[twitter-dev] Are statuses deleted method
Currently there is not a good method of finding out if statuses have been deleted other then running statuses/show/*id. *A possible solution is to add a method that accepts an array or a csv string of say 100 statuses. It could return FALSE if none of the statuses are deleted or the ids of deleted statuses. I'm not sure if this is architecturally feasible but if it is I'll add it to the issue queue. -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wi United States.
[twitter-dev] Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result
When I try to retrieve a user (using http://www.twitter.com/users/show/stephenfry.json), the double quotes are not escaped in the user description (description:I'm blacked out: Stand up against Guilt Upon Accusation for New Zealand http:\/\/creativefreedom.org.nz\/ blackout.html), which means that it can not be easily converted from JSON to a Javascript Object. Has anyone already encountered this behaviour?
[twitter-dev] Re: Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result
When I try to retrieve a user (using
http://www.twitter.com/users/show/stephenfry.json),
the double quotes are not escaped in the user description
(description:I'm blacked out: Stand up against Guilt Upon
Accusation for New Zealand http:\/\/creativefreedom.org.nz\/
blackout.html), which means that it can not be easily converted from
JSON to a Javascript Object.
Has anyone already encountered this behaviour?
I am not seeing this. When I query it, everything is properly escaped:
/usr/bin/curl -s -m 13 -f --basic -u naughty:nopeeking -f
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/stephenfry.json;
[{'truncated':false,'text':'@CoolieJartmell Who? You? Yoo
hoo!','user':{'followers_count':222925,'description':'ISSQQ0m blacked out:
Stand up against quot;Guilt Upon Accusationquot; for New Zealand
http:\/\/creativefreedom.org.nz\/blackout.html', ...
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[twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character
Hi there, I added this info to the ticket. Thanks; — Matt On Feb 23, 2009, at 06:21 AM, Karthik wrote: Can you accept the request for the colon character too? I may use the prefix $IN for Indian stocks and would like to retrieve only the updates containing the term $IN:REL for example? Does that make sense? On Feb 23, 3:39 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, Requests for this have come up before so I opened a ticket for the person working on our tokenizer to add this. I'm not sure when he'll get to it but it's on the road map now. One bit of forewarning: if you try to query for every ticker symbol every five minutes you're building something unscalable and you can expect to hit the rate limit. Not that I'm sure this is what people have in mind but I thought I'd put this out there ahead of time just in case. — Matt On Feb 22, 2009, at 02:17 AM, Karthik Murugan wrote: No, they show status updates from unrelated profiles too. I guess, they are indexing updates containing stock names and filtering out posts that don't have a dollar sign before the stock name On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: My SWAG is that they are just parsing their follower/friend stream themselves and highlighting tokens beginning with $. -Chad On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Karthik fermis...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a similar feature too. I wonder howhttp://stocktwits.com/streams/all could show statuses containing $ On Feb 21, 10:35 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's correct. Add $ as a token modifier, if you will. -Chad On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I must have been unclear. I don't want the $ by itself, I want it to be a searchable character in conjunction with other strings, so I want to search for $AAPL or $C much like # is with hashtags. FYI, in search engine language this means is that you want words to be tokenized with and without the $ (or other) similar characters. Right now, it sounds like $AAPL is tokenized as AAPL. If I understand correctly, you'd want the search engine to also add the token $AAPL. NIck
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Image(s)
You may want to look at the SPIURL project: http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/ It provides static urls for each Twitter profile image. On Feb 22, 8:43 am, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: I take that back, Ricardo. I looks like this has already been officially requested. Be sure to star it if you want to add your vote. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=242 @dougw On Feb 21, 11:12 pm, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Ricardo, It's not possible through the API as it stands, and has been brought up before as a shortcoming. I didn't find any duplicate issues in my searches. Sounds like an enhancement defect to report: addhttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry @dougw On Feb 21, 5:28 pm, Ricardo Sousa thericardoso...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm working as the developer of a Wordpress plugin that pulls twittar avatars into wordpress comments. What it actually does is to pull the avatar img each time user comments but the problem is that users change the avatar often so we need to make API calls very often. The default syntax url for Twitter profile images is: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80319404/av... (avatars is the name of the image in user computer) The problem is is that avatars change whenever users change avatar making it impossible to store the user's avatar url in DB and forcing me to do a lot of API calls in order to get the most recent image. What i want is to be able to call directly the user profile image whitout need to call API first. Any ideas? My question is if there's another syntax which is independent from the image name? Something like: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80319404/bi... If yes: How can i do that without need to call the API on each page load (which is huge and terrible)? if no: is that planned?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character
Thanks a lot :) On Feb 23, 7:52 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, I added this info to the ticket. Thanks; — Matt On Feb 23, 2009, at 06:21 AM, Karthik wrote: Can you accept the request for the colon character too? I may use the prefix $IN for Indian stocks and would like to retrieve only the updates containing the term $IN:REL for example? Does that make sense? On Feb 23, 3:39 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, Requests for this have come up before so I opened a ticket for the person working on our tokenizer to add this. I'm not sure when he'll get to it but it's on the road map now. One bit of forewarning: if you try to query for every ticker symbol every five minutes you're building something unscalable and you can expect to hit the rate limit. Not that I'm sure this is what people have in mind but I thought I'd put this out there ahead of time just in case. — Matt On Feb 22, 2009, at 02:17 AM, Karthik Murugan wrote: No, they show status updates from unrelated profiles too. I guess, they are indexing updates containing stock names and filtering out posts that don't have a dollar sign before the stock name On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: My SWAG is that they are just parsing their follower/friend stream themselves and highlighting tokens beginning with $. -Chad On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Karthik fermis...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a similar feature too. I wonder howhttp://stocktwits.com/streams/all could show statuses containing $ On Feb 21, 10:35 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's correct. Add $ as a token modifier, if you will. -Chad On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I must have been unclear. I don't want the $ by itself, I want it to be a searchable character in conjunction with other strings, so I want to search for $AAPL or $C much like # is with hashtags. FYI, in search engine language this means is that you want words to be tokenized with and without the $ (or other) similar characters. Right now, it sounds like $AAPL is tokenized as AAPL. If I understand correctly, you'd want the search engine to also add the token $AAPL. NIck
[twitter-dev] Re: Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result
I get the same thing. Are you perhaps viewing it in something that would
convert quot;?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:42, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
When I try to retrieve a user (using
http://www.twitter.com/users/show/stephenfry.json),
the double quotes are not escaped in the user description
(description:I'm blacked out: Stand up against Guilt Upon
Accusation for New Zealand http:\/\/creativefreedom.org.nz\/
blackout.html), which means that it can not be easily converted from
JSON to a Javascript Object.
Has anyone already encountered this behaviour?
I am not seeing this. When I query it, everything is properly escaped:
/usr/bin/curl -s -m 13 -f --basic -u naughty:nopeeking -f
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/stephenfry.json;
[{'truncated':false,'text':'@CoolieJartmell Who? You? Yoo
hoo!','user':{'followers_count':222925,'description':'ISSQQ0m blacked out:
Stand up against quot;Guilt Upon Accusationquot; for New Zealand http:\/\/
creativefreedom.org.nz\/blackout.html', ...
--
personal:
http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com *
ckai...@floodgap.com
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[twitter-dev] Re: Not escaping double quotes when returning a JSON result
and by that I mean the same thing as Cameron.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:23, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I get the same thing. Are you perhaps viewing it in something that would
convert quot;?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:42, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote:
When I try to retrieve a user (using
http://www.twitter.com/users/show/stephenfry.json),
the double quotes are not escaped in the user description
(description:I'm blacked out: Stand up against Guilt Upon
Accusation for New Zealand http:\/\/creativefreedom.org.nz\/
blackout.html), which means that it can not be easily converted from
JSON to a Javascript Object.
Has anyone already encountered this behaviour?
I am not seeing this. When I query it, everything is properly escaped:
/usr/bin/curl -s -m 13 -f --basic -u naughty:nopeeking -f
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/stephenfry.json;
[{'truncated':false,'text':'@CoolieJartmell Who? You? Yoo
hoo!','user':{'followers_count':222925,'description':'ISSQQ0m blacked out:
Stand up against quot;Guilt Upon Accusationquot; for New Zealand http:\/\/
creativefreedom.org.nz\/blackout.html', ...
--
personal:
http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com *
ckai...@floodgap.com
-- I must confess, I was born at a very early age. -- Groucho Marx
--
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Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
--
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Sent from: Madison Wi United States.
[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs
I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and your app should remove them. Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would probably be more efficient. So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more important things. Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? iematthew wrote: I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for accounts that no longer exist. What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. Thoughts on this?
[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and 401 Unauthorised Request
Hi there, I am working on a fix for the case where a brand new token takes a few seconds to propagate to all of our database slaves. During that time you would see errors like Invalid / expired Token and then they would suddenly start working. They may even work on some requests and not others because you don't hit the same database every time. Like I said, working on a fix for it now. Once the fix is done I'll keep and eye out for more reports like this. Thanks; — Matt On Feb 21, 2009, at 02:47 PM, Santosh Panda wrote: Hi Paul, We see the same issue couple of times but infrequently. In another threaded mail, few more developers have conveyed the same. cheers, Santosh Panda www.twitblogs.com On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following on from my previous email about not being able to use verify_credentials, I am still having sporadic problems and I am wondering if anyone else has seen them. Our page call creates a request_token and navigates to the the twitter oAuth page, on successful return we swap our tokens for an access token, we then call verify_credentials.json. Sometimes (quite often) when we call this method we get a 401 Un-authorised exception. If no-one else see's this then I will have to see if the library I am using has the problem. Kind Regards, Paul Kinlan.
[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and 401 Unauthorised Request
Hi Matt, Excellent news, thanks. Paul. 2009/2/23 Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com Hi there, I am working on a fix for the case where a brand new token takes a few seconds to propagate to all of our database slaves. During that time you would see errors like Invalid / expired Token and then they would suddenly start working. They may even work on some requests and not others because you don't hit the same database every time. Like I said, working on a fix for it now. Once the fix is done I'll keep and eye out for more reports like this. Thanks; — Matt On Feb 21, 2009, at 02:47 PM, Santosh Panda wrote: Hi Paul, We see the same issue couple of times but infrequently. In another threaded mail, few more developers have conveyed the same. cheers, Santosh Panda www.twitblogs.com On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Following on from my previous email about not being able to use verify_credentials, I am still having sporadic problems and I am wondering if anyone else has seen them. Our page call creates a request_token and navigates to the the twitter oAuth page, on successful return we swap our tokens for an access token, we then call verify_credentials.json. Sometimes (quite often) when we call this method we get a 401 Un-authorised exception. If no-one else see's this then I will have to see if the library I am using has the problem. Kind Regards, Paul Kinlan.
[twitter-dev] 'import sys' unnecessary?
Hi folks. During some tests on a patch I saw some weird things in the code, maybe you can help me to understand it all. -- $ pychecker twitter.py Processing twitter... Warnings... twitter.py:29: Imported module (sys) not used twitter.py:2064: Local variable (e) not used -- Maybe we could clean this up? Regards, Rogério Schneider
[twitter-dev] 24,386 unfollow calls
So I have kind of weird request. My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons. I'm curious if there is any tools internally at twitter that could help with this maybe because this seems to push the limits of what the API was intended for. (If so, you can contact me off list at z...@seesmic.com) If not, the code is fairly trivial to do (I already have something that does something similar in fact), but I don't want to set off any alarms if I make 24,385 unfollow requests and several requests to pull his social graph down as it runs. I can also throttle it as I was planning to do and do it across a few days. Thanks, Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/
[twitter-dev] Re: Help!! Oauth weirdness, invalid / expired token.
How long does it take for a request token to expire? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:29, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Emmanuel, Since we improved the error messaging a bit that error message now leads to something useful. When we tried to lookup your token it was not found. Was this right after you exchanged the request token for an access token, or had some time passed? Thanks; — Matt On Feb 21, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Emmanuel wrote: Hey, a couple of days ago I had Twitter OAUTH working just fine for GET requests, but when I tried a few today, I keep getting invalid / expired Token. I still didn't get any POST requests to work btw, but that's a different thread. This is super weird, below is my return: [request] = Array ( [#text] = /favorites.xml? oauth_version=1.0oauth_nonce=69d47b6fef9cfa10dc7fdcbf58cd0f29oauth_timestamp=1235243383oauth_consumer_key=mykeyhereoauth_token=tokenHereoauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_signature=signature_here ) [error] = Array ( [#text] = Invalid / expired Token ) Is this happening to anyone else? -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wi United States.
[twitter-dev] Re: Help!! Oauth weirdness, invalid / expired token.
Hi there, A request token is expected to be very short lived, since it's only used to exchange for an access token. Right now they do not expire but in an upcoming change we're going to limit them to a one hour life span to improve performance and scalability. The life span of an access token is detailed at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Feb 23, 2009, at 09:49 AM, Abraham Williams wrote: How long does it take for a request token to expire? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:29, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Emmanuel, Since we improved the error messaging a bit that error message now leads to something useful. When we tried to lookup your token it was not found. Was this right after you exchanged the request token for an access token, or had some time passed? Thanks; — Matt On Feb 21, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Emmanuel wrote: Hey, a couple of days ago I had Twitter OAUTH working just fine for GET requests, but when I tried a few today, I keep getting invalid / expired Token. I still didn't get any POST requests to work btw, but that's a different thread. This is super weird, below is my return: [request] = Array ( [#text] = /favorites.xml? oauth_version = 1.0 oauth_nonce = 69d47b6fef9cfa10dc7fdcbf58cd0f29 oauth_timestamp = 1235243383 oauth_consumer_key =mykeyhereoauth_token=tokenHereoauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1oauth_signature=signature_here ) [error] = Array ( [#text] = Invalid / expired Token ) Is this happening to anyone else? -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wi United States.
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
If i'm not wrong there's no limit for POST ans as this is a post request type you should have no problems in creating a quick script that makes you unfollow everyone. Thx On Feb 23, 4:41 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: So I have kind of weird request. My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons. I'm curious if there is any tools internally at twitter that could help with this maybe because this seems to push the limits of what the API was intended for. (If so, you can contact me off list at z...@seesmic.com) If not, the code is fairly trivial to do (I already have something that does something similar in fact), but I don't want to set off any alarms if I make 24,385 unfollow requests and several requests to pull his social graph down as it runs. I can also throttle it as I was planning to do and do it across a few days. Thanks, Zac Bowlinghttp://twitter.com/zbowlinghttp://zbowling.com/
[twitter-dev] Re: In Reply To
Added to the FAQ: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIgetallrepliestoaparticularstatus On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 22:36, Duane Storey duanesto...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to query all the replies to a particular status ID? I scanned the API but didn't see anything. Thanks. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
Zac, I would space the calls a bit, but I've been told by Alex previously that a mass unfollow wouldn't be limited. -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: So I have kind of weird request. My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons.
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
Hi Zac Zac == Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com writes: My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons. ... you can contact me off list at z...@seesmic.com You have a Seesmic address, and your boss follows 24K people and wants to unfollow them all H. So, uh, why does Loic hate us? :-) Not so long ago we were all his friends! You might suggest he try Tweetdeck. That would let him nicely keep up to date with just the people and topics he really wants to read, without the mass unfollow. Of course you guys might have to buy Tweetdeck too before that could happen :-) Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Regards, Terry
[twitter-dev] Re: is there an Intro to Twitter API with PHP?
Twitter API: Up Running from O'Reilly is exactly what you're looking for. It assumes a smidge of basic PHP/programming knowledge, and goes from there. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157791/ (Full disclosure: I was a technical editor on this book. I don't get a cut for every book sold or anything like that, though. It just happens to be the best resource I'm aware of that meets your needs.) On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 21:26, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: I know just enough PHP to be dangerous, but I'd like to start to play around with the API when designing web pages. Is there a for dummies or similar basic set of examples somewhere? I've never done API stuff (any API) via PHP. (for starters: I'd like to build myself a custom DM page which shows threaded (at least time-sorted) messages sent and received. I seem to always forget what I've been talking about with people and then they DM me and I have to go back and try to piece it together.) Thanks TjL -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that. Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: Are statuses deleted method
For the moment, when we delete statuses, we really DELETE (in SQL terms) statuses! In the future we'll probably just hide them, as we do with deleted users whose accounts are still being held for possible user-triggered restoration. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 00:47, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Currently there is not a good method of finding out if statuses have been deleted other then running statuses/show/id. A possible solution is to add a method that accepts an array or a csv string of say 100 statuses. It could return FALSE if none of the statuses are deleted or the ids of deleted statuses. I'm not sure if this is architecturally feasible but if it is I'll add it to the issue queue. -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison Wi United States. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs
Yes, please do: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner jstrell...@urltrends.com wrote: I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and your app should remove them. Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would probably be more efficient. So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more important things. Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? iematthew wrote: I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for accounts that no longer exist. What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. Thoughts on this? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that. Nick -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
Haha, being that you know who I work for and the we own Twhirl, I probably shouldn't comment about Tweetdeck. :-) Loic loves everyone, but he had an auto-follow bot that followed everyone that followed him. Got a little crazy. The biggest issue was Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Zac Zac == Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com writes: My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons. ... you can contact me off list at z...@seesmic.com You have a Seesmic address, and your boss follows 24K people and wants to unfollow them all H. So, uh, why does Loic hate us? :-) Not so long ago we were all his friends! You might suggest he try Tweetdeck. That would let him nicely keep up to date with just the people and topics he really wants to read, without the mass unfollow. Of course you guys might have to buy Tweetdeck too before that could happen :-) Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Regards, Terry
[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs
Just curious, but how does one go about setting the type of an issue in the bug/feature request system? I haven't seen any option for doing so, so my Enhancement gets entered as a Defect. On Feb 23, 2:39 pm, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Yes, there are more important things. But for future planning and keeping things clean, I think it would be a good thing to have. For apps that cache Twitter users and have tons in their system, requesting updates on each user can be resource-consuming, not to mention whitelist-consuming. A features request has been submitted as suggested: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=311 On Feb 23, 2:11 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Yes, please do:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner jstrell...@urltrends.com wrote: I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and your app should remove them. Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would probably be more efficient. So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more important things. Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? iematthew wrote: I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for accounts that no longer exist. What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. Thoughts on this? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. Oh, thanks. I did a quick search on follow limits and all I came across was the 2,000 number. I'm guessing that 2000 is the limit until you have 2001 followers? So a brand-new account is limited to 2,000, but only until then? That's good to know. Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
The biggest issue was The gold it's in the -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Don't treat fictional people as if they're real. It only encourages them. -- (*) Obscured by Clouds, Pink Floyd
[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs
Just start typing? Or Matt and I will re-file it. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:44, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Just curious, but how does one go about setting the type of an issue in the bug/feature request system? I haven't seen any option for doing so, so my Enhancement gets entered as a Defect. On Feb 23, 2:39 pm, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Yes, there are more important things. But for future planning and keeping things clean, I think it would be a good thing to have. For apps that cache Twitter users and have tons in their system, requesting updates on each user can be resource-consuming, not to mention whitelist-consuming. A features request has been submitted as suggested: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=311 On Feb 23, 2:11 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Yes, please do:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner jstrell...@urltrends.com wrote: I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and your app should remove them. Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would probably be more efficient. So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more important things. Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? iematthew wrote: I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for accounts that no longer exist. What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. Thoughts on this? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Just start typing? Eh? I don't see an option to choose between Enhancement or Defect either when creating a new issue. Is it hiding somewhere? -Chad On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:44, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Just curious, but how does one go about setting the type of an issue in the bug/feature request system? I haven't seen any option for doing so, so my Enhancement gets entered as a Defect. On Feb 23, 2:39 pm, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Yes, there are more important things. But for future planning and keeping things clean, I think it would be a good thing to have. For apps that cache Twitter users and have tons in their system, requesting updates on each user can be resource-consuming, not to mention whitelist-consuming. A features request has been submitted as suggested: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=311 On Feb 23, 2:11 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Yes, please do:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner jstrell...@urltrends.com wrote: I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and your app should remove them. Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would probably be more efficient. So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more important things. Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? iematthew wrote: I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for accounts that no longer exist. What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. Thoughts on this? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Method for getting disabled Twitter IDs
Hi there, I looked into this a bit and it looks like non-admins are not seeing the field. Hoping I can make Google Code play ball, otherwise I'll keep doing the triage comments. — Matt On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Just start typing? Eh? I don't see an option to choose between Enhancement or Defect either when creating a new issue. Is it hiding somewhere? -Chad On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:44, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Just curious, but how does one go about setting the type of an issue in the bug/feature request system? I haven't seen any option for doing so, so my Enhancement gets entered as a Defect. On Feb 23, 2:39 pm, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Yes, there are more important things. But for future planning and keeping things clean, I think it would be a good thing to have. For apps that cache Twitter users and have tons in their system, requesting updates on each user can be resource-consuming, not to mention whitelist-consuming. A features request has been submitted as suggested: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=311 On Feb 23, 2:11 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Yes, please do:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner jstrell...@urltrends.com wrote: I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no longer exists, and your app should remove them. Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would probably be more efficient. So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more important things. Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? iematthew wrote: I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for accounts that no longer exist. What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. Thoughts on this? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
Script is running now. It has a 1.5 second delay between calls to be nice to twitter (hope that is enough). Already down about 2,000 people. using the twyt python library (with some modifications to support the new social graph api) and simplejson. --- from twyt.twitter import Twitter import simplejson import time t = Twitter() t.set_auth(loic,) b = simplejson.loads(t.user_friends_graph()) for i in range(len(b)): try: t.friendship_destroy(b[i]) print %s - unfriending %s % (i,b[i]) except Exception: #TODO: INSERT ASCII FAIL WHALE print insert ascii fail whale here! time.sleep(1.5) --- Thanks a ton! Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that. Nick -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
I usually lack any whale humor, but here goes: v vv | | v | v | .-, | | | .--./ / | _.---.| '-. (__..- \ \ a| ',.__. ,__.-'/ '--/_.''` T H EW H A L E S L E E P S T O N I G H T On Feb 23, 2009, at 01:52 PM, Zac Bowling wrote: Script is running now. It has a 1.5 second delay between calls to be nice to twitter (hope that is enough). Already down about 2,000 people. using the twyt python library (with some modifications to support the new social graph api) and simplejson. --- from twyt.twitter import Twitter import simplejson import time t = Twitter() t.set_auth(loic,) b = simplejson.loads(t.user_friends_graph()) for i in range(len(b)): try: t.friendship_destroy(b[i]) print %s - unfriending %s % (i,b[i]) except Exception: #TODO: INSERT ASCII FAIL WHALE print insert ascii fail whale here! time.sleep(1.5) --- Thanks a ton! Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that. Nick -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
Oh thats awesome! Every now and then I'll get a 503 Bad Gateway error but that is to be expected at least a few times for 24,000+ calls :-) Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: I usually lack any whale humor, but here goes: v vv | | v | v | .-, | | | .--./ / | _.---.| '-. (__..- \ \ a| ',.__. ,__.-'/ '--/_.''` T H EW H A L E S L E E P S T O N I G H T On Feb 23, 2009, at 01:52 PM, Zac Bowling wrote: Script is running now. It has a 1.5 second delay between calls to be nice to twitter (hope that is enough). Already down about 2,000 people. using the twyt python library (with some modifications to support the new social graph api) and simplejson. --- from twyt.twitter import Twitter import simplejson import time t = Twitter() t.set_auth(loic,) b = simplejson.loads(t.user_friends_graph()) for i in range(len(b)): try: t.friendship_destroy(b[i]) print %s - unfriending %s % (i,b[i]) except Exception: #TODO: INSERT ASCII FAIL WHALE print insert ascii fail whale here! time.sleep(1.5) --- Thanks a ton! Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that. Nick -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
Why twyt library? I have hacked on twitter API aswell; but I used the http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ wrapper from Google. Is there a wiki page that lists all different wrappers and explains why one is to be used over the other? Thanks. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Script is running now. It has a 1.5 second delay between calls to be nice to twitter (hope that is enough). Already down about 2,000 people. using the twyt python library (with some modifications to support the new social graph api) and simplejson. --- from twyt.twitter import Twitter import simplejson import time t = Twitter() t.set_auth(loic,) b = simplejson.loads(t.user_friends_graph()) for i in range(len(b)): try: t.friendship_destroy(b[i]) print %s - unfriending %s % (i,b[i]) except Exception: #TODO: INSERT ASCII FAIL WHALE print insert ascii fail whale here! time.sleep(1.5) --- Thanks a ton! Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that. Nick -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Regards, Lakshman becomingguru.com lakshmanprasad.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Ok, If you are starting it anyway, Please include me in that. Happy to hack on twitter API, anyday! twitter id: twitter.com/scorpion032 Company:uswaretech.com/ Email: laksh...@uswaretech.com Thanks Alex, in advance! On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Regards, Lakshman becomingguru.com lakshmanprasad.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Why not... twitter id: twitter.com/CraigMason company: Stasis Media (http://www.stasismedia.com) email: i...@stasismedia.com -Craig On Feb 23, 10:34 pm, Lakshman Prasad scorpion...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, If you are starting it anyway, Please include me in that. Happy to hack on twitter API, anyday! twitter id: twitter.com/scorpion032 Company: uswaretech.com/ Email: laksh...@uswaretech.com Thanks Alex, in advance! On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Regards, Lakshman becomingguru.com lakshmanprasad.com
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
I see that one but when I hit the download page, it said the last update was Sept 2007, so I looked at the other one on the list, and its last update was Febuary 2009, so I used that one. That's all. Was hoping the new one had the social graph api but it didn't but it was easy enough to add it. Zac Bowling On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Lakshman Prasad scorpion...@gmail.com wrote: Why twyt library? I have hacked on twitter API aswell; but I used the http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ wrapper from Google. Is there a wiki page that lists all different wrappers and explains why one is to be used over the other? Thanks. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Script is running now. It has a 1.5 second delay between calls to be nice to twitter (hope that is enough). Already down about 2,000 people. using the twyt python library (with some modifications to support the new social graph api) and simplejson. --- from twyt.twitter import Twitter import simplejson import time t = Twitter() t.set_auth(loic,) b = simplejson.loads(t.user_friends_graph()) for i in range(len(b)): try: t.friendship_destroy(b[i]) print %s - unfriending %s % (i,b[i]) except Exception: #TODO: INSERT ASCII FAIL WHALE print insert ascii fail whale here! time.sleep(1.5) --- Thanks a ton! Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you than you follow in turn, you're good. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't want that. Nick -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x -- Regards, Lakshman becomingguru.com lakshmanprasad.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Thanks for offering to collect this info, Alex. Twitter Username: @dimebrain URL: http://dimebrain.com Email: i...@dimebrain.com Technology: .NET, C#, Silverlight and WPF On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Andy Badera Higher Efficiency, Inc. http://twitter.com/andrewbadera and...@higherefficiency.net Emphasis on .NET solutions and integration work. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Hi Alex, Here is my contact info: Twitter: @metarobert Email: rob...@arlesnet.com Web: http://32hours.com Author of BeTwittered Thanks for putting a list together! Robert On Feb 23, 10:33 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
On 2/23/09 4:59 PM, Matt Sanford wrote: I usually lack any whale humor, but here goes: v vv | | v | v | .-, | | | .--./ / | _.---.| '-. (__..- \ \ a| ',.__. ,__.-'/ '--/_.''` T H EW H A L E S L E E P S T O N I G H T OMG. Matt, you win at the Internets. EPIC. -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Me, too. twitter id: twitter.com/NickArnetthttp://twitter.com/CraigMason company: http://TwURLedNews.com email: nick.arn...@gmail.com My expertise is in finding business intelligence in social media, which I've been doing for about 10 years (I invented some of the A.C. Nielsen/Buzzmetrics tools). I mainly use Python and MySQL. I move around in the spectrum from product marketing to engineering. Thanks! Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Abraham Williams http://twitter.com/poseurtech PoseurTech LLC http://poseurte.ch abra...@poseurte.ch PHP, Drupal, My/SQL/ite, OAuth, fun things. This might be better on a user writeable page so Al3x does not have to keep editing it. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:33, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison WI United States.
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Username: WestleyAnnis url: http://www.da-parish.com email: west...@da-parish.com Technology: PHP -Original Message- On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
Hi Zac Loic loves everyone, but he had an auto-follow bot that followed everyone that followed him. Got a little crazy. Sorry, I don't buy that for a second :-) Looks to me like a Twitter personality overhaul. I mean who do you want to be, someone with 24K followers who just follows a very small number of people, or someone at 24K/24K? What's the first (ok, second) thing you look at when you're assessing a Twitter user's page? Just when you think the old-fashioned concept of friendship, as translated to the online world, couldn't be more thoroughly or cynically degraded... :-) Terry
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
You know me: Name: James Hartig Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 7:56 pm, Westley Annis west...@da-parish.com wrote: Username: WestleyAnnis url:http://www.da-parish.com email: west...@da-parish.com Technology: PHP -Original Message- On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
You know me: Name: James Hartig (@fastest963) Company: isociale.com email: fastest...@gmail.com PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, JS On Feb 23, 1:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] friendships/exists broken?
Hello, This API call is returning true while twitter.com shows that user_a is NOT following user_b: http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json?user_a=749963user_b=14720560 Verified using curl providing user_a's username/password to authenticate the call. Just noticed about an hour ago. --Pierre
[twitter-dev] Re: friendships/exists broken?
I'm seeing the same thing. It's returning true for me no matter what when I make the call in the way Pierre describes. It also seems to be returning the raw true in the response body like it used to instead of the JSON repsonse I thought it was changed to back in January. Hayes -- http://cheaptweet.com On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM, pierre pomid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This API call is returning true while twitter.com shows that user_a is NOT following user_b: http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json?user_a=749963user_b=14720560 Verified using curl providing user_a's username/password to authenticate the call. Just noticed about an hour ago. --Pierre
[twitter-dev] Re: friendships/exists broken?
+1 on the error. On Feb 24, 8:39 am, pierre pomid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This API call is returning true while twitter.com shows that user_a is NOT following user_b: http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json?user_a=749963user_b=14720560 Verified using curl providing user_a's username/password to authenticate the call. Just noticed about an hour ago. --Pierre
[twitter-dev] Re: friendships/exists broken?
Further investigation shows the XML format is working fine. Seems to be a problem only with the JSON version. Hayes -- http://cheaptweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
On Feb 23, 11:07 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: That's all. Was hoping the new one had the social graph api but it didn't but it was easy enough to add it. I'll add this to twyt tomorrow. Or even sooner if you send me your patch :-) Cheers, -- Andy Price
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
I'm shocked by the fall out today in the twitterverse about Loic now only following 22 people right now. The @loic traffic is amazing. Scoble is battling with him. Pretty interesting. My patch stinks :-) don't have gnu diff around to give you a proper patch. I just added these two functions to twyt\twitter.py's Twitter class: def user_friends_graph(self, id=None): Returns social graph of friends as json array if id is not None and id 0: raise TwitterException(User ID out of range) handler = u'friends/ids.json' data = [] if id: data.append((id, id)) return self.get(data, handler, doauth=True) def user_followers_graph(self, id=None): Returns social graph of followers as json array if id is not None and id 0: raise TwitterException(User ID out of range) handler = u'followers/ids.json' data = [] if id: data.append((id, id)) return self.get(data, handler, doauth=True) Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Andrew Price welshb...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 11:07 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: That's all. Was hoping the new one had the social graph api but it didn't but it was easy enough to add it. I'll add this to twyt tomorrow. Or even sooner if you send me your patch :-) Cheers, -- Andy Price
[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls
I've committed this to twyt's bzr repository with minor tweaks (comments and method names) and credited you in the commit log. It'll be included in the next release. Many thanks. On Feb 24, 7:12 am, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm shocked by the fall out today in the twitterverse about Loic now only following 22 people right now. The @loic traffic is amazing. Scoble is battling with him. Pretty interesting. My patch stinks :-) don't have gnu diff around to give you a proper patch. I just added these two functions to twyt\twitter.py's Twitter class: def user_friends_graph(self, id=None): Returns social graph of friends as json array if id is not None and id 0: raise TwitterException(User ID out of range) handler = u'friends/ids.json' data = [] if id: data.append((id, id)) return self.get(data, handler, doauth=True) def user_followers_graph(self, id=None): Returns social graph of followers as json array if id is not None and id 0: raise TwitterException(User ID out of range) handler = u'followers/ids.json' data = [] if id: data.append((id, id)) return self.get(data, handler, doauth=True) Zac Bowlinghttp://twitter.com/zbowlinghttp://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Andrew Price welshb...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 11:07 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: That's all. Was hoping the new one had the social graph api but it didn't but it was easy enough to add it. I'll add this to twyt tomorrow. Or even sooner if you send me your patch :-) Cheers, -- Andy Price
