[twitter-dev] Re: Problems getting other people's friend list or follower list

2009-11-03 Thread Howard Siegel
It would be useful to others if you posted more information about what the solution was. - h On 2009-11-03, lane.montgomery wrote: > > Problem solved. > > On Nov 3, 7:03 am, "lane.montgomery" > wrote: >> Hi, just signed up for the forum and posting a new topic. Gotta love >> people like me, bu

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems getting other people's friend list or follower list

2009-11-03 Thread lane.montgomery
Problem solved. On Nov 3, 7:03 am, "lane.montgomery" wrote: > Hi, just signed up for the forum and posting a new topic. Gotta love > people like me, but I really need the help. > > When I make a call to the API like this: > >     $user1results = $to->OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/friends/ >

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion for User record

2009-11-03 Thread Dharmesh
+1 This would very, very useful. On Oct 31, 10:10 pm, Dave Winer wrote: > It would be useful if a had a lists_count element, in addition > to the other counts (followers, statuses, favourites).

[twitter-dev] Re: List API : statuses timeline and count parameter

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Briccetti
I pointed this out on Oct 24th. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_frm/thread/de91a4569fb10e5d/f8fabf89447a85c9?lnk=gst&q=briccetti#f8fabf89447a85c9 Glad you have spotted the trouble.

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread Lee Semel
Seconding... In our app, whenever someone enters a screen name they want to add to a list, we have to do two API calls, to first get the id before adding the user to the list. Lee On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Damon Clinkscales wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Marcel Molina wrot

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Marcel Molina wrote: > > Hey folks. As some of you have likely read we're starting to do some > private beta testing of our new lists feature. We're not quite ready > to open it up to everyone but we've made some headway on the API and > wanted to share some detai

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread John Kalucki
May I suggest a potentially much more efficient algorithm? Place all keywords in a HashMap that maps keywords to a list of subscribed users. Tokenize the status text, and look up each token in the hash table to deliver the status to each subscribed user. Within the user, apply a generational filte

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread wilfred yau
I have try this and It's work, thank you =] On Nov 4, 7:16 am, Marcel Molina wrote: > A work around for environments that don't support theDELETErequest > method is, I believe, to pass a parameter called _method with the > value "DELETE". In other words "_method=DELETE". > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion for User record

2009-11-03 Thread Marcel Molina
We've got this on our todo list. It requires fairly extensive asynchronous fragment invalidation so it's not as simple as just adding the count into the payload. We've got it on the list though. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Dave Winer wrote: > > It would be useful if a had a lists_count el

[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone else getting HTTP 404 with APIs today?

2009-11-03 Thread Martin
I'm getting 404 today as well on "favorites/destroy" for well-formed requests. And this on recent favorited tweets using the API. Any official response if this is a bug or not ? Thanks - Martin On Oct 15, 12:49 pm, Josh Roesslein wrote: > Just ran my unit tests and they all pass now. :) Seems t

[twitter-dev] Re: flagged as dupe post when string is unique (ideas?)

2009-11-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Is the posted status similar to any other status created by that user? Does the above imply that similar will trigger the dup detector? Argh! Please don't tell me that you're now rejecting similar tweets Url shorteners can easily generate similar urls, so if someone is in the habit of

[twitter-dev] Re: List API : statuses timeline and count parameter

2009-11-03 Thread Marcel Molina
Oh. I've realized that all the options *except* for count are supported. Fixing that now. Should be deployed to production in the next day or so. Thanks for reporting this. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Marcel Molina wrote: > You can use all the same parameters as are available in the other >

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> A work around for environments that don't support the DELETE request > method is, I believe, to pass a parameter called _method with the > value "DELETE". In other words "_method=DELETE". I'll take a look at that. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/

[twitter-dev] Re: List API : statuses timeline and count parameter

2009-11-03 Thread Marcel Molina
You can use all the same parameters as are available in the other status timeline resources (e.g. max_id, count, since_id, etc). On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:07 PM, stephane wrote: > > Hi guys ! > > Is there a way (or planned method) to get more than 20 statuses per > list timeline API call ? appare

[twitter-dev] Re: flagged as dupe post when string is unique (ideas?)

2009-11-03 Thread Andy Freeman
> Is the posted status similar to any other status created by that user? Does the above imply that similar will trigger the dup detector? Argh! Please don't tell me that you're now rejecting similar tweets Url shorteners can easily generate similar urls, so if someone is in the habit of t

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: max_id and page parameters giving very weird results

2009-11-03 Thread TripleM
Apologies for the multiple posts, but as the above links no longer show the problem, you can replicate as follows: Go to http://search.twitter.com/search?rpp=100&page=1&geocode=-40.900557,174.885971,1000km Note how long ago the last tweet on that page was posted. Click 'Older' at the bottom.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: max_id and page parameters giving very weird results

2009-11-03 Thread TripleM
Except now that I look at it a day later, the results have completely changed, and seem to be in order. Why would the results change over time when the same max_id is set, and was valid at the time of the query? Are the ids of tweets not generated in ascending order? On Nov 3, 3:17 pm, TripleM

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
It would help if John Kalucki (hello) would clarify the difference between what is visible via streaming as opposed to what is visible via search. I've been operating under the assumption that streaming is warranted when an app needs a different or more powerful search than the current one (e.g.

[twitter-dev] Re: Is image shrinking broken?

2009-11-03 Thread TCI
Added my star. If you are also affected add yours... TCI On Nov 3, 3:09 am, Tim Haines wrote: > It's broken.  Add a star > here:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1158 > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, janole wrote: > > > Would be cool to have this fixed as soon as possibl

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion: Ability to just search amongst a user's friends

2009-11-03 Thread yoni
This functionality would be *huge*. Likewise, it'd be great if we could search lists. Now that we have 'em, it'd be great to use lists as filters for search. So, in the current search API, we've got from:USER, it'd be great if we could have in:LIST or some such. Thanks! ~ yoni On Oct 27, 11:02

[twitter-dev] Field sizes documented as maximum "character counts" vs number of utf8 encoded bytes

2009-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
The user description field (for instance) is documented as a maximum of 160 characters, but how many bytes is that exactly? If we get bytes from twitter that are utf-8 bytes, will we then see a maximum number of how many bytes per char, 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes/char ? This matters when spec'ing a dat

[twitter-dev] API requests log

2009-11-03 Thread ups
Sometimes, I find myself hitting the 150 API requests limit. The problem is, I don't change my normal behavior (it works fine for hours, and then it suddenly hits the limit). I wonder if there is a way to know what is the offending app? Disabling all the OAuth Permission is not a good way as I

[twitter-dev] Re: List API : statuses timeline and count parameter

2009-11-03 Thread stephane
cool :) thx a lot ! On Nov 4, 2:34 am, Marcel Molina wrote: > Oh. I've realized that all the options *except* for count are > supported. Fixing that now. Should be deployed to production in the > next day or so. Thanks for reporting this. > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Marcel Molin

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread Fabien Penso
I agree, however it would help a lot because instead of doing : for keyword in all_keywords if tweet.match(keyword) //matched, notify users end end we could do for keyword in keywords_matched // same as above end for matching 5,000 keywords, it would bring the first loop from 5,000 to pro

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread Marcel Molina
A work around for environments that don't support the DELETE request method is, I believe, to pass a parameter called _method with the value "DELETE". In other words "_method=DELETE". On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM, wilfred yau wrote: > > It there any method to delete user from list other then

[twitter-dev] Search operators not working properly?

2009-11-03 Thread beerkid
I tried putting together tweets about an event today (the release of a beer) but ran into issues when trying to combine multiple operators. For instance, how would I combine these two into one search query string? from:deschutesbeer abyss deschutes abyss from:deschutesbeer abyss OR deschutes be

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread John Kalucki
The Streaming API and the Search indexer both tee off the same point in the new status event pipeline. New statuses are born in the web containers and queued for a cluster of processes that begin the offline processing pipeline. This first process does many things, including routing statuses to va

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion for User record

2009-11-03 Thread Daniel Klingmann
This would be so useful. +1

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread Rich
Does Air not support REST properly? For an application to be RESTful it should support GET, POST, PUT and DELETE On Nov 3, 2:14 pm, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > It there any method to delete user from list other then using DELETE > > method? > > Since I am using Flex (but not Air) to develop third

[twitter-dev] broken refresh link in search api results?

2009-11-03 Thread Jud
I used to be able to grab the "refresh" link out of an xml document returned from a query like http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=iphone . however, now, after two iterations of grabbing the refresh link, I get 403s back from search.twitter.com. the refresh link appears to be broken/poorly enc

[twitter-dev] Re: Firehose Sample Geo Only

2009-11-03 Thread John Kalucki
We're unlikely to offer a sampled stream of Geo Tagged statuses in the near future. It doesn't make much sense for us to filter the existing sampled streams further to include only those that are Geo Tagged, as the client could do this work to the same end result. If we offered another public str

[twitter-dev] Re: Need Help

2009-11-03 Thread JDG
don't supply a callback function to twitter, and you'll get a pin. Why would you want to use Pin-based auth for the web, though? On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 03:22, mr.aaqib - IIUI wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanna know can we use PIN# authentication for web applications?? As > far as my understanding PIN#

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread John Kalucki
The assumption is that client services will, in any case, have to parse and route statuses to potentially multiple end-users. Providing this sort of hint wouldn't eliminate the need to parse the status and would likely result in duplicate effort. We're aware that we are, in some use cases, externa

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> It there any method to delete user from list other then using DELETE > method? > Since I am using Flex (but not Air) to develop third party Twitter > Client, There are no way to call "DELETE" (which only GET and POST). > So, will twitter provide POST or GET method API to "delete"? Thanks I'd li

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread Adam Green
I agree with the idea, since I too have this need, but I think that you'll still need to check the existence of matches in filtered stream results. The algorithm used by this API doesn't always return what you'd expect or need, such as making sure the matches are separate words, or they are used i

[twitter-dev] Problems getting other people's friend list or follower list

2009-11-03 Thread lane.montgomery
Hi, just signed up for the forum and posting a new topic. Gotta love people like me, but I really need the help. When I make a call to the API like this: $user1results = $to->OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/friends/ ids/'.$user1.'.json', array(), 'GET'); or this: $user1results = $to-

[twitter-dev] Need Help

2009-11-03 Thread mr.aaqib - IIUI
Hi, I wanna know can we use PIN# authentication for web applications?? As far as my understanding PIN# authentication can be used only in desktop applications... Any help will be highly appreciated. Regards Aaqib Iqbal

[twitter-dev] Re: Firehose Sample Geo Only

2009-11-03 Thread Scott Wilcox
Thought so! Is it something you're thinking of implementing at any stage? On 3 Nov 2009, at 01:52, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > > hi scott. > > unfortunately, not currently. right now you need to filter through > the statuses to see ones that have a populated geo tag. > >> Hi Folks, >> >> After

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth API not updating statuses consistently

2009-11-03 Thread Enlai Chu
Dave, thanks a bunch. You called it. Looks like the update was greater than 140 characters and the API was failing silently. Thanks! Enlai Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:38:48PM -0800, Enlai wrote: > >> Sorry if this is a dumb question but I can't find an answer online.

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-11-03 Thread wilfred yau
It there any method to delete user from list other then using DELETE method? Since I am using Flex (but not Air) to develop third party Twitter Client, There are no way to call "DELETE" (which only GET and POST). So, will twitter provide POST or GET method API to "delete"? Thanks On Oct 16, 3:04

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth API not updating statuses consistently

2009-11-03 Thread Enlai Chu
Thanks for the prompt response. Yes, the request is timing out with no response right now. We've seen sporadic behavior like this the last few days and we've built in retry mechanisms so messages aren't getting lost. As far as I understand, posts of statuses aren't being rate limited so this s

[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API

2009-11-03 Thread Dan
Yep, on for everyone. Just waiting and hoping for whitelisting so I can actually release the website I built around the API. Right now I can't make enough calls to keep its database fresh.

[twitter-dev] Search API: max_id and page parameters giving very weird results

2009-11-03 Thread TripleM
I've been trying to write a script to use the max_id parameter to loop through all 15 pages of results (with 100 results per page) without getting in troubles with grabbing the same tweet multiple times. Every time I do so, I find that not only are there a couple of duplicates on page 1 and 2, bu

[twitter-dev] Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread Fabien Penso
Hi. Would it be possible to include the matched keywords in another field within the result from the streaming/keyword API? It would prevent matching those myself when matching for multiple internal users, to spread the tweets to the legitimate users, which can be time consuming and tough to do

[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API

2009-11-03 Thread Rich
>From what I gathered as soon as you could access lists on the Web interface, you also gained access to the List APIs too On Nov 3, 6:08 am, Michael Steuer wrote: > Well, I¹m in no beta, but it all seems to be accessible and working.. > According to Marcel Molina, the API went public/open last T

[twitter-dev] Re: Is image shrinking broken?

2009-11-03 Thread Tim Haines
It's broken. Add a star here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1158 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, janole wrote: > > Would be cool to have this fixed as soon as possible. I'm getting a > lot of complaints because my mobile client silently discards any > "oversized" avatars

[twitter-dev] Re: Is image shrinking broken?

2009-11-03 Thread janole
Would be cool to have this fixed as soon as possible. I'm getting a lot of complaints because my mobile client silently discards any "oversized" avatars ( > 10kB .) It's not a good idea to download dozens of > 200 kB avatars if you're not on a flatrate mobile data plan ;-) Also, scaling all those

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth API not updating statuses consistently

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:38:48PM -0800, Enlai wrote: > Sorry if this is a dumb question but I can't find an answer online. > This is happening right now so I thought I'd see if something is up > with the API. > > Sometimes, I get no response from the status update post and other > times, I get

[twitter-dev] Re: White listing rejected - no reason

2009-11-03 Thread twittme_mobi
Hi Chad, I already submitted whitelisting request since my hosting company changed my outgoing IP address without notifying me which is very annoying since i can already see some errors comming from most active users. My new IP is 99.198.100.139 . Could you please take a look or should I send a m