[twitter-dev] rendering user profile in iFrame

2010-10-07 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm working on a web application and would like to render a user's Twitter profile page in an iFrame. For some reason the profiles are not working, and I'm guessing you have added some type of code to prevent this from happening? Is there a reason why this is not allowed or a way I can enable

[twitter-dev] Re: Woe is me, I can't seek what I find (or Search is failing me)

2010-10-07 Thread Mack D. Male
I'm seeing this problem too, but it only started today, around five hours ago. Here's an example search: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=near%3Aedmonton That's returning a fraction of the tweets it was before. This problem happens occasionally, but not usually for this long. On Oct 7, 3:10 pm

[twitter-dev] Re: How to test for one user following another

2010-10-07 Thread Norhidayah Azman
Sometimes it's the case of simply the URL parser not recognizing the '&' sign! I tried using a couple of Python clients to make requests which need more than one parameter -- thus needing the '&' sign in the API request URL -- but the clients just break, giving me the same 'Target user not specifi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to test for one user following another

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas Mango
I apologize, I was actually saying that you should specify both the source and the target. It was my understanding you needed both, but it looks like when you make an authenticated request (like you do with twurl), you can specify just the target. With that said, I was able to use twurl and sp

[twitter-dev] Re: How to test for one user following another

2010-10-07 Thread Joe Rattz
That doesn't work either: /1/friendships/show.xml Target user not specified. That's right from Twurl despite the fact that I provided both the source_screen_name and target_screen_name. Besides, why shouldn't the other two methods work? They are documented methods. On Oct 7, 7:09 pm, Th

Re: [twitter-dev] Unable to connect to the Streaming API over SSL

2010-10-07 Thread Hayes Davis
Thanks, Tayor. Will do. It'd be nice to have that explicitly stated in the docs. Hayes On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Taylor Singletary < taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Hayes, > > The public streaming API endpoint at stream.twitter.com had SSL support > turned off recently -- we had

Re: [twitter-dev] How to test for one user following another

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas Mango
You should be providing both the source and a target user to the /friendships/show method. You can use source_id & target_id or source_screen_name & target_screen_name with /friendships/show. Here's the API documentation: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friendships/show Joe Rattz wrote: I wo

[twitter-dev] Using a custom icon for the Twitter "Tweet" button

2010-10-07 Thread rosco
Hi there, I want to use the same functionality as the Twitter "Tweet" button displayed here http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton The only change I want to make is to use a custom icon that we have created, rather than the button image displayed. Is it possible to change the image, and if so, ho

[twitter-dev] How to test for one user following another

2010-10-07 Thread Joe Rattz
I would like to determine if my registered application's user is following another user. First I tried friendships/show with a target_screen_name = "someuser" and get this error: /1/friendships/show.xml Target user not specified. Then I tried friendships/show with user_a = "myusername" an

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: can't follow more than one user

2010-10-07 Thread Ciaran
Ah you *are* that other user! Doh :) - cj On Thursday, October 7, 2010, Ciaran wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Malte wrote: >> Hi, >> >> because I'm using the same library and was not finding the same >> problems when connecting to site streams I looked for what I was doing >> differen

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: can't follow more than one user

2010-10-07 Thread Ciaran
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Malte wrote: > Hi, > > because I'm using the same library and was not finding the same > problems when connecting to site streams I looked for what I was doing > differently: Turns out, if one URL encodes the komma in the follow > list the OAuth connection works >

[twitter-dev] Woe is me, I can't seek what I find (or Search is failing me)

2010-10-07 Thread @IDisposable
Over the last couple months, we've seen some wierd behavior in the responses to search queries. First, I understand the rules about search being non-covering, and that we are at the mercy of the index. That said, I've noticed some odd behavior lately. As background material, we run many searches (

[twitter-dev] Re: can't follow more than one user

2010-10-07 Thread Malte
Hi, because I'm using the same library and was not finding the same problems when connecting to site streams I looked for what I was doing differently: Turns out, if one URL encodes the komma in the follow list the OAuth connection works Bye Malte On 6 Oct, 23:38, JavaJunky wrote: > Hi, > > The

[twitter-dev] Re: status/update in_reply_to_user_id not being acknowledged

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew
Thanks Taylor, I appreciate it. I didnt see mention of that in the http://developer.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/update documentation. -Matt On Oct 7, 1:42 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > With as often as this comes up, it's obvious that we aren't communicating > this clearly and the historical

Re: [twitter-dev] status/update in_reply_to_user_id not being acknowledged

2010-10-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
With as often as this comes up, it's obvious that we aren't communicating this clearly and the historical aspect of this isn't obvious: An @reply requires that it begins with the @username of the user being replied to. The in_reply_to_status_id field is not enough to associate the tweets as a repl

[twitter-dev] Re: status/update in_reply_to_user_id not being acknowledged

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew
Opps I meant to mark the title as 'in_reply_to_status_id'. On Oct 7, 1:37 pm, Matthew wrote: > Hello, > > Been working on a project that will allow users to reply to tweets. I > am having difficulty in getting the 'in_reply_to_message_id' to be > acknowledged. I have been using the latest version

[twitter-dev] status/update in_reply_to_user_id not being acknowledged

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew
Hello, Been working on a project that will allow users to reply to tweets. I am having difficulty in getting the 'in_reply_to_message_id' to be acknowledged. I have been using the latest version of Abraham's TwitterOAuth library, also confirmed the problem through apigee. Example request (over PO

[twitter-dev] Re: Use twitterapi.update method to my own account via .net web app without human intervention

2010-10-07 Thread bob
Update: I was using TwitterVB.GetAuthorizationLink() and when I changed to GetAuthenticationLink(), it worked. On Oct 7, 3:45 pm, bob wrote: > I have an application that maintains sport fields playing status. > When it rains, I'd like to update my account to show the closures via > my .net appli

Re: [twitter-dev] Use twitterapi.update method to my own account via .net web app without human intervention

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas Mango
You should save the oauth access key/secret you get for the account you want to post to (if it's your application's account, you can get the access keys from the application's page on dev.twitter.com). You can then use your client key/secret and user access key/secret to make calls to the API o

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Sign up as a developer

2010-10-07 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Try using a different (proper) browser. It may work. Tom On 10/7/10 9:26 PM, martinh666 wrote: > Thanks Tom, > > I've tried this, e.g. I log into my account but when I click the apps, > it asks me to log in again, so I do, then it says "the website > declined to show you this page". > > I'm wo

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign up as a developer

2010-10-07 Thread martinh666
Thanks Tom, I've tried this, e.g. I log into my account but when I click the apps, it asks me to log in again, so I do, then it says "the website declined to show you this page". I'm wondering if my browser settings are messed up. I also had to check the "show mixed content" in my IE security op

[twitter-dev] Use twitterapi.update method to my own account via .net web app without human intervention

2010-10-07 Thread bob
I have an application that maintains sport fields playing status. When it rains, I'd like to update my account to show the closures via my .net application. Problem is when using oAuth, I must sign in to allow the app access to my Twitter account. Is there any way that oAuth can do this without n

[twitter-dev] Re: Still Seeing things twice? Still Seeing things twice? Yes.

2010-10-07 Thread Cassie Lynn
Also as an update to this: I get emails when I am direct messaged, and I am only getting 1 email. On Oct 7, 2:39 pm, Cassie Lynn wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I know Twitter says this was resolved (http://status.twitter.com/post/ > 1258614492/seeing-things-twice-seeing-things-twice) but: > > Direct m

[twitter-dev] Still Seeing things twice? Still Seeing things twice? Yes.

2010-10-07 Thread Cassie Lynn
Hi everyone, I know Twitter says this was resolved (http://status.twitter.com/post/ 1258614492/seeing-things-twice-seeing-things-twice) but: Direct messages sent through the api are appearing twice for me on the receiver's end (but not for the sender). Is anyone else having this issue? I am confi

Re: [twitter-dev] custom twitter button

2010-10-07 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Are you even *allowed* to use it? ;-) Tom On 10/7/10 9:33 PM, Abraham Williams wrote: > This his the API Twitter uses. Keep in mind it is not documented or > officially supported and could break at anytime. http://goo.gl/ydfK > > Abraham > - > Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | ht

Re: [twitter-dev] custom twitter button

2010-10-07 Thread Abraham Williams
This his the API Twitter uses. Keep in mind it is not documented or officially supported and could break at anytime. http://goo.gl/ydfK Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am Update: http://blog.abrah.am/2010/10/organizing-my-life.html @abraham | http://projects

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Basically: sample will send you 1% of all tweets that are sent. ;-) However: I believe that you will want to use filter.json. Taylor forgot to mention that filter.json is also free to use. Sample URL which uses filter : http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=Twitter Tom On 10/7

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Sorry for asking all these questions, but what is the sample endpoint? Does it contain real tweets or just some sample tweets for testing purposes only? On Oct 7, 1:33 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi D, > > There are a few different levels of the streaming API. You can use the > sample endpoin

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Real time tracking is best done with Streaming, but can be done with Search. Historical search back in time is done only with Search and only covers the indexed tweets that Twitter makes available. "Long-term" historical search can be done with Topsy, but I'm not familiar with the details.

Re: [twitter-dev] Sign up as a developer

2010-10-07 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
http://dev.twitter.com -> Login (using your username and password), create an app and you are ready to go. Tom On 10/7/10 8:18 PM, martinh666 wrote: > Hi > > Anyone know how to sign up as a developer. I've tried the API link > and it takes me to the "Developer sign in" page. My regular > crede

[twitter-dev] Sign up as a developer

2010-10-07 Thread martinh666
Hi Anyone know how to sign up as a developer. I've tried the API link and it takes me to the "Developer sign in" page. My regular credentials do't work here and I've not seen a link to register as a developer. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. Thanks Martin -- Twitter developer documenta

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is it possible to search twitter for in_reply_to_status_id

2010-10-07 Thread Matt Harris
Hi Jan, There isn't an API method that will return all replies for a Tweet yet. It's on the list of enhancements requested by the community though. You may see some developers mention the related_tweets method as an option. This method isn't generally available yet and, as the name suggests, retu

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Find tweets by application?

2010-10-07 Thread Matt Harris
Hey Fredrik, In your example you are adding the source operator as a querystring parameter on it's own. Instead it should be part of the search query. For example: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=oredev%20source%3Atweetnote One of the ways I find helps when creating search queries is

Re: [twitter-dev] GET Querystring for status update not working on new Twitter

2010-10-07 Thread Matt Harris
Hi woodsytime, I wanted to add in here that if you URL encode the URL you are trying to share it will work appropriately. Instead of what you have I would expect the URL to look like this: http://twitter.com/home?status=ASOS%20embellished%20dress%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asos.com%2Fpgehtml.aspx%3Fc

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: User Streaming API and use of OAuth from web browser

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas Mango
xAuth is actually for exchanging usernames and passwords for OAuth keys. In the end, all of your requests are still using OAuth. More about xAuth: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauth Jonathon Hill wrote: Have you looked at xAuth? It was designed for desktop clients but it may work well with Jav

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: User Streaming API and use of OAuth from web browser

2010-10-07 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
What? Absolutely not. Desktop applications are already an unsafe way of using OAuth, and JavaScript is even worse. You'd be exposing your Client Secret which is against the "rules". Tom On 10/7/10 7:47 PM, Jonathon Hill wrote: > Have you looked at xAuth? It was designed for desktop clients but i

[twitter-dev] Re: User Streaming API and use of OAuth from web browser

2010-10-07 Thread Jonathon Hill
Have you looked at xAuth? It was designed for desktop clients but it may work well with Javascript clients. Jonathon Hill On Oct 6, 4:54 pm, Tim Bull wrote: > Hi, > > We are building an application client that is browser based.  We're > very comfortable with using OAuth from our server side cod

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter api throwing lots of technical errors

2010-10-07 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
http://status.twitter.com/post/1263165935/issue-posting-new-tweets Tom On 10/7/10 7:44 PM, Tiago Teresa Teodosio wrote: > Yes, I noticed a lot of 500 error codes in API responses, while trying > to post tweet on behalf of my users, from 2010-10-07 16:41:53 UTC until > 2010-10-07 16:58:25 UTC. >

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter api throwing lots of technical errors

2010-10-07 Thread Tiago Teresa Teodosio
Yes, I noticed a lot of 500 error codes in API responses, while trying to post tweet on behalf of my users, from 2010-10-07 16:41:53 UTC until 2010-10-07 16:58:25 UTC. Adam Covati wrote: > Is anyone else seeing an elevated rate of API errors right now? It > seems to be throwing a lot "technical e

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter api throwing lots of technical errors

2010-10-07 Thread Eric T. Peterson
We are seeing same at Twitalyzer. Seems to be isolated to the search API but we haven't had a chance to dig in. The problems seem to be correlated to Twitter's announcement of the new search platform as well. Anyone else seeing lower rate limits on the search API last few days? @erictpeterson

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread John Kalucki
Every account has default-level access. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:26 AM, D. Smith wrote: > Can I use any Twitter account username/password or does the account > have to be registered with Twitter API? > > On Oct 7, 1:18 pm, John Kalucki wrote: >> stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json >> tra

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi D, There are a few different levels of the streaming API. You can use the sample endpoint without any kind of approval from Twitter, using a Twitter account under your control for login. Access beyond the sample end point requires approval -- the process for approval begins at http://twitter.c

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Can I use any Twitter account username/password or does the account have to be registered with Twitter API? On Oct 7, 1:18 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json > track=keyword1,keyword2 > > etc. > > -John > > > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, D. Smith wrote: > >

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread John Kalucki
stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json track=keyword1,keyword2 etc. -John On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, D. Smith wrote: > I'm confused now. Which API should I use Streaming or Search? > What I want is to monitor Twitter and every time someone uses certain > words (maybe a total of about

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
I'm confused now. Which API should I use Streaming or Search? What I want is to monitor Twitter and every time someone uses certain words (maybe a total of about 20 words that I want to monitor continuously), I want to show the tweet on the screen (or record it into database) Should I use search a

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
OK, but when I entered my login/password, is says page unavailable. Is it supposed to do that? On Oct 7, 12:56 pm, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Yes, you do. > > http://stream.twitter.com/statuses/sample.json<-- click it, it will ask > for authentication and when you click Cancel, it will give you

[twitter-dev] twitter api throwing lots of technical errors

2010-10-07 Thread Adam Covati
Is anyone else seeing an elevated rate of API errors right now? It seems to be throwing a lot "technical error"s (the one with the image of the robot) right now. Any help or response on this would be appreciated. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API up

[twitter-dev] Invalid / expired Token

2010-10-07 Thread Don Neumann
I'm trying to use the latest twitter-async libraries and can't get this to work at all. I've registered an application and have the consumer key and consumer secret and am using some simple code: include 'epitwitter/EpiOAuth.php'; include 'epitwitter/EpiCurl.php'; include 'epitwitter/EpiTwitter.ph

Re: [twitter-dev] Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Yes, you do. http://stream.twitter.com/statuses/sample.json <-- click it, it will ask for authentication and when you click Cancel, it will give you an error page. Tom On 10/7/10 6:49 PM, D. Smith wrote: > Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with > certain keywords

Re: [twitter-dev] Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Yes, for the streaming api, http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api but it sounds like you may want the search api which doesn't require authentication: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, D. Smith wrote: > Hello! I want to start using streaming API to m

[twitter-dev] Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with certain keywords in them. Do I need to provide any authentication in order to connect? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/E

Re: [twitter-dev] GET Querystring for status update not working on new Twitter

2010-10-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi there woodsytime, I'd recommend using a Tweet Button for this kind of integration instead -- your approach is kind of the most "low rent" approach you can take for this, and is less and less supported -- really, it's a hack. The URL you're presenting in your status update has an unencoded ques

[twitter-dev] GET Querystring for status update not working on new Twitter

2010-10-07 Thread woodsytime
I need to update my status through an external link using the GET method. For example...the linked I would like to pass into the browser URL querystring is... http://twitter.com/home?status=ASOS%20embellished%20dress%20http://www.asos.com/pgehtml.aspx?cid%3D8745&affId%3D2833 This has been workin

[twitter-dev] Re: Miscellaneous #newtwitter glitches

2010-10-07 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" : 2. There's some kind of Javascript / CSS issue with the left panel in Chrome / Chromium 7. Everything is cool in Firefox 3.6, and I haven't tried older versions of Chrome. I'm not quite sure how to reproduce this reliably yet, but sometimes, when I'm following

Re: [twitter-dev] Can I tell how many tweets have been made by users of my app?

2010-10-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
There's no way to track how many tweets your application has sent currently, save for tracking it yourself. The Search API does provide some facilities for searching by application source, but does not contain all tweets in the system. Also, tweets created by an application is not necessarily the b

[twitter-dev] Re: Related Tweets and HTTP 406 error

2010-10-07 Thread Rich
Yeah thats fine, actually it works fine if you change it to JSON, it's only the XML endpoint that seems to be broken, but seeing as all other status api's have both JSON and XML I would hope this would too On Oct 7, 3:03 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > I'm not familiar with that error yet, but wil

Re: [twitter-dev] Related Tweets and HTTP 406 error

2010-10-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
I'm not familiar with that error yet, but will look into it. Related results, and a number of the other new APIs, are still relatively unstable. They will be unavailable at times, and are not necessarily prepared for widespread use yet. Early adopters will have to tolerate a certain amount of myst

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: xAuth - sometimes success response, sometimes Error-response

2010-10-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
Can you share some examples of your requests? I know it's difficult when we're dealing in logins and passwords, but if you obfuscate your consumer secret and login/password and provide an example of both a functional and non-functional request, we'll be able to help you best. By example I mean: Th

[twitter-dev] The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. + asp.net

2010-10-07 Thread Mansi
I have to post text on Twitter through my web site. For that I've created one application on Twitter. And have done all the related changes in site source code. I am using .net Framework 2.0. But having issue while redirecting to Twitter (oAuth.AuthorizationLinkGet()). It throws bug The remote se

[twitter-dev] Rate limiting Retry-After in Flash

2010-10-07 Thread Philip Bulley
It's not possible to access HTTP Response Headers in web-based Flash :'( Therefore web-based Flash applications have no chance of honouring the seconds in the "Retry-After" header when rate limited using the Search API (http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=foo). Would it be possible for twitte

[twitter-dev] custom twitter button

2010-10-07 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
hi, for one of our site, we need custom twitter button to share. we can implement the twitter button with help of custom js and twitter share link. but how can we display the count ? -- S. M. Ibrahim Lavlu software engineer, php somewhere in... http://www.somewherein.net bangla blog: http://ww

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth - sometimes success response, sometimes Error-response

2010-10-07 Thread andy
The credentials are the same. It will only generate a new nonce and timestamp. On 5 Okt., 19:05, Taylor Singletary wrote: > It's likely not the nonce that is invalid in this case -- or the timestamp. > > In this case, the error specifically is indicating that it couldn't validate > the request.

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth - sometimes success response, sometimes Error-response

2010-10-07 Thread andy
The credentials are the same. It will only generate a new nonce and timestamp. On 5 Okt., 19:05, Taylor Singletary wrote: > It's likely not the nonce that is invalid in this case -- or the timestamp. > > In this case, the error specifically is indicating that it couldn't validate > the request.

[twitter-dev] Related Tweets and HTTP 406 error

2010-10-07 Thread Rich
Hi I'm trying to implement the related tweets feature, and the screen name I'm testing from does have access to #newtwitter as described in the pinned post at the top. The URL I'm trying is http://api.twitter.com/1/related_results/show/26630532248.xml?include_rts=true&count=20&include_entities=tr

Re: [twitter-dev] Can I tell how many tweets have been made by users of my app?

2010-10-07 Thread pradeep senanayake
hi All, Can any one give me sample code which can be used to do twits in mobile J2ME application, Thanks in advance. Pradeep. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:15 AM, jnardone wrote: > Hi: > > Is there a way to tell how may tweets have been sent by my app? It > uses Oath so people's tweets say "from x