[twitter-dev] OAuth question

2009-07-22 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

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth question

2009-07-22 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 sven.hai...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I am using twitter OAuth which works just fine,

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth question

2009-07-22 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

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth question

2009-07-22 Thread Chad Etzel
Yes, that is the difference. -Chad On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:44 AM, hansamannsven.hai...@googlemail.com 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

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth question

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:44, hansamann sven.hai...@googlemail.com 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, e.g. get's

[twitter-dev] API limit confusion

2009-07-22 Thread sjespers
Hi there, I am a little bit confused by the API limits. The server for my application is whitelisted. So it's limit is 2 API hits. I use oAuth to authorize Twitter users. When I check an oAuth'd user's rate limit, he also seems gets 2 API hits. Is that true? Also, when I call the

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-22 Thread srikanth reddy
Hi I am also looking for this. The following post says there is no limit on calls from application http://tweetdeck.posterous.com/what-does-rate-limit-exceeded Rate limit is applicable on Get methods from ip/client. Can someone confirm if one can make unlimited calls (from an app) to get request

[twitter-dev] Get friends' screen names instead of friends' ids?

2009-07-22 Thread link2caro
Hi, I would like to know if there is any way to get friends' screen names instead of friends' ids? Thank you in advance. P/S: sorry if this post is duplicate, I cannot find my last post.

[twitter-dev] Re: A question regarding categorization of tweets

2009-07-22 Thread Jennie Lees
TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com) is the obvious answer, you can group your contacts into different panels and thus not have the noisy drown out the intelligent. Pretty sure other clients do it too, to different extents - a bit of googling and trying them out won't hurt if TD's not to your

[twitter-dev] Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph
Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do any of the data structures returned by API calls have it? The search API allows the search for a tude, but as far as I can see, tude is not part of the data structure returned.

[twitter-dev] Please listen to my idea.

2009-07-22 Thread WilliamH
Hi, I'm a Korean twitterer. There are two main social network services in Korea. Blog and cyworld. Most of Korean people have been using them. Recently, I could use twitter at first by my friend's introduction. It's cool, simple and very easy to use but not yet accustomed to using them. So

[twitter-dev] Re: Use sign-in-with-twitter , only return token and no token_secret

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
That text is not done very well. When the users hits the call back_url you still have to make a call to oauth/access_token. That will return the full token, user_id, screen_name. Abraham On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:29, CG learn@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I hv this doubt and hope that

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
I recommend that you both read: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting Serge: If you have an IP that is white listed all applicable calls from that IP will count against the 2 limit. Srikanth: That blog post says that twitter.com has no limit. It says nothing about anybody else not having

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

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Making calls to protected methods like direct_messages will fail if the token is no longer valid. It is also possible that the test method will fail with incorrect authentication info/oauth token. I have not tried it though. Abraham On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:10, Goblin

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-22 Thread sjespers
@Abraham: If that were true then calling rate_limit_status should give the same result... which it doesn't! On Jul 22, 3:26 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend that you both read:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting Serge: If you have an IP that is white listed all

[twitter-dev] Re: Get friends' screen names instead of friends' ids?

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Nope. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=265 On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:14, link2caro tran.minhq...@link2caro.comwrote: Hi, I would like to know if there is any way to get friends' screen names instead of friends' ids? Thank you in advance. P/S: sorry if this post is

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
In your first email you said When I check an oAuth'd user's rate limit, he also seems gets 2 API hits. so I'm not sure what you are seeing. Also it used to be that user requests from a whitelisted IP would reflect on the users limit unless they had hit their rate limit at which point it would

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

2009-07-22 Thread Bradley Wagner
Eh, ideally I wouldn't require my users to enter the PIN into our application. Should I just register my app as Browser-based one and redirect my users to our company's website? Also, this may be a question for the maker of our twitter library (twitter4j) but at what point after the user has

[twitter-dev] Authentication problem when using j2me

2009-07-22 Thread havis
Hello, I am implementing an application for mobile phones using j2me. I am having problems when trying to authenticate using basic authentication. I have reviewed the documentation and Twitter4J source codes but when I debug Twitter4J code the authentication works perfect, when i do the same from

[twitter-dev] Re: Get friends' screen names instead of friends' ids?

2009-07-22 Thread whoiskb
Abraham, I noticed you added this discussion into that issue, so hopefully that will keep adding some visibility to that issue. It seems like this is a pretty popular request that keeps coming up on this list, yet the issue has a status of Won't Fix. Twitter dev team, is there anyway that you

[twitter-dev] Re: Get friends' screen names instead of friends' ids?

2009-07-22 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:14 AM, link2carotran.minhq...@link2caro.com wrote: I would like to know if there is any way to get friends' screen names instead of friends' ids? On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:44 AM, whoiskbwhoi...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter dev team, is there anyway that you guys can

[twitter-dev] OAuth necessary when I don't need to take over people's accounts?

2009-07-22 Thread Bjoern
Hi, I am still a bit confused about OAuth. I see the point for apps that take over people's accounts (ie send messages to their streams etc.). But what if my app only accesses it's own account? The API Wiki sounds as if I should use OAuth in any case, but I don't really see the point? It only

[twitter-dev] Re: Please listen to my idea.

2009-07-22 Thread Andrew Badera
See: Twitterfeed www.twitterfeed.com Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera - This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:13 AM, WilliamH williamh1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a Korean

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth necessary when I don't need to take over people's accounts?

2009-07-22 Thread Grant Emsley
It will improve the security of your account since it won't be sending username/password in plaintext anymore. It's not that much more complicated to do. In fact, if you are just doing it for one account, you can run the sample code for oauth, write down the access token and secret, and just

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

2009-07-22 Thread Brooks Bennett
Matt, Here is another thread pseudo-related to the issue. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/b7b6859620327bad/77927af246c77907#77927af246c77907 Again, thanks to Chad. Brooks On Jul 21, 1:35 pm, matthew jesc...@gmail.com wrote: Chad, Good to know.  

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Joseph,I assume you mean the sentiment portion of the Search API? That is not available as structured data through an API call. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote: Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do any of

[twitter-dev] Re: Please listen to my idea.

2009-07-22 Thread Beier
Another option is to use HootSuite RSS-Twitter feature On Jul 22, 5:13 am, WilliamH williamh1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a Korean twitterer. There are two main social network services in Korea. Blog and cyworld. Most of Korean people have been using them. Recently, I could use twitter

[twitter-dev] Logging Out of Twitter Through API

2009-07-22 Thread Greg
Hello everyone, Just a quick question here - I originally though the the 'http:// twitter.com/account/end_session.xml' API function logs the user out of Twitter - however that doesn't appear to be the case with my application. Every time that I run that function - it doesn't log them out of

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph
That's what I meant. Short of doing a search, with tude[]=%3A) and store it in my cache (which will eat up a lot of API calls), do you have any hints on how to extract this out of the API? Thanks, Joseph On Jul 22, 10:52 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Joseph,I assume you mean the

[twitter-dev] Search API: geocode operator not working?

2009-07-22 Thread Chad Etzel
Did the geocode operator stop working? I just tried a couple of geocoded searches and got back 0 results. Here is a search for San Francisco, CA within 15 miles. curl http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=geocode%3A37.779160%2C-122.420049%2C15m Users are complaining to me as well, so I know

[twitter-dev] Create Favourite API Not returning new status

2009-07-22 Thread Coderanger
I recently posted this as a bug and was hoping if anyone else can verify it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=855 Basically this has changed, it used to return the status values once the favourite had been applied so favourited would equal true, now its always false.

[twitter-dev] Can't get friends/followers list after page 101

2009-07-22 Thread atifzshaikh
Hi, I have been trying to get the friends/followers list using the REST API but I always get an empty users node after page 101. The GET request URL looks like this: http://www.twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?screen_name=barackobamapage=102 I get the same result regardless of type,

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

2009-07-22 Thread jim.renkel
My concern with this proposal is that it opens up denials of service, not to twitter.com, but to associated sites such as twitpic, or my site twxlate, among others For example, Lance Armstrong is a heavy user of twitpic. It is very easy for anyone to find Lance's twitter ID (@lancearmstrong),

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: geocode operator not working?

2009-07-22 Thread matthew
Chad, It looks like your mi units parameter has been truncated to m. When I add i to the string it works for me. It may be that it is returning results withing 5 meters. Matthew On Jul 22, 3:25 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Did the geocode operator stop working? I just tried a

[twitter-dev] facing problem in twitter serach API access

2009-07-22 Thread Narendra
Hi All, I am trying write a simple Android program to get public timelines from twitter corressponding to a keyword. Given below is the snapshot of the code ...below code is blocking on request.getResponseCode() call. Anybody has idea what could be the problem?

[twitter-dev] Re: API limit confusion

2009-07-22 Thread srikanth reddy
@Abraham: Does it mean my consumer app (not Desktop client) cannot serve more than 150 authorized users/hour(if it is not white listed). It is hard to believe. If it is desktop client the 150 limit is understandable. The blog post says This limit applies to your Twitter account rather than the

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: geocode operator not working?

2009-07-22 Thread Chad Etzel
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:03 PM, matthewjesc...@gmail.com wrote: Chad, It looks like your mi units parameter has been truncated to m. When I add i to the string it works for me.  It may be that it is returning results withing 5 meters. Doh! You're right... added the 'i' and all is well.

[twitter-dev] facing problem in twitter search API access

2009-07-22 Thread narendra
Hi All, I am trying write a simple Android program to get public timelines from twitter corressponding to a keyword. Given below is the snapshot of the code ...below code is blocking on request.getResponseCode() call. Anybody has idea what could be the problem?

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

2009-07-22 Thread owkaye
One solution to this problem is to add to each twitter account another private ID. Jim, Wouldn't it make more sense to implement this private id thing on your own server? My thought here is that your service should maintain its own database of users, and issue a unique private id for each

[twitter-dev] Re: Can't get friends/followers list after page 101

2009-07-22 Thread atifzshaikh
Seems to be working now, I guess it was a temporary thing. Would help if I knew what caused it :) thanks. On Jul 22, 3:55 pm, atifzshaikh atif.zsha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get the friends/followers list using the REST API but I always get an empty users node after page

[twitter-dev] How to get consumer and secret key

2009-07-22 Thread Ritvvij
Hi, I want to integrate my ruby on rails website with twitter. For all the tutorials I have gone through they require me to use oauth Oauth requires a consumer key and secret key from twitter.com (http:// twitter.com/oauth_clients/new) However, my project is still in development phase

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get consumer and secret key

2009-07-22 Thread JDG
you could get a key and use the OOB (pin) flow. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 15:20, Ritvvij ritvi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to integrate my ruby on rails website with twitter. For all the tutorials I have gone through they require me to use oauth Oauth requires a consumer key and secret

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get consumer and secret key

2009-07-22 Thread Ritvvij
what is OOB (pin) flow? Sorry for the dumb questions am new to this On Jul 22, 4:40 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: you could get a key and use the OOB (pin) flow. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 15:20, Ritvvij ritvi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to integrate my ruby on rails website with

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get consumer and secret key

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
You will want to set oauth_callback when you get a request token. Check out OAuth 1.0a in the Twitter API docs. You can set it to be localhost. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:47, Ritvvij ritvi...@gmail.com wrote: what is OOB (pin) flow? Sorry for the dumb questions am new to this On Jul 22, 4:40

[twitter-dev] Re: Create Favourite API Not returning new status

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Verified and accepted this defect. In the future, let's keep noise down on this list by leaving this discussion to the issue tracker itself. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Coderanger d...@coderanger.com wrote: I recently posted this as a bug and was hoping if anyone else

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-22 Thread Joel Strellner
I wonder if there is a way that Twitter could do the verification. Self verification is always vulnerable. It'd be nice if Twitter had some sort of way to be involved, and tell the provider of the backed up data what level of access that a user has. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, braver

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

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Scott,This change will only affect Basic Auth, and will not affect OAuth applications. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Scott haw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update Doug. Does this still apply to OAuth apps? Also, if a user goes through an app and unsuccessfully

[twitter-dev] Lowering rate limits for unidentified Search API traffic

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
All --Last month we sent out the following call to developers [1] to add identifying User Agents and HTTP Referrer strings to their Search API traffic. This is part of a drawn out push to incent as much of our search traffic as possible to include this identifying data. To identify your

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-22 Thread braver
I don't see anything vulnerable in a reasonably done verification -- e.g., I'll ask you to grep a word in a day you have and tell me the count. I'll google you, and preferably see you here or on twitter. Heck, Twitter, I'll pay you guys a $1/day for backup fetch! Preferably then to the starting

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get consumer and secret key

2009-07-22 Thread Ritvvij
Can someone please help? I want to start development but oauth requires the consumer token and secret key as basic things to start. And I dont have 'em. Still operating on localhost. Can you please be very exact when you mention how to (am a newbie) On Jul 22, 5:46 pm, Ritvvij ritvi...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-22 Thread John Kalucki
Section 5) ii) b) and e) of the Gardenhose EULA cover this issue. On Jul 22, 3:41 pm, braver delivera...@gmail.com wrote: After we lost a few days of gardenhose, I'm wondering whether it would be OK for us gardenhosers to back up each other.  In case we do research, for instance -- as we do

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-22 Thread Dossy Shiobara
Did you just propose NNTP for Tweets? I hope we don't go reinventing the wheel. How many developers here were even alive in 1986? ;-) On 7/22/09 6:41 PM, braver wrote: After we lost a few days of gardenhose, I'm wondering whether it would be OK for us gardenhosers to back up each other.

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

2009-07-22 Thread matthew
Brooks, Thanks for the link - helps me understand some of the stuff I've been seeing. Matthew On Jul 22, 1:15 pm, Brooks Bennett bsbenn...@gmail.com wrote: Matt, Here is another thread pseudo-related to the issue. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

[twitter-dev] Re: The Gardenhose Cooperative

2009-07-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Did you just propose NNTP for Tweets? I laughed and sprayed milk everywhere. Bill for keyboard in mail. I hope we don't go reinventing the wheel. How many developers here were even alive in 1986? ;-) *feels old* -- personal:

[twitter-dev] Random updates coming from API

2009-07-22 Thread solelydivine
I keep receiving random updated coming from API, are you able to check the mater out and stop them from randomly posting on my profile, Thank you

[twitter-dev] Random updates coming from API

2009-07-22 Thread Devonne streeter
I 've been receiving random profile updates coming from API on my profile for the last 4 weeks, i have send request to solve the issue, yet it still happening thank you

[twitter-dev] how to destroy the tweet by HTTP POST?

2009-07-22 Thread Hitesh
I manage to post a tweet with HTTP POST. Then I dumped the result. It was in the XML format. I got this value within XML tag id2774581598/ id when I posted it successfully. I believe this is a twit numeric identifier we can use to destroy it but I'm getting 404 error. Now I wish to delete

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get consumer and secret key

2009-07-22 Thread Andrew Badera
RTFM On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Ritvvij ritvi...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone please help? I want to start development but oauth requires the consumer token and secret key as basic things to start. And I dont have 'em. Still operating on localhost. Can you please be very exact when

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get consumer and secret key

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
You get them after you create the link on the page you linked to in your first email. For a callback url put http://google.com. When you get request tokens make sure you add an oauth_callback parameter that is set to your localhost based on these instructions:

[twitter-dev] Re: New OAuth app signup

2009-07-22 Thread Abraham Williams
Use oauth_callback while getting the request tokens: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_frm/thread/472500cfe9e7cdb9?hl=enpli=1 On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 18:54, earscrew earsc...@gmail.com wrote: Using the form provided: http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/ If I have an

[twitter-dev] Weird stuff in /followers/ids and /friends/ids

2009-07-22 Thread David W
Hi there, I maintain a small unfollower notification tool at http:// twitdiff.appspot.com/. It relies on the /followers/ids and /friends/ ids API endpoints in order to track changes. Every 24 hours or so it compares the content of /followers/ids with its content at the time of the previous