[twitter-dev] link to disabled acct

2010-03-05 Thread Frank
If an account is disabled will a link to it on a webpage still bring it up?

Re: [twitter-dev] link to disabled acct

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Woolway
Twitter brings up a page saying something like 'This account has been suspended'. That's the same whether you try to open the user's profile page or an individual tweet. Tom On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Frank gn...@windstream.net wrote: If an account is disabled will a link to it on a

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-05 Thread earth2marsh
BTW, it doesn't look like the docs on the apiwiki have been updated with the deprecation notice.

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-03-05 Thread Lele
Hi all, I'm working at Cascaad (@cascaad). We're building a realtime personal information engine to distill from noisy conversation streams the tweets relevant to a user’s current interests. We've developed a web site to show our platform in action, an iPhone application and lately we released

[twitter-dev] Re: Need help with the streaming API syntax....specifically how to point to the track text file without using curl

2010-03-05 Thread Mad Euchre
Thanks. Now I'm using the post method. How should I use the track parameter? Something like this? address = New Uri(http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json? track=Microsoft) I'm getting connected but no data that matches Microsoft is streaming over.No data for that matter. I'm

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-05 Thread Raffi Krikorian
fixed. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:10 AM, earth2marsh ma...@earth2marsh.com wrote: BTW, it doesn't look like the docs on the apiwiki have been updated with the deprecation notice. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth

2010-03-05 Thread Berto
Three days and I still can't get this to work. I even tried switching over to GET instead of POST and it tells me Failed to validate oauth signature and token. This is fully functional for regular oauth. Signature Base String is: Signature Base String: Signature Base String:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
I'm Mark McBride, (not to be confused initial-wise with Marcel Molina) and I work on the Twitter platform team. I've been working mostly on the streaming API, but also odds and ends including monitoring of the API status, various infrastructure bits, bug fixes, etc. My background is mostly in

Re: [twitter-dev] Can't access old tweets via statuses/user_timeline

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
Currently we only support retrieval of the last N tweets, where N is 3200 if I recall. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, @seiz stefan.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am Trying to backup all my tweets (for @seiz) but it seems tweets of a certain age aren't

Re: [twitter-dev] What's the time to get xAuth request reviewed?

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
Just to follow up on this, I think Anton is taken care of. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Raffi, I wonder what's the approx time to get xAuth request reviewed? I've submitted mine good two weeks ago

[twitter-dev] Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread GeorgeMedia
OK my app basically provides a way for users to come to the site, and look at local tweets by city/state combo (I have to include state because a lot of states have identical city names). I WAS using the search API feature with geocodes to get local tweets and it worked PERFECTLY minus of course

[twitter-dev] Read/write app is sometimes denied read access

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Travers
I have an application that has read/write access, which tries to create friendships. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. Ie, when authenticated as mtraven, it works fine, but when authenticated with the test account mtraven_tunes, I get consistent errors like this: request:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Need help with the streaming API syntax....specifically how to point to the track text file without using curl

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
I think this is slightly backwards. You want to use the GET method, but set up the URI you have (with the track=Microsoft parameter). You will also need to authenticate. Note that this is a streaming API. I don't know VB all that well, but there's a reasonable chance that this call only

Re: [twitter-dev] Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
Parsing the location field is probably your best bet, but I'd say you have a challenging road ahead. It is indeed a mess, but there are geocoding solutions available to try and sort this stuff out. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:04 PM, GeorgeMedia

Re: [twitter-dev] Read/write app is sometimes denied read access

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
Have you tried revoking your current access token, and then re-authenticating? In the settings - connections page does it show your app as approved for read and write access? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Mike Travers mtrav...@gmail.com wrote: I have an

Re: [twitter-dev] Authorize page for desk-top apps

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
I'll forward this on to the front end team ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Zhami stu...@zhameesha.com wrote: When I invoke the authorize URL with a oauth_token, the Allow/Deny page comes up. My app is a desk-top app, not a Web site. Most of the text seems

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Need help with the streaming API syntax....specifically how to point to the track text file without using curl

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Badera
You need a client returning incremental HTTP responses. I don't think WebResponse does that. TcpClient definitely does, that's what I'm using in C#. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:

Re: [twitter-dev] Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com: Parsing the location field is probably your best bet, but I'd say you have a challenging road ahead. It is indeed a mess, but there are geocoding solutions available to try and sort this stuff out. Be *very* careful with geocoding solutions,

[twitter-dev] Re: Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread GeorgeMedia
Well I have Lon/lat data for all (not just major, all) US ans CA cities so converting the location name to Lon/lat data is somehing I can do in house. I can even do my own radius calculations no sweat. I just am having trouble determining how I go about filtering out the garbage in the location

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: xAuth

2010-03-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Berto, I can confirm that using POST operations over HTTPs will work for XAuth. Your URL should only contain: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token Your signature base string should contain the x_auth_* parameters. Your authorization string should not contain the x_auth_* parameters.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Location Data From Stream API

2010-03-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting GeorgeMedia georgeme...@gmail.com: Well I have Lon/lat data for all (not just major, all) US ans CA cities so converting the location name to Lon/lat data is somehing I can do in house. I can even do my own radius calculations no sweat. I just am having trouble determining how I go

Re: [twitter-dev] Can't access old tweets via statuses/user_timeline

2010-03-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com: Currently we only support retrieval of the last N tweets, where N is 3200 if I recall. It is a maximum of 3200 of the user's *original* tweets. If, for example, you retrieve tweets in pages of 200 tweets, you will get a maximum of 16 pages. And

[twitter-dev] Re: Need help with the streaming API syntax....specifically how to point to the track text file without using curl

2010-03-05 Thread Mad Euchre
I switch to post after reading John's response. When creating an HTTP client from within a program, you should be able to configure the POST parameters via method calls. If you can't, it's a pretty worthless HTTP library. Each client library is different, check your docs. -John Kalucki On Mar

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Need help with the streaming API syntax....specifically how to point to the track text file without using curl

2010-03-05 Thread Mark McBride
Let me clarify... You can do one of 1) Use GET, and specify the parameters as part of the URL query string (e.g. http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=Microsofthttp://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json? track=Microsoft ) 2) Use POST, and pass your arguments in through

Re: [twitter-dev] What's the time to get xAuth request reviewed?

2010-03-05 Thread Anton Krasovsky
Yep, I am. Thanks guys! Anton On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Just to follow up on this, I think Anton is taken care of.   ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Raffi,

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter

2010-03-05 Thread AlexBeck
Thanks all, this is what i feared. On Mar 3, 3:34 pm, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter API lets youfollowand unfollow people. But, the user needs to login, and these days the fancy way to do login is through OAuth, which means a trip to twitter.com anyway. On Mar 2, 9:58 pm, AlexBeck

Re: [twitter-dev] What is limit for receiving direct messages?

2010-03-05 Thread Abraham Williams
I've never heard of anyone running into a limit of received direct messages. Abraham On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 09:44, Ramanean shang...@gmail.com wrote: What is the limit for receiving direct messages? Whether I would be able to receive more than 250 direct messages ?? from different users?

Re: [twitter-dev] Bad ID - suspended - banned

2010-03-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Could be a banned user or could be a deleted user. The text should change to reflect the response. 404 Not Found: The URI requested is invalid or the resource requested, such as a user, does not exists. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/HTTP-Response-Codes-and-Errors Abraham On Tue, Mar 2, 2010

Re: [twitter-dev] search api problem

2010-03-05 Thread Abraham Williams
Have a look at the Streaming API. [1] You can open a connection and count through every thousand results. Abraham [1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 04:17, enes akar enesa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello; I want to find when the publish time of 1000th

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-03-05 Thread Pistachio
OK awesome x3 - 1) GREAT about the funding!! 2) i didn't know you were working on a Twitter app and 3) i'll see you at Chirp!! When you get a chance, please definitely pop the deets about ThinkTank into http://oneforty.com so we can help it get found - this is *my* startup that i was just teensy

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-05 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi all. i just wanted to let you know that we've heard all the issues around this deprecation and potential removal of public_statuses -- we're currently reviewing and thinking this over and will have more to say next week. thanks for your patience. fixed. BTW, it doesn't look like the docs

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter

2010-03-05 Thread Jaanus
There are many ways, though, to implement the OAuth interface to sign in the user. Many sites (see getsatisfaction.com for an example) do it with a popup instead of a full page reload. This means that the main page stays whatever it is, and the Twitter stuff appears just in a small popup. rgds,

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/update and quotes

2010-03-05 Thread ByronR
Just had the same issue. Could be magic_quotes (PHP), try stripslashes. $status = stripslashes($status); On Feb 15, 8:22 am, Fred Garvin i...@windpath.com wrote: I am still really struggling with this, I have searched everywhere and no matter what code I use I end up with a post that has