[twitter-dev] Re: Batch Request

2009-03-12 Thread atebits
I'd like to second this request. It'd be more than reasonable for the example above to count as 3 marks against the rate limit, the only difference would be that there's a single round-trip to the twitter servers rather than 3 (would save a bit of overhead on your end too). This makes a ton of se

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter post within Blogger's blog?

2009-03-12 Thread Chad Etzel
ZOMG RECURSIVE INTERWEBS! On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > O_o  http://www.flickr.com/photos/4braham/3350927194/ > - Show quoted text - > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 23:17, Chad Etzel wrote: >> >> Ah, so do you own/run http://igooglefriends.blogspot.c

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter post within Blogger's blog?

2009-03-12 Thread Abraham Williams
O_o http://www.flickr.com/photos/4braham/3350927194/ On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 23:17, Chad Etzel wrote: > > Ah, so do you own/run http://igooglefriends.blogspot.com ? Any > particular reason you are piping in the twitter dev mailing list as > posts there? I love trying to read the 1 post per pag

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter post within Blogger's blog?

2009-03-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Ah, so do you own/run http://igooglefriends.blogspot.com ? Any particular reason you are piping in the twitter dev mailing list as posts there? I love trying to read the 1 post per page amidst a metric ton of ads... -chad On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Mohd Rafi wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a

[twitter-dev] Re: How to change Source name to Client tool Source?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Williams
Ricky, For updates to reflect that your application was the source, you must indicate this with each request. Include a parameter named "source" with a value equal to the key supplied to Twitter during registration so we know the update comes from your application. Doug Williams Twitter API Suppor

[twitter-dev] Re: How to change Source name to Client tool Source?

2009-03-12 Thread Ricky
After it has been approved, do we need to add source parameter to all twitter status updates? Or does twitter do it automatically? On Mar 12, 1:45 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > You probably missed it the same way i missed it. The term Twitter uses > > is not what my mind assumed it would be. > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Beginner's rate limit question...

2009-03-12 Thread unclepennybags
Thanks Cameron! That's just what I needed to know. Regards, Jay On Mar 11, 12:01 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > I have been trying to figure out exactly how therate > > limits work, and after having spent a few hours browsing > > through the development talk, I am still a little fuzzy. > > > If

[twitter-dev] Re: Batch Request

2009-03-12 Thread Joshua Perry
Well, I accidentally sent that message so let me finish here... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... This would probably mostly benefit client applications as it would allow us to consolidate 3 requests into

[twitter-dev] Batch Request

2009-03-12 Thread Joshua Perry
And now something perhaps a little more sane and do-able. It would be very useful to have a batch request API that would allow requesting multiple datasets simultaneously. Something like this: http://twitter.com/batch_request.xml?friend_timeline_since_id=2345&replies_since_id=5366&direct_messa

[twitter-dev] Twitter post within Blogger's blog?

2009-03-12 Thread Mohd Rafi
Hi, Is there any twitter api, tools or widget plugin that I can use to post within my blogger blog? I've been trying to search around for these. Hope you guys have any ideas on these. Thank you Best Regards, Rafi http://igooglefriends.blogspot.com

[twitter-dev] Batch Request

2009-03-12 Thread Josh Perry
This message doesn't seem to come in correctly from my mail app so I'll post this here via the web: And now something perhaps a little more sane and do-able. It would be very useful to have a batch request API that would allow requesting multiple datasets simultaneously. Something like this: h

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Joshua Perry
I actually hopped on to request a stopgap feature in a similar vein and saw this thread so I thought I'd add kind of a free-associative reply. You know, thinking out-loud. I think the biggest problem with push is that polling is too ingrained into Twitter's architecture to be able to bolt-on

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Payne
We're going to be offering exactly that (a long-polling firehose) to select partners to build on. Please see our FAQ for more information. Providing a realtime solution for the rest of the API is a lot more challenging than just hooking up XMPP. If the technology was there, we'd do it. But we've

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship/Create produces this error: This method requires a POST.

2009-03-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Hmm, here is the full code I use to create a friendship: $host = "http://twitter.com/friendships/create/"; . $userid . ".json"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$host"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship/Create produces this error: This method requires a POST.

2009-03-12 Thread benr
Thanks for the reply. I tried with with a 1 instead of true and still no dice. On Mar 12, 5:25 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > Try instead: > curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); > > -Chad > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM, benr wrote: > > > I'm trying to write a function that will follow a user via t

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship/Create produces this error: This method requires a POST.

2009-03-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Try instead: curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); -Chad On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM, benr wrote: > > I'm trying to write a function that will follow a user via the API > using PHP/curl. I believe I have setup correctly using curl to POST to > twitter, but I keep getting the following error:

[twitter-dev] Friendship/Create produces this error: This method requires a POST.

2009-03-12 Thread benr
I'm trying to write a function that will follow a user via the API using PHP/curl. I believe I have setup correctly using curl to POST to twitter, but I keep getting the following error: "This method requires a POST.". Here is my code: $url = 'http://twitter.com/friendships/create/'.urlencode ($

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Sam Sethi
Please can we get a Twitter xmpp feed. If Twitter are not going to offer this can they allow GNIP to go live. GNIP say Twitter are not allowing them to offer the firehose via xmpp to developers. Why? Pull based polling is last year. Maybe at the least Twitter could offer a Long polling op

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-03-12 Thread Ollie
Can I be added to the list please? Real Name: Ollie Parsley Twitter Username: @ollieparsley Email: ol...@ollieparsley.com Freelance PHP developer based in Dorset, UK. Have quite a bit of experience with the Twitter APIs for bespoke web apps using PHP/MySQL. Done a fair bit of .NET with Oracle to

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian
Well, here are some good links behind XMPP: http://xmpp.org/ http://metajack.im/ (key XMPP advocate and founder of http://www.chesspark.com/ ) On Mar 12, 11:05 pm, Andrew Badera wrote: > What is this "XMPP" of which you speak? Tell us more! > > PS: Read the docs? FAQs? This list's archive? Used

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian
Great, well that's a start, and obviously the goal is to have IM like performance in Twitter. Maybe there's an engineer out there that can help with the problem. On Mar 12, 11:21 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > POST requests are unlimited. > > We used to support XMPP as an experimental feature, but we d

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Payne
POST requests are unlimited. We used to support XMPP as an experimental feature, but we don't currently. Delivering push features at our scale is a challenge. We're currently making our traditional REST request/response APIs the best they can be. In the future, maybe we'll tackle push as well. I

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Andrew Badera
What is this "XMPP" of which you speak? Tell us more! PS: Read the docs? FAQs? This list's archive? Used Google? Ever? On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Adrian wrote: > > Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to push data, rather than > have the content pulled with JSON or XML fetches. Yo

[twitter-dev] Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian
Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to push data, rather than have the content pulled with JSON or XML fetches. You can poll after set amounts of time, but that only present the illusion of Push, and uses up bandwith. Also, is the API limit applied to POST requests? Lastly, has Twitter th

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit on querying RSS. Per user or all together?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Williams
Hi, Unauthenticated API calls are rate limited by IP address. Authenticated (meaning, you pass in user credentials) are limited by the user id. Whitelisted IP addresses are rate limited by their IP address, regardless of call type. Does that clear things up? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http:

[twitter-dev] Sequential API XML requests and cache

2009-03-12 Thread mwm
Hi, I'm the developer of TwitteReader and I have remade the architecture of the communication between the application's host and Twitter, via API. Example and objective: delete the status 123456 (that I own) and then load the last 20 friend_timeline messages. Before: 1. app calls host with sta

[twitter-dev] Re: getting replies to user if user is not following the replying user

2009-03-12 Thread TjL
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Matt Sanford wrote: > > I think it does if you use: @user -to:user OH YAY! I've been trying to figure out how to do that. Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Destroy ... What is the correct way?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Williams
Miguel, That's a pretty open ended question since it depends on the resource, and what you want to do with the user visiting the deleted resource. You could throw a 301 Redirect [1] and send them to a new page with relevant material. or You could throw a 404 Not Found and explain that the page h

[twitter-dev] Rate limit on querying RSS. Per user or all together?

2009-03-12 Thread Kenefick
Is the 100 request rate limit per IP address 100 per each user or 100 queries per address , even if it's 100 different users ?

[twitter-dev] Destroy ... What is the correct way?

2009-03-12 Thread shapper
Hello, I am posting tweets on my twitter account. Each tweet has a link to my web site. If a resource on my web site is deleted what should I do? 1. Delete all the tweets (new and old) that point to that resource; 2. Create a page on my web site that says "the resource no longer exists" when so

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-03-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Peter Denton wrote: > Is this a page somewhere on the web? sorry if I missed this. > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Denton
Is this a page somewhere on the web? sorry if I missed this. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Mike Matz wrote: > > I'd like to be added to the list. > > Mike Matz > URL: http://pixor.net/ > Twitter: @pix0r > Focus: Large-scale PHP web apps; iPhone software. > > Thanks. > -- Peter M. Denton w

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Matz
I'd like to be added to the list. Mike Matz URL: http://pixor.net/ Twitter: @pix0r Focus: Large-scale PHP web apps; iPhone software. Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing tweets in filter:links search

2009-03-12 Thread Chad Etzel
For the cases where there is no http in the link, since the main twitter site now recognizes strings starting with www as links, you could use this: from:user http OR www that should catch most (if not all) links. If people post links w/o http:// that don't start with www, well then good luck :

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing tweets in filter:links search

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Hueg
I can confirm the limitation to seven days, so it's expected behaviour, but should be some kind of documented. Anyways it helpfs, thank you Matt. On 12 Mrz., 16:35, Matt Sanford wrote: > Hi there, > >      Search does not have as complicated a cacheing system as the main   > twitter API, so cach

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing tweets in filter:links search

2009-03-12 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, Search does not have as complicated a cacheing system as the main twitter API, so cache inconsistency is a rarity for us. Even when we do have it our longest expiration is less than one minute, so the problem is fixed usually before I can reproduce it (sometimes also a probl

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing tweets in filter:links search

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Hueg
It seems that the "filter:links" method uses a cached version, using a predefined threshold for how frequently a user is posting his tweets. It's not affected by how links are postet, e.g. http://www.url.tld or http://url.tld. The "from:user http" method seems to fetch the tweets non-cached. Coul

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing tweets in filter:links search

2009-03-12 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, Looking at the results it seems like filter:links is limiting the search time frame. There are some search operators (language and filter:links for example) that have to limit the amount of time they search to prevent them from timing out. Think of it like a table scan. I'll

[twitter-dev] Re: Inconsistencies b/t XML and JSON

2009-03-12 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi all, It looks like my long-awaited fix for some fundamental caching bugs is nearly ready to go to production. The code is done and reviewed by Alex so I'm only waiting on one more person and it will be ready to go. This change will fix a bunch of issues where following/ notification

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing tweets in filter:links search

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Williams
Stefan, Is this a similar report to the initial post's, or are you seeing additional unexpected behavior due to the "from:" filter? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Stefan Hueg wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the same problem concerning link

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

2009-03-12 Thread Shannon Whitley
Checkout bit.ly, tr.im, is.gd, snurl.com, adjix.com -- They all have easy REST APIs and very helpful developers. You can shoot me an email (swhitley [at] whitleymedia [dot] com) if you'd like some sample C# code. On Mar 11, 4:14 am, shapper wrote: > Does anyone knows if there is a reliable C#

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing tweets in filter:links search

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Hueg
Hi, I have the same problem concerning links in tweets using the search function. The following links produce different results as you can see: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=filter:links+from:_vg and http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:_vg+http They should return the same lin

[twitter-dev] Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Toumpelis
Hi, can you please add me to the developers list: Nick Toumpelis Twitter: macsphere URL: http://www.canaryapp.com (will go live in a few days) Email: n...@toumpelis.me.uk Freelance developer with experience in Objective-C & Cocoa, Java and .NET. Cheers, Nick Nick Toumpelis email: n...@tou