[twitter-dev] Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Haines
Hey there, I'm caching profile image urls. I'm finding quite a bit of churn, and have started wondering how I'm going to keep them up to date. Is there anyway to predict or determine a profile image url from a screen name or something? The url's provided all seem to contain part of the

[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid signature when calling request_token

2009-05-21 Thread Ross Burton
Okay, I discovered that Twitter only allows OAuth data to be in an Authorized header and not as query arguments. Now I have changed to using the Authorized header I can get an access token but attempting to call /users/show fails with Unauthorized application or token. Any ideas? Ross

[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid token authentication failed when reply_to_status_id set

2009-05-21 Thread Rich
Actually I'm unable to update any status's at the moment with or without in_reply_to_status_id set. It was working absoluely fine yesterday when testing and I posted a message on my own timeline just fine. However whenever I try to post today I get 'Failed to authenticate oauth signature or

[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid token authentication failed when reply_to_status_id set

2009-05-21 Thread Rich
I've got the same issue, started today when it worked fine yesterday On May 21, 3:48 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Can you confirm if post_statusesUpdate() works without the 'in_reply_to_status_id' parameter? 2009/5/19 alon alon.car...@gmail.com Hello all! ,Jaisen,

[twitter-dev] stream follow request not working

2009-05-21 Thread developerinlondon
I tried using the stream API call documented here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#Connecting At the bottom there is the following example - Example: Create a file called 'following' that contains, exactly and excluding the quotation marks: follow=12 13 15 16 20 87.

[twitter-dev] how to remove follwers,friends of twitter user

2009-05-21 Thread sandeepcec
I have used Twitterizer.Framework dll . TwitterUserCollection friends = new TwitterUserCollection(); foreach (TwitterUser friend in friends) { //Remove a friend friends.Remove(friend); } but it remove from the collecttion we have ,donot update

[twitter-dev] Re: stream follow request not working

2009-05-21 Thread John Kalucki
The Streaming API /follow resource does not create new followings. Instead, it filters the stream of all public statuses created by a list of users. Perhaps the nomenclature is confusing. You probably observed a time period when the given small list of users did not update their status. The

[twitter-dev] Re: Public timeline sample data set.

2009-05-21 Thread John Kalucki
David, You can capture a sample of the statuses via the Streaming API and perform the analysis on that data set. The /gardenhose and /spritzer feeds exist precisely for this type of experiementation. There's no practical way to get a copy of the full social graph. (Aside: It's hard enough for us

[twitter-dev] cool, relevant, worth sharing

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Badera
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-encoding-challenge -- Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera - This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Abraham Williams
Currently you are only option is calling users/show.xml on each account. 2009/5/21 Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com Hey there, I'm caching profile image urls. I'm finding quite a bit of churn, and have started wondering how I'm going to keep them up to date. Is there anyway to predict or

[twitter-dev] Background Image URL always non-empty

2009-05-21 Thread Justin Hart
(was posted a while ago, but no replies) If a background image is turned off by a user, its last value is still shown in the api for the verifyCredentials and user/show actions. For example, I get this: ... profile_background_image_url http://static.twitter.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.gif

[twitter-dev] profile views count against limit?

2009-05-21 Thread JB
is this correct? does someone viewing your profile count against your 100 accesses? seems to me that is what is happening.

[twitter-dev] Re: stream follow request not working

2009-05-21 Thread developerinlondon
Ah I see, makes sense. Thanks. This API being Streaming means I can constantly stay connected to it without risking being banned. Correct? Would be useful to stay connected to the Spritzer call. Although I am confused what practical use it would be if I am getting a small portion as its a small

[twitter-dev] Re: profile views count against limit?

2009-05-21 Thread Abraham Williams
No. Rate limiting for an account or IP is only affected by that account or IP accessing the API. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:39, JB byrnes.j...@gmail.com wrote: is this correct? does someone viewing your profile count against your 100 accesses? seems to me that is what is happening. --

[twitter-dev] Re: stream follow request not working

2009-05-21 Thread Ho John Lee
The (sampled) streaming API is good for collecting representative aggregate statistics on the public timeline, or full data on limited subsets. If you already know what keywords you're looking for, you can use the search API to find all mentions, but if you want to identify clusters of emerging

[twitter-dev] The problems with search in my app

2009-05-21 Thread Fabian Vercuiel
Hey guys, Im midway through a project right now and I've discovered something about Twitter thats caused my project to come to a halt.. The problem is that if you delete a tweet message it still displays on the search results.. Twitter just caches it, wth? I dont expect this from twitter..

[twitter-dev] Re: The problems with search in my app

2009-05-21 Thread Chad Etzel
This is a known issue: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=164 As my application is primarily search-based, I field complaints on this topic all the time. No idea when it might be fixed, but I hope it's soon... not for my sake, but for the users'. -Chad On Thu, May 21, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Haines
Hi Clint, Thanks for that. I've added myself to the watchlist. I saw a similar note from 2007, so was hoping it was already done - but 'a month or so' sounds good to me. Tim. On May 21, 10:24 pm, Clint Shryock cts...@gmail.com wrote: the API team is in the process of re-engineering this

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner work but we're getting to it. As most of you can tell, the image uploading logic needs a lot of love. Cheers, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support

[twitter-dev] Date time string

2009-05-21 Thread John Meyer
I've noticed that most of the date time strings in the XML responses are formatted like this Thu May 21 03:15:28 + 2009 What exactly is that +?

[twitter-dev] Re: Regex for @replies

2009-05-21 Thread hjb
They will link up to 20 but are limited to 15. Hmm On May 14, 4:59 pm, Tim Rosenblatt trose...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Craig, We found an addition to this. Your regex is great, but it doesn't limit the length of screen names. Twitter doesn't allow signups greater than 15 chars (but in

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Abraham Williams
Speaking of static avatar URLs... how about Gravatar[1] support? [1] http://en.gravatar.com/ On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 18:14, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner work