Status does update but a bad (or empty) response comes back
Hey Alex, This tweet: http://twitter.com/damon/status/972471865 was posted by SnapTweet and the response I got was: end of file reached. That could be a client-side error, which presumably means that it was a completely empty response? using ruby http. The tweet was posted successfully, however. Is this something you have heard of happening? Thanks, -damon
Re: statuses/followers - inconsistent follower generation?
I'll check for that specifically, but I have seen inconsistent follower_count to actual count numbers returned. Jesse On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:11 PM, GuyHagen wrote: Does anybody else get this? I presume it's because some followers have their statuses protected, but I'd like a confirmation. The following is a brief list of counts of users showing up in subsequent page requests on a twitterer using statuses/followers. As you can see, the numbers occasionally drop below 100. ?page= : number of returned followers (user/user) 990: 100 991: 100 992: 100 993: 100 994: 100 995: 100 996: 100 997: 100 998: 100 999: 100 1000: 100 1001: 100 1002: 100 1003: 100 1004: 99 1005: 100 1006: 100 1007: 100 1008: 100 1009: 99 1010: 99 1011: 97 1012: 100 1013: 98 1014: 91 1015: 98 1016: 97 1017: 98 1018: 100 1019: 96 1020: 96 1021: 97 1022: 97 1023: 97 1024: 97 1025: 97 1026: 100 1027: 96 1028: 98 1029: 98 1030: 98 1031: 100 1032: 97 1033: 99 1034: 99 1035: 99 1036: 99 1037: 96 1038: 98 1039: 99 1040: 98
Re: Some Favorites Work, Some Utterly Do Not
Thanks. We've got someone looking into it but we've had a hard time replicating. Hopefully this'll help. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jonathan Eunice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the tweets previously reported as un-favoriteable by me, via either API or web interface, are now favored. In their place, I offer 106 more that are NOT favoritable as of Thu Oct 23 17:12:15 2008 (Eastern TZ): http://twitter.com/zolora/statuses/968206433 http://twitter.com/FanEffingTastic/statuses/969324192 http://twitter.com/alinasmith/statuses/969520107 http://twitter.com/zolora/statuses/971235455 http://twitter.com/bcompton/statuses/971375627 http://twitter.com/TheBloggess/statuses/972184185 http://twitter.com/TheBloggess/statuses/972186768 http://twitter.com/TheBloggess/statuses/972189105 http://twitter.com/bcompton/statuses/972190152 http://twitter.com/cote/statuses/972192544 http://twitter.com/lefauxfrog/statuses/972194810 http://twitter.com/TheBloggess/statuses/972195536 http://twitter.com/bcompton/statuses/972196664 http://twitter.com/smuttysteff/statuses/972197068 http://twitter.com/MariellaElla/statuses/972197250 http://twitter.com/redrabbit/statuses/972198581 http://twitter.com/smuttysteff/statuses/972202853 http://twitter.com/jessticles/statuses/972206349 http://twitter.com/empirebetty/statuses/972206471 http://twitter.com/bcompton/statuses/972211498 http://twitter.com/coreygilmore/statuses/972218582 http://twitter.com/clapifyoulikeme/statuses/972219610 http://twitter.com/dirty_snowflake/statuses/972220384 http://twitter.com/augieray/statuses/972220624 http://twitter.com/sflovestory/statuses/972220852 http://twitter.com/TDJensen/statuses/972221322 http://twitter.com/smuttysteff/statuses/972228699 http://twitter.com/mkrigsman/statuses/972229641 http://twitter.com/stshank/statuses/972234118 http://twitter.com/umbrasprite/statuses/972238345 http://twitter.com/tj/statuses/972245668 http://twitter.com/Wallaceh/statuses/972246756 http://twitter.com/redrabbit/statuses/972247024 http://twitter.com/schwarzwald/statuses/972248118 http://twitter.com/motivatedphotos/statuses/972251290 http://twitter.com/viciousbleu/statuses/972252123 http://twitter.com/jdickerson/statuses/972262061 http://twitter.com/tryte/statuses/972272059 http://twitter.com/tryte/statuses/972282681 http://twitter.com/jenocal/statuses/972305518 http://twitter.com/empirebetty/statuses/972307654 http://twitter.com/gordonshumway/statuses/972307852 http://twitter.com/tj/statuses/972308153 http://twitter.com/jenocal/statuses/972310155 http://twitter.com/smuttysteff/statuses/972313290 http://twitter.com/smuttysteff/statuses/972315644 http://twitter.com/alinasmith/statuses/972316706 http://twitter.com/smuttysteff/statuses/972317455 http://twitter.com/schwarzwald/statuses/972319497 http://twitter.com/tryte/statuses/972321769 http://twitter.com/alysonwithay/statuses/972323709 http://twitter.com/tj/statuses/972325854 http://twitter.com/sunnybucket/statuses/972327998 http://twitter.com/alinasmith/statuses/972328769 http://twitter.com/viciousbleu/statuses/972330001 http://twitter.com/smuttysteff/statuses/972334233 http://twitter.com/toldorknown/statuses/972336146 http://twitter.com/gordonshumway/statuses/972337012 http://twitter.com/stshank/statuses/972341035 http://twitter.com/alinasmith/statuses/972347954 http://twitter.com/Ihnatko/statuses/972361052 http://twitter.com/empirebetty/statuses/972387218 http://twitter.com/abigvictory/statuses/972399952 http://twitter.com/juliafish/statuses/972404642 http://twitter.com/edsai/statuses/972406575 http://twitter.com/abigvictory/statuses/972414816 http://twitter.com/TheBloggess/statuses/972421995 http://twitter.com/alinasmith/statuses/972423291 http://twitter.com/rafitorres/statuses/972424346 http://twitter.com/SaraD/statuses/972425470 http://twitter.com/TheBloggess/statuses/972426058 http://twitter.com/TheBloggess/statuses/972427644 http://twitter.com/cote/statuses/972430031 http://twitter.com/AinsleyofAttack/statuses/972437377 http://twitter.com/toldorknown/statuses/972437489 http://twitter.com/FanEffingTastic/statuses/972440339 http://twitter.com/timbray/statuses/972440800 http://twitter.com/tj/statuses/972441892 http://twitter.com/lonelysandwich/statuses/972446453 http://twitter.com/smartasshat/statuses/972448779 http://twitter.com/Wallaceh/statuses/972454557
Re: Some Favorites Work, Some Utterly Do Not
We found the bug. You were hitting the limit of the number of favorites a user can create per day. We simply weren't exposing the error message. We'll start doing so, and perhaps we need to up the favorites per day limit as well. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Jonathan Eunice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want detailed request/response logs of requests and results, I can generate and provide. I'll put them on a real-time feed if you like. Just let me know what kind of data you want. Feel free to put your assigned tech in touch with me. I'll do whatever I can to help you fix this problem. jse -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Some Favorites Work, Some Utterly Do Not
It's currently 250 favorites per day. That seemed like a healthy number to us... On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Geoff Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, if favorites are to be worth any more to twitter users than bookmarks, we can't be hitting that limit so easily. Alex, what is the limit, anyways? On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We found the bug. You were hitting the limit of the number of favorites a user can create per day. We simply weren't exposing the error message. We'll start doing so, and perhaps we need to up the favorites per day limit as well. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Jonathan Eunice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want detailed request/response logs of requests and results, I can generate and provide. I'll put them on a real-time feed if you like. Just let me know what kind of data you want. Feel free to put your assigned tech in touch with me. I'll do whatever I can to help you fix this problem. jse -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Geoff Barnes @texburgher -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Some Favorites Work, Some Utterly Do Not
...and then there was favrd. :) 250 might have been a very reasonable limit given contemporaneous projections regarding likely use of the method. But every feature exposed by the API will end up being used in unpredictable ways. 6 months ago, I used favorites like bookmarks. Now I use them as votes to be tallied by the favrd site for a community built using twitter as a foundation. You guys gave birth and raised a *great* system and environment, and life has grown therein. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's currently 250 favorites per day. That seemed like a healthy number to us... On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Geoff Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, if favorites are to be worth any more to twitter users than bookmarks, we can't be hitting that limit so easily. Alex, what is the limit, anyways? On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We found the bug. You were hitting the limit of the number of favorites a user can create per day. We simply weren't exposing the error message. We'll start doing so, and perhaps we need to up the favorites per day limit as well. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Jonathan Eunice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want detailed request/response logs of requests and results, I can generate and provide. I'll put them on a real-time feed if you like. Just let me know what kind of data you want. Feel free to put your assigned tech in touch with me. I'll do whatever I can to help you fix this problem. jse -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Geoff Barnes @texburgher -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Geoff Barnes @texburgher
Re: Some Favorites Work, Some Utterly Do Not
That makes some sense. I use the favorites for both bookmarks (for the majority of users who aren't on Favrd), and as votes for Favrd (for the few that are). I could easily be cresting 250/day. Btw, I assure you I am not mechanically issuing favorites; every one of them is lovingly applied by my hand. A better error message would help. Expanding the limit would help even more. Given that I follow just over 650 users, which in aggregate issue 1,500-4,500 tweets/day, allowing just 250 favorites a day seems a very low number. I am sure I'm on the high end of readership, but I have seen a number of my colleagues who follow 400+ users. Some follow 1,000. Is there a reason to limit favorites thus? I.e. is it an expensive operation? I wouldn't think so, but it could be. If not, why not increase the number of allowed favorites to 1,000 or 1,500/day, say?
Re: Some Favorites Work, Some Utterly Do Not
We'll bump it to 1000. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Jonathan Eunice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That makes some sense. I use the favorites for both bookmarks (for the majority of users who aren't on Favrd), and as votes for Favrd (for the few that are). I could easily be cresting 250/day. Btw, I assure you I am not mechanically issuing favorites; every one of them is lovingly applied by my hand. A better error message would help. Expanding the limit would help even more. Given that I follow just over 650 users, which in aggregate issue 1,500-4,500 tweets/day, allowing just 250 favorites a day seems a very low number. I am sure I'm on the high end of readership, but I have seen a number of my colleagues who follow 400+ users. Some follow 1,000. Is there a reason to limit favorites thus? I.e. is it an expensive operation? I wouldn't think so, but it could be. If not, why not increase the number of allowed favorites to 1,000 or 1,500/day, say? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Some Favorites Work, Some Utterly Do Not
AL3X ADORED AS USALLY. (star this, mkay? I need it for the MISSY_BOO meme ;)) On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'll bump it to 1000. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Jonathan Eunice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That makes some sense. I use the favorites for both bookmarks (for the majority of users who aren't on Favrd), and as votes for Favrd (for the few that are). I could easily be cresting 250/day. Btw, I assure you I am not mechanically issuing favorites; every one of them is lovingly applied by my hand. A better error message would help. Expanding the limit would help even more. Given that I follow just over 650 users, which in aggregate issue 1,500-4,500 tweets/day, allowing just 250 favorites a day seems a very low number. I am sure I'm on the high end of readership, but I have seen a number of my colleagues who follow 400+ users. Some follow 1,000. Is there a reason to limit favorites thus? I.e. is it an expensive operation? I wouldn't think so, but it could be. If not, why not increase the number of allowed favorites to 1,000 or 1,500/day, say? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Geoff Barnes @texburgher
Dealing with users with e-mail addresses as usernames
I have a few users with an e-mail address for their Twitter username. When I run the show method on those users, I get a not found page - you can try by loading this in your browser: http://twitter.com/users/show/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this a known bug? What's the best way around this? Jesse
Re: Dealing with users with e-mail addresses as usernames
URL-encoding it doesn't fix it (you can try it yourself). Calling following and friends with the username also gives a not found. Jesse On Oct 23, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Julio Biason wrote: Have you tried to URL-encode the URL properly? Like http://twitter.com/users/show/kelvin.sylvie%40gmail.com.xml It's probably failing 'cause you're trying to access http://gmail.com.xml with the user twitter.com/users/show/kevin.sylvie On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few users with an e-mail address for their Twitter username. When I run the show method on those users, I get a not found page - you can try by loading this in your browser: http://twitter.com/users/show/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this a known bug? What's the best way around this? Jesse -- Julio Biason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason
