[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-09 Thread Clint Shryock
I'm still having issues with the profile_image_url attribute of users/show updating in a timely fashion, any chance this issue be resolved with this update? +Clint On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Andrew Stone asked a great question off list and I wanted to

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-09 Thread Hayes Davis
Are you going to shut off the S3 URLs immediately or will they still be accessible for a time? I understand that newly updated avatar images would not be updated at S3 after the switch but I'd like to know when we can expect any S3 URLs we may have in our caches to all go dark. Thanks. Hayes On

[twitter-dev] About OAuth authorization

2009-07-09 Thread praveen kumar
Hi, I would like to develop a tool on Twitter, i have few doubts. Please clarify. 1. What is the use of OAuth authorization ? 2. From Twitter API we can update tweets without OAuth authorization. Why this OAuth authorization? -- Regards, Praveen Kumar .N Software Engineer Netelixir

[twitter-dev] Re: Pull email address after authentication?

2009-07-09 Thread Abraham Williams
If you use Gmail or Google Apps for email (and maybe others) you can use 4braham+secrettwitteracc...@gmail.com4braham%2bsecrettwitteracc...@gmail.comto sign up and unless you tell people what the string after the + no one will be able to find you. Abraham On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 21:10, Scott

[twitter-dev] Re: About OAuth authorization

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
1. OAuth allows your user to authenticate without ever exposing his Twitter credentials to your application. 2. OAuth allows a user to revoke your application's access to their account. 3. If you don't use OAuth, tweets posted from your application will show up as from API (I believe). You

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-09 Thread infopete
My current idea is to go with the flow and use bit.ly to store my structured url and have my silverlight application use the bit.ly api to get the structured data. I had hoped that i could have meaningful url's in the tweet but it's not over important. I'll use the extra space in the tweet for

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth pin only works first try?

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
You don't get a second chance, and this is by design. OAuth requests have a unique signature; once a particular request is submitted, it can't be submitted again. There's no real way to validate the pin before you submit. All you can do is ensure that they typed in six digits. If the

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth pin only works first try?

2009-07-09 Thread Grant Emsley
I thought it might be by design, but couldn't find that mentioned anywhere. I guess it is necessary to prevent apps guessing the pin, though it may be annoying for users.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth pin only works first try?

2009-07-09 Thread Doug Williams
Indeed, this is by design. As Grant said, it is to prevent brute force attacks. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.comwrote: I thought it might be by design, but couldn't find that mentioned anywhere. I guess it is necessary to prevent apps

[twitter-dev] Re: Design of Invite Twitter friends

2009-07-09 Thread Xavier Mathews
Just curious to know. Because of number three this would only work for users who have there stream set to private? On 07/09/2009, chachra sumit.chac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to design a invite twitter friends feature (similar to the invite facebook friends concept). Sadly its

[twitter-dev] OAuth failing to validate signature

2009-07-09 Thread Bojan Rajkovic
Is there a way that we can get more information on why a signature is not being validated? My OAuth library suddenly stopped validating signatures earlier. I've reset the consumer key and consumer signature several times since then, and things still keep failing. I've compared the requests being

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth failing to validate signature

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
Is it just certain sorts of requests that are failing, or all of them? I'm running my OAuth-enabled client right now and things seem to be working. On Jul 9, 4:26 pm, Bojan Rajkovic severedcr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way that we can get more information on why a signature is not being

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth failing to validate signature

2009-07-09 Thread JDG
That's something that I would really like to see as well -- even if it was a development parameter (ala debug=true) that could be put in the signature. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 14:41, Bojan Rajkovic severedcr...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 9, 4:26 pm, Bojan Rajkovic severedcr...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] How to insure that all tweets are retrieved in a search?

2009-07-09 Thread owkaye
I'm building an app that uses the atom search API to retrieve recent posts which contain a specific keyword. The API docs say: Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and rpp parameters for the search method. But this 1500 hits per search cannot be done in a single request

[twitter-dev] Re: How to insure that all tweets are retrieved in a search?

2009-07-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Yep, you gotta do 15 requests at 100 rpp each. -Chad On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:45 PM, owkayeowk...@gmail.com wrote: I'm building an app that uses the atom search API to retrieve recent posts which contain a specific keyword.  The API docs say: Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the

[twitter-dev] Re: How to insure that all tweets are retrieved in a search?

2009-07-09 Thread owkaye
Thanks Chad, that's what I was afraid of. I wonder if you know about this next question: Twitter API docs say search is rate limited to something more than REST which is 150 requests per hour, but for the sake of argument let's say the search rate limit is actually 150 hits per hour ... Since

[twitter-dev] Re: How to insure that all tweets are retrieved in a search?

2009-07-09 Thread Scott Haneda
You are correct, you have to do 15 requests. However, you can cache the results in your end, so when you come back, you are only getting the new stuff. Twitter has pretty good date handling, so you specify your last date, and pull forward from there. You may even be able to get the

[twitter-dev] Re: How to insure that all tweets are retrieved in a search?

2009-07-09 Thread owkaye
You are correct, you have to do 15 requests. However, you can cache the results in your end, so when you come back, you are only getting the new stuff. Thanks Scott. I'm storing the results in a database on my server but that doesn't stop the search from retrieving the same results

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth failing to validate signature

2009-07-09 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Same problem here, all my Oauth requests are receiving a Could not authenticate you. answer with a 401. Don't understand why, I didn't change anything, and this just started to happen a few minutes ago. The application type is Browser, with the Twitter for login option. Quite a big problem on my

[twitter-dev] Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread dean.j.robinson
Everyone just magically got logged out of my hahlo4 beta, which was working fine an hour ago, and now when they reauthorize its not sticking. OAuth login works fine, redirect back to hahlo4, but all api calls are returning 401 status codes. Saw mention in another topic regarding whether

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi all, Some changes were just deployed and it looks like there may be a bug. I'm looking into it now … hold tight and I'll update you all when I know more. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jul 9, 2009, at 4:25 PM, dean.j.robinson wrote: Everyone just

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
Yes, my application - which was working this morning - is now getting 401s on every OAuth request. Something changed. On Jul 9, 7:25 pm, dean.j.robinson dean.j.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone just magically got logged out of my hahlo4 beta, which was working fine an hour ago, and now when

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Pelz-Sherman
I just did a successful authorization with my iphone app. Hopefully it was just a temporary glitch. From: Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com To: Twitter Development Talk twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 7:29:28 PM

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread dean.j.robinson
Thanks for the super speedy response Matt. On Jul 10, 9:26 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all,      Some changes were just deployed and it looks like there may be a   bug. I'm looking into it now … hold tight and I'll update you all when   I know more. Thanks;   – Matt

[twitter-dev] Re: How to insure that all tweets are retrieved in a search?

2009-07-09 Thread Scott Haneda
You are correct, you have to do 15 requests. However, you can cache the results in your end, so when you come back, you are only getting the new stuff. Thanks Scott. I'm storing the results in a database on my server but that doesn't stop the search from retrieving the same results

[twitter-dev] oauth seems to be broken (or down) since 4PM PST

2009-07-09 Thread goodtest
all of a sudden I am getting cannot authenticate

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth seems to be broken (or down) since 4PM PST

2009-07-09 Thread Arnaud Meunier
The problem is known, cf this thread, for example: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/39306c36ecc9cdb8 Matt has also updated the twitterapi account to let us know he was working on it. Arnaud. On Jul 10, 1:56 am, goodtest goodtest...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread dean.j.robinson
Awesome, thanks Matt, seems to be all working normally here too. On Jul 10, 10:37 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all,      The issue has been fixed and from my testing it looks like things   are back to normal. Sorry for the disruption;   – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford      

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
Still not working here. http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_consumer_key=***oauth_nonce=8995570oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1oauth_timestamp=1247187445oauth_version=1.0oauth_signature=s9fxOOJhdVjLr3pacFF0uvBXxFE%3d; ...gets 401 Unauthorized. On Jul 9, 8:53 pm,

[twitter-dev] Grouping API calls

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Is there a faculty for grouping several API calls together to reduce round trips? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. 208-447-6016 http://www.mesiablabs.com http://www.plsadvise.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread johann
Hi, Same here, we re getting 401 on every OAuth requests. thanks, johann @romefort CTO @ Seesmic On Jul 9, 4:29 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, my application - which was working this morning - is now getting 401s on every OAuth request. Something changed. On

[twitter-dev] Native OAuth Flow PIN Checksum

2009-07-09 Thread Joshua Perry
I opened an issue for this if anyone is interested in starring it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=823

[twitter-dev] Re: Grouping API calls

2009-07-09 Thread Abraham Williams
Nope. They best you could do is make parallel calls. Abraham On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 20:00, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Is there a faculty for grouping several API calls together to reduce round trips? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. 208-447-6016

[twitter-dev] 400 error on create but not exists?

2009-07-09 Thread mikepuerto
Hi I'm working on integrating the API into a script that just follows a user. I have used http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.$format?user_a=$user_IDAauser_b=$user_IDB and successfully gotten the response of true or false... but as soon as I try using,

[twitter-dev] Re: 400 error on create but not exists?

2009-07-09 Thread Abraham Williams
What is the text that Twitter is sending back with the request? 2 recommendations: Try http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0verify_credentialsto make sure the account credentials are correct. Make sure you are doing a POST request and not a GET request. Abraham

[twitter-dev] Missing mentions #replies

2009-07-09 Thread David Bill
Hi, We (@cotweet) have been seeing large amounts of missing tweets in statuses/mentions for the past couple hours, and this problem is apparent when comparing search.twitter.com to #replies on the Twitter.com site as well. Specific test case we are examining is mentions for @cotweet, which have

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing mentions #replies

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
Some changes were deployed earlier today which broke OAuth authentication. They have since posted that it was fixed, but it's not working for everybody. It's possible that other things are broken as well. :( On Jul 9, 9:54 pm, David Bill davidb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We (@cotweet) have

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing mentions #replies

2009-07-09 Thread David Bill
Thanks Duane, I believe this is a separate issue as it is apparent whether logging in via OAuth, basic auth, or to the website directly. - David On Jul 9, 7:04 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: Some changes were deployed earlier today which broke OAuth authentication.  They

[twitter-dev] Re: How to insure that all tweets are retrieved in a search?

2009-07-09 Thread David Fisher
Err, the Search API isn't limited to 150 requests per hour. It's much higher than that. Much, but not unlimited. As John said, read into the Search API more, and check into the Streaming API as well. It is certainly possible to get more than 1,500 results for a term, but not by using simple

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread Arnaud Meunier
On my side, things are back to normal since Matt announcement. On the previous bug, the error message attached in the body was Could not authenticate you. Are you receiving the same error message? Arnaud. On Jul 10, 1:34 am, johann romef...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Same here, we re getting 401

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
I'm getting the same thing I was getting earlier: 401 Unauthorized On Jul 9, 10:16 pm, Arnaud Meunier arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.com wrote: On my side, things are back to normal since Matt announcement. On the previous bug, the error message attached in the body was Could not authenticate

[twitter-dev] Re: 400 error on create but not exists?

2009-07-09 Thread Mike Puerto
Thanks so much... I was using GET instead of POST! On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: What is the text that Twitter is sending back with the request? 2 recommendations: Try

[twitter-dev] OAuth appears to be working again

2009-07-09 Thread Duane Roelands
My gratitude to the Twitter crew for getting things resolved!

[twitter-dev] Re: Design of Invite Twitter friends

2009-07-09 Thread whoiskb
I had a similar question last night and found this thread that offered some insight into the most efficient way to do something like this. Here is the thread that discusses the best approach to get details on all of the friends or followers of a user:

[twitter-dev] Re: Has something with OAuth changed?

2009-07-09 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Unauthorized probably referes to the official description of the HTTP 401 Code. I was wondering what was the Twitter error message you received (if any) in the body of your response. Could be something like Invalid / used nonce or Invalid / expired token... Arnaud. On Jul 10, 4:18 am, Duane

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-09 Thread roamlog
it seems there are some issues with the new pics server the https is failed, please check it.. e.g. : http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg is ok but https://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg is failed..

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing mentions #replies

2009-07-09 Thread David Bill
Appears to be resolved now. On Jul 9, 7:07 pm, David Bill davidb...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Duane, I believe this is a separate issue as it is apparent whether logging in via OAuth, basic auth, or to the website directly. - David On Jul 9, 7:04 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Twitter API: User's last login date

2009-07-09 Thread luisfigo
Hi guys, Do you guys know if Twitter API provides a method for user's last login date? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API: User's last login date

2009-07-09 Thread Abraham Williams
Nope. No such method. Abraham On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 22:07, luisfigo rsoeg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Do you guys know if Twitter API provides a method for user's last login date? Thanks. -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am |

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed to validate oauth signature and token using python/django libs

2009-07-09 Thread Blaine Garrett
Hi, Thanks for the quick reply Matt. Below is a recap of the setup with a bit more clarity as well as the keys, url, and pre-encoded data. Hopefully this sheds some light on the issue. I also tried the PHP lib someone recommended with the same results - i.e 401 error. So again, I am thinking it

[twitter-dev] Re: Appx # of records in gardenhose

2009-07-09 Thread John Kalucki
2m - 3m, very roughly. On Jul 9, 8:34 pm, dhaval dhaval.parik...@gmail.com wrote: hey can ne one tell me the # of records we get appx in gardenhose per day? Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed to validate oauth signature and token using python/django libs

2009-07-09 Thread JDG
No. According to the oauth spec, your signature key is always consumer_secrettoken_secret, even if token_secret is empty, so when you first call request_token, your key will be consumer_secret On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 21:24, Blaine Garrett bla...@blainegarrett.comwrote: Hi, Thanks for the

[twitter-dev] Re: Appx # of records in gardenhose

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Gardenhose? On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:49 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: 2m - 3m, very roughly. On Jul 9, 8:34 pm, dhaval dhaval.parik...@gmail.com wrote: hey can ne one tell me the # of records we get appx in gardenhose per day? Thanks -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab

[twitter-dev] account/rate_limit_status

2009-07-09 Thread alan_b
I'm making a account/rate_limit_status call using OAuth authenticated with a non-whitelisted user, and the server that making the call is whitelisted. The call always returned the IP-based rate limit information, not the authenticated user info. Please try it here with a non-whitelisted account

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API: User's last login date

2009-07-09 Thread luisfigo
hmm.. It seems that checking user's tweet date would be the best way to identify whether he is active / inactive within some period of time... On Jul 10, 11:21 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. No such method. Abraham On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 22:07, luisfigo

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-09 Thread Hayes Davis
I really appreciate it, Doug. Thanks. Hayes On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I've asked the operation's teams to leave the old S3 hosted images available for 2 weeks after the deploy. This should give you time to update your caches. Cheers, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API: User's last login date

2009-07-09 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM, luisfigorsoeg...@gmail.com wrote: Do you guys know if Twitter API provides a method for user's last login date? Nope, but you could use their latest status date if that is close enough. -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon

[twitter-dev] Re: Changing domains for image hosting

2009-07-09 Thread gotwalt
Any chance you'll enable SSL access of these images? At @cotweet we rely on s3's SSL when pages are being served via HTTPS (login, account changes, permissions, etc) in order to prevent security zone issues in IE. I'd imagine that other web-based clients may face similar issues. Aaron

[twitter-dev] Re: About OAuth authorization

2009-07-09 Thread praveen kumar
Thanks Duane for your response. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: 1. OAuth allows your user to authenticate without ever exposing his Twitter credentials to your application. 2. OAuth allows a user to revoke your application's access to their

[twitter-dev] Re: Appx # of records in gardenhose

2009-07-09 Thread Dhaval Parikh
Thanks a lot for your reply On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:19 AM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: 2m - 3m, very roughly. On Jul 9, 8:34 pm, dhaval dhaval.parik...@gmail.com wrote: hey can ne one tell me the # of records we get appx in gardenhose per day? Thanks -- Dhaval