[twitter-dev] How to query for a single status ID?
Hello Twitterati!!!
I'm writing a Twitter feed tool to help me complete my grad thesis
(would be happy to share it, this is non-commercial) and the one
problem I have now is how do I get a single, historical status
returned to me in json format? If someone could reply with the get
syntax for getting a single status that would be great. I found a get
command for direct messages, but these are just plain old statuses
that I need, so the direct message get does not work for me (i.e. GET /
1/direct_messages/show/:id.{format} )
And if anyone from Twitter is out there listening, the crazy limit you
put on from: search queries is why I need an individual status get.
Why do so few records get returned with a from: query? Are you folks
worried someone will make a copycat site using from:? This limit is
making it really hard to finish my research. I am comparing all the
tweets from 60 users with the mentions of those tweets in the greater
community. I can search the last few days of cached data just fine for
the mentions (searching on @users) but I get almost nothing back when
I search with from:. The from: results in some cases include only
1 day of data. So I am continually missing out on the original status
message, while I can see everyone's response to the message with no
problem. The from: limit is really painful. Can you help me out? I
would really like to graduate while I am still young. For now I can
manually look up each status I miss, so how do I get the status (in
JSON, I don't want to scrape the author's page, which I guess would be
my fall back approach)
Thanks!
Jim Skinner
Santa Clara University
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[twitter-dev] Issue - My twitter account won't load
I have already tried to load my account @carlagasparian in several computers and in differentes IPs and it won't load since fryday the 13th. The page appears as if it were blank. My computer manged to load my settings, but not my timeline. My tweetdeck is working, but it says that there has been an error envolving the API. I wonder if this has to do with the stability issues that twitter was experiencing on fryday - maybe these issues weren't fixed completely. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] AppleScript example for Twitter 2.1?
Are there any examples of AppleScript being used in conjunction with the new Twitter 2.1 client for the Mac? I have an idea for a small script, but don't know how to go about starting to use the new support. I've been looking at the AppleScript dictionary for the Twitter app in Script Editor, specifically to see if I can isolate the current active cell in the current window, and extract the tweet text. What I'd like to do is take that status and fire it over to Google Translate, so that I can create a hotkey (via a third party app like FastScripts) to translate any tweet in a foreign language. I see AppleScript hooks for getting windows and looking at the stream, but I'm not sure if I can identify the current cell and get the tweet text from it. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: problem with site stream oauth
oauth_body_hash isn't official OAuth 1.0a and you should not be including it in your signature base string, POST parameters, authorization header, or otherwise. While it may not be causing your problem, it also might not be helping. It's best for you to use authorization headers instead of using query parameters or the POST body to send the oauth_* parameters -- it separates concerns dramatically. To David's point, have you been granted access to the site streams beta? Have you examined the message attached with the 401 -- what does that message say? @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:53 PM, David dtran...@gmail.com wrote: HI Michael, The Site Streams endpoint is currently in beta and only available to whitelisted users - has your app account @username been approved? Best, David -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search API - Questions Regarding Scaling Out
Thanks for the feedback Brian. Late response here, but I'd be more than willing to provide you with more details regarding our application in a private email. You should be receiving said email shortly. Regards, Corey On Apr 14, 1:12 pm, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: While the Streaming API may not provide processed results to you in the way that search queries can (logical ORs, etc.), it's a more scalable solution for returning a lot of Tweets. Our search system can rate limit queries if they become too computationally expensive (in addition to the normal query limit), so continuing to add parameters to the query up front rather than doing this processing yourself may cause you to keep running into limits. Ultimately, circumventing the limits put in place by our APIs is not allowed by our API ToS, and building your architecture this way just to get around the defaults is something we strongly discourage. If you keep being rate limited, you should think about re-factoring your prioritization strategy. Can you go into a little more detail about what your application does? We might be able to guide you towards a mix of Streaming API and search queries that gets you what you need but stays within the rate limits. Brian Sutorius Twitter API Policy On Apr 13, 10:28 am, Corey Ballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still looking for a community leader answer on this one. On Apr 11, 5:50 pm, Corey Ballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. I have concerns regarding the streaming APIs, which mainly concern the following: * usage of logical OR when using locations * firehose limitations * the user’s location field is not used to filter tweets * increased application complexity for parsing the resulting stream of data back out into individual searches I know that the Search API is not Twitter's preferred choice, but it's currently returning the best applicable results for my application. It's also worth noting that the API recently received a drastic improvement to speed which should theoretically relax the strain on the API: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faste... I guess I'm mainly interested in knowing whether @twitterapi will allow me to use the Search API in the manner I indicated above? Essentially I would be willing to guarantee the application worker nodes handles 420 rate limiting errors accordingly while still supporting multiple twitter accounts and searches. On Apr 11, 1:05 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: I don't see an answer here, but I'll tell you how *I* would go about implementing this: 1. Switch to the Streaming API. Using Search in an application puts a strain on Twitter's servers and makes it difficult to Twitter to manage capacity. That's why it's rate-limited and why the rate limits aren't publicly disclosed. 2. If your application is a desktop application, use User Streams. If it is a server, use User Streams on a desktop or the low-frequency free access to Streaming on a server to prototype and develop. Your target for a server will be Site Streams, but that's in closed beta at the moment IIRC. 3. *Concurrently with development*, your business development / sales / marketing / planning people, or yourself, if it's a one-person shop, should be negotiating with Twitter for access to Site Streams, I'm assuming an agile development methodology - customer-in-the-loop - and one of the parties that needs to be in the loop is Twitter for Site Streams. You simply *can't* build an at-scale Twitter application without direct business discussions with Twitter! On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Corey Ballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I tried speaking with Ryan Sarver directly, but he's forwarding me here to the community advocates to answer. I believe this answer will need to come top down from Twitter, as it's your rate limiting that I'm most worried about. I have a technical question for all of you in regards to the Search API as I want to maintain full compliancy. Currently, the old Search API implementation (albeit slower) provides a fuller result set and allows for more flexibility in the types and combinations of searches allowed. The manner I have developed my application would allow for a number of daemonized worker instances running on different IP addresses to make calls to the search API on behalf of the stored OAuth credentials to avoid rate limiting issues. I had a conversation with the Pluggio developer in which he stated Twitter had threatened to shutdown his application if he didn't switch to a different implementation of the Search API. The problem indicated was that he was performing searches for
Re: [twitter-dev] How to query for a single status ID?
This is from a PHP app I built using a the the twitter-async class:
$tweet = $twob-get('/statuses/show/'.$tw_id.'.json?include_entities=true');
Whatever language you are using, the url you are looking for is:
'/statuses/show/'.$tw_id.'.json?include_entities=true'
Documentation:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/show/:id
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damonp
On Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 8:30 PM, MyGradThesis wrote:
Hello Twitterati!!!
I'm writing a Twitter feed tool to help me complete my grad thesis
(would be happy to share it, this is non-commercial) and the one
problem I have now is how do I get a single, historical status
returned to me in json format? If someone could reply with the get
syntax for getting a single status that would be great. I found a get
command for direct messages, but these are just plain old statuses
that I need, so the direct message get does not work for me (i.e. GET /
1/direct_messages/show/:id.{format} )
And if anyone from Twitter is out there listening, the crazy limit you
put on from: search queries is why I need an individual status get.
Why do so few records get returned with a from: query? Are you folks
worried someone will make a copycat site using from:? This limit is
making it really hard to finish my research. I am comparing all the
tweets from 60 users with the mentions of those tweets in the greater
community. I can search the last few days of cached data just fine for
the mentions (searching on @users) but I get almost nothing back when
I search with from:. The from: results in some cases include only
1 day of data. So I am continually missing out on the original status
message, while I can see everyone's response to the message with no
problem. The from: limit is really painful. Can you help me out? I
would really like to graduate while I am still young. For now I can
manually look up each status I miss, so how do I get the status (in
JSON, I don't want to scrape the author's page, which I guess would be
my fall back approach)
Thanks!
Jim Skinner
Santa Clara University
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Re: [twitter-dev] How to query for a single status ID?
Also, if you're looking for tweets by a specific user, it's much better to
browse their user timeline directly rather than using the Search API (which
only goes back a few days):
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline
Example invocation:
GET
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=trueinclude_rts=truecount=100screen_name=twitterapi
@episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Damon Parker cartmet...@gmail.com wrote:
This is from a PHP app I built using a the the twitter-async class:
$tweet =
$twob-get('/statuses/show/'.$tw_id.'.json?include_entities=true');
Whatever language you are using, the url you are looking for is:
'/statuses/show/'.$tw_id.'.json?include_entities=true'
Documentation:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/show/:id
--
damonp
On Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 8:30 PM, MyGradThesis wrote:
Hello Twitterati!!!
I'm writing a Twitter feed tool to help me complete my grad thesis
(would be happy to share it, this is non-commercial) and the one
problem I have now is how do I get a single, historical status
returned to me in json format? If someone could reply with the get
syntax for getting a single status that would be great. I found a get
command for direct messages, but these are just plain old statuses
that I need, so the direct message get does not work for me (i.e. GET /
1/direct_messages/show/:id.{format} )
And if anyone from Twitter is out there listening, the crazy limit you
put on from: search queries is why I need an individual status get.
Why do so few records get returned with a from: query? Are you folks
worried someone will make a copycat site using from:? This limit is
making it really hard to finish my research. I am comparing all the
tweets from 60 users with the mentions of those tweets in the greater
community. I can search the last few days of cached data just fine for
the mentions (searching on @users) but I get almost nothing back when
I search with from:. The from: results in some cases include only
1 day of data. So I am continually missing out on the original status
message, while I can see everyone's response to the message with no
problem. The from: limit is really painful. Can you help me out? I
would really like to graduate while I am still young. For now I can
manually look up each status I miss, so how do I get the status (in
JSON, I don't want to scrape the author's page, which I guess would be
my fall back approach)
Thanks!
Jim Skinner
Santa Clara University
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[twitter-dev] Twitter Background
Hi, I just wanted to ask of how to make the twitter's background better, because sometimes it looks wrong in size. Is it because it's based on auto resize? Thanks and I will appreciate your response. Best Regards, Lorilen -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Clarification on Geolocation TOS
I'm working with a research group at the Ohio State University that is interested in using tweets to study communication. Our project is made up of sociologists and geographers, and we are particularly interested in looking at social networks and the space-time context of discussions. We want to be sure not to violate the terms of service, specifically: 4. You will not attempt or encourage others to: E. use or access the Twitter API to aggregate, cache (except as part of a Tweet), or store place and other geographic location information contained in Twitter Content. We want to use locations, and would like to know what steps can we take to avoid violating the TOS. Would any of these measures below or some combination of them satisfy the requirements? - Not storing tweet ID - Not storing user ID - Not storing full 140-character status, only whether our topics of interest were mentioned - Generalize precise geolocations to a coarser level (Census tract/ neighborhood/county) Hopefully I haven't overlooked an answer to this question elsewhere. I found another post here asking for clarification (http://goo.gl/ hArk9), so it looks like clarification could benefit others, as well. If we need to ask for an exception to the TOS, where should we direct our application? Thanks, Johnathan Rush @rushgeo PhD student in Geography -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Clarification on Geolocation TOS
Hi Johnathan, Sorry for any confusion. This policy item requires that if you cache Twitter geo data, it must be stored with the rest of the tweet from where it came (including tweet text). Hope that helps, Brian Sutorius Twitter API Policy On May 16, 9:41 am, Johnathan Rush rus...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working with a research group at the Ohio State University that is interested in using tweets to study communication. Our project is made up of sociologists and geographers, and we are particularly interested in looking at social networks and the space-time context of discussions. We want to be sure not to violate the terms of service, specifically: 4. You will not attempt or encourage others to: E. use or access the Twitter API to aggregate, cache (except as part of a Tweet), or store place and other geographic location information contained in Twitter Content. We want to use locations, and would like to know what steps can we take to avoid violating the TOS. Would any of these measures below or some combination of them satisfy the requirements? - Not storing tweet ID - Not storing user ID - Not storing full 140-character status, only whether our topics of interest were mentioned - Generalize precise geolocations to a coarser level (Census tract/ neighborhood/county) Hopefully I haven't overlooked an answer to this question elsewhere. I found another post here asking for clarification (http://goo.gl/ hArk9), so it looks like clarification could benefit others, as well. If we need to ask for an exception to the TOS, where should we direct our application? Thanks, Johnathan Rush @rushgeo PhD student in Geography -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Opt-in App
Can I be allowed to place an opt-in app on my home page in twitter? Debbie -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Could not authenticate with OAuth
I ran into this as well, only on a few of the endpoints I was trying
to hit. In my case, I'd left off the .json at the end of the
request url. Seems like the service would have given a better message
than Could not authenticate with OAuth.
On Mar 31, 10:03 am, Mauro Asprea mauroasp...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys, I placed an issue reprot here
-http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=2131
I am trying to post a Tweet using the REST
endpoint: 1/statuses/update.json. It seems that, somehow, the oauth_token is
broken or something, because If the user would have deleted or
de-authenticated from my app I would expect another error message. I am
retrying this call forever (or until google clears the GAE Task Queue) until
have confirmation that this would be working or not, only then I will
discard the task. So this request will keep hitting twitter API if you need
to debug or something.
I really don't know what is going on. This is the code of the response and
the headers:
code=401,
headers={'status': '401 Unauthorized', 'x-google-cache-control':
'remote-fetch', 'set-cookie': 'k=64.233.172.20.1301586772265895; path=/;
expires=Thu, 07-Apr-11 15:52:52 GMT; domain=.twitter.com,
guest_id=130158677226961885; path=/; expires=Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:52:52 GMT,
_twitter_sess=BAh7CDoPY3JlYXRlZF9hdGwrCDIBngwvAToHaWQiJTE3YzVhZjIyNGNiMzhi%250AZTAyZTFkOTg0OWJlYTQ3YTdjIgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVy%250AOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAGOgpAdXNlZHsA--2c81d715cadd3b68aa2e26aab3e8b3a6d70e86da;
domain=.twitter.com; path=/; HttpOnly', 'expires': 'Thu, 31 Mar 2011
15:57:52 GMT', 'vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'connection': 'close', 'server':
'hi', 'x-runtime': '0.00554', 'via': 'HTTP/1.1 GWA', 'cache-control':
'no-cache, max-age=300', 'date': 'Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:52:52 GMT',
'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'www-authenticate':
'OAuth realm=http://api.twitter.com;'},
content={request:\/1\/statuses\/update.json?oauth_version=1.0oauth_token=38219986-L9k5mARqijzZbQkMCuXuAoDTQpZM6Fk39C3160Z8Qoauth_nonce=42ee2e14c60a4448a7aedf3321e0ed14oauth_timestamp=1301586772oauth_signature=NgD37QLCIYlsZJGBjNu9Kw9o8PA%3Doauth_consumer_key=bTnd58yyvq8xTNDyXDyfsAoauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1,error:Could
not authenticate with OAuth.}
Thanks
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cosas que nunca fueron y se preguntan por qué no?.
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[twitter-dev] ToS and redistribution of aggregate analysis results
Hello, I have been using Twitter API for research purposes and created an ngram dataset of a tweet corpus that I have collected over the time. I want to make this dataset public for research purposes so other researchers may carry out their own studies without having to create a similar corpus. I read the ToS and didn't see any explicit statement that forbids such an action. I just want to be sure that my interpretation is correct. Could anyone tell me more about this? The dataset I plan to share is a collection of frequently-used ngram phrases and their frequencies in my corpus. I don't plan to keep phrases longer than 5 words. For instance, a sample of the file I plan to make public is below: drinking a glass of wine233 drinking a cup of coffee398 drinking poison and waiting for 10 drinking a tea without sugar98 In this case the phrases are 5-grams (they all consist of 5 words/ tokens) and the number bext to them is the number of times they are observed in my corpus. As far as I can tell I am not redistributing the content of tweets because these samples contain common phrases that are already used commonly in daily language and I am merely releasing their frequency in a sample of tweets. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Amaç Herdağdelen -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: ToS and redistribution of aggregate analysis results
Hey Amaç, Since the dataset you plan to distribute does not include Twitter content directly from the API, you can totally post it for public consumption. We allow tweet IDs to be shared in datasets like these, so if it would help fellow researchers to compare your results to the original corpus, you can also attach a list of the tweet IDs from your data set (just not their full tweet text or the tweet objects). Thanks, Brian Sutorius Twitter API Policy On May 16, 12:27 pm, amacinho a...@herdagdelen.com wrote: Hello, I have been using Twitter API for research purposes and created an ngram dataset of a tweet corpus that I have collected over the time. I want to make this dataset public for research purposes so other researchers may carry out their own studies without having to create a similar corpus. I read the ToS and didn't see any explicit statement that forbids such an action. I just want to be sure that my interpretation is correct. Could anyone tell me more about this? The dataset I plan to share is a collection of frequently-used ngram phrases and their frequencies in my corpus. I don't plan to keep phrases longer than 5 words. For instance, a sample of the file I plan to make public is below: drinking a glass of wine 233 drinking a cup of coffee 398 drinking poison and waiting for 10 drinking a tea without sugar 98 In this case the phrases are 5-grams (they all consist of 5 words/ tokens) and the number bext to them is the number of times they are observed in my corpus. As far as I can tell I am not redistributing the content of tweets because these samples contain common phrases that are already used commonly in daily language and I am merely releasing their frequency in a sample of tweets. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Amaç Herdağdelen -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
Hi everyone, Is there any technical way to protect/unprotect accounts using an API call? Or I have to rely on POSTing to Twitter's setting page? I want to put a checkbox in a client to make a single tweet public, by unprotecting the account for a while. Thanks! -- Slds, Gonzalo. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: ToS and redistribution of aggregate analysis results
Great, thanks for the additional info Brian! Amaç On 16 Mayıs, 15:53, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Amaç, Since the dataset you plan to distribute does not include Twitter content directly from the API, you can totally post it for public consumption. We allow tweet IDs to be shared in datasets like these, so if it would help fellow researchers to compare your results to the original corpus, you can also attach a list of the tweet IDs from your data set (just not their full tweet text or the tweet objects). Thanks, Brian Sutorius Twitter API Policy On May 16, 12:27 pm, amacinho a...@herdagdelen.com wrote: Hello, I have been using Twitter API for research purposes and created an ngram dataset of a tweet corpus that I have collected over the time. I want to make this dataset public for research purposes so other researchers may carry out their own studies without having to create a similar corpus. I read the ToS and didn't see any explicit statement that forbids such an action. I just want to be sure that my interpretation is correct. Could anyone tell me more about this? The dataset I plan to share is a collection of frequently-used ngram phrases and their frequencies in my corpus. I don't plan to keep phrases longer than 5 words. For instance, a sample of the file I plan to make public is below: drinking a glass of wine 233 drinking a cup of coffee 398 drinking poison and waiting for 10 drinking a tea without sugar 98 In this case the phrases are 5-grams (they all consist of 5 words/ tokens) and the number bext to them is the number of times they are observed in my corpus. As far as I can tell I am not redistributing the content of tweets because these samples contain common phrases that are already used commonly in daily language and I am merely releasing their frequency in a sample of tweets. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Amaç Herdağdelen -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
Hi Gonzalo, There's no way to toggle between protected and unprotected account states via the API -- the only valid way to change the setting is for the user to do it of their own volition using a web browser while logged in to Twitter -- any automation of the submission of that toggle state by POSTing to the page outside of the standard user-browser narrative would be very frowned upon. There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. I would recommend that you dismiss the idea of manipulating a dynamic protected/unprotected state and pursue an alternative. @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Gonzalo Larralde gonzalolarra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Is there any technical way to protect/unprotect accounts using an API call? Or I have to rely on POSTing to Twitter's setting page? I want to put a checkbox in a client to make a single tweet public, by unprotecting the account for a while. Thanks! -- Slds, Gonzalo. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
Hi Taylor, Thanks for you fast and complete answer. There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. I would recommend that you dismiss the idea of manipulating a dynamic protected/unprotected state and pursue an alternative. I have to disagree with this paragraph. As you've said, the privacy changes affects all tweets stored in an account, but, if you generate a tweet with an unprotected account, it's indexed into the public search, and it's added to the mentions timeline of a mentioned user that is not following the protected account. That's why I want to toggle this state. In order to let an user to participate in public hashtags, or answer/mention an user that is not following him. Anyway, if there's any other method to do that, please point me and I'll be happy to do a research about it :-) Have a nice day! -- Slds, Gonzalo. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Gonzalo, There's no way to toggle between protected and unprotected account states via the API -- the only valid way to change the setting is for the user to do it of their own volition using a web browser while logged in to Twitter -- any automation of the submission of that toggle state by POSTing to the page outside of the standard user-browser narrative would be very frowned upon. There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. I would recommend that you dismiss the idea of manipulating a dynamic protected/unprotected state and pursue an alternative. @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Gonzalo Larralde gonzalolarra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Is there any technical way to protect/unprotect accounts using an API call? Or I have to rely on POSTing to Twitter's setting page? I want to put a checkbox in a client to make a single tweet public, by unprotecting the account for a while. Thanks! -- Slds, Gonzalo. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Clarification on Geolocation TOS
Thanks for the information, Brian! On May 16, 1:02 pm, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Johnathan, Sorry for any confusion. This policy item requires that if you cache Twitter geo data, it must be stored with the rest of the tweet from where it came (including tweet text). Hope that helps, Brian Sutorius Twitter API Policy On May 16, 9:41 am, Johnathan Rush rus...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working with a research group at the Ohio State University that is interested in using tweets to study communication. Our project is made up of sociologists and geographers, and we are particularly interested in looking at social networks and the space-time context of discussions. We want to be sure not to violate the terms of service, specifically: 4. You will not attempt or encourage others to: E. use or access the Twitter API to aggregate, cache (except as part of a Tweet), or store place and other geographic location information contained in Twitter Content. We want to use locations, and would like to know what steps can we take to avoid violating the TOS. Would any of these measures below or some combination of them satisfy the requirements? - Not storing tweet ID - Not storing user ID - Not storing full 140-character status, only whether our topics of interest were mentioned - Generalize precise geolocations to a coarser level (Census tract/ neighborhood/county) Hopefully I haven't overlooked an answer to this question elsewhere. I found another post here asking for clarification (http://goo.gl/ hArk9), so it looks like clarification could benefit others, as well. If we need to ask for an exception to the TOS, where should we direct our application? Thanks, Johnathan Rush @rushgeo PhD student in Geography -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] HTTPS profile and profile background image URLs are being added to user objects
Hey everyone,
Later this week we'll start to add two new fields to the user object
responses from the Streaming and REST APIs (not Search). Due to caching, not
all objects will have these fields immediately so you should check they are
present in the response before using them.
The two additional fields are the SSL versions of the profile_image_url and
the profile_background_image_url. They will be identified in the user object
by the attributes:
profile_image_https
profile_background_image_url_https
For example, the @twitter user would look similar to this:
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profile_background_tile: false,
name: Twitter,
profile_sidebar_fill_color: F6F6F6,
profile_sidebar_border_color: EE,
location: San Francisco, CA,
created_at: Tue Feb 20 14:35:54 + 2007,
profile_image_url:
http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png;,
id_str: 783214,
is_translator: false,
profile_link_color: 038543,
follow_request_sent: false,
default_profile: false,
contributors_enabled: true,
favourites_count: 10,
url: http://twitter.com;,
utc_offset: -28800,
id: 783214,
profile_image_url_https:
https://si2.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png;,
listed_count: 58963,
profile_use_background_image: true,
lang: en,
protected: false,
profile_text_color: 33,
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notifications: false,
geo_enabled: true,
verified: true,
profile_background_color: ACDED6,
profile_background_image_url_https:
https://si2.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif;,
description: Always wondering what's happening. ,
time_zone: Pacific Time (US Canada),
statuses_count: ,
friends_count: 487,
default_profile_image: false,
profile_background_image_url:
http://a1.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif;,
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created_at: Mon May 16 17:23:59 + 2011,
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text: Remember in 2009 when @aplusk and @cnn were racing to be the
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},
screen_name: twitter,
show_all_inline_media: true,
following: true
}
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
--
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API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi
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Re: [twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
As an aside to this thread... In regards to changing the status of an account from public to private or vice versa, does this only affect the tweets coming after the change or does it change the whole user's timeline past to present? Similarly if an account was private and is toggled to public, do all of the previously private tweets all of a sudden become public or just those starting after the toggle. Similarly if an account is public and toggled to private. thanks -- damonp On Monday, May 16, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: HTTPS profile and profile background image URLs are being added to user objects
Just to follow up on this, the correct additional fields are:
profile_image_url_https
profile_background_image_url_https
The original email missed the _url in profile_image_url_https.
Best
@themattharris
On May 16, 3:27 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
Later this week we'll start to add two new fields to the user object
responses from the Streaming and REST APIs (not Search). Due to caching, not
all objects will have these fields immediately so you should check they are
present in the response before using them.
The two additional fields are the SSL versions of the profile_image_url and
the profile_background_image_url. They will be identified in the user object
by the attributes:
profile_image_https
profile_background_image_url_https
For example, the @twitter user would look similar to this:
{
profile_background_tile: false,
name: Twitter,
profile_sidebar_fill_color: F6F6F6,
profile_sidebar_border_color: EE,
location: San Francisco, CA,
created_at: Tue Feb 20 14:35:54 + 2007,
profile_image_url:
http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png;,
id_str: 783214,
is_translator: false,
profile_link_color: 038543,
follow_request_sent: false,
default_profile: false,
contributors_enabled: true,
favourites_count: 10,
url: http://twitter.com;,
utc_offset: -28800,
id: 783214,
profile_image_url_https:
https://si2.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png;,
listed_count: 58963,
profile_use_background_image: true,
lang: en,
protected: false,
profile_text_color: 33,
followers_count: 5063298,
notifications: false,
geo_enabled: true,
verified: true,
profile_background_color: ACDED6,
profile_background_image_url_https:
https://si2.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif;,
description: Always wondering what's happening. ,
time_zone: Pacific Time (US Canada),
statuses_count: ,
friends_count: 487,
default_profile_image: false,
profile_background_image_url:
http://a1.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif;,
status: {
coordinates: null,
created_at: Mon May 16 17:23:59 + 2011,
truncated: false,
favorited: false,
id_str: 70177690392592384,
in_reply_to_user_id_str: null,
text: Remember in 2009 when @aplusk and @cnn were racing to be the
1st to reach a million followers? @ladygaga just reached 10 million. Wow!,
annotations: null,
contributors: [
16739704
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in_reply_to_screen_name: null,
source: web,
place: null,
in_reply_to_status_id: null
},
screen_name: twitter,
show_all_inline_media: true,
following: true
}
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
--
Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi
Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
Change your membership to this group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Protect/Unprotect accounts using Twitter API
When the account is toggled to public, all the tweets are visible to anyone, and can be indexed by any service. But they're not added to twitter's search index. Only the tweets made with the account configured as public are indexed by twitter search. Is the same for mentions. So, if you change the state of the account tu publish one tweet, in the time frame where the account is public, anyone can see your TL. The ideal solution could be a flag at the moment of the status creation, to override the account protection at the moment that Twitter decides if this tweet should be sent or not to the public index. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Damon Parker cartmet...@gmail.com wrote: As an aside to this thread... In regards to changing the status of an account from public to private or vice versa, does this only affect the tweets coming after the change or does it change the whole user's timeline past to present? Similarly if an account was private and is toggled to public, do all of the previously private tweets all of a sudden become public or just those starting after the toggle. Similarly if an account is public and toggled to private. thanks -- damonp On Monday, May 16, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: There is no way to set the protected state of a single tweet. Toggling between the two account-level states effects all tweets issued by that author and changing it for the purposes of a single tweet is inadvisable. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Issue - My twitter account won't load
On May 15, 7:50 pm, Carla Gasparian Sartori carlagaspariansart...@gmail.com wrote: I have already tried to load my account @carlagasparian in several computers and in differentes IPs and it won't load since fryday the 13th. The page appears as if it were blank. My computer manged to load my settings, but not my timeline. Could it be because of some proxy from the place you are trying to access twitter? Check with your network administrator. -=Mohan=- -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: HTTPS profile and profile background image URLs are being added to user objects
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the update.
Is there any plan to add these fields to the search API results?
-- Shachar
On May 17, 1:27 am, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
Later this week we'll start to add two new fields to the user object
responses from the Streaming and REST APIs (not Search). Due to caching, not
all objects will have these fields immediately so you should check they are
present in the response before using them.
The two additional fields are the SSL versions of the profile_image_url and
the profile_background_image_url. They will be identified in the user object
by the attributes:
profile_image_https
profile_background_image_url_https
For example, the @twitter user would look similar to this:
{
profile_background_tile: false,
name: Twitter,
profile_sidebar_fill_color: F6F6F6,
profile_sidebar_border_color: EE,
location: San Francisco, CA,
created_at: Tue Feb 20 14:35:54 + 2007,
profile_image_url:
http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png;,
id_str: 783214,
is_translator: false,
profile_link_color: 038543,
follow_request_sent: false,
default_profile: false,
contributors_enabled: true,
favourites_count: 10,
url: http://twitter.com;,
utc_offset: -28800,
id: 783214,
profile_image_url_https:
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listed_count: 58963,
profile_use_background_image: true,
lang: en,
protected: false,
profile_text_color: 33,
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notifications: false,
geo_enabled: true,
verified: true,
profile_background_color: ACDED6,
profile_background_image_url_https:
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description: Always wondering what's happening. ,
time_zone: Pacific Time (US Canada),
statuses_count: ,
friends_count: 487,
default_profile_image: false,
profile_background_image_url:
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created_at: Mon May 16 17:23:59 + 2011,
truncated: false,
favorited: false,
id_str: 70177690392592384,
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text: Remember in 2009 when @aplusk and @cnn were racing to be the
1st to reach a million followers? @ladygaga just reached 10 million. Wow!,
annotations: null,
contributors: [
16739704
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in_reply_to_screen_name: null,
source: web,
place: null,
in_reply_to_status_id: null
},
screen_name: twitter,
show_all_inline_media: true,
following: true
}
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
--
Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi
Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
Change your membership to this group:
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