[twitter-dev] Re: Getting sample of recent statues (not real time) for large list of specific users

2009-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
At first glance, it seems that you should track on the keywords you care about with the Streaming API, and then sort by user on your client end. The count parameter allows clients to mask data loss at reconnection- time. It won't be sufficient for your purposes as the look back is only a few

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 errors

2009-09-09 Thread twittme_mobi
it happens even more often now... On Sep 9, 3:50 am, Jonathan Smith jonathansmith...@gmail.com wrote: This happens to me when I do json get requests as well. It happens very inconsistently during a normal session, but I can almost always reproduce it if I let the client sit for a while and

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

2009-09-09 Thread twittme_mobi
Hi All, any update on that? How are you handling e-mail logins? Regards. On Sep 6, 5:06 pm, twittme_mobi nlupa...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Abraham, currently this method is returning empty response e.g. . If it returns empty response - my application knows that this is sicessfulllogin,

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

2009-09-09 Thread jim.renkel
Raffi, I fully understand the concern about privacy. To that end, here's something you may want to consider: Have application / web-site over-rides of the geo-code enable be another option on OAuth. This way a user can control the creation of geo-coding in their tweets on a finer grain basis.

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-09-09 Thread Charles A. Lopez
2009/9/9 Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com Hi There, I'm sorry this never got updated. Some changes have been made and are waiting to go out now. When I switched from working on the Platform (formerly API) team to my focus on international I took over this issue. Once this current fix

[twitter-dev] Re: follow and reply using auth tokens

2009-09-09 Thread binu george
hi i am working in php . with username and apssed i did the follow . but through auth token . i am unable to do . kindly help thanks Binu george On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:57 PM, dizid glasw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi binu, Well, the first thing anyone who might be able to help you needs to

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-09 Thread Jose Tinoco
You're a LIFE SAVER man. Thank you very much. And I couldn't agree more: @twitterapi should have notified us. I sent him a @reply but got no answer so far. On Sep 8, 11:10 pm, Hrishikesh Bakshi bakshi.hrishik...@gmail.com wrote: Quick fix: Add q=* to your URL On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:04

[twitter-dev] Re: Widget - external links ?

2009-09-09 Thread Chris
Big thanks from my side, it works perfect ! On 8 Sep., 20:25, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/8 Chris abcnoct...@googlemail.com: Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the widget to have a shoutbox. I'm using this one: http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_search I am using iframes,

[twitter-dev] Search using lat/long and radius now broken?

2009-09-09 Thread CodeWarden
Up until yesterday this had been working fine for months. Now, if I send the following query to the search API it gives me an error that I have to enter a query Here is the call that used to work: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=39.031721,-77.50482,5mirpp=100 HTTP Return Code:

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Excessive 401 defect fixed

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew McCloud
Great news! Unfortunately, i'm still getting a 401 with any account I try. On Sep 8, 8:33 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: A few corner cases were causing excessive rate limiting on the Streaming API. One bad login, perhaps due to an unparsable predicate, or other minor validation

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Excessive 401 defect fixed

2009-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
First, does it worth with curl? Second, you may have a client that doesn't preemptively basic auth, yet fails to respond to the challenge. Try forcing immediate basic auth. You can trace with tcpdump. Third, stop all Streaming API clients for 15 minutes. Try once with your client, or, ideally,

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

2009-09-09 Thread Naveen A
It might be useful if detailed (step by step) instructions of how to generate the debug information twitter needs to track down this HTTP data being returned on the API, I am not sure how much data you are getting but I would really like to provide as much as I possibly can and provide others

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

2009-09-09 Thread alexc
this issue still pops up : http://twitter.com/friends/ids/downingstreet.xml?page=3

[twitter-dev] Why won't the twitter feed show in my flex app?

2009-09-09 Thread Markus
Hi! I'm trying to display a twitterfeed in my Flex app, but it simply wont show. Could someone please point out what the problem is? The code: http://norskwebforum.no/pastebin/11139

[twitter-dev] Re: real time timeline. is it possible?

2009-09-09 Thread Rolando Espinoza La Fuente
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:37 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: [...] You can simulate streaming the with_friends timeline by grabbing your following list to populate a follow parameter to the /1/statuses/ filter.format resource. You can also simulate mentions by defining a track

[twitter-dev] Re: Change in API

2009-09-09 Thread e.p.c.
I was able to post using that exact same code (except for concatenating “curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, {$twitter_user}: ” and “{$twitter_password}); ” which I assume were split when you posted the code. See http://twitter.com/artificllc/status/3864629956

[twitter-dev] Strange errormessage

2009-09-09 Thread Markus
I get the following error when I try to interact with a twitter-feed. Tryed a google-search, but I have noe idea what this error means nor how to fix it: Warning: Ignoring 'secure' attribute in policy file from http://twitter.com/crossdomain.xml. The 'secure' attribute is only permitted in

[twitter-dev] Search API being limited

2009-09-09 Thread CodeWarden
Hello, My mobile app uses the search api, and we do fill in the User Agent header to identify our application. Starting around last week it appears as though the search api is limiting our searches, which originate directly from our user's mobile devices. Does anyone have any thoughts around

[twitter-dev] Malformed JSON results

2009-09-09 Thread Craig Hockenberry
We're seeing a weird error occur with the API in the past few days: every so often, users will get malformed JSON data. From our app, the following message is displayed: http://files.iconfactory.net/craig/bugs/TwitterYAJL.jpg That error occurs when the JSON data can't be parsed. I'd like to

[twitter-dev] Re: Malformed JSON results

2009-09-09 Thread Naveen A
This sounds like the same issue many of us have been reporting where we get back HTML data instead of the expected JSON or XML response... I expect if you added logging to collect the raw response you would find it looks like the responses detailed in the tickets below... We get a similar parsing

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

2009-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
Point your mobile device through a web proxy that you control. Monitor the traffic there with tcpdump. On Sep 9, 7:07 am, Naveen A knig...@gmail.com wrote: It might be useful if detailed (step by step) instructions of how to generate the debug information twitter needs to track down this HTTP

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

2009-09-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi jim. that's definitely interesting - i don't think this will make it into the first release, but i like the per-app permissions notion based on oauth. it fits well on the grant permission read or grant permission write options in oauth in general. Raffi, I fully understand the

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

2009-09-09 Thread Naveen A
Thank John, I wish it were that simple, it does not happen as often when the request doesn't come from the Mobile Carriers servers.. Our client actually makes use of direct to twitter connections (thorugh mobile carrier) as well as proxied connections through our servers depending on the

[twitter-dev] using count param of any number gives 416

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew McCloud
Using the count param on statuses/filter.json gives 416 status code. I've tried positive numbers (1, 10, 100) i've tried negatives (-1, -5, -10) but no matter what, I get a 416.

[twitter-dev] Re: using count param of any number gives 416

2009-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
The count parameter is only allowed on the Firehose and on certain filter roles, as documented on the wiki. All other cases will result in a 416. I updated the Wiki to clarify the negative cases. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 9, 10:03 am, Andrew

[twitter-dev] Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Alex Payne
As mentioned previously, the Twitter operations team will artificially increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296 this coming Friday, September 11th. This action is part of routine database upgrades and maintenance. If your Twitter API application stores status IDs, please be sure that your

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-09 Thread Alex Payne
Another note: the Search API documentation has been updated to reflect that querying based on geocode is not compatible with disjunctions (OR queries). Please see the Operator Limits section of http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:19, Samuel

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-09 Thread Samuel Luckenbill
Hey Folks, The bug is specifically that all queries using the geocode parameter with no query string return no results. We'll launch a bug fix today. In the interim, you can use the geocode: operator in the query string or add a bogus string as someone else has suggested. Sorry for the

[twitter-dev] Streaming API -- Be tolerant of retweet annotation

2009-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
Once the retweet feature is launched, some statuses flowing through all /1/statuses resources in the Streaming API will be annotated as retweets. Clients using reasonable JSON and XML parsers shouldn't require a change. Clients using brittle parsers, or those not projecting result fields, but

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
May I know when and where was it mentioned that it will be artificially increased this coming Friday? -- Hwee-Boon On Sep 10, 2:49 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: As mentioned previously, the Twitter operations team willartificially increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296 this

[twitter-dev] Frequent 503/Over Capacity/Server Unavailable Errors

2009-09-09 Thread Nelu Lazar
Hi, I use EpiOAuth for my Twitter dashboard application hosted on a dedicated server, jmathai's async cURL Twitter class, memcached for caching responses. Almost every day, more frequently past days/weeks, my server logs API errors that literally drives the site down, requiring the server to be

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Alex Payne
Sorry, an error in phrasing. It was previously mentioned that this change was pending. We had not previously announced a date for the change. Normally, we prefer to provide more advance notice where possible, but I'm letting you all know immediately after our operations team informed me that it

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-09 Thread Mack D. Male
Sorry, why is it not compatible with disjunctions? That seems like a bug, not a change in functionality. Basically what you're saying is that if I search for edmonton and geocode it, I get location information. Or if I search for #yeg and geocode it, I get location information. But if I search

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Richard
I note that this is when Twestival (http://twestival.com/) is on so a lot of developers maybe at events while this happens On Sep 9, 7:49 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: As mentioned previously, the Twitter operations team will artificially increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296

[twitter-dev] Re: Has replies/mentions behavior changed again or it is broken?

2009-09-09 Thread scouredimage
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1025 On Aug 28, 6:17 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: If you can find specific examples and send them to a...@twitter.com that will help us. Also if you can file a ticket that will help track

[twitter-dev] Re: Malformed JSON results

2009-09-09 Thread divesnob
I ran some tests from our RightScale instances and sent the guys at a...@twitter.com some curl traces and tcpdump data that I was able to capture. It does appear to happen when some period of time has lagged and twitter isn't hit. But after a few requests, the problem no longer manifests

[twitter-dev] API Search

2009-09-09 Thread Gustavo Melo
Why the parameter near is not avaible for api search on twitter? What i can't understand is... I can search on search.twitter.com this query:@twitter OR @twitterapi near:Brasil http://search.twitter.com/search...@twitter+or+@twitterapi+near:Brasil If i click on Feed for this query i can get

[twitter-dev] Re: Malformed JSON results

2009-09-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi All, Just want to make sure we're all on the same page here... By malformed JSON, do you mean stuff that looks like json, but the parser barfs on it or do you mean We're getting back HTML when we're expecting JSON The data dump that Matt sent us was the latter, but I was wondering if Craig

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Nicholas Moline
And nobody thought about the significance of accelerating anything called a *pocolypse to be on the anniversary of a date that thousands died in a terrorist attack Tactful Twitter... Real Tactful On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Sorry, an error in

[twitter-dev] Re: API Search

2009-09-09 Thread Jose Tinoco
Hello, fellow brazilian developer. You should read the search API documentation. It says you cannot use the near operator via the API to geocode arbitrary locations. To geocode a location (i.e., to get coordinates for a given city, country or state name) you should take a look at the Google

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 9/9/09 6:29 PM, Nicholas Moline wrote: And nobody thought about the significance of accelerating anything called a *pocolypse to be on the anniversary of a date that thousands died in a terrorist attack Tactful Twitter... Real Tactful Now, now - this is the Twitpocalypse, not the

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph Cheek
Twitter is in league with Al Qaida! You heard it first here, folks! Ok, seriously, this message I wrote wasn't worth the electrons it took to transmit it... let's see if I can increase the s2n ratio: 4294967296, that an unsigned 32-bit int? ok, fair enough. i know some of my apps use signed

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting sample of recent statues (not real time) for large list of specific users

2009-09-09 Thread LeeS
Wouldn't we get a lot of irrelevant users that way? Is it possible to stream both on user id's an keywords, or is it one or the other? Regarding the count, would it be possible to access the API every 5 minutes, say, using a negative count parameter? Or better just to use the streaming feature

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting sample of recent statues (not real time) for large list of specific users

2009-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
You can filter by userid or by track keyword, but not both. You cannot use count with track or with the default filter access. There are many examples of Streaming API clients, and it's not hard at all to build your own. Many hundreds have done so before you. The streaming API is not intended to

[twitter-dev] Re: Malformed JSON results

2009-09-09 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Chad: I don't know at this point. The error occurs on our iPhone app and we don't log anything (performance memory reasons.) I haven't been able to generate the error in my test environment (where I can log stuff.) BUT getting back HTML when we're expecting JSON makes sense to me. I've feed

[twitter-dev] Search by KW then RT

2009-09-09 Thread 00__00
Can you help? I want to search Streaming OR Search (not fussed which) for Keyword (say Wimbledon) then ReTweet those individual results. 1. Search 2. ReTweet each search item including (via @xyz) Now I have seen this done in a spammy fashion, which is poor, so to reassure the group: I don;t

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

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Mason
For those using the iphone and tweetdeck, you can click the locate icon and your iPhone: Long:Lat is updated on your profilie.location. I am interested in GEO locate, so products can find you. Example, You are on interstate driving or passenger, and it is after 3am, and you tweet... Holiday Inn

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: Twitpocalypse II coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

2009-09-09 Thread JDG
if you were on signed32 you'd have had a problem a long time ago. not quite sure why people haven't just taken to treating/storing as strings -- sure there's a bit more overhead mem/storage-wise, but you don't have to change your code every few months. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 16:45, Joseph Cheek

[twitter-dev] Re: Search by KW then RT

2009-09-09 Thread Joel Strellner
Something like this is going to require a server-side language, like PHP, Perl, Ruby, etc. JavaScript wont cut it. I'm not sure how you'd do this without it being spammy though. IMO it should be manual, or at least semi-manual using a queue of some sort that you need to approve prior to it going