[twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-16 Thread @Red_Eyes
application requires some api calls. Will these be counted under rate limiting? On Nov 16, 7:25 pm, Red_Eyes millerdotp...@googlemail.com wrote: You can make a call to search, for example, both authenticated and unauthenticated. Search uses a different rate limiting system to most other API

[twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-17 Thread @Red_Eyes
limiting problems. Please correct me if I'm wrong. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:23 PM, @Red_Eyes millerdotp...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand you correctly, you want to build in some sort of interface into your site to allow users to Tweet from it under their own accounts. You would use oAuth

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I find the URL of a Twitter user WWW page, having only their twitterID?

2010-11-18 Thread @Red_Eyes
Try this: http://twitter.com/?id=21358135 (That's my ID, BTW) Regards On Nov 18, 6:00 pm, Kaspa kacper.sul...@gmail.com wrote: The title says it all. Been looking for some time now. (I know I can lookup the API for user detail and then use that. That's not what I want, I want a way of

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I find the URL of a Twitter user WWW page, having only their twitterID?

2010-11-18 Thread @Red_Eyes
You can do it, but you have to be logged in first which suggests that this would be a rate limited lookup. eg: http://twitter.com/?id= Regards On Nov 18, 6:00 pm, Kaspa kacper.sul...@gmail.com wrote: The title says it all. Been looking for some time now. (I know I can lookup the API

[twitter-dev] Re: Parsing date in create_at field

2010-11-19 Thread @Red_Eyes
The date format is usually: Ddd Mmm dd hh:mm:ss + eg: Tue Nov 16 14:40:25 + 2010 What platform are you coding for? In .Net you can use Convert.ToDateTime on this. Alternatively, you can use this: DateTime.Parse(string.Format({0}-{1}-{2} {3}, dateTime.Substring(8,

[twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-20 Thread Red_Eyes
You can make a call to search, for example, both authenticated and unauthenticated. Search uses a different rate limiting system to most other API calls. You have your assumption the wrong way round, though. When you are authenticated, generally you will get around 350 API calls per hour allowed.

[twitter-dev] Re: Local searches on Search API not working

2010-11-30 Thread @Red_Eyes
You should follow @twitterapi as they Tweeted there was a problem with this earlier today On Nov 30, 12:33 pm, Aaron Rankin aran...@sproutsocial.com wrote: I'm consistently getting no results for a variety of Search API queries using the geocode parameter. For example:

[twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for monitoring scheduled scripts

2010-12-08 Thread @Red_Eyes
You should check a number of things: 1) Be careful about auto reply to Tweets. You should check Twitter Terms of Service to make sure you are not doing anything you shouldn't... http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915-automation-rules-and-best-practices 2) You may be being rate limited...

[twitter-dev] Re: Character Encoding Error C# .NET

2011-01-02 Thread @Red_Eyes
I had this problem a while back after switching to oAuth and ended up writing my own encoding function which works fine. Here are the essential snippets! string oAuthUnreservedChars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_.~; StringBuilder sb

[twitter-dev] Re: Return number of tweets in a Search

2011-01-12 Thread @Red_Eyes
The maximum number of tweets you can return per page is 100. If you return all the pages available you can get to around 1,500 max. These limits are defined in the search API documentation. ( http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search). You may be better either looking at the streaming API and hope

[twitter-dev] Re: Using multiple via labels for an application

2011-01-15 Thread @Red_Eyes
I have exactly the same requirment and have addressed it with one oAuth token per product/user. Be careful, though, not to park any token names before you are ready to use them. I did that, not appreciateing that it was violating a Twitter rule of the road, and ended up having several tokens

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting special character in posting new tweet doesn't support.

2011-02-09 Thread @Red_Eyes
Are you url encoding the Tweet text? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group:

[twitter-dev] Who retweeted me?

2011-02-09 Thread @Red_Eyes
If, through a web browesr, I click on Retweets - Your Tweets retweeted, a particular tweet of mine shows up. Normally, when you then click on that Tweet, it shows the person/people who have retweeted in. In this case, though, it is not showing anyone as having retweeted me. Does this mean,