[twitter-dev] Re: Is it okay to close a connection by opening a new one?

2009-07-15 Thread avinash srivastava
Hi, You can take some hint from here - http://hasin.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/collecting-data-from-streaming-api-in-twitter/ Avinash On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote: Why can’t you do this entirely in your code? Why do you need to close the connection

[twitter-dev] Re: Is it okay to close a connection by opening a new one?

2009-07-15 Thread owkaye
The Streaming API docs say we should avoid opening new connections with the same user:pass when that user already has a connection open. But I'm hoping it is okay to do this every hour or so ... If you're only doing this every hour, that's fine by us. Great, thanks for the

[twitter-dev] API Limits

2009-07-15 Thread Greg
Is anyone else getting 20,000 API calls when calling the rate_limit_status API? It doesnt matter who I authenticate with - it always shows 20,000 API calls for the user. Unless Twitter has given everyone 20,000 - I don't think that this is right. Thanks, Greg

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and pincodes...

2009-07-15 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Hi There, I'm starting to write my first Twitter application with OAuth support. When I test the authorization process, everything works fine, and I end up at the pincode page hosted by twitter. If we look at that page, the user that arrives here cannot go anywhere then. There is no link to the

[twitter-dev] TweetPhoto Open API Just Released (Photo Sharing Platform for Twitter)

2009-07-15 Thread Sean Callahan
The TweetPhoto Open API is now available to the Twitter developer community. It is the most expansive photo sharing API available within the Twitter eco-system. You can view the Open API at http://groups.google.com/group/tweetphoto/web Here you can get your API key here

[twitter-dev] Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
Hi, The problem is: how to find tweets that point to a certain URL. Most of those tweets would use a shortened version of the URL, and most of them probably bit.ly. Bit.ly does not provide a way to list all shortened versions of a URL, and creates individually shortened versions of each URL per

[twitter-dev] Re: API Limits

2009-07-15 Thread Abraham Williams
Are you getting this from an IP that is whitelisted? Abraham On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:20, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else getting 20,000 API calls when calling the rate_limit_status API? It doesnt matter who I authenticate with - it always shows 20,000 API calls for the

[twitter-dev] Re: Is it okay to close a connection by opening a new one?

2009-07-15 Thread owkaye
Why can't you do this entirely in your code? Why do you need to close the connection and reconnect? My software keeps the local data file open as long as the connection is open, so the connection must be closed before the file can be moved or deleted. Closing a file, moving it, and then

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in users That is an option, but in my experience, it is relatively rare. Nick

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 4:27 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in users That is an option, but in my experience, it is relatively rare. If you want to

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 4:17 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: The solution is to go about this the opposite way. Bit.ly will return the same shortened URL for any request using the same source URL.  So, use bit.ly to shorten the URL, then search Twitter for the bit.ly URL you get back.  

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 4:04 pm, Vision Jinx vjn...@gmail.com wrote: They also have an API... http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation#REST_API Yes, but they don't offer a way to see all variations of a URL, so it does not help

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth example in Java language

2009-07-15 Thread hanlho
Hello, Bumped into this one as well. I'm afraid no solution but the reason for the error is that the appengine does not allow opening a socket to or access to another host (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime.html#The_Sandbox) Twitter4J seems to be doing just that when trying to

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed API returning over capacity HTML page content

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:03 AM, J.D. jeremy.d.mul...@gmail.com wrote: This is really a pain because I'm calling the API and expecting JSON data back. Do I need to check the data each time and see if I actually got html by mistake? If so, then I'm uncertain what I should do with the html.

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:04 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: There's a horrible solution to that, too... tweet the original URL and then read back the status to get the Twitter-specific bit.ly URL.  Ugh. Actually that is a pretty good idea, thanks!!! It is horrible, but I can't think of a

[twitter-dev] Re: API Limits

2009-07-15 Thread iUpdateStatus
I am getting the 20,000 limit, but the requests are being made from a whitelisted IP. According to the documentation, whitelisted IP take precedence over authentication, so requests will count against your IP limit rather than the user's. As a general question related to this topic: For all the

[twitter-dev] Re: API Limits

2009-07-15 Thread Greg
I don't have a IP that is whitelisted. Only my twitter account is whitelisted. Thanks, Greg On Jul 15, 9:27 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Are you getting this from an IP that is whitelisted? Abraham On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:20, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Is

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:18 pm, Bjoern bjoer...@googlemail.com wrote: Actually that is a pretty good idea, thanks!!! Argh, except that Twitter rate limits will bite me :-( What I have implemented is a search web site that shows associated tweets to the URLs, so potentially it would generate a lot of

[twitter-dev] Re: API Limits

2009-07-15 Thread Bill Kocik
On Jul 15, 11:22 am, iUpdateStatus iupdatesta...@gmail.com wrote: As a general question related to this topic: For all the developers who are working on a solution that involves authenticated users, would it be more convenient to get removed from the whitelist (or never apply for it) and

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth example in Java language

2009-07-15 Thread Christopher St John
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:44 AM, hanlhohlho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm afraid no solution but the reason for the error is that the appengine does not allow opening a socket to or access to another host (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime.html#The_Sandbox) Access to other hosts

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bill Kocik
On Jul 15, 11:21 am, Bjoern bjoer...@googlemail.com wrote: Argh, except that Twitter rate limits will bite me :-( What I have implemented is a search web site that shows associated tweets to the URLs, so potentially it would generate a lot of requests (one page of search results is 10 URLs

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature Woah there!

2009-07-15 Thread Bill Kocik
I've seen this same (I believe) bug manifested in different ways, and it's come up on this list before. Twitter are apparently storing some sort of return_to URL or similar in your session, and sending you to it at inopportune times. A great way to see it in action is to click on the Block this

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Web Developer in the Boston area for our Twitter App

2009-07-15 Thread Saltline Studio
Greg - just sent you an emailthanks. Chris On Jul 14, 6:14 pm, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am interested in this. I am currently a developer for tweetsort (http://tweetsort.com) - a full twitter web client using PHP, Javascript, and MySQL. Please contact me at

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Bill Kocik bko...@gmail.com wrote: So for 10 URLs, you post 10 status updates, then retrieve your own last 10 updates in one call by retrieving your own timeline via / statuses/user_timeline(and that's the one hit against your rate limit). If Twitter will

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:45 pm, Bill Kocik bko...@gmail.com wrote: Status updates don't count toward  your rate limit (although Twitter may separately notice a large number of updates which are nothing more than URLs and mark you a spammer or something, but that's another discussion). Interesting,

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Web Developer in the Boston area for our Twitter App

2009-07-15 Thread Saltline Studio
We may entertain opening this up to people outside of the Boston area as well, so please contact me if you are interested in telecommute from anywhere. On Jul 15, 11:51 am, Saltline Studio chris5gil...@gmail.com wrote: Greg - just sent you an emailthanks.  Chris On Jul 14, 6:14 pm, Greg

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... just tried a few and sure enough, the bit.ly URLs generated by Twitter seem to be unique to Twitter, although consistent. Apparently Twitter has enabled bit.ly URL tracking. There's a horrible solution to

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, Please be aware there are update limits in addition to the rate limit. There are also the spam and abuse marshals looking out for accounts acting suspiciously. Posting a bunch of link-only tweets seems like it's very likely to run afoul of them and get the account

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 5:57 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Have you thought about using one of the APIs built for this,   like backtweets [1]? I thought about them, but only as a last resort. Did not know about backtweets - they look good, but they also have a limit of 1000 calls/ day. I had

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Joel Strellner
There are 3 API's that I know of that you can use: Twitturly (Ours - Private beta only at the moment) Tweetmeme BackTweet Between the 3 of us, I am sure you can accomplish whatever your end-goal is. I do not think BackTweet processes all URLs, so they may not have a URL, but I do know that we

[twitter-dev] twitter developer marketplace

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Denton
Hello *, First off, this is *not* a launch notice, rather I wanted to get some feedback from the dev community. We were prototyping a marketplace for twitter developers and people looking to hire devs/designers to do twitter stuff. Everything is contained in the twitter eco system, i.e.

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter developer marketplace

2009-07-15 Thread Dale Merritt
Simple, easy and useful. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: Hello *, First off, this is *not* a launch notice, rather I wanted to get some feedback from the dev community. We were prototyping a marketplace for twitter developers and people looking to

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed API returning over capacity HTML page content

2009-07-15 Thread J.D.
On Jul 15, 9:09 am, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: My code waits a few seconds and tries again if the JSON parse fails. A bunch of fails in a row and it gives up. Thanks. I have similar code around the web calls, but had not put it around the json parse yet.

[twitter-dev] Re: Searching for tweets that refer to an URL still impossible with bit.ly (and others)

2009-07-15 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 15, 6:36 pm, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote: There are 3 API's that I know of that you can use: Twitturly (Ours - Private beta only at the moment) Tweetmeme BackTweet Between the 3 of us, I am sure you can accomplish whatever your end-goal is. Thanks - they are better

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed API returning over capacity HTML page content

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
JD, Whether talking to the Twitter API or any other API on the web, always check the response code before attempting to do any processing of the response body. Proceed only if you got a 200 (or the response code you expected for that particular operation). Many things can go wrong in the process

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter developer marketplace

2009-07-15 Thread Wynn Netherland
Very cool. Nice work! On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: Hello *, First off, this is *not* a launch notice, rather I wanted to get some feedback from the dev community. We were prototyping a marketplace for twitter developers and people looking to

[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
This is as designed. That attribute is essentially being deprecated. But in the Streaming API, we don't populate that field because we don't know who the requesting user is that we want to see if the target user is following. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:35, Kris Jirapinyo krispyj...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null

2009-07-15 Thread Kris Jirapinyo
So are there plans to add following_count field like followers_count? I don't need to know exactly who the user's following, just how many users he's following. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: This is as designed. That attribute is essentially being

[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
That field already exists under a different name: friends_count On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:12, Kris Jirapinyo krispyj...@gmail.com wrote: So are there plans to add following_count field like followers_count? I don't need to know exactly who the user's following, just how many users he's

[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null

2009-07-15 Thread Kris Jirapinyo
Ah, ok I see it now. Thanks a lot Alex! -- Kris. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That field already exists under a different name: friends_count On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:12, Kris Jirapinyo krispyj...@gmail.comwrote: So are there plans to add

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter developer marketplace

2009-07-15 Thread shiplu
Great! I was looking for something like this. At least as a developer. -- A K M Mokaddim http://twitter.com/shiplu Stop Top Posting !! বাংলিশ লেখার চাইতে বাংলা লেখা অনেক ভাল

[twitter-dev] Rules About Making Money

2009-07-15 Thread MakeMoney
I have a business plan and I am looking to role it out. It involves using Twitter as a median. I have already gotten interest from parties willing to pay for my service, but I beleive it may infringe upon how Twitter will eventually make money. I do not want to invest in this service, and then

[twitter-dev] Re: Rules About Making Money

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Payne
Lots of people are making money via Twitter. Some sell their applications, others post ads directly on Twitter, others use Twitter content on their sites and include ads there; there are many different possible business models. As long as you stay within our terms of service - which, of course,

[twitter-dev] Re: Rules About Making Money

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, MakeMoney chicagolocalde...@gmail.comwrote: I have a business plan and I am looking to role it out. It involves using Twitter as a median. I have already gotten interest from parties willing to pay for my service, but I beleive it may infringe upon how

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter developer marketplace

2009-07-15 Thread ferodynamics
I signed up, looks good. I didn't get the @ confirmation, what's that about? One little suggestion, if you're going to have checkboxes for toolkits and libraries, how about listing some Javascript frameworks? Oh, and how about giving us a nice link (to our websites) on the profile pages? That

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter developer marketplace

2009-07-15 Thread Abraham Williams
You probably shouldn't let developers rate themselves: http://developers.twibs.com/developer/abraham/feedback :-P Abraham On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 16:19, ferodynamics duch...@solve360.com wrote: I signed up, looks good. I didn't get the @ confirmation, what's that about? One little

[twitter-dev] Re: Rules About Making Money

2009-07-15 Thread MakeMoney
Thanks, This was very helpful. I do not use any sort of bots or anything like that, and only people that wish to follow me follow me. I would like to streamline my services though for nationwide offerings and just wanted to make sure that I would invest in this and then have it shut off. Brian

[twitter-dev] Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Just wanted to let you guys know about a free service we're prototyping for shortening URL's that overcomes a few of the limitations of other shorteners. http://rt.nu/api/ Specifically shortened links include a screen shot 'preview' w/ a continue/cancel option and the full URL is displayed

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread owkaye
Just wanted to let you guys know about a free service we're prototyping for shortening URL's that overcomes a few of the limitations of other shorteners. Only one problems with all these URL shorteners, when the companies creating them disappear all their shortened URLs become orphans and

[twitter-dev] Re: Rules About Making Money

2009-07-15 Thread jmathai
On Jul 15, 2:54 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Even then, we reach out and attempt to work with the developer before taking any action. That's delightful to know. Seriously :). Working with APIs is often a pain but Twitter's managed to create a pretty good ecosystem for developers

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread Dale Merritt
. Interesting mods. Would I be able to use it with my own domain (Fol.la for branding)? FYI 1. inserted a link that it said was not valid (but works fine) 2. does not give me screenshot prior On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Just wanted to let you

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin Mesiab
That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We dereference all shortened urls before indexing tweets. In anticipation, rt.nu supplies the API call /api/stats/[short]/originalhttp://rt.nu/api/stats/8kw/original to grab the original url for archiving or displaying to end

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thomson
You may want to check what thumbshots is doing with the URL http://google.com/ . It's definitely not taking a screenshot of the correct site … -- Chris Thomson On 15-Jul-09, at 7:06 PM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We dereference

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Thumbshots.com is a paid service too. Major fail. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote: You may want to check what thumbshots is doing with the URL http://google.com/ . It's definitely not taking a screenshot of the correct site … -- Chris Thomson On

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread Dale Merritt
got this message below after clicking yes on do I want to continue, from one of your sites. My first impression of this feature is not so good for a few reasons, the least of which is the annoyance factor... Oops, Retweet.com hiccupped. Here's why: This cloud node could not resolve the ReTweet

[twitter-dev] Re: Failed API returning over capacity HTML page content

2009-07-15 Thread J.D.
Whether talking to the Twitter API or any other API on the web, always check the response code before attempting to do any processing of the response body. Proceed only if you got a 200 (or the response code you expected for that particular operation). Many things can go wrong in the process

[twitter-dev] Is it possible to control the source name

2009-07-15 Thread AccountingSoftwareGuy
Hi I am using the new oAuth method for communicating with the Twitter API. It appears the default behavior is to include the application name as the source of a post. For instance... [date/time] from DynamicTweets This is fine in most cases but in certain cases we want to make a post look

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature Woah there!

2009-07-15 Thread test test
+1 Even I keep hitting this issue.Hope twitter guys make oauth registration solid. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Bill Kocikbko...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen this same (I believe) bug manifested in different ways, and it's come up on this list before. Twitter are apparently storing some

[twitter-dev] Re: Is it possible to control the source name

2009-07-15 Thread Abraham Williams
Nope. If you post using an OAuth application that application is what it shows up as coming from. You can always send the user to http://twitter.com/home?status=text+goes+here Abraham On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 18:46, AccountingSoftwareGuy virga.rob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am using the new

[twitter-dev] Re: Is it possible to control the source name

2009-07-15 Thread victor castleton
-Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of AccountingSoftwareGuy Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:46 PM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Is it possible to control the source name

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature Woah there!

2009-07-15 Thread victor castleton
I don't know whether or no it will help, but I will try it any way. Thanks -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of test test Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:51 PM To:

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature Woah there!

2009-07-15 Thread victor castleton
-Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of test test Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:51 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature Woah there!

2009-07-15 Thread victor castleton
-Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of test test Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:51 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature Woah there!

2009-07-15 Thread victor castleton
-Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of test test Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:51 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature Woah there!

2009-07-15 Thread victor castleton
-Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of test test Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:51 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth related bug with signature

[twitter-dev] Tweetworks API is Available

2009-07-15 Thread MIkeLangford
Tweetworks brings groups (both public and private) and threaded conversations to the Twitterverse. If you would to add these features to your Twitter application please feel free to leverage our API. API Documentation: http://www.tweetworks.com/pages/api You will need an API Key but that is

[twitter-dev] Re: Does Rate Limiting Apply to Users or Clients?

2009-07-15 Thread LEE
If i have 2 accounts abc and efg, then i use a httpclient (java) as a client to get the friend's status from a web application (which use the Twitter4j), then how do this rate limiting for these 2 accounts abc and efg? each account has 150 requests? The how about the web applicaiton only have 150

[twitter-dev] Is the rate limiting on IP or User a/c

2009-07-15 Thread LEE
Hi All, I would like to ask, the default rate limit for calls to the REST API is 150 requests per hour, is the rate limiting on IP (client) or on User A/C? I have a web application to get the friend's status. I didn't a testing to on this web application, using an A/C ABC to keep on getting the