Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How long does it take to get approved with xAuth?

2010-05-30 Thread Jann Gobble
The requirement for users to go from app to browser to app is untenable for many of my users. It is a major change to go from app to Safari and back to app. Many users actually think that it the app is less secure (rightly or wrongly) because they have to exit it -- and go to the web -- in

[twitter-dev] Re: users/lookup seems not to be working

2010-05-30 Thread Abacadabrados
Hello Abraham, You're right. I did not check the response of home_timeline well enough, I'm sorry for missing that. However, I'm still having some troubles, let me try to do a better job on explaining them. 1. The main problem is using users/lookup in a test application in which I provide

[twitter-dev] Re: users/lookup seems not to be working

2010-05-30 Thread Abacadabrados
Hello Matt, Thanks for trying again (I did only see your answer just now, sorry). Good to know you've found out that the console is not seeing the parameters. Thank you very much for filing it in the issue tracker. This means that I only have one question left: can someone tell me if users/lookup

[twitter-dev] List data in user streams

2010-05-30 Thread Zac Bowling
Thanks who ever pushed this at Twitter. Not documented, but its awesome to find. Started getting list_member_added and list_member_removed events now in the user stream API on betastream. Missing pieces coming together. (Found it while hacking here at the hackathon. We are still here burning

[twitter-dev] Re: How long does it take to get approved with xAuth?

2010-05-30 Thread Rich
You don't have to go from app to browser, embed a UIWebView and then in - (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest: (NSURLRequest *)request navigationType: (UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType { Look for your callback URL and read the query string and you'll be

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Error codes/statements?

2010-05-30 Thread jaronbarends
Twitter also sends an error message in the response. These errors are a quite descriptive, but afaik they're not fixed and could change in the future. In my app I'm currently catching and handling a few of these in a special way; with others I'm showing a general error message. To be able to

Re: [twitter-dev] List data in user streams

2010-05-30 Thread Mark McBride
You should also get subscriber added/removed, as well as list change events. I'll update the wiki to reflect the changes. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks who ever pushed this at Twitter. Not documented, but its

Re: [twitter-dev] Is anyone aware of how long xAuth approvals (by Twitter) are taking?

2010-05-30 Thread Clint Shryock
I had the same issue, the ticket # they sent back only worked for a few hours before it just disappeared. I emailed them asking about the missing ticket and xAuth time and they got back to me within 24 hours, so overall mine was approved in under 48 hours. +Clint On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:30

[twitter-dev] Re: users/lookup seems not to be working

2010-05-30 Thread Abacadabrados
After some research in my own application it appears that I forgot to UrlEncode the parameters of the users/lookup query. By incident I hadn't used any special characters in the parameters until now, so I didn't notice this earlier. Conclusion: - Matt addressed the issue that the console on

[twitter-dev] cTwitter updates hang and do not timeout

2010-05-30 Thread Sékine
Two months ago I raised ticket 1543 regarding the fact that from time to time, after having cURLed an update request, then I got no response nor any timeout although timeout options were set for cURL. Twitter Inc. suggested to discuss this here. I might have a clue : as a last chance we updated

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How long does it take to get approved with xAuth?

2010-05-30 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Sun, 30 May 2010 03:50:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: You don't have to go from app to browser, embed a UIWebView and then in - (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest: (NSURLRequest *)request navigationType: (UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How long does it take to get approved with xAuth?

2010-05-30 Thread Jann Gobble
Okay, please tell me you know that I can create an app with a UIWebView that will take that password you type in faster than anything. It is NOT secure. This is my problem with oAuth. The work-arounds cause a false sense of security. oAuth was NEVER supposed to be used this way. If the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How long does it take to get approved with xAuth?

2010-05-30 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:14:54 -0700 Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:01, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: The user does trust the app, otherwise they would not be using it. The problem with the scheme of using the app *and* a browser is that

[twitter-dev] String codification to Twitter

2010-05-30 Thread mribeiro
I'm developing a program that sends tweets. I have this piece of code: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(Recomendo ); sb.append(lblName.getText()); sb.append( no canal +lblCanal.getText()); sb.append( no dia +date[2]+/+date[1]+/+date[0]); sb.append( às +time[0]+h+time[1]);

[twitter-dev] Stream API - which one to use

2010-05-30 Thread bear
I'm getting some code ready for delivery to a customer and I need to settle on the best way to get twitter data into their app. I've been using the official Stream API up till now but that has all kinds of problems for me because it's basically the search results delivered as a stream, so I have

[twitter-dev] Clock Ticking on Basic Authpocalypse

2010-05-30 Thread Ron
With the clock ticking on Basic Authpocalypse (T-30 days and counting), what is the state of media hosting providers with regards to OAuth Echo compliance? Those of us developing mobile client apps need about two weeks to get our revised apps through the relevant approval processes, so we're down

[twitter-dev] Re: How long does it take to get approved with xAuth?

2010-05-30 Thread Ron
XAuth is is the right choice for an end-user client app and satisfactorily resolves the UX issues in client applications that OAuth creates. Unfortunately, many web-app developers simply don't know enough about end-user client app development to understand these UX issues, or why end-user client

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How long does it take to get approved with xAuth?

2010-05-30 Thread Jann Gobble
Thanks! For now I have implemented xAuth (even though it does not work) by using examples and what I expect. BUT I have hidden the Twitter button on my app until xAuth is approved and I can fully test. The one thing Twitter does NOT need right now is app developers leaving them in the dust

[twitter-dev] Re: Stream API - which one to use

2010-05-30 Thread Jonathon Hill
There is only one streaming API that is live currently. The user streaming is for a completely different usage than the regular streaming API. User streaming allows your application to be notified on events specific to a particular user such as direct messages, follows/unfollows, list creation,

[twitter-dev] Why Favstar's IP got blacklisted - monitor error rates

2010-05-30 Thread Tim Haines
Hey guys, A few people have asked why Favstar got blacklisted, so I thought I'd post this here to answer, and perhaps allow others to prevent this happening to their own service. The reason given by Twitter for Favstar's blacklisting last Thursday was that it was [in theory] ignoring a high

Re: [twitter-dev] Why Favstar's IP got blacklisted - monitor error rates

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Denton
Very much appreciated Tim. Thank you for posting this. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, A few people have asked why Favstar got blacklisted, so I thought I'd post this here to answer, and perhaps allow others to prevent this happening to their

[twitter-dev] Re: Uploading videos to Twitter using OAuth

2010-05-30 Thread Deepa
Thanks for the reply. I am new to TwitVid APIs. I have gone through the documentation of TwitVid APIs and OAuth Echo. But, I could not understand the concept of x_verify_credentials_authorization as alternate for User name and password parameters. Also, could you please help me out in explaining

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Uploading videos to Twitter using OAuth

2010-05-30 Thread Abraham Williams
I would think the TwitVid library would include the method but you will have to ask them. Abraham On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 20:51, Deepa deepapai0...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am new to TwitVid APIs. I have gone through the documentation of TwitVid APIs and OAuth Echo. But, I

[twitter-dev] Re: How to group multiple search options?

2010-05-30 Thread Ashwani
Is it so hard that nobody knows the answer or is it so simple that nobody wants to answer? Regards, Ashwani On May 29, 11:56 pm, Ashwani ashwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I am new to Twitter search API. I am trying to find out how can I group multiple search option. e.g. what would be

[twitter-dev] Re: @Anywhere - Using a link instead of the Connect with twitter?

2010-05-30 Thread smaira
I basically need a way to render a custom html button instead of the Connect with Twitter button and make it work the same way. I'm not sure what Javascript call to make onclick() The @Anywhere docs mention a call to a Javascript function to Logout/ Signout from Twitter. button type=button

[twitter-dev] @Anywhere - Login - Custom HTML Button instead of Connect With Twitter

2010-05-30 Thread smaira
Hi, I have made a similar post about this here : http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/180d8b64182da5f0/4afed7bb49ba3e17?q=#4afed7bb49ba3e17 but I accidentally reported my own message as spam. (stupid, I know!) Anyway, here's the gist of what I'm trying