API Method for checking if a user exists?
Is there an API method that helps me find out if a user exists for a given email address? Thanks.
Twitter in School
Hi, I'm fairly new at Twitter, but I think its a great tool. I'm a computer consultant for a school board and I want to get a group of kids using Twitter to write about their life daily. Is there a way for me to mass import users. The goal would be to have a couple of classes using it ... is the only way to go in and make each user manually? Anyone havea ny advice about this or know of past similar projects? Could this be integrated into our current web portal? Thanks for your help, Andrew
Re: API Method for checking if a user exists?
The only way would be to take their password and run https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:28, Kashif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I went thru the API documents but couldnt find any API method that allows me to check if a twitter user account exists for a given email address. Is there anyway I can find this using the API? Basically the API Input should be an email address. Output should be a twitter username or error code. PS: My app user only provides an email address. Regards Kashif -- | Abraham Williams | Web Developer | http://abrah.am | Brazen Careerist | Pro Hacker | http://www.brazencareerist.com | PoseurTech LLC | Mashup Ambassador | http://poseurte.ch | Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org | This email is: [] blogable [x] ask first [] private
Re: Twitter Whitelisting / Identifier - how long does the review take?
I think it would be great if the part of the API docs (or wherever it is) that tells you how to get an identifier were expanded to cover this sort of question. It comes up over and over again, so it's clear the docs could be more helpful and/or more prominent. Terry
Re: Is SSL (TLS/https) officially supported?
Officially supported, and recommended. -j On Nov 28, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Ed Finkler wrote: I'm pretty sure it's officially supported. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 Skype: funka7ron On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Jon Colverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I've just started playing around with the REST API and I noticed that https requests work, but I couldn't find this documented in the API docs. Is it officially supported, or something that works accidentally and might go away without warning? Thank you. -- Jon
Re: Pinging back if there is an update by twitter? Is it possible?
If you use friendfeed, you may know that if you post a new status message on twitter, it appears in your friendfeed account only in 2 or 3 seconds. I think there is a ping API protocol between twitter and friendfeed. How can we do that? For instance, I follow your account and you're updating your status very frequently (i.e. new status per minute) I can make a cronjob which gets your status message with RSS, but I think this is not a good way to that if you follow nearly a hundred of people. friendfeed does this for at least 30.000 twitter users and gets updates instantly. Firehose (TBA), or Gnip, would be your best options. See http://www.gnipcentral.com/ for more about Gnip. TTBOMK the firehose data connection is not yet available. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. --
Re: Pinging back if there is an update by twitter? Is it possible?
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM, ahmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. If you use friendfeed, you may know that if you post a new status message on twitter, it appears in your friendfeed account only in 2 or 3 seconds. I think there is a ping API protocol between twitter and friendfeed. How can we do that? For instance, I follow your account and you're updating your status very frequently (i.e. new status per minute) I can make a cronjob which gets your status message with RSS, but I think this is not a good way to that if you follow nearly a hundred of people. friendfeed does this for at least 30.000 twitter users and gets updates instantly. Any ideas? If you know specifically who you are interested in, you can use Gnip. http://gnipcentral.com/ -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon
Re: What is Twitter Architecture to scale
We've shared a fair bit on http://dev.twitter.com. We'll share more as time allows. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:45, David C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry this is not a real dev question, but rather an infrastructure question. If I Google Tiwtter Scale or Twitter Architecture I get lots of articles before things vastly imprved. Can anyone point me to a document that describes what got upgraded? Thanks -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP
No, the firehose solution will not address this scenario in its first release. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:32, Brent Soderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to be able to use an HTTP-push solution for retrieving any replies made to a specific user. What are my options for that? I read through the Gnip docs and it doesn't seem like there is an option for getting a feed of all replies to a user. will the firehose solution address this? On Nov 27, 12:34 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's HTTP-push. You open a socket, we push data to you. The transport just happens to be HTTP. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 23:18, bham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @fastest963: Well I was thinking of using Twitter for some nice simple automated communication and for my application 10-15s is a little slow. @Alex: What do you mean works over HTTP? So I'd have to poll? How is that a firehose solution? I'm genuinely confused. On Nov 26, 11:02 pm, fastest963 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, the Firehose API would only be for retrieving data from Twitter and not sending (POST). @bham 10-15s isn't that bad? If it was over a minute then I would be concerned. As far as the latency, I can assume that it is just because of the caching that Twitter has put into place. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
