Re: [twitter-dev] Re: issues with retweets and API

2010-01-04 Thread srikanth reddy
home_timeline also includes both. For user retweeted status i would just check if(status[i].retweeted_status != null and status[i].user.screen_name == currentuser) But the problem comes when you have friends redundant status i.e status[i].retweeted_status != null and status[i].user.screen_name !=

[twitter-dev] Re: Something is technically wrong Response 500

2010-01-04 Thread quenotacom
Thank you for the due dilligence (lol)... Resolved finally ... it was a problem with percent encode and utf 8 encode of text (status), i used huevuniverse to check every step and finally was solved ... still some chararacter are strange (latin characters), but it is working enough well ... you

Re: [twitter-dev] Removing Registered Application

2010-01-04 Thread Lukas Müller
http://twitter.com/apps - Click on the App - Edit - Delete-Button It's so simple. ;-) Greetings from Germany Lukas

[twitter-dev] how could I know whether a status has been retweeted by me

2010-01-04 Thread hzqtc
I'm working on a twitter client and I want to take advantage of the new official retweet. I just want to get the same thing like twitter web retweeted by you. But the api doesn't contain any information for whether a status is retweeted by me. So how can I get to know this? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] conversation chain

2010-01-04 Thread pallabi
is this possible in any way that one twitter conversation will contain only one tweet ? I am trying to show the twitter conversation chain in my application. but sometimes it happens that the conversation chain contains only one tweet. Now my understanding is that if a conversation contains only

Re: [twitter-dev] conversation chain

2010-01-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
is this possible in any way that one twitter conversation will contain only one tweet ? I am trying to show the twitter conversation chain in my application. but sometimes it happens that the conversation chain contains only one tweet. Now my understanding is that if a conversation contains

Re: [twitter-dev] how could I know whether a status has been retweeted by me

2010-01-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I'm working on a twitter client and I want to take advantage of the new official retweet. I just want to get the same thing like twitter web retweeted by you. But the api doesn't contain any information for whether a status is retweeted by me. So how can I get to know this?

Re: [twitter-dev] mentions not working as expected with new retweet functionality

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Ivey
Native retweets are a new type of tweet, and do not show up as mentions. You can cobble together an approximation using search, retweets_of_me, and retweets that will get close, but I don't think you can be 100% sure to catch all of them. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:35 PM, gstarsf

[twitter-dev] Re: mentions not working as expected with new retweet functionality

2010-01-04 Thread Dewald Pretorius
There is already an enhancement request for this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1218 On Jan 4, 10:12 am, Michael Ivey michael.i...@gmail.com wrote: Native retweets are a new type of tweet, and do not show up as mentions. You can cobble together an approximation using

[twitter-dev] No results in from search for various (verified?) accounts

2010-01-04 Thread Ben
I am getting a 200 status message but no results for these two accounts, in both atom and json, and they both definitely have tweets: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:lindsaylohan http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:chucktodd I don't want to postulate, but I wonder if there's

[twitter-dev] Re: issues with retweets and API

2010-01-04 Thread John
I've noticed that this is not always the case. If I retweet an older tweet it shows up as a new tweet in home_timeline. But if I retweet a tweet on the first page, call home_timeline, it doesn't contain the retweet (only visible under retweeted_by_me). Same occurrance happens on twitter.com but

[twitter-dev] Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-04 Thread GeorgeMedia
Hello everyone! I sure hope you can help. I am developing a web based app that searches for location based tweets using the search API with json results. I provide the longitude latitude via my own local database on my server. Presently I'm limited to just the US and Canada but I'm thinking I

[twitter-dev] Re: bug with search using max_id

2010-01-04 Thread John
done On Jan 3, 4:06 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: John, can you open an issue on the code tracker?http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues    ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, John munz...@gmail.com wrote: another thing i've noticed is

Re: [twitter-dev] No results in from search for various (verified?) accounts

2010-01-04 Thread Mark McBride
This is an issue we're currently working to resolve. Both of the users you mentioned should be showing up in search results now. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ben magnetbo...@gmail.com wrote: I am getting a 200 status message but no results for these

[twitter-dev] Re: API whitelisted but still not working

2010-01-04 Thread bnonews
Anyone who can help me out here? On 2 jan, 19:28, bnonews michaelvpop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In November I requested (from account @BreakingNews) to whitelist IP 208.74.120.146 so we no longer have rate limits. That IP belongs towww.bnonews.com. Until now we stayed well below the rate

[twitter-dev] Private list statuses are missing many tweets

2010-01-04 Thread Aaron Rankin
I have a private list and both on twitter.com and via GET list / statuses, many tweets are missing. I confirmed this behavior by comparing the most recent tweets of several users to their public timelines.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread Marcel Molina
Dewald, it should be noted that, of course, not all 200 request responses are created equal and just because pulling down a response body with hundreds of thousands of ids succeeds, it doesn't mean it doesn't cause a substantial strain on our system. We want to make developing against the API as

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread PJB
I think that's like asking someone: why do you eat food? But don't say because it tastes good or nourishes you, because we already know that! ;) You guys presumably set the 5000 ids per cursor limit by analyzing your user base and noting that one could still obtain the social graph for the vast

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread Jesse Stay
I'm just now noticing this (I agree - why was this being announced over the holidays???) - this will make it near impossible to process large users. This is a *huge* change that just about kills any of the larger services processing very large amounts of social graph data. Please reconsider

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread Jesse Stay
Ditto PJB :-) On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:12 PM, PJB pjbmancun...@gmail.com wrote: I think that's like asking someone: why do you eat food? But don't say because it tastes good or nourishes you, because we already know that! ;) You guys presumably set the 5000 ids per cursor limit by

[twitter-dev] Cannot create list with a specific slug, even if that slug doesn't exist in the account

2010-01-04 Thread LeeS - @semel
In my account, there's no list named 'design': http://twitter.com/shortyawards/design results in a 404 page When I try to create one with that name, I get numbers appended to it: curl -u .. -dname=design http://api.twitter.comtyawards/lists.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? list

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread PJB
Some quick benchmarks... Grabbed entire social graph for ~250 users, where each user has a number of friends/followers between 0 and 80,000. I randomly used both the cursor and cursor-less API methods. 5000 ids cursor: 0.72 avg seconds cursorless: 0.51 avg seconds 5000 to 10,000 ids cursor:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread John Kalucki
The backend datastore returns following blocks in constant time, regardless of the cursor depth. When I test a user with 100k+ followers via twitter.com using a ruby script, I see each cursored block return in between 1.3 and 2.0 seconds, n=46, avg 1.59 seconds, median 1.47 sec, stddev of .377,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread Jesse Stay
Also, how do we get a business relationship set up? I've been asking for that for years now. Jesse On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: John, how are things going on the real-time social graph APIs? That would solve a lot of things for me surrounding this.

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread PJB
On Jan 4, 8:58 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: at the moment). So, it seems that we're returning the data over home DSL at between 2,500 and 4,000 ids per second, which seems like a perfectly reasonable rate and variance. It's certainly not reasonable to expect it to take 10+

Re: [twitter-dev] conversation chain

2010-01-04 Thread pallabi paul
Hi , Thanks for your reply.But actually i am talking about the conversation thread returned by the twitter .I am using this url to get the conversation thread as xml. http://search.twitter.com/search/thread/statusid Is there any scenario when twitter will return only one message in this

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread John Kalucki
Ryan Sarver announced that we're going to provide an agreement framework for Tweet data at Le Web last month. Until all that licensing machinery is working well, we probably won't put any effort into syndicating the social graph. At this point, social graph syndication appears to be totally

[twitter-dev] rate limit: plz reply as soon as possible : urgent

2010-01-04 Thread viv
I am frequently hitting rate limit. i know it happens when you do more than 150 search API call in a hour int a[] =twitter.getFriendsIDs(xyz).getIDs(); int b[][] = new int[a.length][] for(int i=0;ia.length;i++) b[i] = twitter.getFriendsIDs(a[i]).getIDs(); now the problem is a.length = 148 , that

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread John Kalucki
The existing APIs stopped providing accurate data about a year ago and degraded substantially over a period of just a few months. Now the only data store for social graph data requires cursors to access complete sets. Pagination is just not possible with the same latency at this scale without an

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread PJB
As noted in this thread, the fact that cursor-less methods for friends/ followers ids will be deprecated was newly announced on December 22. In fact, the API documentation still clearly indicates that cursors are optional, and that their absence will return a complete social graph. E.g.:

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread PJB
~300,000 ids in 15 seconds: $ time curl http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml?screen_name=dougw / dev/null % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 5545k 100 5545k0 0 346k

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-04 Thread Jesse Stay
Again, ditto PJB - just making sure the Twitter devs don't think PJB is alone in this. I'm sure Dewald and many other developers, including those unaware of this (is it even on the status blog?) agree. I'm also seeing similar results to PJB in my benchmarks. cursor-less is much, much faster. At