[twitter-dev] Re: Getting 500:Something is broken

2010-09-29 Thread Jo Seibert
Hi there, I discovered the same errors and was told, that these errors are a symptom of overload of the API. In this case you should handle them exactly like 502 or 503 errors. See also the discussion thread:

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get Tweets from home time line with correct time zone

2010-09-29 Thread artesea
Timestamps via the API are always in GMT/UTC, your software will need to add/remove hours to match those for the user. You can request the users timezone settings, however daylight savings aren't adjusted by twitter so these still may be an hour out. On Sep 26, 12:08 am, João Paulo Sabino de

[twitter-dev] Re: Behavior when user denies access from application

2010-09-29 Thread jaronbarends
You can go further than making a reasonable assumption. If you hover over the link back to your app, you'll see it looks something like this: http://yourapp.com/callbackurl?denied=q3vuR41XYa. So, Twitter sends a get-var called denied to your callback url. If you check for the presence of that

[twitter-dev] Re: @Anywhere Typo (Minor)

2010-09-29 Thread jaronbarends
don't refers to look and feel, not to button, so don't is correct. On Sep 29, 2:45 am, Mike under619ta...@gmail.com wrote: Under Users login signup Custom Connect with Twitter Button it reads: If the default look and feel of the Connect with Twitter button don't meet your needs, @Anywhere

[twitter-dev] Problem with signature in Perl

2010-09-29 Thread albh
Hi I'm trying to adapt my perl script to the new oauth for twitter. I'm having trouble at first step, getting a request token. Here's my code: my $response = $ua-post($url,[ 'oauth_consumer_key'=$hash{oauth_consumer_key}, 'oauth_signature'=$signature,

[twitter-dev] Search Twitter replies

2010-09-29 Thread jparicka
Hi there, Quick question - is it possible to search for replies for a tweet id? Why not? Thanks, Jan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] twitter streams API related question

2010-09-29 Thread rakesh
Hi - I would like to download (all) the tweets in the public timeline that correspond to a particular keyword (or keywords) from a specific start time to end time. Would the streams API help me do this. For example - all tweets (from all users) that contain the keyword 'AAPL' between 9 AM and

[twitter-dev] Steaming API — is track lagging cons iderably behind real–time right now?

2010-09-29 Thread Ben Hodgson
Hi, I’m having some trouble with the streaming API. Results for terms we’re tracking for Cursebird (http://cursebird.com/) are coming in about 40 minutes late right now. Currently every single line is also a duplicate. I’ve verified this both in production and on my local development machine. Are

[twitter-dev] Bypass the OAuth callback and be authorized transparently?

2010-09-29 Thread alto
Hi, I created my first Twitter enabled ASP.NET app yesterday. I wanted simply to test a OAuth sample and post a tweet to myself. As a next step, I want to automate such posts in C# network programming, i.e. using HTTP web requests outside a web page or a web service. The scenario: every day my

Re: [twitter-dev] Bypass the OAuth callback and be authorized transparently?

2010-09-29 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi TIA, For these kind of single-user scenarios we support a feature called My Access Token -- just go to your application's details page on dev.twitter.com/apps and click the My Token link in the right-hand sidebar. This will return your oauth_token and oauth_token_secret (collectively your

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem with signature in Perl

2010-09-29 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi, Signature is the SHA1-HMAC hash of the Base String, using your composite key, which is consumersecrettokensecret, tokensecret being empty for requests without an user. To help you fix this kind of issues, I'd like to see your Base String. Tom On 9/29/10 11:16 AM, albh wrote: Hi I'm

Re: [twitter-dev] Steaming API — is track lagging considerably behind real–time right now?

2010-09-29 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ben, The Streaming API is working through a backlog now after some earlier issues. It should become more current soon. Taylor On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Ben Hodgson b...@benhodgson.com wrote: Hi, I’m having some trouble with the streaming API. Results for terms we’re tracking for

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter streams API related question

2010-09-29 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
To be very simple: Streams = future, REST = past If it's 8 AM, you should start your application that uses the Stream API and stop it at around 9:45 AM. Then, for every tweet that comes in, you would check the time and decide to use it or not. With the REST API, you execute some requests at 9:45

Re: [twitter-dev] Steaming API — is track lagging considerably behind real–time right now?

2010-09-29 Thread John Kalucki
The status blog will be updated shortly. -John On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Ben, The Streaming API is working through a backlog now after some earlier issues. It should become more current soon. Taylor On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at

[twitter-dev] How many people have authorized my application?

2010-09-29 Thread Duane Roelands
I used to be able to go to http://twitter.com/oauth_clients and see how many users have authorized my application. Twitter appears to have removed those numbers. Where can I go to find out how many people have authorized my application? Why was this information removed? -- Twitter developer

Re: [twitter-dev] How many people have authorized my application?

2010-09-29 Thread Taylor Singletary
The loading of the information would not scale for many clients, resulting in whales when trying to load your application (lame but true). It's best to track such information by your own means. I'd be happy to look up the value for you if you follow up with me off-list. Thanks, Taylor On Wed,

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter streams API related question

2010-09-29 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Actually, for keyword searches of the past, wouldn't you use Search, not REST? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu: To be very simple:

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter streams API related question

2010-09-29 Thread Taylor Singletary
With streaming, the present quickly becomes the past. I'd much rather a developer think pro-actively and capture the tweets they need as they happen rather than go spelunking through the past as depicted by the Search API. I think Tom was referring to the Search API when saying REST of course.

Re: [twitter-dev] Steaming API — is track lagging considerably behind real–time right now?

2010-09-29 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Ben Hodgson b...@benhodgson.com: Hi, I’m having some trouble with the streaming API. Results for terms we’re tracking for Cursebird (http://cursebird.com/) are coming in about 40 minutes late right now. Currently every single line is also a duplicate. I’ve verified this both in

[twitter-dev] Re: not authorized over and over again

2010-09-29 Thread eMailaya
any kind of help here will be appreciated thanks On Sep 28, 8:06 pm, eMailaya a...@emailaya.com wrote: im doing the following:     Twitterh.Key := consumer key - hard coded     Twitterh.Secret := consumer secret - hard coded     Twitterh.OAuth_token :=

[twitter-dev] Is it possible to search twitter for in_reply_to_status_id

2010-09-29 Thread jparicka
Hi there, Is it possible to search twitter based on in_reply_to_status_id ? I am looking for a way to collect in_replies for a specific status ids. How can I do that? Thank you in advance, Jan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via

[twitter-dev] Re: PHP, Curl an OAuth Echo errors

2010-09-29 Thread sdenike
Hmm Does not seem to be working no matter which way I construct it, keep getting the Could not authenticate error. Any suggestions? On Sep 14, 2:02 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: I don't have an example, but you should use the X-Auth-Service-Provider header for the URL and

[twitter-dev] Re: Is it possible to search twitter for in_reply_to_status_id

2010-09-29 Thread Jan Paricka
Alternatively, is it possible to get ALL replies for a specific tweet id? I cannot seem to get my head around this Thanks again, Jan On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:14 PM, jparicka jpari...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Is it possible to search twitter based on in_reply_to_status_id ? I am

[twitter-dev] Streaming API new_id test

2010-09-29 Thread John Kalucki
We streamed the new_id field for about 15 minutes this morning, starting at about 10:05 PDT, 17:05 UTC until about 10:15 / 17:15 UTC. If your streaming consumer had problems during this period: 1) Check your markup parser. 2) Respond to this thread. Barring any issues, we'll nail this setting up

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting 500:Something is broken

2010-09-29 Thread nischalshetty
@Jo thnks! On Sep 29, 11:45 am, Jo Seibert joseib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I discovered the same errors and was told, that these errors are a symptom of overload of the API. In this case you should handle them exactly like 502 or 503 errors. See also the discussion

[twitter-dev] Help converting Basic Auth to oAuth

2010-09-29 Thread Lorraine
I apologize if this is a very simple question- so new to this :) I need to convert Basic Auth to oAuth. Here's what's existing: // set user/pswd $username = 'mytwitterusername'; $password = 'mytwitterpassword'; //

[twitter-dev] How to render a hyperlink in the tweet?

2010-09-29 Thread alto
If I leave the anchor element as is, e.g. string link = a href= \http://www.google.com/\;GOOGLE/a; I receive The remote server returned an error: (403) Unauthorized. Fine, it's a script, so it's dangerous. But if I escape the script tags as in string link = lt;a

[twitter-dev] Re: Filtered Streaming API, Count, and Confusing Wording in the Wiki

2010-09-29 Thread Damon C
Just wanted to chime in that the documentation is, indeed, pretty confusing. I'd suggest the description paragraph beginning with something like: This parameter is only available to Firehose, Retweet, Link, Birddog and Shadow clients. I assume the recommended approach to not missing data on

Re: [twitter-dev] How to render a hyperlink in the tweet?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Just append http://www.google.com/; Tom On 9/29/10 7:55 PM, alto wrote: If I leave the anchor element as is, e.g. string link = a href= \http://www.google.com/\;GOOGLE/a; I receive The remote server returned an error: (403) Unauthorized. Fine, it's a script, so it's dangerous. But if I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Filtered Streaming API, Count, and Confusing Wording in the Wiki

2010-09-29 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Damon C d.lifehac...@gmail.com: Just wanted to chime in that the documentation is, indeed, pretty confusing. I'd suggest the description paragraph beginning with something like: This parameter is only available to Firehose, Retweet, Link, Birddog and Shadow clients. I assume the

[twitter-dev] OAuth status pages no longer show client numbers?

2010-09-29 Thread mcdade
Has anyone else seen this problem? I look on my application pages for the number of people who have completed the OAuth process and they are no longer there. On top of that one of the apps no longer even says my name, it just says Application name by and the rest is blank. very weird.. the

[twitter-dev] List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-29 Thread Ken D.
I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1.) Creating a list via the API is no problem. Then I post to create_all with batches of 20-90 user ids. Only rarely have I been able to add more than a single batch, even with a few seconds of sleep, but occasionally

[twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-29 Thread mynameisgabe
I've been googling like crazy and searching the streaming api docs for the answer to this question: Where would I find the latest definition for json objects returned by the stream? Specifically I'm looking for field names, data types and max lengths (if available) that will be returned. I'm

[twitter-dev] Site Streams - Unfollow Events?

2010-09-29 Thread tsmango
I was hoping for some clarification on the social events delivered to a Site Stream. The documentation (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/ site_streams) doesn't specifically mention unfollow events and I'm not seeing them. I am seeing follow events, as expected. User Streams, however, are said to

[twitter-dev] Re: New Tweet button, counturl, and searches

2010-09-29 Thread snydeq
I suspect this has something to do with the fact that Twitter Search has essentially stopped parsing shortened URLs, as of Sept. 21 (http:// groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/ 9ab5fd225a6250e1#). So, when Twitter searches for your counturl, it can find only

Re: [twitter-dev] Site Streams - Unfollow Events?

2010-09-29 Thread Tim Haines
Seen this answered about 1 - 2 weeks ago. Answer is no. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:23 AM, tsmango tsma...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping for some clarification on the social events delivered to a Site Stream. The documentation (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/ site_streams) doesn't specifically

[twitter-dev] Re: New Tweet button, counturl, and searches

2010-09-29 Thread snydeq
Apologies for the double post, but the above URL is incorrect and should be: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/d6c3996bc451c0a6# -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-29 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting mynameisgabe mynameisg...@gmail.com: I've been googling like crazy and searching the streaming api docs for the answer to this question: Where would I find the latest definition for json objects returned by the stream? Specifically I'm looking for field names, data types and max

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-29 Thread Gabriel Harriman
Oh wow, I like the NoSQL data store idea. =) On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:55 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Quoting mynameisgabe mynameisg...@gmail.com: I've been googling like crazy and searching the streaming api docs for the answer to this question: Where would I find the latest definition

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-29 Thread Abraham Williams
This is about as close as you will get and it is probably outdated already. http://mehack.com/map-of-a-twitter-status-object Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask

[twitter-dev] Re: Site Streams - Unfollow Events?

2010-09-29 Thread tsmango
Ah I wasn't able to find that. It's a shame if true. Thanks for the information. On Sep 29, 6:05 pm, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Seen this answered about 1 - 2 weeks ago.  Answer is no. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:23 AM, tsmango tsma...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping for some

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-29 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Yeah - lots of them to choose from, although Twitter has invested a fair amount of time in Cassandra and Hadoop/Pig. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Gabriel

[twitter-dev] Need tips: write php script (run by cron jobs) to post to twitter from another website

2010-09-29 Thread N N
I download the oauth API package (http://github.com/abraham/ twitteroauth), modify the config code, but didn't get anything post to my twitter. Need some tips, thanks. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] Re: 01:Authentication credentials were missing or incorrect. / ColdFusion + Twitter4J

2010-09-29 Thread @goodClic
Thank You... Thank You!!! A third variable... nowhere in the online examples and no where in the documentation! WildCat you saved me from insanity! On Sep 17, 7:35 pm, wildcat webmasterm...@gmail.com wrote: Did you get this answered? If not, the answer is that Twitter returns a URL variable

[twitter-dev] [bug] New Twitter/Flash Player

2010-09-29 Thread Mike
Someone linked to a YouTube video in their tweet, so I clicked the tweet so the tweet appeared in my right panel; but when I clicked the Twitter home logo on the top right of the page, the right panel slid to the left, disappeared, but the video continued to play. -- Twitter developer

[twitter-dev] Token Missing Error when Adding Places

2010-09-29 Thread Clay Graham
Hey All Twitter Developers, I am having some trouble adding a place and I am honestly at a loss to figure out what could be causing it. I always have to be careful when asking for help to make sure I dont include any tokens. This is a twitter4j example, but I am pretty sure this is a twitter API

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Site Streams - Unfollow Events?

2010-09-29 Thread John Kalucki
Please describe your use case for unfollows on Site Streams... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:09 PM, tsmango tsma...@gmail.com wrote: Ah I wasn't able to find that. It's a shame if true. Thanks for the information. On Sep 29, 6:05 pm, Tim