date:20090713



Hi Dale,

Check out the directory on our wiki at: 
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers

Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

On Jul 13, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote:



Hi, If there is an excellent Twitter app developer out there (very
familiar with APIs), I want to develop an application for my company.
Must be willing to sign an NDA and be able to verify your work.
Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Re: This method requires a POST.

2009-07-13 Thread Mandakini kumari

Hi Randy

Thanks for your response. As you said POST calls were being turned into GET
 I think that might be a reason I will talk to server provider.

Once again thanks for pointing the cause.



On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, RandyC bioscienceupda...@gmail.com wrote:


 Mandakini,

 I ran into a similar problem a while back and tracked it down to the
 latest version of CURL.  When I pulled an earlier version of CURL for
 PHP from one of my servers that didn't  have this problem and
 installed it on the server in question it worked fine.  I never did
 track it any further to figure out why the latest version of CURL had
 this issue.  Perhaps someone out there can tell us a configuration
 trick.  But it was clear that somewhere in the depths of CURL (for PHP
 anyway) POST calls were being turned into GET with the latest version
 of CURL.

 Hope that helps.

 Randy C




-- 
Regards
Mandakini

[twitter-dev] Re: Interested in hiring a twitter developer

2009-07-13 Thread EdPimentl

Hello Dale,

Here are just a few of the Twitter APPS we have developed

Best regards,
-E
Gpro.ws
http://Twitter.com/edpimentl http://twitter.com/edpimentl

http://AskTwitR.com http://asktwitr.com/   (Real Time Twitter Search 
Reputation Management)
http://TwiTR.Me http://twitr.me/  (Cross Social Network Messaging
Bus)
http://WatchNtweet.Me http://watchntweet.me/ (Watch and Chat/Tweet)
SocialTV
http://TwebEX.com http://twebex.com/ (Twitter Based Online Web
Conference Platform)
http://TwitrShare.com http://twitrshare.com/ (Send Picture and Message to
Tweet Contacts)
http://TweetUp.ws http://tweetup.ws/  (Twitter based  MeetUp service)
http://PiCurio.us http://picurio.us/  (Spell with FlickR, Let
others SEE what you are saying)
http://Tweet4Coupons.com http://tweet4coupons.com/ (Tweet to Save)
http://TweetOrder.in/ http://tweetorder.in/ (Tweet Food Order)

[twitter-dev] Re: Just launched TwitStat.us...


It's a cool little program.

With the rate limiting - the requests should come from the viewer's IP
address, so rate limiting shouldn't be a problem.  At worst,
individual users viewing it 20,000 or whatever time an hour would see
an error, everyone else would be fine.

[twitter-dev] Trying to post but my account is not posting duplicate posts


Hi all,
I have a system set up that uses its own twitter to send information
to my main twitter name.

However i have noticed if one message is.
You have a new update

then the message straight after cannot be

You have a new update.

is there a way to get around this as i need to get these notifications
working any help is really apprechiated.
Regards
Mark

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying to post but my account is not posting duplicate posts

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Badera

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Mark Davies markdavies12...@gmail.comwrote:


 Hi all,
 I have a system set up that uses its own twitter to send information
 to my main twitter name.

 However i have noticed if one message is.
 You have a new update

 then the message straight after cannot be

 You have a new update.

 is there a way to get around this as i need to get these notifications
 working any help is really apprechiated.
 Regards
 Mark


Try appending a unique sequence ID.

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: Just launched TwitStat.us...

2009-07-13 Thread Ryan McGrath


Hey everyone,

Thanks for the positive feedback! Hope everyone enjoys using it as
much as we enjoyed making it.

Thanks for the heads up on the rate limiting, Grant. That's what we
thought initially, but I figured it'd be polite to ask around and make
sure were weren't abusing any API calls. Appreciate the help!

- Ryan

On Jul 13, 11:05 am, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.com wrote:
 It's a cool little program.

 With the rate limiting - the requests should come from the viewer's IP
 address, so rate limiting shouldn't be a problem.  At worst,
 individual users viewing it 20,000 or whatever time an hour would see
 an error, everyone else would be fine.

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying to post but my account is not posting duplicate posts


Hi Andrew,
Sorry i am fairly new to twitter development and i have looked on the
api doc's but cannot find out how to add a unique sequence ID
would you be able to point me to the place i need to look?
Regards
Mark

On Jul 13, 4:33 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Mark Davies 
 markdavies12...@gmail.comwrote:





  Hi all,
  I have a system set up that uses its own twitter to send information
  to my main twitter name.

  However i have noticed if one message is.
  You have a new update

  then the message straight after cannot be

  You have a new update.

  is there a way to get around this as i need to get these notifications
  working any help is really apprechiated.
  Regards
  Mark

 Try appending a unique sequence ID.

 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: Trying to post but my account is not posting duplicate posts


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Mark Daviesmarkdavies12...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 I have a system set up that uses its own twitter to send information
 to my main twitter name.

 However i have noticed if one message is.
 You have a new update

 then the message straight after cannot be

 You have a new update.

Duplicates are dropped by Twitter upon receipt.

 is there a way to get around this as i need to get these notifications
 working any help is really apprechiated.

Change the post slightly.

-damon

[twitter-dev] Re: to send messages or tweets to twitter is that possible


http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries

The very first category is for flash...

On Jul 13, 2:56 am, nite21 shanebond1...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi all
 i want to send data from flash to twitter
 is that possible

 thanks

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

2009-07-13 Thread owkaye


 First, I wouldn't expect that thousands are going to post
 your promo code per minute. That doesn't seem realistic.

Hi John,

It's more than just a promo code.  There are other aspects 
of this promotion that might create an issue with thousands 
of tweets per minute.  If it happens and I haven't planned 
ahead to deal with it, then I'm screwed because some data 
will be missing that I really should be retrieving, and 
apparently I won't have any way to retrieve it later.


 Second, you can use the /track method on the Streaming
 API, which will return all keyword matches up to a certain
 limit with no other rate limiting. 

I guess this is what I need ... unless you or someone can 
reduce or eliminate the Search API limits.  It really seems 
inappropriate to tie up a connection for streaming data 24 
hours a day when I do not need streaming data.  

All I really need is a search that doesn't restrict me so 
much.  If I had this capability I could easily minimize my 
promotion's impact on Twitter by 2-3 orders of magnitude.  
From my perspective this seems like something Twitter might 
want to support, but then again I do not work at Twitter so 
I'm not as familiar with their priorities as you are.


 Contact us if the default limits are an issue.

I'm only guessing that they will become a problem, but it is 
very clear to me how easily they might become a problem.  

The unfortunate situation here is that *IF* these limits 
become a problem it's already too late to do anything about 
it -- because by then I've permanently lost access to some 
of the data I need -- and even though the data is still in 
your database there's no way for me to get it out because 
the search restrictions get in the way again.

It's just that the API is so limited that the techniques I 
might use with any other service are simply not available at 
Twitter.  For example, imagine this which is a far better 
scenario for my needs:

I run ONE search every day for my search terms, and Twitter 
responds with ALL the matching records no matter how many 
there are -- not just 100 per page or 1500 results per 
search but ALL matches, even if there are hundreds of 
thousands of them.  

If this were possible I could easily do only one search per 
day and store the results in a local database.  Then the 
next day I could run the same search again -- and limit this 
new search to the last 24 hours so I don't have to retrieve 
any of the same records I retrieved the previous day.

Can you imagine how must LESS this would impact Twitter's 
servers when I do not have to keep a connection open 24 
hours a day as with Streaming API ... and I do not have to 
run repetitive searches every few seconds all day long as 
with Search API?  The load savings on your servers would be 
huge, not to mention the bandwidth savings!!!

-

The bottom line here is that I hope you have people who 
understand this situation and are working to improve it, but 
in the meantime my only options appear to be:

1- Use the Streaming API which is clearly an inferior method 
for me because a broken connection will cause me to lose 
important data without warning.

2- Hope that someone at Twitter can raise the limits for 
me on their Search API so I can achieve my goals without 
running thousands of searches every day.

-

As you can see I'm trying to find the best way to get the 
data I need while minimizing the impact on Twitter, that's 
why I'm making comments / suggestions like the ones in this 
email.

So who should I contact at Twitter to see if they can raise 
the search limits for me?  Are you the man?  If not, please 
let me know who I should contact and how.

Thanks!

Owkaye

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying to post but my account is not posting duplicate posts


Hi Damon,
It is strage as if i post a message from twitter.com itself i can for
example post test, then test again straight after. is it a constraint
the API enforces?
Regards
Mark

On Jul 13, 4:46 pm, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Mark Daviesmarkdavies12...@gmail.com 
 wrote:

  Hi all,
  I have a system set up that uses its own twitter to send information
  to my main twitter name.

  However i have noticed if one message is.
  You have a new update

  then the message straight after cannot be

  You have a new update.

 Duplicates are dropped by Twitter upon receipt.

  is there a way to get around this as i need to get these notifications
  working any help is really apprechiated.

 Change the post slightly.

 -damon

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying to post but my account is not posting duplicate posts


I think the limit is only on the API.  I suppose there are/were
conditions where duplicates would get posted, and this prevents that
from happening.

Easiest thing to do:  Have your program put a timestamp in the
message, so instead of You have a new update, put 11:57:01 You have
a new update

[twitter-dev] Re: Trying to post but my account is not posting duplicate posts


Hi Grant,
Yeah a simple yet informative way around the issue, thanks.
Regards
Mark

On Jul 13, 4:57 pm, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think the limit is only on the API.  I suppose there are/were
 conditions where duplicates would get posted, and this prevents that
 from happening.

 Easiest thing to do:  Have your program put a timestamp in the
 message, so instead of You have a new update, put 11:57:01 You have
 a new update

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


Hi there,

Some comments in-line:

On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:51 AM, owkaye wrote:




First, I wouldn't expect that thousands are going to post
your promo code per minute. That doesn't seem realistic.


Hi John,

It's more than just a promo code.  There are other aspects
of this promotion that might create an issue with thousands
of tweets per minute.  If it happens and I haven't planned
ahead to deal with it, then I'm screwed because some data
will be missing that I really should be retrieving, and
apparently I won't have any way to retrieve it later.



Second, you can use the /track method on the Streaming
API, which will return all keyword matches up to a certain
limit with no other rate limiting.


I guess this is what I need ... unless you or someone can
reduce or eliminate the Search API limits.  It really seems
inappropriate to tie up a connection for streaming data 24
hours a day when I do not need streaming data.


Streaming server connections are quite cheap for Twitter so tying one  
up is much less work on the server side than repeated queries.




All I really need is a search that doesn't restrict me so
much.  If I had this capability I could easily minimize my
promotion's impact on Twitter by 2-3 orders of magnitude.
From my perspective this seems like something Twitter might
want to support, but then again I do not work at Twitter so
I'm not as familiar with their priorities as you are.



Contact us if the default limits are an issue.


I'm only guessing that they will become a problem, but it is
very clear to me how easily they might become a problem.

The unfortunate situation here is that *IF* these limits
become a problem it's already too late to do anything about
it -- because by then I've permanently lost access to some
of the data I need -- and even though the data is still in
your database there's no way for me to get it out because
the search restrictions get in the way again.

It's just that the API is so limited that the techniques I
might use with any other service are simply not available at
Twitter.  For example, imagine this which is a far better
scenario for my needs:

I run ONE search every day for my search terms, and Twitter
responds with ALL the matching records no matter how many
there are -- not just 100 per page or 1500 results per
search but ALL matches, even if there are hundreds of
thousands of them.


We tried allowing access to follower information in a one-query method  
like this and it failed. The main reason is that when there are tens  
of thousands of matches things start timing out. While all matches  
sounds like a perfect solution, in practice staying connected for  
minutes at a time and pulling down an unbounded size result set has  
not proved to be a scalable solution.




If this were possible I could easily do only one search per
day and store the results in a local database.  Then the
next day I could run the same search again -- and limit this
new search to the last 24 hours so I don't have to retrieve
any of the same records I retrieved the previous day.

Can you imagine how must LESS this would impact Twitter's
servers when I do not have to keep a connection open 24
hours a day as with Streaming API ... and I do not have to
run repetitive searches every few seconds all day long as
with Search API?  The load savings on your servers would be
huge, not to mention the bandwidth savings!!!

-

The bottom line here is that I hope you have people who
understand this situation and are working to improve it, but
in the meantime my only options appear to be:

1- Use the Streaming API which is clearly an inferior method
for me because a broken connection will cause me to lose
important data without warning.

2- Hope that someone at Twitter can raise the limits for
me on their Search API so I can achieve my goals without
running thousands of searches every day.


There is no way for anyone at Twitter to change the pagination limits  
without changing them across the board.


As a side note: The pagination limits exist as a technical limit and  
not something meant to stifle creativity/usefulness. When you go back  
in time we have to read data from disk and replace recent data in  
memory with that older data. The pagination limit is there to prevent  
too much of our memory space being taken up by old data that a very  
small percentage of requests need.



-

As you can see I'm trying to find the best way to get the
data I need while minimizing the impact on Twitter, that's
why I'm making comments / suggestions like the ones in this
email.

So who should I contact at Twitter to see if they can raise
the search limits for me?  Are you the man?  If not, please
let me know who I should contact and how.


You can email api AT twitter.com for things like this, but as stated  
above the pagination limit is not something that has a white list.

[twitter-dev] OQ Codes as tweets

2009-07-13 Thread Peter Denton

Hello,
I remember reading the discussion of sending images through tweets, e.g.
quasimondo's post on flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/

I am wondering if people think you could do this successful with a QR code?
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes

-Peter

[twitter-dev] Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread Justin


I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not
quite there yet...

So how to return the rate limit for a given user?
Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate
(log in)

The obvious way to do this is via GET with:
http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the IP
address and not the user.

I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic
probably)  - could someone enlighten me?

Many thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting



Hi Justin,

The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries  
but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you  
using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password  
directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an  
incorrect password. You should also try calling verify_credentials to  
make sure the password is correct and everything is being received  
correctly by Twitter.


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Justin wrote:



I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not
quite there yet...

So how to return the rate limit for a given user?
Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate
(log in)

The obvious way to do this is via GET with:
http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the IP
address and not the user.

I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic
probably)  - could someone enlighten me?

Many thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets

2009-07-13 Thread Vision Jinx


You can also check out these QR code resources.

http://code.google.com/p/zxing/
http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

The source code is under Apache License 2.0

Cheers!
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qrchs=350x350chl=MECARD%3AN%3AVision+Jinx%3B%3B


On Jul 13, 10:14 am, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I remember reading the discussion of sending images through tweets, e.g.
 quasimondo's post on flickr 
 athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/

 I am wondering if people think you could do this successful with a QR 
 code?http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes

 -Peter

[twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets


So you want to encode text as an image...then translate the image to
text, send through twitter, translate the text to an image...and then
decode the QR code back to text?

I have no idea why you would want to do that.  There must be an easier
way. Convert the QR code back to text and send via twitter, or
something.

It probably wouldn't work anyways - the image would be too degraded
(judging by the picture in your first link) for the QR code to be
recognized properly.

On Jul 13, 12:14 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I remember reading the discussion of sending images through tweets, e.g.
 quasimondo's post on flickr 
 athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/

 I am wondering if people think you could do this successful with a QR 
 code?http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes

 -Peter

[twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets

2009-07-13 Thread Dean Collins


Grant, QR codes can contain more information than 140 characters.

 and yes it would work.

 

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
d...@cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357   New York
+61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
+44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).


-Original Message-
From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com 
[mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Emsley
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:40 PM
To: Twitter Development Talk
Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets


So you want to encode text as an image...then translate the image to
text, send through twitter, translate the text to an image...and then
decode the QR code back to text?

I have no idea why you would want to do that.  There must be an easier
way. Convert the QR code back to text and send via twitter, or
something.

It probably wouldn't work anyways - the image would be too degraded
(judging by the picture in your first link) for the QR code to be
recognized properly.

On Jul 13, 12:14 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I remember reading the discussion of sending images through tweets, e.g.
 quasimondo's post on flickr 
 athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/

 I am wondering if people think you could do this successful with a QR 
 code?http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes

 -Peter

[twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets

2009-07-13 Thread Dean Collins


Btw - 60 second QR codes overview located here www.Cognation.net/QR 

 

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
d...@cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357   New York
+61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
+44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).


-Original Message-
From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com 
[mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dean Collins
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:47 PM
To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets


Grant, QR codes can contain more information than 140 characters.

 and yes it would work.

 

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
d...@cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357   New York
+61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
+44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).


-Original Message-
From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com 
[mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Emsley
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:40 PM
To: Twitter Development Talk
Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets


So you want to encode text as an image...then translate the image to
text, send through twitter, translate the text to an image...and then
decode the QR code back to text?

I have no idea why you would want to do that.  There must be an easier
way. Convert the QR code back to text and send via twitter, or
something.

It probably wouldn't work anyways - the image would be too degraded
(judging by the picture in your first link) for the QR code to be
recognized properly.

On Jul 13, 12:14 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I remember reading the discussion of sending images through tweets, e.g.
 quasimondo's post on flickr 
 athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/

 I am wondering if people think you could do this successful with a QR 
 code?http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes

 -Peter

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread Justin


Sorry about emailing you my last response.

I understand what you're saying about firefox - though I'm having the
same issue with requests via Microsoft.XMLHTTP requests - it's gone
the end of the day now (I do have a habit of starting these things
when there's no time). Will carry on the fight tomorrow - at least I
have a direction now - will try some other request methods.
Many thanks once again for your quick responses.

@JustinReid

On Jul 13, 5:26 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
 Hi Justin,

      The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries  
 but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you  
 using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password  
 directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an  
 incorrect password. You should also try calling verify_credentials to  
 make sure the password is correct and everything is being received  
 correctly by Twitter.

 Thanks;
   – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
       Twitter Dev

 On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Justin wrote:





  I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not
  quite there yet...

  So how to return the rate limit for a given user?
  Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate
  (log in)

  The obvious way to do this is via GET with:
  http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
  I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
 http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

  However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the IP
  address and not the user.

  I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic
  probably)  - could someone enlighten me?

  Many thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets

2009-07-13 Thread Peter Denton

Thanks for everyone's replies, this is great.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:


 Btw - 60 second QR codes overview located here www.Cognation.net/QR





 Regards,

 Dean Collins
 Cognation Inc
 d...@cognation.net
 +1-212-203-4357   New York
 +61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
 +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).


 -Original Message-
 From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:
 twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dean Collins
 Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:47 PM
 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
 Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets


 Grant, QR codes can contain more information than 140 characters.

  and yes it would work.





 Regards,

 Dean Collins
 Cognation Inc
 d...@cognation.net
 +1-212-203-4357   New York
 +61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
 +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).


 -Original Message-
 From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:
 twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Emsley
 Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:40 PM
 To: Twitter Development Talk
 Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets


 So you want to encode text as an image...then translate the image to
 text, send through twitter, translate the text to an image...and then
 decode the QR code back to text?

 I have no idea why you would want to do that.  There must be an easier
 way. Convert the QR code back to text and send via twitter, or
 something.

 It probably wouldn't work anyways - the image would be too degraded
 (judging by the picture in your first link) for the QR code to be
 recognized properly.

 On Jul 13, 12:14 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello,
  I remember reading the discussion of sending images through tweets, e.g.
  quasimondo's post on flickr athttp://
 www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/
 
  I am wondering if people think you could do this successful with a QR
 code?http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes
 
  -Peter




-- 
Peter M. Denton
www.twibs.com
i...@twibs.com

Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c

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

2009-07-13 Thread John Kalucki


I concur with Matt.

Track in the Streaming API is, in part, intended for applications just
like yours. Hit the Search API and use track together to get the
highest proportion of statuses possible. The default track limit is
intended for human readable scale applications. Email me about
elevated track access for services.

It's possible that you are worrying about an unlikely event. Sustained
single topic statuses in the thousands per minute are usually limited
to things like massive social upheaval, big political events,
celebrity death, etc.

-John Kalucki
twitter.com/jkalucki
Services, Twitter Inc.




On Jul 13, 9:12 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
 Hi there,

      Some comments in-line:

 On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:51 AM, owkaye wrote:





  First, I wouldn't expect that thousands are going to post
  your promo code per minute. That doesn't seem realistic.

  Hi John,

  It's more than just a promo code.  There are other aspects
  of this promotion that might create an issue with thousands
  of tweets per minute.  If it happens and I haven't planned
  ahead to deal with it, then I'm screwed because some data
  will be missing that I really should be retrieving, and
  apparently I won't have any way to retrieve it later.

  Second, you can use the /track method on the Streaming
  API, which will return all keyword matches up to a certain
  limit with no other rate limiting.

  I guess this is what I need ... unless you or someone can
  reduce or eliminate the Search API limits.  It really seems
  inappropriate to tie up a connection for streaming data 24
  hours a day when I do not need streaming data.

 Streaming server connections are quite cheap for Twitter so tying one  
 up is much less work on the server side than repeated queries.





  All I really need is a search that doesn't restrict me so
  much.  If I had this capability I could easily minimize my
  promotion's impact on Twitter by 2-3 orders of magnitude.
  From my perspective this seems like something Twitter might
  want to support, but then again I do not work at Twitter so
  I'm not as familiar with their priorities as you are.

  Contact us if the default limits are an issue.

  I'm only guessing that they will become a problem, but it is
  very clear to me how easily they might become a problem.

  The unfortunate situation here is that *IF* these limits
  become a problem it's already too late to do anything about
  it -- because by then I've permanently lost access to some
  of the data I need -- and even though the data is still in
  your database there's no way for me to get it out because
  the search restrictions get in the way again.

  It's just that the API is so limited that the techniques I
  might use with any other service are simply not available at
  Twitter.  For example, imagine this which is a far better
  scenario for my needs:

  I run ONE search every day for my search terms, and Twitter
  responds with ALL the matching records no matter how many
  there are -- not just 100 per page or 1500 results per
  search but ALL matches, even if there are hundreds of
  thousands of them.

 We tried allowing access to follower information in a one-query method  
 like this and it failed. The main reason is that when there are tens  
 of thousands of matches things start timing out. While all matches  
 sounds like a perfect solution, in practice staying connected for  
 minutes at a time and pulling down an unbounded size result set has  
 not proved to be a scalable solution.





  If this were possible I could easily do only one search per
  day and store the results in a local database.  Then the
  next day I could run the same search again -- and limit this
  new search to the last 24 hours so I don't have to retrieve
  any of the same records I retrieved the previous day.

  Can you imagine how must LESS this would impact Twitter's
  servers when I do not have to keep a connection open 24
  hours a day as with Streaming API ... and I do not have to
  run repetitive searches every few seconds all day long as
  with Search API?  The load savings on your servers would be
  huge, not to mention the bandwidth savings!!!

  -

  The bottom line here is that I hope you have people who
  understand this situation and are working to improve it, but
  in the meantime my only options appear to be:

  1- Use the Streaming API which is clearly an inferior method
  for me because a broken connection will cause me to lose
  important data without warning.

  2- Hope that someone at Twitter can raise the limits for
  me on their Search API so I can achieve my goals without
  running thousands of searches every day.

 There is no way for anyone at Twitter to change the pagination limits  
 without changing them across the board.

 As a side note: The pagination limits exist as a technical limit and  
 not something meant to stifle creativity/usefulness. When you go back

[twitter-dev] Re: OQ Codes as tweets

2009-07-13 Thread EdPimentl

http://AgileCODES.com

-E
Gpro.ws

[twitter-dev] Re: Interested in hiring a twitter developer

2009-07-13 Thread Dale Merritt

Matt, Thanks so much.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:


 Hi Dale,

Check out the directory on our wiki at:
 http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers

 Thanks;
  – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev


 On Jul 13, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote:


 Hi, If there is an excellent Twitter app developer out there (very
 familiar with APIs), I want to develop an application for my company.
 Must be willing to sign an NDA and be able to verify your work.
 Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Where to start

2009-07-13 Thread shaundunne


Hi,

Im looking to get into some twitter development. My PHP knowledge is
OK - i understand most implementations. I wondered if anyone suggests
where i start? Ive read some of the documentation on the twitter API
but i am unsure if what i'd like to do is possible. Ive seen plenty of
php libraries out there, can anyone recomend one that best for using
the search API?

What i basically want to do is search for a hashtag, and then display
the results:

#this

Tweeted:1000 times
Re-Tweeted:100 times
Total tweets : 1100 times.

Is this possible to do?

thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Where to start

2009-07-13 Thread Peter Denton

Hello,
I think you should divide up your tasks to get comfy with the API.

1. Write a page to search for a hastag, then just display the results.
2. See what kinds of results you can drive from the data.

The reason I say this is because, 1 is easy, and displays how nice the API
is to get started.
2 is more difficult because a) you have to do a lot of counting, sorting on
your end to come up with those types of conclusions. Search is a moving
window, meaning, results in the past beyond a certain point, are gone, so
you wont be able to say, give me all for #iranelection, for example. So you
then have to get as much data as possible, possibly store it in a DB, and
then start crunching it.

Also, If you are going to have a consumer facing site, where actions are
specific to a user and need to be stored, then probably best to start with
oAuth implementation (http://twitter.abrah.am/) and go from there.

Peter

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM, shaundunne thedarkp...@gmail.com wrote:


 Hi,

 Im looking to get into some twitter development. My PHP knowledge is
 OK - i understand most implementations. I wondered if anyone suggests
 where i start? Ive read some of the documentation on the twitter API
 but i am unsure if what i'd like to do is possible. Ive seen plenty of
 php libraries out there, can anyone recomend one that best for using
 the search API?

 What i basically want to do is search for a hashtag, and then display
 the results:

 #this

 Tweeted:1000 times
 Re-Tweeted:100 times
 Total tweets : 1100 times.

 Is this possible to do?

 thanks




-- 
Peter M. Denton
www.twibs.com
i...@twibs.com

Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c

[twitter-dev] Re: Interested in hiring a twitter developer

2009-07-13 Thread Dale Merritt

Hi Ed,

I would like to send you an NDA before we discuss the project.  Can you
forward me your name, position, and company w/address?  Look forward to
discussing the project with you.  Dale

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 AM, EdPimentl edpime...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Dale,

 Here are just a few of the Twitter APPS we have developed

 Best regards,
 -E
 Gpro.ws
 http://Twitter.com/edpimentl http://twitter.com/edpimentl

 http://AskTwitR.com http://asktwitr.com/   (Real Time Twitter Search 
 Reputation Management)
 http://TwiTR.Me http://twitr.me/  (Cross Social Network
 Messaging Bus)
 http://WatchNtweet.Me http://watchntweet.me/ (Watch and Chat/Tweet)
 SocialTV
 http://TwebEX.com http://twebex.com/ (Twitter Based Online Web
 Conference Platform)
 http://TwitrShare.com http://twitrshare.com/ (Send Picture and Message
 to Tweet Contacts)
 http://TweetUp.ws http://tweetup.ws/  (Twitter based  MeetUp
 service)
 http://PiCurio.us http://picurio.us/  (Spell with FlickR, Let
 others SEE what you are saying)
 http://Tweet4Coupons.com http://tweet4coupons.com/ (Tweet to Save)
 http://TweetOrder.in/ http://tweetorder.in/ (Tweet Food Order)

[twitter-dev] Re: Interested in hiring a twitter developer

It would probably be good to take the conversation off list from this point
on.

Thanks,
Abraham

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:33, Dale Merritt mogul...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Ed,

 I would like to send you an NDA before we discuss the project.  Can you
 forward me your name, position, and company w/address?  Look forward to
 discussing the project with you.  Dale

 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 AM, EdPimentl edpime...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Dale,

 Here are just a few of the Twitter APPS we have developed

 Best regards,
 -E
 Gpro.ws
 http://Twitter.com/edpimentl http://twitter.com/edpimentl

 http://AskTwitR.com http://asktwitr.com/   (Real Time Twitter Search 
 Reputation Management)
 http://TwiTR.Me http://twitr.me/  (Cross Social Network
 Messaging Bus)
 http://WatchNtweet.Me http://watchntweet.me/ (Watch and Chat/Tweet)
 SocialTV
 http://TwebEX.com http://twebex.com/ (Twitter Based Online Web
 Conference Platform)
 http://TwitrShare.com http://twitrshare.com/ (Send Picture and Message
 to Tweet Contacts)
 http://TweetUp.ws http://tweetup.ws/  (Twitter based  MeetUp
 service)
 http://PiCurio.us http://picurio.us/  (Spell with FlickR, Let
 others SEE what you are saying)
 http://Tweet4Coupons.com http://tweet4coupons.com/ (Tweet to Save)
 http://TweetOrder.in/ http://tweetorder.in/ (Tweet Food Order)







-- 
Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
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: make links from description clickable

Tom,
We do not allow HTML in tweets. Only plain text. Any links sent will be
automatically linked on Twitter.com but it is up to third-party clients to
handle any linking within their application.

Thanks,
Doug



On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote:


 2009/7/13 Tom tombomb...@gmail.com:
 
  I'm kinda new to php and have no clue how to do this, but how would I
  make links from the description field clickable? I know I need to add
  a href=link here text /a but how do i go about doing it, below
  is the coding I'm using currently.
 
 
  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 
 
  ?php
  $username = RuneTweeter;
  $rssUrl = http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$username.rss?
  count=5;
  $rss = @file_get_contents($rssUrl);
 
  if($rss){
  $xml = @simplexml_load_string($rss);
  if($xml !== false){
 
  foreach($xml-channel-item as $tweet){
 
  echo substr($tweet-pubDate,0, -6).br /;
  echo substr($tweet-description,13).br /;
  echo a href=\{$tweet-link}\{$tweet-link}/abr /br /;
 
  }
 
  }else{
  echo Error: RSS file not valid!;
  }
  }else{
  echo Error: RSS file not found. Username invalid or requires
  authentication;
  }
  ?

 http://stut.net/projects/twitter/htmlify_tweet.html

 -Stuart

 --
 http://stut.net/projects/twitter/

[twitter-dev] change my image ; old profile_image_url seen in response to users/show

2009-07-13 Thread Rudifa


Hello all

Today I changed my profile image (several times) via twitter web page,
Settings - Picture

The changed picture appeared immediately in the web pages (That's a
nice picture ...), and the new url can be seen with the browser's Copy
Image Location :
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/311858510/me-bsp-6a_normal.png


However, subsequent users/show queries (from curl or from browser
address bar) return
responses that contain old urls - not the same one either :


curl http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/198907870/Snapshot_of_me_1_normal.png

curl http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.xml
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/311647072/Snapshot_of_me_1_normal.png


Is this a known problem ?
Does the twitter server perform some kind of caching that would
explain this ?


Any ideas for getting immediately an up-to-date response from twitter
server would be appreciated.


Rudi

[twitter-dev] Re: Interested in hiring a twitter developer

2009-07-13 Thread JasonWyatt


 Matt,

How can I add my name to that page?

Thanks
-Jason

On Jul 13, 10:06 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
 Hi Dale,

      Check out the directory on our wiki 
 at:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers

 Thanks;
   – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
       Twitter Dev

 On Jul 13, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote:





  Hi, If there is an excellent Twitter app developer out there (very
  familiar with APIs), I want to develop an application for my company.
  Must be willing to sign an NDA and be able to verify your work.
  Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Re: Interested in hiring a twitter developer



Hi Jason,

Send your information in an email to api AT twitter.com.

Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:45 PM, JasonWyatt wrote:



Matt,

How can I add my name to that page?

Thanks
-Jason

On Jul 13, 10:06 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:

Hi Dale,

 Check out the directory on our wiki 
at:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Developers

Thanks;
  – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
  Twitter Dev

On Jul 13, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote:






Hi, If there is an excellent Twitter app developer out there (very
familiar with APIs), I want to develop an application for my  
company.

Must be willing to sign an NDA and be able to verify your work.
Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Re: change my image ; old profile_image_url seen in response to users/show

2009-07-13 Thread Rudifa



Thank you, Clint

After I posted my questions I went out for a long walk.
Now, almost 90 min later, both queries (curl 
http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json
and curl http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.xml) do return the
updated image url.

Rudi

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

2009-07-13 Thread Blaine Garrett

Update: It works now. Thanks to everyone who tried to help me diagnose
the issue.

Today, Hedley posted about the system being off can cause the request
token to fail. This was my exact problem it turns out.
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/aadee92bc5c34f29?pli=1

Thanks again!
~Blaine

On Jul 9, 10:57 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:
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 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 is something external to the Django setup - be it on
either end of the requests.

Thanks again!
Blaine

1. Url I am trying to call the twitter API:
http://articulture.blainegarrett.com/signin/

2. View Code being called:
[python_code]
def signin(request):
from acsite.people import oauthtwitter
import acsite.settings as settings

# Step 1: Create an anonymous twitter oauth consumer
oauth_consumer = oauthtwitter.OAuthApi('Vx43QEmSCP1whLq1OSPg',
'MY_SECRET_KEY') # Blaine's Personal Dev Site keys

# Step 2: Fetch Request Token From Twitter
request_token = oauth_consumer.getRequestToken() # In here I get
the 401 error
raise Exception(request_token) # Never gets here
[/python_code]

3: I installed fresh copies:
python-twitter :http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
oauth-python-twitterhttp://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/%0Aoauth-python-twitter:
http://code.google.com/p/oauth-python-twitter/
oauth :http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/python/oauth/oauth.py

In the oauth.py, I changed the line 36:
SIGNATURE_METHOD = 'HMAC-SHA1'

4. With no other changes, I get: the urllib2 exception: HTTPError at /
signin/ HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
5. When I wrap the url opener code in oauthtwitter.py on approx line
102 in:
try:
url_data = opener.open(url).read()
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
raise Exception('GET REQUEST VERSION : Unable to connect to the
oAuth Service. Code: %s - Url: %s : Content - %s' % (e.code, e.url,
e.msg))

I get the exception:
GET REQUEST VERSION: Unable to connect to the oAuth Service. Code:
401 - Url:

https://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_nonce=51064775oauth_ti...
: Content - Unauthorized

6. Trying again with a new request, adding an exception of the key,raw
returned from build_signature_base_string in build_signature in
oauth.py line 563, I get:
key=MY_SECRET_KEY, raw: GEThttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth
%2Frequest_tokenoauth_consumer_key%3DVx43QEmSCP1whLq1OSPg
%26oauth_nonce%3D59181510%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-
SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1247173659%26oauth_version%3D1.0

Note trailing ampersand on the key returned. Could this be a query
string artifact?

On Jul 6, 10:59 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi Blaine,

Failing the validate the signature when getting a request token
is pretty rare. As you said the fact this all works from other
libraries seems to point to a library issue. The most helpful things
to see in these cases are:

• The actual HTTP request and response that fails. By seeing the URL
requested I can try and recreate the signature and find the mismatch.
• The signature base string used to create the oauth_signature
parameter. This usually requires adding some print statements to the
oauth library you're using but can be really helpful.

If you can send the HTTP request and response (headers and
bodies) that will be a good start. If you're not sure how to get them
from your library I recommend using a debugging proxy like Charles [1].

Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter Dev

[1] -http://www.charlesproxy.com/

On Jul 3, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Blaine Garrett wrote:

Hi,

I get the 401:Unauthorized Error every time I attempt to get a request
token. When I attempt to go to the URL directly in the browser (not
yet accessed to preserve nonce) I get a body of Failed to validate
oauth signature and token.

I am using the Leah's oauth client listed athttp://oauth.net/code
as well as the python-twitter (0.7-devel) and oauth-python-twitter
(v0.1)

I was able to get these same libraries to work on a different project
but not on the current one I am working on.
I have refreshed my tokens numerous times and also tried the working
ones from the other project. I also tried the tokens from this project
on the other project that was working and that WORKED.

[twitter-dev] Re: change my image ; old profile_image_url seen in response to users/show

This seems like a caching invalidation bug. We will be discussing it at
tomorrow's team meeting and I am hopeful the fix will be coming shortly.

Thanks,
Doug



On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Rudifa rudi.far...@gmail.com wrote:



 Thank you, Clint

 After I posted my questions I went out for a long walk.
 Now, almost 90 min later, both queries (curl
 http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json
 and curl http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.xml) do return the
 updated image url.

 Rudi

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

2009-07-13 Thread owkaye


 We tried allowing access to follower information in a
 one-query method like this and it failed. The main reason
 is that when there are tens of thousands of matches
 things start timing out. While all matches sounds like a
 perfect solution, in practice staying connected for
 minutes at a time and pulling down an unbounded size
 result set has not proved to be a scalable solution.

Maybe a different data system would allow this capability.  
But you have the system you have so I understand why you've 
done what you've done.


 There is no way for anyone at Twitter to change the
 pagination limits without changing them across the board.

This is too bad.  Are you working on changing this in the 
future or is this going to be a limitation that persists for 
years to come?


 As a side note: The pagination limits exist as a
 technical limit and not something meant to stifle
 creativity/usefulness. When you go back in time we have
 to read data from disk and replace recent data in memory
 with that older data. The pagination limit is there to
 prevent too much of our memory space being taken up by
 old data that a very small percentage of requests need.

Okay, this makes sense.  It sounds like the original system 
designers never gave much consideration to the value of 
historical data search and retrieval.  Too bad there's 
nothing that can be done about this right now, but maybe in 
the future ... ?


 The streaming API really is the most scalable solution.

No doubt.  It's disappointing that my software probably 
cannot handle streaming data too, but that's my problem not 
yours.  

Does anyone have sample PHP code that successfully uses the 
twitter Streaming API to retrieve the stream and write it to 
a file or database?  I hate PHP but if it works then that's 
what I'll use, especially if some helpful soul can post some 
code to help me get started.  Thanks.


Owkaye

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

2009-07-13 Thread owkaye


 I concur with Matt.

 Track in the Streaming API is, in part, intended for
 applications just like yours. Hit the Search API and use
 track together to get the highest proportion of statuses
 possible. The default track limit is intended for human
 readable scale applications. Email me about elevated
 track access for services.

I would use the Streaming API if I could, but now the 
problem is that my server side scripting language probably 
won't be able to use the Streaming API successfully ...

My software hasn't been upgraded in years, and when it was 
first coded streaming data via http didn't even exist.  The 
software has been upgraded once in a while over the past 
decade or so, but the last significant upgrade was more than 
5 years ago and it didn't have anything added to allow 
streaming data access at that time, so I doubt it can handle 
this task now.  

I have an email request in to the current owners but I doubt 
they know how it works either.  They never coded the 
original software or any of the upgrades.  They just bought 
the software without possessing the expertise to understand 
the code, so they really don't know how it works internally 
either.

My best guess is that it cannot write streaming data to a 
database as that data is transmitted, and that's what it 
needs it to do if I have any chance of using the Streaming 
API instead of a search.   So I'll probably have to use some 
other software to accomplish this task.  

Any suggestions which software I should use to make this as 
fast and easy to code as possible?


 It's possible that you are worrying about an unlikely
 event. Sustained single topic statuses in the thousands
 per minute are usually limited to things like massive
 social upheaval, big political events, celebrity death,
 etc.

You may be correct, but to plan for the possibility that 
this may be bigger than expected is simply the way I do 
business.  It doesn't make sense for me to launch a promo 
like this until I'm prepared for the possibilities, right?


Owkaye

[twitter-dev] Re: favorited always returns false in favorites/create

Confirmed on my end. Can you please create a new issue for this [1].

1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry

Thanks,
Doug




On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Thorsten Suckow-Homberg
t...@siteartwork.dewrote:


 Hey there,

 when calling /favorites/create/[id].xml

 the response body always returns false for the favorited property.

 Is this related to the (in)famous caching issues?

 To reproduce this error, go to
 http://twitapi.com/explore/favorites-create/#result
 and favorite a tweet that has not yet been favorited, and inspect the
 xml reesponse.


 Regards

 Thorsten

[twitter-dev] Tweets not getting to search.twitter.com

2009-07-13 Thread RandyC


I have a client whose account recently changed names after they fought
for successful control of their name from another Twitter user who
parked on it.  However, Tweets on this account name are not
searchable.  The account is not protected.  Has anyone ever had this
happen?  How do you get Tweets back into the search stream?  It's like
they somehow inherited some bad juju from the old account owner.  My
client put in support tickets that have not been addressed.  One was
summarily closed with no explanation.

Thanks,
Randy C

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets not getting to search.twitter.com

Randy,
Please see the help article on this very subject [1].

If this is for a developer or API related project please contact us off list
so we can discuss [2].

1. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646
2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Support

Thanks,
Doug




On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:10 PM, RandyC bioscienceupda...@gmail.com wrote:


 I have a client whose account recently changed names after they fought
 for successful control of their name from another Twitter user who
 parked on it.  However, Tweets on this account name are not
 searchable.  The account is not protected.  Has anyone ever had this
 happen?  How do you get Tweets back into the search stream?  It's like
 they somehow inherited some bad juju from the old account owner.  My
 client put in support tickets that have not been addressed.  One was
 summarily closed with no explanation.

 Thanks,
 Randy C

[twitter-dev] RSS blank

2009-07-13 Thread Handride


My ticket was closed, but I have no idea what the final answer is:

This feed http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:TBABlogsrpp=50
is not updating for me. Is there a reason why?

The feed is actually completely blank.  I was given the reason to
check 5 other pages and pretty much have to figure it out for myself.
WTF?

I am the point person for a group of blogs so we do use twitterfeed to
put out our RSS however I also post messages replying to people if you
use twitterfeed you're out?

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread Martin Omander


Hi there,

I'm getting the same thing, that is the rate limit for my IP address
rather than for the account... most of the time. I run this curl
command

curl -u username:password http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

where username and password are the account's real username and
password. Most of the time the response contains an hourly-limit of
20,000, for my IP address I assume. But occasionally the exact same
curl command returns an hourly-limit of 150. Very odd. I assume curl
handles the credentials correctly.

Any thoughts?

/Martin




On Jul 13, 9:54 am, Justin justin.realw...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Sorry about emailing you my last response.

 I understand what you're saying about firefox - though I'm having the
 same issue with requests via Microsoft.XMLHTTP requests - it's gone
 the end of the day now (I do have a habit of starting these things
 when there's no time). Will carry on the fight tomorrow - at least I
 have a direction now - will try some other request methods.
 Many thanks once again for your quick responses.

 @JustinReid

 On Jul 13, 5:26 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:



  Hi Justin,

       The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries  
  but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you  
  using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password  
  directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an  
  incorrect password. You should also try calling verify_credentials to  
  make sure the password is correct and everything is being received  
  correctly by Twitter.

  Thanks;
    – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
        Twitter Dev

  On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Justin wrote:

   I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not
   quite there yet...

   So how to return the rate limit for a given user?
   Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate
   (log in)

   The obvious way to do this is via GET with:
   http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
   I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
  http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

   However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the IP
   address and not the user.

   I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic
   probably)  - could someone enlighten me?

   Many thanks

[twitter-dev] Failed update doesn't return an error message?

2009-07-13 Thread Martin Omander


Hi there,

Earlier today I ran afoul of the rate limit for updates through the
API. But no error was returned to my app. To make sure my app wasn't
suppressing the error message, I sent an update using curl:

curl -u username:password -d status=testing 
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
-D headerfile

The status wasn't updated and no error message was returned. The
headerfile contained HTTP return code 200. But when I tried to enter
an update for the same account through the web interface at
twitter.com, I got an error message saying that I had posted too many
updates in the last hour.

When I used the curl command above and the update failed, I did notice
that the returned text element did not contain the status text I had
sent. Instead it contained my last successful update from 30 minutes
earlier. When there is a successful update, the text element seems
to contain the status update I just sent.

Should I examine the text element to verify that the update worked,
instead of checking for HTTP error codes? Or was this just a temporary
glitch today?

All the best,

/Martin

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting

Martin,
That's interesting.

Is there a pattern to this? Can you offer steps for recreation? It would be
helpful to have full header information when this does happen so we can look
to see if a specific machine that is returning incorrect information.

Thanks,
Doug



On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Martin Omander moman...@google.com wrote:


 Hi there,

 I'm getting the same thing, that is the rate limit for my IP address
 rather than for the account... most of the time. I run this curl
 command

 curl -u username:password
 http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

 where username and password are the account's real username and
 password. Most of the time the response contains an hourly-limit of
 20,000, for my IP address I assume. But occasionally the exact same
 curl command returns an hourly-limit of 150. Very odd. I assume curl
 handles the credentials correctly.

 Any thoughts?

 /Martin




 On Jul 13, 9:54 am, Justin justin.realw...@googlemail.com wrote:
  Sorry about emailing you my last response.
 
  I understand what you're saying about firefox - though I'm having the
  same issue with requests via Microsoft.XMLHTTP requests - it's gone
  the end of the day now (I do have a habit of starting these things
  when there's no time). Will carry on the fight tomorrow - at least I
  have a direction now - will try some other request methods.
  Many thanks once again for your quick responses.
 
  @JustinReid
 
  On Jul 13, 5:26 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
 
 
 
   Hi Justin,
 
The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries
   but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you
   using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password

   directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an
   incorrect password. You should also try calling verify_credentials to
   make sure the password is correct and everything is being received
   correctly by Twitter.
 
   Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev
 
   On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Justin wrote:
 
I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not
quite there yet...
 
So how to return the rate limit for a given user?
Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate
(log in)
 
The obvious way to do this is via GET with:
http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
   http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
 
However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the IP
address and not the user.
 
I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic
probably)  - could someone enlighten me?
 
Many thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed update doesn't return an error message?

Martin,
This sounds like issue 795 [1].

When you get the 200, are you sending the same (duplicate) text as the last
successful update? If so, this is the expected behavior.

However, if you are sending new (non duplicate) text and you are hitting the
update limit, you should be receiving a HTTP 403 response code.

Can you specify exactly what you are doing so we can debug?

1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=795

Thanks,
Doug




On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Martin Omander moman...@google.com wrote:


 Hi there,

 Earlier today I ran afoul of the rate limit for updates through the
 API. But no error was returned to my app. To make sure my app wasn't
 suppressing the error message, I sent an update using curl:

 curl -u username:password -d status=testing
 http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
 -D headerfile

 The status wasn't updated and no error message was returned. The
 headerfile contained HTTP return code 200. But when I tried to enter
 an update for the same account through the web interface at
 twitter.com, I got an error message saying that I had posted too many
 updates in the last hour.

 When I used the curl command above and the update failed, I did notice
 that the returned text element did not contain the status text I had
 sent. Instead it contained my last successful update from 30 minutes
 earlier. When there is a successful update, the text element seems
 to contain the status update I just sent.

 Should I examine the text element to verify that the update worked,
 instead of checking for HTTP error codes? Or was this just a temporary
 glitch today?

 All the best,

 /Martin

[twitter-dev] Re: RSS blank

There are no results for that search to be returned in the RSS feed.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3ATBABlogs

They account could be flagged for spam. There is a help page specific to not
showing up in search results but I can't find it at the moment.

Abraham

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 15:35, Handride patrickjpat...@yahoo.com wrote:


 My ticket was closed, but I have no idea what the final answer is:

 This feed http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:TBABlogsrpp=50
 is not updating for me. Is there a reason why?

 The feed is actually completely blank.  I was given the reason to
 check 5 other pages and pretty much have to figure it out for myself.
 WTF?

 I am the point person for a group of blogs so we do use twitterfeed to
 put out our RSS however I also post messages replying to people if you
 use twitterfeed you're out?




-- 
Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
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: Rate Limit reporting


The doc says: IP whitelisting takes precedence to account rate
limits. GET requests from a whitelisted IP address made on a user's
behalf will be deducted from the whitelisted IP's limit, not the
users.

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

If he's seeing a 20k limit, then that implies it's a whitelisted IP.
According to the above, that IP would take precedence over the account
user's passed in credentials.

Yes?

Both Matt and Doug answered this question though, so I feel like I
must be reading this wrong. :)

-damon
-- 
http://twitter.com/damon

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Doug Williamsd...@twitter.com wrote:
 Martin,
 That's interesting.

 Is there a pattern to this? Can you offer steps for recreation? It would be
 helpful to have full header information when this does happen so we can look
 to see if a specific machine that is returning incorrect information.

 Thanks,
 Doug



 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Martin Omander moman...@google.com wrote:

 Hi there,

 I'm getting the same thing, that is the rate limit for my IP address
 rather than for the account... most of the time. I run this curl
 command

 curl -u username:password
 http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

 where username and password are the account's real username and
 password. Most of the time the response contains an hourly-limit of
 20,000, for my IP address I assume. But occasionally the exact same
 curl command returns an hourly-limit of 150. Very odd. I assume curl
 handles the credentials correctly.

 Any thoughts?

 /Martin




 On Jul 13, 9:54 am, Justin justin.realw...@googlemail.com wrote:
  Sorry about emailing you my last response.
 
  I understand what you're saying about firefox - though I'm having the
  same issue with requests via Microsoft.XMLHTTP requests - it's gone
  the end of the day now (I do have a habit of starting these things
  when there's no time). Will carry on the fight tomorrow - at least I
  have a direction now - will try some other request methods.
  Many thanks once again for your quick responses.
 
  @JustinReid
 
  On Jul 13, 5:26 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
 
 
 
   Hi Justin,
 
        The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries
   but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you
   using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password
  
   directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an
   incorrect password. You should also try calling verify_credentials to
  
   make sure the password is correct and everything is being received
   correctly by Twitter.
 
   Thanks;
     – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
         Twitter Dev
 
   On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Justin wrote:
 
I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not
quite there yet...
 
So how to return the rate limit for a given user?
Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate
(log in)
 
The obvious way to do this is via GET with:
http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
   http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
 
However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the
IP
address and not the user.
 
I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic
probably)  - could someone enlighten me?
 
Many thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: RSS blank


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Abraham Williams4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
 There is a help page specific to not showing up in search results but I can't 
 find it at the moment.

That would be:

http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/16817

-damon
-- 
http://twitter.com/damon

[twitter-dev] Re: RSS blank

Actually this is the one I was looking for:
http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646

@dougw just happened to post it in a different thread. :)

Abraham

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 20:29, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote:


 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Abraham Williams4bra...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  There is a help page specific to not showing up in search results but I
 can't find it at the moment.

 That would be:

 http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/16817

 -damon
 --
 http://twitter.com/damon




-- 
Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham
Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.

[twitter-dev] Deleting post does not remove post from Twitter search

2009-07-13 Thread MC Andre


I made a post with a hash (#clownunion), then deleted the post to
revise it. When I search for that hash, I still see my old post.

[twitter-dev] Re: Deleting post does not remove post from Twitter search

This is a known issue:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=164

It looks like the search team is working on it.

Abraham

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 20:50, MC Andre andrew.penneba...@gmail.com wrote:


 I made a post with a hash (#clownunion), then deleted the post to
 revise it. When I search for that hash, I still see my old post.




-- 
Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org
Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham
Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.

[twitter-dev] Counting the bytes in Persian text (and other non English unicode)

2009-07-13 Thread Scott Carter


One of my users mentioned that my client application was much more
conservative in counting non English unicode bytes (specifically
Persian) than Twitter itself.

I've looked over the following thread and all the other threads
referenced within without discovering a good answer:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/a1a74365aa6827e7/4a45daee5a993e47

I've noticed a couple different behaviors.  With simple Unicode
(smiley face, arrow, etc), the Twitter Web interface apparently counts
each character as 1 byte when displaying the count.   Posting a long
string of these however can lead to truncation.   It seems perhaps
that the Twitter Javascript is not making an attempt to accurately
count Unicode?

With Persian unicode, the Twitter web interface seems to allow a post
of an amount of text much greater than I would have expected.  My user
provided a sample here that I used to experiment with: http://bit.ly/1LDsVJ

I'm using Javascript code based on the method described here:
http://www.inter-locale.com/demos/countBytes.html

Does anyone have a more accurate counting method in Javascript that
might be better with all types of Unicode?

Thanks,

- Scott
@scott_carter

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread alan_b


but the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting  doc also said:

If you have received verification from Twitter that your account and/
or IP address has been whitelisted you can verify your whitelisting
with the accounts/rate_limit_status method. Calling this method with
credentials will return the rate limit status of the authenticating
user and invoking this method without credentials will return the rate
limit status of the calling IP address. 

but my experience is calling http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
with a valid credential using OAuth always return rate limit status of
the calling IP address, not the given credential.

On Jul 14, 9:27 am, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote:
 The doc says: IP whitelisting takes precedence to account rate
 limits. GET requests from a whitelisted IP address made on a user's
 behalf will be deducted from the whitelisted IP's limit, not the
 users.

 http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

 If he's seeing a 20k limit, then that implies it's a whitelisted IP.
 According to the above, that IP would take precedence over the account
 user's passed in credentials.

 Yes?

 Both Matt and Doug answered this question though, so I feel like I
 must be reading this wrong. :)

 -damon
 --http://twitter.com/damon



 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Doug Williamsd...@twitter.com wrote:
  Martin,
  That's interesting.

  Is there a pattern to this? Can you offer steps for recreation? It would be
  helpful to have full header information when this does happen so we can look
  to see if a specific machine that is returning incorrect information.

  Thanks,
  Doug

  On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Martin Omander moman...@google.com wrote:

  Hi there,

  I'm getting the same thing, that is the rate limit for my IP address
  rather than for the account... most of the time. I run this curl
  command

  curl -u username:password
 http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

  where username and password are the account's real username and
  password. Most of the time the response contains an hourly-limit of
  20,000, for my IP address I assume. But occasionally the exact same
  curl command returns an hourly-limit of 150. Very odd. I assume curl
  handles the credentials correctly.

  Any thoughts?

  /Martin

  On Jul 13, 9:54 am, Justin justin.realw...@googlemail.com wrote:
   Sorry about emailing you my last response.

   I understand what you're saying about firefox - though I'm having the
   same issue with requests via Microsoft.XMLHTTP requests - it's gone
   the end of the day now (I do have a habit of starting these things
   when there's no time). Will carry on the fight tomorrow - at least I
   have a direction now - will try some other request methods.
   Many thanks once again for your quick responses.

   @JustinReid

   On Jul 13, 5:26 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:

Hi Justin,

     The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries
but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you
using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password

directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an
incorrect password. You should also try calling verify_credentials to

make sure the password is correct and everything is being received
correctly by Twitter.

Thanks;
  – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
      Twitter Dev

On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Justin wrote:

 I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not
 quite there yet...

 So how to return the rate limit for a given user?
 Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate
 (log in)

 The obvious way to do this is via GET with:
 http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
 I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

 However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the
 IP
 address and not the user.

 I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic
 probably)  - could someone enlighten me?

 Many thanks

[twitter-dev] get status of set group of people

2009-07-13 Thread Jeremy Weiss


A while back I set up a script to retweet posts based on hash tags. A buddy
saw it and asked if I could set up something similar for him. What he has,
is a group of people, each with their own twitter account, who want
everything they post to be retweeted by a separate account they have set up.

After not finding anything in the PHP class I was using that would do this I
started digging through the API. The best I've come up with is the
'statuses/user_timeline' but that will only allow me to grab the statuses on
one user at a time. Is there a way to submit multiple users in one call? If
not, could someone provide a bit of guidance on the best way to cycle
through a list of users, grabbing each of their statuses?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[twitter-dev] Streaming API -- Additional markup added -- Deletion notifications on track streams.

2009-07-13 Thread John Kalucki


In addition to deletion notices, limitation notices will be added to
track streams. These notices will be enabled on or after Tuesday July
14th.

Deletions will be enabled on or after Thursday July 16th, as
previously scheduled.

From the wiki,  http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation:

Streams may also contain status deletion notices. Clients are urged
to  honor deletion requests and discard deleted statuses immediately.
    * XML:  deletestatusid1234/iduser_id3/user_id/
status/delete
* JSON: { delete: { status: { id: 1234, user_id: 3 } } }

Track streams may also contain limitation notices, where the integer
track is an enumeration of statuses that matched the track predicate
but were administratively limited. These notices will be sent each
time a limited stream becomes unlimited.
* XML:  limittrack1234/tracklimit
* JSON: { limit: { track: 1234 } }


-John Kalucki
twitter.com/jkalucki
 Services, Twitter Inc.

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Additional markup added -- Deletion notifications on track streams.

2009-07-13 Thread Joel Strellner



Wow John, that was quick. Thank you.

-Joel

On Jul 13, 2009, at 7:53 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote:



In addition to deletion notices, limitation notices will be added to
track streams. These notices will be enabled on or after Tuesday July
14th.

Deletions will be enabled on or after Thursday July 16th, as
previously scheduled.


From the wiki,  http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation:


Streams may also contain status deletion notices. Clients are urged
to  honor deletion requests and discard deleted statuses immediately.
* XML:  deletestatusid1234/iduser_id3/user_id/
status/delete
   * JSON: { delete: { status: { id: 1234, user_id: 3 } } }

Track streams may also contain limitation notices, where the integer
track is an enumeration of statuses that matched the track predicate
but were administratively limited. These notices will be sent each
time a limited stream becomes unlimited.
   * XML:  limittrack1234/tracklimit
   * JSON: { limit: { track: 1234 } }


-John Kalucki
twitter.com/jkalucki

Services, Twitter Inc.

[twitter-dev] Re: get status of set group of people

2009-07-13 Thread JDG

This may seem like a bit of a hack, but they could set up that separate
twitter account so that it only follows that set of friends whose tweets it
should be retweeting. Your script could then pull the
statuses/friends_timeline[1] API for that account and use it to retweet
based on hashtags.

[1]
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-friends_timeline

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 20:50, Jeremy Weiss eccentric@gmail.com wrote:


 A while back I set up a script to retweet posts based on hash tags. A buddy
 saw it and asked if I could set up something similar for him. What he has,
 is a group of people, each with their own twitter account, who want
 everything they post to be retweeted by a separate account they have set
 up.

 After not finding anything in the PHP class I was using that would do this
 I
 started digging through the API. The best I've come up with is the
 'statuses/user_timeline' but that will only allow me to grab the statuses
 on
 one user at a time. Is there a way to submit multiple users in one call? If
 not, could someone provide a bit of guidance on the best way to cycle
 through a list of users, grabbing each of their statuses?

 Thanks,
 Jeremy




-- 
Internets. Serious business.

[twitter-dev] Re: API Curl: Status update result: http_code =0!

2009-07-13 Thread nordmograph


OK , I was testing on a shared host
I finally tested locally on a win32 with Curl and it worked fine
Twitter sending back a http_code 200 on successfull tweet.

Any Idea why the same script used on my host receives a http_code 0
whatever happens?
Thanks a lot!

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Additional markup added -- Deletion notifications on track streams.