[twitter-dev] Re: API Problems whenever a [username] is a number/integer

2009-03-09 Thread RoelandP
Hi Chad, Jup it is has the same characteristics. Nope, the new parameters have not been implemented in the api calls I mentioned . So I have filed the bug @ http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=331 *** RoelandP On 8 mrt, 20:07, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: There

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-09 Thread TjL
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: IMO, trend bots should have to be registered with Twitter (they say what they are

[twitter-dev] Re: missing comma in status creation time not parsing with Date in IE

2009-03-09 Thread Shannon Whitley
Here's a commonly used function for the date fix: // Make date parseable in IE [Jon Aquino 2007-03-29] // http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2006/12/twitter-increasing-number-of-twitters.html function fixDate(d) { var a = d.split(' '); var year = a.pop(); return a.slice(0,

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Kinlan
On the topic of bots, http://www.itsabot.com works pretty well most of the time. Paul 2009/3/9 TjL luo...@gmail.com On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM,

[twitter-dev] Where I could test this apps?Please have an attention!!!!

2009-03-09 Thread Animesh
Hello members, I am very new to this group.I wish to make an web application on twitter.Would you like to suggest me how could i start up and more importantly at where can i test my application like in google gadget there is an tool to test.Here how could i see the

[twitter-dev] Re: Cookie authentication

2009-03-09 Thread kilps
Basically what I am trying to do is to login using basic authentication the first time, then to store the cookie I retrieve and use that to login for future requests - meaning that my users do not have to re-enter their passwords each time they make any request and I don't have to directly store

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems with search API and html widget

2009-03-09 Thread Kevin D
Perhaps that was the issue with the monitter widget. However, I no longer care because I discovered that my problem with the standard twitter html widget was a Safari 4 bug rather than a problem with twitter's javascript or json results generation. When viewing a page using the widget in Safari

[twitter-dev] Re: Cookie authentication

2009-03-09 Thread kilps
Thanks but that official documentation doesn't really seem to help Basically what I want to be able to do is store the cookie that Twitter gives me when I first login using basic authentication, then in future use that cookie to login whenever I make an api call. The idea is that I don't want

[twitter-dev] Re: Cookie authentication

2009-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Thanks but that official documentation doesn't really seem to help Basically what I want to be able to do is store the cookie that Twitter gives me when I first login using basic authentication, then in future use that cookie to login whenever I make an api call. The idea is that I don't

[twitter-dev] Re: Cookie authentication

2009-03-09 Thread kilps
The problem is that I'm designing an app for cases where twitter.com is inaccessible by the user because of regional bandwidth restrictions - so oauth would not work. The api mentions that Session cookies and parameter-based login are known to work but are not officially supported. so am hoping

[twitter-dev] Re: Cookie authentication

2009-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
The problem is that I'm designing an app for cases where twitter.com is inaccessible by the user because of regional bandwidth restrictions - so oauth would not work. The api mentions that Session cookies and parameter-based login are known to work but are not officially supported. so am

[twitter-dev] Re: Where I could test this apps?Please have an attention!!!!

2009-03-09 Thread Doug Williams
Animesh, Welcome to the group. A great place to start understanding the API and how to develop for it is the FAQ found here [1]. [1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#Basics Doug @dougw On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Animesh freeanimatedca...@gmail.com wrote: Hello members,                  

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote: On the topic of bots, http://www.itsabot.com works pretty well most of the time. My list is now updating live: http://www.twurlednews.com/twitter-bots/ Nick

[twitter-dev] Retrieve tweets with ID greater than a passed-in ID?

2009-03-09 Thread Greg Maletic
A question that I haven't been able to figure out by reading the documentation... I'm currently using the JSON call: http://[username]:[passwo...@twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[username].json ...to retrieve tweets from a password-protected Twitter account. How can I modify this call (or

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieve tweets with ID greater than a passed-in ID?

2009-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
A question that I haven't been able to figure out by reading the documentation... I'm currently using the JSON call: http://[username]:[passwo...@twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[username].json ...to retrieve tweets from a password-protected Twitter account. How can I modify this

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-09 Thread TjL
The more I think about this, the more I realize that there really ought to be a logged in version of Twitter Search. Not that you would HAVE to login, but IF you were logged in: People you have BLOCKED would not appear. People who have private accounts you follow WOULD appear. That way you

[twitter-dev] Re: Using curl with Twitter

2009-03-09 Thread Doug Williams
Great tip! This should become a great thread with cURL tips. Below shows how to send POST data (note the -d flag): curl -u username:password -d status=Updating with cURL http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml You can also send GET requests: curl -u username:password

[twitter-dev] Re: update_profile and the returned user information element

2009-03-09 Thread dougw
Zachary, I tried a couple of different updates and didn't see the same behavior. Can you replicate and send headers, or give me steps to follow and replicate? Thanks, Doug Williams On Mar 8, 5:17 pm, Zachary West zacw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, When POSTing an update_profile, the returned

[twitter-dev] Re: Using curl with Twitter

2009-03-09 Thread Chad Etzel
What else does the community have to offer when it comes to our favorite API unit test framework :) I was just going to comment on this what happens when OAuth hits? I fear that this very simple diagnostic mechanism will become obsolete. Now asking someone to run a quick curl test becomes

[twitter-dev] Re: How many accounts is too many?

2009-03-09 Thread Doug Williams
Clint, The short answer is that as long as the accounts are being used for legitimate purposes, then all of your newspapers can have their own account. However, fewer desperate accounts are always better so we'd appreciate any consolidation that would benefit you and us at the same time. Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Re: How many accounts is too many?

2009-03-09 Thread Doug Williams
Guilty as charged. s/desperate/disparate/ Doug Williams Twitter API Developer Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 3/9/09 4:03 PM, Doug Williams wrote: [...] However, fewer desperate accounts are always better [...]

[twitter-dev] Re: How often do users change their screen names?

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
Good idea. File a request: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 01:00, bbc beier...@gmail.com wrote: How about providing a feed we can subscribe to that updates name change whenever it takes place? On Mar 5, 8:45 am, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit with since_id parameter

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
This is definitely not the first request for more lenient rate limiting, and we hear you guys. While suggestions like this make a lot of sense, what we're tackling is the underlying problem: the overall cost per request of API calls. We want to reduce that cost across the board so that we can

[twitter-dev] Re: OT - where's the proper place to talk about search.twitter.com?

2009-03-09 Thread Chad Etzel
oh noes... now even al3x is a trending bot: http://twitter.com/al3x/status/1302097888 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:07 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: The more I think about this, the more I realize that there really ought to be a logged in version of Twitter Search. Not that you would HAVE to

[twitter-dev] Re: Various questions not on FAQ

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
 % It's probably easy to create a twitter-to-email bidirectional  gateway. Has someone already done this? Yup. Google is quite a thing.  % Twitter pushes DMs to my email address, which is cool, especially  since I can pipe the email to whatever I want. Can I force Twitter to  push REPLIES

[twitter-dev] Replies Method

2009-03-09 Thread Jeff Bishop
I am trying to pull a list of replies from Twitter using: http://twitter.com/statuses/replies.xml I have tried sending in a since_id parameter and I get a bad error back from twitter that the page doesn't exist. Should this be working? In addition, the page parameter if not specified, is it

[twitter-dev] Parsing the Api Documentation

2009-03-09 Thread Pykler
Hi, Working on a cool twitter api (http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/), we didn't like the fact that we had to manually update the python api manually everytime the twitter api was updated. Therefore we came up with: http://github.com/sixohsix/twitter/blob/master/utils/update.py Hope it is of

[twitter-dev] Re: Archive

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
We retain any and all tweets that aren't deleted by users. We have all the tweets ever :) We have some artificial limits in place restricting how far back in time/pages you retrieve tweets. As our data stores increase in reliability for large working sets, we'll be able to lift these

[twitter-dev] Re: How often do users change their screen names?

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Good idea. File a request: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entrhttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Done. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=334 Nick

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
Just to keep the group updated: one of our engineers has claimed this issue. It will be dealt with with EXTREME prejudice. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:47, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: 2) 140 Unicode _multi-byte_ characters: http://twitter.com/atebits/ status/1286199010 What's

[twitter-dev] Re: Replies Method

2009-03-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Wait, I thought that this issue (now fixed) addressed the count part: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=235 I can get more than 20 replies per request now. Actually, just testing this now shows I can get upwards of 1000 replies per request... er, is this right? -Chad On

[twitter-dev] Re: Replies Method

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
That's not the intended behavior of the API. Will investigate. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 15:22, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Wait, I thought that this issue (now fixed) addressed the count part: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=235 I can get more than 20 replies

[twitter-dev] Introducing Doug Williams, Twitter API Support

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
If you've been active on Twitter Development Talk in the last few months, you've probably had a question or two answered by one Doug Williams (@dougw). Before we could even find the time to post a job listing for the position, Doug sought us out to help take on the support load generated by the

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing Doug Williams, Twitter API Support

2009-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Give Doug a warm welcome! Congratulations, Doug! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- TRUE HEADLINE: Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft -

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing Doug Williams, Twitter API Support

2009-03-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Congrats, Doug! Glad I can finally say that and not spill the beans. We'll miss you on the East Coast; don't be a stranger! -Chad On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Give Doug a warm welcome! Congratulations, Doug! --

[twitter-dev] Re: Data mining feed is not working today

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
Yes, we're fixing that presently. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 15:53, feedbackmine feedbackm...@feedbackmine.com wrote: Sometimes I got no result, sometimes I got same old tweets (1300721813-1300738909). It has been like this for a few hours. For example: GET

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing Doug Williams, Twitter API Support

2009-03-09 Thread Marco Kaiser
Congrats Doug! 2009/3/10 Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com Congrats, Doug! Glad I can finally say that and not spill the beans. We'll miss you on the East Coast; don't be a stranger! -Chad On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Give Doug a warm

[twitter-dev] friends/status/favorite count in basic user object

2009-03-09 Thread blairblends
When requested a list of friends/followers via /status/friends and / status/followers, I've always found it limiting that only the followers_count is provided for each user, while friends_count, favourites_count, and statuses_count is left off when I consider this to be basic user information,

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-09 Thread atebits
Just to confirm: EXTREME prejudice as in 140 *bytes* as defined by UTF-8 with HTML entity encoding only for special ( ) characters? So my tweet should *NOT* have worked? http://twitter.com/atebits/status/1286199010 Would love to see some kind of official *this is how we determine how long some

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/status/favorite count in basic user object

2009-03-09 Thread Caleb Mingle
I agree completely. I believe it's an important value, that could, as blairblends said, save thousands of API calls a day. That should be *basic* information, it's displayed on every user's profile.. so wouldn't that be considered basic information? I would think so. If you're going to display

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/status/favorite count in basic user object

2009-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I agree completely. I believe it's an important value, that could, as blairblends said, save thousands of API calls a day. That should be *basic* information, it's displayed on every user's profile.. so wouldn't that be considered basic information? I would think so. If you're going

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/status/favorite count in basic user object

2009-03-09 Thread blairblends
I may be wrong, but I can't imagine that it's more expensive to include friends_count as it would be followers_count. Likewise for a count of statuses and favorites. On Mar 9, 6:44 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I agree completely. I believe it's an important value, that

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
Once the guys on the backend team get back to me, I'll provide as much. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 16:27, atebits loren.brich...@gmail.com wrote: Just to confirm: EXTREME prejudice as in 140 *bytes* as defined by UTF-8 with HTML entity encoding only for special ( ) characters? So my tweet

[twitter-dev] Update

2009-03-09 Thread shapper
Hello, On Twitter API I see 3 actions: Create, Update and Destroy So I can update any entry recent or old given its id? But does it make any sense to update an old entry? Does not tweeter gives visibility to only recent entries? In fact when I login to tweeter I get only the options create and

[twitter-dev] Re: Update

2009-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On Twitter API I see 3 actions: Create, Update and Destroy So I can update any entry recent or old given its id? No. If you look at the update method in the API documentation, you cannot pick an ID to update. Essentially it creates a new status (and in fact there *is* no create method for

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/status/favorite count in basic user object

2009-03-09 Thread Jared
In agreement here as well. I'm not seeing how too terribly much additional load would be placed on the API by retrieving a couple more counts; I'm sure that any dent in performance would be mitigated because of how many calls that extra data would save. Unless I'm misunderstanding, less is

[twitter-dev] Re: update_profile and the returned user information element

2009-03-09 Thread Zachary West
Hi Doug, @twitterapi said yesterday that it was a known issue they were working on, and today it appears to be working. Thanks anyway! Zachary West On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 15:29, do...@igudo.com wrote: Zachary, I tried a couple of different updates and didn't see the same behavior. Can you

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/status/favorite count in basic user object

2009-03-09 Thread Torgny
This is an excellent idea, Blair! This would make it so much easier to get this information without any additional calls. On Mar 9, 6:17 pm, blairblends blair.tros...@gmail.com wrote: When requested a list of friends/followers via /status/friends and / status/followers, I've always found it

[twitter-dev] Re: friends/status/favorite count in basic user object

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
We're going to be working on this while Matt is in town this week. Our backend team has said that there shouldn't be any major obstacles to serving full User objects (that is, what's returned from /users/show) throughout the API. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 16:52, Torgny torgny.bj...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Update

2009-03-09 Thread shapper
Thanks Cameron ... I was using tweet but just wanted to confirm. I got confused because a NET library I checked had create to I think ... that's why. Thanks, Miguel On Mar 10, 12:16 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: On Twitter API I see 3 actions: Create, Update and Destroy

[twitter-dev] Sorting search by Most Followers

2009-03-09 Thread Kenefick
Is there a filter to sort the public timeline by most / least followers? Or do you just have to add the big dogs and filter it out from there ?

[twitter-dev] TinyUrl and Twitter. Should I use it?

2009-03-09 Thread shapper
Hello, I am integrating twitter with a ASP.NET MVC project. I am creating tweets and some of this must include a url back to the web site. Since the maximum length is 140 characters I decided for TinyUrl even there are other similar services. However, I read the following: In 2006, MySpace

[twitter-dev] Re: TinyUrl and Twitter. Should I use it?

2009-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I am integrating twitter with a ASP.NET MVC project. I am creating tweets and some of this must include a url back to the web site. Since the maximum length is 140 characters I decided for TinyUrl even there are other similar services. However, I read the following: In 2006, MySpace