[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion: Ability to just search amongst a user's friends

2009-10-28 Thread Jesse Stay
Ideally this could all be done in the search query. Append who:everybody, who:friends, or who:self (I believe FriendFeed does something like this) to the query and it only searches the specified people. This way no API changes are needed. Only backend infrastructure to handle the new query

[twitter-dev] Does a 404 *always* mean a deleted tweet?

2009-10-28 Thread Tim Haines
Hi there, I'd like to start deleting tweets that have been removed from twitter. I'm a little hesitant though, as I don't want to delete tweets accidentally that haven't really been deleted. I've noticed a couple of occasional odd things with false 404s when retrieving favorites, so I'm unsure

[twitter-dev] Re: To find out ids directly that both in (follower/ids) and ( friends/ids ) ?

2009-10-28 Thread Sam Street
I don't think you can do this directly with the API. I've just used http://uk2.php.net/array_diff in the past On Oct 28, 3:38 am, Chi-Shun Chen andrewchen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I had a question, take a example for show what i want: if someone's   Followers/ids = A,B,C,D,E,G  

[twitter-dev] Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Greg
Hello, I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user Authorizes the Application and asks a Question to a particular user. Does Twitter block continous sending out of a Tweet within a time period? I am doing testing of the application and whenever I try to do a Update Status - it

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Paul Kinlan
There was some talk recently about Twitter blocking consecutive tweets that are identical. With some of the reasoning that duplicate tweets are a violation of the terms of service. Paul 2009/10/28 Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com Hello, I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread ryan alford
Twitter recently implemented logic to stop the ability of duplicate tweets. I can't remember if it was ever released what the time period is. On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user Authorizes the

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi
Hello, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user Authorizes the Application and asks a Question to a particular user. Does Twitter block continous sending out of a Tweet within a time period? I am

[twitter-dev] Re: No Cursor Data Returned

2009-10-28 Thread TylerC
I think it could be the OAuth classs now because of a recent error but it does not seem to work when I put it in an array either. Furthermore this is the class that Twitter directly links to from the API Wiki under PHP examples... If it is this buggy (if in fact it does not work even as an array

[twitter-dev] Re: No Cursor Data Returned

2009-10-28 Thread TylerC
I did try putting it in the array but only did one more quick test. I will have to try it again. I am pretty sure from the limited amount of documentation that the array holds post values for when you make a POST api call. If the OAuth class is this buggy (given that the array is the issue and I

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Consumer Key issues

2009-10-28 Thread TylerC
Just login to your own account an create an application... it takes like 30 seconds then just copy the 2 new key files into your settings or wherever they are defined. On Oct 27, 3:45 pm, chris7878 mitchell.ch...@gmail.com wrote: I hired a developer to create a twiter application for me.  This

[twitter-dev] user+password

2009-10-28 Thread Abava
and why do we need user name+password just for reading something from the public list? E.g. just read members id's, read statuses etc. Why it is password protected?

[twitter-dev] Re: user+password

2009-10-28 Thread ryan alford
You are not required. I just used this API method without credentials. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[InsertScreenNameHere].xml No credentials needed. Some API methods do required you to be authenticated, but some do not. You can view the methods at

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting non-English Characters using OAuth

2009-10-28 Thread Kalpesh
What encoding function to use for posting non-english characters ?? i am using urlencode but it is not posting non-english characters to twitter On Oct 27, 2:15 pm, Kalpesh kalp.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mageuzi, can you please shed more light what you exactly did? I am trying to post

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting non-English Characters using OAuth

2009-10-28 Thread Cameron Kaiser
What encoding function to use for posting non-english characters ?? i am using urlencode but it is not posting non-english characters to twitter Are you properly encoding the characters as UTF-8? That should occur before you URL-encode your payload. --

[twitter-dev] Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Marcel Molina
Two additions and two changes to the List API will be deployed in the next few days: * List descriptions We're adding a description to every list. You'll be able to specify a description when you create or update a list and the description will be included in the payload. * Cursoring through

[twitter-dev] Not getting direct message emails

2009-10-28 Thread Dale Cook
For some reason we're no longer getting emails when a user sends though a direct message. This is happening on a number of accounts. Is anyone else having this problem?

[twitter-dev] Re: Not getting direct message emails

2009-10-28 Thread Peter Denton
Im not as well. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Dale Cook petesa...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason we're no longer getting emails when a user sends though a direct message. This is happening on a number of accounts. Is anyone else having this problem?

[twitter-dev] Re: Not getting direct message emails

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
This is a known issue being worked on presently. Thanks, -Chad On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Dale Cook petesa...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason we're no longer getting emails when a user sends though a direct message. This is happening on a number of accounts. Is anyone else having

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Jesse Stay
Maybe a little more appropriate to post this to a private list (no pun intended) for beta users? I admit I feel a little jealous every time I see one of these updates, unless there's some way to get into the beta. Thanks, Jesse On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Tim Haines
Marcel, Great changes. A couple of questions: - How long can a list description be? - A title can only be 15 chars - will that remain unchanged? - Will there be a little overlap where memberships and subscribers will still work while people migrate to followers/following? It would be awesome

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth in popup, does not work when auto close

2009-10-28 Thread oscar
On Oct 26, 9:34 pm, Chris Babcock cbabc...@kolonelpanic.org wrote: I authenticate with twitter oauth using apopupfrom my site. When the authentication is done, twitter redirects the user to my site again. The user then has my site both in the original browser window, and in thepopup.

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Steuer
+1 On 10/28/09 1:11 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe a little more appropriate to post this to a private list (no pun intended) for beta users?  I admit I feel a little jealous every time I see one of these updates, unless there's some way to get into the beta. Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Post being flagged as a duplicate (when it is not)

2009-10-28 Thread gembry
Hello Folks, Not really sure what’s going on here. Below you will find what I am sending and what is coming back from the Twitter API. You can see that what is being sent doesn’t even come close to what is up there now. Am I missing something here? What am I doing wrong? Why is this completely

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Marcel Molina
Answers inline: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, Great changes.  A couple of questions: - How long can a list description be? 160 :-) - A title can only be 15 chars - will that remain unchanged? Unchanged. - Will there be a little overlap

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Rich
+1 to this Any news on when the rest of us devs can get access to this to work on our apps? On Oct 28, 8:11 pm, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe a little more appropriate to post this to a private list (no pun intended) for beta users?  I admit I feel a little jealous every time I

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Marcel Molina
Real soon now. We appreciate everyone's patience while we gradually ramp up traffic to lists to ensure we've got all our ducks in a row. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: +1 to this Any news on when the rest of us devs can get access to this to work on our apps?

[twitter-dev] statuses/friends not returning everything

2009-10-28 Thread cadams500
Hi, When I'm making a call to http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/username.xml the resulting XML only contains 2 user statuses... but, the user has 55 friends. Why is the API not returning all of the data? I have verified that the people being followed aren't protected, and their status shows up

[twitter-dev] Re: new statuses not showing in statuses/friends call (only after long delay)

2009-10-28 Thread cadams500
I'm having the same issue... but mine is even for users who have public accounts. I'm following 55 users, and only getting 2 results back with an authenticated API call. On Oct 21, 9:36 am, Frank Mertz fm4...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear all, recently I experience long delays (several hours)

[twitter-dev] php to json character handling

2009-10-28 Thread Peter Denton
Hello, We are working on a service dealing with a high volume of tweets. We are seeing crazy things coming through in tweets and are running into recurring issues when creating large JSON strings to pass to our parser. I am curious if anyone can share approach or methodology on how they are

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Naveen
How does one keep a list up to date for a client without the concept of since_id, like we have for the timeline methods? I look at a lists as just a different timeline (granted one filtered to specific users), but that is how I would expect to view them in a client. From my understanding of

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Marcel Molina
The cursors are for lists of lists and lists of users followed by/following lists. The statuses timeline for a given list takes all the same options you'd expect to manage status timelines. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Naveen knig...@gmail.com wrote: How does one keep a list up to date for

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-28 Thread Naveen Ayyagari
Thanks for the quick response. I guess I was confused. On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Marcel Molina wrote: The cursors are for lists of lists and lists of users followed by/following lists. The statuses timeline for a given list takes all the same options you'd expect to manage status

[twitter-dev] Re: php to json character handling

2009-10-28 Thread leonspencer
I'm doing the same thing - communicating data back to the UI via AJAX and JSON. Haven't noticed problems but I'm not using the PHP json_encode functions. Where you able to determine whether it was JQuery or PHP? Through your logging facility (e.g log4PHP and the JQuery debug console) see at

[twitter-dev] Re: To find out ids directly that both in (follower/ids) and ( friends/ids ) ?

2009-10-28 Thread Chi-Shun Chen
Hi Sam, What make it inconvenient is due to that: The api of (follower/ids) can only return 5000 ids one time. when two lists are(5001 ids) + (100 ids), Its not just 1+1 times. We have to call these APIs 2+1 times and handle cursor. (I not sure is cursor-problem easy or

[twitter-dev] How to query multiple Followers in one single call

2009-10-28 Thread Duarte Aragão
Hi, Is it possible from the API in one single Call get the Followers/ Friends of multiple users? For example a function that receives a Array with user id's and returns all the ids of Friends/Followers. Thanks!

[twitter-dev] New Direct Messages breaks when a space is inserted

2009-10-28 Thread whomba
I am currently building an AS3 library for Twitter and Have everything working (that I need) except for sending a new direct message. This will work if there are no spaces / special characters, however as soon as a space / special character is inserted, it breaks and i get an 'invalid response'

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Jai
What is the criteria for dupliate tweets? then how the polling applications works? they may have several tweets with similar text? On Oct 28, 8:14 am, Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi ruck...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I

[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid Signature when manipulating URL directly

2009-10-28 Thread whomba
Thanks. That was not it though. It turns out when working in AS3, when you POST a URL and don't explicitly give it an Obj to POST it defaults it down to a GET statement, thus killing it. However, this still does not fix one issue I am having I will post that in a different spot though, since

[twitter-dev] Whitelisting Notification

2009-10-28 Thread Luke Sneeringer
Good afternoon, I have a question regarding whitelisting. I am a developer looking to produce material against the Twitter API (blah blah), and I recently requested whitelisting. The form says it takes 72 hours. So far, so good. That was a week ago, and I've heard nothing. I haven't been

[twitter-dev] Profile search based on Bio field

2009-10-28 Thread MuratMetu
Hello, we are new to twitter development, we want to know is there any open source API that provides us to send String query (regular expression) and return the list of the users whose bio text match with the query in their profile. Thank you.

[twitter-dev] Re: Net::Twitter dev release with Lists API support

2009-10-28 Thread david sanger
also interested in joining list beta. is there a contact/request email or @ ?

[twitter-dev] Re: from:user and since_id breaking Search API

2009-10-28 Thread George V. Reilly
I'm *not* using since_id, but I'm sporadically getting warning messages about it. Most of the time, my queries work. d:\curl http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q= %23jquerylang=enpage=1show_user=truerpp=15 { results: [{ profile_image_url: http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/353780044/

[twitter-dev] Re: php to json character handling

2009-10-28 Thread MrGoogleAlerts
I find that PHP is very unreliable when processing JSON. Rather than even trying to fight this, I find it much more reliable to call the Twitter API with a request for Atom format, which is really just XML. Then I can use simplexml_load_string to get the result into a PHP object. From there I can

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisting Notification

2009-10-28 Thread Atul Kulkarni
It took me a little longer than a week. Be patient... the form you filled is the only thing I know one can do. You could search the archives of a few weeks back for a thread where Chad answered this question. Hope this helps. Regards, Atul. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Luke Sneeringer

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisting Notification

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, The queue is being worked on, hopefully everything will be cleared out tomorrow. If you haven't gotten a response by tomorrow night, please let me know. -Chad On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote: It took me a little longer than a week. Be

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, Currently we discard a tweet if it is an exact duplicate of the previous tweet, however we still return a success code (200). We are planning on changing this so it will return an error code when a tweet is not posted. -Chad On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jai jaishank...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: How to query multiple Followers in one single call

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, Currently there is not a way to do this. The ids/friends, ids/followers, statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods can only return data for one user at a time. -Chad 2009/10/28 Duarte Aragão dara...@gmail.com: Hi,  Is it possible from the API in one single Call get the Followers/

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi
Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Jai jaishank...@gmail.com wrote: What is the criteria for dupliate tweets? then how the polling applications works? they may have several tweets with similar text? Duplicate tweets = consecutively, exactly same tweet. tweet1 = foo; tweet2 = bar; rv1 =