[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth

2009-08-16 Thread Nicole Simon
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 22:26, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: The interaction seems unintuitive and redundant for users who have already granted our application 'trust' by installing it. I can't understand this notion. Every single day users are sheep enough to do stupid things -

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-16 Thread Dale Merritt
That was my main feedback as well so far. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Beier beier...@gmail.com wrote: Sam, it's a cool app, but my first test result is that you may want to redesign your UI. It looks too similar to Twitter site, it may confuse users and Twitter won't like it. You want to

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
I was trying to be patient with this, but seeing that no one is complaining, I'm afraid I might be alone here. One of SimplyTweet's server had not been able to access the API *at all*. Even /rate_limit_status (nothing to do with OAuth) timeout every time. Is this expected? No response when I

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Jonathan George
1. It's been roughly 10 hours. How about an update? 2. It'd be great if you would post this to status.twitter.com, in addition to the developer mailing list. Status is seen by more users, and the last update you have on it is rather ambiguous. When users see that the Twitter web interface is

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed page sometimes not actually returning a feed

2009-08-16 Thread sausman
http://status.twitter.com/post/163603406/working-on-unexpected-downtime On Aug 15, 8:37 pm, Jon Leighton j...@jonathanleighton.com wrote: Hiya, I am displaying a twitter feed on a website. Unfortunately sometimes when my website requests the feed, it doesn't get a feed, but the following

[twitter-dev] When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread boaz
Hello, I am new to Twitter API and I am trying to understand whether I should apply for whitelisting my application. The documentation 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth

2009-08-16 Thread Kevin Mesiab
When a user signs up at TwitPic, for instance, the same credentials they used for Twitter are now valid for use in uploading media. This lets users enjoy a bit of a mash-up with a single sign-on. Is this also true when authorized via openAuth? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C.

[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread Sam Street
Necessary, for example, if you use a particular account to notify your users of a certain event (sending them notifications). Large apps with high traffic might need to send over 150 alerts from the bot account per hour. Im thinking it's also used for apps that try to deliver tweets in

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Sean Callahan
Yeah, no one can login to http://TweetPhoto.com just tried minutes ago and still no dice. Twitter, do I need to provide anything to you or do something on my end to allow users to login through basic authentication on our site? I tried moments ago and could not login, but was able to login to a

[twitter-dev] OAuth on client side

2009-08-16 Thread JONNiE`
Hi, I was wondering is there a way to implement OAuth and Twitter functionality without server going out to twitter.com? We have servers that are closed to external websites. Yet the client side application should be Twitter Enabled. Is that possible?

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread twitscoop
Can't agree more with 2. Please guys, you need to convey a consistant and *visible* message to your users. On 16 août, 05:21, Jonathan George jonat...@jdg.net wrote: 1. It's been roughly 10 hours.  How about an update? 2. It'd be great if you would post this to status.twitter.com, in

[twitter-dev] Re: How do you store the social graph locally?

2009-08-16 Thread Wynn Netherland
We're using MongoDB and store them as arrays of integers as provided by the API. That makes for some simple yet powerful queries: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries#AdvancedQueries-ValueinanArray Wynn Netherland twitter: pengwynn http://floxee.com http://tweetcongress.org On

[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread srikanth reddy
http://groups.google.co.in/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/e75daf87a23a0a61# On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Sam Street sam...@gmail.com wrote: Necessary, for example, if you use a particular account to notify your users of a certain event (sending them notifications).

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread twitscoop
Same for us, please let us know if there is anything we can provide / do to restore oAuth access to our app. Some other comp. web-based apps work 100%, so this is kind of embarrassing... Many thanks in advance. On 16 août, 17:41, Sean Callahan seancalla...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, no one can

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread johan pretorius
Doug: The first step our operations team must take will likely cause API downtime, especially affecting OAuth. We apologize for the inconvenience and we will work quickly to reduce the impact to the API. We appreciate your patience and I will update you as soon as we know more. Do you guys

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Ritvvij
Me neither On Aug 16, 12:32 pm, johan pretorius johan.pretor...@gmail.com wrote: Doug: The first step our operations team must take will likely cause API downtime, especially affecting OAuth. We apologize for the inconvenience and we will work quickly to reduce the impact to the API. We

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread bosher
How is it that all the oAuth apps out there are down, but others like TweetMeMe are not? TweetMeMe works just fine, how is that possible? On Aug 16, 10:35 am, Ritvvij ritvi...@gmail.com wrote: Me neither On Aug 16, 12:32 pm, johan pretorius johan.pretor...@gmail.com wrote: Doug: The

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, bosherbhellm...@gmail.com wrote: How is it that all the oAuth apps out there are down, but others like TweetMeMe are not? TweetMeMe works just fine, how is that possible? HTTP Basic Auth still works I believe, as do any pre-problem OAuth tokens issued. ∞

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, The API team is actively debugging the OAuth issues as we speak. Please be patient as we nail down the problems. Thanks, -Chad On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, bosherbhellm...@gmail.com wrote: How is it that all

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Denton
Hi Kevin, With basic auth, its nice because you can use those credentials anywhere. I *was* working on a collaboration site, until I heard basic auth was going away, because I was able to use credentials for dozens of services around a single profile. I asked the same question about oAuth, i.e.

[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread Bill Kocik
I think the number of So how does whitelisting really work? threads that have taken place, and continue to take place on this list indicate a lack of clarity in documentation. Perhaps someone from Twitter can take the task of updating the rate limiting docs to more explicitly spell out how it

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
The API team is actively debugging the OAuth issues as we speak. This is what worries very much. I can't even do this without timing out: curl http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml? screen_name=hboon I have no API access *at all*. -- Hwee-Boon

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread bosher
Thanks for the update Chad.. On Aug 16, 10:52 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The API team is actively debugging the OAuth issues as we speak. Please be patient as we nail down the problems. Thanks, -Chad On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us

[twitter-dev] Re: php regex for twitter password

2009-08-16 Thread Abraham Williams
Do you mean to verify proper length and character composition? I don't know of publicized documentation other then passwords have minimum length of 6 characters. Abraham On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 01:33, Xpineapple kenned...@gmail.com wrote: I could probably play with regex all day and get no

[twitter-dev] Re: php regex for twitter password

2009-08-16 Thread Andrew Badera
At least 6 At least one capital letter At least one non-capital letter At least on numeric [Stronger] At least 8 At least one non-alphanumeric I'd love to provide a RegEx ... only : a) I live in the .NET world not PHP, and, b) There are TONS -- BAJILLIONS -- of password regexes available on the

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread bosher
Not sure if this will help or not, regarding oAuth Sign in With Twitter Works - Sign in With Twitter works if the user isn't logged into Twitter and has to enter their LP on Twitter Doesn't Work - If the user is already signed into Twitter, clicks Allow, it just hangs... On Aug 16, 11:40 am,

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Can you at the very least PLEASE publish something on status.twitter.com about the API being down and/or very unresponsive at times, so that I have a link where I can refer my users, so that they can see I am not shitting them? Dewald

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Chad Etzel
We've asked the keeper-o-the-blog to post something to that effect. Hopefully it will appear soon. -Chad On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Dewald Pretoriusdpr...@gmail.com wrote: Can you at the very least PLEASE publish something on status.twitter.com about the API being down and/or very

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
Can you confirm if OAuth access is the only known issue? I feel silly repeating the same question over and over again: Even / rate_limit_status calls are timing out on my server. I have no API access *at all*. -- Hwee-Boon On Aug 17, 5:21 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: We've asked

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Ryan Sarver
Everyone, Please see the updated post on status.twitter.com - http://status.twitter.com/post/164410057/trouble-with-oauth-and-api-clients. We are continuing to assess the issue and will report back when we know more. Thanks for your patience, Ryan On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Hwee-Boon

[twitter-dev] Oauth timeout?

2009-08-16 Thread benn
Hi guys, I'm still getting oauth timeout issues (on twitters side). Repro steps in safari 3.1: 1. go to twitterplaces.com 2. press 'Allow' 3. press 'Allow' 4. wait for eternity... If I restart safari, clear cookies and try again then it usually works. I'd sure like to have this fixed, because

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth timeout?

2009-08-16 Thread Ritvvij
1. Read http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/4655448e637baa81 2. Wait On Aug 16, 5:52 pm, benn bno...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I'm still getting oauth timeout issues (on twitters side). Repro steps in safari 3.1: 1. go to twitterplaces.com 2.

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Thanks Ryan, but unfortunately that does not help me. It does not tell my users that most, if not all calls to the API are being rejected with connection refused. In other words, from my perspective, the API is completely down / inoperative / unresponsive. My issue has nothing to do with OAuth.

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
From my side, it looks as if Operations are once again not allowing volume white-listed API traffic through the defenses. It's almost as if last weekend did not happen, and no lessons were learned from it. I am not once again going to throw my toys out of the cot. It was only on Friday that I

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Josh Roesslein
Anyone having troubles also with profile image / background update API endpoints? I'm getting 500 errors so I'm guessing the error is on twitter's end. Just want to be sure its not my code. Josh

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth on client side

2009-08-16 Thread JDG
How do you expect to use Twitter if you can't get to Twitter? On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:00, JONNiE` arse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there a way to implement OAuth and Twitter functionality without server going out to twitter.com? We have servers that are closed to external

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth on client side

2009-08-16 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, JONNiE`arse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there a way to implement OAuth and Twitter functionality without server going out to twitter.com? We have servers that are closed to external websites. Yet the client side application should be Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-16 Thread Matt Freedman
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Nicole Simonnee...@gmail.com wrote: It is going to be interesting if they try to go after twit - as far as I know this is a trademark which belongs to leo laporte and the trademark department only has so many classes available. not exactly knowing the US

[twitter-dev] Re: My Issue with the ReTweet API and my solutions

2009-08-16 Thread martinrd
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:00:30AM +0100, Paul Kinlan wrote: Hi Guys, When I saw the original message stating that the retweet API I was about to say straight away that I despise the idea, but I thought I would refrain - give it some thought. I still despise the idea and I

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread goodtest
I agree. Its hard to convince people to use twitter API if it goes down for days and that too this frequently :( On Aug 16, 4:35 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: From my side, it looks as if Operations are once again not allowing volume white-listed API traffic through the

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Ryan Sarver
Dewald, What exact issues are you having? Can you please provide packet dumps or more information so we can debug? Thanks, Ryan On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Dewald Pretoriusdpr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ryan, but unfortunately that does not help me. It does not tell my users that most,

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Ryan Sarver
Please test your OAuth apps to see if you are still having issues. We have made a number of changes in the network and they should be operational again. Please let me know if you are still having any other problems. Ryan On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ryan Sarverrsar...@twitter.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Ritvvij
Oauth integration started working for me. On Aug 16, 7:51 pm, goodtest goodtest...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. Its hard to convince people to use twitter API if it goes down for days and that too this frequently :( On Aug 16, 4:35 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: From my side,

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ryan, I am having exactly the same issue as last Saturday and early Sunday. Low volume API calls go through, but the moment you make a lot of calls from the same IP address, you are completely blocked and get connection refused. Operations need to do the same that they did last Sunday, when

[twitter-dev] Re: My Issue with the ReTweet API and my solutions

2009-08-16 Thread Will
I just wanted to point out a few counterpoints to Paul's arguments. I think it's important that they are brought up and I hope they are taken at face value and not construed in any way as a personal attack. 1. The mentions API evolved from the @reply convention and originally was also a 'user

[twitter-dev] If my site was being rate limited, would I get this error? Error #110: Connection timed out

2009-08-16 Thread mapes911
Hi all, We are developing a social network and part of the functionality is to allow the user to enter their twitter user name and display their public twitter feed on their profile. I am using Zend Framework and until recently, our testing was working just fine. A user could simply enter their

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Is anyone at Twitter going to look at this and get back with an update or answer? On Aug 16, 10:40 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan, I am having exactly the same issue as last Saturday and early Sunday. Low volume API calls go through, but the moment you make a lot of

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth on client side

2009-08-16 Thread Arseny Slutsky
I can use Twitter from CLient Side... What I am trying to avoid is calling Twitter from Server side 2009/8/17 JDG ghil...@gmail.com How do you expect to use Twitter if you can't get to Twitter? On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:00, JONNiE` arse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there a

[twitter-dev] Re: If my site was being rate limited, would I get this error? Error #110: Connection timed out

2009-08-16 Thread Josh Roesslein
Most likely its probably just a temporary issue going on with twitter's servers. It will probably clear up on its own once twitter becomes stable again. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:35 PM, mapes911 mapes...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are developing a social network and part of the