[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth question

2009-07-21 Thread Chad Etzel
Yes, that is the difference. -Chad On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:44 AM, hansamann wrote: > > thanx, good to know. > > I am also wondering about one thing: > > - if a user has authorized himself (using the authorize URL, not > authenticate... will try that out later) and does the same process > again,

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth question

2009-07-21 Thread hansamann
thanx, good to know. I am also wondering about one thing: - if a user has authorized himself (using the authorize URL, not authenticate... will try that out later) and does the same process again, e.g. get's redirected to the authorize URL again, but with a new request token of course, he is AGA

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth question

2009-07-21 Thread Abraham Williams
Last I heard it changes nothing currently. There might be some features restricted to it in the future like using the faster oauth/authenticate method. Abraham On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:03, hansamann wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am using twitter OAuth which works just fine, but I am not sure what >

[twitter-dev] OAuth question

2009-07-21 Thread hansamann
Hi all, I am using twitter OAuth which works just fine, but I am not sure what exactly this means on the oauth signup page: Use Twitter for login:Yes, use Twitter for login Does your application intend to use Twitter for authentication? What happens if I check this box? Will there b

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Jesse Stay
Josh, is there a way, without verify_credentials, to identify that users have changed their Twitter passwords (and therefore you are no longer able to authenticate for them)? For client apps, I don't see this being as much of a problem, but for server-based apps that run regular scripts on behalf

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter credentials

2009-07-21 Thread Petermdenton
Raj, You might also want to describe what you are trying to do, and some can help you to understand the way they do it. Thanks Peter On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:32 PM, raj wrote: 1.Is there any twitter api method (php) to get credentials both username and password 2.How to use oauth_token retu

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter credentials

2009-07-21 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:32 PM, raj wrote: > 1.Is there any twitter api method (php) to get credentials both > username and password > 2.How to use oauth_token returned in call back url, with this token is > there any way to get twitter credentials both username and password, No. -damon

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter credentials

2009-07-21 Thread Mandakini kumari
Hi You don't need credentials username and password. Better to store oauth token And oauth token secret in your database or cookie On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:02 AM, raj wrote: > > 1.Is there any twitter api method (php) to get credentials both > username and password > 2.How to use oauth_token

[twitter-dev] Twitter credentials

2009-07-21 Thread raj
1.Is there any twitter api method (php) to get credentials both username and password 2.How to use oauth_token returned in call back url, with this token is there any way to get twitter credentials both username and password, Thanks for your help in advance!

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Brooks Bennett
Thanks for posting this Chad! Doug, please keep us updated on how things progress with this issue so we can pass along guidance to our user-base. Hopefully the improvements will come in the near-term. Thanks for all that you guys do! Brooks On Jul 21, 3:45 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > Chad,Your

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Josh Perry
To be honest ever since the x-rate-limit HTTP headers were added we removed the call to verify_credentials from our Twitter API layer. Every time that our Twitter API layer does an HTTP request it squirrels away the header values and any requests to our API from the application for rate-limit inf

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Scott
Thanks for the update Doug. Does this still apply to OAuth apps? Also, if a user goes through an app and unsuccessfully attempts to login 15 times will that app be blocked from authenticating anybody for an hour or just that user? The previous change seemed to block the entire app from making an

[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Let's bring the discussion on the update to the new thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/2d68c74567bc9809 Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > Martin, > The change certainly went out prematurely which is admitte

[twitter-dev] Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Devs --A change shipped last week that limited the number of times a user could access the account/verify_credentials method [1] in a given hour. This change proved hasty and short-sighted as pointed out by the subsequent discussion [2]. We apologize to any developer that was adversely affected. Gi

[twitter-dev] Re: Registering our application as browser-based or desktop

2009-07-21 Thread Hedley Robertson
If you set the oauth_callback with a value of "oob", it will not redirect the user, but provide the PIN style authorization behavior. See this older post on the new style of calling these params: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/472500cfe9e7cdb9 Hope this

[twitter-dev] Registering our application as browser-based or desktop

2009-07-21 Thread Bradley Wagner
Hi, I work on a Content Management System solution in which we're currently trying to integrate Twitter. Here is the issue: Our software is installed, so while it is browser-based there is not a consistent URL to redirect people to and thus nothing that really makes sense to fill out when regist

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Kocik
On Jul 21, 3:48 am, sjespers wrote: > Because there is no AS2 > Twitter API, I'm using a server side API proxy. So, the Flash Lite app > connects to mtwit.net > mtwit.net connects to Twitter.com > mtwit > returns XML data to my app. Is there some reason the app cannot connect directly to Twit

[twitter-dev] Re: Help on posting a link on Twitter...

2009-07-21 Thread Tim
I'm assuming your link should have an & instead of a second ? . Bad http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q?q=100.0,50.0%20%28SPOT%20NAME%29"; Good http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=100.0,50.0%20%28SPOT%20NAME%29"; On Jul 21, 2:53 pm, Travis Williams wrote: > I could really use some pr

[twitter-dev] Help on posting a link on Twitter...

2009-07-21 Thread Travis Williams
I could really use some probably simple help on posting a Google Map link to Twitter, which comes from an app of mine through the API. Basically I'd want to post the entire link like this to twitter from my app: Here is the data I send twitter in the API: "is sharing the location for NAME. http:

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Chad,Your assessment is spot on. At the heart of search there are a number of data stores that accept queries (reads) while at the same time perform writes from an indexer. Heavy load -- large numbers of queries, large number of writes or both, or both -- can cause the write replication between th

[twitter-dev] How many ID's are returned on API Call -> blocks blocking ids

2009-07-21 Thread Tim
I'm wondering how many ids are returned when you ask for the authenticated users blocked id's. The other id calls return 5,000 per page, but I was unsure on blocks. Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user Id

2009-07-21 Thread jmathai
Depends on how many users sign up for twitter. You should be plenty safe with 32 bit signed integer. On Jul 20, 2:20 pm, mattlf wrote: > Hi > What is the size of a Twitter user Id ? > Thank you

[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?

2009-07-21 Thread Abir
yes just the twitgoo website On Jul 21, 8:38 am, Justin Hart wrote: > Hi, what app were you using?  Just the website? > > On Jul 20, 4:20 pm, Abir wrote: > > > Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 > > when i was inputting but the post count is 133? > > > On Jul 20

[twitter-dev] Re: encoding password

2009-07-21 Thread Chad Etzel
If you are POSTing the user/pass down to a script that uses curl to get the information, you should urlencode the username and password before you POST them then urldecode them once received by the curl'ing script. An & sign in a variable will screw up your POST variables if not escaped/encoded b

[twitter-dev] Search API: since_id is now unreliable

2009-07-21 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi API Team, A few of us have been discussing off list a funky behavior we have been noticing and now users are starting to notice. There is a problem for sites/apps like TweetGrid and TweetChat which auto-refresh tweets based on the Search API using the since_id. People are noticing that these

[twitter-dev] Re: encoding password

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
Basic Auth requires that the username and password are Base64 encoded, concatenated together with a colon (":") between them. Be sure that you're encoding the username and password without applying URL encoding or HTML escaping. An ampersand ("&") will never occur in a Base64 encoded string. An e

[twitter-dev] Re: using whitelisted account for getting multiple user statuses

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
It's possible to apply whitelisted rate limits to authenticated requests, whether the request is made with Basic Auth or OAuth. If the requesting user is whitelisted, the higher rate limit will take effect. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 23:38, BG wrote: > > My application retrieves status of multiple T

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API error {"error":"since_id too recent, poll less frequently"}

2009-07-21 Thread matthew
Chad, Good to know. Thanks for your help. Matthew On Jul 21, 2:13 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > That usually happens when the search servers get out of sync and the > since_id tweet hasn't been indexed on the other server(s) yet, so it > thinks it's a tweet from the future. > -Chad > > > > On Tue,

[twitter-dev] Re: tex

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Payne
Please see http://help.twitter.com/ for questions about using Twitter over SMS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 20:07, canpaul wrote: > > i have a metroPCS cell phone i cant get your texes whats up with that. > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API error {"error":"since_id too recent, poll less frequently"}

2009-07-21 Thread Chad Etzel
That usually happens when the search servers get out of sync and the since_id tweet hasn't been indexed on the other server(s) yet, so it thinks it's a tweet from the future. -Chad On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM, matthew wrote: > > I am polling the Search API and intermittently receive the foll

[twitter-dev] Search API error {"error":"since_id too recent, poll less frequently"}

2009-07-21 Thread matthew
I am polling the Search API and intermittently receive the following error: {"error":"since_id too recent, poll less frequently"} Is this to be expected or this something going wrong on the server side? Matthew Schrock

[twitter-dev] Search API error {"error":"since_id too recent, poll less frequently"}

2009-07-21 Thread matthew
I am polling the search API every 60 seconds and intermittently receiving the following error: {"error":"since_id too recent, poll less frequently"} Is this behavior to be expected or is there some problem? Matthew Schrock

[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?

2009-07-21 Thread Justin Hart
Hi, what app were you using? Just the website? On Jul 20, 4:20 pm, Abir wrote: > Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 > when i was inputting but the post count is 133? > > On Jul 20, 3:11 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you look at the sta

[twitter-dev] Anyone got a Gears compatible cell phone?

2009-07-21 Thread Nigel Cannings
I'm trying to get Gears working with my cell phone to do one-click status updates of my location. It works fine when I have GPS switched on, but should work from cell tower info, but doesn't - Can someone test it if they have a cell that does work? Ignore all the other stuff, I'm just fiddl

[twitter-dev] Re: json - user.following

2009-07-21 Thread Stoned
Thank you, that helped me alot :) On 21 Jul., 16:01, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was there to represent relationships between the user that the > information is being returned about and the user authenticating to make the > call. > The information is known to be unreliable th

[twitter-dev] Re: json - user.following

2009-07-21 Thread Abraham Williams
It was there to represent relationships between the user that the information is being returned about and the user authenticating to make the call. The information is known to be unreliable though and has been deprecated in favor of http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-friendships-ex

[twitter-dev] json - user.following

2009-07-21 Thread Stoned
Hi, I am making a Twitter Mod for Garry's Mod (HL2 Modification). When checking out the Tweets which I receive with json I was wondering about this: http://gtweet.pastebin.com/m3b888a6 As you can see, some Tweets have the entry user.following = true / false and some just don't have it. Can anyo

[twitter-dev] Is it possible to create a webslice to see / update his Twitter status ?

2009-07-21 Thread FremyCompany
Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have a webslice in IE8 that would allow us to see/modify our status on Twitter. I think webslice is a good way to integrate Twitter into IE, and it's pretty easy to implemented (you just need to add class="hslice" to an element and provide an url where

[twitter-dev] encoding password

2009-07-21 Thread RV
Hi, I have been using the twitter api for 2 weeks now and everything seems to work, but i have 1 problem with a certain user to get his user feed. Í'm using curl to retrieve the data but im getting the following error: /statuses/user_timeline.xml This method requires authentication. Out

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

2009-07-21 Thread victor castleton
Thank you Chris. It did worked. Victor J. C. -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Thomson Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:27 AM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitt

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

2009-07-21 Thread victor castleton
Thank you for the info; @ any rate is has slow down considerably, it seems to be manageable for the time being. VJC -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of victor castleton Sent: Wednesday, July 15,

[twitter-dev] Re: How to use Sign-in-with-Twitter in Web App with username and password ?

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Kinlan
Hi, The numeric user id is part of the access token (I believe it is the first part), however, on twollo.com I immediately call verify_credentials.json to get the account details of the authenticating user. Paul 2009/7/21 CG > > Hi all, > Sorry for a newbie question again but I am a bit confus

[twitter-dev] How to use Sign-in-with-Twitter in Web App with username and password ?

2009-07-21 Thread CG
Hi all, Sorry for a newbie question again but I am a bit confuse with the Sign-in-with-Twitter feature .. I came across some Twitter app , which let user key in their twitter account and password , then authenticate the user via API call . I came across also Sign-in-with-Twitter feature in Twi

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread sjespers
Thanks. So I was able to verify that my server is whitelisted. However, is 2 API calls enough for a "proxy"? Let me explain. I'm building a Twitter client in Flash Lite. Flash Lite currently only supports ActionScript2. Because there is no AS2 Twitter API, I'm using a server side API proxy. So

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Williams
Serge, You can always verify the whitelisted status of your IP or user through a call to account/rate_limit_status. For instance, here are my results: doug$ curl -u dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml 2009-07-21T08:29:35+00:00 19995 2 1248164975 Notice

[twitter-dev] Re: Keep getting suspended

2009-07-21 Thread sjespers
Thanks for looking in to this and for unsuspending my account. Did you also confirm that the server I am working from is whitelisted? How can I make sure that it is? If it's not, then I won't be able to release my application because everyone will get suspended who uses it then? Thanks, Serge On

[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie to seek advice on the flow of a twitter app with OAuth

2009-07-21 Thread CG
you can use localhost ? really ? just update the callback to http://localhost/xxx ? On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM, CG wrote: >> >> Please ignore my question, I already solve it. >> >> It seems like it required a 'real' callback URL to a