RE: [twitter-dev] Private account

2010-02-13 Thread Ken Dobruskin
Would it not be sufficient to display the result of an authenticated call to the user_timeline method? Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:07:08 -0800 Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Private account From: ra...@twitter.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com all the employees could just request to f

Re: [twitter-dev] Private account

2010-02-13 Thread Raffi Krikorian
all the employees could just request to follow the boss, i suppose. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, niel wrote: > Hi, > I have the following requirement. I set up a private twitter account > for my boss. His tweets need to be visible to all the employees. So, > the tweets must be displayed on

[twitter-dev] Re: Building a 100 million word Twitter corpus

2010-02-13 Thread mzap
Thanks for these replies :) We've built the corpus. Funny thing for me (wearing a corpus linguist hat) is that the corpus is bigger than most of the reference corpora I might use! cheers, Michele On Feb 12, 3:45 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote: > On 02/10/2010 10:03 PM, mzap wrote: > > > I am

[twitter-dev] 401 on Mono

2010-02-13 Thread xanadont
Hi, I'm attempting to direct message from Mac OS X / Mono. I've already used certmgr to install the SSL cert for https://www.twitter.com and https://api.twitter.com. Unfortunately I'm getting "(401) Unauthorized". Any Ideas? Thanks.

[twitter-dev] Re: Strange behavior (bug?): statuses/user_timeline/ with count

2010-02-13 Thread Christian Joudrey
I understand that, but if you put count=2 it should return you 2 results regardless of whether or not it sends back retweets. If you put count=2 and your timeline is RT, RT, Tweet it will return an empty array while it should simply return you an array containing the single Tweet. On Feb 12, 9:33

[twitter-dev] tips for devleoping web applications using twitter APIs

2010-02-13 Thread Shea
Hi folks, I am just getting started on developing a web application that I wish to interact with Twitter. Essentially, I want to embed Twitter functionality into an existing application - so users of the app can authorize the app to use Twitter on their behalf (via OAuth), and then set up filters

[twitter-dev] Re: What's up with OAuth?

2010-02-13 Thread jon
It worked for a one time oauth conversion for about 3000 accounts (i ran a batch job across five processes and think it took an hour or so to finish)-- however, that was back in may. the script was also written pre oauth 1.0a, so there's no oauth_verifier. I'm not sure if that's required now. On

[twitter-dev] Private account

2010-02-13 Thread niel
Hi, I have the following requirement. I set up a private twitter account for my boss. His tweets need to be visible to all the employees. So, the tweets must be displayed on the company's intranet so employees have a central place to read them. But the issue is that this is only possible with publ

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread Fauzil Hamdi
when i get response message, it say "Unauthorized" i just got confused because i try it again, and it success On 14 February 2010 12:24, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > 1. why with oauth, the connection must be retry 2 or 3 times ? not like without oauth that's not need to retry the request. is th

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread Raffi Krikorian
> > 1. why with oauth, the connection must be retry 2 or 3 times ? not like >>> without oauth that's not need to retry the request. is the oauth unstabble >>> yet ? >>> >> >> I'm not aware of these issues - can you please provide more detail? What >> call are you making? Is it reproducable from dif

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread Fauzil Hamdi
On 14 February 2010 00:58, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > Please don't bump messages on the list. > > > 1. why with oauth, the connection must be retry 2 or 3 times ? not like >> without oauth that's not need to retry the request. is the oauth unstabble >> yet ? >> > > I'm not aware of these issues -

Re: [twitter-dev] Mentions with changed screen name?

2010-02-13 Thread Raffi Krikorian
there isn't an API call that will give you an old screen name of a user. mentions are computed both at posting time, and by doing textual lookups depending on the situation. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Peebles wrote: > I've been trying to extract mentions from some historical tweets

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API Irregularity

2010-02-13 Thread Raffi Krikorian
http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/66018 not all tweets are guaranteed to be in search. on top of this, i highly don't recommend using the search API for this, and instead, use the streaming API. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:24 AM, TimeSnag wrote: > I am a college student working on a

[twitter-dev] Mentions with changed screen name?

2010-02-13 Thread Daniel Peebles
I've been trying to extract mentions from some historical tweets I collected (some a couple of years old) and as the mentions are textual, some of the screen names have changed. Is there any way to look up a user id based on an old screen name of that user? Does twitter even maintain that informati

[twitter-dev] Search API Irregularity

2010-02-13 Thread TimeSnag
I am a college student working on a project that requires me to capture all (or as many as possible) retweets and store them in a database. I currently have a script setup to search for "RT" and return 100 results per page. What I have discovered is that sometimes, the results are a random sample

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for someone to help wiith oauth

2010-02-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I took a run at your web site. It's got some kind of Flash script that causes Firefox to throw an error, and it takes *way* too long to load. So, you've got bigger problems than oAuth to solve. As for hiring developers, there is a list of developers who have self- registered with their areas of ex

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Please don't bump messages on the list. 1. why with oauth, the connection must be retry 2 or 3 times ? not like without oauth that's not need to retry the request. is the oauth unstabble yet ? I'm not aware of these issues - can you please provide more detail? What call are you making? Is

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread John Meyer
There are several libraries for j2me. Are you talking about a library or an actual twitter client. In either case you would probably be better asking in a client-specific web forum or mailing list. On 2/13/2010 10:22 AM, Fauzil Hamdi wrote: anyone ? On 13 February 2010 19:56, Fauzil Hamdi m

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread Fauzil Hamdi
anyone ? On 13 February 2010 19:56, Fauzil Hamdi wrote: > > hi all, > i am building j2me twitter client. > > i use oauth. > i have some questions. > > 1. why with oauth, the connection must be retry 2 or 3 times ? not like > without oauth that's not need to retry the request. is the oauth unstab

[twitter-dev] Re: What's up with OAuth?

2010-02-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Mmmm it looks as if you're scraping the pre-login Allow/Deny page. That might just get your IP address blackholed. On Feb 13, 11:44 am, jon wrote: > FYI, if anyone wants to get an to do a poor man's version of xAuth, > I'd written a script a few months ago to exchange credentials: > > http:/

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Looking for someone to help wiith oauth

2010-02-13 Thread Ryan Alford
You can ask technical questions here. You had developers that gave up because of cookie handling? Uhhh... Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 13, 2010 10:44 AM, "Merrows" wrote: Thanks for all the interesting comments. Actually I have found it hard to locate the expertise. I have some code sample

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter status update through a Ajax Post

2010-02-13 Thread Christian Heilmann
atomic mouse wrote: I replaced the first post here :: Hello Friends; In December I wrote a little function to allow users to update our Twitter status by completing a form embedded in our CMS. This has worked fine untill last week. The script simply sends a ajax post to "http://twitter.com/s

[twitter-dev] Re: What's up with OAuth?

2010-02-13 Thread jon
FYI, if anyone wants to get an to do a poor man's version of xAuth, I'd written a script a few months ago to exchange credentials: http://gist.github.com/108144 http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/2985c36158742455/6a179766f32f4d50#6a179766f32f4d50 - Jon

[twitter-dev] Re: What's up with OAuth?

2010-02-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, Could you please confirm that you've received my request for xauth? The ticket number is 861418. Because of that stupid Zendesk system, I cannot access the ticket number that was sent back to me. When you email something in, you don't see the ticket when you login with your Twitter creden

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for someone to help wiith oauth

2010-02-13 Thread Merrows
Thanks for all the interesting comments. Actually I have found it hard to locate the expertise. I have some code samples already, but I really need someone or at least a technical forum (similar to the kind of thing for Google Products which allows QA type of messages) for twitter. Is there anythi

[twitter-dev] Is anyone using php pecl oath library?

2010-02-13 Thread Dmitri Snytkine
Hello! I am trying to decide if to use PECL oauth or twitter-async from here http://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/tree What do most php developers use for implementing login with Twitter?

[twitter-dev] Looking for example to use popup window to login

2010-02-13 Thread Dmitri Snytkine
Hello!. I am looking for an example of implementation of login with Twitter where when user clicks on the login with Twitter, the Twitter's "Allow/Deny" page is opened in a small popup window, then after user has authorized the login, that small window passes the data to the parent window (I think

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter status update through a Ajax Post

2010-02-13 Thread atomic mouse
I replaced the first post here :: Hello Friends; In December I wrote a little function to allow users to update our Twitter status by completing a form embedded in our CMS. This has worked fine untill last week. The script simply sends a ajax post to "http://twitter.com/statuses/ update.xml"

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter status update through a Ajax Post

2010-02-13 Thread atomic mouse
I have replaced the first post in this thread here ::: Hello Friends; In December I wrote a little function to allow users to update our Twitter status by completing a form embedded in our CMS. This has worked fine untill last week. The script simply sends a ajax post to "http://twitter.com/st

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter status update through a Ajax Post

2010-02-13 Thread atomic mouse
Hello Friends; In December I wrote a little function to allow users to update our Twitter status by completing a form embedded in our CMS. This has worked fine untill last week. The script simply sends a ajax post to "http://twitter.com/statuses/ update.xml" Unfortunately it returns the follo

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter status update through a Ajax Post

2010-02-13 Thread Zac Bowling
Looks like cross server Ajax to me. Can't do that because of the same origin design of Ajax. Not sure how it worked before (unless running locally.) Unless my tired eyes are lieing to me, you are not running this inside ASP (runat=server) so that JS is running in the browser. On Feb 12, 2010 9:07

[twitter-dev] Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread Fauzil Hamdi
hi all, i am building j2me twitter client. i use oauth. i have some questions. 1. why with oauth, the connection must be retry 2 or 3 times ? not like without oauth that's not need to retry the request. is the oauth unstabble yet ? 2. i have question about timestamp. now, i use mobile time for ti