[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the retweet API payload

2009-10-01 Thread Rich
A final question, will home_timeline also follow this same format, as the docs still have the old format. On Oct 1, 6:46 am, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: One question though I notice you're adding the RT @user at the beginning, is this intentional or can we add it ourselves (as some people

[twitter-dev] pulling hash tags - best practice

2009-10-01 Thread Noto Modungwa
Hi, I'm looking to rewrite an application that has been pulling tweets (tagged) of people that follow the app twitter account. Now I'd like to pull anyone's tweet so long as it uses the right hash tag What's the best practice as I don't want to abuse the API and get blacklisted... If my cron runs

[twitter-dev] monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Chris
I want to write a tool that monitors a channel, say #startnow, and checks say, every minute, to see if its been updated. How would I do this? I'm good with php, but won't that only check every time someone loads a php page? How do people like @hashphp reply to everyone that posts in #php?

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Andrew Badera
You have to think beyond PHP. 1) Consider having a third-party ping monitoring utility ping your PHP script to hit the Search API for the tag once a minute. 2) Write something in Python or Ruby or C++ and have it run on the server as a daemon, once a minute. Or have curl or something else local

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Or a chron job ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: You have to think beyond PHP. 1) Consider having a third-party ping monitoring utility ping your PHP script to hit the Search API for the tag once a minute. 2) Write something in Python or Ruby or C++

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Andrew Badera
Read #2 Kevin. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Or a chron job ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:53 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Andrew Badera
And, that only works if you have appropriate access to the server. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Read #2 Kevin. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin Mesiab
Attention to detail fail. ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: And, that only works if you have appropriate access to the server. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Read #2 Kevin. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Andrew Badera
5am Eastern, it's probably forgivable. ;) On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Attention to detail fail. ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: And, that only works if you have appropriate access to the server. On

[twitter-dev] Re: Private user's 'following' information: why am I denied access via API but can get through Twitter.com?

2009-10-01 Thread twittme_mobi
So..should we open a new defect for friendships/exists - since it thows an error if user is privated and i still need just to check if one user is following another... On Oct 1, 2:18 am, Dusty dustyrea...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed this issue with the social graph methods as well. I can

[twitter-dev] Re: pulling hash tags - best practice

2009-10-01 Thread Abraham Williams
You might want to check out the Streaming API. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#statuses/filter You could either filter based on the user ids and discard status without the hashtag or filter on the hashtag and discard statuses from users you are not interested in. Abraham

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the retweet API payload

2009-10-01 Thread Marco Kaiser
Hi, first of all, let me say that I think this change to the relation between the retweet and the retweeted status makes much sense - it feels much more natural to see it as user A retweets user B instead of user B retweeted by user A, especially if you don't follow B. A couple of questions

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API issue with JSONP calls

2009-10-01 Thread Vision Jinx
Hi David, Yes, that's what I am asking but my experience is different. o.O When I click the links I provided the one I get the json data (download file w/json) while the other I just get a 404 page saying File not found Firefox can't find the file at

[twitter-dev] suggestion: list of suspended users for spam tweet removal in application database

2009-10-01 Thread Martin Dudek
Good morning, hope all are well. While twitter successfully gets rid of many spam tweet through the means of account suspension it seems that these spam tweets have a future life in web services which perform regular live searches through the twitter API and store the tweet results in their

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Chris
Appreciate all the help from you guys. Anyone want to link me to a C++ or cURL tutorial? Bless, Chris On Oct 1, 10:13 am, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: 5am Eastern, it's probably forgivable. ;) On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Attention to

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Andrew Badera
Sure, here's a GREAT cURL tutorial: http://bit.ly/RMLrN ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Chris bigonr...@googlemail.com wrote: Appreciate all

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API issue with JSONP calls

2009-10-01 Thread David Somers
Interestingly, when I click the link in Google Chrome, it just hangs loading...curl works fine though. So try curl, see what happens :-) David On Oct 1, 12:37 pm, Vision Jinx vjn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Yes, that's what I am asking but my experience is different. o.O When I click

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Steuer
You can actually also make PHP scripts run as a daemon, or as a CLI application that you can call via cron every minute. I've done this in the past, but it was years ago. Do a quick google search for run php script as daemon and you'll find plenty of help and examples... On Oct 1,

[twitter-dev] Re: Stream missing statuses from certain users

2009-10-01 Thread Sameer
Can you explain what you mean by 'filtered for quality'. Does your engine believe theses users submit spam? Also on another issue, i have access to the shadow stream by using shadow.json, but I see a new URL and filtered.json in the docs. If I use filtered.json will the stream engine allow me

[twitter-dev] Re: Stream missing statuses from certain users

2009-10-01 Thread John Kalucki
The /shadow resource, (along with /firehose, /birddog, /follow, and all the /*track urls) have been deprecated. The rewrite rules that allow them to function may be removed at any time. All developers should be using only the documented resources. When you connect, you'll get the appropriate

[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #

2009-10-01 Thread John Kalucki
If you'd like to monitor a static set of hashtags, use the Streaming API. You'll receive the highest proportion of tags with the least amount of filtering and hassle. There are a number of good Streaming API clients out in the wild. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter

[twitter-dev] Blog post on upcoming twitter geolocation api.....

2009-10-01 Thread tom.mancino
Looking to start a conversation on development of third party apps using geolocation: http://bit.ly/kCv44 Throw in your thoughts in the comments or in this thread. BTW, we think it is super cool..but not without some challenges to overcome. What did we get wrong, and what did we leave out? What

[twitter-dev] Re: RESTful API issue with JSONP calls

2009-10-01 Thread Vision Jinx
Hey David, On my Linux box at home I did a CURL request curl http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json? id=twittercallback=bar and got back bar({request:/statuses/user_timeline.json? id=twittercallback=bar,error:Not found}) This is strange though that CURL seems to work where

[twitter-dev] Oauth_callback_url

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Steuer
I believe that when it¹s properly passed, Twitter responds to the oauth_callback_url parameter? (ie. Redirecting the user back to the url passed in that parameter upon successful authentication)... I¹m using @abraham¹s TwitterOAuth PHP library ­ does anyone have any idea how to make the

[twitter-dev] Re: More Efficiency,More Benefit,Less Risk,Less Work!

2009-10-01 Thread David Ramalho
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[twitter-dev] how are the ten trends born?

2009-10-01 Thread Martin Dudek
Good morning wonder if somebody knows how twitter determines the ten trends it declares every five minutes? Is this a pure word/phrase frequency algorithm or some more complexity behind. Thanks martin

[twitter-dev] RETRY_AFTER header for Search API

2009-10-01 Thread Tim Rosenblatt
Hey Twitter API devs, We're working on daemons to poll the search API, and we want to make sure that our code will behave correctly when it encounters a RETRY_AFTER header. We think our code should work correctly, but we'd like to be able to test it with a real RETRY_AFTER header. Could you add

[twitter-dev] How do I search using ticket number on the support site? (help.twitter.com)

2009-10-01 Thread salamander
My ticket no longer shows up under View your solved and closed requests, and I was never given a response to my request. I wanted to see if I can search using my ticket number to understand why it was closed and why it no longer shows up. Thanks, J.

[twitter-dev] Re: how are the ten trends born?

2009-10-01 Thread JDG
it's MAGIC! On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 09:20, Martin Dudek goosegoesgro...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning wonder if somebody knows how twitter determines the ten trends it declares every five minutes? Is this a pure word/phrase frequency algorithm or some more complexity behind. Thanks

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth_callback_url

2009-10-01 Thread Christian Nunciato
Not sure I understand the question -- I haven't used that library specifically -- but provided the URL you pass in with the call to /oauth/request_token matches the one specified in the Twitter application's settings screen, then the redirect to that callback URL (which Twitter handles, after the

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth_callback_url

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Steuer
Right, that wasn¹t the question :) The oAuth spec allows for an additional, optional parameter ³oauth_callback² to be passed, which overrides the callback URL that¹s set in the application¹s setting screen. So if that paramater isn¹t passed, it should redirect to the callback URL in the settings.

[twitter-dev] geolocation API update

2009-10-01 Thread Raffi Krikorian
as some of you may have already noticed, we've started going through the first steps to get the geolocation API out our door. there are a few more steps in the process that i want to share with all of you. if you start to pull status objects through the API, you'll notice that, for the

[twitter-dev] Trouble with Line Breaks?

2009-10-01 Thread Christian Nunciato
Has anyone had any trouble sending strings containing line breaks to Twitter through OAuth? I realize line breaks don't necessarily make sense in a Twitter update, but it still seems reasonable to be able to send them anyway, leaving the formatting up to Twitter, but in my case, I keep getting

[twitter-dev] twitter legal

2009-10-01 Thread Ben Eliott
for group interest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8285954.stm usually the reg gets these stories about a week before the beeb, maybe i missed it. On 1 Oct 2009, at 21:22, Christian Nunciato wrote: Has anyone had any trouble sending strings containing line breaks to Twitter through

[twitter-dev] Trouble with Line Breaks and OAuth?

2009-10-01 Thread cnunciato
Posting this again, as it seems to have been renamed by an unrelated post: -- Has anyone had any trouble sending strings containing line breaks to Twitter through OAuth? I realize

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-10-01 Thread Andy Freeman
How can an application determine that an account has been suspended? Please assume that the application has OAuth read/write for the account. Thanks, -andy On Sep 15, 9:28 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: The account will be suspended. It won't work, and it won't be visible. You

[twitter-dev] issue regarding downloading twitter users in JSON format.

2009-10-01 Thread visu_m
Hi All, I am grad student from Gatech and I am collecting twitter users for research purpose. For the past two days, I am getting 502 error (twitter is being down or upgraded error) whenever I try to download data from twitter. (I am using python-twitter API and downloading in JSON format). I

[twitter-dev] plus (+) characters in the search string

2009-10-01 Thread Gold
Hey all, I have a client that is wanting to use the plus character (+) as part of the search term for the REST based search. e.g.; curl -s http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%2Btcount=100since_id=3399785323page=0 In this instance the %2B is the URL encoded +. When this is executed it

[twitter-dev] Re: plus (+) characters in the search string

2009-10-01 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi there, The + character is not a searchable token in the Search API, so your search of %2Bt will only return results with a lone 't' in the result. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Gold g...@evolved.net.nz wrote: Hey all, I have a client that is wanting to use the plus

[twitter-dev] Re: how are the ten trends born?

2009-10-01 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Martin Dudek goosegoesgro...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning wonder if somebody knows how twitter determines the ten trends it declares every five minutes? Is this a pure word/phrase frequency algorithm or some more complexity behind. I wouldn't expect an

[twitter-dev] Re: how are the ten trends born?

2009-10-01 Thread Martin Dudek
just curious ... On Oct 2, 9:55 am, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Martin Dudek goosegoesgro...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning wonder if somebody knows how twitter determines the ten trends it declares every five minutes? Is this a pure

[twitter-dev] Re: how are the ten trends born?

2009-10-01 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Martin Dudek goosegoesgro...@gmail.comwrote: just curious ... That can be the most difficult and dangerous problem of all! Nick

[twitter-dev] Re: geolocation API update

2009-10-01 Thread Dhaval Parikh
Hi Abir this is just an example and its still under testing . but soon i think it should start working.. looks good Thanks -- Forwarded message -- From: Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com Date: Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:22 AM Subject: [twitter-dev] geolocation API update To: