Re: [twitter-dev] Encrypted data over Twitter

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:16:40AM -0700, John Adams wrote: > I think you're referring to ITAR, most of which was repealed in 1997. > > Until 1996?1997, ITAR classified strong cryptography as arms and prohibited > their export from the U.S. Times have changed quite a bit since then. Also, as I un

[twitter-dev] OAuth error trying to open a ticket

Hi, I've been trying to open a new ticket using help.twitter.com for two days now, always getting the same error. Zendesk begins to load and the OAuths an redirects to another page which automatically redirects me back again to the previous one. That happens for 10 o 20 seconds and then Safari giv

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: New social events on User Streams

Cheers, thanks. *j* On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Mark McBride wrote: > I'll be looking at the OAuth issue(s) this week > >   ---Mark > > http://twitter.com/mccv > > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Fabien Penso wrote: >> John, >> >> Any chance it moves so quickly than time is left to l

[twitter-dev] OAuth home timeline

Hi, I start using OAuth for a desktop app, I have a very basic question, after my app successfully authenticated the user, how should my app call the OAuth home timeline api? how the URL should look like? I tried the following one, but it ends up using basic auth. http://twitter.com/statuses/fri

[twitter-dev] Re: New opt-in API features available today, May 26th: entities, retweets in timelines, custom oauth_callback schemes

Great work! Are there plans to include these features in streaming API? Thanks! On 26 maio, 19:22, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi Developers, > > We released some new features today that I'll summarize briefly here. > > *Entities* > > Raffi's already introduced the concept of entities to you in

Re: [twitter-dev] Annotations Hackfest Update - join in remotely!

Quoting Ryan Sarver : Hey all, Just wanted to update everyone and let you know that we are going to be extending the Annotations hackfest to anyone interested, regardless of whether or not you are able to make it to SF. We'll be providing a preview of Annotations to anyone interested with the c

[twitter-dev] Annotations Hackfest Update - join in remotely!

Hey all, Just wanted to update everyone and let you know that we are going to be extending the Annotations hackfest to anyone interested, regardless of whether or not you are able to make it to SF. We'll be providing a preview of Annotations to anyone interested with the caveat that it might get t

Re: [twitter-dev] Status 401 on Streaming filter API with OAuth

I'll take a look at this issue this week. There are a few other issues in the same vein floating around. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:54 AM, noki wrote: > Hi, > > I am in trouble with OAuth authentication of Streaming filter method > with multi tracking words.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: New social events on User Streams

I'll be looking at the OAuth issue(s) this week ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Fabien Penso wrote: > John, > > Any chance it moves so quickly than time is left to look at the issue > I've posted? > > Subject was 'UserStream : bug with oauth connection' > >

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk Conversion using xAuth

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:44 PM, YCBM wrote: > Ah.  It looks like Abraham's twitteroauth has a getXAuthToken method > for doing exactly what I need. > > So I guess a better question is if I'm doing this for a few hundred > users, would I run into a rate limit of any kind?  Would I need to > someh

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk Conversion using xAuth

Ah. It looks like Abraham's twitteroauth has a getXAuthToken method for doing exactly what I need. So I guess a better question is if I'm doing this for a few hundred users, would I run into a rate limit of any kind? Would I need to somehow throttle these in any way? Best, Y On May 26, 11:34 p

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk Conversion using xAuth

Ah. It looks like Abraham's twitteroauth has a getXAuthToken method for doing exactly what I need. So I guess a better question is if I'm doing this for a few hundred users, would I run into a rate limit of any kind? Would I need to somehow throttle these in any way? Best, Y On May 26, 11:34 p

[twitter-dev] Bulk Conversion using xAuth

Hi All, Is there any PHP script which I can take a look at to migrate users from basic auth to oauth? I've received temporary xAuth access and want to get it done within the less than 7 days (can this be extended) window granted. Thanks! Best, Y

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: New social events on User Streams

John, Any chance it moves so quickly than time is left to look at the issue I've posted? Subject was 'UserStream : bug with oauth connection' On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, John Kalucki wrote: > I had to remove unfollow messages until we can sort out a complicated issue. > The block and unbl

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Annotations Hackfest

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:05 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > This is 2010, right? There's this thing called the Internet, right? IRC > still works, right? Yes but IRC works too well.

[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date

The link is: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup It actually returns the full dataset for up to 100 users. The returned data is sorted by your newest friendship in descending order. This functionality is quite minimal and could definitely be expanded upon like I suggested above. I was j

[twitter-dev] Re: Follower count over time

Use the spritzer to sample tweets, but you only need to sample follower_count data per user over time. On May 26, 9:33 am, Ryan Bell wrote: > Peter, > > I appreciate the suggestion, but am looking to provide the > functionality naively in our client as we may end up competing with > their service

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Annotations Hackfest

Quoting BJ Weschke : I realize it may not be logistically possible just yet, but you may also want to throw some consideration for an additional hackfest for those closer to the east coast. (Eg-NYC) This is 2010, right? There's this thing called the Internet, right? IRC still works, ri

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Annotations Hackfest

I realize it may not be logistically possible just yet, but you may also want to throw some consideration for an additional hackfest for those closer to the east coast. (Eg-NYC) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: themattharris Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:3

RE: [twitter-dev] New opt-in API features available today, May 26th: entities, retweets in timelines, custom oauth_callback schemes

How are characters indexed in the indices values of entities? My guess would be that they are indexed as Unicode code points--not bytes—and that the indexes refer to the text before entity expansion (“&” -> “&”) is done. Is that correct? Like I mentioned in the previous thread, it would be v

[twitter-dev] Re: Annotations Hackfest

Great question. We're really excited to see what developers do with annotations during the hackfest. In some ways the hackfest can be thought of as an early test of annotations and will let us know what we have left to do before we release them to the developer community. The plan, if things go we

[twitter-dev] New opt-in API features available today, May 26th: entities, retweets in timelines, custom oauth_callback schemes

Hi Developers, We released some new features today that I'll summarize briefly here. *Entities* Raffi's already introduced the concept of entities to you in a previous post: http://bit.ly/boHXYv You can now retrieve entities for tweets by specifying a include_entities=true parameter to statuses

[twitter-dev] Re: Search api returning results based on walking shortened URLS: causing problems.

I've seen the same thing with some of my own searches, and I just figured the search algo was broken, because it returns results that have absolutely nothing to do with the phrase you searched for. On May 26, 6:24 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: > So we have customer that is searching, for example,

[twitter-dev] Search api returning results based on walking shortened URLS: causing problems.

So we have customer that is searching, for example, for hotels.com. So we use the search api and we get from Twitter a tweet that has no such text in it, but it turns out that the shortened URL contains the string 'hotels.com': Here's the tweet: Siam Bayview Hotel Pattaya, Beach Rd. from THB 2

[twitter-dev] Re: duplicate tweet behavior has changed within the last few days

Thanks for the response, Taylor. I do appreciate it. There is some irony in the fact that I have to inject some superfluous drivel into a perfectly legitimate non-duplicate tweet to appease the Twitter spam filters - more collateral damage hitting innocent, legitimate users - very indicative of th

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

Dewald: I'll make that recommendation; I agree that relevant information should be grouped together as much as possible. Dean: The link to the support center FAQ on this topic is very clumsy and long; there are still a number of email clients out there that don't handle long links very well, besid

Re: [twitter-dev] Annotations Hackfest

Quoting themattharris : Hey everyone, This week the Twitter Engineering team announced they are running an annotation Hackfest. The event will be this weekend (29-30 May) at Twitter HQ (795 Folsom St. San Francisco) and is free to attend. Places are limited so if you want to attend sign up toda

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

Taylor, Perhaps you should ask someone to add the http://bit.ly/twitter-ad-faq link as a further reading reference into the "2. Advertising Around Twitter Content" section of the API TOS. Stuff is very fragmented at the moment, and you have to accidentally discover pages on separate domains just

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

Taylor - any reason why you aren't posting the direct url for the twitter page? Seem suspect you don't want to be nailed down in a google cache on the specifics? Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net +1-212-203-4357 New York +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6

Re: [twitter-dev] TwitterOAuth, two authentication calls, one works, one fails... why?

Are the scripts on the same server? Same version of PHP? Are they using the same accounts access tokens? Same consumer token? Abraham On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 18:07, Jonathan wrote: > I've been trying to get my application to work with TwitterOAuth for > several weeks now. Here’s a brief history

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: No oauth_verifier in custom URI (Desktop)

Hi Jeena, You should now be able to dynamically declare custom URI schemes in your oauth_callback on the request_token step and it will properly redirect. Let me know if you run into any issues! Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:5

[twitter-dev] Annotations Hackfest

Hey everyone, This week the Twitter Engineering team announced they are running an annotation Hackfest. The event will be this weekend (29-30 May) at Twitter HQ (795 Folsom St. San Francisco) and is free to attend. Places are limited so if you want to attend sign up today! If you are in the Bay A

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Post from C#

Cool. Just keep in mind a lot of the .NET OAuth stuff, especially on the Twitter side, is somewhat out of date or incomplete. --ab On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Al wrote: > Thanks for the link. > I also found this page: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-Examples > AL. > > On May 26, 9:29 a

[twitter-dev] Re: Post from C#

Thanks for the link. AL. On May 26, 10:26 am, Andrew Badera wrote: > http://www.twitterizer.net/wiki/Main_Page > > Also, GIYF. > > ∞ Andy Badera > ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice > ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private > ∞ Google me:h

[twitter-dev] Re: Post from C#

Thanks for the link. I also found this page: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-Examples AL. On May 26, 9:29 am, Al wrote: > I am a new to programming, what I want to do is post a comment to my > twitter page > using C#. Something simple amd direct, I have started my C# app with > the > Twitteriz

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth & Timestamps

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-10#section-3.3 On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 05:55, Taylor Singletary < taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > You're not likely to find the requirement explicitly spelled out in > the OAuth specification, but Twitter, along with many other OAuth > provider

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

Sponsored Tweets at least announced that the content was advertising. I think this language will just lead to advertising without proper disclosure by the user (which was used in keeping with the FTC ruling on this issue). Some celebs & bloggers will still accept money & Tweet about products, just

[twitter-dev] Re: New social events on User Streams

I had to remove unfollow messages until we can sort out a complicated issue. The block and unblock messages remain. Sorry for the regression -- we're trying to move quickly. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:41 PM, John Kalucki wro

Re: [twitter-dev] geo enabled tweets in the twitter stream

Most users don't geotag their tweets. If they don't opt-in, the information isn't available. -John On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:34 AM, gm wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using the twitter stream api to access the sample of public > tweets. > For each tweet I need to know the latitude and longitude locat

[twitter-dev] geo enabled tweets in the twitter stream

Hi, I am using the twitter stream api to access the sample of public tweets. For each tweet I need to know the latitude and longitude location from where the tweet was sent. I am looking up that information in the "geo" tag/field. But I observed that even if the "geo_enabled" field is set to true

Re: [twitter-dev] Post from C#

http://www.twitterizer.net/wiki/Main_Page Also, GIYF. ∞ 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 Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Al

Re: [twitter-dev] Encrypted data over Twitter

I think you're referring to ITAR, most of which was repealed in 1997. Until 1996–1997, ITAR classified strong cryptography as arms and prohibited their export from the U.S. Times have changed quite a bit since then. I don't speak for our terms of service group, and this is by no means an official

Re: [twitter-dev] Encrypted data over Twitter

Quoting bujanga : Just curious. Which laws would be violated? There are numerous US laws governing encryption technologies. I'm not familiar with them in detail but mostly they attempt to restrict access to the technologies to just our closest allies.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

If you have specific questions about the policy, we have an email address you can send them to: twitter_...@twitter.com I unfortunately don't have answers for you beyond what's presented in the FAQ and the Terms of Service. Taylor On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Taylo

Re: [twitter-dev] Encrypted data over Twitter

Just curious. Which laws would be violated?

[twitter-dev] Re: duplicate tweet behavior has changed within the last few days

We're always working to improve our duplicate tweet detection routines, and as such there's no hard equation you can follow for issuing duplicate tweets reliably. I'm a big advocate for expressing these kind of limits in a way you can interpret programatically but in this case the target is moving.

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

Taylor, Read this part of that FAQ: "Paid Tweets injected into any timeline on a service that leverages the Twitter API (other than Promoted Tweets). This applies to any Twitter stream, whether user based, search based, or other." Do you realize how confusing that is? 1) Does it mean I can publi

[twitter-dev] Post from C#

I am a new to programming, what I want to do is post a comment to my twitter page using C#. Something simple amd direct, I have started my C# app with the Twitterizer api. Is this api a good place to start? I just want to contact my Twitter page and post a message. Thanks AL.

[twitter-dev] Re: Follower count over time

Peter, I appreciate the suggestion, but am looking to provide the functionality naively in our client as we may end up competing with their service. What I need is what gives them the ability to provide that data (if they do). We are all using the same Twitter API, but I can't figure out a way to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

Hello Everyone, We recently updated our Advertising FAQ to answer many of the questions that you may have. http://bit.ly/twitter-ad-faq Taylor On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Liz wrote: > I hope some answers are forthcoming, James. Twitter doesn't seem very > talkative. >

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

I hope some answers are forthcoming, James. Twitter doesn't seem very talkative.

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/update 403 error

Agreed. If the API is going to overload an error code, Twitter needs to enumerate the error details and provide those details in a consistent machine readable form. On May 25, 1:52 am, akaii wrote: > There seem to be a variety of possible causes for getting an 403 error > in responses to a calli

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter search API

The first one should likely be BBC1 OR "Cash in the Attic" which translates to (BBC1) OR (Cash AND in AND the AND Attic) instead of BBC1 OR Cash in the Attic which translates to (BBC1) OR (CASH) AND (in) AND (the) AND (Attic) Jonathan On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Nick wrote: > Hello all, >

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

The more I think about this situation, the less I like it. At first I was happy that the service I work on was not banned by this ToS change. Even though we use twitter data for monetisation, we don't insert data into timelines. However, when I look at the services that have now been banned, I ca

[twitter-dev] Spam Reduce

Hey, I have noticed a lot of bots on twitter that analyze tweets based on location and the tweet and shoot the user with their campaign tweets.Why cant we analyze the tweets by detecting if the same tweet is tweeted to diff users and then block the user from spamming with 3rd party ads?? Ad

RE: [twitter-dev] Problem with the API Console

Daniel wrote: > Hello everyone, > For example, I try to retrive the last tweets of a particular user I choose "GET" > "statuses/user_timeline" with "json" protocol and in the parameters and values > fields I set "id" and "radiohead" as the user screen name. > > The result I get is my own timeline.

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with the API Console

Thanks a lot !

Re: [twitter-dev] re: intermittent 401 and 502 during oauth process

400 errors usually mean the request was malformed in some way. Can you give some examples of the URLs you are trying to access and the method by which you're requesting? Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Bhushan Garud wrot

Re: [twitter-dev] Friends and followers

Probably a naming mistake made early on that would have been too much effort to change later on. Clearly though, mutual following indicates "Friends" more that the unidirectional follow does. In my system, we say "following" and "friends" like you suggest. A bit confusing, but I think easier tha

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter OAuth & Timestamps

You're not likely to find the requirement explicitly spelled out in the OAuth specification, but Twitter, along with many other OAuth providers, use the timestamp as an additional check point that the request is timely. This is especially important in the token negotiation steps where elements of t

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem with the API Console

Hi Daniel, There are still some bugs here and there with the API console that we haven't had a chance to clean up yet. Another alternative you can use to explore the API from a web-based console is the great API console Apigee provides at http://app.apigee.com/console Taylor Singletary Developer

[twitter-dev] Problem with the API Console

Hello everyone, I'm new to the twitter API and found the API Conlose (http:// dev.twitter.com/console) very handy to try requests and understand what you can do with it, but I'm kind of stuck with the impossibility to set up parameters : For example, I try to retrive the last tweets of a particul

[twitter-dev] Status 401 on Streaming filter API with OAuth

Hi, I am in trouble with OAuth authentication of Streaming filter method with multi tracking words. I tryed status/filter method with track parameters. When I added one key word to track parameter, ex. track=noki, the returned status was 200(Authed). On the other hand, I got status 401 on two key

[twitter-dev] Twitter search API

Hello all, The search API is giving me strange results, for instance http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=BBC1+OR+Cash+in+the+Attic&result_type=recent vs http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=BBC1&result_type=recent Shouldn't all the results from the second URL also be available in first

[twitter-dev] Posting a link on twitter using Flash

Hi, I have a flash website and a button on it which says "Share Link". I would like the user to press that button and post a tweet on his page. How can I do this ? I have been successful in creating a Twitter anywhere application and tested it on my server. It works fine and I have been able to r

Re: [twitter-dev] re: intermittent 401 and 502 during oauth process

Hi All, I have got 400 error while accessing users public tweets. Can you please help me to resolve this error? Thanks & regards, Bhushan On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Taylor Singletary < taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Correct. > > Taylor Singletary > Developer Advocate, Twitter > h

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search API stops working intermittently

We have requested for Search API whitelisting to increase the limit to 1QPS but we are still facing issue and search stops working intermittently. We are using the search API to search and stream results. Please let us know what shall we do

[twitter-dev] Re: Users Search OAuth

You access it in the same way you access any other resource over oAuth, I use this end point over oAuth all the time. On May 26, 1:20 am, max wrote: > Hi, > I was messing around with the users search REST API (http:// > apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users-search) and I was > curio

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

Dewald, it's because you have amateurs running the zoo that are learning as they go. Honestly my opinion is that it's Twitters rights to change the rules as they go - it's their network and their right to do so, but it's also my right as an investor in application development to not invest any