[twitter-dev] Re: search results using rpp and page parmeter stay the same
Abraham, thanks for replying. something still doesn't make sense... how come i always get 100 results? I'm sure there are more tweets that match this search criteria how can i get the max result per call? On Sep 28, 7:25 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: The 1500 result limit is for the REST API. The Search API is limited based on time which last I heard was around 7 days. Abraham On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 18:33, Yaniv Golan yango2...@walla.co.il wrote: Hi all I'm submitting this query to twitter search 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?ors=via +RTrpp=100page=15filter=links' and gets only 100 results, according to the api docs i can get up to 1500 results i also get this warning adjusted since_id to 4133426182 (2009-09-20 23:00:00 UTC), requested since_id was older than allowedsince_id removed for pagination can anyone please explain what i'm doing wrong here? -- 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: Throttling of filter stream
Hi, I also have a question regarding throttling of the streaming API when tracking keywords. We are successfully tracking keywords and reading messages, but would like to know when our query is too broad, and we are not receiving all the messages, so that we can back off. We would prefer to be getting all the messages for a finer-grained query than most of the messages for a broader one. Is it possible for the client to tell whether its query is being throttled? I checked the rate-limit data on the returned statuses, but these didn't seem to give useful information for the streaming API - I guess they only give data about GET requests to other APIs. We are using the default access level. regards, Robert On Sep 4, 4:20 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Zac, It's possible that the trackfilteris missing something, but there's probably other misunderstandings that are clouding things. I don't know how Tweespeed comes up with their numbers, but theStreamingAPI only makes available a proportion of all public statuses. Spam accounts, for example, are filtered out, as are protected accounts, direct messages, etc. etc. My guess is that Tweespeed is assuming that status_ids are assigned sequentially and they are just reporting the velocity of that column. Your estimate that 40% of tweets contain a link seems more than 2x too high. You can come up with a very accurate number by collecting a sampled feed for a few hours or days (there are diurnal and daily patterns to everything on Twitter) and dividing out. Even 10 minutes of the default sampled feed (the old spritzer) will give you an idea. Without knowing your sample size, day of week, or time of day, I'd say that your reported matches per minute and limited statuses per minute are pretty good. I don't think you are missing much, if anything, other than the statuses reported by the limit message. As a double check, I just ran a quick test with the highest level of track and compared the result against the firehose. In a one minute sample, the track feed had matched the same tweets as the firehose piped to 'grep -i http'. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc On Sep 3, 7:23 pm, Zac Witte zacwi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure thefilteris actually catching everything that I'm supposedly tracking. There are ~20,000 tweets per minute right now according to tweespeed. I'm getting about 1000 tweets/m and skipping on average 1500 tweets/m according to the limit notifications. That means myfilteris matching about 12.5% of all tweets, but I'm tracking http and supposedly 40% of all tweets contain a link so my filterwould seem to be missing the majority of all links. Is this making sense?
[twitter-dev] Re: Strange 401 errors when having dot in the status update
Thanks.
On Sep 27, 4:56 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:
From the OAuth spec:
5.1. Parameter Encoding
All parameter names and values are escaped using the [RFC3986] (Berners-Lee,
T., “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax,”
.)http://oauth.net/core/1.0a#RFC3986percent-encoding (%xx)
mechanism. Characters not in the unreserved character
set ([RFC3986] (Berners-Lee, T., “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI):
Generic Syntax,” .) http://oauth.net/core/1.0a#RFC3986 section 2.3) MUST
be encoded. Characters in the unreserved character set MUST NOT be encoded.
Hexadecimal characters in encodings MUST be upper case. Text names and
values MUST be encoded as UTF-8 octets before percent-encoding them per
[RFC3629] (Yergeau, F., “UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO
10646,” .) http://oauth.net/core/1.0a#RFC3629.
unreserved = ALPHA, DIGIT, '-', '.', '_', '~'
You can't encode .
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 02:59, guytom guy.to...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone has any idea about this?
I tracked the request it seems that the server doesn't like the fact
that the dot ('.') is also URL encoded. We're using flash AS3 and the
URLVariables class automatically encodes it this way, so for example
if we send go to nba.com
It comes out as status=go%20to%20nba%20%2E%20com in the POST data
The encoding of the . is the only one that fails, all other special
url characters work fine.
Thanks in advance.
GT
On Sep 24, 2:24 pm, guytom guy.to...@gmail.com wrote:
That's weird I know...
When our application has . for example nba.com in the status
message, the status update API call fails and we get401. other
requests work fine.
We use oAuth btw.
Any ideas?
GT
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[twitter-dev] Re: Throttling of filter stream
You will receive limit messages when your stream is limited. They are documented here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#ParsingResponses You may need to query on a few stop words before you get the limit messages to flow, as the proportion currently allowed is pretty large, even at the default level. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 28, 3:10 am, Robert Chatley rob...@metabroadcast.com wrote: Hi, I also have a question regarding throttling of the streaming API when tracking keywords. We are successfully tracking keywords and reading messages, but would like to know when our query is too broad, and we are not receiving all the messages, so that we can back off. We would prefer to be getting all the messages for a finer-grained query than most of the messages for a broader one. Is it possible for the client to tell whether its query is being throttled? I checked the rate-limit data on the returned statuses, but these didn't seem to give useful information for the streaming API - I guess they only give data about GET requests to other APIs. We are using the default access level. regards, Robert On Sep 4, 4:20 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Zac, It's possible that the trackfilteris missing something, but there's probably other misunderstandings that are clouding things. I don't know how Tweespeed comes up with their numbers, but theStreamingAPI only makes available a proportion of all public statuses. Spam accounts, for example, are filtered out, as are protected accounts, direct messages, etc. etc. My guess is that Tweespeed is assuming that status_ids are assigned sequentially and they are just reporting the velocity of that column. Your estimate that 40% of tweets contain a link seems more than 2x too high. You can come up with a very accurate number by collecting a sampled feed for a few hours or days (there are diurnal and daily patterns to everything on Twitter) and dividing out. Even 10 minutes of the default sampled feed (the old spritzer) will give you an idea. Without knowing your sample size, day of week, or time of day, I'd say that your reported matches per minute and limited statuses per minute are pretty good. I don't think you are missing much, if anything, other than the statuses reported by the limit message. As a double check, I just ran a quick test with the highest level of track and compared the result against the firehose. In a one minute sample, the track feed had matched the same tweets as the firehose piped to 'grep -i http'. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc On Sep 3, 7:23 pm, Zac Witte zacwi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure thefilteris actually catching everything that I'm supposedly tracking. There are ~20,000 tweets per minute right now according to tweespeed. I'm getting about 1000 tweets/m and skipping on average 1500 tweets/m according to the limit notifications. That means myfilteris matching about 12.5% of all tweets, but I'm tracking http and supposedly 40% of all tweets contain a link so my filterwould seem to be missing the majority of all links. Is this making sense?
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
The rev-share doesn't kill the deal for me, although it does feel steep, and just because Apple gets 30% for the app store, not sure that number works in all cases. Also 60 day terms are discouraging. But the killer for me is the support-only clause. If I can't own the relationship, that makes it a total no-go. On Sep 27, 4:14 pm, Jim Renkel james.ren...@gmail.com wrote: I agree! Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dossy Shiobara Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 14:08 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory Frankly, I don't even like the idea of read-access for an application like this. It would be nice if Twitter made authentication only as an option for OAuth. Better would be an option on the accept/deny OAuth page where users can select what access to grant to an application - defaulting to perhaps what access the application desires. On 9/25/09 8:04 PM, Jim Renkel wrote: What will you be using my twitter account for, other than authorization? If you reregister the site to only need read access to my twitter account, I would be a lot less reluctant to use it. -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com |http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network |http://panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
A small group of us (mainly Harvard students, but others as well) had similar questions a few months back and we've started digging into the research pretty heavily (also doing contracting/consulting). Our group is called the Web Ecology Project and we've released a handful of academic (but accessible and market relevant) papers about events and influence on Twitter. We also released some source code for identifying the language of Tweets using the Google API and python. We have a research relations arm and I've forwarded your contact information to our research coordinator Dharmishta who will probably be in touch soon. It might be worth looking over our papers. When you do, feel free to email me (or any of us) and ask questions. We've done some semantic analysis of tweets for our paper on the death of michael jackson and the response on Twitter using the ANEW method/dataset and NLTK. Our work can be found at http://webecologyproject.org and all of our stuff is released under a Creative Commons license so feel free to quote us and use bits where you need to. One of the hardest initial things that we encountered with Twitter was gathering and storing of useful and meaningful data but now we've gotten mostly past those issues and we are now starting to mine and analyze other social networks as well. Thanks, David Fisher Web Ecology Project On Sep 27, 8:11 pm, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all for the feedback. My main motivation for posting this thread was to gather some loose ideas. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, posting a link costs nothing but saved a lot of mine time. strict formed data - 140 chars, #tag, @username, RT etc. - that's why there are so many sites presenting graphs, charts, trends, tendencies etc. first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets - like take a tag, take all the words with tweets with this tag and on that base find tweets that might me related to the topic. Or finding and measuring tags that are in tweets with aforementioned one. I should keep in mind that my task is to present a satisfactory dissertation, not cure for cancer. And probably by the time I finish my work someone else will ship similar software independently. Nevertheless by creating it I will learn a lot of stuff about Twitter itself not to mention improving programming skills. On 27 Wrz, 20:38, Mitchel Berberich mitch...@mbsw.com wrote: Careful! Stefna was talking about semantic meaning. Not syntactic ... But I think you're right - Stefna, please us tell a bit more about the context. And - what do you think of when you say strict formed data? What exactly do you want to achieve? Maybe your promoter should tell you in more detail, what he expects from you? On Sep 27, 6:44 am, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: Good luck buddy.. Btw I'm curious, What exactly are you referring to or focussing on when you say 'syntactic meaning of tweets' ? I mean I'd appreciate a clarification on 'syntactic meaning to whom ?' and 'syntactic meaning of tweets in what context ?' Just wondering.. Best Regards, Nalin On 9/25/09, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter related topic. My promoter is the PhD at the Department of Computer Linguistics and our first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets. Do you have suggestions about the dissertation topic? Do you have any pending requests or prospect features you want to develop? I will browse known issues, I will think thoroughly about the topic but still - your suggestion might be very helpful. Even the shortest one (like good luck) will encourage me to more intensive research. *** *** *** Does anyone have any suggestions? My ticket has a six-digit number so I'm afraid I won't get any answer :) I'll probably ask for help during my work so I subscribe to this group anyway. Thanks in advance! -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
Dossy Shiobara wrote: It would be nice if Twitter made authentication only as an option for OAuth. Twitter already has this. It is called Sign in with Twitter. - Brian
[twitter-dev] Re: Search calls ever moving into REST API?
John, My key issue is that my application is hosted on shared infrastructure. In addition to mine, other applications are hitting the Search API from a common IP address. If there is a way to identify my traffic from others', and only rate limit it if it's responsible, that would solve it. I am using a (hopefully) unique and meaningful user-agent. Thanks, Aaron On Sep 23, 11:20 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: TheSearchAPIis served from a totally different infrastructure thanapi.twitter.com. As such, it has limits that are tuned to protecting a very different back-end. Even ifSearchwas served through theapi.twitter.com stack, the policies would still be driven by the back- end. If you are hittingsearchAPIlimits, there's a good chance there is a better way to service your application. If you share your use case, perhaps we can point out a better way to get the same results? -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 23, 8:41 am, Aaron Rankin aran...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen talk of movingSearchAPIcalls into theRESTAPIfor a while now. Twitter, are there any plans or dates that you can discuss yet? Is this still planned at all? This will be very useful to my application because ofREST'saccount- based rate limiting. I'm constantly beingSearchrate limited because I'm on Rackspace Cloud, sharing the same IP as other Twitter apps.
[twitter-dev] Re: search results using rpp and page parmeter stay the same
Hello, The 1500 result limit _is_ for the Search API. The results are limited to 1500 or the last 7ish days, whichever occurs first. Yaniv, the rpp (results per page) parameter is how many results will be returned with each request. The page parameter is basically an offset indicator. To get all 15 pages (1500 results), you would need to make 15 calls to get results: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=1 http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=2 http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=3 ... http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=15 There is not a way to get more than 100 results per request from the Search API. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Yaniv Golan yango2...@walla.co.il wrote: Abraham, thanks for replying. something still doesn't make sense... how come i always get 100 results? I'm sure there are more tweets that match this search criteria how can i get the max result per call? On Sep 28, 7:25 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: The 1500 result limit is for the REST API. The Search API is limited based on time which last I heard was around 7 days. Abraham On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 18:33, Yaniv Golan yango2...@walla.co.il wrote: Hi all I'm submitting this query to twitter search 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?ors=via +RTrpp=100page=15filter=links' and gets only 100 results, according to the api docs i can get up to 1500 results i also get this warning adjusted since_id to 4133426182 (2009-09-20 23:00:00 UTC), requested since_id was older than allowedsince_id removed for pagination can anyone please explain what i'm doing wrong here? -- 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] Twitter help for Agencies
I work for a leading new media marketing agency and am wondering if it will be possible to have a direct contact within the Twitter team to come to with issues. We have many big clients as well as celebrities already tweeting/are going to tweet, who will also certainly be interested in investing money in advertising when that comes along. I'm looking to have a direct contact who can assist me in managing these accounts as we do within other major social networks. Help me, Twitter! Thanks Tucker
[twitter-dev] is there a search operator to exclude a specific username from search results?
I'm going to be streaming tweets from an upcoming tradeshow and unfortunately, the organization that is running the tradeshow doesn't own the @username that matches their organization name. They had it, but then changed it to some obscure thing with underscores. Anyway, someone else now has the 4 character username that is also the main keyword for this upcoming tradeshow, but they aren't affiliated with the tradeshow and their tweets won't be about the show. So as I'm pulling in results for this unique 4 letter abbreviation, this users non-relevant tweets are showing up because their username matches. So my question is, is there a negative search operator that I can add that will exclude one specific username from the search results that are returned? I tried the formats -from:alexiskold and from:-alexiskold, but those didn't seem to work.
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter help for Agencies
Hi Tucker, Please see the Contact Us section of the About page: http://twitter.com/about#contact Thanks, -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Tucker tucker.gur...@gmail.com wrote: I work for a leading new media marketing agency and am wondering if it will be possible to have a direct contact within the Twitter team to come to with issues. We have many big clients as well as celebrities already tweeting/are going to tweet, who will also certainly be interested in investing money in advertising when that comes along. I'm looking to have a direct contact who can assist me in managing these accounts as we do within other major social networks. Help me, Twitter! Thanks Tucker
[twitter-dev] Re: is there a search operator to exclude a specific username from search results?
Hi there, -from:username should work. If it doesn't, please send the query (or unicast me if you want to keep it private) and we can take a look. example: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=jazzychad+-from:jazzychad If all else fails, you can filter the results on your end before displaying them to remove the unwanted user's tweets. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Rodney rodn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to be streaming tweets from an upcoming tradeshow and unfortunately, the organization that is running the tradeshow doesn't own the @username that matches their organization name. They had it, but then changed it to some obscure thing with underscores. Anyway, someone else now has the 4 character username that is also the main keyword for this upcoming tradeshow, but they aren't affiliated with the tradeshow and their tweets won't be about the show. So as I'm pulling in results for this unique 4 letter abbreviation, this users non-relevant tweets are showing up because their username matches. So my question is, is there a negative search operator that I can add that will exclude one specific username from the search results that are returned? I tried the formats -from:alexiskold and from:-alexiskold, but those didn't seem to work.
[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized error while posting status with Unicode characters (non english characters)
Thanks, I will try that! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:11 AM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: That's true -- %5BB6, for example, is NOT a UTF-8 encoded codepoint for a character. It's Unicode (or UTF-16). On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 20:54, Mageuzi mage...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had this same problem. I had to convert all multi-byte characters into their individual bytes. So, for example, for the character の: Your example has %306E, but the encoding that works for me is %E3%81%AE (three bytes for the three-byte character). On Sep 25, 5:00 pm, Satheesh Natesan satheesh.nate...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it is UTF-8 encoded. The request body for の脚本家が贈る is oauth_consumer_key=wmeO7Y20oMFa1ptKVY4WAoauth_nonce=3231757oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1oauth_timestamp=1253903495oauth_token=76084396-0M9ll2nghrjWhjALbH7YEHXizcLDNvoLfgXKfHQZQoauth_version=1.0status=%306E%811A%672C%5BB6%304C%8D08%308Boauth_signature=AMcLsF43vPP6Hmn8fv%2bZCMdqEnU%3d and the base signature is POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses%2Fupdate.jsonoauth_consumer_key%3DwmeO7Y20oMFa1ptKVY4WA%26oauth_nonce%3D3231757%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1253903495%26oauth_token%3D76084396-0M9ll2nghrjWhjALbH7YEHXizcLDNvoLfgXKfHQZQ%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26status%3D%25306E%25811A%25672C%255BB6%25304C%258D08%25308B Do you see anything wrong here? Thanks! Satheesh Natesan On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Carlos carlosju...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure you are encoding your posts as UTF-8? On Sep 24, 5:16 pm, Satheesh Natesan satheesh.nate...@gmail.com wrote: I am getting 401 Unauthorized exception when updating status with non english characters using my app. This exception is happening for any Japanese or Korean characters. Another interesting thing is that it is possible to post some other non english characters like Malayalam. The exception will not happen for single word in these cases, but occurs for multiple words. For example consider the following example ØáÇÞµæù çµdw - does not work ØáÇÞµæùçµdw - with space removed works. Base signature for ØáÇÞµæù çµdw which throws exception is POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses %2Fupdate.jsonoauth_consumer_key% 3DwmeO7Y20oMFa1ptKVY4WA%26oauth_nonce %3D4504682%26oauth_signature_method% 3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1253727596%26oauth_token%3D76084396- 0M9ll2nghrjWhjALbH7YEHXizcLDNvoLfgXKfHQZQ%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26status% 3D%25D8%25E1%25C7%25DE%25B5%25E6%25F9%2520%25E7%25B5dw and for ØáÇÞµæùçµdw which works is POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses %2Fupdate.jsonoauth_consumer_key% 3DwmeO7Y20oMFa1ptKVY4WA%26oauth_nonce %3D9388868%26oauth_signature_method% 3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1253727793%26oauth_token%3D76084396- 0M9ll2nghrjWhjALbH7YEHXizcLDNvoLfgXKfHQZQ%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26status% 3D%25D8%25E1%25C7%25DE%25B5%25E6%25F9%25E7%25B5dw OAuth client library I am using is in .Net Could you please help to solve this issue? Also I would like to know you support all unicode characters. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Satheesh Natesan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Can we update geo_enabled field in account profile via API ?
Hello, Really looking forward to the ability to include lat/long with tweets. However, since all of my users are on mobile devices, it would be most useful if they could change the geo_enabled flag via the API. Before you enable this capability could you allow the update profile method to also update the geo_enabled flag? -Paul
[twitter-dev] Re: is there a search operator to exclude a specific username from search results?
Chad, Thank you for rocking, sir! Not sure why -from:username wasn't working in my initial tests, but it's working perfectly now. --Rodney On Sep 28, 10:00 am, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, -from:username should work. If it doesn't, please send the query (or unicast me if you want to keep it private) and we can take a look. example:http://search.twitter.com/search?q=jazzychad+-from:jazzychad If all else fails, you can filter the results on your end before displaying them to remove the unwanted user's tweets. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Rodney rodn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to be streaming tweets from an upcoming tradeshow and unfortunately, the organization that is running the tradeshow doesn't own the @username that matches their organization name. They had it, but then changed it to some obscure thing with underscores. Anyway, someone else now has the 4 character username that is also the main keyword for this upcoming tradeshow, but they aren't affiliated with the tradeshow and their tweets won't be about the show. So as I'm pulling in results for this unique 4 letter abbreviation, this users non-relevant tweets are showing up because their username matches. So my question is, is there a negative search operator that I can add that will exclude one specific username from the search results that are returned? I tried the formats -from:alexiskold and from:-alexiskold, but those didn't seem to work.
[twitter-dev] How many Apps can we register under one account?
Hi. I am a developer and want to know is there any limit for registering an app per single account? I am developing apps and I want one app that can only be used by me and my friends, while others have another app for updating status, etc.. Thanks!
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Query Limitation (140 characters?)
(this could be overcome, I suppose, by performing multiple queries, but that isn't much of a solution if you want to use the stock twitter js search widget, etc) On Sep 27, 11:37 am, zapnap npla...@gmail.com wrote: Search API queries appear to be limited to 140 characters. I mean, that's cute and all, but it's also rather limiting. In my particular case I was hoping to construct a search for a particular term from a group of N Twitter users only (instead of searching everyone). Is there another way to achieve this? Are there any plans to allow longer / more complex search queries? Thanks! ..nap
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Query Limitation (140 characters?)
Hello, The limit is indeed 140 and most likely won't be going up any time soon. The reason for the limit is for performance reasons. In order to do timely queries we don't allow for longer/arbitrary queries which could be very complex. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM, zapnap npla...@gmail.com wrote: (this could be overcome, I suppose, by performing multiple queries, but that isn't much of a solution if you want to use the stock twitter js search widget, etc) On Sep 27, 11:37 am, zapnap npla...@gmail.com wrote: Search API queries appear to be limited to 140 characters. I mean, that's cute and all, but it's also rather limiting. In my particular case I was hoping to construct a search for a particular term from a group of N Twitter users only (instead of searching everyone). Is there another way to achieve this? Are there any plans to allow longer / more complex search queries? Thanks! ..nap
[twitter-dev] Re: How many Apps can we register under one account?
Hi Kalpesh, You can register multiple applications under one account, but someone will probably take notice if several dozen/hundred apps start appearing under an account. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Kalpesh kalp.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I am a developer and want to know is there any limit for registering an app per single account? I am developing apps and I want one app that can only be used by me and my friends, while others have another app for updating status, etc.. Thanks!
[twitter-dev] Whitelist req rejected with no reasons
Hi there ! I am a developer and requested to be on the API whitelist. My request got rejected and there was no reasons explaining why. It makes it hard to understand... Thanks for any clarification. Hang
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
Yes, you can check the Yes, use Twitter for login, or not. I'm not sure what this does, either way. But you have to select one of the Read Write or Read-only radio buttons under the Default Access type: heading. There doesn't appear to be any way to turn them both off. So it seems you have always request (and receive) at least read access to the data of user's that authorize your application to act for them on twitter. This is what I and others were trying to point out, and object to: you can't authorize without granting read access. Why authorize without granting read access? Just to verify that they are the twitter user they claim to be, without reading, or writing, any of their data. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Smith Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 09:32 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory Dossy Shiobara wrote: It would be nice if Twitter made authentication only as an option for OAuth. Twitter already has this. It is called Sign in with Twitter. - Brian
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist req rejected with no reasons
Sorry about that. Sometimes the mailer seems to leave out the rejection reason. Looking into it. If this happens to you, please email a...@twitter.com with the username you used to apply and we can lookup the reason. Thanks, -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Gnagnu gna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there ! I am a developer and requested to be on the API whitelist. My request got rejected and there was no reasons explaining why. It makes it hard to understand... Thanks for any clarification. Hang
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
+1. Agree. It is my product that is purchased. No more should OneForty own the customer relationship than an affiliate of mine should own the relationship for having referred a sale to me. The other thing that really bugs is me the payment of the 70% in the form of a gift or donation. I cannot show that in the Sales Revenue of my business. If the amount becomes substantial, how do I explain to the tax man why my for-profit incorporated company is getting all these gifts and donations? And how do I do the accounting for my product units that were sold, but did not generate any top-line revenue? The idea behind OneForty is novel, but I think they face an uphill battle, because they do not have the monopoly on app distribution that the Apple App Store has. Hence, it will not work to try and apply the same business rules as the Apple App Store. Dewald On Sep 28, 11:10 am, Waldron Faulkner waldronfaulk...@gmail.com wrote: But the killer for me is the support-only clause. If I can't own the relationship, that makes it a total no-go.
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
Unfortunately, best as I can ascertain, that would violate the OAuth spec (I may, of course, be wrong -- I often am :-) ). There are RW tokens and RO tokens, but no Auth-only tokens. The best you could hope for, given the current state of the spec, would be for an app to simply get, then discard, the Access token. This is a good use case for OAuth, and perhaps should be brought up with them as a scenario for future versions of the spec. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 14:47, Jim Renkel james.ren...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you can check the Yes, use Twitter for login, or not. I'm not sure what this does, either way. But you have to select one of the Read Write or Read-only radio buttons under the Default Access type: heading. There doesn't appear to be any way to turn them both off. So it seems you have always request (and receive) at least read access to the data of user's that authorize your application to act for them on twitter. This is what I and others were trying to point out, and object to: you can't authorize without granting read access. Why authorize without granting read access? Just to verify that they are the twitter user they claim to be, without reading, or writing, any of their data. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Smith Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 09:32 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory Dossy Shiobara wrote: It would be nice if Twitter made authentication only as an option for OAuth. Twitter already has this. It is called Sign in with Twitter. - Brian -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: search results using rpp and page parmeter stay the same
Thanks for that Chad On Sep 28, 6:03 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello, The 1500 result limit _is_ for the Search API. The results are limited to 1500 or the last 7ish days, whichever occurs first. Yaniv, the rpp (results per page) parameter is how many results will be returned with each request. The page parameter is basically an offset indicator. To get all 15 pages (1500 results), you would need to make 15 calls to get results: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=1http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=2http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=3 ...http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foorpp=100page=15 There is not a way to get more than 100 results per request from the Search API. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Yaniv Golan yango2...@walla.co.il wrote: Abraham, thanks for replying. something still doesn't make sense... how come i always get 100 results? I'm sure there are more tweets that match this search criteria how can i get the max result per call? On Sep 28, 7:25 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: The 1500 result limit is for the REST API. The Search API is limited based on time which last I heard was around 7 days. Abraham On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 18:33, Yaniv Golan yango2...@walla.co.il wrote: Hi all I'm submitting this query to twitter search 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?ors=via +RTrpp=100page=15filter=links' and gets only 100 results, according to the api docs i can get up to 1500 results i also get this warning adjusted since_id to 4133426182 (2009-09-20 23:00:00 UTC), requested since_id was older than allowedsince_id removed for pagination can anyone please explain what i'm doing wrong here? -- 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] How does search get affected by Retweet APIs
Hi, How do search results get affected when the ReTweet APIs become public. Do the search results consider Retweets as separate tweets and show them multiple times. Or do they ignore RTs since they dont contain any new content. As a developer at Twaller.com, I get frustrated when multiple Retweets get returned by search. Since there is sometimes no pattern to identifying Retweets (Repople use RT in many ways), a text matching algorithm frequently does not identify the retweets. I wonder if the Retweet functionality will solve my problem. Thanks, Amitab Follow Twaller @mytwaller PS: Apologize if this has lalready been answered, but I couldn't find it in previous posts
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Query Limitation (140 characters?)
If you need to search specific users why don't you use the Shadow API and grab all of their tweets and then search them locally? On Sep 28, 3:14 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello, The limit is indeed 140 and most likely won't be going up any time soon. The reason for the limit is for performance reasons. In order to do timely queries we don't allow for longer/arbitrary queries which could be very complex. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM, zapnap npla...@gmail.com wrote: (this could be overcome, I suppose, by performing multiple queries, but that isn't much of a solution if you want to use the stock twitter js search widget, etc) On Sep 27, 11:37 am, zapnap npla...@gmail.com wrote: Search API queries appear to be limited to 140 characters. I mean, that's cute and all, but it's also rather limiting. In my particular case I was hoping to construct a search for a particular term from a group of N Twitter users only (instead of searching everyone). Is there another way to achieve this? Are there any plans to allow longer / more complex search queries? Thanks! ..nap
[twitter-dev] OAuth client set to Read Write, but write access is denied
Has anyone encountered this problem? The Default Access type of my app is set to Read Write, and my app can authenticate with OAuth and perform all sorts of reads with no problem, but whenever I try to write (specifically when I try to tweet from my app) I get a 401 Operation could not be completed error. I'm developing on an iPhone using the MGTwitterEngine 1.0.8 with OAuth support, and using a secure (https) connection.
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
I too could be wrong, and often am, but I don't see anything in the OAuth specification (http://oauth.net/core/1.0a) about what an access token could or does allow access to, i.e., reading resources as opposed to reading and writing resources. The spec seems to be completely silent on the granularity of access that is granted to resources via its mechanisms. So I think twitter would be perfectly legitimate in granting authentication only, authentication and read access, and authentication and read and write access levels of authorization. I have previously proposed that the ability to geocode tweets be an additional level of authorization, and I could also see additional levels, or orthogonal capabilities, for, e.g., enabling geo-coding, access to e-mail addresses and device phone numbers, etc. Comments expected and welcome. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of JDG Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 17:20 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory Unfortunately, best as I can ascertain, that would violate the OAuth spec (I may, of course, be wrong -- I often am :-) ). There are RW tokens and RO tokens, but no Auth-only tokens. The best you could hope for, given the current state of the spec, would be for an app to simply get, then discard, the Access token. This is a good use case for OAuth, and perhaps should be brought up with them as a scenario for future versions of the spec. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 14:47, Jim Renkel james.ren...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you can check the Yes, use Twitter for login, or not. I'm not sure what this does, either way. But you have to select one of the Read Write or Read-only radio buttons under the Default Access type: heading. There doesn't appear to be any way to turn them both off. So it seems you have always request (and receive) at least read access to the data of user's that authorize your application to act for them on twitter. This is what I and others were trying to point out, and object to: you can't authorize without granting read access. Why authorize without granting read access? Just to verify that they are the twitter user they claim to be, without reading, or writing, any of their data. Jim Renkel -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Smith Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 09:32 To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory Dossy Shiobara wrote: It would be nice if Twitter made authentication only as an option for OAuth. Twitter already has this. It is called Sign in with Twitter. - Brian -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: The other thing that really bugs is me the payment of the 70% in the form of a gift or donation. I cannot show that in the Sales Revenue of my business. If the amount becomes substantial, how do I explain to the tax man why my for-profit incorporated company is getting all these gifts and donations? And how do I do the accounting for my product units that were sold, but did not generate any top-line revenue? Not sure how it works in other countries, but in the U.S. revenue is revenue is revenue; most gifts are income to the person who receives them. Even if you are a non-profit, if you're making a profit from a substantial part of your operations, you can end up owing taxes on it, even if you call the income a gift. Otherwise, everybody would call everything a gift and nobody would pay taxes! The fundamental rule is that when the gift is actually in exchange for something of value, it is income to the receiver and not deductible as a donation to the giver. Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: About the oneforty application directory
Nick, Then I don't understand. Why would OneForty elect to pay the developer's 70% in the form of a gift or donation to the developer? Dewald On Sep 28, 8:34 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how it works in other countries, but in the U.S. revenue is revenue is revenue; most gifts are income to the person who receives them. Even if you are a non-profit, if you're making a profit from a substantial part of your operations, you can end up owing taxes on it, even if you call the income a gift. Otherwise, everybody would call everything a gift and nobody would pay taxes! The fundamental rule is that when the gift is actually in exchange for something of value, it is income to the receiver and not deductible as a donation to the giver. Nick
[twitter-dev] First time working with OAuth want to do some automated stuff
I currently have a script running on my server using basic authentication and tweeting rss feeds to a number of different accounts. I want to do something similar to that but using OAuth (seeing as I cant register an application for basic auth anymore). But I'm lost, OAuth requires a browser to work doesn't it? but my script wont be run from a browser. Do I have to make an authorize page and load that in a web browser to get the access tokens and then put them into my script? Will they ever expire? Is there a way to automatically get the access tokens without me making a web page that will ask me to login to twitter and authenticate?
[twitter-dev] How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT
using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id.
[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT
http://twitter.com/users/show.json?screen_name=al3x On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 21:10, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id. -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:45 PM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: http://twitter.com/users/show.json?screen_name=al3x That is a rate-limited call. I'm afraid the answer is, you can't. All unauthenticated API calls count against the IP rate-limit. -Chad On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 21:10, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id. -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: How many Apps can we register under one account?
Hi Kalpesh, While creative, the app link was not meant to be used in that manner. We are discussing internally that OAuth app registration will eventually have to be screened to prevent squatting and/or abuse. I'm not sure that apps named home or work would pass that screen :) -Chad On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Kalpesh kalp.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chad, I would not register hundred apps but dozen is common i think.. Can my account get suspended for having many applications (may be for 25)?? i am not into name-squattering or so, but i am definitely interested in having more apps and using different apps related to my status. e.g. i may post a status like tweeting from my home and having home app linked to it in the from field of status. I don't see any kind of issue in that, what do you think? Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT
You can make any of the REST API calls with authentication. Abraham On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:10, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id. -- 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. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT
Uh, I guess it was unclear from the subject/body split of the question what exactly was meant... How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. ...can be read: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name without using a rate-limited call? And, how do I get the user_id for a screen_name without using one with authentication. ...or, it could be read: How do I get the user_id for a screen_name without using a rate-limited call? Or, how do I get the user_id for a screen_name using one with authentication. I read it the first way, due to the subject/body split... Boolean algebra, ftw? -Chad On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: You can make any of the REST API calls with authentication. Abraham On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:10, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog to http://twitter.com/al3x in terms of user-id. -- 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. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
