[twitter-dev] Accounts no longer in existence not returning error

2009-10-05 Thread Dharmesh
I've noticed that several accounts that no longer exist on twitter are still returned when accessed via the API. Example: http://twitter.com/users/show/fitnesstwit.xml (returns a valid xml dataset) Despite the fact that http://twitter.com/fitnesstwitt returns a "sorry that page doesn't exist" e

[twitter-dev] Re: friendship/create, and OAuth?

2009-10-05 Thread Fahim
I have tested using three different libraries - one is MPOAuth, the other one is the PHP library linked to via the Twitter API wiki and the last one is my own custom Objective-C framework. None of them work - but only for the friendships/create method. The code works fine for other methods, as I m

[twitter-dev] Re: Account Owner's last tweet

2009-10-05 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:52 PM, JK wrote: > > What api do I use to identify the last or latest tweet of the account > owner? > > http://twitter.com/users/show could contain a tweet by a follower. > http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline - states that it returns the > 20 most recent statuses p

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit response code(s)

2009-10-05 Thread jmathai
Yea, I understood the differences. My question was why are there different response codes for the same result? I can understand the 503 being inherited from Summize. However, the 400 vs 403 seems like poor planning when building out the API. Is there a chance or are there any plans to unify th

[twitter-dev] Account Owner's last tweet

2009-10-05 Thread JK
What api do I use to identify the last or latest tweet of the account owner? http://twitter.com/users/show could contain a tweet by a follower. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline - states that it returns the 20 most recent statuses posted from the authenticating user but it shows status up

[twitter-dev] Re: friendship/create, and OAuth?

2009-10-05 Thread Josh Roesslein
I have tested friendships/create using my python libraryvia oauth and works fine. My guess is you are not generating a valid oauth request (ex. invalid signature). Could you provide a link to the code you are trying and what libraries you are using? It would help others in diagnosing your issue.

[twitter-dev] Re: friendship/create, and OAuth?

2009-10-05 Thread Fahim
Nobody knows anything about this? I've tried three different OAuth frameworks (one in PHP and two in Objective-C) and all of them return a "Page not found" for a /friendships/create.json Is anybody on the Twitter team able to confirm or deny whether this is a bug? Regards, Fahim On Oct 4, 11:2

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit response code(s)

2009-10-05 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:53 PM, jmathai wrote: > > Why are 400, 403 and 503 valid response codes to signify that a call > is being rate limited?  Was there a dart board involved? I don't know, but it would be really hard to play 301 with that dartboard. > >   * 400 Bad Request: The requ

[twitter-dev] Rate limit response code(s)

2009-10-05 Thread jmathai
Why are 400, 403 and 503 valid response codes to signify that a call is being rate limited? Was there a dart board involved? * 400 Bad Request: The request was invalid. An accompanying error message will explain why. This is the status code will be returned during rate limiting. * 403 For

[twitter-dev] Streaming API -- Depreciated URL removal warning

2009-10-05 Thread John Kalucki
A number of clients are still connecting on the deprecated Streaming API URLs. Be sure that your client is connecting to the documented /1/ statuses/* resources and not the unsupported /gardenhose, /spritzer, / shadow, /follow, /track, etc. resources. The old URLs have been unsupported for about 2

[twitter-dev] Re: Status id documentation

2009-10-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> A followup to this for those that are interested: > > My real problem wasn't Data::Dumper, but rather the use of JSON::DWIW > > It turns out that that module will convert a number into a > Math::BigInt object if the number is too large to be represented > natively and the Math::BigInt module i

[twitter-dev] Re: Having Twitter automatically update a 3rd party site user's status

2009-10-05 Thread John Kalucki
Tom, We have a number of services doing this. Facebook was the first, and probably last service that we'll actively push updates into. All the rest grab statuses from Twitter. The easiest way is to put a widget on the page and let the browser include the Tweets. If you want a deeper integration,

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate limiting - App Engine (again)

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Kinlan
I am pretty sure there are custom headers on the App Engine that indicate the application that is sending the request. 2009/10/5 elkelk > > Hi all, > > I am having the same issue. I have tried setting a custom user-agent, > but this doesn't seem to affect the fact that twitter is limiting > bas

[twitter-dev] Re: Status id documentation

2009-10-05 Thread BlueSkies
A followup to this for those that are interested: My real problem wasn't Data::Dumper, but rather the use of JSON::DWIW It turns out that that module will convert a number into a Math::BigInt object if the number is too large to be represented natively and the Math::BigInt module is installed.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate limiting - App Engine (again)

2009-10-05 Thread elkelk
I'm noticing this problem as well. I'm making only a couple requests per hour. I have tried setting the user-agent and the HTTP_REFERER headers to a custom name, but Twitter doesn't seem to care. On Oct 5, 2:59 am, steel wrote: > Hi. I have this problem too. > My application does two request p

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate limiting - App Engine (again)

2009-10-05 Thread elkelk
Hi all, I am having the same issue. I have tried setting a custom user-agent, but this doesn't seem to affect the fact that twitter is limiting based on I.P. address. I'm only making about 5 searches an hour and 80% of them are failing on app engine due to a 503 rate limit. Twitter needs to det

[twitter-dev] Having Twitter automatically update a 3rd party site user's status

2009-10-05 Thread Tom Farvour
Hello, I'm developing for the E.Factor, an entrepreneurial website. I have a question that I am wondering if it's possible to do. Facebook has an app that allows a user to configure their Facebook status updates to automatically be updated when they post something to their Twitter feed. Is it po

[twitter-dev] Registered app under wrong twitter account?

2009-10-05 Thread Mack Earnhardt
I recently registered an app under @MacksMind, but the account I'll use for support etc is @TweetMention. So 2 questions: Should I care, because I'm not sure it really matters. And then how would I fix it?

[twitter-dev] Re: Return number of pages (or number of friends/followers) on first call with cursor

2009-10-05 Thread Jesse Stay
Anyone else still confused at how this works? I'm still confused at how this is any different than the way it was before with the paging (other than one-less API call). Jesse On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:57 PM, John Kalucki wrote: > > If an API is untrusted, it must be treated as entirely untrust

[twitter-dev] Re: Status id documentation

2009-10-05 Thread BlueSkies
Yes, it was Perl ... This obviously wasn't JSON. It was the output of Data::Dumper that produced this. I guess I should get more sleep. Thanks, Scott On Oct 5, 1:35 pm, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > I hadn't looked at this in a while, but apparently the status id > > format has changed in th

[twitter-dev] Re: Status id documentation

2009-10-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> I hadn't looked at this in a while, but apparently the status id > format has changed in the JSON response. > > I see a live example such as: > > 'id' => ( { > 'value' => [ >'2050382', >'463' >

[twitter-dev] Re: Chage "from" on tweets

2009-10-05 Thread Carlos
To be fair to the newer Twitter apps shouldn't all API posts not using OAUTH show up as "from API" ? On Oct 5, 12:11 am, ryan alford wrote: > Twitter removed that functionality just recently. Any application that > used if before it was removed is still allowed to use it. > > On Oct 5, 2009, at

[twitter-dev] Status id documentation

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Carter
I hadn't looked at this in a while, but apparently the status id format has changed in the JSON response. I see a live example such as: 'id' => ( { 'value' => [ '2050382', '463'

[twitter-dev] Re: Lookup lots of user_ids from screenames?

2009-10-05 Thread richardhenry
Why not request whitelisting? You'll be able to make 20,000 requests per hour. Provided you have a legitimate application, there's no reason why you wouldn't be whitelisted, and it generally seems to happen pretty quickly. http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting See more under "Whitelis

[twitter-dev] Re: Radio Silence on API Request?

2009-10-05 Thread Chad Etzel
I'm working through the backlog now... -Chad On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Waldron Faulkner wrote: > > Hey, Twitter API staff, can you recommend a next step for me to take? > It's been more than a week since I issued a rate-limit request, and I > haven't heard anything, nor seen any changes. W

[twitter-dev] Radio Silence on API Request?

2009-10-05 Thread Waldron Faulkner
Hey, Twitter API staff, can you recommend a next step for me to take? It's been more than a week since I issued a rate-limit request, and I haven't heard anything, nor seen any changes. What to do when the rate limit request form yields radio silence? Thanks! - Waldron Faulkner @WaldronFaulkner

[twitter-dev] Re: How to check if user is followed?

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Hübner
I only can talk for .NET - A Dictionary(of Long, Boolean) with 5000 Id's needs around 500 Ticks If I request the Method .ContainsKey. I don't think that an API Request with parsing xml can be faster. Additional you nail the server with unneeded requests which are "expensive" (rate limits) too I d

[twitter-dev] Re: How to check if user is followed?

2009-10-05 Thread twittme_mobi
Hi Tomas, another question to collaborate, do you think that is faster to find the ID in array by iterating it rather that searching for a string in the XML with some well known search function On Oct 5, 10:54 am, twittme_mobi wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Thanks for the clarification. > One questi

[twitter-dev] Re: How to check if user is followed?

2009-10-05 Thread twittme_mobi
Hi Tomas, Thanks for the clarification. One question - if you have many users, you will need to load all the IDs for All the users in the memory - isn't that too heavy?some of the users have 10+ followers. Thanks. On Oct 4, 6:26 pm, Thomas Hübner wrote: > the problem is that a friendship e

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate limiting - App Engine (again)

2009-10-05 Thread steel
Hi. I have this problem too. My application does two request per hour and it get "rate limit". What is wrong? I think it is twitter's problems On 1 окт, 01:45, Paul Kinlan wrote: > Hi Guys, > I have an app on the App engine using the search API and it is getting > heavily rate limited agai