[twitter-dev] Re: screen_name param for /statuses/mentions and/or xml format for search results?

2009-09-06 Thread Hoss
On Sep 4, 4:43 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: ATOM _is_ XML ... not sure what the problem is? Uh, yes ... at a basic level that's true -- but the fact that you would point that out suggests that you aren't remotely familiar with the various response formats twitter API calls. Let

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/ids now returns w/ 1-5% random duplicates (as of this morning)

2009-09-06 Thread David W.
Hi Jesse, Just like to chirp in and say I'm seeing weirdness too. Particularly, / followers/ids is taking more than 10 seconds to return for all accounts with over 30k followers, or alternatively are failing with 401s (using OAuth tokens). Since 10s is the hard limit for AppEngine, my app cannot

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/ids now returns w/ 1-5% random duplicates (as of this morning)

2009-09-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
So that is why my cron jobs are suddenly taking forever to complete, since Saturday morning. This 10 second delay is a new bug. In the past one just got a lot of 502 errors when retrieving really large accounts, but even those calls were seldom longer than 1 second. Dewald On Sep 6, 5:00 am,

[twitter-dev] Re: HUGE PROBLEM with Direct Messages!

2009-09-06 Thread Bill Kocik
Also, go here: http://twitter.com/account/connections and see if there are any applications that you've authenticated to via OAuth that might be doing it. (That's the other way this can happen.) On Sep 5, 3:14 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Change your Twitter password

[twitter-dev] Recent Following and Follower Issues and Some Background on Social Graph

2009-09-06 Thread John Kalucki
I can't speak to the policy issues, but I'll share a few things about social graph backing stores. To put it politely, the social graph grows quickly. Projecting the growth out just 3 or 6 months causes most engineers to do a spit- take. We have three online (user-visible) ways of storing the

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 errors

2009-09-06 Thread twittme_mobi
Hi Ryan, I am getting the same error - i can found it in the logs of my app every day - at least 20 times. 1. The IP of the machine making requests to the Twitter API. If you're behind NAT, please be sure to send us your *external* IP. --- Name:twittme.mobi Address: 67.222.129.154 2. The

[twitter-dev] Re: email used as login causing problems

2009-09-06 Thread twittme_mobi
Hello Abraham, currently this method is returning empty response e.g. . If it returns empty response - my application knows that this is sicessfull login, otherwise - it prints the error.The docs regarding this should be updated. Greetings! On Sep 5, 12:27 pm, Abraham Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/ids now returns w/ 1-5% random duplicates (as of this morning)

2009-09-06 Thread David W.
Hey Jesse, I've seen random failures and timeouts in the past, but in the last 48 hours they have become very consistent. I've got 4 accounts that have just 'stuck'. Very tempted to just close up the app. David On Sep 6, 9:13 am, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: David, that's a

[twitter-dev] [408s] Random 408 errors having been appearing the last 48 hours

2009-09-06 Thread bosher
Random 408 errors are being returned when users are attempting to Sign in with Twitter on my site TweetMeNews.com. Has anyone else been seeing this? Twitter, is there any way you can expand on the error message instead of just saying 408? That would help us better Understand Report what's

[twitter-dev] Re: Recent Following and Follower Issues and Some Background on Social Graph

2009-09-06 Thread Jesse Stay
Thanks John. I appreciate the various ways of accessing this data, but when you guys make updates to any of these, can you either do it in a beta environment we can test in first, or earlier in the week? Where there are very few Twitter engineers monitoring these lists during the weekends, and

[twitter-dev] Recommended/Official Android App?

2009-09-06 Thread Blaine Garrett
Hi devs, I just got an android phone. Can anyone make a recommendation for a good twitter android app? It seems there are few. Anyone specifically working on one and need a tester? ~Blaine

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 errors

2009-09-06 Thread Rich
Yeah it's happening to me again, same as my previous email, except the time stamp will be around 2 minutes ago On Sep 6, 4:05 pm, twittme_mobi nlupa...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Ryan, I am getting the same error - i can found it in the logs of my app every day - at least 20 times. 1. The IP

[twitter-dev] Re: non json response

2009-09-06 Thread Rudifa
I have seen this same http page with empty body !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/ TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd !-- !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; -- HTML HEAD META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=0.1 META

[twitter-dev] Re: Recent Following and Follower Issues and Some Background on Social Graph

2009-09-06 Thread PJB
For now, we're sending the row-count-queries queries back to the second system, which is otherwise idle, but isn't consistent with the first or third system. Can you help us better understand what queries you're talking about? Do you mean, e.g., that any queries that call for *ALL* friends/ids

[twitter-dev] Re: Recent Following and Follower Issues and Some Background on Social Graph

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks John. I appreciate the various ways of accessing this data, but when you guys make updates to any of these, can you either do it in a beta environment we can test in first, or earlier in the week? Where there are

[twitter-dev] Re: Recent Following and Follower Issues and Some Background on Social Graph

2009-09-06 Thread Jesse Stay
I don't understand how asking to release features earlier in the week is asking a lot? What does that have to do with scaling social graphs? Jesse On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Recent Following and Follower Issues and Some Background on Social Graph

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand how asking to release features earlier in the week is asking a lot? What does that have to do with scaling social graphs? I was referring to a beta environment. Nick

[twitter-dev] Skype + Twitter = ?

2009-09-06 Thread Dale Merritt
Has anyone heard of any Skype Apps that tie into the Twitter API, or vice versa. Look for some examples of how one might integrate the two. I can't find anything live. I realize it might be minimal since we're talking about one web based, and one client based, but thought I would ask. -- Dale

[twitter-dev] Re: Paging (or cursoring) will always return unreliable (or jittery) results

2009-09-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I meant to type, LIMIT 100, 5000.

[twitter-dev] Re: Recent Following and Follower Issues and Some Background on Social Graph

2009-09-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
John, Thanks for the background info. Row count queries means to me the summary friends and followers numbers displayed on the Twitter web pages, and returned on the user profile via the API, correct? So, if I am understanding you correctly, then the friends and followers that we're getting back

[twitter-dev] Paging (or cursoring) will always return unreliable (or jittery) results

2009-09-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
There is no way that paging through a large and volatile data set can ever return results that are 100% accurate. Let's say one wants to page through @aplusk's followers list. That's going to take between 3 and 5 minutes just to collect the follower ids with page (or the new cursors). It is

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 errors

2009-09-06 Thread Naveen A
We are seeing this HTML META REFRESH as well from our clients. We are a mobile application and seeing this issue more and more frequently to the point that application is not functioning properly, its hard for use to provide any specific ip data as the carriers are most likely proxying the

[twitter-dev] Re: Paging (or cursoring) will always return unreliable (or jittery) results

2009-09-06 Thread Jesse Stay
Agreed. Is there a chance Twitter can return the full results in compressed (gzip or similar) format to reduce load, leaving the burden of decompressing on our end and reducing bandwidth? I'm sure there are other areas this could apply as well. I think you'll find compressing the full social

[twitter-dev] Re: Paging (or cursoring) will always return unreliable (or jittery) results

2009-09-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
If I worked for Twitter, here's what I would have done. I would have grabbed the follower id list of the large accounts (those that usually kicked back 502s) and written them to flat files once every 5 or so minutes. When an API request comes in for that list, I'd just grab it from the flat

[twitter-dev] Re: Paging (or cursoring) will always return unreliable (or jittery) results

2009-09-06 Thread Jesse Stay
The other solution would be to send it to us in batch results, attaching a timestamp to the request telling us this is what the user's social graph looked like at x time. I personally would start with the compressed format though, as that makes it all possible to retrieve in a single request. On

[twitter-dev] Re: Paging (or cursoring) will always return unreliable (or jittery) results

2009-09-06 Thread Jesse Stay
As far as retrieving the large graphs from a DB, flat files are one way - another is to just store the full graph (of ids) in a single column in the database and parse on retrieval. This is what FriendFeed is doing currently, so they've said. Dewald and I are both talking about this because