[twitter-dev] Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?
As a followup to the mobile OAuth discussions from October (see http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c4a8637359b25683/21da1c7f070652f8#21da1c7f070652f8) Does anyone know of any (publicly released) iPhone or other mobile Twitter apps that use OAuth ? I'm partly curious to know/confirm whether our app is the only iPhone (or mobile) app that uses Twitter OAuth login for posting tweets, but I also want to know what you think of the UI, if you've used Twitter OAuth login in any publicly released mobile app. Thanks Ram
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Photo service for oauth clients
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:00:30PM -0800, Michael Steuer wrote: Are any of you aware of a photo service that allows picture uploads from my oauth based Twitter client? The Api for all the usual suspects (twitpic, yfrog, tweetphoto, etc) requires passing of the user's Twitter username and password, but being an oauth client, I don't have the user's password available to me. How are other oauth based clients dealing with this? It seems my only option is building my own, but I'd rather hook into an existing service. You're going to have to roll your own, I expect. The Twitter API doesn't currently support OAuth delegation, so a user wanting to use your site to upload a photo to one third-party site and tweet about it would have to authenticate twice, once from your site to the photo site (to do the upload) and a second time from your site to Twitter (to send the tweet, since it's not possible for the photo site to use the credentials from their login on your site to tweet on their behalf). Offhand, I do know of one site which takes OAuth logins and accepts photo uploads, but: a) It's a fishing niche site, so non-fishing photos wouldn't be entirely welcome there, b) it does not provide an API, OAuth-based or otherwise, and c) I had to write it myself. -- Dave Sherohman
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Photo service for oauth clients
Well for an oauth token to be used, the API would need the consumer key as well. Would applications share their consumer key with the photo service? On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Are any of you aware of a photo service that allows picture uploads from my oauth based Twitter client? The Api for all the usual suspects (twitpic, yfrog, tweetphoto, etc) requires passing of the user's Twitter username and password, but being an oauth client, I don't have the user's password available to me. How are other oauth based clients dealing with this? It seems my only option is building my own, but I'd rather hook into an existing service. Looking forward to your feedback! Thanks, Michael -- Harshad RJ http://hrj.wikidot.com
[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the most followed users?
not that I know of. you could, conceivably, stroll through all the followers of a particular user, gather their number of followers, and then gather their followers and wash, lather, rinse, repeat. It would be easier to do it the other way around. Start picking random users and see how they follow. The list of the most followed people should stabilize relatively quickly.
Re: [twitter-dev] How to get the most followed users?
If you want the top 1000 by followers you could parse http://twitterholic.com/. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:10, developar develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was just trying to know how I can ge a list of the top twitter users who have most number of followers? there is no API to do that? Regards -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Perl Catalyst Twitter Authentication Module
For any of you using Perl and Catalyst, I've created a Module enabling you to handle Twitter OAuth credentials seamlessly in the native Catalyst authentication process. After installing this module, authenticating the user is as simple as running $realm-credential-authenticate_twitter_url($c) to send them to Twitter, and then in your callback verifying $c-authenticate(). For those familiar with the Flickr authentication modules for Catalyst this works very similar. The module is located at http://search.cpan.org/~jessestay/Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-Twitter-0.01000/lib/Catalyst/Authentication/Credential/Twitter.pmand all the documentation can be found there - if you have any questions, suggestions or issues please let me know. I've been using this on my own site in production since April, but I'd love to know how I can make this better! Jesse
[twitter-dev] Re: Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?
Thanks for the info, can you please tell us the name of your app and what feedback (if any) you've received from users about the OAuth login UI. On Dec 6, 12:55 am, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Nope we use oAuth on the iPhone The UI is better than it used to be, I haven't checked recently on whether pressing the Done key on the iPhone keyboard still defaults to the Deny button though. It would be nice if they could auto detect mobile and give us a specific interface, a bit like they do for geolocation settings. On Dec 6, 8:08 am, Ram group...@cascadesoft.net wrote: As a followup to the mobile OAuth discussions from October (seehttp://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...) Does anyone know of any (publicly released) iPhone or other mobile Twitter apps that use OAuth ? I'm partly curious to know/confirm whether our app is the only iPhone (or mobile) app that uses Twitter OAuth login for posting tweets, but I also want to know what you think of the UI, if you've used Twitter OAuth login in any publicly released mobile app. Thanks Ram- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] simply verify that user exists
Sorry, I'm having a brain cramp. I've been checking the wiki and can't for the life of me figure out what's the preferred way of taking a name and validating / verifying if the name is valid Twitter account. Is http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=FOO; (and checking the response) the best way? TjL
[twitter-dev] curl --netrc fails for adding to lists
Summary: When I try to add someone to a list using 'curl' with
--netrc it is failing, but if I use -u username:password it works.
Of course the first thought is that ~/.netrc isn't setup right
(although it's been working fine for months). But I double checked
that it is. Watch:
1) Verify that my information in ~/.netrc is valid and accessible:
# curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s --netrc
http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:41:13 GMT
{edited}
2) verify AGAIN that netrc is working
# curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s --netrc
http://twitter.com/blocks/blocking.xml
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:44:19 GMT
Server: hi
X-RateLimit-Limit: 2
{edited}
3) Try to add someone to list new-followers
# curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s --netrc -d id=25148966
http://api.twitter.com/1/tj/new-followers/members.xml
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:45:34 GMT
Server: hi
Status: 401 Unauthorized
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=Twitter API
X-Runtime: 0.00164
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 152
Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=1800
Set-Cookie:
_twitter_sess=BAh7BzoHaWQiJTgwMDhmYWMwNDU4ODkxNmIzODFhZjJmMTY4ZTU3YzkwIgpm%250AbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAG%250AOgpAdXNlZHsA--e8bdf83c0b67e77b39c841d940153e181af893a3;
domain=.twitter.com; path=/
Expires: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:15:34 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
hash
request/1/tj/new-followers/members.xml/request
errorCould not authenticate you./error
/hash
This happens every time.
4) Try same command, but using -u instead of --netrc (password
*-ed out in email)
# curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s -u tj:** -d
id=25148966 http://api.twitter.com/1/tj/new-followers/members.xml
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:46:10 GMT
Server: hi
X-Transaction: 1260132370-28062-8379
Status: 200 OK
I have no idea why this might not be working. Can anyone hazard a guess?
TjL
[twitter-dev] Re: simply verify that user exists
Well , this is a useful Idea but I think you should write a lot of line for parsing the XML code no ? try this : http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Twitter I hope this can be useful for you . Regards, feras On Dec 6, 10:59 pm, TJ Luoma luo...@luomat.net wrote: Sorry, I'm having a brain cramp. I've been checking the wiki and can't for the life of me figure out what's the preferred way of taking a name and validating / verifying if the name is valid Twitter account. Is http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=FOO; (and checking the response) the best way? TjL
[twitter-dev] Re: strange search api behavior
I noticed the same behavior in my app: when I include since_id in the search API call, I often don't get all the tweets I should. If I run without since_id, I see tweets with IDs that should have shown up in the search where I included since_id. Any response from Twitter? The since_id parameter is a very useful feature of the API. It would reduce system load and bandwidth considerably for everyone if it worked right. /Martin On Nov 23, 6:14 pm, Hayes Davis ha...@appozite.com wrote: +1 on this. I'm frequently getting 0 results from the search API (not an error, just 0 results) when including the since_id even though a search without the since_id shows that there are tweets with larger ids for the same query string. Hayes On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Karthik fermis...@gmail.com wrote: 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
[twitter-dev] Max tweet ID
Hi, I have used the search for tweets newer then some tweet id (cron job accessing the search and getting all tweets containing some word which id is more then previous one) but looks like it doesn't work for me correctly anymore. I have modified my application a little week ago but I didn't touched the functionality around the search. Basically now I am getting also some older tweets in search result again and again (I am storing all the searched tweet in my db so I can see that the tweet is being found again even if the max id is higher). Any1 has the same problem (maybe something changed in API in last 3-5 days) or is the problem really on my side? Thanks
[twitter-dev] How to build a form to Login into Twitter?
Dear Sirs, I really need your help . I tried to read the Api wiki but I didn't understand anything :S . I want anyone who can help me in building a form to Login into Twitter ! I am PHP programmer , so could anyone explain the concept for me ? Waiting your kind reply. Regards, Feras Allaou
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: strange search api behavior
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Martin Omander moman...@google.com wrote: I noticed the same behavior in my app: when I include since_id in the search API call, I often don't get all the tweets I should. If I run without since_id, I see tweets with IDs that should have shown up in the search where I included since_id. Any response from Twitter? The since_id parameter is a very useful feature of the API. It would reduce system load and bandwidth considerably for everyone if it worked right. Sounds like there is confirmation. Has anyone filed an issue? Once you have an issue link, please post back to this thread so people can star it. Best, -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon
[twitter-dev] Tons of 502s
Twitter, are you aware that the API has been throwing tons of 502s on all calls since around 5:00 PM CST?
Re: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s
everything appears dead... website (failwhale), API, streams, ... -chad On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter, are you aware that the API has been throwing tons of 502s on all calls since around 5:00 PM CST?
RE: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s
www.Twitter.com is down here from Time Warner in NY. Was funny because originally I thought it was me and something with my IP address because I was testing something out for my www.LiveFootballChat.com app when it stopped working and blocking all access to api and website. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: Dewald Pretorius [mailto:dpr...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:14 PM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s Twitter, are you aware that the API has been throwing tons of 502s on all calls since around 5:00 PM CST?
Re: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s
everything appears dead... website (failwhale), API, streams, ... On the other hand, this gave my Fail Whale detector in TTYtter 1.0.0 a really good workout. ;-) -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- FORTUNE: You will be hit with a lot of money. Avoid armoured trucks. ---
[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s
Everything is down for me too. Twitter.com itself shows a fail whale. Lee
[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s
I'm glad the fail whale is still around. I hadn't seen it in a while and was starting to miss it. Lee
[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the most followed users?
You've got to basically build your own database of users. That's what I did to create this page: http://listorious.com/top/followers Lee On Dec 6, 10:15 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you want the top 1000 by followers you could parsehttp://twitterholic.com/. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:10, developar develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was just trying to know how I can ge a list of the top twitter users who have most number of followers? there is no API to do that? Regards -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists |http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s
This should be resolved now http://status.twitter.com/post/272315876/responding-to-whales On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:33 PM, LeeS - @semel lse...@gmail.com wrote: I'm glad the fail whale is still around. I hadn't seen it in a while and was starting to miss it. Lee -- ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv
[twitter-dev] statuses/friends issue?
Hi all, my code is calling api method statuses/friends with an increasing paging to get all friends information. Since a couple of hours it seems it never reaches a page with no friends or less than n friends so my code stops the recursion. Anyone similar problems?
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API questions
@AJ Chen You are 100% correct when you say that it’s the user’s responsibility to clean up duplicates in the search results. My issue is not so much about there being duplicates, but the fact that there are so many of them. My concept of search is that if there have been new tweets posted, say 30 odd since I last queried search, I ought to get the new tweets on my next query. What I shouldn’t be getting is, search results from say two hours ago whenever I query search. Maybe I am wrong here, but that’s how I expected the search API to work. On the issue of Rate Limiting, I am really not sure what the rate limit would be, since the documentation does not give a clear picture of what that limit is. The documentation (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ Rate-limiting) merely hints that it is significantly higher than the 150 requests per hour limit for the REST API. Considering this, I don’t think my application / script should be exceeding that limit since I only make 4 requests per hour. Anyway, would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction, or at least let me know if I am trying to the wrong thing with the search API. Regards, Elroy On Dec 3, 6:31 am, AJ Chen cano...@gmail.com wrote: unless I miss something, it's usually user's responsibility to dedup returned tweets on the client side. if you see duplicates between two feeds, just remove the duplicates. this is what client application should have in any case. if you see no fresh tweets but only old tweets, there may be a possibility that twitter returns only cashed results because you api calls exceed rate-limit. I'm not sure, though. does any one know about rate-limit for using search feedhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atomhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=19.017656%2C72.856178%2. ? -aj On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM, enygmatic enygma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Raffi Were you able to raise the cache issue with the search team? Seems the problem is worse than I thought. I have run my script (getting 25 results from search every 15 minutes, for Mumbai) for two days. The first day had 71% duplicate results due to the caching issue, while the second day fetched an amazing 90% duplicates. With these kind of results, I think it’s probably quite useless for me to even use the search API . So would appreciate if you could let me know if there is a chance that this issue may be resolved in the near future or if location specific streams would be available via the streaming API anytime soon. I understand that the twitter dev team has a lot on its hands, so it would be understandable if this isn’t anywhere in the list of features they intend to ship out in the near future. However, would definitely appreciate it if you could let me know if anything could be done or not. Thanks and Regards, Elroy Serrao On Nov 28, 7:45 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: unfortunately, there is no (current) way to subscribe to the streaming API for a particular location. as for the caching issue on the search, that's unfortunate, and i'll try to raise the issue with the search team next week. @Abraham I actually use the geocode with the search api for my script, so using the search api isn't my problem. My problem is that I get stale results from the search cache, even when querying after a sufficient interval. Also the stale results seem hours old (at times, in fact yesterday at 23:00 hours I got a few results that were from 22:00-22:30 hours. Didn't have the problem when using twitter search from the browser). To overcome this Raffi Krikorian suggested using the streaming api instead of the search api. My question was - how do i get a location specific stream using the streaming api. From the streaming api docs, there doesn't seem a way to do this at the moment, which kind of defeats my purpose as I need to the deploy the script in the next one week or so. Guess I'll have to live with the stale results... Anyway thanks for the help. On Nov 28, 12:40 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38, enygmatic enygma...@gmail.com wrote: From what I have gone through so far, there doesn't seem to be a way to query for status updates from a certain geographical location, say limited to a city. I may be mistaken here, so do correct me if I am wrong. Check out the search operators:http://search.twitter.com/operators For example:http://search.twitter.com/search?q=near:NYC+within:15mi Abraham -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project | Awesome Lists |http://twitterli.st This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi-
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: account/update_profile_background_image not working
Hey.. Has ne one implemented it with RoR?? I am not getting any error but the image is not updated somehow. Thanks On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Matt matthewroberts...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't, but you have a space in the link you posed as the thread title. On Dec 3, 5:13 pm, dhaval dhaval.parik...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all Updating profile background image doesnt work for me. Is any one else facing the same issue? Let me know thanks -- Dhaval Parikh Software Engineer Ruby on Rails www.dhavalparikh.co.in http://blog.dhavalparikh.co.in
