[twitter-dev] Re: getting more information than 'Could not authenticate...'

2010-01-25 Thread eco_bach
Hi Michael Good point. Actionscript 3. Chices are Twitterscript and Tweetr. As far as I know, Twitterscript has no example using OAuth. And Tweetr has no example of working with browser based web authentication WITHOUT also requiring the PIN handshake. If you think I am wrong in NOT choosing eit

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: getting more information than 'Could not authenticate...'

2010-01-25 Thread ryan alford
Are you putting the "status" parameter in the query string? If not, you should be, or atleast, that's what I had to do to get it to work. Ryan On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:22 AM, eco_bach wrote: > Hi Michael > Good point. Actionscript 3. > Chices are Twitterscript and Tweetr. > > As far as I know

[twitter-dev] AJAX and oAuth

2010-01-25 Thread Patrick
I want to implement an AJAX and oAuth design using PHP and jQuery. Now, if a dedicated user is required, I can embed the token and secret into a PHP file. However, to allow a multi-user scheme, I can put the token and secret into a cookie, and read them from JavaScript. However, is that a good ide

[twitter-dev] Re: AJAX and oAuth

2010-01-25 Thread Patrick
I was thinking. I can just use a database and write the current user out (embed it) into the PHP dynamically, instead of posting it from jQuery. I guess that would work. It would avoid the whole issue. On Jan 25, 9:03 pm, Patrick wrote: > I want to implement an AJAX and oAuth design using PHP a

[twitter-dev] best way to get/store gardenhose

2010-01-25 Thread Marco
Hi all, I know this could have been answered already, but I could not find any post so far. Does anybody has a simple shell/python/perl script to download the gardenhose sample continuously, in a fault tolerant way, avoiding too many requests (i.e. be banned). My idea would be to launch every say

[twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net

2010-01-25 Thread Rejeev
Hi all, My Twitter response XML contains some unicode characters , I am not able to read that in C#.net. Its showing junk characters. Please help me to read that in proper text. Thanks, Rejeev

Re: [twitter-dev] Can't send options to twitter.lib.php functions

2010-01-25 Thread Jeff Parsons
On 24-Jan-10, at 2:43 AM, Sam wrote: // fetch your @mentions in json $statuses = $twitter->getFriendsTimeline(array('count'=>50), 'rss'); Since most of those options would be Strings, I would think you need quotes around that 50: $statuses = $twitter->getFriendsTimeline(array('count'=>'50

[twitter-dev] Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Dmitri Snytkine
Hello! I am wondering if it's possible to use the API to create a brand new Twitter account? For example, I am developing a forum software, so I want to create a new twitter account when a new forum is created, so that it can be used to 'follow this forum on Twitter' feature. I know the new email

Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net

2010-01-25 Thread ryan alford
Can you paste an example of the bad characters as .Net shows them, and what they should really be? Ryan On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Rejeev wrote: > Hi all, > > My Twitter response XML contains some unicode characters , I am not > able to read that in C#.net. Its showing junk characters. Pl

Re: [twitter-dev] Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> I am wondering if it's possible to use the API to create a brand new > Twitter account? Nope. This would be a rapid target of abuse. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net

2010-01-25 Thread Andrew Badera
I think you want to make sure you're in UTF8: http://refact.blogspot.com/2007/04/xml-encoding-to-utf8.html ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5

[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Dmitri Snytkine
Target for abuse? How? Does Twitter allow to create an extra account just for a blog so people can follow my blog? Or do I have to use my personal account and say 'follow me on Twitter', when I really mean to follow my blog updates? I just don't see any forums to implement this yet, I am surprised

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Or is the reason this is not implemented anywhere is because this sort > of thing is not allowed by Twitter? Correct. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- When life gi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread ryan alford
If Twitter allowed the API to create new accounts, what's to say that somebody won't create a script to create millions of new accounts? Ryan On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > Or is the reason this is not implemented anywhere is because this sort > > of thing is not all

Re: [twitter-dev] best way to get/store gardenhose

2010-01-25 Thread John Kalucki
I would suggest finding a Streaming API client in the stack of your choice and writing a little application around the client. I'd then wrap your client with daemon(1) and start it all from init.d. Unless carefully considered, shortcuts are likely to be less reliable or will eventually cause you to

[twitter-dev] Twitter pagination doesn't work beyond page 40

2010-01-25 Thread mhyst
I'm working in a tiny program to read twitter reverse order (older stuff first). I was planning to show tweets from last two days or so. But people I RP with tweet a lot and I cannot barely reach last night, because twitter doesn't return results beyond page 40. Is there a way to go over that limi

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter pagination doesn't work beyond page 40

2010-01-25 Thread John Kalucki
There are pagination limits on all timelines. We can't keep them fully materialized, and synthesizing arbitrary segments is impractical and costly. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, mhyst wrote: > I'm working in a tiny progr

[twitter-dev] remove my e-mail from summary mail

2010-01-25 Thread Fanel Dev
Hello, can't find how to remove my e-mail of the summary mails I receive every day. Could you please remove fanel@gmail.com from this mailing list please ? Greetings, David

Re: [twitter-dev] remove my e-mail from summary mail

2010-01-25 Thread Josh Roesslein
David, You can control your membership here [1]. Josh [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Fanel Dev wrote: > Hello, > > can't find how to remove my e-mail of the summary mails I receive every day. > Could you please remove fane

[twitter-dev] White list application

2010-01-25 Thread Ivailo
I have applied to be white listed for authenticating Twitter Users and the response I received was: "Thanks for requesting to be on Twitter's API whitelist. Unfortunately, we've rejected your request. Here's why: Please address the issues above and submit another request if appropriate. ... No w

[twitter-dev] Twitter widget CPU usage

2010-01-25 Thread kmac23va
I've placed the basic search widget from Twitter on a standard HTML page, and as it runs, the CPU and memory usage for the browser process continue to grow. One of my colleagues reported both IE and Firefox locking up with extended usage. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, does anyone hav

[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Dmitri Snytkine
I understand. It's not against Twitter policy to have multiple accounts, it's just that you need to manually create each one and the captcha on the site will prevent robots from auto-creating one. So technically I can add a feature the forum software 'follow this forum on twitter' but the twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Johnny Honestly
I was just thinking about the very same topic as the OP. I think Twitter (and other service APIs) would do well to let the Third Party register users on their behalf. You'll see. @mostmodernist On Jan 25, 12:58 pm, John Meyer wrote: > On 1/25/2010 10:19 AM, Jaanus wrote: > > > There are ways

[twitter-dev] using max_id with Search API

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Fenger
Was not including max_id in the Search API documentation an oversight? Or is it not meant to be used with the Search API. Providing a url like this : http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=kevin&max_id=8210191029, returns what looks to be correct results, however, we can't afford to not have thi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> So technically I can add a feature the forum software 'follow this > forum on twitter' but the twitter account has to be created by hand. > > Is that about right? IDNSOWFT, but that is my understanding. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Camer

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread John Meyer
On 1/25/2010 5:14 PM, Johnny Honestly wrote: I was just thinking about the very same topic as the OP. I think Twitter (and other service APIs) would do well to let the Third Party register users on their behalf. You'll see. @mostmodernist From a spam twitter (swit?) perspective I can under

[twitter-dev] links to a specific url

2010-01-25 Thread Martin
Hi. I couldn´t find this on twitter api wiki. Is it possible to search for tweets which contain a link to a specified url? (For example to a blogpost.) Thanks Martin

Re: [twitter-dev] remove my e-mail from summary mail

2010-01-25 Thread Abraham Williams
You can also unsubscribe by sending an email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Abraham On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 16:38, Josh Roesslein wrote: > David, > > You can control your membership here [1]. > > Josh > > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subs

Re: [twitter-dev] links to a specific url

2010-01-25 Thread John Meyer
On 1/25/2010 5:58 PM, Martin wrote: Hi. I couldn´t find this on twitter api wiki. Is it possible to search for tweets which contain a link to a specified url? (For example to a blogpost.) Thanks Martin Well, you could look through the search results. Here's the problem, though: even if yo

Re: [twitter-dev] Rate limit bumped to 350 for OAuth REST?

2010-01-25 Thread Marcel Molina
If you are using the api.twitter.com endpoint and signing your request with OAuth, you automatically get this higher rate limit. It's currently at 350 but we are planning on gradually ramping it up to a higher level. This was announced on this mailing list around the original announcement happened

Re: [twitter-dev] White list application

2010-01-25 Thread Abraham Williams
Send an email to a...@twitter.com. Make sure you include the username that whitelisting was applied for. Abraham On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 14:07, Ivailo wrote: > I have applied to be white listed for authenticating Twitter Users > and > the response I received was: > > "Thanks for requesting to b

[twitter-dev] Re: AJAX and oAuth

2010-01-25 Thread Patrick
Great, I appreciate your insights. PK On Jan 26, 4:22 am, Scott Carter wrote: > There should be no need to keep the token and secret in a cookie and > it would not be safe there in any case.  I keep them in a DB on the > server for my Social.com applications.   I use a cookie to identify > the

Re: [twitter-dev] Feedback on Twitter Client app...layout usability, issues

2010-01-25 Thread Abraham Williams
The use of a logout button function with OAuth would just be to locally forget the users access token so that a different user could be logged in. Abraham On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 14:22, eco_bach wrote: > Hi > I realize this is a developers fourm, but in developing a new > application, I think i

[twitter-dev] Re: using max_id with Search API

2010-01-25 Thread twitterdoug
We do support max_id in the Search API, though we somewhat discourage its use, since it queries with max_id are more costly for us to serve and are frequently used to attempt to abuse our system by inappropriately and excessively scraping data. Please be conscientious in its use. d On Jan 25, 4:

[twitter-dev] 'Incorrect signature' on status update with OAuth when verify credentials works

2010-01-25 Thread eco_bach
Almost there... Already googled this error and changed my request from http to https. Still getting same error... Any suggestions?

Re: [twitter-dev] Limited mutual 'friends'?

2010-01-25 Thread Abraham Williams
The flag was deprecated in May of last year and as far as I know still is. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/42ba883b9f8e3c6e?tvc=2 You could use the social graph methods to filter with though. Abraham On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 13:05, Mark McBride wrote

Re: [twitter-dev] Social Grpah Api Addition

2010-01-25 Thread Abraham Williams
You might want to file a feature request. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Abraham On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:17, Rodeo wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using the new cursor feature recently release in the api. > I was wondering if adding the ability to start from the last page

Re: [twitter-dev] 'Incorrect signature' on status update with OAuth when verify credentials works

2010-01-25 Thread ryan alford
I am just wondering why you can't keep all of your questions in the same thread? If somebody was having the same issues as you, they would have to look through 10+ of your threads. To try to answer the question, are you including the "status" parameter as part of the query string, which in turn,

[twitter-dev] Re: 'Incorrect signature' on status update with OAuth when verify credentials works

2010-01-25 Thread eco_bach
Thanks Ryan I'll have to look into signature creation more closely. Essentially, if I understand correctly, I am most likely missing the "status" parameter BEFORE creating the signature. Would I need to include the status value as well, or is only the parameter name necessary to create the signatur

[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-25 Thread Johnny Honestly
Twitter is a messenger system. They want people to use the system. They also want the people to make of the service what they will. If they opened it up and made affiliates out of developers and producers, they would have a free marketing force beyond the twiddle celeb fetish factor. If they made

[twitter-dev] Chirp: Twitter Developer Conference

2010-01-25 Thread Ryan Sarver
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up now that we have officially announced the dates for Chirp and made the first 200 tickets available for purchase at http://chirp.twitter.com. Chirp will be a two day event being held on April 14th and 15th and over 800 tickets will be available in total. You c

Re: [twitter-dev] White list application

2010-01-25 Thread Ivailo Jordanov
Thank you! On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Send an email to a...@twitter.com. Make sure you include the username that > whitelisting was applied for. > > Abraham > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 14:07, Ivailo wrote: > >> I have applied to be white list