[twitter-dev] Mentions with since_id is worthless - proposed fix

2009-05-30 Thread Remy Sharp
Sorry for a slightly gaming subject line, but I've just worked out that the 'since_id' parameter is worthless in the mentions api call. It may also be the case in every other API call - but let me explain. The only time that I can think that you need to use the since_id param is if you want to

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth, PHP, and POST-ing updates

2009-05-30 Thread AlfredN
Actually, I posted this and pretty much all of the code over here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=629colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary%20Opened%20Modified%20Component I just learned about such place, but yeah~. Thanks! On May 29, 9:54 am,

[twitter-dev] Re: geocode doesnt include non-geocoded locations? (web)

2009-05-30 Thread Zeeshan Muhammad
but thats not a real solution.. a setting shd be introduced that allows a user to enable/disable reverse geocode for tweets... On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Chris Latko ch...@latko.org wrote: You could use Yahoo GeoPlanet to try to make sense of some of that garbage:

[twitter-dev] OSS desktop apps and OAuth credentials

2009-05-30 Thread semifor
Is it safe and appropriate to include consumer key and secret in OSS desktop applications? That will make them publicly available on the Internet. This, of course, would allow anyone to copy the credentials and use them in a different application. As long as Twitter tracks and deals with abuse

[twitter-dev] how to deal with truncatedtrue/truncated ??

2009-05-30 Thread Jochen Kaechelin
Let's say I have a update with more then 140 characters. Twitters webfrontend will cut the status and add ... which points to http://twitter.com/userename/status/xxx where I can see the complete update. Twittelator, ..., ... and my own client only show the three dots without and

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth, PHP, and POST-ing updates

2009-05-30 Thread AlfredN
Hey, I ended up posting all of this stuff here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=629colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary%20Opened%20Modified%20Component This page also has the code I have written Alright, here's what I got sent: 1. The error

[twitter-dev] Re: Callback url during development

2009-05-30 Thread David M. Wilson
On Apr 28, 4:56 am, Mike Lewis mikelikes...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't allow you to sethttp://localhost/orhttp://127.0.0.1as acallbackURL.  This is rather frustrating because I don't want to have to make a fake host and make all my developers make the same fake host on their respective

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth, PHP, and POST-ing updates

2009-05-30 Thread AlfredN
Hey, I went ahead and installed the stuff you pointed me to and came out with this: I think I got a valid request token, navigate your www client to: https://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=xeyrI4NFyMFIXXl0FnpBHpBDzhRxgep93JZ1SOGjHg Once you finish authorizing, hit ENTER or INTERRUPT to

[twitter-dev] Bulk id - screen_name resolution.

2009-05-30 Thread David W
Hey there, I was wondering what my options are for doing ID - name resolution. I want to track changes to a user's social graph, and when changes occur, resolve those follow(ing/er) IDs back to names. I can easily make multiple GETs to users/show for small sets of changes (and I'm caching

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth issues with POST

2009-05-30 Thread AlfredN
Nevermind, jmathai helped me out. Turns out I needed to add the $data information to the signature string and also double encode the spaces. Thanks for your help! On Apr 14, 10:52 pm, Dimebrain daniel.cre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt, Thanks for replying. I had already tried the approach of

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth, PHP, and POST-ing updates

2009-05-30 Thread AlfredN
Wanted to add, I tried this with http (instead of https) and got the same thing. On May 30, 12:14 pm, AlfredN alfr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I went ahead and installed the stuff you pointed me to and came out with this: I think I got a valid request token, navigate your www client

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id - screen_name resolution.

2009-05-30 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 5/30/09 3:46 PM, David W wrote: [... David asks about bulk resolving of Twitter user IDs to screen_name ...] I don't know what the Twitter TOS says, but I've got a sizable cache of (reasonably fresh) Twitter user data thanks to Twitter Karma. Would it be a Twitter TOS violation for me

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id - screen_name resolution.

2009-05-30 Thread David M. Wilson
On May 30, 11:28 pm, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 5/30/09 3:46 PM, David W wrote: [... David asks about bulk resolving of Twitter user IDs to screen_name ...] I don't know what the Twitter TOS says, but I've got a sizable cache of (reasonably fresh) Twitter user data

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id - screen_name resolution.

2009-05-30 Thread David M. Wilson
Hey Dossy, This sounds awesome, and I'd be very tempted, however I've come up with a solution which should cater for any size of user account. Right now when I periodically (~24 hours) note a set of changes to the social graph, I create an entry in a (persistent) ring buffer recording the new

[twitter-dev] Could you provide trending topics in languages?

2009-05-30 Thread Chen Jie
I think current trending topics Twitter provided is for all the tweets which means is for English tweets, we can't know what's hot in a special language, so, it would be nice if Twitter API can provide trending topics in languages. What do you think?

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id - screen_name resolution.

2009-05-30 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 5/30/09 7:06 PM, David M. Wilson wrote: In comment to your TOS question: Twitter as a company seem a whole lot more liberal (and realistic) when it comes to their data. I think I may have even read this somewhere semiofficial in the past. Profile information itself is also available to the

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk id - screen_name resolution.

2009-05-30 Thread jstrellner
We also have a sizable cache of this data (around 4 million users) that we are already using in an API format internally at Twitturly. If Twitter approves it, we can add it to our publicly available API. Currently it allows conversion from both ID to username and username to ID one at a time, and