface that works?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Hi, I've been using a free Twitter API Interface that was coded in C# and I imported the DLL and it was working fine until I discovered I cannot post spaces to twitter updates! I mean, WHAT!? So, I have basically coded this application with full interaction with this DLL and wasted the past

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
No, I'm trying to encode a RFC POST request space which is a +. Stop trying to be clever, it's making you look like an idiot. On Aug 13, 10:43 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: But you're trying to encode a SPACE not a + Mr. Expert Coder. You've got to be a troll. ∞ Andy Badera ∞

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
What are you blathering about now? I've checked the DLL routines, there are no built in encoding features. And as for VB.NET - you have to do it manually like I did with %2B because only ASP.NET has URLEncode. On Aug 13, 10:44 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: PS you know there are

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:49 PM, catcallsg.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: No, I'm trying to encode a RFC POST request space which is a +. Stop trying to be clever, it's making you look like an idiot. Pot, meet my friend kettle. :) You're a lost cause. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ]

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
.NET has UrlEncode() fool, and numerous other character set manipulation functions. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:50 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
OK - if you're the heroin here tell me where it is located. And if you state system.web.httputility I'm gonna smack you. On Aug 13, 10:52 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: .NET has UrlEncode() fool, and numerous other character set manipulation functions. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Question

2009-08-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
In fact, with an API response time of 0.3 seconds, you won't even run out of rate limit if your authenticated GET script goes into an endless loop. Dewald On Aug 13, 6:44 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: YabadabaFrigginDoo!! I have no idea what kind of application would need to

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
For general encoding, yes, HttpUtility, or Server. And Boijan pointed out the OAuth UrlEncode function as well for your specific problem as well. Smack me? Feel free, c'mon over! ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:

[twitter-dev] Rate Limiting Problem

2009-08-13 Thread arjun
We are a research group in Georgia Tech working on a Recommender System for Twitter. We have 10 accounts and 3 ips whitelisted. However, since the accounts use the same ips, the rate limit of the ips (20,000) is causing a bottleneck. We would like to get the ips off the white-list if thats the

[twitter-dev] streaming API track method missing statuses?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew McCloud
Hello Everyone, I can't seem to figure out why the tweets from my test account do not show up in the streaming track method. If I use my personal account everything show up just fine. Is the track pool limited? Also! Is it possible to track #hash and @user exclusively? Andrew McCloud

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Bojan, This is a problem. I cannot find the URLEncoding feature. Basically, I have declared OAuth.Twitter as Oauth2 and use OAuth.GetAuthorisationLink() etc... to authorise so that object is authorised. BUT - OAuth.Twitter has no URLEncoding feature that I can find? Neither can I locate

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Yeah, accept that you've been smacked. VB.NET for Windows Forms has no HTTPUtility.URLEncode - it's purely ASP.NET. Dumbass troll. On Aug 13, 10:54 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: For general encoding, yes, HttpUtility, or Server. And Boijan pointed out the OAuth UrlEncode function

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Problem

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
Get the accounts themselves whitelisted. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, arjunsegmentationremo...@gmail.com wrote: We are a research group in

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Problem

2009-08-13 Thread Chad Etzel
w00t! Go Jackets! I'll contact you off list to figure this one out with you guys. -Chad On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, arjunsegmentationremo...@gmail.com wrote: We are a research group in Georgia Tech working on a Recommender System for Twitter. We have 10 accounts and 3 ips whitelisted.

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Bojan, This is a problem. I cannot find the URLEncoding feature. Basically, I have declared OAuth.Twitter as Oauth2 and use OAuth.GetAuthorisationLink() etc... to authorise so that object is authorised. BUT -

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
Like I said, or Server buddy. Keep digging that hole. Thanks for all the laughs! ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: For general encoding, yes, HttpUtility, or Server. And Boijan pointed out the OAuth UrlEncode function as well for your specific problem as well. Smack me? Feel free, c'mon over! Hi Andrew, Mind if I mail you?

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Server is purely ASP.NET - What the hell are you on? On Aug 13, 10:59 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Like I said, or Server buddy. Keep digging that hole. Thanks for all the laughs! ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Bojan Rajkovicseveredcr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: For general encoding, yes, HttpUtility, or Server. And Boijan pointed out the OAuth UrlEncode function as well for your specific problem as

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:01 PM, catcallsg.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Server is purely ASP.NET - What the hell are you on? You are familiar with the concept of including references, right? Take your pick. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Yeah, accept that you've been smacked. VB.NET for Windows Forms has no HTTPUtility.URLEncode - it's purely ASP.NET. Dumbass troll. Actually, Andrew's absolutely right, you can use HttpUtility's UrlEncode in WinForms.

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
Straight out of OAuthBase and Shannon Whitley's work: protected string UrlEncode(string value) { StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(value)) { foreach (char symbol in value) {

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread David
Will there be a retweeted from client field? I would love to get this data to see which Twitter client/tool aids and promotes spreading of tweets.

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Oh, one last point - URLEncode will only convert the + to %2B - what I have tried using. So, what the HELL are you talking about? On Aug 13, 11:03 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Bojan Rajkovicseveredcr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Josh Roesslein
One small suggestion I have for the home_timeline method: Maybe it would be nice to include a parameter flag that allows us to specify if we want retweets included in the response. With this flag set home_timeline would act just like the current friends_timeline. This allows us to give the user

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Oh, am I? I do know about referencing. But, are we really going to include all the DLL's available just to get YOUR DLL to work? I think the problem is clear - YOUR work. Not mine. On Aug 13, 10:59 pm, Bojan Rajkovic severedcr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM, catcalls

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API track method missing statuses?

2009-08-13 Thread John Kalucki
Andrew, If your test account statuses show up in search, but not in track, and you haven't been rate limited in track, then there's a problem. If the test account doesn't show up in search, it won't show up in the Streaming API either. I don't understand your second question. -John Kalucki

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM, catcallsg.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Oh, one last point - URLEncode will only convert the + to %2B - what I have tried using. So, what the HELL are you talking about? You're not encoding a +. You're encoding a . Good luck and good evening friend.

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Sean P.
I agree with janole. I believe the simple Reply concept would be best in this regard. For example, if I had a tweet that I found, regardless of who its from, I can retweet it, but link together the original tweet in the same manner that we do for the replies. Thus, we create a chain of where a

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Well, sadly, the OAuth library that Rackovic provided me has no URLEncode in OAuth.base - I just checked. Strike two - troll. On Aug 13, 11:05 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Straight out of OAuthBase and Shannon Whitley's work: protected string UrlEncode(string value)         {    

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Oh - you really think that, eh? So how does RFC POST work again? Are you really this thick? I tried %20 too - it fails. Nothing works because the DLL that Rackovic wrote is rubbish. On Aug 13, 11:09 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:10 PM, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Well, sadly, the OAuth library that Rackovic provided me has no URLEncode in OAuth.base - I just checked. Strike two - troll. It's there, but it's probably private. You just need to pull the code out. Also, if you want

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API track method missing statuses?

2009-08-13 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Andrew, What are your account names? Feel free to unicast me. -Chad On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Andrew McCloudand...@amccloud.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I can't seem to figure out why the tweets from my test account do not show up in the streaming track method. If I use my personal

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Smith
@janole wrote: Will it be possible to comment on the retweeted tweet? If not, people might just continue to use the current RT ... convention. Retweeting can be a way of acknowledging a tweet or disapproving a tweet etc. If you search for RT in search.twitter.com you'll see a lot of

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Ben Hall
Cool. One request. Could we have an extension to the search API so that I could search for a term which has been tweeted? Scenario: I want to know how many times a particular term has been included in a retweet which I can then aggregate to see how many times it has been retweeted as a

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:11 PM, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Oh - you really think that, eh? So how does RFC POST work again? Are you really this thick? I tried %20 too - it fails. Nothing works because the DLL that Rackovic wrote is rubbish. If my DLL is rubbish, then how

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth/authenticate is redirecting me to oauth/authorize and giving a PIN

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Gallagher
Hi Joel, When I saw your mail I quickly restested some of my apps and they all continue to work fine with twitter oauth (using rails, see http://tardate.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-twitter-oauth-with-rails-sample.html). This doesn't appear to have been a general problem with the service itself -

[twitter-dev] Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Twitlonger
I recently got a letter by email from a UK law firm representing Twitter claiming that my website www.twitlonger.com was infringing on their trade mark and was inherently likely to confuse users. The version of the website they were objecting to didn't have a similar font but did use the same

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Dean Collins
Hey Stuart, I'm glad someone else posted they were being pursued by Twitters Legal representatives apart from myself. (I'm still waiting for answers to my questions so nothing new to report here). Do you feel that their real beef is using the word Twit in your URL? I put a counter proposal

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Problem

2009-08-13 Thread Abraham Williams
Don't need to anymore. Any users authenticating from whitelisted IPs now get 20k hits/hour each. So sayeth the Chad. Abraham 2009/8/13 Andrew Badera and...@badera.us Get the accounts themselves whitelisted. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google

[twitter-dev] Re: Can someone suggest a VB.NET Twitter API Interface that works?

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Turner
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM, catcallsg.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: I've been using a free Twitter API Interface that was coded in C# and I imported the DLL and it was working fine until I discovered I cannot post spaces to twitter updates! I mean, WHAT!? I'm willing to bet that the

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread Abraham Williams
Just a reminder that many developers are on this list. Please keep your conversations civil and don't waste peoples times and inboxes. I would like to ask that someone of calm demeanor offer to take thread offlist with catcalls. Thanks, Abraham 2009/8/13 catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com Oh

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread stygz
@Sean P. Precisely my thoughts. Just a simple retweet_of_status_id field on a status update will allow users to post their own thoughts (a.k.a. keeping the conversation moving) and it would allow client apps to display/link original message however they like. Then readers have all the context

[twitter-dev] Re: How to post spaces to twitter from vb.net?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Rajkovic, That is version 0.3 - I'm using 0.1! I cannot use 0,3 - as for log4net - isn't that a Linux thing? I'm coding under Visual Studio in XP. I googled log4net - and Apache links came up? What the hell? Also, I tried using Twitter.API.Authentication.GetAccessToken and it fails. Then I

[twitter-dev] Re: Can someone suggest a VB.NET Twitter API Interface that works?

2009-08-13 Thread catcalls
Oh, the problem is the DLL. I mean, how many ways can you encode a space? I can use the DLL to search, follow, and update a single word to my twitter account - but as soon as I use a space it fails. Believe me, it's the DLL. Furthermore, the update to the DLL (which he claims works) does not

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Bravo! Great job Twitter API Team!

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Neil Ellis
Man that's sad, your website is unmistakable and there is no doubt you are not Twitter. It sounds like it was potentially confusing before. Hmmm... outsourcing trademark checking seems to have pitfalls (i.e. eating into company goodwill). It makes you really stop and think about building a

[twitter-dev] Re: Can someone suggest a VB.NET Twitter API Interface that works?

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Badera
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:23 PM, catcallsg.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: I want something that actually works and is at least 1.0 And I want whirled peaz, Giselle Bundchen and a 12 figure bank account ...

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Dale Merritt
You saw this right? http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/twitter-not-suing-developer/ On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: Hey Stuart, I'm glad someone else posted they were being pursued by Twitters Legal representatives apart from myself. (I'm still waiting

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Goblin
To be fair, the new version mostly seemed to please the guy I was on the phone with, but I got the impression he was shooting from the hip when he said that I would probably need to change the blue in the logo. It just seems weird that we spend two or three years building sites with the

[twitter-dev] Can someone suggest a VB.NET Twitter API Interface that works?

2009-08-13 Thread Naveen Ayyagari
catcalls, I would like to know what open source software you have contributed and where they are located. I need to know to avoid using your work at all costs. Many open source software projects have dependencies, this DLL has a dependency on Log4Net, the solution is simple, download

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Terry Jones
To be fair, the new version mostly seemed to please the guy I was on the phone with, but I got the impression he was shooting from the hip when he said that I would probably need to change the blue in the logo. Law firms bill by the hour.

[twitter-dev] Re: BOJAN RAJKOVIC - Your DLL is not working!

2009-08-13 Thread JDG
url encoding for space is %20, not 2B On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:27, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote: Yeah - after much searching I discovered the URL encoding for space is %2B - but this still did not work. I really think there is a problem with oauth.WebRequest() in the DLL? I

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread David Fisher
I am wondering if this is a case of their legal department getting a bit heavyhanded and running loose. What they asked of you seemed fairly reasonable however, and the name of your application doesn't seem to be the issue. I'm glad you didn't think you were being sued :) It seems that Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
On Aug 13, 8:44 pm, Goblin stu...@abovetheinternet.org wrote: It would be nice to hear from the horses mouth if all the twit*/ twitter* apps were to use tweet instead, would that sort the issue out. Doesn't this blog post [1] from the big horse's mouth already settle that question? [1]

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