[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter IP Whitelisting

2009-09-02 Thread Jim Renkel
I don't think white-listing is going to help with a latency problem. It only gets ya way more API GET requests per hour. Latency issues are probably due to twitter infrastructure problems, i.e., delays in the back-end DB servers posting updates from the front-end UI servers. We've been seeing thi

[twitter-dev] Re: Can't enter full name, character limit

2009-09-02 Thread Abraham Williams
This list is for discussion of the API. Please see http://help.twitter.comfor issues with the Twitter website. Thanks, Abraham On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 16:46, Martin Klein Schaarsberg wrote: > > Hello, > > Under Twitter / Settings I've tried to enter my full name, Martin > Klein Schaarsberg, but I

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter IP Whitelisting

2009-09-02 Thread Andy Pirate
Well I checked it out, and it says 150 is the rate limit on any random member, except my actual account is set 2. Now this seems like it only whitelisted my actual account. I obviously can't ask all the members to request a whitelist from twitter, that would thousands upon thousands of reques

[twitter-dev] account/update_profile API call fails if original screen name has uppercase characters and login don't match exactly

2009-09-02 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
I filed this a few weeks ago and the ticket wasn't commented on nor discussed here, so I replicate it here to bring some attention to it. It's an obscure bug: == Calls to account/update_profile API fails if the original screen name (the one that was signed up with, eg. "User1", inste

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter IP Whitelisting

2009-09-02 Thread John Kalucki
While we occasionally have update latency events (I think there was one yesterday afternoon for a bit of extra latency over a few tens of minutes), nearly all updates are applied to nearly timelines within a few seconds. The common case is even less latency. Some variance can be expected when a us

[twitter-dev] Would like to have a database of tweets for a filter

2009-09-02 Thread Mark Mason
Is there a predefined way to get results from a search into a table? Getting data from a search into a file, now need to get file into table. curl http://twitter.com/#search.atom?q=missuniverse -o v:\twittersts \searchmsu2.xml To get all past tweets about #missuniverse, I would do a search. T

[twitter-dev] Re: account/update_profile API call fails if original screen name has uppercase characters and login don't match exactly

2009-09-02 Thread fbparis
Maybe, if first thing you're doing is checking account credential, you could retrieve then the real screen_name. Or in many other requests the screen_name is returned and you can catch it. On Sep 2, 2:45 pm, Hwee-Boon Yar wrote: > I filed this a few weeks ago and the ticket wasn't commented on n

[twitter-dev] Re: Would like to have a database of tweets for a filter

2009-09-02 Thread Stuart
2009/9/2 Mark Mason : > > Is there a predefined way to get results from a search into a table? > > Getting data from a search into a file, now need to get file into > table. > > curl http://twitter.com/#search.atom?q=missuniverse -o v:\twittersts > \searchmsu2.xml > > > To get all past tweets abou

[twitter-dev] Re: Would like to have a database of tweets for a filter

2009-09-02 Thread John Kalucki
Search will give you results for the last several days. Then switch over to stream.twitter.com and use the track parameter on stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.format. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 2, 8:06 am, Stuart wrote: > 2009/9/2 Mark Mason : >

[twitter-dev] the OK

2009-09-02 Thread ben
I noticed a post a week or two back about legal issues on 3rd party apps, also on the terms of service its says that twitter will check out an app and then ok or blacklist it. The app i've been working on has some auto-following capability, but it's restricted to keep the general peace and prevent

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-02 Thread Amitab
I have exchanged emails with Twitter on this and I believe they are working on it. We use search extensively at www.Twaller.com . The errors in search that we are seing is as follows: (1) HTTP status code: 403 Message:The request is understood, but it has been refused. An accompanying erro

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-09-02 Thread LucaPost
so an opted-in user will have latLong data automatically attached to her/his updates, taken from the browser/client W3c geolocation capabilities or is it necessary to explicitly include them in the message content? On Aug 21, 6:44 pm, Ryan Sarver wrote: > Ben, > > Currently we geocode your user.

[twitter-dev] Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing

2009-09-02 Thread Ted Neward
I've been hacking on the Twitter API, and I'm running into some serious weirdness with destroy. I post a message: C:\> curl -u name:pass -d "status=Testing" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml Wed Sep 02 10:10:23 + 2009 3708721364 Testing [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter IP Whitelisting
We've experienced this at random, whether the user has 1+ million followers or whether they have 20 followers. I generally don't mind if the post has the timestamp of 15~ minutes past the time we actually sent the request. As far as the timestamp being posted, that is also delayed as well. I can

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

Raffi, Another question came up as I was thinking about support for this in my web-site (http://twxlate.com): Will the elements returned in the responses to API requests include information that indicates whether or not the user has opted- in to geo-coding of their tweets? I would like to see

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

its up to the API client to send that extra data along -- its not in the tweet's textual content, if that is what you're asking. its metadata that is "attached" to the tweet. so an opted-in user will have latLong data automatically attached to her/his updates, taken from the browser/clien

[twitter-dev] Followers count

Hello, I have spent a good portion of today reading through closed, merged, and open issues on http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list I am trying to figure out the best way to get an accurate followers count. Initially, I was using /users/show which returns the full user object, inclu

[twitter-dev] tweeting with oauth

Hi, Are there any examples of how to post tweet using an oauth token rather than username:password? I'm trying to do this in php. Thanks

[twitter-dev] Linking to the twitter UI for retweeting with the new retweet API

Hi all, to allow users on another website to retweet (e.g. update status previously) one could use links liek these: http://twitter.com/home/?status=RT+%40aalmiray%3A+%40wmacgyver+yup.+Groovy+MOP+%2B+static+factory+method Question to the Twitter API team: Will there be a similar URL format for

[twitter-dev] Re: Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing

There's a note on the Status blog that we're having some delays in processing a proportion of new statuses. This issue looks to largely be resolved, and all the subsequent backlogs have been processed -- except there's still a bit of a backlog pushing statuses to Facebook that should resolve soon

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

hi jim. yup! http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0verify_credentials Raffi, Another question came up as I was thinking about support for this in my web-site (http://twxlate.com): Will the elements returned in the responses to API requests include information

[twitter-dev] Retweet API and multiple retweets in timeline

Hi all, this questions might have been asked already, but a quick search in this mailing list did not lead me to a clear response... so I apologize if this topic was discussed in detail already. My question: - if a tweet is retweeted several timese, e.g. tweet X is retweeted by my friend A and

[twitter-dev] Re: Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing

"Pushing statuses to Facebook" ? can you clarify this? On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM, John Kalucki wrote: > > There's a note on the Status blog that we're having some delays in > processing a proportion of new statuses. This issue looks to largely > be resolved, and all the subsequent backlog

[twitter-dev] [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

We mentioned in our early preview email about the retweet API (http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/1e07e332ec3d449d) that the statuses/friends_timeline resource wasn't going to include retweets for backwards compatibility so we don't break clients that aren't p

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API and multiple retweets in timeline

If you take a look at the payload of a retweet in the examples, each retweet has the id of the original tweet as well as details about the retweet (who retweeted it, when and what the id of the retweet is). That information, specifically the retweet's id, should be sufficient for your purposes. O

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

The current friends_timeline and home_timeline both include mentions already. The friends_timeline will continue to not include retweets since the payload for a retweeted status is slightly different. At some future time, though, the friends_timeline will be removed in favor of the home_timeline,

[twitter-dev] Re: New ReTweet API

I'd also like to know this. The examples on the twitter API page all just show one retweet_details section, this would mean that if multiple of your friends to retwee the same status, it will be added multiple times to the home timeline. this way, there is also no problem wiht tracking retweets o

[twitter-dev] Re: Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing

We optionally push your statuses to Facebook to allow you to update your Facebook status automatically. This has been supported for about 14+ months. -John On Sep 2, 4:16 pm, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > "Pushing statuses to Facebook" ? > > can you clarify this? > > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:25 A

[twitter-dev] since_retweet_id needed?

To track retweets over time and to not waste resources, I believe it would be great to get a since_retweet_id parameter for the new retweet status methods like statuses retweeted_to_me If we just have a status_id, you cannot pull for new retweets over time I believe. If you use the statusId, onc

[twitter-dev] Re: [ANN] statuses/home_timeline resource now available (though it doesn't include retweets yet)

from the API page > Twitter REST API Method: statuses/home_timeline [COMING SOON] > Returns the 20 most recent statuses, including retweets, posted by the > authenticating user and that user's friends. This is the equivalent of > /timeline/home on the Web. > > Usage note: This home_timeline is

[twitter-dev] Re: Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing

We've got a fix for this going out tomorrow. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:38, Ted Neward wrote: > I’ve been hacking on the Twitter API, and I’m running into some serious > weirdness with destroy. > > > > I post a message: > > > > C:\> curl -u name:pass -d "status=Testing" > http://twitter.com/status

[twitter-dev] Re: Linking to the twitter UI for retweeting with the new retweet API

> to allow users on another website to retweet (e.g. update status > previously) one could use links liek these: > > http://twitter.com/home/?status=RT+%40aalmiray%3A+%40wmacgyver+yup.+Groovy+MOP+%2B+static+factory+method > > Question to the Twitter API team: > > Will there be a similar URL for

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

Raffi: Great discussion, the geolocation code is exciting opens up so many possibilities. 1. Would you guys consider the geolocation code, opt-in on a tweet basis? It would be an optional input on a tweet basis with the default=off; This way users can choose, "Hey, I am walking down market str

[twitter-dev] Re: if you will be using the Geolocation API ...

Raffi, Is it only the account/verify_credentials method that will return the sub-element in the element, or all methods that return a element? While having only account/verify_credentials return it is better than nothing, I would hope that all methods that return a element would include a

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers count

I hope you find out. I long ago gave up. If I really needed the feature, I would scrape that one out of the html, which I know is frowned upon, however, as your data shows, this is pretty all over the map. On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Jason Tan wrote: Anyways, to get back to my origina

[twitter-dev] Bump Issue 949 - Deleting status returns error

Still waiting to get some kind of acknowledgment... http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=949

[twitter-dev] Twitter Open Connect

Hi all, Does Twitter support Open Connect which like the Facebook does? Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Find twitter account from email address?

If I have an email address, can I query somehow to find a person's twitter page?

[twitter-dev] Re: Find twitter account from email address?

Short answer: no. Ok, the long answer is "no" too. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 21:18, Eric Zhang wrote: > > If I have an email address, can I query somehow to find a person's > twitter page? > -- Internets. Serious business.

[twitter-dev] Can you speak in plain english

And not computer language, Dante Soiu

[twitter-dev] Re: Find twitter account from email address?

No. This has been discussed. The API does not allow it. The impression I have and agree with is the API will not allow it in the near future. You can do so by hand by connecting an email account to Twitter. This is intended for your personal use, and should not be programstically used.

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

false On Sep 2, 6:50 pm, Dante Soiu wrote: > And not computer language, Dante Soiu

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Open Connect

This is the closest, http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter On Sep 2, 7:10 pm, monkeyvu wrote: > Hi all, > > Does Twitter support Open Connect which like the Facebook does? > > Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Re: tweeting with oauth

Could use Abraham or my library. https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth/tree https://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/tree I have some blog posts that might help as well. http://www.jaisenmathai.com/blog/2009/03/31/how-to-quickly-integrate-with-twitters-oauth-api-using-php/ http://www.jaisenma

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

What is it you need help with? I see more and more of this on the twitter-dev list. On one hand, I can understand, someone with no developer background, sees the twitter world happening, and decides they too want to form a business around it. I do not see this on any of the other mailing

[twitter-dev] Re: Find twitter account from email address?

Here is the issue that involves this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=353 Abraham On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 22:44, Scott Haneda wrote: > > No. This has been discussed. The API does not allow it. The impression I > have and agree with is the API will not allow it in the near fu

[twitter-dev] Re: Followers count

Same oddness w. friends count as well? I'd guess so. My problem is that if I try to get followers using paging, I get different numbers (and different followers) than if I pull the entire list w/o paging. Also, followers disappear and reappear from one hour to the next. On Sep 2, 5:44 pm, Jason

[twitter-dev] Rate Limit Weirdness?

Strange events w/ Rate Limit requests. I'm calling the API from my whitelisted IP and getting results that are all over the map. It's almost as if Twitter is load-balancing my requests to two different environments, each of which is keeping its own count of my rate limits. So my app chugs along h

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you speak in plain english

$_ =~ s/\-([^\[]+?)\-/process($1)/ges foreach (@tweets); On Sep 2, 6:50 pm, Dante Soiu wrote: > And not computer language, Dante Soiu

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit Weirdness?

I have seen some inconsistency with my desktop app(Oauth) which is not whitelisted Adding a tweet to favorite does not update the X-RateLimit value. Also If i remove a tweet from my favorites ( favorites\destroy), i get 404 error (But this is removed from favorites) and the ratelimit is reset even