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

2009-09-10 Thread Abraham Williams
The Twitter API call is working correctly. ( http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/zenbullets.xml?count=5 ). I would recommend asking in a Flex developer forum where they specialize in Flex development. Abraham On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 09:10, Markus thonhau...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm

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

2009-09-10 Thread Rob Ashton
I've always just stored as 64bit integers, I'd assumed that 32bit wouldn't be enough. Now, if it goes above 64bit then I'm screwed, because neither my language or database have built in support for that! :P From: JDG Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:21 AM To:

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

2009-09-10 Thread Ted Neward
What is the documented range for status IDs? (How high can they go?) Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter for a Library

2009-09-10 Thread Abraham Williams
Here is the Verified Account info: http://twitter.com/help/verified http://twitter.com/help/verifiedAbraham On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 07:20, hughes...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Howard, Can you do that on the regular set up account page or do you have to go through something else? Sent from my

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

2009-09-10 Thread dizid
PHP libraries / examples are here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries#PHP On Sep 10, 6:55 am, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote: 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

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

2009-09-10 Thread Rich
Seeing as 32bit signed was 2,147,483,647 and 32bit unsigned is 4,294,967,295 And 64bit signed is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, I'd say we're safe for a good little while yet! On Sep 10, 7:23 am, Ted Neward ted.new...@gmail.com wrote: What is the documented range for status IDs? (How high can they

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

2009-09-10 Thread JDG
and if they are, just store the twos complement of the ID in the DB and do the math when you retrieve if it's negative. :) On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 00:12, Rob Ashton robash...@codeofrob.com wrote: I've always just stored as 64bit integers, I'd assumed that 32bit wouldn't be enough. Now, if

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

2009-09-10 Thread Coderanger
You need to add: result=onRes(event) to the mx:HTTPService, because if you add a breakpoint to your onRes function it never gets called as its not told what to do on getting any result back. On Sep 9, 3:10 pm, Markus thonhau...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm trying to display a twitterfeed in my

[twitter-dev] Search API Not From a Source

2009-09-10 Thread Greg
Hello Twitter Developers, Is there a way to use the search API to get Tweets not from a particular source (i.e via web, TweetDeck etc)? I am trying to get a search full of tweet that isn't from my application but is referencing a hash tag. Is this possible? Thanks, Greg

[twitter-dev] link posted on my site

2009-09-10 Thread BigtimeDiane
I want to complain to Twitter, because Dana Web Pro post links to my Twitter pages rying to get my pages sut down, you see from the link below one is good one advertising his site and the other one going to give me a warning.- I paid Dana Web Pro to do some work for me, so he had my password to

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

2009-09-10 Thread Roy Hooper
I'm still seeing this recurring problem. Are only oauth users experiencing this? If so, maybe its time for us to give up on OAuth? On Sep 9, 12:16 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Point your mobile device through a web proxy that you control. Monitor the traffic there with tcpdump.

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

2009-09-10 Thread Ivan Kirigin
Call me crazy, but I store any data from a 3rd party in strings. Typically, I used a text blob to store some serialized object (like json or a python pickle) which maximizes flexibility. For the tweet id, I think I used 64 chars. In about 10 years, after I've cleared all the other higher

[twitter-dev] GeoMeme, search api /or rest api

2009-09-10 Thread bob.hitching
hello raffi and everyone, a demo and a question; GeoMeme is geo-app using the Location field to provide measurement and comparison of real-time local twitter trends, e.g. see http://www.geome.me/51ARK to compare New Yorkers tweeting about Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7. when geolocation is

[twitter-dev] Re: GeoMeme, search api /or rest api

2009-09-10 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hey bob. will the geo tags be contained in results from the public Search API /or just the REST API? the plan is to have geo in the public search API as well! -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi

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

2009-09-10 Thread TjL
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:    I more than agree with the above statement that a character is a character and Twitter shouldn't care. Data should be data. The main issue with that is that some clients compose characters and some don't. My common

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

2009-09-10 Thread Waldron Faulkner
Hey developers, any hints/tips on how I can get the Twitter API team to focus on this issue? It's hard to build a business on the Twitter API when a crucial feature like this just stops working and we get radio silence for days. Any tips on how I can help the team focus on this?? On Sep 9, 10:10 

[twitter-dev] Errornous link - Bracket problem with bit.ly

2009-09-10 Thread zen Himitsu
I'm not developer, but couldn't find better place to report. I looked around to see if this issue as been submited but not seen. The folowing discussion is from 2 weeks ago (forgot to report). The issue is that if you don't put space at the end of link, the bracket is sent to bit.ly engine for

[twitter-dev] Re: Errornous link - Bracket problem with bit.ly

2009-09-10 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Yes, you need to ask twitter to fix that. They are using our api, but obviously, they are encoding the ) after the .jpg. Thanks for letting us know, but yes, this is a twitter issue. Good luck with that. Since it is acceptable to have the unencoded ) character in a URL, I don't know how they

[twitter-dev] Re: non json response

2009-09-10 Thread John Kalucki
People are working on this as a high-priority issue. I'd imagine that the API team will have an update soon. On Sep 10, 2:09 pm, Monica Keller monica.kel...@gmail.com wrote: We see this error 75% of the time. Have you guys made an progress on resolving the issue ? On Sep 6, 8:14 pm, archF6

[twitter-dev] Re: Errornous link - Bracket problem with bit.ly

2009-09-10 Thread JDG
Yet another reason Twitter should NOT be bit.ly encoding URLs that do not cause tweets to go 140 chars. (or at all for that matter, leave that up to the users) On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 13:42, Matthew Terenzio mteren...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you need to ask twitter to fix that. They are using

[twitter-dev] Re: Errornous link - Bracket problem with bit.ly

2009-09-10 Thread Jim Renkel
I completely agree with the sentiment as stated, but have a question. Does the URL shortening happen only for tweets entered at twitter.com? Or does it also happen for tweets created via the API? The former is a twitter UI issue, and if they want to shorten tweets, well, that's their business.

[twitter-dev] Friends Ids API

2009-09-10 Thread Alex Popescu
Hi guys, I don't seem to have found any trace of this report before, so I thought I should post it. According to the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-friends ids documentation, you can actually get the results using any of the following 4 URIs:

[twitter-dev] Re: Errornous link - Bracket problem with bit.ly

2009-09-10 Thread Hedley Robertson
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jim Renkel james.ren...@gmail.com wrote: Does the URL shortening happen only for tweets entered at twitter.com? Or does it also happen for tweets created via the API? The former is a twitter UI issue, and if they want to shorten tweets, well, that’s their

[twitter-dev] Error 400 while fetching twitter feeds

2009-09-10 Thread Mytweetopics
Hi, Our app has been using twitter RSS for a while for fetching status updates of users. (e.g. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/serenity.atom). Its worked fine. But in the last couple of days we are getting more and more error 400 when we do the HTTP get on the ATOM URL. The IP of the

[twitter-dev] stream api track method return null for getInReplyToScreenName()

2009-09-10 Thread lithium
I recently switched from search api to stream api. Consquently, I needed to use the getInReplyToScreenName() to get the reply name. However, this is returning null. Therefore, I am parsing the tweet text directly to extract the @lithium token.

[twitter-dev] Re: Errornous link - Bracket problem with bit.ly

2009-09-10 Thread Matthew Terenzio
If in fact URL shortening is possible via the API, then there should at least be an option to suppress it. I have seen the API shorten URLs that I have already shortened which has caused problems but I never got an answer on what the rules were because I have also noticede some longer URLs

[twitter-dev] Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Marcel Molina
To accompany our updated Terms of Service (http://bit.ly/2ZXsyW) we've posted a draft of the Twitter API rules at http://twitter.com/apirules. As the subject states, these rules are a work in progress and feedback is welcome. Please read the TOS announcement at http://bit.ly/2ZXsyW for some

[twitter-dev] Re: Error 400 while fetching twitter feeds

2009-09-10 Thread Diane Dillihunt
The only link that was did like was the person did them purposely he is web master, he know what he was doing. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Mytweetopics monsoon@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Our app has been using twitter RSS for a while for fetching status updates of users. (e.g.

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I expected to see more along the lines of rules of which the violation would cause a blacklisting of the app. No problems with what is in the draft at present. Dewald

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Dean Collins
No offence but can you please post these 'draft' rules along with the current API rules. Sorry if I sound 'overtly suspicious' but as you can imagine I'm a little wary of anything that twitter inc says at the moment and would like to have all of the rules in a single location as it causes

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Dean, That's basically what I meant. We know those are not the only rules, so the other rules should also in the draft, shouldn't they? Dewald On Sep 10, 9:50 pm, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: No offence but can you please post these 'draft' rules along with the current API rules.

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Jesse Stay
This is great news! Regarding sending Tweets on a user's behalf, does that refer to DMs as well, and when seeking permission, must it be on a tweet-by-tweet basis, or can a user give you permission beforehand to have complete control over Tweeting on their behalf? I'd like to see that part

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Dean Collins
Yep exactly - having ALL of the rules clearly spelled out will save confusion. It's probably an automatic suspension because the twittersphere went crazy today talking about the Titans V's Steelers game tonight but my @LiveNFLchat twitter account has been suspended this afternoon even though

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jesse, I know where you are heading with this. ;-) If a user explicitly activates a feature in an app that sends DMs on their behalf, they at that point explicitly grants the app permission to do so. Dewald On Sep 10, 10:10 pm, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: This is great news!  

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Jesse Stay
Dewald, I'm not heading anywhere with it. I just want Twitter to clarify the terms, that's all. Feel free to leave your input if you have an opinion on what those details should be. Jesse On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Jesse, I know where you are

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jesse, I apologize. Then I made incorrect assumptions. I thought you saw it as the potential Excalibur in the fight against auto-DMs. In my case, not only does the user activate the feature, he also provides the exact text that must be sent. Not only is that express consent, it is express

[twitter-dev] Re: Error 400 while fetching twitter feeds

2009-09-10 Thread Mytweetopics
I think I understand this better now and have applied for a white listed IP. Thanks, rahul On Sep 10, 4:31 pm, Mytweetopics monsoon@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Our app has been using twitter RSS for a while for fetching status updates of users.

[twitter-dev] Comments on cursor/non-cursor-based followers/friends API.

2009-09-10 Thread David W.
Hi there, A few notes on the new cursor-based API. Despite promises a month ago, it's not documented (except in an e-mail to this list) Rather than have the old, admittedly broken API return errors, you've elected to keep it up, corrupting databases everywhere. What was the thinking behind

[twitter-dev] Re: stream api track method return null for getInReplyToScreenName()

2009-09-10 Thread John Kalucki
There is a in_reply_to_screen_name field prepopulated for you on a Streaming API methods. The Streaming API cannot return null, as you cannot represent null over HTTP. I suspect you are having other problems. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 10, 4:43 pm,

[twitter-dev] Unannounced API change -- new unauthorized errors for blocking users

2009-09-10 Thread PJB
We believe an unannounced Twitter API change happened today or yesterday, and we just want to fill the group in on our findings. This change caused some consternation from some of our user base (your app doesn't work!), and we want to help preclude that for others. As you know, if user A blocks

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft: Twitter Rules for API Use

2009-09-10 Thread PJB
This document needs further detail, specifics, and allowances. 1. Identify the user that authored or provided the Tweet What do you mean by this? Presumably the author of the tweet is the person for whom the tweet appears on Twitter.com and who therefore actually made the tweet or authorized