Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is /users/show broken or is it just me?

2010-04-27 Thread Mark McBride
And... now this user works. Can you still reproduce this issue? If so, can you get me a new set of user IDs? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Ryan Rosario wrote: > Thanks. Posted. > > R. > > On Apr 25, 3:51 pm, Mark McBride wrote: >> I can reproduce this,

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/27/2010 08:00 PM, John Meyer wrote: > On 4/27/2010 8:29 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> On 04/27/2010 05:00 PM, John Meyer wrote: >>> On 4/27/2010 5:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: se it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. So I'm guessing that's what John Meyer as

[twitter-dev] Re: Increasing 502/503 errors on Search API

2010-04-27 Thread rcauvin
My program that uses the search API has over the past couple of days been getting a lot of 502 errors. On Apr 26, 5:15 pm, mikawhite wrote: > Unit = an 'internal tweet' for each null/502/503 result from the > Search API. > > -- > Subscription > settings:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-dev

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 8:29 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On 04/27/2010 05:00 PM, John Meyer wrote: On 4/27/2010 5:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: se it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. So I'm guessing that's what John Meyer asked what open source have to with money. Actually wha

[twitter-dev] server app publishing twitter status updates with oauth?

2010-04-27 Thread Simon
Hi All, We currently have a java application running on a server (no user interface) that publishes twitter status updates about new "special deals" to one single twitter account. Users follow this account to receive info about these specials. This app currently uses basic authentication, so we'l

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/27/2010 05:00 PM, John Meyer wrote: > On 4/27/2010 5:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: >> se it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. >> So I'm guessing that's what John Meyer asked what open source have to >> with money. >> > > > Actually what I was asking is what did money have

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/27/2010 04:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > wrote: >> Charging money is how we pay our expenses and earn enough profit to >> invest in research and development for the next generation applications. ;-) > > Just because it's open source i

[twitter-dev] @anywhere Current user properties are undefined

2010-04-27 Thread MJ
I'm working with the @anywhere api and trying to do a authcomplete twttr.anywhere(function (T) { if(T.isConnected()){ twttr.anywhere.signOut(); } T("#twitter-login-box").connectButton({ size: "large", authComplete: function(user) { // tr

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 5:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: se it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. So I'm guessing that's what John Meyer asked what open source have to with money. Actually what I was asking is what did money have to do with the way that our applications authenticate the

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread Julio Biason
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Charging money is how we pay our expenses and earn enough profit to > invest in research and development for the next generation applications. ;-) Just because it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. So I'm guessin

[twitter-dev] Properties and Methods of "T" object of @anywhere

2010-04-27 Thread MJ
I was wondering what the properties and methods of the "T" object are in @anywhere? I'm looking at the documentation and I see "t.currentUser" and "t.isConnected" but a full list of the properties is not in the @anywhere documentation. Also I am using @anywhere to login but I also have some serve

[twitter-dev] statuses/friends cursor parameter

2010-04-27 Thread Oguzhan
Hi all, I working on statuses/friends with cursor parameters. I want pagination my followings in website. my request is : http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml?cursor=-1 and return data is: ... 1329477546142748864 -1331116572085043462 ... Everything is OK! but previous_cursor not working. m

Re: [twitter-dev] To Raffi or Taylor re: xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 4:38 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: The twitter screen name is less of a concern, yes John. But a Twitter username can take an email address also, which isn't information otherwise provided by the API and is personally identifiable and especially dangerous when stored in conjunction wi

Re: [twitter-dev] To Raffi or Taylor re: xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
The twitter screen name is less of a concern, yes John. But a Twitter username can take an email address also, which isn't information otherwise provided by the API and is personally identifiable and especially dangerous when stored in conjunction with a password. A screen name, in context with dat

Re: [twitter-dev] To Raffi or Taylor re: xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread Raffi Krikorian
yeah - i would say that storing the "pair" of the username and password is probably not a good idea. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:28 PM, John Meyer wrote: > On the xAuth page you say "Storage of Twitter usernames and passwords is > forbidden". Now given that you don't want applications needlessly

[twitter-dev] To Raffi or Taylor re: xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On the xAuth page you say "Storage of Twitter usernames and passwords is forbidden". Now given that you don't want applications needlessly querying the system and you've encouraged caching of information that isn't likely to change overtime (such as a username, screenname, etc), would I be inc

[twitter-dev] SSL for anywhere.js

2010-04-27 Thread BJK
Hi there, Are you planning to support SSL for loading anywhere.js (https:// platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js... would be great and particularly helpful). Thanks! Brian

[twitter-dev] Re: Major access_token issues when using valid PIN as verifier

2010-04-27 Thread Alec Hussey
Okay well I have figured out the issue, so I will post my findings for those out there who come across similar issues with this library. The library assumes that the verifier is of type integer and if it is a string will attempt to iterate through it causing the library to produce an oauth_verifier

[twitter-dev] TwitterVB now supports xAuth

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
http://twittervb.codeplex.com Thanks to the Twitter team and Duane for all the help implementing this just as I was about to give up on it.

Re: [twitter-dev] dev.twitter.com usability - FAIL

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Thanks for the feedback, Jonathon. We're working to address all these pain points on an ongoing basis. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Jonathon Hill wrote: > The new dev.twitter.com website that launched at Chirp a few we

[twitter-dev] dev.twitter.com usability - FAIL

2010-04-27 Thread Jonathon Hill
The new dev.twitter.com website that launched at Chirp a few weeks ago is very nice and attractive but there are several major usability issues: * The new API documentation does not provide return values of the API calls. The old wiki provided this information, along with usage notes that are not

[twitter-dev] Re: Is /users/show broken or is it just me?

2010-04-27 Thread Ryan Rosario
Thanks. Posted. R. On Apr 25, 3:51 pm, Mark McBride wrote: > I can reproduce this, so we should be good to go.  Can one of you open > an issue on the code tracker so we can track it? > >    ---Mark > > http://twitter.com/mccv > > > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Ryan Rosario wrote: > > Her

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Chirp Streaming API Slides -- Streaming API Architecture & Thinking In Streams

2010-04-27 Thread John Adams
On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Jonathon Hill wrote: Awesome! I've been looking forward to it. Any word on the other's slides? I was told they would all be posted after @chirp. Many slides from Chirp are on www.slideshare.net Mine's here: http://www.slideshare.net/netik/billions-of-hits-scali

[twitter-dev] Re: Chirp Streaming API Slides -- Streaming API Architecture & Thinking In Streams

2010-04-27 Thread Jonathon Hill
Awesome! I've been looking forward to it. Any word on the other's slides? I was told they would all be posted after @chirp. Jonathon On Apr 27, 1:29 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > I've posted the slides from my two #chirp talks on the Streaming API > on slideshare.net: > > Twitter Streaming API Arch

Re: [twitter-dev] Mudança, OAuth

2010-04-27 Thread Abraham Williams
If Google translated your text correctly I understand you to be asking if the deprecation of BasicAuth in June will affect your use of non-authenticated timeline API methods. The answer would be no. Non-authenticated timelines will remain accessible without authentication. Se o Google traduziu o t

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 11:35 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: ours might, but as you know about Open Source, the whole point is that people can choose and some may choose to use certain calls that require authentication. And what does charging money have to do with anything? I presume that we are ta

Re: [twitter-dev] countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread Lil Peck
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Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/27/2010 10:18 AM, John Meyer wrote: > On 4/27/2010 10:59 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> On 04/27/2010 04:53 AM, John Meyer wrote: >>> On 4/26/2010 8:59 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah ... but I *like* having the browser involved. >>> Which is fine. However, there are other

[twitter-dev] Chirp Streaming API Slides -- Streaming API Architecture & Thinking In Streams

2010-04-27 Thread John Kalucki
I've posted the slides from my two #chirp talks on the Streaming API on slideshare.net: Twitter Streaming API Architecture: http://bit.ly/chirpstreamarch Thinking In Streams: http://bit.ly/chirpthinkstream2 -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. -- Subscriptio

[twitter-dev] Re: Correction in GET users/lookup Documentation

2010-04-27 Thread Mo
Nice! That was fast. Thanks Taylor. -Mo On Apr 27, 12:16 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi Mo, > > This is now updated. Sorry about the confusion. > > Taylor Singletary > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod > > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Mo wrote: > > For the "GET u

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 10:59 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On 04/27/2010 04:53 AM, John Meyer wrote: On 4/26/2010 8:59 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah ... but I *like* having the browser involved. Which is fine. However, there are other people who don't like getting the browser involved (peo

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Schedule for API call rate increases with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread Raffi Krikorian
> > > I've implemented OAuth some time ago, with no real issues. For the > environment Twitter is in, I think it makes perfect sense. My BS > sensors went off at some of the comments I saw circulating as to what > OAuth's principal benefits are. But if you'd rather not see any > dissenting opini

[twitter-dev] Mudança, OAuth

2010-04-27 Thread gust4vo
Olá eu estou desenvolvendo um aplicativo utilizando os XMLs (Timeline resourses) do Twitter, como trabalho de graduação de faculdade, onde nenhum deles requer autentificação... gostaria de saber se esta mudança que irá ocorrer no dia 30/06 irá afetar a utilização destes XMLs.. Aguardo retorno. -

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread Isaiah Carew
On Apr 26, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > >> xAuth is a method for which to exchange usernames and passwords for those > >> tokens, without send the user through the workflow. this is for two > >> reasons: 1. mobile/desktop application authors have complained that it > >> makes > >>

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/27/2010 04:53 AM, John Meyer wrote: > On 4/26/2010 8:59 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> Yeah ... but I *like* having the browser involved. > Which is fine. However, there are other people who don't like getting > the browser involved (people making command line Linux programs, for > ins

[twitter-dev] Re: Schedule for API call rate increases with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread Ron B
Hi Raffi, Didn't mean to sound like lambasting. I have read the history on OAuth, which is why I commented as I did. I agree with both of your points. Both are very good reasons to implement OAuth. I just don't believe protecting users against their own app is a fundamental reason to implement

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Schedule for API call rate increases with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi ron. i'm just seeing you respond to every message in this thread lambasting oauth, so i figured it may be time to say something. i suggest you read up on the history of oauth? there are two reasons, that i care about, that oauth is important: 1. *minimizing the exposure of user's username

Re: [twitter-dev] Correction in GET users/lookup Documentation

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Mo, This is now updated. Sorry about the confusion. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Mo wrote: > For the "GET users/lookup" documentation at > http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup, > the example URLs under "Para

[twitter-dev] Correction in GET users/lookup Documentation

2010-04-27 Thread Mo
For the "GET users/lookup" documentation at http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup, the example URLs under "Parameters > Optional" look like http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.xml?user_ids=user_id=1401881,1401882 and http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.xml?screen_names=screen_name=dou

Re: [twitter-dev] Overloaded/Rated on Update

2010-04-27 Thread Abraham Williams
A hack is to pull their latest update and do a text comparison of the status. This is not ideal though. Abraham On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 07:01, Spode wrote: > I've been having a problem I can't get work out. > > When sending a status update or direct message - I often get a 0, 502, > 503 or 420

Re: [twitter-dev] Hovercards without Follow Button?

2010-04-27 Thread Abraham Williams
Why would you not want to give the user the option to follow the account? Abraham On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 06:05, Greg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is is possible to disable the follow button on the hovercard using > Twitter Anywhere? My issue is that I want the user just to see the > user's hov

Re: [twitter-dev] How to: Create a “send this to t witter” button on my website

2010-04-27 Thread Abraham Williams
https://twitter.com/?status=text+here On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 08:20, Andrew Badera wrote: > www.google.com > > ∞ 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 Tue, A

Re: [twitter-dev] How to: Create a “send this to t witter” button on my website

2010-04-27 Thread Andrew Badera
www.google.com ∞ 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 Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Benelux wrote: > Hi > I have been searching  for a tool like "twitthis" "twitme" to

[twitter-dev] How to: Create a “send this to twitt er” button on my website

2010-04-27 Thread Benelux
Hi I have been searching for a tool like "twitthis" "twitme" to impliment on my dynamic website. Lots of little pluggin for WP or other blog, but I don't find a way to impliment it to my "stadard" website without the multiple popup and redirection like with http://twitthis.com/ I just want to ge

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorised - Unable to post

2010-04-27 Thread Shannon Clark
It seems to me that if a developer changes the permissions an app requests ALL previous users should be asked to reauthorize on their next usage (if the app typically worked on a server or without user interaction then the developer will have to recontact users. As a user I don't want appli

[twitter-dev] Major access_token issues when using valid PIN as verifier

2010-04-27 Thread Alec Hussey
Hey everyone, I am developing a desktop twitter client in Python and Qt4 using python-oauth2 for authentication. I am having issues getting an access token using the verifier that the user enters via a dialog. I have checked to make sure everything entered was correctly passed and correctly type c

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorised - Unable to post

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Your thoughts are welcome and I can help reassure you that what you describe is actually the case. The area where there's some question and bugs is that once you've gone through the process of re-establishing a r/w capable access token, it might take a bit for the cache to cough out the access toke

[twitter-dev] Re: Schedule for API call rate increases with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread Ron B
Some of you talk about an "app" as if it were a person. Sure, apps could be malicious, but that includes every app on your computer - doesn't it? Why should you assume some of the apps handling your credentials can be more trustworthy than others? Any app that is on your computer while you type

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorised - Unable to post

2010-04-27 Thread livibetter
I got your reply and I replied. But I have an input to add. If an application developer switch to Read&Write from Read-only. I don't think twitter should apply it (Read&Write) to all users who have granted the app to read-only. This could be seen as a (slight) security issue only, though I don't

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: search.twitter.com/trends* is moving to api.twitter.com/1/trends*

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Rich, Probably not at the same time. We're working on unifying the worlds of search and the Twitter API. It's a bigger project. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Rich wrote: > Hi Taylor > > I also see that http://api.tw

[twitter-dev] Re: API Tracking inaccuracy

2010-04-27 Thread epomqo
I see. Thanks for the prompt replies! I will do post-processing then. I already noticed that the streaming results were not well-structured and displayed :( epomqo On Apr 27, 4:06 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > You can't do logical ANDs between predicate types. The assumption is > that you can do pos

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: API Tracking inaccuracy

2010-04-27 Thread John Kalucki
You can't do logical ANDs between predicate types. The assumption is that you can do post processing on your end to further filter your results. We over deliver, you de-duplication, reorder and filter. Streaming results are not display-ready. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructur

[twitter-dev] Overloaded/Rated on Update

2010-04-27 Thread Spode
I've been having a problem I can't get work out. When sending a status update or direct message - I often get a 0, 502, 503 or 420 response code. Yet the API suggests that status updates aren't limited. The annoying thing is that I'm assuming if I get one of those codes that it was a failure - bu

Re: [twitter-dev] friends/ids missing cursor information with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Andrew, I just did a few ad hoc tests and was able to get the fields to show up in JSON and XML responses, both with OAuth and using Basic Auth. Is it possible that when the value is zero to JSON key/pair, your implementation might be hiding the result from you in some way? Taylor Singletary

[twitter-dev] Re: API Tracking inaccuracy

2010-04-27 Thread epomqo
Thanks for the advice. I checked some of the results, this is indeed the case. Then is there a way to make it logical ANDs? If we cannot do it with the same command, maybe I could try to put these two kinds of parameters in a single file and separate them with "&"? Example file (locandfollow): loc

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorised - Unable to post

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Thanks for the help everyone. It seems to take a bit to fall out of our caches right now. We'll be sussing out a bug fix when it's possible. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:06 AM, livibetter wrote: > I have just met the same sit

Re: [twitter-dev] API Tracking inaccuracy

2010-04-27 Thread John Kalucki
There isn't quite enough information in this email to provide a definitive answer. Providing a predicate list and an example of an unexpected match would be helpful in describing the Streaming API behavior. Note that the predicates are logical ORs, so that any match will cause a delivery. These ar

[twitter-dev] API Tracking inaccuracy

2010-04-27 Thread epomqo
Dear all, Good morning! I have been experiencing some problems when I was trying to use streaming api to get filtered tweets, and I have no idea why they happened :( Specifically I wanted to get tweets from specific users within specified locations. I got some advices here and I proceeded success

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 5:52 AM, Eoin wrote: Hi, This is probably a basic question - but what is the best option if you have written an integration for a web-based application that is installed on multiple sites? The URL is going to change per installation (and won't be publicly accessible), and I would r

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Source Stats gets some JSON output love

2010-04-27 Thread funkatron
Just as a little micro-update, Twitter Source Stats now has it's own domain: http://twittersource.info I've done a bit of tuning on the code, so things might be a little faster. Or not. Anyway, if you're using the JSON data, I'd be interested to hear about it! Drop me a line. -- Ed Finkler http

[twitter-dev] Hovercards without Follow Button?

2010-04-27 Thread Greg
Hello everyone, Is is possible to disable the follow button on the hovercard using Twitter Anywhere? My issue is that I want the user just to see the user's hovercard - not to follow them. Thanks, Greg -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe

[twitter-dev] Re: Avatar change - JSON issue

2010-04-27 Thread Edi
Thank you. That's all I needed to know :) On Apr 26, 7:41 pm, Mark McBride wrote: > It's in the bug tracker, and on my list of stuff to look at.  Caching > in general is a high priority issue at the moment. > >    ---Mark > > http://twitter.com/mccv -- Subscription settings: http://groups.go

[twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread Eoin
Hi, This is probably a basic question - but what is the best option if you have written an integration for a web-based application that is installed on multiple sites? The URL is going to change per installation (and won't be publicly accessible), and I would really like to minimise the impact to

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorised - Unable to post

2010-04-27 Thread livibetter
I have just met the same situation. I created my app with Read only, then I used with that for a while. Later, I wanted to post, so I switched to Read and Write. I kept re-requesting the access token, but that didn't work. The user still have "read-only" in their Setting/Connection tab. Revoke, t

[twitter-dev] friends/ids missing cursor information with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread Andrew Horn
Hi all I've been working with the friends/ids endpoint and it seems that the next_cursor and previous_cursor are missing from the json response if oAuth is used to authenticate. The cursors are present using simple auth. Is anyone else seeing this, or am I missing something? Thanks in advance, A

Re: [twitter-dev] xAuth Approval?

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/26/2010 8:59 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On 04/26/2010 05:16 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: xAuth is a method for which to exchange usernames and passwords for those tokens, without send the user through the workflow. this is for two reasons: 1. mobile/desktop application authors have com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread John Meyer
On 4/27/2010 4:32 AM, jaronbarends wrote: @Dave Thanks for your suggestion. I do indeed have a mysql, but haven't seen the need to implement it in my app (http://twimply.com) since it basicly only offers an alternative web interface for using twitter. The only mentioned using a database as a po

[twitter-dev] Re: Testing Twitter API webapps

2010-04-27 Thread glenn gillen
On Apr 24, 6:31 am, Patrick Kennedy wrote: > My explaination is more language agnostic, and works for an oauth web > flow. But I like your RoR idea, and it sounds like there is support > for "localhost" development to some extent. I suppose /authenticated I wouldn't say it's a RoR specific idea

[twitter-dev] Re: detecting hashtag spam

2010-04-27 Thread glenn gillen
On Apr 26, 11:34 pm, kprobe wrote: > To help the algorithms detect this type of hashtag spam, what he is > doing is varying the content slightly, with different numbers of > hashtags, and different goo.gl shortened links that loop back to > twitter status messages and provide no content whatsoever

[twitter-dev] Re: Schedule for API call rate increases with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread glenn gillen
> Anytime you enter your credentials, regardless of where, you open > yourself to being snooped. I believe that is far less likely when > communicating with YOUR app on YOUR computer, than it is via a browser > over the open Internet to a 3rd party that may or may not be who you > think it is...

[twitter-dev] Re: What tools do you use?

2010-04-27 Thread glenn gillen
I use ruby, the twitter-text library, yajl for json processing, and mongodb for storage. -- Glenn http://glenngillen.com/ -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread jaronbarends
@Dave Thanks for your suggestion. I do indeed have a mysql, but haven't seen the need to implement it in my app (http://twimply.com) since it basicly only offers an alternative web interface for using twitter. The only mentioned using a database as a possible solution: creating a desktop app that

[twitter-dev] Re: one application authentication

2010-04-27 Thread Abava
>I'll see if there's anything we can do about offering a "give me /my/ access yes, please let us know. That is why I wrote this qyuestion. I think this option should be somewhere within 'my account' settings on Twitter On Apr 26, 6:17 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Obtaining a single access token

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/27/2010 12:11 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:09:38AM -0400, Dean Collins wrote: >> Yeh but John, who is going to install MySQL for a desktop client? > > 1) John was responding to someone who said a database "wouldn't work for > [him] since I do not have a desktop app,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:09:38AM -0400, Dean Collins wrote: > Yeh but John, who is going to install MySQL for a desktop client? 1) John was responding to someone who said a database "wouldn't work for [him] since I do not have a desktop app, end I do not store anything in a database". If he doe

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Schedule for API call rate increases with oAuth?

2010-04-27 Thread Abraham Williams
There is no way to prevent basic auth apps (web or desktop) from taking over your account or performing username/password changes. They have your username and password and can just log into the web interface. -- Little androids dreaming of Nexus Ones compiled this text. On Apr 26, 2010 10:56 PM,