Re: [twitter-dev] verify_credentials returning the wrong user id

2010-02-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hey scott. i don't know of this issue - if it happens again, can you please post more details? the time you're dong it, and such? are you using basic auth, or oauth? how do you know its not the correct user id? thanks! On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Scott Aikin wrote: > I've encountered a

[twitter-dev] verify_credentials returning the wrong user id

2010-02-14 Thread Scott Aikin
I've encountered a strange problem where sometimes verify_credentials gives me the wrong user id. In these cases the number is usually very large and is different each time. All the other user details are correct. How can this be?

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread PJB
+1 to what Dewald says. We are purposely NOT developing certain features for fear that Twitter may suddenly change their rules once again. Is this the sort of business environment that Twitter wishes to foster? We had assumed that, at the very least, applications would be contacted before any s

[twitter-dev] TTYtter 1.0.0 and 0.9.12 released

2010-02-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
TTYtter 1.0.0 is released, a large update to the internals of TTYtter which allows multiple extensions to be installed and executed, along with significant code rewrites and new features. For people using TTYtter as their application base, many 0.9 extensions will work with little or no changes, b

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Jim Fulford
I turned the site back on, ( www.gotwitr.com ) but put a message up letting my users know that the site does not work. That way if any of you want to look at our blogs, t&c, etc -you can look at it. Plus, the only revenue I get from the site is my google ads, so this turns them back on too :) If

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Jim Fulford
GoTwitr was not designed to be a spam enabler. Take a look at our writeup, we were featured on the front page of drupal.org when we opened our site. Our sites purpose was to. 1. Let people send out Invitations to join and follow them on Twitter. 2/ Automate the process of finding like minded fol

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Andrew Badera
Yet TweetAdder and Hummingbird are still kicking around and active? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Tim Haines wrote: > Dewald, > T

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I attempted to make clear that my issue was not with the guilt or innocence of GoTwitr. It's with the message being sent to all of us when no communication accompanies a suspension. I'm going to beat the dead horse yet again. With vague and nebulous rules, nobody knows for certain what is allowed

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

2010-02-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
> > Could you explain how "OAuth Echo" works with OAuth WRAP/2.0? > working on it -- expect to see another update on oauth echo on mehack tomorrow. > Would it be possible for you to skip the OAuth 1.0a version of Echo and > just deploy the WRAP/2.0 version? Otherwise, clients are going to get st

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

2010-02-14 Thread Brian Smith
Raffi Krikorian wrote: i think this experiment in engaging the community around designing this security/identity workflow has been definitely a success, and i feel we're rapidly converging on a solution for identity verification delegation. in parallel, we're going to start the process to enga

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Tim Haines
Dewald, Try looking in the google cache. I'm surprised it was allowed to live for as long as it did. http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:o2N2KuZsuYgJ:www.gotwitr.com/+gotwitr&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk It was basically a spam enabler. T. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: >

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I cannot comment on what Jim's site did or didn't do, since he has pulled all descriptive information from the site. Nevertheless, it is highly disturbing that applications are being suspended without any notice. This particular site seems to have had a contact form, plus it was OAuth, so the owne

Re: [twitter-dev] Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Chris Thomson
You may want to look at the Twitter Rules (http://twitter.com/rules - specifically the section on spam), and review your application's goals. If your application makes it easy for users to spam others, and if many of your users have been reported for activity generated by your application, that

[twitter-dev] Security issue: oauth/authorize leaves users logged in

2010-02-14 Thread Andy Freeman
At one time, oauth/authenticate left users logged into twitter while oauth/authorize didn't. As of today, oauth/authorize leaves users logged in . It's important to have an oauth method that does not leave users logged in, as discussed as part of http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detai

[twitter-dev] Security problem: oauth/authorize now leaves users logged in

2010-02-14 Thread Andy Freeman
At one time, oauth/authenticate left users logged into twitter while oauth/authorize didn't. As of today, oauth/authorize leaves users logged in. It's important to have an oauth method that does not leave users logged in, as discussed as part of http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail

[twitter-dev] Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Jim Fulford
Hello, I need some help. 4 days ago I started getting emails from my users that they could not login to our site using the Oauth service. I checked my site and it said my application had been suspended. I did not get any email from Twitter, they just deactivated my application so nothing works.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API Irregularity

2010-02-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
both of those are samples -- the streaming API is a sample and the search API does not return all tweets (not all tweets are indexed by search). these are the best two options for getting a sample of all the retweets, unfortunately. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM, TimeSnag wrote: > Thanks for

Re: [twitter-dev] Acquiring abandoned twitter accounts for app?

2010-02-14 Thread Aral Balkan
Basically, Michael, the process appears to be: If you don't have a US-registered trademark for your app, you're out of luck, no exceptions. If you do, you file a trademark complaint. (If I'm wrong on the above, please feel free to correct me.) Aral On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Raffi Krikor

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

2010-02-14 Thread Dmitri Snytkine
Great. I noticed an interesting trick that Google recommends: a callback url will have window.close(); And that's all! So basically when Twitter redirects to the callback url, the html in that callback will just close that popup and do nothing else. Then the parent window will check to see if popu

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Irregularity

2010-02-14 Thread TimeSnag
Thanks for the advice. I switched over to streaming and am getting about 25-30 tweets/sec that contain 'rt'. Based on main website search, I estimate there are about 45-50 tweets/ sec that contain 'rt'. So, I am only getting about 50% of the actual tweets. If I applied for the retweet streaming

[twitter-dev] Re: Private account

2010-02-14 Thread niel
Thanks for the quick reply guys. Having all the employees follow the boss is not an option since not all employees want a twitter account. Zac, Twitter was the CEOs choice of messaging. I have very little say in what he chooses. So, I am not sure if he is open to Yammer. I will check it out though

Re: [twitter-dev] Acquiring abandoned twitter accounts for app?

2010-02-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
this has been mentioned before on the mailing list -- the most up to date information is on our wiki http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowcanIreclaimaninactiveTwitteraccountformyprojectorapplication On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Michael wrote: > I saw a post from 2008 about getting unused acco

[twitter-dev] Acquiring abandoned twitter accounts for app?

2010-02-14 Thread Michael
I saw a post from 2008 about getting unused accounts released to developers and was wondering if the method is still just to email Alex Payne or if there is a streamlined method now? The account i am trying to get was only used for 2 days with 5 tweets back in august 2009 and i tried emailing the a

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

2010-02-14 Thread Raffi Krikorian
> > anyone ? as i mentioned before. please do NOT bump messages on the list. > On 14 February 2010 12:52, Fauzil Hamdi wrote: > >> when i get response message, it say "Unauthorized" >> i just got confused because i try it again, and it success >> > with the lack of specific information, i can

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

2010-02-14 Thread Abraham Williams
Have a look at this document: http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=OAuth_Popup Abraham On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 05:51, Dmitri Snytkine wrote: > Hello!. > > I am looking for an example of implementation of login with Twitter > where when user clicks on the login with Twitter, > the Twitter'

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

2010-02-14 Thread Abraham Williams
My understanding is that retweets are filtered after timeline is built. So it selects two statuses to return then filters the retweets and ends up with an empty result set. Currently if you are not getting enough results you can increase the number and discard extra statuses or make extra calls. I

Re: [twitter-dev] 401 on Mono

2010-02-14 Thread Abraham Williams
Are your credentials correct? Are you using BasicAuth or OAuth? Are you using code you wrote yourself or a library someone else wrote? Abraham On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 16:44, xanadont wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to direct message from Mac OS X / Mono. I've already > used certmgr to install

Re: [twitter-dev] Private account

2010-02-14 Thread Abraham Williams
Also http://status.net/. Abraham On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 00:02, Zac Bowling wrote: > Not to promote another service but Yammer is kind of designed for this > setup. Yammer is a lot like Twitter in a lot of ways but built for business > and all the timelines are only visible to other employees i

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

2010-02-14 Thread Ryan Alford
If I am not mistaken, the oauth_verifier is for the PIN. So if you are not a desktop app, then its not required. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 14, 2010 1:04 AM, "jon" wrote: It worked for a one time oauth conversion for about 3000 accounts (i ran a batch job across five processes and think i

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

2010-02-14 Thread Fauzil Hamdi
anyone ? On 14 February 2010 12:52, Fauzil Hamdi wrote: > 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 ?

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

2010-02-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 02/13/2010 09:41 PM, mzap wrote: > 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 Yeah, it's pretty easy to collect tweets - I just tes

Re: [twitter-dev] Private account

2010-02-14 Thread Zac Bowling
Not to promote another service but Yammer is kind of designed for this setup. Yammer is a lot like Twitter in a lot of ways but built for business and all the timelines are only visible to other employees in the same company. Zac Bowling On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: