[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Reset by Peer

2009-10-25 Thread Andrew Badera

What's the difficulty in using OAuth for whitelisted accounts?

∞ 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 Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:
 This is a whitelisted account on a whitelisted IP so I don't see how it
 could be a rate-limit.  It's using basic auth - is there an easy way to use
 oAuth for whitelisted accounts?  This has worked for the last year or so up
 until today.
 Jesse

 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Are you using Basic Auth? Are you using the same account to tweet and are
 u tweeting simultaneously while working? If none of the above then u have
 reached ur rate limit. Wait for an hour and try again. Else I don't
 understand what could have happened. I had this a few days back and reason
 was rate limit.

 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm seeing constant Connection Reset by Peer errors on one of my servers.
  Is anyone else seeing this?  Have I hit a limit of some sort?  It's been
 happening all day long it seems.
 Jesse


 --
 Regards,
 Atul Kulkarni
 www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053




[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Reset by Peer

2009-10-25 Thread Jesse Stay
What's the benefit of using oAuth for whitelisted accounts?  If no other
user is going to use it but me for the purposes of my app, I'm not sure
oAuth gives me any benefits (or Twitter for that matter).  That's besides
the point though - oAuth or not shouldn't be affecting this. This is
something that has worked for over a year and just stopped working.  I'm
trying to figure out what happened, or if Twitter turned something off.

Jesse

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:


 What's the difficulty in using OAuth for whitelisted accounts?

 ∞ 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 Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:
  This is a whitelisted account on a whitelisted IP so I don't see how it
  could be a rate-limit.  It's using basic auth - is there an easy way to
 use
  oAuth for whitelisted accounts?  This has worked for the last year or so
 up
  until today.
  Jesse
 
  On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com
 
  wrote:
 
  Are you using Basic Auth? Are you using the same account to tweet and
 are
  u tweeting simultaneously while working? If none of the above then u
 have
  reached ur rate limit. Wait for an hour and try again. Else I don't
  understand what could have happened. I had this a few days back and
 reason
  was rate limit.
 
  On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  I'm seeing constant Connection Reset by Peer errors on one of my
 servers.
   Is anyone else seeing this?  Have I hit a limit of some sort?  It's
 been
  happening all day long it seems.
  Jesse
 
 
  --
  Regards,
  Atul Kulkarni
  www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
 
 



[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Reset by Peer

2009-10-25 Thread Jesse Stay
I'm sending from Slicehost.  Not seeing any roadblocks of any sort.  FWIW my
other Slicehost servers sending calls to Twitter are working just fine.  It
seems to be just this specific IP.  Here's my Traceroute:

traceroute to twitter.com (128.121.146.100), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  174-143-24-2.slicehost.net (174.143.24.2)  4.000 ms  4.000 ms  4.000 ms
 2  core7-aggr511a-1.dfw1.rackspace.net (98.129.84.148)  0.000 ms  0.000 ms
 0.000 ms
 3  98.129.84.180 (98.129.84.180)  0.000 ms  0.000 ms  0.000 ms
 4  12.87.41.177 (12.87.41.177)  4.000 ms  4.000 ms *
 5  cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.138.118)  4.000 ms  4.000 ms  4.000 ms
 6  dlstx01jt.ip.att.net (12.122.80.101)  24.001 ms  24.001 ms  24.001 ms
 7  192.205.35.118 (192.205.35.118)  140.008 ms * *
 8  ae-1.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.37)  4.000 ms  0.000 ms
 0.000 ms
 9  as-1.r20.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.43)  40.003 ms  48.003 ms
 40.002 ms
10  xe-2-3.r00.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.63)  140.008 ms
 140.008 ms  140.008 ms
11  * * *
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30  * * *

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote:

 Rate limits generate specific http error codes when met, not connection
 resets... I'm assuming you, Twitter or someone in the middle is experiencing
 some sort of network related issue. Have you tried tracerouting to Twitter
 and see if you hit any roadblocks on the way?



 On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

 This is a whitelisted account on a whitelisted IP so I don't see how it
 could be a rate-limit.  It's using basic auth - is there an easy way to use
 oAuth for whitelisted accounts?  This has worked for the last year or so up
 until today.

 Jesse

 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com
 atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote:

 Are you using Basic Auth? Are you using the same account to tweet and are
 u tweeting simultaneously while working? If none of the above then u have
 reached ur rate limit. Wait for an hour and try again. Else I don't
 understand what could have happened. I had this a few days back and reason
 was rate limit.

 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jesse Stay  jesses...@gmail.com
 jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm seeing constant Connection Reset by Peer errors on one of my servers.
  Is anyone else seeing this?  Have I hit a limit of some sort?  It's been
 happening all day long it seems.

 Jesse




 --
 Regards,
 Atul Kulkarni
 http://www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053





[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Reset by Peer

2009-10-25 Thread Jesse Stay
Well I think I've fixed it.  Not sure what the problem was, but restarting a
few things on the server made the errors go away.  Very odd.  We'll see if
it comes back.

Jesse

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm sending from Slicehost.  Not seeing any roadblocks of any sort.  FWIW
 my other Slicehost servers sending calls to Twitter are working just fine.
  It seems to be just this specific IP.  Here's my Traceroute:

 traceroute to twitter.com (128.121.146.100), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
  1  174-143-24-2.slicehost.net (174.143.24.2)  4.000 ms  4.000 ms  4.000
 ms
  2  core7-aggr511a-1.dfw1.rackspace.net (98.129.84.148)  0.000 ms  0.000
 ms  0.000 ms
  3  98.129.84.180 (98.129.84.180)  0.000 ms  0.000 ms  0.000 ms
  4  12.87.41.177 (12.87.41.177)  4.000 ms  4.000 ms *
  5  cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.138.118)  4.000 ms  4.000 ms  4.000 ms
  6  dlstx01jt.ip.att.net (12.122.80.101)  24.001 ms  24.001 ms  24.001 ms
  7  192.205.35.118 (192.205.35.118)  140.008 ms * *
  8  ae-1.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.37)  4.000 ms  0.000 ms
  0.000 ms
  9  as-1.r20.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.43)  40.003 ms  48.003
 ms  40.002 ms
 10  xe-2-3.r00.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.63)  140.008 ms
  140.008 ms  140.008 ms
 11  * * *
 12  * * *
 13  * * *
 14  * * *
 15  * * *
 16  * * *
 17  * * *
 18  * * *
 19  * * *
 20  * * *
 21  * * *
 22  * * *
 23  * * *
 24  * * *
  25  * * *
 26  * * *
 27  * * *
 28  * * *
 29  * * *
 30  * * *

 On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.comwrote:

 Rate limits generate specific http error codes when met, not connection
 resets... I'm assuming you, Twitter or someone in the middle is experiencing
 some sort of network related issue. Have you tried tracerouting to Twitter
 and see if you hit any roadblocks on the way?



 On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

 This is a whitelisted account on a whitelisted IP so I don't see how it
 could be a rate-limit.  It's using basic auth - is there an easy way to use
 oAuth for whitelisted accounts?  This has worked for the last year or so up
 until today.

 Jesse

 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Atul Kulkarni atulskulka...@gmail.com
 atulskulka...@gmail.com wrote:

 Are you using Basic Auth? Are you using the same account to tweet and are
 u tweeting simultaneously while working? If none of the above then u have
 reached ur rate limit. Wait for an hour and try again. Else I don't
 understand what could have happened. I had this a few days back and reason
 was rate limit.

 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jesse Stay  jesses...@gmail.com
 jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm seeing constant Connection Reset by Peer errors on one of my
 servers.  Is anyone else seeing this?  Have I hit a limit of some sort?
  It's been happening all day long it seems.

 Jesse




 --
 Regards,
 Atul Kulkarni
 http://www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053






[twitter-dev] Newly deleted tweets and Suspended/Protected Users

2009-10-25 Thread Tim Haines
Hi there,

Is there a way to bulk retrieve id's of tweets that have recently been
deleted, or users that have been suspended or that have protected
themselves?

Cheers,

Tim.


[twitter-dev] Re: XML parsing error when using JSON search.twitter.com/search.json?

2009-10-25 Thread EastSideDev

I am having similar problems using file_get_contents, with certain API
calls, and JSON, but it works fine with other API calls.

On Oct 24, 10:11 am, TrixJo tri...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello

 I am trying to search twitter content using a mySQL/PHP entry in a
 table:

 $contents = file_get_contents(
                     http://search.twitter.com/search.json?
 lang=enrpp=5q=.urlencode($row[topicTitle]));

 $json = json_decode($contents);

 I am returning the results via AJAX as an XML file

 The problem that I get is:

 XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
 Location:http://www.domain.com/path/to/my/script.php?id=2765
 Line Number 77, Column 44:    [refresh_url] = ?
 since_id=5126537872q=Indonesia

 where Indonesia happens to be the value of $row[topicTitle]

 The problem is with the value of $row[topicTitle]  -- doesn't matter
 if the term is Indonesia or any other word or phrase (I tried a
 bunch) -- I keep getting that XML error

 I also tried enclosing it with single quotes, same error

 help please?


[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Reset by Peer

2009-10-25 Thread Dossy Shiobara

On 10/25/09 12:16 AM, Jesse Stay wrote:
 I'm seeing constant Connection Reset by Peer errors on one of my
 servers.  Is anyone else seeing this?  Have I hit a limit of some sort?
  It's been happening all day long it seems.

I'm having the same problem, and I'm on Optimum Online.

:-(

-- 
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: Connection Reset by Peer

2009-10-25 Thread Jesse Stay
Oh good - it's not just me then.  It happened a few more times today.

Jesse

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote:


 On 10/25/09 12:16 AM, Jesse Stay wrote:
  I'm seeing constant Connection Reset by Peer errors on one of my
  servers.  Is anyone else seeing this?  Have I hit a limit of some sort?
   It's been happening all day long it seems.

 I'm having the same problem, and I'm on Optimum Online.

 :-(

 --
 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: Net::Twitter dev release with Lists API support

2009-10-25 Thread jorj

+1 too. I want to test a new concept using lists as opposite to
multiple accounts. I read something about a limit of the number of
lists (20?) which is quite low for what I'm planning but maybe that
limit will be changed until the product is ready

Alex

On Oct 24, 7:47 am, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote:
 I uploaded a development release of Net::Twitter to CPAN with Lists API
 support.  If you're a perl developer and you're on the Lists beta,
 please test it and give me some feedback.

 Download it here:http://search.cpan.org/~mmims/Net-Twitter-3.07999_01/

 For documentation see:

     perldoc Net::Twitter::Role::API::Lists

 You'll need to include the API::Lists trait:

     my $nt = Net::Twitter-new(traits = ['API::Lists', ...], ...);

 You can always use the user parameter as the first placeholder
 argument to any of the API calls.  Any or all of the parameters included
 in the API URL can be passed as placeholder arguments.  Additional
 arguments are passed by name in a HASH ref as the final argument.  Any
 or all parameters can be passed in the HASH ref.

 For example, these calls are equivalent:

     my $list = $nt-create_list(perl_api =
         { name = 'test', mode = private }
     );

     my $list = $nt-create_list({
         user = 'perl_api',
         name = 'test',
         mode = 'private',
     });

 In my own testing, I've noticed that the update_list call always returns
 a 500 status, even though it succeeds.  That's probably a Twitter bug
 that will be worked out.

 The Lists API support is experimental.  It will very likely change
 before a final release.  Feedback welcome.

         -Marc


[twitter-dev] Re: User ID to Screen Name

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Wilcox

Thanks :) I figured that would be the only way, cheers Damon!

Sent from my iPhone

On 25 Oct 2009, at 02:51, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote:


 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote:

 I don't know whether I'm missing something completely simple here,  
 but
 how do I determine a screen name from a users id?

 $ curl -s http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?user_id=12; | grep
 screen_name
  screen_namejack/screen_name

 -damon

 -- 
 http://twitter.com/damon


[twitter-dev] Re: XML parsing error when using JSON search.twitter.com/search.json?

2009-10-25 Thread TrixJo

I have used the ampersand which is displayed in my code here:

http://pastebin.com/m51f7a9dd

are there any other takers who can give me advice on why I get the
errors:

failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden





On Oct 24, 1:23 pm, Mark Mcbride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote:
 If you're embedding that URL in XML you will need to XML encode it...  
 In this specific case the ampersand (q=...) needs to be replaced with  
 amp;

 Sent from mobile device

 On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:19 AM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:



  You sure that's where the error is? there have been numerous  
  reported problems with PHP's JSON decoder that it doesn't handle the  
  very large numbers of Twitter's IDs well.

  On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:11, TrixJo tri...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hello

  I am trying to search twitter content using a mySQL/PHP entry in a
  table:

  $contents = file_get_contents(
                     http://search.twitter.com/search.json?
  lang=enrpp=5q=.urlencode($row[topicTitle]));

  $json = json_decode($contents);

  I am returning the results via AJAX as an XML file

  The problem that I get is:

  XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
  Location:http://www.domain.com/path/to/my/script.php?id=2765
  Line Number 77, Column 44:    [refresh_url] = ?
  since_id=5126537872q=Indonesia

  where Indonesia happens to be the value of $row[topicTitle]

  The problem is with the value of $row[topicTitle]  -- doesn't matter
  if the term is Indonesia or any other word or phrase (I tried a
  bunch) -- I keep getting that XML error

  I also tried enclosing it with single quotes, same error

  help please?

  --
  Internets. Serious business.


[twitter-dev] Re: XML parsing error when using JSON search.twitter.com/search.json?

2009-10-25 Thread EastSideDev

For what it's worth (if it helps debug the problem), my code was
working just fine, until about two weeks ago, and then the same piece
of code, started returning the failed to open stream error.

On Oct 25, 10:20 am, TrixJo tri...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have used the ampersand which is displayed in my code here:

 http://pastebin.com/m51f7a9dd

 are there any other takers who can give me advice on why I get the
 errors:

 failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

 On Oct 24, 1:23 pm, Mark Mcbride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote:

  If you're embedding that URL in XML you will need to XML encode it...  
  In this specific case the ampersand (q=...) needs to be replaced with  
  amp;

  Sent from mobile device

  On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:19 AM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:

   You sure that's where the error is? there have been numerous  
   reported problems with PHP's JSON decoder that it doesn't handle the  
   very large numbers of Twitter's IDs well.

   On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:11, TrixJo tri...@gmail.com wrote:

   Hello

   I am trying to search twitter content using a mySQL/PHP entry in a
   table:

   $contents = file_get_contents(
                      http://search.twitter.com/search.json?
   lang=enrpp=5q=.urlencode($row[topicTitle]));

   $json = json_decode($contents);

   I am returning the results via AJAX as an XML file

   The problem that I get is:

   XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
   Location:http://www.domain.com/path/to/my/script.php?id=2765
   Line Number 77, Column 44:    [refresh_url] = ?
   since_id=5126537872q=Indonesia

   where Indonesia happens to be the value of $row[topicTitle]

   The problem is with the value of $row[topicTitle]  -- doesn't matter
   if the term is Indonesia or any other word or phrase (I tried a
   bunch) -- I keep getting that XML error

   I also tried enclosing it with single quotes, same error

   help please?

   --
   Internets. Serious business.


[twitter-dev] Re: XML parsing error when using JSON search.twitter.com/search.json?

2009-10-25 Thread Michael Steuer
You're getting 403 errors from Twitter. You're being rate limited  
because you're not passing a user agent. From the search API wiki:


Applications must have a meaningful and unique User Agent when using  
this method. A HTTP Referrer is expected but not required. Search  
traffic that does not include a User Agent will be rate limited to  
fewer API calls per hour than applications including a User Agent  
string.
Try using curl instead of file_get_contents to set a meaningful user  
agent




On Oct 25, 2009, at 10:20 AM, TrixJo tri...@gmail.com wrote:



I have used the ampersand which is displayed in my code here:

http://pastebin.com/m51f7a9dd

are there any other takers who can give me advice on why I get the
errors:

failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden





On Oct 24, 1:23 pm, Mark Mcbride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote:

If you're embedding that URL in XML you will need to XML encode it...
In this specific case the ampersand (q=...) needs to be replaced  
with

amp;

Sent from mobile device

On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:19 AM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote:




You sure that's where the error is? there have been numerous
reported problems with PHP's JSON decoder that it doesn't handle the
very large numbers of Twitter's IDs well.



On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:11, TrixJo tri...@gmail.com wrote:



Hello



I am trying to search twitter content using a mySQL/PHP entry in a
table:



$contents = file_get_contents(
   http://search.twitter.com/search.json?
lang=enrpp=5q=.urlencode($row[topicTitle]));



$json = json_decode($contents);



I am returning the results via AJAX as an XML file



The problem that I get is:



XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location:http://www.domain.com/path/to/my/script.php?id=2765
Line Number 77, Column 44:[refresh_url] = ?
since_id=5126537872q=Indonesia



where Indonesia happens to be the value of $row[topicTitle]



The problem is with the value of $row[topicTitle]  -- doesn't matter
if the term is Indonesia or any other word or phrase (I tried a
bunch) -- I keep getting that XML error



I also tried enclosing it with single quotes, same error



help please?



--
Internets. Serious business.


[twitter-dev] OAuth in popup, does not work when auto close

2009-10-25 Thread oscar

Hi,

I authenticate with twitter oauth using a popup from my site. When the
authentication is done, twitter redirects the user to my site again.
The user then has my site both in the original browser window, and in
the popup.

I want to close the popup automatically, so the user don't have to. I
do this with the following:
?php if (strlen($_GET['oauth_token'])  0) { echo scriptself.close
()/script; } ?

The problem is that when using the above code, the authentication
don't seem to work. When trying to tweet I get this:
/statuses/update.xml Could not authenticate you.

When I don't use the above code, and thereby force the user to close
the popup manually if he don't want it open, everything works fine.

Can someone explain this to me, and help with how I can auto close the
popup without messing with the authentication?

Thanks


[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Data Dumps?

2009-10-25 Thread futureboy

Hey everyone, thanks for the feedback, I'm receiving tons of data from
the streaming API, very exciting!

On Oct 21, 10:26 pm, futureboy future...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi folks, I'm interested in doing some of my own twitterdatamining
 and I was curious if Twitter posts anydatasets covering 24 hour
 periods, or perhaps even longer intervals. For instance I'd love to
 have a full dump of all tweets over the month when Michael Jackson
 died, but even 24 hourdumpswould be great. The format seems super
 simple, just a timestamp, a username, and the message. Multiply that
 by a few million records/day or whatever Twitter now experiences.

 Obviously this would be a decent amount ofdataalthough compression
 should certainly help. Does Twitter provide suchdatasets anywhere?
 If so, where and how can I access them?


[twitter-dev] Re: Check when a friendship was created

2009-10-25 Thread Zac Bowling

What you describe is a very spamy tactic people use to slowly grow
their follower counts without having having dramatically higher
following counts then follower counts. I HATE when people do that
because I get follows (usually from marketing or social media
experts pushing their personal brand and don't really care so much
about what I have to say and are just shooting for quantity rather
then quality).

IIRC correctly, it could be against the TOS too.


Zac Bowling



On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, TylerC tyle...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am seeking the need to know when a friendship or when I have
 followed a given user. Basically, I want to scan my account for people
 I have been following, enter a given number of days, and unfollow them
 if they have not followed me back in that timespan. I have it all
 worked out expect for checking when I followed a given person.

 Is there no way to do this via the API, from the looks of it I would
 have to do this artificially with a database or something right?

 Thanks!


[twitter-dev] Most frequent term

2009-10-25 Thread Scott Wilcox

Hi Folks.

Whats the best way of seeing what locations in the world are most  
talked about, and the frequency of which they are talked about? Is  
this possible and are there any pointers in going about it?

Thank you for taking the time to read.

Scott.


[twitter-dev] Re: Check when a friendship was created

2009-10-25 Thread TylerC

Well really I would just like to unfollow people I have followed for a
while that haven't followed me back lol... It's pretty lame to me that
this isnt already a feature but its cool I found my own way to
implement the idea.

Thanks for nothing :)

On Oct 25, 7:31 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
 What you describe is a very spamy tactic people use to slowly grow
 their follower counts without having having dramatically higher
 following counts then follower counts. I HATE when people do that
 because I get follows (usually from marketing or social media
 experts pushing their personal brand and don't really care so much
 about what I have to say and are just shooting for quantity rather
 then quality).

 IIRC correctly, it could be against the TOS too.

 Zac Bowling

 On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, TylerC tyle...@gmail.com wrote:

  I am seeking the need to know when a friendship or when I have
  followed a given user. Basically, I want to scan my account for people
  I have been following, enter a given number of days, and unfollow them
  if they have not followed me back in that timespan. I have it all
  worked out expect for checking when I followed a given person.

  Is there no way to do this via the API, from the looks of it I would
  have to do this artificially with a database or something right?

  Thanks!


[twitter-dev] Re: Check when a friendship was created

2009-10-25 Thread Leon Spencer
And I thank that is a reasonable expectation. Just make sure you're not 
unfollowing hundreds of people per day or something so it doesn't raise Twitter 
red flag.

Instead maintain a list of  inactive followers and slowing remove them and/or 
temporarily block them.

Even looking at my personal Twitter account, only connected with a few hundred, 
I too want to stop following folks that are active OR at least have them NOT 
count against my following limit. Makes no sense to do so. And it would be 
great to detect these folks.

Leon





From: TylerC tyle...@gmail.com
To: Twitter Development Talk twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sun, October 25, 2009 10:23:04 PM
Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Check when a friendship was created


Well really I would just like to unfollow people I have followed for a
while that haven't followed me back lol... It's pretty lame to me that
this isnt already a feature but its cool I found my own way to
implement the idea.

Thanks for nothing :)

On Oct 25, 7:31 pm, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote:
 What you describe is a very spamy tactic people use to slowly grow
 their follower counts without having having dramatically higher
 following counts then follower counts. I HATE when people do that
 because I get follows (usually from marketing or social media
 experts pushing their personal brand and don't really care so much
 about what I have to say and are just shooting for quantity rather
 then quality).

 IIRC correctly, it could be against the TOS too.

 Zac Bowling

 On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, TylerC tyle...@gmail.com wrote:

  I am seeking the need to know when a friendship or when I have
  followed a given user. Basically, I want to scan my account for people
  I have been following, enter a given number of days, and unfollow them
  if they have not followed me back in that timespan. I have it all
  worked out expect for checking when I followed a given person.

  Is there no way to do this via the API, from the looks of it I would
  have to do this artificially with a database or something right?

  Thanks!


[twitter-dev] Re: Check when a friendship was created

2009-10-25 Thread Damon Clinkscales

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:13 PM, TylerC tyle...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am seeking the need to know when a friendship or when I have
 followed a given user.
AFAIK, when a friendship was created is not available in the API.

-damon