[twitter-dev] Can't post tweets from my server with an account
Hi there, I have an issue when trying to post a tweet from my server with my personal account (no problem with others). For example, from my Macbook, I tried : curl -u damdam:(password) -d status= http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml and I have a correct answer (no status). ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/update.xml/request errorClient must provide a 'status' parameter with a value./error /hash Good answer :-) Same curl from my sever, but not the same rely: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/update.xml/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Everything was right, but this happened after my account has been hacked (I changed the password, etc). Could you help me finding what's wrong (IP banned for one account ???) Thanks ! Damien @damdam I'm the developer of boarding.fr (tweet #boarding along with your airport code) and eyetweet.net ;
[twitter-dev] Kill the new RT feature - it's non-relational
AT LEAST GIVE ME THE OPTION TO DECIDE FOR MYSELF IF I WANT TO SEE RTs FROM NON-FOLLOWERS! Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Ignoring Relationship Building People gravitate toward people they enjoy communicating with - that's how we build friends in any context. One of the main ways I find people I want to meet is that they like what I say, and more often than not, an RT tells me they like what I say, and I do the same for them. To keep me from being able to see people who like what I say removes one of the best ways of building relationships Twitter has. I NEED to see an RT from people who aren't following me to help me build my business. Elitist Arrogance Being annoyed by people retweeting you is like an author being annoyed that people showed up at their book signing - how elitist to turn up your nose at people who like what you say. Gee, sorry about that. This mindset doesn't want to build relationships but just wants to be able to count how many faceless, nameless people RT them - how arrogant is that? Increased Meaningless RT Traffic Before this feature, you actually had to do a little work to RT - copy, paste, put RT in front of it and send. Ouch - that's a lot of work. But that tiny bit of work kept people from senselessly RT'ing just to gain followers - it was too cumbersome to use effectively for spamming. Now by the simple push of a button people will be RT'ing like changing TV channels w/ a remote, and you won't really know if it meant enough to them to put a little effort into building that relationship with you - just stop holding your finger up and let it fall - that really shows a how much that comment meant to you? Summary Twitter started out as a tool to build relationships. It has become less and less personal. This new RT'ing feature reduces your ability to build relationships, plays to the arrogant elite, and makes it easier for people to use RT'ing and 10 different ghost accounts to spam people to death. And this is an upgrade? Hmmm not seeing it. Facebook is starting to look good all of a sudden.
[twitter-dev] Please allow me to see people who RT me! !
Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Ignoring Relationship Building People gravitate toward people they enjoy communicating with - that's how we build friends in any context. One of the main ways I find people I want to meet is that they like what I say, and more often than not, an RT tells me they like what I say, and I do the same for them. To keep me from being able to see people who like what I say removes one of the best ways of building relationships Twitter has. I NEED to see an RT from people who aren't following me to help me build my business. Elitist Arrrogance Being annoyed by people retweeting you is like an author being annoyed that people showed up at their book signing - how elitist to turn up your nose at people who like what you say. Gee, sorry about that. This mindset doesn't want to build relationships but just wants to be able to count how many faceless, nameless people RT them - how arrogant is that? Increased Meaningless RT Traffic Before this feature, you actually had to do a little work to RT - copy, paste, put RT in front of it and send. Ouch - that's a lot of work. But that tiny bit of work kept people from senselessly RT'ing just to gain followers - it was too cumbersome to use effectively for spamming. Now by the simple push of a button people will be RT'ing like changing TV channels w/ a remote, and you won't really know if it meant enough to them to put a little effort into building that relationship with you - just stop holding your finger up and let it fall - that really shows a how much that comment meant to you? Summary Twitter started out as a tool to build relationships. It has become less and less personal. This new RT'ing feature reduces your ability to build relationships, plays to the arrogant elite, and makes it easier for people to use RT'ing and 10 different ghost accounts to spam people to death. And this is an upgrade? Hmmm not seeing it. Facebook is starting to look good all of a sudden. CAN'T YOU MAKE IT A CHOICE TO SEE RTs FROM NON-FOLLOWERS? WHY SHOULD I SUFFER BECAUSE THE TWITTER ELITE ARE TIRED OF THEIR FOLLOWERS?
Re: [twitter-dev] Please allow me to see people who RT me! !
Chuck Blakeman wrote: Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Have you tried looking at the Your tweets, retweeted tab in the Retweets page on Twitter's web site? - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [twitter-dev] Geotagging API
Raffi - thanks for confirming that only type Point is being leveraged
at this time... made my update to TwapperKeeper much easier this
morning.
Of course, I created a little technical baggage depending on when
other types are leveraged.. but will cross that bridge when the time
comes.
Thanks again,
John
@jobrieniii
http://twapperkeeper.com
On Nov 21, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0update
right now we only support point types -- you'll see georss for XML
and geojson for JSON.
does that help?
Raffi,
Thanks again for this. Is there anywhere in the wiki that explains
the various types (Point, etc) and if the object model is
different?
[I didn't see anything offhand...]
Thanks again,
John
@jobrieniii
http://twapperkeeper.com
On Nov 20, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
here is something i just ran against the search API (i formatted
the JSON for readability).
[ra...@tw-mbp13-raffi twitter (homing_pigeon)]$ curl http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=ands=twitter+FTWfrom=raffi
{
results:
[
{
profile_image_url:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/364041028/raffi-headshot-casual_normal.png
,
created_at:Fri,
20 Nov 2009 15:40:40 +,
from_user:raffi,
to_user_id:null,
text:Soy milk, FTW (@ Twitter in SF) http://bit.ly/NUNGf
,
id:5892191934,
from_user_id:278432,
geo:
{
type:Point,
coordinates:
[
37.7824,
-122.4009
]
},
iso_language_code:en,
source:lt;a href=quot;http://foursquare.comquot;
rel=quot;nofollowquot;gt;foursquarelt;/agt;
}
],
max_id:5900232920,
since_id:0,
refresh_url:?since_id=5900232920q=+twitter+FTW+from
%3Araffi,
results_per_page:15,
page:1,
completed_in:0.01934,
query:+twitter+FTW+from%3Araffi
}
On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:21 PM, JOHN OBRIEN wrote:
Quick question...
What format will [geo] be from the /search api?
just the lat long, something like...
[geo] = 37.78029 -122.39697
I am watching a bunch of tweets coming into our service, but I
can't find one that is populated, so just thought I would ask.
(And I can't see anything from my account just yet... )
Thanks,
John
http://twapperkeeper.com
On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
As you may have seen on the Twitter blog [1], geotagging is now
available for all users and developers throughout Twitter's
APIs. Specific geotagging methods have been added and existing
formats expanded to accommodate this rich new information.
To get started developing with this API and sending geotweets,
check out
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0update
Geotweets now carry the geotag whenever available and whenever
they appear in our REST, Search, and Streaming APIs.
Remember, geotagging is disabled by default on users' accounts.
Encourage your users to enable it by sending them to their
settings page [2]. From that page, a user can turn this feature
on by checking the Enable geotagging checkbox. Alternatively,
we're also providing a mobile optimized geotagging settings page
[3] that you can send them too as well. As a developer, you can
determine whether a user has enabled geotagging by calling the
users/show method [4] or in any other user element returned by
the REST API where a user object shows up -- just look for the
geo_enabled flag.
For more hints on how to use geotagging, check out our
Geotagging Best Practices page [5] where we have UX mock-ups,
hints on how to best support user privacy, and more.
We're really excited about this feature! And more is coming.
Go get lost. We'll send help.
[1] http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/think-globally-tweet-locally.html
[2] http://twitter.com/account/settings
[3] http://m.twitter.com/account/settings/geo
[4] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show
[5] http://help.twitter.com/forums/26810/entries/78525
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Please allow me to see people who RT me! !
I don't see any RTs in the Your tweets, retweeted tab from people WHO AREN'T FOLLOWING ME. I want to see those! Is there a way for me to see people who RT me who aren't following me? That's the biggest problem i see with this, and unless I can find those people, this whole upgrade ignores some basic fundamentals of building relationships. Imagine having people visit your blog and try to leave a comment that they agree with you and you're not allowed to see it. And this is an upgrade? Still not seeing any upgrade here. On Nov 22, 9:14 am, Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net wrote: Chuck Blakeman wrote: Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Have you tried looking at the Your tweets, retweeted tab in the Retweets page on Twitter's web site? - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg. signature.asc 1KViewDownload
[twitter-dev] Re: Kill the new RT feature - it's non-relational
I lost tack of how many times you contradicted yourself, so I'll just point out the big one. AT LEAST GIVE ME THE OPTION TO DECIDE FOR MYSELF IF I WANT TO SEE RTs FROM NON-FOLLOWERS! ...and then... I NEED to see an RT from people who aren't following me to help me build my business. You didn't have the option to filter retweets from non-followers before. This feature makes that possible for developers to give you that feature in client software. So, this feature makes it POSSIBLE to give you the feature you want when it wasn't possible before. Maybe you want this feature, maybe you don't. I can't tell from your ranting which you want or don't want. But, this change puts more control in the hands of developers and that's a good thing. You may or may not agree with that. You'll probably agree AND disagree in the same response. On Nov 22, 10:49 am, chuckblakeman cfblake...@gmail.com wrote: AT LEAST GIVE ME THE OPTION TO DECIDE FOR MYSELF IF I WANT TO SEE RTs FROM NON-FOLLOWERS! Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Ignoring Relationship Building People gravitate toward people they enjoy communicating with - that's how we build friends in any context. One of the main ways I find people I want to meet is that they like what I say, and more often than not, an RT tells me they like what I say, and I do the same for them. To keep me from being able to see people who like what I say removes one of the best ways of building relationships Twitter has. I NEED to see an RT from people who aren't following me to help me build my business. Elitist Arrogance Being annoyed by people retweeting you is like an author being annoyed that people showed up at their book signing - how elitist to turn up your nose at people who like what you say. Gee, sorry about that. This mindset doesn't want to build relationships but just wants to be able to count how many faceless, nameless people RT them - how arrogant is that? Increased Meaningless RT Traffic Before this feature, you actually had to do a little work to RT - copy, paste, put RT in front of it and send. Ouch - that's a lot of work. But that tiny bit of work kept people from senselessly RT'ing just to gain followers - it was too cumbersome to use effectively for spamming. Now by the simple push of a button people will be RT'ing like changing TV channels w/ a remote, and you won't really know if it meant enough to them to put a little effort into building that relationship with you - just stop holding your finger up and let it fall - that really shows a how much that comment meant to you? Summary Twitter started out as a tool to build relationships. It has become less and less personal. This new RT'ing feature reduces your ability to build relationships, plays to the arrogant elite, and makes it easier for people to use RT'ing and 10 different ghost accounts to spam people to death. And this is an upgrade? Hmmm not seeing it. Facebook is starting to look good all of a sudden.
[twitter-dev] Re: Please allow me to see people who RT me! !
I believe the Retweets Of Me timeline is what you're looking for. On Nov 22, 12:24 pm, chuckblakeman cfblake...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any RTs in the Your tweets, retweeted tab from people WHO AREN'T FOLLOWING ME. I want to see those! Is there a way for me to see people who RT me who aren't following me? That's the biggest problem i see with this, and unless I can find those people, this whole upgrade ignores some basic fundamentals of building relationships. Imagine having people visit your blog and try to leave a comment that they agree with you and you're not allowed to see it. And this is an upgrade? Still not seeing any upgrade here. On Nov 22, 9:14 am, Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net wrote: Chuck Blakeman wrote: Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Have you tried looking at the Your tweets, retweeted tab in the Retweets page on Twitter's web site? - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg. signature.asc 1KViewDownload
Re: [twitter-dev] Kill the new RT feature - it's non-relational
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:49 AM, chuckblakeman cfblake...@gmail.com wrote: Ignoring Relationship Building Quite the contrary. If one of my friends retweets someone that I'm not following and it's interesting enough, I'll probably follow the original author. It's a way for your followers to show interesting thoughts and things that they thing THEIR followers will thing it's interesting enough to follow. Elitist Arrogance As far as I know, you don't see when one of your followers retweets someone you posted. Increased Meaningless RT Traffic 'Cause all Twitter traffic is meaningful? It can be abused, yes. But EVERYTHING twitter provides in the form of APIs can be abused in a way or another. Mass following/unfollowing, by any chance? Summary Summary: You don't understand twitter or the new retweet feature. -- Julio Biason julio.bia...@gmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason
[twitter-dev] Re: Please allow me to see people who RT me! !
I'm confusing you - I meant to say I want to see the RTs of people WHO DO NOT FOLLOW ME. How do I view those? On Nov 22, 12:13 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the Retweets Of Me timeline is what you're looking for. On Nov 22, 12:24 pm, chuckblakeman cfblake...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any RTs in the Your tweets, retweeted tab from people WHO AREN'T FOLLOWING ME. I want to see those! Is there a way for me to see people who RT me who aren't following me? That's the biggest problem i see with this, and unless I can find those people, this whole upgrade ignores some basic fundamentals of building relationships. Imagine having people visit your blog and try to leave a comment that they agree with you and you're not allowed to see it. And this is an upgrade? Still not seeing any upgrade here. On Nov 22, 9:14 am, Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net wrote: Chuck Blakeman wrote: Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Have you tried looking at the Your tweets, retweeted tab in the Retweets page on Twitter's web site? - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg. signature.asc 1KViewDownload
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Please allow me to see people who RT me! !
This a twitter developers list. Try twitter on getsatisfaction,com or http://help.twitter.com to contact twitter support. We are the last group to want to hear you scream about how horrible twitter is, and how it's hurting your user experience as an end user trying to game twitter to build your personal brand. Also as third party engineers we are all probably the last to care to be preached at about twitter elitism. Zac Bowling @zbowling
Re: [twitter-dev] Banned For 1000s of friendship deletes/hr
Contact suspen...@twitter.com and explain the nature of your application. If it is legitimate use it shouldn't be difficult to get reinstated. ---Mark On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:56 PM, shiplu shiplu@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: This isn't a rate limiting issue, it's an abuse issue. What were you doing that required 1000s of friendship deletes/hour? Its an app where user requests to delete friends of his choice. All gets deleted on the fly. It has almost 100 to 200 user. If everyone requests to delete at least 20-50 user, total number of friendship/destroy requests can range from 2000-1. Now, And when my cron runs for the first time it gets blocked!! -- A K M Mokaddim My talks, http://talk.cmyweb.net Follow me, http://twitter.com/shiplu বাংলিশ লেখার চাইতে বাংলা লেখা অনেক ভাল Sent from Dhaka, Bangladesh
Re: [twitter-dev] Digest for twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com - 11 Messages in 4 Topics
Would somebody take me off this damn mailing list? When I got to the homepage to unsubscribe it says I can't because I am not currently a member. Well then why am I getting these emails? Make them stop please. From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 3:26 PM To: Digest Recipients Subject: [twitter-dev] Digest for twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com - 11 Messages in 4 Topics Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/topics a.. Please allow me to see people who RT me! ! [6 Updates] b.. Kill the new RT feature - it's non-relational [3 Updates] c.. Geotagging API [1 Update] d.. Can't post tweets from my server with an account [1 Update] Topic: Please allow me to see people who RT me! ! Chuck Blakeman cfblake...@gmail.com Nov 22 08:46AM -0700 Unless I'm missing something here, this is the single worst (and only) degradation of service Twitter has ever put in place. A big step backwards for three reasons - 1) It completely ignores the concept of relationship building, 2) it promotes elitist arrogance on Twitter, and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Ignoring Relationship Building People gravitate toward people they enjoy communicating with - that's how we build friends in any context. One of the main ways I find people I want to meet is that they like what I say, and more often than not, an RT tells me they like what I say, and I do the same for them. To keep me from being able to see people who like what I say removes one of the best ways of building relationships Twitter has. I NEED to see an RT from people who aren't following me to help me build my business. Elitist Arrrogance Being annoyed by people retweeting you is like an author being annoyed that people showed up at their book signing - how elitist to turn up your nose at people who like what you say. Gee, sorry about that. This mindset doesn't want to build relationships but just wants to be able to count how many faceless, nameless people RT them - how arrogant is that? Increased Meaningless RT Traffic Before this feature, you actually had to do a little work to RT - copy, paste, put RT in front of it and send. Ouch - that's a lot of work. But that tiny bit of work kept people from senselessly RT'ing just to gain followers - it was too cumbersome to use effectively for spamming. Now by the simple push of a button people will be RT'ing like changing TV channels w/ a remote, and you won't really know if it meant enough to them to put a little effort into building that relationship with you - just stop holding your finger up and let it fall - that really shows a how much that comment meant to you? Summary Twitter started out as a tool to build relationships. It has become less and less personal. This new RT'ing feature reduces your ability to build relationships, plays to the arrogant elite, and makes it easier for people to use RT'ing and 10 different ghost accounts to spam people to death. And this is an upgrade? Hmmm not seeing it. Facebook is starting to look good all of a sudden. CAN'T YOU MAKE IT A CHOICE TO SEE RTs FROM NON-FOLLOWERS? WHY SHOULD I SUFFER BECAUSE THE TWITTER ELITE ARE TIRED OF THEIR FOLLOWERS? Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net Nov 22 10:14AM -0600 Chuck Blakeman wrote: and 3) it will increase meaningless RTs exponentially - What am I missing here on what's good about this? Have you tried looking at the Your tweets, retweeted tab in the Retweets page on Twitter's web site? - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg. chuckblakeman cfblake...@gmail.com Nov 22 09:24AM -0800 I don't see any RTs in the Your tweets, retweeted tab from people WHO AREN'T FOLLOWING ME. I want to see those! Is there a way for me to see people who RT me who aren't following me? That's the biggest problem i see with this, and unless I can find those people, this whole upgrade ignores some basic fundamentals of building relationships. Imagine having people visit your blog and try to leave a comment that they agree with you and you're not allowed to see it. And this is an upgrade? Still not seeing any upgrade here. Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com Nov 22 11:13AM -0800 I believe the Retweets Of Me timeline is what you're looking for. chuckblakeman cfblake...@gmail.com Nov 22 11:44AM -0800 I'm confusing you - I meant to say I want to see the RTs of people WHO DO NOT FOLLOW ME. How do I view those? Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com Nov 22 12:54PM -0800 This a twitter
Re: [twitter-dev] Banned For 1000s of friendship deletes/hr
I contacted a...@twitter.com. They told me to modify the app so that its hitting rate gets reduced. I think few sleep()s will slow it down. But I want to know how these are avoided normally by others? Any common best practice? -- A K M Mokaddim My talks, http://talk.cmyweb.net Follow me, http://twitter.com/shiplu
[twitter-dev] White Listing and Rate Limiting
Hi, I'm creating an application in VB.Net, I've been white listed. Yet when I get my rate in VB.Net it shows that am I am only getting 150 request. When I check my available requests, I am using my username and password. Yet, when I run Tweetdeck, I am shown that I get my full white listed rate limit. Not sure what I am doing wrong, but I'd like to make sure that while I am testing my application I don't have to worry about rates. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Michael
[twitter-dev] Adding line breaks in tweets
Hey All,
I was wondering is it possible to add line breaks when posting a
tweet.
For example I want to post some thing like this:
Check out what I just designed...
{Link to design}
Create your own design at...
{Link to create design}
But when I post a tweet it looks like this:
Check out what I just designed... {Link to
design} Create your own design at... {Link
to create design}
Please help
[twitter-dev] Twitter app marked inactive?
Hey all, My Twitter app Listerine has been marked inactive in my oauth_clients page and I don't know why. (http://twitter.com/ oauth_clients/details/45072) Could someone shed some light on this please? :luis
Re: [twitter-dev] Adding line breaks in tweets
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:11 PM, ericbulloch ericbull...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey All,
I was wondering is it possible to add line breaks when posting a
tweet.
For example I want to post some thing like this:
Check out what I just designed...
{Link to design}
Create your own design at...
{Link to create design}
But when I post a tweet it looks like this:
Check out what I just designed... {Link to
design} Create your own design at... {Link
to create design}
Some clients (Tweetie, for example) display line breaks. twitter.com does not.
-damon
[twitter-dev] the name i want is taken but the person doesnt use the account
I would love for our username to just be Enue, but someone has it already. However, they haven used their account since April 2008. Is there any way I can get them removed from twitter? or somehow contact them through e-mail?
[twitter-dev] Proper protocol for displaying user's avatar in an app
I'm building a Web app that caches tweets and user info from the streaming API, and then displays all the tweets for a single user. At times up to 30 or 40 tweets from the same user are displayed on a page. I've been caching the profile image url I get back from the streaming API, and then using this URL in an img tag sent to the browser. So I am letting the user's browser pull it from the Twitter server as needed. I don't see anything in the API docs that warns against this, but sometimes I am getting an access denied XML back instead of the proper image. Is this a bug, or should I be downloading each user's avatar and serving it from my server instead? The image is being requested by the user's browser, so whilelisting the server's IP won't help. The access denied response is intermittent. Sometimes it happens after 5 requests for the same image, sometimes 30 appear with no problem. Sometimes a few appear, a few fail, and then the rest work. So it doesn't seem like rate limiting.
[twitter-dev] 500 Internal Server Error when trying to Update Twitter Status
Hi,
I made a simple script to update a twitter status. I worked fine with
GET, but I know it would be stupid to use that because it sends
username and password in the url. I tried changing it to POST, and I
keep getting a 500 Internal Server Error whenever I try to use it.
|
Here's my html:
html
head
script type=text/javascript
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
function login() {
if (xmlhttp==null) {
alert(Your browser doesn't support XMLHTTP!);
}
var url=twitupdate.php;
var params=u=usernamep=password;
xmlhttp.open(POST, url, true);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader(Content-type, application/x-www-form-
urlencoded);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader(Content-length, params.length);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader(Connection, close);
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {//Call a function when the
state changes.
if(xmlhttp.readyState == 4 xmlhttp.status == 200) {
alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
}
}
xmlhttp.send(params);
}
function stateChanged() {
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
alert(xmlhttp.resonseText);
}
}
function GetXmlHttpObject()
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
return new XMLHttpRequest();
}
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
// code for IE6, IE5
return new ActiveXObject(Microsoft.XMLHTTP);
}
return null;
}
/script
/head
body
input type=text id=username /
input type=text id=password /
input type=button onclick=login() value=Login/
/body
/html
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Here's My PHP:
?php
$tweettext = $_POST[
require Twitter.class.php;
$tweet = new Twitter($_POST[u], $_POST[p]);
$success = $tweet-update(yay!);
if ($success) echo Tweet successful!;
else echo $tweet-error;
?
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Thanks,
Alex
Re: [twitter-dev] the name i want is taken but the person doesnt use the account
You could *try* opening a ticket at http://help.twitter.com/requests/ new, but I'm not sure if they release usernames anymore. On 2009-11-22, at 11:14 PM, Enue enuecloth...@gmail.com wrote: I would love for our username to just be Enue, but someone has it already. However, they haven used their account since April 2008. Is there any way I can get them removed from twitter? or somehow contact them through e-mail?
[twitter-dev] Retweets by others not updated?
My 'Retweets by others' page had not been updated for 3 days, but I can see retweeted tweets in Home view, what's wrong? 'Retweets by you' works fine. BTW, the 'coming soon' label had been removed in the API wiki of retweet APIs, does it mean the retweet APIs is stable for use?
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API gives different results for different IPs?
I have 3 letters to suggest to you: CDN :-) Hope to hear good news soon! -H On Nov 20, 4:46 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi howard. its on the list - we have a theory as to what is wrong, but that still needs to be investigated, tested, etc. please just continue to add color and data to the thread on the google code tracker so that we have more information to look at. If you need ANY other help, just ask and we can produce other test pages for you to accelerate the process. Just specify what you need and we can try to whip up a tool. OK? We're glad to help. Raffi, can you tell me where this is on your priority list, so that we can plan our development? The user experience of our app depends on getting this resolved, so we may have to devise a strategy to improve the UX in the meantime. Thanks again for your speedy responses. - Howard On Nov 17, 2:55 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hey! this is great - this will help us track down the issue in our system! thanks! Hello, we have built a little test page here: http://twavatars-dev.appspot.com/test?screen_name=freddyxyz And I'll head over to the code tracker now to post the URL and a comment. -H On Nov 16, 3:19 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: Hi. This is a known issue and is being tracked on the google code tracker for the API - please feel free to add more information about this issue there. Thanks! On Nov 16, 2009, at 3:32 AM, Sarp Erdag sarp.er...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I looks like the methods users/show and account/verify_credentials give different results especially for the profile_image_url block when called from different machines. After there is an avatar update (whether from the twitter web ui or over a 3rd party app that uses the api (oauth or basic) when these methods are called from different IPs, I see they are getting different profile_umage_urls. Sometimes the updated version is shown, sometimes not... Any recommendations / explanations how to deal with this issue? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Add a retweet button on the Twitter apps definition box!
I do think this can be a brilliant and simple idea: Add a retweet button on the Twitter apps definition box! (located at the right sidebar of the homepage) There is a large benefit for both Twitter and the apps developer from the 3rd party. Obviously, more people will learn about and use the applications if it appears more frequently. Also, Twitter just rolled out the Retweet button, so this will be a big plus for the whole Retweet feature. Hope everybody like it! From Stephen Ou - 14 Years Old http://stephenou.com http://twitter.com/stephenou
[twitter-dev] Re: strange search api behavior
I have this problem as well. I use since_id and I query for newer results every minute. For past 10 days, I'm seeing my app was not indexing many tweets. I compared the results with search.twitter.com and I can clearly see that I'm missing out a lot of tweets, if I keep including the since_id parameter. I guess, there are some issues in the search system. On Nov 19, 3:30 am, Tadeu Andrade tadeu.andr...@gmail.com wrote: hi folks, since last week, I noticed thatsearchis behaving a little strange. For example, if I do a query on a keyword using since_id, sometimes I get no results. If I remove since_id parameters, the query succeed and if I repeat the initial query (with since_id), then I get results. Same thing occurs if I query from the web page and later from API (via json). Anyone else has noticed this weird behavior? cheers Tadeu
