[twitter-dev] AM spam
The spam this morning appears to have come from an account that joined prior to moderation. They have been banned from the group, as the account did not have any other activity. There may be other sleepers that will slowly be eliminated. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Xerox never comes up with anything original. ---
[twitter-dev] Twitter Application Suspended
Hello folks, This is the 3rd time I get my application suspended from twitter, the 2 different names I've tried are : Twhit,TwhitClient, and both have been suspended; Twhit has been suspended for 2 times already, I deleted the app and then registered it again. My experience of developing with twitter has been awful, it's one problem after another. Could anyone help me on why I'm getting my app suspended.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api
That's what I see as well. - Kevin http://wow.ly On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: i'm confused - what are people seeing? i'm seeing a 404 on that status, not a 500. [ra...@tw-mbp13-raffi twitter (homing_pigeon)]$ curl -v http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.143.162.68... connected * Connected to twitter.com (168.143.162.68) port 80 (#0) GET /statuses/show/15527375.xml HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 Host: twitter.com Accept: */* HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT Server: hi X-RateLimit-Limit: 2 X-Transaction: 1264553246-49270-7281 Status: 404 Not Found Last-Modified: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT X-RateLimit-Remaining: 19765 X-Runtime: 0.02460 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 150 X-RateLimit-Class: api_whitelisted Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT X-Revision: DEV X-RateLimit-Reset: 1264555010 Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CToOcmV0dXJuX3RvIjJodHRwOi8vdHdpdHRlci5jb20vc3RhdHVzZXMv%250Ac2hvdy8xNTUyNzM3NS54bWw6EXRyYW5zX3Byb21wdDA6B2lkIiVkYTI3NTQ0%250AODg1NWI1M2U2YmE0ZDk3ZjUzYTRkOTYyNSIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29u%250AdHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxhc2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7AA%253D%253D--c18561191b4733080388d38fa9461b6f851b16dc; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/show/15527375.xml/request errorNo status found with that ID./error /hash * Closing connection #0 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: To be accurate: most ids do work... We had no httpstatus 500 errors for quite a while, so this is new and different and bad behavior. We've had a working application that has been functioning for more than a year, and way back when these errors were frequent, and then Twitter did alot of new/good work and they've all but gone away (at least on this api)... until now. . On Jan 26, 12:39 pm, Kevin Marshall falico...@gmail.com wrote: Yes - seems to be a problem for any id other than the example one in the documentation: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1472669360.xml(works) http://twitter.com/statuses/show/12735452.xml(reports no statuses, but this is my account and so I can confirm that there are statuses there to report -- ashttp://twitter.com/users/show.xml?id=12735452 also confirms). BTW - if you use the user_timeline method, I think you can get the same status stuff (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?id=12735452) - Kevin On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: For instance:http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net
Thanks Ryan! I am taking an XML response from * http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml* and it happens when I post a Tweet in my home language and trying to read it ,follwoing are some of the Text. *?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? statuses type=array status created_atWed Jan 27 04:19:36 + 2010/created_at id8265961626/id text#3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3393;#3359;#3398; #3334;#3382;#3353;#3405;#3349; #3370;#3376;#3391;#3351;#3363;#3391;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3363;#3374;#3398;#3368;#3405;#3368;#3405; #3347;#3384;#3392;#3384;#3405; #3372;#3391;#3383;#3370;#3405;#3370;#3405;: #3374;#3398;#3378;#3405;#8205;#3372;#3363;#3405;#8205;: #3347;#3384;#3405;#8204;#3359;#3405;#3376;#3399;#3378;#3391;#3375;#3375;#3391;#3378;#3405;#8205; #3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3405;#8205;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3398;#3364;#3391;#3376;#3398; #3368;#3359;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3393;#3368;#3405;#3368; #3334;.../text* The above are the junk characters responded , also made convert to UTF8 but its not converting. please help. Thanks, Rejeev. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:14 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: 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 rejeevtho...@gmail.com 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. Please help me to read that in proper text. Thanks, Rejeev
[twitter-dev] Suggestion: Return API responses in same set of formats
Some API calls return only XML, some both XML and JSON, some only JSON, etc. Could it please be possible to return XML, JSON, Atom (and RSS) and let user choose the format? Just like it's done with statuses/ user_timeline
[twitter-dev] Local trends api access
Is the access to local trends via api limited? I am getting the following message when accessing http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.xml errorSorry, you do not have access to this endpoint./error
[twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?
Bulletin boards could implement whatever they want, but Twitter might just make this function available only to registered app developers and set a specific limit for creating new accounts for each of them depending on purpose. So if I was to make an automatic weather forecast translation to Twitter, for example, I would just make a request for 1 000 new accounts (for each city) and then they decide whether to allow it or not. On 26 янв, 18:05, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: If they allow create accounts from API then this is what's going to happend: All leading online forum software will implement an option to create new twitter account for a new forum. So if you run an online forum like vbulletin, you can have 100 forums, thus 100 accounts on twitter. This means that every post make to just about every forum on the Internet will end up on twitter. This will add thousands, tens on thousands of updates per second to twitter. I don't know if they really want it. For the forum owner this may be great - more traffic to their forums, for end user also an extra way to follow his favorite forums. I am sure if Twitter allows account creation from API, all major forum and blog/CMS makers will jump right it. On Jan 26, 10:34 am, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Strictly speaking, there is an API of sorts to create accounts, but limited to certain partners. Citysearch is using it IIRC. Although it would be great for mobile clients because there isn't a nice mobile web page to create an account so it takes a PC to get started for new users. Seen a note on it on those leaked twitter docs on techcrunch a while back, so the twitter guys have been thinking about it. On Jan 26, 2010 5:01 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/2010 8:55 PM, Johnny Honestly wrote: Twitter is a messenger system. They want people to ... I'm not talking about an API registration, what I'm talking about is either a new URL or a modification of the current URL that allows the user to allow an app where if the person isn't a twitter user it will let them become one, then go back, register the app, and return.
[twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
I'm new to Twitter, so maybe I don't know something, but how do you get annoyed by such feeds if you don't follow them? On 26 янв, 21:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: Local news is considered spam if it is annoying. People often think they're being useful by feeding such stuff as police and fire RSS feeds into Twitter robotically, but in reality, the people who want to subscribe to those feeds have done so precisely because they didn't want to get spammed. The rest of us think it's annoying and hit the spam report button. Now *news* news - human language tweeted by real live humans - isn't spam. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:15 AM, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: Since when local news are considered spam? On 7 янв, 15:16, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.net I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ~Alan Hovhaness
[twitter-dev] Wrong follower list
Hi folks, I recognized that I get follower lists (http://twitter.com/followers/ ids.xml) for a certain user (twitter id: 61899438) that are not correct. From time to time the id 80514185 appears in it (that's wrong, 80514185 isn't following this user) and the ids 14420915, 19360476, 19675319, 21239364, 26772579 who are following are not in the list. Every time I get a wrong list exactly the same ids are missing/too much. Cheers, Niklas (twunfollow.com)
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Application Suspended
you might be doing something perceived as offensive. In the past on projects i have worked on, I had over utilized the processing resources of a remote server. Are you doing anything like that? 2010/1/26 Proxdeveloper prox.develo...@gmail.com Hello folks, This is the 3rd time I get my application suspended from twitter, the 2 different names I've tried are : Twhit,TwhitClient, and both have been suspended; Twhit has been suspended for 2 times already, I deleted the app and then registered it again. My experience of developing with twitter has been awful, it's one problem after another. Could anyone help me on why I'm getting my app suspended. --
Re: [twitter-dev] Suggestion: Return API responses in same set of formats
Which calls only return XML? I haven't encountered anything where I couldn't use JSON. -- ivey On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:29 AM, _ado adri...@tijsseling.com wrote: Some API calls return only XML, some both XML and JSON, some only JSON, etc. Could it please be possible to return XML, JSON, Atom (and RSS) and let user choose the format? Just like it's done with statuses/ user_timeline
Re: [twitter-dev] Suggestion: Return API responses in same set of formats
Yeah, I was going to ask the same thing - I use JSON exclusively. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Michael Ivey michael.i...@gmail.comwrote: Which calls only return XML? I haven't encountered anything where I couldn't use JSON. -- ivey On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:29 AM, _ado adri...@tijsseling.com wrote: Some API calls return only XML, some both XML and JSON, some only JSON, etc. Could it please be possible to return XML, JSON, Atom (and RSS) and let user choose the format? Just like it's done with statuses/ user_timeline -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ~Alan Hovhaness
[twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Local trends api access
we're having a few bumps in the release of this API - it should be fixed soon. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Karmadude karmad...@gmail.com wrote: Is the access to local trends via api limited? I am getting the following message when accessing http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.xml errorSorry, you do not have access to this endpoint./error -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Suggestion: Return API responses in same set of formats
what methods return XML exclusively? when it comes to the REST API (not necessarily the search API), we should be returning XML and JSON for all of them (IMHO, use JSON). we do support RSS and Atom for the timeline calls as those could be read from a browser or a feed reader as well. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM, _ado adri...@tijsseling.com wrote: Some API calls return only XML, some both XML and JSON, some only JSON, etc. Could it please be possible to return XML, JSON, Atom (and RSS) and let user choose the format? Just like it's done with statuses/ user_timeline -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation
the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can mass dm them... On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ 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 Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new real users to Twitter. What are your thoughts on this? Jon. -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com http://twitterdevelopernest.com/ Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com http://howsociable.com/ mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. On 27 янв, 18:30, Dale Folla MeDia mogul...@gmail.com wrote: the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can mass dm them... On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ 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 Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new real users to Twitter. What are your thoughts on this? Jon. -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.comhttp://twitterdevelopernest.com/ Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.comhttp://howsociable.com/ mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter:http://twitter.com/jot -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Suspended
Please write to a...@twitter.com, which will open a ticket about this issue. We can discuss your applications, why they have been suspended, and the possibility of getting them re-enabled. Thanks, Brian On Jan 26, 5:11 pm, Proxdeveloper prox.develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks, This is the 3rd time I get my application suspended from twitter, the 2 different names I've tried are : Twhit,TwhitClient, and both have been suspended; Twhit has been suspended for 2 times already, I deleted the app and then registered it again. My experience of developing with twitter has been awful, it's one problem after another. Could anyone help me on why I'm getting my app suspended.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
the specific example you give seems fine. On the other hand when you start to talk about a thousand(s), it starts to raise valid questions for anyone who monitors this group. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. On 27 янв, 18:30, Dale Folla MeDia mogul...@gmail.com wrote: the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can mass dm them... On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ 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 Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new real users to Twitter. What are your thoughts on this? Jon. -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com http://twitterdevelopernest.com/ http://twitterdevelopernest.com/ Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com http://howsociable.com/ http://howsociable.com/ mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter:http://twitter.com/jot -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. I don't see how creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities fits in with the Twitter spirit, which is humans talking to other humans over the messaging system. For example, here in Portland, we have a hashtag, #pdxtst (PDX Twitter Storm Team) where we talk about the sometimes unusual weather in this normally boring rainy place. It's people talking about the weather. We had an unexpected snowstorm a few weeks back, and Mayor Sam Adams got on Twitter and gave traffic and Tri-Met updates. I doubt very seriously if the folks in the #pdxtst chat would have appreciated some bot spewing the National Weather Service warnings or the stuff coming from the TV weather crews. Those crews were, in fact, on Twitter conversing with people! Fortunately, this all happened before the texting while driving ban went into effect. Maybe what you propose is simply annoying and not spam, but don't be too terribly surprised if you build it and see people blocking you, rather than simply not following. I unfollow bots often and block when something gets annoying enough. But Twitter isn't intended to be an aggregator! On 27 янв, 18:30, Dale Folla MeDia mogul...@gmail.com wrote: the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can mass dm them... On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ 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 Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new real users to Twitter. What are your thoughts on this? Jon. -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.comhttp://twitterdevelopernest.com/ Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.comhttp://howsociable.com/ mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter:http://twitter.com/jot -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ~Alan Hovhaness
RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Edward (Ed) Borasky Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:38 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation But Twitter isn't intended to be an aggregator! Says you Ed, at the end of the day Twitter is whatever it's users intend it to be. If one of my friend buys those stupid scales that posts to twitter their weight everyday, I have the choice to follow or block. If you don't want the national automated weather service - simple don't follow. Cheers, Dean
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
On 1/27/2010 10:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. 1. Pure forecasts could be handled by one account sending out multiple forecasts coded for a particular area though hashtags. You would probably have to whitelist your ip, but then again you would have to do the same if you were mass creating accounts just for each to forecast one city or area 2. An invited e-mail can quickly turn into an uninvited e-mail, and that goes the same for spam. And you are ignoring the strain that those accounts place on the Twitter servers themselves. 3. RSS feeds are not useless, but there is a time and a place. You sound to me like a guy who only has a hammer in his toolbox and is looking for a nail. Rather than trying to cram everything into Twitter you should be looking for the proper way to integrate it into your services.
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
just a correction about something I wrote. I don't think RSS themselves are useless in context with integrating them with some valid purpose. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/27/2010 10:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. 1. Pure forecasts could be handled by one account sending out multiple forecasts coded for a particular area though hashtags. You would probably have to whitelist your ip, but then again you would have to do the same if you were mass creating accounts just for each to forecast one city or area 2. An invited e-mail can quickly turn into an uninvited e-mail, and that goes the same for spam. And you are ignoring the strain that those accounts place on the Twitter servers themselves. 3. RSS feeds are not useless, but there is a time and a place. You sound to me like a guy who only has a hammer in his toolbox and is looking for a nail. Rather than trying to cram everything into Twitter you should be looking for the proper way to integrate it into your services. -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Deleting account, then recreating it
Hi, I've deleted my twitter account eg) UserNameHere, and now that I want to create the same account name to eg) UserNameHere I get the following error: username has already been taken What is the fix for this? Thank you, Bardia Afshin http://www.google.com/search?q=bardia+afshinie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8
Re: [twitter-dev] Deleting account, then recreating it
You wait. http://mashable.com/2010/01/19/twitter-username-land-grab/ http://mashable.com/2010/01/19/twitter-username-land-grab/ Bardia Afshin wrote: Hi, I've deleted my twitter account eg) UserNameHere, and now that I want to create the same account name to eg) UserNameHere I get the following error: username has already been taken What is the fix for this? Thank you, Bardia Afshin http://www.google.com/search?q=bardia+afshinie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api
hmmm... i'm not seeing 500 errors anymore... either transient problem? j On Jan 26, 5:18 pm, Kevin Marshall falico...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I see as well. - Kevinhttp://wow.ly On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: i'm confused - what are people seeing? i'm seeing a 404 on that status, not a 500. [ra...@tw-mbp13-raffi twitter (homing_pigeon)]$ curl -v http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.143.162.68... connected * Connected to twitter.com (168.143.162.68) port 80 (#0) GET /statuses/show/15527375.xml HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 Host: twitter.com Accept: */* HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT Server: hi X-RateLimit-Limit: 2 X-Transaction: 1264553246-49270-7281 Status: 404 Not Found Last-Modified: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT X-RateLimit-Remaining: 19765 X-Runtime: 0.02460 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 150 X-RateLimit-Class: api_whitelisted Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT X-Revision: DEV X-RateLimit-Reset: 1264555010 Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CToOcmV0dXJuX3RvIjJodHRwOi8vdHdpdHRlci5jb20vc3RhdHVzZXMv% 250Ac2hvdy8xNTUyNzM3NS54bWw6EXRyYW5zX3Byb21wdDA6B2lkIiVkYTI3NTQ0%250AODg1NW I1M2U2YmE0ZDk3ZjUzYTRkOTYyNSIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29u%250AdHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxh c2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7AA%253D%253D--c18561191b4733080388d38fa9461 b6f851b16dc; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/show/15527375.xml/request errorNo status found with that ID./error /hash * Closing connection #0 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: To be accurate: most ids do work... We had no httpstatus 500 errors for quite a while, so this is new and different and bad behavior. We've had a working application that has been functioning for more than a year, and way back when these errors were frequent, and then Twitter did alot of new/good work and they've all but gone away (at least on this api)... until now. . On Jan 26, 12:39 pm, Kevin Marshall falico...@gmail.com wrote: Yes - seems to be a problem for any id other than the example one in the documentation: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1472669360.xml(works) http://twitter.com/statuses/show/12735452.xml(reportsno statuses, but this is my account and so I can confirm that there are statuses there to report -- ashttp://twitter.com/users/show.xml?id=12735452 also confirms). BTW - if you use the user_timeline method, I think you can get the same status stuff (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?id=12735452) - Kevin On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: For instance:http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
Well there are thousands of cities, ya know :) But don't worry, weather forecasts is just a good example of what non- abusive things you could do with such API function. On 27 янв, 19:29, Dale Folla MeDia mogul...@gmail.com wrote: the specific example you give seems fine. On the other hand when you start to talk about a thousand(s), it starts to raise valid questions for anyone who monitors this group. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. On 27 янв, 18:30, Dale Folla MeDia mogul...@gmail.com wrote: the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can mass dm them... On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ 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 Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that what they are creating will bring a huge number of new real users to Twitter. What are your thoughts on this? Jon. -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development support Twitter Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.comhttp://twitterdevelopernest.com/ http://twitterdevelopernest.com/ Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.comhttp://howsociable.com/ http://howsociable.com/ mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter:http://twitter.com/jot -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
Hashtags are definitely not a solution, since you can't search in a particular blog and you can't follow them. I even think they're rather useless at all, in their current form. And I honestly would like to have a more elegant way for executing my idea, but there isn't one. The simplicity of Twitter is mostly a very good thing, but not always. Now its functionality is evolving slower that the Twitter itself. On 27 jan, 20:11, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Pure forecasts could be handled by one account sending out multiple forecasts coded for a particular area though hashtags. You would probably have to whitelist your ip, but then again you would have to do the same if you were mass creating accounts just for each to forecast one city or area 2. An invited e-mail can quickly turn into an uninvited e-mail, and that goes the same for spam. And you are ignoring the strain that those accounts place on the Twitter servers themselves. 3. RSS feeds are not useless, but there is a time and a place. You sound to me like a guy who only has a hammer in his toolbox and is looking for a nail. Rather than trying to cram everything into Twitter you should be looking for the proper way to integrate it into your services.
RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
+1, Ed. Nice post. The humans will win! Whether every RSS feed, weather station, search query, refrigerator, etc is allowed to be turned into a twitter bot is a policy decision for Twitter. I like to think that Twitter would prefer to be an original source of unique and meaningful content and not just a dump for low grade data. First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. When I am followed by a bot, or even a human who has no actual interest in my tweets but is only trying for a follow back, I regard it as an unsolicited message. This happens way too much and as a victim, I don't care if it's been done massively. Spam is spam and fake following - on whatever scale - not only uses resources but complicates analysis of the social network. Twitter has allowed the follow mechanism to be repurposed as a simple attention grabbing measure, but they tell us that the rules will evolve. It is also within their power to keep the bot armies at bay. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:37:43 -0800 Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation From: zzn...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. I don't see how creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities fits in with the Twitter spirit, which is humans talking to other humans over the messaging system. For example, here in Portland, we have a hashtag, #pdxtst (PDX Twitter Storm Team) where we talk about the sometimes unusual weather in this normally boring rainy place. It's people talking about the weather. We had an unexpected snowstorm a few weeks back, and Mayor Sam Adams got on Twitter and gave traffic and Tri-Met updates. I doubt very seriously if the folks in the #pdxtst chat would have appreciated some bot spewing the National Weather Service warnings or the stuff coming from the TV weather crews. Those crews were, in fact, on Twitter conversing with people! Fortunately, this all happened before the texting while driving ban went into effect. Maybe what you propose is simply annoying and not spam, but don't be too terribly surprised if you build it and see people blocking you, rather than simply not following. I unfollow bots often and block when something gets annoying enough. But Twitter isn't intended to be an aggregator! On 27 янв, 18:30, Dale Folla MeDia mogul...@gmail.com wrote: the only possible reasons someone would have to create that many accounts would be to spam in one form or another. There should be other ways to skin that cat.. You could not keep up with that many accounts unless you sent out huge amounts of useless RSS feeeds just to gain followers so you can mass dm them... On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ 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 Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that can do the work and are keen to go ahead. The accounts will, for the most part, be automated but I'm encouraging them to ensure each gets at least some human participation in them on a regular basis. I'm apprehensive about this and I'm trying to disuade them from going ahead. I'm not convinced that accounts that are primarily automated, especially when set up on this scale can add that much value to the ecosystem. Their feeling is quite the opposite and they believe the audience they are working to provide for will find this extremely valuable. In addition they are confident, and have some data to back it up, that
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api
Information ok thak you Alcides Conceiçao dos Santos Country : Brazil 2010/1/27 Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com: hmmm... i'm not seeing 500 errors anymore... either transient problem? j On Jan 26, 5:18 pm, Kevin Marshall falico...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I see as well. - Kevinhttp://wow.ly On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: i'm confused - what are people seeing? i'm seeing a 404 on that status, not a 500. [ra...@tw-mbp13-raffi twitter (homing_pigeon)]$ curl -v http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.143.162.68... connected * Connected to twitter.com (168.143.162.68) port 80 (#0) GET /statuses/show/15527375.xml HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 Host: twitter.com Accept: */* HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT Server: hi X-RateLimit-Limit: 2 X-Transaction: 1264553246-49270-7281 Status: 404 Not Found Last-Modified: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT X-RateLimit-Remaining: 19765 X-Runtime: 0.02460 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 150 X-RateLimit-Class: api_whitelisted Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT X-Revision: DEV X-RateLimit-Reset: 1264555010 Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CToOcmV0dXJuX3RvIjJodHRwOi8vdHdpdHRlci5jb20vc3RhdHVzZXMv% 250Ac2hvdy8xNTUyNzM3NS54bWw6EXRyYW5zX3Byb21wdDA6B2lkIiVkYTI3NTQ0%250AODg1NW I1M2U2YmE0ZDk3ZjUzYTRkOTYyNSIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29u%250AdHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxh c2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7AA%253D%253D--c18561191b4733080388d38fa9461 b6f851b16dc; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/show/15527375.xml/request errorNo status found with that ID./error /hash * Closing connection #0 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: To be accurate: most ids do work... We had no httpstatus 500 errors for quite a while, so this is new and different and bad behavior. We've had a working application that has been functioning for more than a year, and way back when these errors were frequent, and then Twitter did alot of new/good work and they've all but gone away (at least on this api)... until now. . On Jan 26, 12:39 pm, Kevin Marshall falico...@gmail.com wrote: Yes - seems to be a problem for any id other than the example one in the documentation: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1472669360.xml(works) http://twitter.com/statuses/show/12735452.xml(reportsno statuses, but this is my account and so I can confirm that there are statuses there to report -- ashttp://twitter.com/users/show.xml?id=12735452 also confirms). BTW - if you use the user_timeline method, I think you can get the same status stuff (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?id=12735452) - Kevin On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: For instance:http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Alcides conceição dos Santos
Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net
Please help friends! Thanks Ryan! I am taking an XML response from * http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml* and it happens when I post a Tweet in my home language and trying to read it ,follwoing are some of the Text. *?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? statuses type=array status created_atWed Jan 27 04:19:36 + 2010/created_at id8265961626/id text#3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3393;#3359;#3398; #3334;#3382;#3353;#3405;#3349; #3370;#3376;#3391;#3351;#3363;#3391;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3363;#3374;#3398;#3368;#3405;#3368;#3405; #3347;#3384;#3392;#3384;#3405; #3372;#3391;#3383;#3370;#3405;#3370;#3405;: #3374;#3398;#3378;#3405;#8205;#3372;#3363;#3405;#8205;: #3347;#3384;#3405;#8204;#3359;#3405;#3376;#3399;#3378;#3391;#3375;#3375;#3391;#3378;#3405;#8205; #3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3405;#8205;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3398;#3364;#3391;#3376;#3398; #3368;#3359;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3393;#3368;#3405;#3368; #3334;.../text* The above are the junk characters responded , also made convert to UTF8 but its not converting. please help. Thanks, Rejeev. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:14 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: 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 rejeevtho...@gmail.com 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. Please help me to read that in proper text. Thanks, Rejeev
[twitter-dev] local trends ability to exclude hashtags?
Hi, For the trends/current API we can add ?exclued=hashtags. It does not look like there is any way to do that with the new trends/location API. Are there plans to add it, or is it there and I am missing how to do it? (http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/1.xml?excludes=hashtags returns the same as http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/1.xml which I would expect given the API documentation.) Thanks, ..darcy D'Arcy Smith CTO TerraTap Technologies Inc.
Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net
Entity codes. Just decode them... using System.Web; ... string decoded_stuff = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(encoded_stuff); There is a way to do this with System.Xml but whatever. Zac Bowling On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Rejeev Thomas rejeevtho...@gmail.comwrote: Please help friends! Thanks Ryan! I am taking an XML response from * http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml* and it happens when I post a Tweet in my home language and trying to read it ,follwoing are some of the Text. *?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? statuses type=array status created_atWed Jan 27 04:19:36 + 2010/created_at id8265961626/id text#3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3393;#3359;#3398; #3334;#3382;#3353;#3405;#3349; #3370;#3376;#3391;#3351;#3363;#3391;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3363;#3374;#3398;#3368;#3405;#3368;#3405; #3347;#3384;#3392;#3384;#3405; #3372;#3391;#3383;#3370;#3405;#3370;#3405;: #3374;#3398;#3378;#3405;#8205;#3372;#3363;#3405;#8205;: #3347;#3384;#3405;#8204;#3359;#3405;#3376;#3399;#3378;#3391;#3375;#3375;#3391;#3378;#3405;#8205; #3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3405;#8205;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3398;#3364;#3391;#3376;#3398; #3368;#3359;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3393;#3368;#3405;#3368; #3334;.../text* The above are the junk characters responded , also made convert to UTF8 but its not converting. please help. Thanks, Rejeev. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:14 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: 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 rejeevtho...@gmail.com 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. Please help me to read that in proper text. Thanks, Rejeev
Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net
Also: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2008/10/21/Different-ways-how-to-escape-an-XML-string-in-C.aspx Zac Bowling On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Entity codes. Just decode them... using System.Web; ... string decoded_stuff = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(encoded_stuff); There is a way to do this with System.Xml but whatever. Zac Bowling On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Rejeev Thomas rejeevtho...@gmail.comwrote: Please help friends! Thanks Ryan! I am taking an XML response from * http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml* and it happens when I post a Tweet in my home language and trying to read it ,follwoing are some of the Text. *?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? statuses type=array status created_atWed Jan 27 04:19:36 + 2010/created_at id8265961626/id text#3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3393;#3359;#3398; #3334;#3382;#3353;#3405;#3349; #3370;#3376;#3391;#3351;#3363;#3391;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3363;#3374;#3398;#3368;#3405;#3368;#3405; #3347;#3384;#3392;#3384;#3405; #3372;#3391;#3383;#3370;#3405;#3370;#3405;: #3374;#3398;#3378;#3405;#8205;#3372;#3363;#3405;#8205;: #3347;#3384;#3405;#8204;#3359;#3405;#3376;#3399;#3378;#3391;#3375;#3375;#3391;#3378;#3405;#8205; #3335;#3368;#3405;#3364;#3405;#3375;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3390;#3376;#3405;#8205;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3398;#3364;#3391;#3376;#3398; #3368;#3359;#3349;#3405;#3349;#3393;#3368;#3405;#3368; #3334;.../text* The above are the junk characters responded , also made convert to UTF8 but its not converting. please help. Thanks, Rejeev. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:14 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: 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 rejeevtho...@gmail.com 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. Please help me to read that in proper text. Thanks, Rejeev
[twitter-dev] The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized
Hi can anyone please help I am currently writing an app for Twitter
and I seem to be having a problem with it with the error The remote
server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. Is there anything I am
doing wrong.
Here is the code:
protected string ExecutePostCommand(string url, string userName,
string password, string data) {
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userName)
!string.IsNullOrEmpty
(password)) {
WebProxy pry = new WebProxy(10.5.83.2, 8080);
// pry.Credentials =
CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
pry.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(usernamel,
password,domain);
request.Proxy = pry;
request.ContentType = application/x-www-form-
urlencoded;
request.Method = POST;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(TwitterClient)) {
request.Headers.Add(X-Twitter-Client,
TwitterClient);
}
if
(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(TwitterClientVersion)) {
request.Headers.Add(X-Twitter-Version, TwitterClientVersion);
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(TwitterClientUrl)) {
request.Headers.Add(X-Twitter-URL,
TwitterClientUrl);
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Source)) {
data += source= +
HttpUtility.UrlEncode(Source);
}
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream requestStream =
request.GetRequestStream()) {
requestStream.Write(bytes, 0,
bytes.Length);
using (WebResponse response =
request.GetResponse()) {
using (StreamReader reader =
new StreamReader
(response.GetResponseStream())) {
return
reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
}
return null;
}
Re: [twitter-dev] The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Jayster jehs...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: pry.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(usernamel, password,domain); What are the HTTP headers you’re transmitting to twitter? -- -ed costello
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation
Every time I saw this thread in my inbox my blood pressure rose. I just took the time to read it and there is actually some valid content in here. I run bots. Political campaign stuff, adaptively speaks in hashtags, low frequency, provides some value. We ask people to NOT follow them as they're just supposed to be announcing occasional links, but they still gather real people. Go figure ... and I relentlessly prune autofollow junk. My teeth are white enough and I give a little round shit about forex trading. The bots do a lot more than messaging - like the new Twitter contributor feature we permit trusted followers (yay, lists!) to speak via a set of direct message commands. Less trusted users can access a pallet of canned responses - MSG [SUBJECT] userid. The whole point is to harness willing supporters but provide them guidelines. Followers can also sign themselves up for lists - SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE. So this is how they get direct messages - it's for our very committed, responsive activists. We're moving into a low volume, realistic retweet service. It's gotta be something that the real human would RT anyway, so we're just helping them to find good content from candidates campaigns they like anyway. I saw this thread and I thought Great, Britbot will be multiplying like bunnies. After some consideration ... It would be nice if a serious web site, say one of the climate activist sites, could at the time of sign up ask for OR create a new Twitter ID for the person joining. This *would* be a Twitter API call, it would have a human associated, and we'd be herding those humans into using the semi-automated systems like the one I describe above. I also do some large scale automated messaging. Twitter doesn't seem to mind - it's basically data going into hashtags for each Congressional district. It's not entirely stable and operational, but we're doing things like providing links to the incumbent challenger's Twitter IDs, should they be known, providing links to the FEC data, etc. We spend a lot of time gather it, the content would almost always be high value in the eyes of someone looking at the tag, and the sole exception seems to be those poor people in Delaware, which has an at large Congressman. #DEAL :-( I've considered getting one our our people to mass register some scheme of accounts for each Congressional district and then making it do stuff. The jury is still out on this - we have lots to do, this is high value but long lead time before it enhances our reputation. I'll make some move on this before the election, but maybe not till midsummer. The sales bots ... meh. If they just follow and they're responding to a keyword I use I block 'em. It would be a lot less annoying if they'd follow, hang for 72 hours or something, and then drop me. OK, enough talk about development, time to actually go DO some ... 2010/1/27 Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch +1, Ed. Nice post. The humans will win! Whether every RSS feed, weather station, search query, refrigerator, etc is allowed to be turned into a twitter bot is a policy decision for Twitter. I like to think that Twitter would prefer to be an original source of unique and meaningful content and not just a dump for low grade data. First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. When I am followed by a bot, or even a human who has no actual interest in my tweets but is only trying for a follow back, I regard it as an unsolicited message. This happens way too much and as a victim, I don't care if it's been done massively. Spam is spam and fake following - on whatever scale - not only uses resources but complicates analysis of the social network. Twitter has allowed the follow mechanism to be repurposed as a simple attention grabbing measure, but they tell us that the rules will evolve. It is also within their power to keep the bot armies at bay. -- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:37:43 -0800 Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation From: zzn...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, there is only one form of spam - it's *unsolicited* messages sent massively. Second of all, tell me, please, in what way creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities is a spam? I'm not talking about mentioning there random nicknames or something like that to get new followers, of course. Just pure forecast, without any links. Third of all, why do you think those RSS feeds will be useless? Maybe it's more convenient for some users to get updates with Twitter than with Google Reader. I don't see how creating, let's say, 100 accounts just for tweeting weather forecasts for different cities fits in with the Twitter spirit, which is humans talking to other humans over the
