[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets
Brendan O'Connor wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Nancy M nmira...@gmail.com mailto:nmira...@gmail.com wrote: I do like the maps, but 50% error -- you would not possibly get on an airplane with that kind of error rate, would you? And I don't think I'd want to make decisions about my demographics on something with that error rate either. Why not take the IPS and bounce them against whois or something? This app isn't about that; it's about what places a person is talking about. You can't use their IP's, the point is to identify locations in the text of their tweets. (I asked whether the app was looking at the author's location to help disambiguate because i thought it could be used to improve accuracy; but this is hypothetical.) Thanks, that is exactly the point, as explained in the only text on the page: TweetLocations analyses twitter updates and checks if they contain any geographical locations. Instead of relying on the Twitter location in your user profile TweetLocations finds the locations you talked about. :-) In defense of error rates, if the task is just to get a sense about what regions of the world someone tends to talk about, then something like a 10% or 20% error rate might be ok; and it was lower than that for Chris's and some of the other example twitter users the app was suggesting. Well, error rates are a good question. How would a dumb computer know what the context is in 140 characters? Notice that if you use My name is Jack London and I live in Toronto PlaceMaker ony shows Toronto, which is impressive! But here's one case where errors are very bad. One thing I thought was great about the map UI was that you can see a flag all by itself out in mexico or something, and be curious what the person is saying about mexico, and click on it to see the message. If errors tend to be geographic outliers then they really hurt this use case since geographic outliers are easy to see and are interesting simply because they are unusual (oh, brendan's always boring and talks about california, but look, one time he talked about switzerland! oops, not really.) How could I work around that? I think the issue with some of the errors the yahoo placemaker thing was making with my tweets is, is that it's not integrating very well prior information about how commonly those locations are talked about. I think scala is only rarely used to mean the switzerland canton, but is quite often used to mean the programming language; but placemaker is happy to use a rare, unlikely sense of scala here. Well, PlaceMaker is a DB of geographical locations (which you can even download - http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/data/) and doesn't compare with a DB of programming languages. It would be interesting to see how it differs from the other (less open) services out there. Maybe I'll use Simon Willison's geocoders and only return if there is a match. http://github.com/simonw/geocoders/tree/master regards Chris
[twitter-dev] Twitter4J 2.0.6 released
Hi all, Twitter4J 2.0.6 is available for download. http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html#download It is(or will be) available at the Maven central repository. http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/homeip/yusuke/twitter4j/ Snapshot builds can be found at: http://yusuke.homeip.net/maven2/net/homeip/yusuke/twitter4j/ This is a maintenance release with no new features. Release Notes - Twitter4J - Version 2.0.6 - HTML format Bug [TFJ-157] - getUserTimeline should be invocable from unauthenticated Twitter instances [TFJ-158] - Query.setGeoCode() is missing radius parameter Task [TFJ-155] - several async methods need to be marked as deprecated Thanks, -- Yusuke Yamamoto yus...@mac.com this email is: [x] bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private follow me on : http://twitter.com/yusukeyamamoto
[twitter-dev] Re: Quick hack: using Twitter with Yahoo Placemaker to geolocate tweets
Reading this discussion reminded me of the flickr API. Might be another good way to find geo locations? Perhaps using it in combination with Placemaker could help reduce the error rate. I think with flickr you can only search for specific words, but on the other hand you can find locations for things (like Notre Dame), not only for names of places. http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.places.find.html
[twitter-dev] Changing callback url
I am working on oauth twitter login for my application. I was getting few bugs so I shifted my development work on my test server. Now I was trying to change callback url in my application settings and was getting error - his page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the token information you provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again … it was probably an honest mistake. Any help or suggestion to fix this problem ? Avinash Sales solutions leveraging social computing: http://www.apptility.com Next generation career management: http://www.codemunch.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Changing callback url
Hi there, That error comes up if you try to make a request to /oauth/ authorize with a request token that has already been used. Are you calling /oauth/request_token before this to get a new request token? Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On May 28, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Avi wrote: I am working on oauth twitter login for my application. I was getting few bugs so I shifted my development work on my test server. Now I was trying to change callback url in my application settings and was getting error - his page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the token information you provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again … it was probably an honest mistake. Any help or suggestion to fix this problem ? Avinash Sales solutions leveraging social computing: http://www.apptility.com Next generation career management: http://www.codemunch.com
[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?
hmm... Chrome sometimes shows the xml but mostly just a 404 error -- the latter is confusing as to what's going on... Anyway, why are there so many? Admittedly I'm plowing through hundreds of thousands of users, but it *seems* like a lot of them are 'suspended'... What is the lifetime of a suspended user? When does that object disppear entirely from the system? Or does it not?
[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?
It will remain permanently unless it is reinstated. There are so many because people want to make money the easy way -- through spam. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: hmm... Chrome sometimes shows the xml but mostly just a 404 error -- the latter is confusing as to what's going on... Anyway, why are there so many? Admittedly I'm plowing through hundreds of thousands of users, but it *seems* like a lot of them are 'suspended'... What is the lifetime of a suspended user? When does that object disppear entirely from the system? Or does it not?
[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?
I seem to be picking these up from the social graph... are they ever elided from there?
[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!
I'd like to join. Wednesday at 5pm sounds good. -Jeff On May 26, 2:29 pm, twittelator and...@stone.com wrote: I'd like to throw out: Wednesday June 10th at 5 PM at Twitter HQ because: 1. classes are over by then 2. monday folks are too buzzed 3. tuesday is usually awards and pizza 4. beer bash on thursday 5. people have left town by friday On May 26, 4:07 pm, Manton Reece man...@gmail.com wrote: I'd agree with Craig -- pick any day except Monday and Friday, and most people can probably make it work. Afternoon is good. Thanks for organizing this! On May 21, 4:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, There's great crossover between Twitter API developers and Mac/iPhone developers. Andrew Stone, developer of Twittelator Pro, suggested that we all get together during WWDC and coordinate around the Apple Push Notification Service and other issues of mutual interest. Twitter's offices are just a few blocks from Moscone, so it should be easy for any interested coders to make it over here. Please RSVP with a reply to this thread and let us know what dates and times work for you. Andrew was thinking early one morning, but not being much of a morning person, I'd prefer something later in the day. We'll let group consensus decide. Thanks, and hope to see you in early June. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?
No, we do not remove suspended users from your following or followers lists. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to be picking these up from the social graph... are they ever elided from there?
[twitter-dev] Possible to retrieve registration date?
Hey, I am a researcher interested in the growth of Twitter and as such would very much like to: 1. Be able to obtain the date at which a user joined the network. Is this information available through the API (I couldn't find it in the python-twitter documentation).? 2. Obtain the friend list of a user without having the user's password, is this possible? Thank you very much for any help.
[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!
Count me in too!! On May 21, 5:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, There's great crossover between Twitter API developers and Mac/iPhone developers. Andrew Stone, developer of Twittelator Pro, suggested that we all get together during WWDC and coordinate around the Apple Push Notification Service and other issues of mutual interest. Twitter's offices are just a few blocks from Moscone, so it should be easy for any interested coders to make it over here. Please RSVP with a reply to this thread and let us know what dates and times work for you. Andrew was thinking early one morning, but not being much of a morning person, I'd prefer something later in the day. We'll let group consensus decide. Thanks, and hope to see you in early June. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Possible to retrieve registration date?
2009/5/28 lwbotha lwbo...@gmail.com Hey, I am a researcher interested in the growth of Twitter and as such would very much like to: 1. Be able to obtain the date at which a user joined the network. Is this information available through the API (I couldn't find it in the python-twitter documentation).? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show 2. Obtain the friend list of a user without having the user's password, is this possible? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0friends Thank you very much for any help. -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property
Sure, someone could develop a service for classifying twitter accounts, but that's less than ideal for a number of reasons: - introduces yet another 3rd party service that developers have to deal with - multiple account classification systems would result in less meaningful data - Twitter is the only company in a position to enable users to classify themselves - they could just make this a required dropdown in their signup form. I really think it would be enough just to have a flag that marks accounts as Personal. Marking an account as Personal that is in fact used primarily for commercial purposes or driven by a bot could be considered a violation of Twitter's TOS. This would add huge value to users developers. I hope someone @ Twitter is listening! On May 27, 11:34 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Need to classify a twitter account? There's an app for that! ...maybe -Chad On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a third party app to me. 2009/5/27 Adam Covati cov...@gmail.com Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would probably want a few more types 1. Personal - your standard user on twitter 2. Business - similar to personal, but represents a company 3. FeedBot - auto tweets from rss feed 4. Bot - auto tweets based off of some other sort of information stream 5. I'm sure there are more... On May 27, 10:17 am, MPS mpelzsher...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to propose an additional property on twitter accounts: account_type. The main purpose for this would be to distinguish personal vs. business accounts. This would be very useful for apps that want to target one or the other type of twitter account. Who's with me on this? :-) - Michael -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property
http://wefollow.com/ is an example of mass numbers of twitter users classifying themselves. Yes the data is not as deep as if twitter itself provided the classification but it helps keept twitter.com clean and simple. I don't think this adds as much value you think it will but I could be proven wrong. End result though is this is not a feature that the API team is going to implement unless twitter itself adds the feature. You should make your suggestion to http://help.twitter.com On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15, MPS mpelzsher...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, someone could develop a service for classifying twitter accounts, but that's less than ideal for a number of reasons: - introduces yet another 3rd party service that developers have to deal with - multiple account classification systems would result in less meaningful data - Twitter is the only company in a position to enable users to classify themselves - they could just make this a required dropdown in their signup form. I really think it would be enough just to have a flag that marks accounts as Personal. Marking an account as Personal that is in fact used primarily for commercial purposes or driven by a bot could be considered a violation of Twitter's TOS. This would add huge value to users developers. I hope someone @ Twitter is listening! On May 27, 11:34 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Need to classify a twitter account? There's an app for that! ...maybe -Chad On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a third party app to me. 2009/5/27 Adam Covati cov...@gmail.com Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would probably want a few more types 1. Personal - your standard user on twitter 2. Business - similar to personal, but represents a company 3. FeedBot - auto tweets from rss feed 4. Bot - auto tweets based off of some other sort of information stream 5. I'm sure there are more... On May 27, 10:17 am, MPS mpelzsher...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to propose an additional property on twitter accounts: account_type. The main purpose for this would be to distinguish personal vs. business accounts. This would be very useful for apps that want to target one or the other type of twitter account. Who's with me on this? :-) - Michael -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from San Francisco, California, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property
Well thought out and logical Peter. This is exactly how we think about it internally. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: I agree with the fact that it would be a good thing for the api developers to get as a tidbit, but if I were at Twitter Product I would decline this because it adds complexity to the registration process that does not translate to value for the users on twitter.com. If I am a one man shop design firm who does work with Nike, do you really want me to have to sit there and decide whether I am a person or a business? And after I have run the numbers and decided I am a business, my tone might be affected because I am now speaking on behalf oy my business. It affects the core nature of twitter and doesnt give the user much. I think the definition of a business on twitter will emerge from companies paying twitter to be identified as such. Paying a premium on an identity itself validates the level of business, and twitter can then expsoe the social graph of the businesses on twitter. You then create a scenario where all those who want to clearly identify their species can do so in a non-intrusive manner that does not affect Jane User's, just-saw-Oprah-and-ready-to-tweet registration process. always just an opinion On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, MPS mpelzsher...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, someone could develop a service for classifying twitter accounts, but that's less than ideal for a number of reasons: - introduces yet another 3rd party service that developers have to deal with - multiple account classification systems would result in less meaningful data - Twitter is the only company in a position to enable users to classify themselves - they could just make this a required dropdown in their signup form. I really think it would be enough just to have a flag that marks accounts as Personal. Marking an account as Personal that is in fact used primarily for commercial purposes or driven by a bot could be considered a violation of Twitter's TOS. This would add huge value to users developers. I hope someone @ Twitter is listening! On May 27, 11:34 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Need to classify a twitter account? There's an app for that! ...maybe -Chad On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a third party app to me. 2009/5/27 Adam Covati cov...@gmail.com Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would probably want a few more types 1. Personal - your standard user on twitter 2. Business - similar to personal, but represents a company 3. FeedBot - auto tweets from rss feed 4. Bot - auto tweets based off of some other sort of information stream 5. I'm sure there are more... On May 27, 10:17 am, MPS mpelzsher...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to propose an additional property on twitter accounts: account_type. The main purpose for this would be to distinguish personal vs. business accounts. This would be very useful for apps that want to target one or the other type of twitter account. Who's with me on this? :-) - Michael -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] OAuth Desktop Application Changes - Incompatibility Alert
Hello, One of the things we've been saying about OAuth all along is that we'll be improving the desktop application experience. Well, the time is here for the first re-visit. As part of out changes for OAuth version 1.0a [1] I have been looking at how this is going to work and there is going to need to be a change that will not be backward compatible. Some of this is already coded and waiting to go, and some of it is in-progress. I expect we will deploy this the end of next week or the beginning of the following one in order to allow you to have a minimum of 7 days to make changes. These only effect desktop applications so the majority of OAuth applications are not affected. Here are the expected changes: 1. If your application is registered as a desktop application callbacks will not be supported. Workaround: Visit your application details page to change the application type and provide a default callback URL. Details: Dynamic callbacks are currently disabled for all applications. With changes for 1.0a [1] will re-enable dynamic callback support but applications registered as 'desktop' will not support this. When requesting a request token the you will get an error saying that callbacks are not supported in desktop applications. This is to prevent stealing of tokens created with a PIN (see #2) by webapps re-using the freely available desktop consumer key and secret. 2. If your application is registered as a desktop application there will be a PIN the user must enter in your application Details: In the current code desktop applications end in a dead- end page. This new flow will give the user a PIN that they enter in the application and that must be provided to swap a request token for an access token. This will help secure tokens for desktop applications since the security of the consumer key and secret cannot be relied upon. Feedback: We are planning to make this a required step but I am open to discussion if anyone feels there is a compelling case for desktop applications without a PIN. Email me directly with feedback. 3. If your application is registered as a desktop application you will not be able to use the 'Sign in with Twitter' functionality. Details: 'Sign in with Twitter' requires a callback URL which will not be allowed per #1 above. We're working to make sure we provide OAuth interfaces wherever possible. Desktop applications was a definite problem that needed some fixing. Close behind that is mobile web which is currently being looked at by a group reviewing all of m.twitter.com. If you have any objections to the changes above, or some reason that you don't think it will work, please feel free to email me directly. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev [1] - OAuth spec 1.0a addresses problems with oauth_callback and should be finalized very soon. More info at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth/browse_frm/thread/b0345ad5b5466587
[twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property
I really like the idea of companies paying a premium to use Twitter for advertising. :-) What would motivate corporations to do that though, since they can do it for free today? Seems to me that one way or another, you end up having to somehow create a distinction between personal and corporate accounts. I understand there are problems with this proposal. It's a big problem for social networks in general. I'll be interested to see what happens. From: Doug Williams d...@twitter.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:52:56 PM Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property Well thought out and logical Peter. This is exactly how we think about it internally. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with the fact that it would be a good thing for the api developers to get as a tidbit, but if I were at Twitter Product I would decline this because it adds complexity to the registration process that does not translate to value for the users on twitter.com. If I am a one man shop design firm who does work with Nike, do you really want me to have to sit there and decide whether I am a person or a business? And after I have run the numbers and decided I am a business, my tone might be affected because I am now speaking on behalf oy my business. It affects the core nature of twitter and doesnt give the user much. I think the definition of a business on twitter will emerge from companies paying twitter to be identified as such. Paying a premium on an identity itself validates the level of business, and twitter can then expsoe the social graph of the businesses on twitter. You then create a scenario where all those who want to clearly identify their species can do so in a non-intrusive manner that does not affect Jane User's, just-saw-Oprah-and-ready-to-tweet registration process. always just an opinion On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, MPS mpelzsher...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, someone could develop a service for classifying twitter accounts, but that's less than ideal for a number of reasons: - introduces yet another 3rd party service that developers have to deal with - multiple account classification systems would result in less meaningful data - Twitter is the only company in a position to enable users to classify themselves - they could just make this a required dropdown in their signup form. I really think it would be enough just to have a flag that marks accounts as Personal. Marking an account as Personal that is in fact used primarily for commercial purposes or driven by a bot could be considered a violation of Twitter's TOS. This would add huge value to users developers. I hope someone @ Twitter is listening! On May 27, 11:34 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Need to classify a twitter account? There's an app for that! ...maybe -Chad On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a third party app to me. 2009/5/27 Adam Covati cov...@gmail.com Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would probably want a few more types 1. Personal - your standard user on twitter 2. Business - similar to personal, but represents a company 3. FeedBot - auto tweets from rss feed 4. Bot - auto tweets based off of some other sort of information stream 5. I'm sure there are more... On May 27, 10:17 am, MPS mpelzsher...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to propose an additional property on twitter accounts: account_type. The main purpose for this would be to distinguish personal vs. business accounts. This would be very useful for apps that want to target one or the other type of twitter account. Who's with me on this? :-) - Michael -- Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: geocode doesnt include non-geocoded locations? (web)
You could use Yahoo GeoPlanet to try to make sense of some of that garbage: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/ They have over 8 million place names in their woeID DB. I'm against forcing users to set a proper location. For example, I spend half my time in Tokyo and don't want to always be updating. Chris On May 25, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Sherif wrote: Yeah - what Chris said.. I'm trying to geo-plot location.. but because twitter lets users enter anything for location - people enter a lot of rubbish sometimes... Makes it a bit interesting when you are trying to geo-plot! Does anyone know if there is a twitter feature request raised to force the user to enter a proper location? or one that give me a users location based on an IP-range.. ? Maybe we should raise one?... Sherif On May 24, 1:34 pm, Zee zeeom...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Chris, i believe you are right. Will have to somehow modify my application to estimate the location. On May 23, 10:03 am, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote: I believe locations are based solely on what the user enters in for their location. In other words, it could be inaccurate, left blank, or the place might not even exist. I'd assume that if Twitter was automatically guessing at where people are based on their IP, they'd have something to say about that in their privacy policy [1]. 1 -http://twitter.com/privacy -Chris Thomson On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Zee zeeom...@gmail.com wrote: No responses???- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- Chris Latko www.latko.org
[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!
Hey Alex/Matt/Doug when you think this can be decided? Can Wed. at 5pm work for the meetup? Thanks, -damon On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Pablo Lopez pablitolo...@gmail.com wrote: Count me in too!! On May 21, 5:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, There's great crossover between Twitter API developers and Mac/iPhone developers. Andrew Stone, developer of Twittelator Pro, suggested that we all get together during WWDC and coordinate around the Apple Push Notification Service and other issues of mutual interest. Twitter's offices are just a few blocks from Moscone, so it should be easy for any interested coders to make it over here. Please RSVP with a reply to this thread and let us know what dates and times work for you. Andrew was thinking early one morning, but not being much of a morning person, I'd prefer something later in the day. We'll let group consensus decide. Thanks, and hope to see you in early June. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Desktop Application Changes - Incompatibility Alert
Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com writes: 2. If your application is registered as a desktop application there will be a PIN the user must enter in your application Details: In the current code desktop applications end in a dead- end page. This new flow will give the user a PIN that they enter in the application and that must be provided to swap a request token for an access token. This will help secure tokens for desktop applications since the security of the consumer key and secret cannot be relied upon. Feedback: We are planning to make this a required step but I am open to discussion if anyone feels there is a compelling case for desktop applications without a PIN. Email me directly with feedback. Let me make sure I understand the proposed flow correctly: 1. Application uses consumer key/secret to get request token, sends user to Twitter authentication page. 2. User authenticates with Twitter and authorizes application. 3. Twitter gives user PIN number which they then enter in to the application. 4. Application uses PIN and request token to get access token and proceeds as normal with OAuth-authenticated requests. With this setup, will users be able to authenticate multiple instances of the same application? If so, it might be useful to allow the user to optionally assign a name to the application instance, so long as that doesn't make the user experience too confusing. - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg.
[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!
Yup! Wednesday, 5pm. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 16:08, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: Hey Alex/Matt/Doug when you think this can be decided? Can Wed. at 5pm work for the meetup? Thanks, -damon On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Pablo Lopez pablitolo...@gmail.com wrote: Count me in too!! On May 21, 5:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, There's great crossover between Twitter API developers and Mac/iPhone developers. Andrew Stone, developer of Twittelator Pro, suggested that we all get together during WWDC and coordinate around the Apple Push Notification Service and other issues of mutual interest. Twitter's offices are just a few blocks from Moscone, so it should be easy for any interested coders to make it over here. Please RSVP with a reply to this thread and let us know what dates and times work for you. Andrew was thinking early one morning, but not being much of a morning person, I'd prefer something later in the day. We'll let group consensus decide. Thanks, and hope to see you in early June. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: search.rss
I am migrating my app from rss to atom and realized something- a problem I thought was limited to rss occurs with atom as well. Here's the problem: sometimes, even within a matter of minutes, a feed loses the latest item and then gets it back. This is supremely annoying. I thought switching to an atom feed would fix this but it has not. This is besides the issue of the feeds not keeping up with twitter- but I think you already know about this.
[twitter-dev] APIs to receive and send SMS messages to users?
I'm building an interactive SMS app and looking for simple HTTP APIs to send messages to and receive messages from users. - Does twitter support such APIs to interact with twitter users (i didn't find any documentation on these)? - If not, where can i find free APIs that don't charge per message (the SMS aggregators/carriers charge a per-message fee, expensive for garage startups). Typically, these APIs are offered on a shared short-code, and the mobile-originated messages would start with an app prefix (e.g. APP1) so the API platform would know which application to call. thanks Kiran
[twitter-dev] Authentication problem
Hi friends..
I am developing twitter Desktop Application based on QT asoftware... I
am using open source twitter library(twitLib) ,which is avaiable in
google code...http://code.google.com/p/twitlib/
I am sending the username and password to twitter server
if i get status value 200 means ,i will navigate the login page to
main page...
when i try to get the server status value ,it is giving 6 digit
value..like 243592...
if i provide coorect or wrong detaiks too ,it is showing same thing
only...
I have used the following line to print the server status value...
SERVER::RESP resp;
if(resp == 200)
{
wid = new Widget();
wid-show;
please help me to solve this issue...
[twitter-dev] Re: APIs to receive and send SMS messages to users?
Twitter does not provide direct SMS interaction with users. You could use direct messages but the user may not have SMS notifications turned on. If you check out Wikipedia they have a list of gateways for email to SMS. For example you send an email to phonenumber@sms.att.net (not actually ATT's address) and it shows up on the phone. Nice and cheap but not the carriers first priority. You can allso try this thing called Google. I've heard of a number of startus that provide APIs to send SMSs and such they are probably only going to be free if they are add supported. 2009/5/28 kiran kiran.bell...@gmail.com I'm building an interactive SMS app and looking for simple HTTP APIs to send messages to and receive messages from users. - Does twitter support such APIs to interact with twitter users (i didn't find any documentation on these)? - If not, where can i find free APIs that don't charge per message (the SMS aggregators/carriers charge a per-message fee, expensive for garage startups). Typically, these APIs are offered on a shared short-code, and the mobile-originated messages would start with an app prefix (e.g. APP1) so the API platform would know which application to call. thanks Kiran -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from San Francisco, California, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Authentication problem
2009/5/28 yuva yuvaraj...@gmail.com when i try to get the server status value ,it is giving 6 digit value..like 243592... Can you explain what you mean by this? Also it sounds like you would be better off asking the maintainer of twitlib for help as it is probably an issue specific to that library. -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from San Francisco, California, United States
