[twitter-dev] Re: Adding member to list does nothing

2009-12-08 Thread CodeWarden
Thanks Ed! Must of really run a-muck! -Paul On Dec 8, 12:27 am, Ed Costello epcoste...@gmail.com wrote: 6444795764 does not appear to be a valid twitter user id / id number, nor does 2074698. The only list you appear to have is my-uber-peeps with id 2074438. So, try using a valid user id

[twitter-dev] Ping bot now available

2009-12-08 Thread Fabien Penso
Hi everyone, I looked for a few minutes without finding a ping bot account on twitter. So here it goes http://twitter.com/pingpongbot using the streaming API, therefor should be fast. Works on public replies for now, suggest ideas if you wish. ...

[twitter-dev] Rate Limit New API Features

2009-12-08 Thread Nik Fletcher
Hi Twitter API folks, Over the last few months, there's been some big new features to the API to match the Twitter.com feature set. Whilst that's awesome for third-party developers and users alike, the rate limit has remained the same. Looking back over the documentation, the last increase was in

[twitter-dev] Re: After a re-retweet, I don't get an error, I successfully retweeted some random Turkish guy instead.

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin
Hi, It's great the problem has been identified and fixed. However, the API response shows errors instead of the regular error, and the sentence Share sharing is not permissable for this status should be permissIble. Not urgent, but I hope it will be fixed one day :-) Kevin On Dec 4, 5:23 am,

Re: [twitter-dev] Rate Limit New API Features

2009-12-08 Thread John Kalucki
There are several projects in the pipeline to help with rate limiting issues. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Nik Fletcher nik.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Twitter API folks, Over the last few months, there's been some big new

[twitter-dev] How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Stuart Smith
Is there any way to check via the api that the tweet you tried to send was not sent because it was a duplicate? I get a 200 OK response so maybe there is another way? BTW I am using Tweet#. Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Daily Tweet Limit

2009-12-08 Thread Lightning007
I want to limit tweets from certain users to say 5-10 per day. Is this possible? Can you help?

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

2009-12-08 Thread Anton Krasovsky
Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi anton.

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit New API Features

2009-12-08 Thread Nik Fletcher
Thanks for the super-speedy reply, John! Cheers -N On Dec 8, 2:29 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: There are several projects in the pipeline to help with rate limiting issues. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Nik

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. http://www.opencellid.org/api On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have

Re: [twitter-dev] How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Currently, we recommend people look at the tweet ID and just remember it. It is on the short list to get an appropriate error code returned if we reject a tweetx On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Stuart Smith stuartmartinsm...@btinternet.com wrote: Is there any way to check via the api that

[twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Stuart Smith
Hi Raffi, thanks for the reply but I'm still unsure of the process. If I send a tweet with the same text more than once via twitter.com I get a pop-upm saying to try some other text as I've sent that text before and the tweet is not created so there is no id. If I use Tweet# and do the same I

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

2009-12-08 Thread Anton Krasovsky
Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's too expensive for me at this stage. Anton On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

2009-12-08 Thread Jonathan Markwell
Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
When you create a status you get a 200 response and the current user/status object which includes the status id. If you try to create a duplicate status it should return the same status object with a status id that matches the previous one. Abraham On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52, Stuart Smith

[twitter-dev] enablert option for statuses/user_timeline

2009-12-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Any thought given to adding an 'enable_rt' argument or somesuch to methods like statuses/user_timeline? I understand and completely agree with not putting newRTs in those timelines by default, but integrating two calls to make a complete timeline is not ideal. --

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get a user's first tweet?

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therearepaginationlimits On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 21:12, Adam Shannon a...@ashannon.us wrote: I believe that it's 3200. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 19:17, Quertant quert...@gmail.com wrote: What is the max count? Sorry, I am new to

Re: [twitter-dev] API Ready Apps List

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
Awesome. Who is going to be the first to integrate all of them into a single project? Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 16:13, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Everyone, As promised, I have published the list of people who have API's ready for other app developers to use in their

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
Are they same users being returned in the results? Can you check for duplicates and exit the loop as a temporary solution? You should open a bug ticket: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:46, hansamann sven.hai...@googlemail.com wrote: I am

Re: [twitter-dev] analytics api

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
I would be interested in trying a widget to embed on sites. Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:51, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am working on an analytics product called @tweetStory ( www.tweetStory.com) and am curious if people would have interest in

Re: [twitter-dev] API Ready Apps List

2009-12-08 Thread Jonathan Markwell
TwitterLand combines 9 Twitter related app APIs into a single Ruby library: http://github.com/squeejee/twitterland/ On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome. Who is going to be the first to integrate all of them into a single project? Abraham On Mon,

[twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Stuart Smith
Hi Abraham, so I should keep a list of all of the tweets I send and check the id of each and every status I send to see if it matches a previously sent id? That's quite a lot of additional processing. Does this 'duplicate text' have a time period for which it is invalid? i.e. how long do I have

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

2009-12-08 Thread Anton Krasovsky
AFAIK they mostly target smarphones and require both cell id and wifi ssid data to do the lookup, so it's not an option for j2me-only devices. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com

[twitter-dev] unexpected update status behavior when RT... text included

2009-12-08 Thread ronenpinko
Hi, I just came across a weird bug. When updating statuses with the text RT... included, unexpected things happen. for instance, when updating my status with this: RT...

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
oh - i apologise, i think i misunderstood your question. yes - if you send a duplicate tweet while using the twitter.com website, we put up an error on the web page. however, if you send a duplicate tweet through our API, we will silently fail and return a 200 response. i'm not positive what

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Does this 'duplicate text' have a time period for which it is invalid? i.e. how long do I have to wait before sending the same text? we currently reject tweets that have an exact string match to any tweet sent recently (a few hours). Is this what I have heard called 'recurring tweets'? If so,

Re: [twitter-dev] unexpected update status behavior when RT... text included

2009-12-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I just came across a weird bug. When updating statuses with the text RT... included, unexpected things happen. If it's first position in a line, it's probably being seen as an SMS command (there is an RT SMS command). -- personal:

[twitter-dev] 404 Errors on friends and followers using cursors

2009-12-08 Thread Ammo Collector
If you get the following URLs and continue to using the next_cursor, you receive incorrect 404s: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/debra_bee.xml?cursor=1305544343158947280 http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/fraying_ends.xml?cursor=-1

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to build a form to Login into Twitter?

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
Can you clarify what you mean by login into Twitter? If you are want to use the API to interact with Twitter on behalf of the user my OAuth example is a good place to start. If you want to be able to log users into the Twitter website from your site I don't think there is any way to do that

Re: [twitter-dev] Looking for a simple Open Source Client - for Site Customer Support

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
With a little bit of work you could use Drupal with the Twitter module and a few others. http://drupal.org http://drupal.org/project/twitter http://drupal.org/project/twitter_search http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2 Sbraham On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:33, coolrebel simon...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [twitter-dev] analytics api

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Denton
Thanks Abraham, We are going to be working on our API over the next month and will let you know when we have some methods exposed. Thanks! Also, for all of your help and support. Cheers Peter On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I would be interested in

[twitter-dev] Twitter REST API Method: favorites

2009-12-08 Thread Daniel Silva
authentication is required for this method? they say yes, but i already tried without authentication with sucess. -- best regards, Daniel

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter REST API Method: favorites

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Steuer
On that note, are there any plans to bring the favorites API in line with other statuses APIs, ie. deprecate the page parameter, allow 'since_id', 'max_id' and 'count', etc.? On 12/8/09 11:28 AM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: that seems to be a deficiency in the format we chose to

Re: [twitter-dev] analytics api

2009-12-08 Thread Dale Folla MeDia
I'm definitely interested. I have one app that just came online and one that is coming online next week. Thanks, Dale skype: dalemerritt On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am working on an analytics product called @tweetStory (

[twitter-dev] Google Chrome Betas now Support Twitter Extensions

2009-12-08 Thread Abraham Williams
Google Chrome beta for Windows and Linux now support extensions. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-holidays-mac-linux.html You can check out the Twitter extensions: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?q=twitter As well as my own:

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting number of lists a user is on

2009-12-08 Thread Wynn Netherland
+1 for adding the count to users/show Wynn Netherland @pengwynn On Dec 1, 2:28 pm, Quy quyten...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an API call that will allow me to grab the number of lists that a user is on? I thought theusers/showcall would do this but it doesn't.

[twitter-dev] Re: Ping bot now available

2009-12-08 Thread dbasch
Hi Fabien, Just a thought in case you haven't considered it: be careful not to get caught in an infinite loop. There are bots that listen to keywords and reply to you. Someone may trigger a situation like that by making you echo such keywords, either maliciously or by accident. Diego On Dec 8,

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting number of lists a user is on

2009-12-08 Thread dbasch
I second that, users/show should be consistent with what you can see by going to someone's profile page. On Dec 8, 5:00 pm, Wynn Netherland wynn.netherl...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for adding the count to users/show Wynn Netherland @pengwynn

Re: [twitter-dev] Looking for a simple Open Source Client - for Site Customer Support

2009-12-08 Thread John Meyer
People have made their own suggestions, so I'm not going to mirror them. I would suggest, however, that customer to business communication probably would be better conducted on a forum other than twitter (people who are trying to describe problems they are having aren't at their most succinct

[twitter-dev] Send to certain user

2009-12-08 Thread park2
We have an existing security product that when an alert happens we send a text and email. We now need to send to a Twitter account. What is the syntax to send 'test alert' to user 'test123' direct from the web address bar. I am trying to do this within php without installing curl.

[twitter-dev] Dedicated IP Whitelist

2009-12-08 Thread Jesse Bunch
Hi, I am on a shared web hosting space, but my domain has a dedicated IP on the server. Am I correct in saying that the twitter API sees the dedicated IP address instead of the shared IP address that the server has? I have been trying very hard to get a twitter API script running but I get

[twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Stuart Smith
Hi Raffi, I read on a blog somewhere that the recurring tweets (which I believe are the same as tweets with duplicate text) are going to be allowed i.e. the logic that rejects them will no longer be active. From what you say this is unlikely to happen. The reason I am so interested in this

[twitter-dev] Re: 404 Errors on friends and followers using cursors

2009-12-08 Thread Randy
I am seeing the same issue. In my case, the first four iterations work (i.e. I retrieve 400 users), but the next call gives me a 404.

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

2009-12-08 Thread Randy
Are you using page parameter? If so, it was recently deprecated, so that would explain what you are seeing... the first page over and over again. Check the API documentation to see how to use the cursor parameter. On Dec 6, 8:25 pm, hansamann sven.hai...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, my code

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Ping bot now available

2009-12-08 Thread Fabien Penso
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, dbasch dba...@gmail.com wrote: Just a thought in case you haven't considered it: be careful not to get caught in an infinite loop. There are bots that listen to keywords and reply to you. Someone may trigger a situation like that by making you echo such

Re: [twitter-dev] Send to certain user

2009-12-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
this is not a question about the API... however, try d test123 test alert or something like that. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:42 PM, park2 parkfo...@googlemail.com wrote: We have an existing security product that when an alert happens we send a text and email. We now need to send to a Twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

2009-12-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Stuart Smith stuartmartinsm...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Raffi, I read on a blog somewhere that the recurring tweets (which I believe are the same as tweets with duplicate text) are going to be allowed i.e. the logic that rejects them will no longer be active.

[twitter-dev] /favorites/create not versioned?

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Steuer
When I POST to http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/id.json I get a 404 not found HTML page returned... Is the favorites/create API not versioned? The APIWiki still says: http://twitter.com/favorites/create/id.format, not http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/id.format Which is it???

[twitter-dev] Re: /favorites/create not versioned?

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Steuer
Never mind, the error was on my side... It's working now (and in case you're wondering, the API is versioned and available at /1/favorites/ create On Dec 8, 2:29 pm, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: When I POST tohttp://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/id.jsonI get a 404 not found HTML

[twitter-dev] Re: Track streaming : how to match tweets?

2009-12-08 Thread Julien
Thanks Mark, but as I said, we need to fetch more complex feeds to. So we'll use the OR with the simple query, and then query the search API with the complex query to see if a given tweet matches what we need! Julien On Dec 8, 12:55 am, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Note that search

Re: [twitter-dev] Dedicated IP Whitelist

2009-12-08 Thread Hedley Robertson
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Jesse Bunch bunch.je...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am on a shared web hosting space, but my domain has a dedicated IP on the server. Am I correct in saying that the twitter API sees the dedicated IP address instead of the shared IP address that the server has?

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

2009-12-08 Thread hansamann
Thanx, I think the issue exists because I am using the page parameter (via twitter4j). @twitter does deprecating also mean it stops working? :-) Cheers Sven On Dec 8, 1:06 pm, Randy randy.posyn...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using page parameter? If so, it was recently deprecated, so that would

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

2009-12-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
@twitter does deprecating also mean it stops working? :-) yes. sorry. for us, it does. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi

[twitter-dev] Seeking some assistance with my twitter account

2009-12-08 Thread steve8004
Hello: I use to third party twitter apps 1. Seemic for Windows 2. Tweetdeck Both are running throughout the day while I work on other applications. However, when trying to follow someone new and add them to my follower list, it tells me I have hit my limit. Is there an automated way to send a

Re: [twitter-dev] Seeking some assistance with my twitter account

2009-12-08 Thread Mark McBride
What limit does it tell you you've hit? The API request/hr limit? On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM, steve8004 steve.eisenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I use to third party twitter apps 1. Seemic for Windows 2. Tweetdeck Both are running throughout the day while I work on other

Re: [twitter-dev] Seeking some assistance with my twitter account

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Steuer
It sounds like the followers/following ratio constraint... On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: What limit does it tell you you've hit? The API request/hr limit? On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM, steve8004 steve.eisenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I use to