[twitter-dev] Re: BlackBerry, XAuth and twitterapime

2010-08-09 Thread Bess
It seems like everyone like having trouble moving from basic to Oauth in mobile. TwitterAPIME works on BB via J2ME Twitter lib from Kenai. This library also supports Android. But this lib author develop this lib in his spare time so he didn't include every Twitter API. It can only do a few

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth singing on BlackBerry

2010-08-09 Thread Bess
Is twitterapime the only OAuth lib for BB? Anyone is able to use Twitter4J / SignOAuth in BB J2ME? On Aug 7, 5:13 am, David Francisco Tavárez davidftava...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you use twitterapime? 2010/8/7, BBTweet Media Player bbtweetme...@gmail.com: BB is J2ME but has some

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth singing on BlackBerry

2010-08-09 Thread David Francisco Tavárez
Twittterapime is the only java me library for oauth 2010/8/9, Bess bess...@gmail.com: Is twitterapime the only OAuth lib for BB? Anyone is able to use Twitter4J / SignOAuth in BB J2ME? On Aug 7, 5:13 am, David Francisco Tavárez davidftava...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you use twitterapime?

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-09 Thread Lumpizaver
I also have a problem with this. I cannot use the twitter API login with OAuth when I am debugging on localhost. I tought that it is not possible to use Twitter authentication on localhost because of the callback url. So I tought that I have to upload my site somewhere before. Sincerely, Jure

[twitter-dev] Some twitterapi updates unavailable

2010-08-09 Thread Mark Krieger
I tried to 'favorite' an update by twitterapi over the weekend in twitter, nothing happened, so I tried to read that update in my own application -- and I then tried to read a few other updates from twitterapi. I get back a statuses list in home timeline, then I try to read more information about

Re: [twitter-dev] Some twitterapi updates unavailable

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Mark, We're looking into this and are not quite sure what's going on with these particular statuses. If you come across any other status ids that can't be fetched via statuses/show, cannot be favorited, or retweeted (all three actions fail with these particular tweets), please let us know the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
For clarity: There is nothing stopping you from using localhost as your oauth_callback during testing for OAuth 1.0a. While the form for your application on dev.twitter.com will not allow you to store a localhost domain as your pre-registered callback URL, our OAuth sub-system has no trouble

Re: [twitter-dev] what's wrong with the search API?

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Bruce, I can't help you without a bit more information -- this looks like debug output but I need more identifying information about the specific query you were executing, the URL you were executing it against, and if possible, the actual JSON or XML response from the server. Also helpful:

Re: [twitter-dev] Using @anywhere session credentials for REST API

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
We'll have a solution for this announced soon that will allow you to move more seamlessly between the (non-OAuth 1.0a) access tokens that make up @Anywhere requests and server-side REST requests using OAuth 1.0a access tokens. There are also other things you can do with @Anywhere using advanced

Re: [twitter-dev] List names - allowed characters

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
At this time: - List names can have up to 20 characters. - Slugs are automatically created based off of list names - All slugs are downcased and stripped at time of creation, most non-alphanumeric characters will be converted to dashses. - When comparing existing list slugs for the current user,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Punit, First, some advice: I recommend using HTTP header-based OAuth rather than putting your OAuth parameters directly in the query string. It separates concerns and makes your debugging ultimately easier. That said, the first issue you're probably running into is that you aren't

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: BlackBerry, XAuth and twitterapime

2010-08-09 Thread Ernandes Jr.
Hi, This issue of TwAPIme on BB will be investigated as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I do not have a BB device to test on a real environment. Nevertheless, I will perform some tests on BB emulator. I will keep you guys posted on any news on this matter. Regards, Ernandes On Mon, Aug 9,

[twitter-dev] Re: what's wrong with the search API?

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
I think that Bruce means that he only gets tweet IDs, and not the actual tweets. Make sure to use http://search.twitter.com/search.format and not any other endpoint (except for https://, of course). Tom On Aug 9, 3:45 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Bruce, I

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
If you are generating the right signature (which is quite a large assumption) and sending the right parameters, then make sure you aren't sending too much. Signature + parameters are, as far as I know, the only things that can cause a 401 error - assuming that the keys are right. Just make sure

[twitter-dev] since - until

2010-08-09 Thread Ilija
Hi, Is there a minimum date that can be used for since or until params in a Search API? It seems limited only to the current month? Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: How is this a solution?

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
OAuth is a web authentication protocol. It was not designed to authenticate desktop and mobile apps, and should not be used for that. I have to disagree. I can't think of a single protocol that allows the identification of applications without the possibility of leaking keys - if you have to

Re: [twitter-dev] Can we automate the user login process on twitter...

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Punit, The OAuth sequence cannot be automated. For web-based applications, you will have to do the entire OAuth sequence, utilizing either a callback or the PIN-code/out-of-band flow. Desktop and native mobile applications that demonstrate a need and adhere to our policies can request

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API help (regular API works)

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
You can't re-use signatures. Signatures use a nonce which is unique, a timestamp that will invalidate the request after about 5 minutes, and a signature that is based on the request you do (including URL). Tom On Aug 9, 4:22 am, ianrose ianros...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I hope I am not posting

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-09 Thread Andrew W. Donoho
On Aug 9, 2010, at 08:37 , Taylor Singletary wrote: As a reminder, it's proper OAuth to always send an oauth_callback on the request token step of OAuth negotiation -- even if you've preregistered a callback or are using the PIN code/out-of-band flow (in which case you would send

[twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
I don't think that there is an API which allows you to do this. Caching is important here. What you can do, for example, is simply get the home timeline (which also contains user objects) and store these users in your cache - possibly a few (max. 32) pages. Tom On Aug 9, 1:03 am, Alex Chang

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
xAuth would not require this as no callback is utilized. In the case of actually executing API resource actions (like sending a tweet), your callback (and effectively OAuth itself) has nothing to do with the request -- it's only a means of identifying the two parties involved in the request (the

[twitter-dev] Re: what's wrong with the search API?

2010-08-09 Thread MeltingIce
I had this same problem, and I discovered I was using api.twitter.com/ 1/search instead of search.twitter.com/search. So yeah, switching the endpoint fixed it. Good luck, Ryan On Aug 7, 3:52 am, bruce zhang brucezhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,guys      before I can get the target tweets from  

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
The friends/ids method has a friend of its own: users/lookup -- which allows you to bulk your users/show calls by about 100 users at a time. So you would perform the sequence of using friends/ids and then for each set of 100 ids you get back, you'd send them to users/lookup to get the detailed

Re: [twitter-dev] Uploading a Profile Image help

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Also a reminder: the Twitter API is at the http://api.twitter.com subdomain. Twitter API has version numbers in the URL as well. The original poster in this thread is using http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml when they should be using

[twitter-dev] archive search

2010-08-09 Thread Ilija
Hi, Is it possible to search for older tweets, since search api seems to return only tweets from last week?

Re: [twitter-dev] archive search

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ilija, You're right, the Search API and search.twitter.com does not go very far back in time. Twitter does not offer an API that can retrieve or search against historical tweets at this time. Taylor On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Ilija subasic.il...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible

[twitter-dev] Re: Uploading a Profile Image help

2010-08-09 Thread MeltingIce
I too am waiting for the profile image API call to be fixed. I have checked the request and even dove into HTTP_Request2's internal code just to verify that the request is correct. The only error I get back is 500 Internal Server Error. No other hints or suggestions are present in the response

[twitter-dev] Re: Get resolved URLs?

2010-08-09 Thread Jud
Gnip's beta testing URL unwinding in all of its streams. All short URLs that move through Gnip get unwound (one level), in real-time, when we transform to Activity Streams. We're representing the unwinding as follows (as an example). If you're interested in trying this out, you can sign up for a

[twitter-dev] Re: How is this a solution?

2010-08-09 Thread Jef Poskanzer
On Aug 9, 7:44 am, Tom allerleiga...@gmail.com wrote: If you use some kind of server-side proxy, you still have the same issue, because you also have to identify your application to your own server - which anyone can do, no matter how good the encryption is. Yes, anyone who uses your

[twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-08-09 Thread Meepnix
Has this solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API been implemented yet? As the deadline for Basic authentication removal is looming very close; 16th August, end of this week.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-08-09 Thread Julio Biason
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Meepnix moonix...@gmail.com wrote: Has this solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API been implemented yet? As the deadline for Basic authentication removal is looming very close; 16th August, end of this week. On another thread,

[twitter-dev] Re: How is this a solution?

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
And anyone who manages to find out how your client-server connection works, can act as if they are using your application - exactly the same issue as the one which Twitter currently has, except that it may be a bit easier or harder, depending on the used protocol. Tom On Aug 9, 6:50 pm, Jef

[twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
I just ran into this one in an old application of mine (List 'em All, http://quonos.nl/list-em-all/): https://api.twitter.com/statuses/friends.json Seems to show 100 users as well, without having to send IDs (which saves another API call). However, I'm only mentioning it to correct my last post -

[twitter-dev] Re: Some twitterapi updates unavailable

2010-08-09 Thread Mark Krieger
Taylor, I found one other in my debug logs: 20486403894, also from twitterapi. None others yet. Hope this helps you. Mark On Aug 9, 9:29 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Mark, We're looking into this and are not quite sure what's going on with these particular

[twitter-dev] Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread themattharris
Hey Developers, As you might know, this year Twitter launched a suite of Twitter Promoted Products, including Promoted Tweets (http://blog.twitter.com/ 2010/04/hello-world.html) and Promoted Trends, which advertisers can use to deepen their engagement with Twitter users. To date, these products

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Matt Harris
Hey, So /statuses/friends.json is documented here: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/friends but as Taylor said we recommend you use /friends/ids.{format} in combination with /users/lookup.{format}. Matt On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tom allerleiga...@gmail.com wrote: I just ran

Re: [twitter-dev] Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Matt and other developers, If I understand correctly, Promoted Trends are advertisements, and they aren't necessarily trending topics. Basically what Twitter is trying to do here is let the desktop clients show Twitter's advertisements as well? Is there any benefit to the developers and/or the

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we automate the user login process on twitter...

2010-08-09 Thread Ken
Punit, If you have regular users with accounts on your site, they only need to go through Oauth once - assuming you have a more convenient login process to offer them. The first time they authorize through Twitter, you need to capture the token and store it. Then they can log in using your less

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing opening and ending tag mismatch

2010-08-09 Thread Jonathan del Strother
Good news: the user who originally said he was seeing the error under an english locale actually wasn't, and the error goes away when he sets his phone to English. Bad news: he's still seeing the error. I haven't been able to actually get the error text or a screenshot out of him yet, will carry

[twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread scotth_uk
I Agree with Tom. Please explain more on how this will benefit end- users and developers and not simply be a revenue stream for you. Thanks. On Aug 9, 8:50 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Hi Matt and other developers, If I understand correctly, Promoted Trends are advertisements,

[twitter-dev] A total novice to both Twitter web development

2010-08-09 Thread Sashkoff
Folks, as a total novice to Twitter web development altogether, I am relying on you goodwill and help: - I want to use HTTP only to post new (only) tweets from my personal webpage. After I have spent a fortune of time reading thru Twitter API and Wiki, I couldn't come to any conlcusion if this

[twitter-dev] Following protected users issue

2010-08-09 Thread dschn
I've been noticing something different in Twitter's behavior recently when following protected users. If I send a friendship request via API, it returns the user profile like it was successful. But the outgoing ids don't update nor am I now following the person. I also don't see the old error

[twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread themattharris
Thanks for the replies, it’s really helpful to know what your thoughts and questions about the promoted products are. I’ve caught up with the team who are working on this and discussed your questions with them. Here's what I find out. We began testing Promoted Trends in June as an extension of

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Matt, Thanks for your reply :-) I just discussed it with a few of my users (gotta love the community). Replies in the mail below. On 8/10/10 12:18 AM, themattharris wrote: Thanks for the replies, it’s really helpful to know what your thoughts and questions about the promoted products are.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing opening and ending tag mismatch

2010-08-09 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks for the update Jonathan, when you get a screen shot let us know and we'll check it out. Matt On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jonathan del Strother jdelstrot...@gmail.com wrote: Good news: the user who originally said he was seeing the error under an english locale actually wasn't, and

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com: A Promoted Trend is one a topic which is already trending on Twitter but not popular enough to make it onto the Trending Topics list. A topic which isn’t popular on Twitter already cannot become a Promoted Trend. Let's say I've produced a movie

[twitter-dev] Twitter Autoit port to oAuth

2010-08-09 Thread PapaGummy
My 3 Twitter functions use basic Auth and I want to port them to oAuth ASAP I want to use PIN access for my app I'm not very good at HTTP programming, so any help is appreciated = #include-once #include Base64.au3 Func _TwitterPost($sTweet,

[twitter-dev] Seesmic Desktop joins the Twitter User Streams preview period

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Developers, We're happy to announce that Seesmic's preview release featuring the Twitter User Streams API is now available for testing. While Seesmic Desktop will eventually introduce User Streams to all supported platforms, this testing period is for users of Microsoft Windows only and you

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How is this a solution?

2010-08-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Jef Poskanzer jef.poskan...@gmail.com: On Aug 9, 10:48 am, Tom allerleiga...@gmail.com wrote: exactly the same issue as the one which Twitter currently has No. A malfeasor who gets your app key can make any API call pretending to be you, from any IP address, logged in as any user.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How is this a solution?

2010-08-09 Thread Julio Biason
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:46 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: why not simply build as much of the functionality into the server as possible and make a browser-based app right from the start? 'Cause that's not what I want. If I wanted a browser based app, I'd write

[twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Champion
Hey Matt, I want to make sure I understand the comment you made about We’re still working out the exact value and will keep you informed on developments. Is that in reference to the rev share for Promoted Tweets? Dick C was really clear that it was 50/50 split at Chirp (http://

[twitter-dev] Twitter Integration

2010-08-09 Thread niks
Hi, We are developing an Android native application which has a feature for user to tweet his message on Twitter. For accessing Twitter we are using twitter4j library which has xAuth support. We have registered our application on Twitter with application type as Client. As per standard OAuth

[twitter-dev] OAuth and a readonly app

2010-08-09 Thread russ.au
Hi all, Let's say I'm writing a read only app - you come to my website enter someones twitter name, and I give you some statistics about them. I can get all the stats I need by making anon calls to the REST api from my webserver. The API docs say Anonymous calls are based on the IP of the host