Very cool! I will definitely watch this project as it develops!
On Aug 25, 7:50 am, x5315 red.ca...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you ever seen your favourite celebrity ask a question, and you
were wondering about the answer too? Or have you ever been taking part
in a competition and been wondering
Hello Twitter,
Any official word on this apparent vulnerability around the Source
parameter and cross site scripting?
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/massive-twitter-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability.html
TCI
On Aug 22, 9:46 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
We did not intend
Nice work. I've been looking for something like this to query replies to a
given tweet.
Always thought it would be nice if twitter supported this in their API.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Sean P. seantpa...@gmail.com wrote:
Very cool! I will definitely watch this project as it develops!
Doing it without the express, explicit consent of the user is sneaky.
It's also likely to get your application banned.
If it's important to you to know who your users are, ask them to
register. But it should always be opt-in.
On Aug 25, 11:21 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:
I fail to see how
Hi all,
Can i pass my credentials to browser.I am working on a twitter
application.
On a click i am trying to show the twitter site. If i have the
credentials with me.Can i make the user view his tweets without login
(again)
this is my code
on a click
Process.Start(@\Windows\iexplore.exe,
if tweet_id is the one that since_id in the search API uses
then for all tweets
tweet_id[new] tweet_id[old]
or not?
How could using JUST the screen name -- something that twitter explicitly
provides to you -- possibliy get your application banned? I'm failing to see
how something that is readily available that Twitter provides for
identification purposes is so bad, and despite my respect for many of the
2009/8/26 balu reghu baluk...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
Can i pass my credentials to browser.I am working on a twitter
application.
On a click i am trying to show the twitter site. If i have the
credentials with me.Can i make the user view his tweets without login
(again)
this is my code
on a
Oauth seems down ...
stephane
@sphilipakis
http://www.twazzup.com
On Aug 25, 9:22 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:
status.twitter.com is rarely up to date or detailed.
I've seen issues on the web the past 20 minutes or so. loading now though.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:17 AM,
Hi,
Me and my team developed a site that posts tweets on the twitter page
of a client. These tweets are in Russian Language. The problem is that
when we submit a tweet on the site in Russian, it displays correctly
but when the same tweet is posted on the twitter page via the API, it
gets messed
Not HIS IP -- that's a client process there. That will be spread
around individual client IPs, which being mobile are probably highly
dynamic.
∞ Andy Badera
∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera)
On
Actually ... IS that PocketIE, or is that Internet Explorer on a desktop?
If desktop, why are you scraping the mobile page?
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote:
Not HIS IP -- that's a client process there. That will be spread
around individual client IPs,
Hi,
I'm fairly new to Twitter, particularly Twitter development. I have a
question:
I have a desktop client application and a web application. I have
created a twitter application for API access. Ideally, I would like
to be able to give users access to Twitter from my desktop app and web
app
Here's the example:
1. You download my desktop Twitter client.
2. You install it and authorize it to your Twitter account.
3. -Without your consent or knowledge-, my Twitter client sends me
your screen name.
That's unethical. If you don't think so, go ahead and code that into
your client and
Here's the example:
1. You download my desktop Twitter client.
2. You install it and authorize it to your Twitter account.
3. -Without your consent or knowledge-, my Twitter client sends me
your screen name.
That's unethical. If you don't think so, go ahead and code that into
your
Quitter checks for updates, and like TTYtter it always asks permission
and you can turn it off in the configuration menu.
If your users have information that you want, ask them for it.
If the information has value to you, offer something of value in
return.
On Aug 26, 11:02 am, Cameron Kaiser
it doesn't appear that he's scraping at all. he's just starting a
process to show the user's twitter page and wants to have the user
logged in already.
Joseph Cheek
jos...@cheek.com
@cheekdotcom
Andrew Badera wrote:
Actually ... IS that PocketIE, or is that Internet Explorer on a desktop?
Occassionally i get back a 200 status html response from the json
search api which look like this, most times the same search works
fine, it just happens occassionally:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/
TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd
!-- !DOCTYPE HTML
Ben,
It's a known issue and we are trying to hunt it down. Can you please
provide us with your source IP and an approximate time of when you saw
it?
Thanks, Ryan
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:00 AM, benben.apperr...@googlemail.com wrote:
Occassionally i get back a 200 status html response from
How is that scrapping? He is just launching IE and pointing the browser at a
twitter web page for viewing.
As long as he does not parse that page for data and just uses it to display
that's not scrapping.
Now I don't think there is a legit way of passing login credentials, that
the user will have
Hi,
Just a question, I am starting to see very heavy throttling to the Twitter
Search API from the Google App engine.
I am receiving 503's enhance your calm very frequently. I have a custom set
User-Agent string and I am probably doing less than 1 search per second.
It has been happening for a
Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can do http://user:p...@site/
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:24, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote:
How is that scrapping? He is just launching IE and pointing the browser at
a twitter web page for viewing.
As long as he does not parse that
I disagree. By granting the application access to my account, I tacitly
accept the fact that they can access any information that the API provides.
The API returns the user's screen name every time you fetch their posts. For
crying out loud, a malicious app could go through and delete your last
Twitter, any update here?
On Aug 25, 7:58 pm, David Crawford david.crawf...@gmail.com wrote:
We've also received 408s today using the rest service. These are
mostly posts, but also requests for number of followers (sorry I'm not
more specific writing this on behalf of the dev who does
This was patched yesterday afternoon.
-j
On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:38 PM, Costa Rica wrote:
Hello Twitter,
Any official word on this apparent vulnerability around the Source
parameter and cross site scripting?
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/massive-twitter-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability.html
I agree with your disagreement. The other day I was playing with a
service that made a background. When I clicked done, I thought it
would prompt me to save the image and I would be on my own to upload
it into my account.
That is not what happened. It auto replaced my background. I also
John,
Not according to this post:
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-exploit-still-works.html
Dewald
On Aug 26, 1:09 pm, John Adams j...@twitter.com wrote:
This was patched yesterday afternoon.
-j
On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:38 PM, Costa Rica wrote:
Hello Twitter,
Any official word
Try using statuses/followers:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses followers
This will return full user objects for all followers of the specific user.
Abraham
2009/8/24 Marc Lacoursière m...@roosoft.com
Is there a way to get that kind information but for all followers
+1 - I am experiencing the same problem.
I'm running Twitter API requests as part of a unit test for my code
(HTTPBuilder- http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/). This
has always worked fine up until a couple weeks ago. Looks like there
is a bug report here:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Neilnei...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an open enhancement request associated with this.
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=917
They have said they are not going to be able to do this. It's noted
in the bottom of the API v2 RoadMap document as
Various significant changes have been made to the Streaming API
yesterday, and further changes should be expected today. So far we
haven't observed any increased failure rates. If you notice any new
failure behavior today, please post on this thread immediately, or
just @jkalucki.
-John Kalucki
I disagree. By granting the application access to my account, I tacitly
accept the fact that they can access any information that the API provides.
Fine. Do it to your users and see what they think about that. :)
--
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/
Ditto, I'm randomly getting 401 errors
On Aug 26, 10:16 am, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting these pretty regularly on one of my servers as well. Just sent
Alex the HTTP response info and IP - hopefully we can figure out what's
happening!
Jesse
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at
The resources in the Streaming API have been rationalized. You'll need
to update the URLs that streaming clients are using over the next two
weeks. The old URLs will be deprecated on or after September 9, 2009.
The change is documented in the Wiki:
Hmm, using some command line test programs I've developed, I'm still
getting 'rel=nofollow'. For example:
--
Public timeline
20 statusses
Status 0: from HandsomeSmokes, 35229362, Mula Smokes , Brooklyn
Fortunately, when I tried that it didn't work.
Jim
On Aug 26, 11:29 am, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can dohttp://user:p...@site/
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:24, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote:
How is that scrapping? He is just
When does this change go into effect?
-Joel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote:
The resources in the Streaming API have been rationalized. You'll need
to update the URLs that streaming clients are using over the next two
weeks. The old URLs will be
I'm using the Apache HTTP Components to fetch data from Twitter and
I've run across something weird. I'm requesting
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json for a given user,
specifying the since_id parameter.
The client starts recieving the data, but it stops at 2048
characters. As far
thanks, i did that and it work perfect!.
On Aug 25, 3:40 pm, natefanaro natefan...@gmail.com wrote:
There are a few status updates on @cltag that are fairly similar. If
you're posting the same tweet multiple times twitter will only accept
the first tweet and ignore the rest. To test this add
I've scoured the API documentation, but to my surprise, can't find the
answer...
Does the API allow search for user by first name, last name, or screen
name?
I'm not interested in searching for tweets from or to a user, only in
searching for user profiles matching the above criteria.
Thanks,
Hi Paul,
If you are sharing your IP with any other GAE twitter apps that are
also doing search, then you are sharing the resource at that point.
The limiting is by IP first, then user-agent. Also, 1 search per
second is on the borderline of the normal rate-limit anyway, so I
would try calling
Hi all,
This isn't specific to the app I'm building at the moment, but the recent
thread on how to determine who is using your application reminded me of a
general question I have about the APIs.
Is there is an API call to return information about updates done via a given
application? (i.e. the
Use the search api
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Marc Andrewsbackcirc...@gmail.com wrote:
I've scoured the API documentation, but to my surprise, can't find the
answer...
Does the API allow search for user by first name, last name, or screen
name?
I'm not interested in searching for
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Kevin Mesiabke...@mesiablabs.com wrote:
Use the search api
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Marc Andrewsbackcirc...@gmail.com wrote:
I've scoured the API documentation, but to my surprise,
hi marc.
nope - we don't have a method that will let you do the equivalent of
find people.
I've scoured the API documentation, but to my surprise, can't find the
answer...
Does the API allow search for user by first name, last name, or screen
name?
I'm not interested in searching for
Can't you just make the account/verify_credentials call and get back
the stuff you need?
On Aug 26, 11:08 am, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote:
Quitter checks for updates, and like TTYtter it always asks permission
and you can turn it off in the configuration menu.
If your users
All my retry s are done some 100ms after the receiving the 401's.
Another thing I've noticed is if I try to call the API for 2 users in the
same instant I get a 401.. I avoid that separating call by some
milliseconds...
Otherwise all is fine (in 3 months I've posted 100.000 tweets) :)
On Wed,
If you are sending calls at the same instant, make sure to use a
different nonce value for the calls or things will certainly go goofy.
-Chad
2009/8/26 Cristovão Morgado cristovao.morg...@gmail.com:
All my retry s are done some 100ms after the receiving the 401's.
Another thing I've noticed is
Not yet. It is on the roadmap: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap#Users
Abraham
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 15:38, Marc Andrews backcirc...@gmail.com wrote:
I've scoured the API documentation, but to my surprise, can't find the
answer...
Does the API allow search for user by first name, last
I'm always getting the Invalid / used nonce error, even though I am
providing a new nonce. I am 100% sure my code works, because if I
remove my user cache, and the screen pops up to log into Twitter, then
I immediately go to the user's timeline in my app, and everything
loads: followed
Hi Jason,
If you have traces of the HTTP request/responses that will help
diagnose what is going on.
-Chad
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Jason Martinlegos.j...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm always getting the Invalid / used nonce error, even though I am
providing a new nonce. I am 100% sure my
This change went into effect at about 3pm PST Tuesday August 25th.
On Aug 26, 12:30 pm, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote:
When does this change go into effect?
-Joel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote:
The resources in the Streaming API have
Anything specific you need to look at? Or do just want me to just
paste in what's been sent and what's been received?
- Jason
On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Chad Etzel wrote:
Hi Jason,
If you have traces of the HTTP request/responses that will help
diagnose what is going on.
-Chad
On
One could get started gathering these metrics by analyzing search
queries in the vein of:
feed://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=source:tweetdeck
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Shannon Clarkshannon.cl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
This isn't specific to the app I'm building at the moment,
The request/response headers specifically, but the more info the better usually.
-Chad
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jason Martinlegos.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Anything specific you need to look at? Or do just want me to just paste in
what's been sent and what's been received?
- Jason
Hi Chad,
Has this limit changed recently? I used to query it far more frequently from
the app engine. Obviously, Google use a lot of different IP addresses so I
presuming it can fluctuate. But over the last couple of days I have noticed
far more that I used to get.
If it is by IP first what is
I have applied to be white listed for authenticating Twitter Users and
the response I received was:
Thanks for requesting to be on Twitter's API whitelist.
Unfortunately, we've rejected your request.
Here's why: This was completely blank
Please address the issues above and submit another
Hi Kevin,
That query will fail.
You must specify a query along with the source: operator to get any
results. We realize this does not allow for a full result set of
tweets from a source, but this limitation is in place to not crush the
system.
Thanks,
-Chad
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:12 PM,
2009/8/26 JDG ghil...@gmail.com:
Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can do http://user:p...@site/
That will only work with the API. The main site (and mobile site) uses
session-based authentication, not basic.
-Stuart
--
http://stut.net/projects/twitter/
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at
2009/8/26 Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com:
it doesn't appear that he's scraping at all. he's just starting a
process to show the user's twitter page and wants to have the user
logged in already.
Quite right too - I didn't read it properly. Sorry.
Unfortunately there's no way to automatically
You can't
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 15:13, CWG craiggo...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any way through the API or alternate means to discover when
your followers started following you?
--
Internets. Serious business.
Hi Steve,
It was discovered yesterday that recent whitelist rejections were
going out without the reason attached (this is a big bummer). If you
can tell me the username you used to submit the whitelist request I
can lookup the reason and send it to you off-list.
Thanks,
-Chad
On Wed, Aug 26,
Hi,
No, there is currently no way to find this information through the
API. If you have email notifications enabled then you could look at
the timestamp thereof. Of course that only works for your personal
accounts. Doing this on another user's behalf isn't possible through
the API.
-Chad
On
Aright, here's one set of request/response headers:
Request:
{
Authorization = OAuth realm='',
oauth_consumer_key='tJdfiGin0BMT7Qugbj787g',
oauth_signature_method='HMAC-SHA1', oauth_signature='J
%2BgLcaHUvLolHv2eZdpDJWSzumM%3D', oauth_timestamp='1251325616',
touche
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:06, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/26 JDG ghil...@gmail.com:
Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can do
http://user:p...@site/
That will only work with the API. The main site (and mobile site) uses
session-based authentication, not
Hi Jason,
The API endpoint and all other parameters sent with the request would
be helpful.
Thanks,
-Chad
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Jason Martinlegos.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Aright, here's one set of request/response headers:
Request:
{
Authorization = OAuth realm='',
While not a twitter message board, this system uses the authorized twitter
username to allow users to post threads and reply to current threads.
http://a.tinythread.com
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello,
Has anyone created a twitter account based
Will the streaming API ever expose tweets from protected users?--or is
it an infrastructure limitation that isn't going away anytime soon?
Also, will we ever see the ability to get real time tweets based on
search operators (http://search.twitter.com/operators)?
On Aug 26, 3:06 pm, John Kalucki
Thanks Abraham, that's the answer I was looking for. Appreciate it.
Kevin, the search API is exactly what I don't want, but I appreciate
you taking the time to make an attempt at answering.
I'll get by with users/show?screen_name=... in the REST API.
Thanks,
-Marc
On Aug 26, 1:45 pm, Abraham
blocks/exists tells if i am blocking a user - is there a way to tell if
a user is blocking me?
Joseph Cheek
jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com
twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom
try replacing the space character with +
so before setting your update something like this
tweet = Replace(tweet, ,+)
the problem you are having is probably related to url encoding of the
transmitted message
On Aug 13, 7:23 pm, catcalls g.obrzut3...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Oh, the problem
blocks/exists tells if i am blocking a user - is there a way to tell if
a user is blocking me?
No, and I would be very unhappy if such an operation existed. Stealth
blocking should always be an option.
--
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
On Aug 26, 3:49 pm, Steve eelstretch...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using the Apache HTTP Components to fetch data from Twitter and
I've run across something weird. I'm
requestinghttp://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.jsonfor a given user,
OK. Duh. Pilot error and I'm dumb. I blame the cold
Hi Steve,
What was the solution?
-Chad
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Steveeelstretch...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 26, 3:49 pm, Steve eelstretch...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using the Apache HTTP Components to fetch data from Twitter and
I've run across something weird. I'm
I would hope they never expose protected tweets -- if they did, what would
be ... you know, the point of it all?
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 17:02, Kevin Watters kevinwatt...@gmail.com wrote:
Will the streaming API ever expose tweets from protected users?--or is
it an infrastructure limitation
Hello, what is the best way to get tweets that are from me OR to me OR
mentioning me?
I have been playing with with search API:
feed://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:some_user+...@some_user
I believe that does what I want, but was not sure if the search API is
the best place to be
Thanks. These users will be mobile, largely, and asking them to log
in to see what will amount to comments is asking too much. This is
more a add on feature that some may find value in.
Looks like search it is.
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
if you were to allow
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