[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-14 Thread Rich
Tweet appears to have been answered here 
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/may-tweets-be-with-you.html

On Jan 13, 7:51 pm, DeWitt Clinton dclin...@gmail.com wrote:
 That's great news.  Thank you, Ryan.

 How about terms like tweet and retweet?  Or more generally, any word on
 the questions raised in the Question about licensing thread?

 http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

 In particular, it would be great to get clarification in writing on
 twitter.com -- not sure if your mail here is binding :) -- about the terms
 for acceptable trademark usage, copyright claims, and patent claims, for
 third party libraries and third party implementations of the Twitter API.

 I fully understand that these are difficult questions, and certainly
 appreciate the effort it takes to get all the legal concerns addressed.
  Thanks again for chasing these down!

 -DeWitt

 On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote:
  Duane,

  I've been able to follow up with our lawyers and they confirmed that it is
  ok to include Twitter in the name of libraries that developers build.
  Sorry it took so long to follow up, but I wanted to make sure we got a
  strong, final answer back before responding.

  Best, Ryan

  On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Duane Roelands 
  duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote:

  A question for the Twitter team:

  I'm the developer and maintainer of an open source library called
  TwitterVB.  Can I expect a nastygram from your lawyers at some
  point?  Or is there some way I can have the project vetted to avoid
  such a thing in the future?


[twitter-dev] Rate limits for Searching APIs (revamped)

2010-01-14 Thread Gui
Hello community!

I'm using a Linq to Twitter API to perform a few searches on the site,
but my queries seem to have exceeded the limits, since the
documentation on the API is not very extensive on how entry limits
work.

A couple of questions: What is the current rate limit for APIs per IP?
How long is my IP blocked/limited for?

I tried to find the info on the appropriate places, but even in this
group I was unable to find specific limitations (which are integral to
any searching applications).

Anyway, hope someone out there can reach out and give me a hand.
Thanks


Re: [twitter-dev] hurl.it is curl for the browser

2010-01-14 Thread bittin
:o nice tip :)

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 I stumbled upon this tonight (tho apparently it's been out a while),
 but I thought it would benefit lots of devs.

 http://hurl.it/ is basically a curl client for the browser, but you
 can also copy permalinks of your HTTP requests so others can see... a
 nice thing to be able to do if you are trying to debug an HTTP request
 and share the results with other people (such as this list)...

 think of it as curl + pastebin i guess.

 Anyway, thought I'd share...

 -Chad



[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets with !, ', and other characters refused..

2010-01-14 Thread thetwitmaniac
We are using UTF-8 and still have this issue!  Really can't understand
why, all help would be greatly appreciated!

On Dec 23 2009, 6:04 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
 Make sure you are properly encoding the characters before you send them to
 Twitter.

 Abraham

 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 23:49, thetwitmaniac alon.a.ta...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,

  I'm building a desktop twitter client and for some reason whenever I
  try to post a tweet with an exclamation mark or apostrophe, the tweet
  is rejected and I am presented with a request to provide login
  credential for the Twitter API.

  Has anyone run into this issue or have any idea why this would occur?

  Thanks!

 --
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 Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com
 Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham
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[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Widget RateLimit

2010-01-14 Thread Jason King
Thanks Josh - much appreciated.
Jason


[twitter-dev] Update profile image API using OAuth

2010-01-14 Thread Vikram
Hi all,

I am trying to use the update profile image API via OAuth. This is how
I build my request.

Set the method as POST.

Set the content type as multipart/form-data; boundary=+boundary;
(Boundary is generated)

Write the OAuth parameters
oauth_consumer_key,oauth_nonce,oauth_signature,oauth_signature_method,oauth_timestamp,oauth_token,oauth_version
into the request stream.

I follow this up with

--+boundary+\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\image\;
filename=\test.JPG}\\r\nContent-Type: image/jpg\r\n\r\n.

This is followed by the byte stream of the image.

When I send this request to twitter, I receive 500(Internal server
error).


What am I doing wrong? Please help. I have been struggling since the
past week to get this working.


[twitter-dev] Re: Relationship between Gardenhose and Track vs Search API

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Bates
That's a good explanation, thanks Mark.

In your example are those 50 tweets gone forever or are they buffered
into the following minute? I haven't seen the limit message yet.

I realize there is the count parameter which allows you to go back
150k, but it seems it doesn't apply to track accounts (i'm restricted
track). Even if I were to open a second Shadow account to swap with in
the event of a limit message, my understanding is that Shadow is only
increased followers but not track keywords.


On Jan 13, 7:02 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote:
 Check out the filter URL on the streaming API.  It will return up to N
 tweets a minute, where N is the amount you'd get from a sampled
 stream.  However it only returns tweets that match track keywords.
 Provided the number of filtered tweets is never above the sampled
 amount, you won't get limited.

 Let's take a hypothetical example.  Using gardenhose you're throttled
 at 100 tweets a minute (not the real number).  You track the keyword
 twitter.  During the first minute there are 50 matches.  You get all
 50.  During the second minute there are 150 tweets about twitter.
 You'll get 100 tweets, and a limit message saying there were 50 more
 you missed due to throttling.  Does this make sense?

    ---Mark

 http://twitter.com/mccv

 On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ross Bates rba...@gmail.com wrote:
  I'm reading the streaming API documentation and have a question about
  track keywords. A set of keywords can be used to filter the gardenhose
  but it doesn't actually increase your chance of getting tweets that
  would not have been included in the unfiltered stream. The gardenhose
  is a sample of the firehose and returns the same results to all
  clients - correct?

  If this is the case then for applications that need all data for
  specific keywords I would think the search API remains the better
  option? For example, if I needed all tweets that contained the words
  foo OR bar the gardenhose can't guarantee I will get 100%.

  What's confusing me is the email which went out the other day about
  the streaming API. First the statement about polling for keywords:

  If your application polls for keywords, mentions, is whitelisted on
  the
  Search API, or makes more than perhaps 10 queries per minute, you
  should
  begin your migration to Streaming. Desktop clients should postpone a
  migration to Streaming.

  Then later in the email:

  Complete corpus search: Search is focused on result set quality and
  there are no guarantees to return all matching tweets. Complete
  results
  are only available on the Streaming API. Search results are
  increasingly
  filtered and reordered for relevance.

  This second statement differs from the streaming API documentation
  which says that the streaming API is sampled.

  Does the rollout of the streaming API to the general public mean that
  results are no longer sampled?

  -Ross


[twitter-dev] Re: background url showing via api, but not on profile

2010-01-14 Thread Kyle Mulka
Another example:
http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=MKTINTELLIGENCE

On Jan 11, 11:25 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote:
 thanks for bumping :P

 there is a fix in the pipeline for this issue -- we're just waiting on
 getting it deployed out.



 On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote:
  bump

  On Jan 1, 2:24 pm, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com wrote:
   The profile background image URL of this user shows up in the API, but
   it doesn't show up on their profile page. What’s happening?

   profile page:http://twitter.com/dirk100

   API:http://www.twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=dirk100

   background image URL in API:
 http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/63365544/twilk_backgrou...

   --
   Kyle Mulka
   Founder, Congo Labshttp://twilk.com

 --
 Raffi Krikorian
 Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi


Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-14 Thread DeWitt Clinton
Right, I agree that the public statements (both Biz's post and Ryan's
comment here) are all aligned with what we expected and asked for.  I'm
simply encouraging and hoping for the Terms to be updated to reflect that
position and remove the ambiguity for library, client, and service authors.
 Doubly important now that third parties are going so far as to implement
their own backends for the Twitter API itself, especially with respect to
patent and copyright (for the docs).

BTW, here is what the Terms (http://twitter.com/tos) currently read,
effective: September 18, 2009:

 All right, title, and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content
 provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of Twitter and
 its licensors. The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other
 laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Nothing in the Terms
 gives you a right to use the Twitter name or any of the Twitter trademarks,
 logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. Any feedback,
 comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding Twitter, or the Services
 is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or
 suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.


Biz's post was written July, 2009, so if you just take it at face value, the
most recent Terms actually supersede his statement.  Again, I'm personally
reasonably confident that wasn't the intention, hence these ongoing threads
on the developer list.

-DeWitt

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Tweet appears to have been answered here
 http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/may-tweets-be-with-you.html

 On Jan 13, 7:51 pm, DeWitt Clinton dclin...@gmail.com wrote:
  That's great news.  Thank you, Ryan.
 
  How about terms like tweet and retweet?  Or more generally, any word
 on
  the questions raised in the Question about licensing thread?
 
  http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
 
  In particular, it would be great to get clarification in writing on
  twitter.com -- not sure if your mail here is binding :) -- about the
 terms
  for acceptable trademark usage, copyright claims, and patent claims, for
  third party libraries and third party implementations of the Twitter API.
 
  I fully understand that these are difficult questions, and certainly
  appreciate the effort it takes to get all the legal concerns addressed.
   Thanks again for chasing these down!
 
  -DeWitt
 
  On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com
 wrote:
   Duane,
 
   I've been able to follow up with our lawyers and they confirmed that it
 is
   ok to include Twitter in the name of libraries that developers build.
   Sorry it took so long to follow up, but I wanted to make sure we got a
   strong, final answer back before responding.
 
   Best, Ryan
 
   On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Duane Roelands 
 duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote:
 
   A question for the Twitter team:
 
   I'm the developer and maintainer of an open source library called
   TwitterVB.  Can I expect a nastygram from your lawyers at some
   point?  Or is there some way I can have the project vetted to avoid
   such a thing in the future?



[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Jan 14, 8:04 am, DeWitt Clinton dclin...@gmail.com wrote:
 BTW, here is what the Terms (http://twitter.com/tos) currently read,
 effective: September 18, 2009:

  All right, title, and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content
  provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of Twitter and
  its licensors. The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other
  laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Nothing in the Terms
  gives you a right to use the Twitter name or any of the Twitter trademarks,
  logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. Any feedback,
  comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding Twitter, or the Services
  is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or
  suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.

 Biz's post was written July, 2009, so if you just take it at face value, the
 most recent Terms actually supersede his statement.  Again, I'm personally
 reasonably confident that wasn't the intention, hence these ongoing threads
 on the developer list.

 -DeWitt

In general, the legal advice I have received from the IP attorneys I
hang out with (in the Portland, Oregon startup community) on such
matters is:

a. Make sure you have your organization structure work done first (C-
corp, S-corp, LLC, etc.). Sole proprietorships / partnerships and
intellectual property don't in general mix very well.
b. Create unique stuff wherever possible, like Xobni (Inbox
spelled backwards) rather than BuzzTrack for Outlook.
c. Hire an attorney and *listen* to what they advise you to do! Dave
Frishberg's My Attorney Bernie is the standard reference. ;-)

Silly crap happens - like Apple Computer vs. Apple Records, the
University of Oregon having to pay money to Disney for a duck logo
that looks sorta like Donald, etc.

So, even if Biz says it's OK, I personally wouldn't use tweet
anywhere that a generic word like message would suffice, for
example. I wouldn't use Twit or Tweep or Tw-anything. And I
wouldn't use anything avian at all.

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net/smart-at-znmeb

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~ Paul
Erdős


Re: [twitter-dev] IP temp banned??

2010-01-14 Thread John Adams


On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Ryan Rosario wrote:


I have noticed a strange problem when I started executing API requests
in parallel. After some time, my machine cannot ping twitter.com and
my operations stall. Other machines have no problem with Twitter.com
at the same time. I am not exhausting my hourly limit, and even if I
were, I have code that waits until the next hour. In other words, as
far as I know, I am not hammering the Twitter servers.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is my IP being temp banned or
something? If so, how can I prevent this from happening in the future?



This might be at the ISP level; It's certainly not the way that we ban  
hosts.  For example, there are some firewalls/IPS systems that will  
block outbound traffic when met with repeated attempts to access the  
same IP.


If you hit a dynamic rate limit, all of the dynamic rate limits will  
still allow you to connect and we'll send you a status indicating that  
we've rate-limited you.


If we find it necessary to ban an IP or IP Block, we will block all  
traffic from the IP for an extended amount of time, and not in the on- 
off way that you are experiencing.


-j

---
John Adams (@netik)
Twitter Operations
j...@twitter.com
http://twitter.com/netik









Re: [twitter-dev] Rate limits for Searching APIs (revamped)

2010-01-14 Thread Abraham Williams
The Search API limit is not publicly available but is more then 150 calls
per hour per IP. Once you hit the rate limit there will be a header in the
response that specifies when you start making calls again.

You can read more about the Search API rate limit here:

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 21:08, Gui mai...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello community!

 I'm using a Linq to Twitter API to perform a few searches on the site,
 but my queries seem to have exceeded the limits, since the
 documentation on the API is not very extensive on how entry limits
 work.

 A couple of questions: What is the current rate limit for APIs per IP?
 How long is my IP blocked/limited for?

 I tried to find the info on the appropriate places, but even in this
 group I was unable to find specific limitations (which are integral to
 any searching applications).

 Anyway, hope someone out there can reach out and give me a hand.
 Thanks




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Re: [twitter-dev] Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Denton
do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given you
access?

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets from my
 friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of Twitter, and
 for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of them. In
 Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon a 500,
 but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.

 If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a 500 web
 page (Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it or something like that)
 instead of a JSON error return.

 I can email privately which user I am talking about because I don't
 want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random problem, or
 is there extra security on employee profiles? I also experience this
 problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.

 TIA,
 Ryan



[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Rosario
kevinweil :)

I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable.

On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given you
 access?

 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
  I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets from my
  friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of Twitter, and
  for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of them. In
  Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon a 500,
  but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.

  If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a 500 web
  page (Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it or something like that)
  instead of a JSON error return.

  I can email privately which user I am talking about because I don't
  want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random problem, or
  is there extra security on employee profiles? I also experience this
  problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.

  TIA,
  Ryan


[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Rosario
If I remove the count parameter from the Curl call, it works, but
with any count parameter, I get a 500.

On Jan 14, 4:39 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
 kevinweil :)

 I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable.

 On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:

  do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given you
  access?

  On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
   I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets from my
   friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of Twitter, and
   for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of them. In
   Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon a 500,
   but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.

   If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a 500 web
   page (Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it or something like that)
   instead of a JSON error return.

   I can email privately which user I am talking about because I don't
   want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random problem, or
   is there extra security on employee profiles? I also experience this
   problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.

   TIA,
   Ryan


[twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation in June

2010-01-14 Thread twittme_mobi
Hello,

Thanks for your reply!
Couldn't I just save the access token in a database and use it later?

Thanks.

On Jan 14, 1:31 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote:
  Regarding Basic Auth Deprecation is June - would it be possible using
  OAuth to automate
  some users posts - for example - there are some applications that can
  automate a post in the future.

  Could that still work in future?

 There is going to be a browserless API, and that might serve such a
 purpose.

 --
  personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/--
   Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com
 -- FORTUNE: You have a magnetic personality. Avoid iron-based alloys. 
 -


Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Denton
if you put the URL in the browser it works?



On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:

 If I remove the count parameter from the Curl call, it works, but
 with any count parameter, I get a 500.

 On Jan 14, 4:39 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
  kevinweil :)
 
  I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable.
 
  On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given you
   access?
 
   On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com
 wrote:
I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets from my
friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of Twitter, and
for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of them. In
Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon a 500,
but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.
 
If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a 500 web
page (Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it or something like that)
instead of a JSON error return.
 
I can email privately which user I am talking about because I don't
want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random problem, or
is there extra security on employee profiles? I also experience this
problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.
 
TIA,
Ryan



Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation in June

2010-01-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
 Thanks for your reply!
 Couldn't I just save the access token in a database and use it later?

Yup. Many, if not most, applications do just that.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- What an incredible thing we did. -- R. J. Mical, Commodore-Amiga ---


[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Rosario
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/kevinweil.json?page=1count=200
yields File not Found in Firefox.

In Safari, it downloads the 500 web page.

R.

On Jan 14, 4:51 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 if you put the URL in the browser it works?

 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
  If I remove the count parameter from the Curl call, it works, but
  with any count parameter, I get a 500.

  On Jan 14, 4:39 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
   kevinweil :)

   I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable.

   On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:

do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given you
access?

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets from my
 friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of Twitter, and
 for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of them. In
 Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon a 500,
 but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.

 If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a 500 web
 page (Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it or something like that)
 instead of a JSON error return.

 I can email privately which user I am talking about because I don't
 want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random problem, or
 is there extra security on employee profiles? I also experience this
 problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.

 TIA,
 Ryan


Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Denton
Well this seems to work:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/kevinweil.json?count=10page=1

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:

 http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/kevinweil.json?page=1count=200
 yields File not Found in Firefox.

 In Safari, it downloads the 500 web page.

 R.

 On Jan 14, 4:51 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
  if you put the URL in the browser it works?
 
  On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   If I remove the count parameter from the Curl call, it works, but
   with any count parameter, I get a 500.
 
   On Jan 14, 4:39 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
kevinweil :)
 
I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable.
 
On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given
 you
 access?
 
 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario 
 uclamath...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets
 from my
  friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of Twitter,
 and
  for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of them. In
  Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon a
 500,
  but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.
 
  If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a 500
 web
  page (Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it or something like
 that)
  instead of a JSON error return.
 
  I can email privately which user I am talking about because I
 don't
  want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random
 problem, or
  is there extra security on employee profiles? I also experience
 this
  problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.
 
  TIA,
  Ryan



Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving tweets of an employee

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Denton
yeah, perhaps some greg pass magic going on on the account behind the
scenes.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:

 count=200 worked for the hundreds of other users, just not this one.
 This seems like a bug.
 I can't even retrieve his tweets in Tweetie (Internal server error)

 R.


 On Jan 14, 5:12 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
  Well this seems to work:
 
  http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/kevinweil.json?count=10page=1
 
  On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/kevinweil.json?page=1count.
 ..
   yields File not Found in Firefox.
 
   In Safari, it downloads the 500 web page.
 
   R.
 
   On Jan 14, 4:51 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
if you put the URL in the browser it works?
 
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com
 
   wrote:
 If I remove the count parameter from the Curl call, it works, but
 with any count parameter, I get a 500.
 
 On Jan 14, 4:39 pm, Ryan Rosario uclamath...@gmail.com wrote:
  kevinweil :)
 
  I logged out of my account and his tweets are publicly viewable.
 
  On Jan 14, 4:27 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   do you have the username? they might be protected, but have
 given
   you
   access?
 
   On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario 
   uclamath...@gmail.com
 wrote:
I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets
   from my
friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of
 Twitter,
   and
for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of
 them. In
Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon
 a
   500,
but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.
 
If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a
 500
   web
page (Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it or something
 like
   that)
instead of a JSON error return.
 
I can email privately which user I am talking about because I
   don't
want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random
   problem, or
is there extra security on employee profiles? I also
 experience
   this
problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.
 
TIA,
Ryan