[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-08-20 Thread @epc
Will twitter validate the coordinates (ie, what will the API do when I pass lat=777long=-666)? If the coordinates are invalid, will the status get posted or will the entire request get rejected with a 4xx code? If a user has not enabled geolocating (geo_enabledfalse/ geo_enabled), what happens

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-08-20 Thread @epc
Will the opt–in method be only through the twitter site or will there be an API method to turn it on/off? --

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-08-21 Thread @epc
On Aug 20, 6:37 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Users will need to come to the website to change the setting. If we provided an API, a misbehaving application would change the setting without the user knowing - hence the read-only attribute. Perfect, that’s what I’d expect. But I

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Geolocation API

2009-08-21 Thread @epc
On Aug 21, 11:39 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Even so, though, I don't think that would fully get around the malicious application problem unless you could say *which* apps got to turn it on and off, and even then ... True. I guess the scenario I'm thinking of is: you've

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-10-17 Thread @epc
When adding a user to a list, only the numeric id appears to work, eg: curl -k --user epc:pass -d id=7758742 --url https://twitter.com/epc/defrag/members.xml works, but curl -k --user epc:pass -d id=enorlin --url https://twitter.com/epc/defrag/members.xml results in a 500 Internal

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocked Users on Lists

2009-11-18 Thread @epc
Blocking prevents the blocked user from viewing your tweets in their timeline. It does not prevent you from viewing their tweets. From my testing during the beta period, if you block a twitter id, then your tweets will not appear in any lists that that id subscribes to. However you will still

[twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?

2010-01-08 Thread @epc
On Jan 8, 9:29 am, GeorgeMedia georgeme...@gmail.com wrote: No one? I think you would be better off consuming the firehose, geocode the tweets yourself, and throw away any that aren’t in regions you care about, caching the rest for a period of time. The thing to remember about geocoding of

[twitter-dev] Couple Local Trends geo API questions

2010-01-26 Thread @epc
The web ui for “local trends near you” asks users to select a geographic area. Is this solely a web UI thing or will this location be available in a user’s profile? If it’s in a user’s profile, would it be a WOEID, something under the existing location element or something else entirely? Ever

[twitter-dev] Re: Statuses/Show Method doesn't display multiple statuses?

2010-01-28 Thread @epc
On Jan 29, 12:35 am, beerkid beers...@gmail.com wrote: I just want to show latest 20 updates from a single user but my developer says that Statuses/Show will only show most recent update. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline

[twitter-dev] Re: background url showing via api, but not on profile

2010-02-01 Thread @epc
Can you check with that user to see if they have background images set to display? On my own profile, I turned off the background image and while it does not appear on my web profile, the old image URL still appears if you call users/show/epc.xml. Replacing the background image does not appear to

[twitter-dev] Re: background url showing via api, but not on profile

2010-02-01 Thread @epc
Issue #1211, http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1211, seems to be related to this. -- -ed costello

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread @epc
Could #1 be satisfied by an appropriate error message from the API when you try to do something with an oAuth’d account?

[twitter-dev] Re: More OAuth Change Please - Simple Stuff

2010-02-09 Thread @epc
Making Allow a default on a security authorization page seems to be asking for trouble later. At present the Deny button is of type submit. They can't use reset as that won't send anything back to twitter (unless you add some sort of event via Jquery). Deny doesn’t appear to be the default,

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem sending tweets with nbsp chars

2010-03-08 Thread @epc
On Mar 8, 4:06 pm, Roy Leban r...@royleban.com wrote: I'm open to suggestions but you're screwed is not a suggestion. And changing what I'm doing doesn't address the fact that Twitter has a bug. What code are you using to post these tweets? Is it possible that it is transcoding nbsp; to

[twitter-dev] Re: Slow response to twitter updates for a third party app

2010-05-10 Thread @epc
I’m also seeing a ~5 second delay in responses to requests for http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml. It’s consistently 5-7 seconds, but appears to happen both before the response is sent as well as midway, it sort of feels like both a timeout waiting for something to happen as well

[twitter-dev] Re: Formats for specifying annotations

2010-05-17 Thread @epc
On May 17, 1:35 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey folks. I'd like to get your advice on the Annotations feature. Initial feedback: - I'd use a shorter variable name - Instead of using annotations once, allow repeated instances, each instance being a new annotation. | We want to

[twitter-dev] What will happen when Basic Auth is shut down?

2010-06-01 Thread @epc
Raffi: when basic auth is turned off, what will the response be from twitter, a 403? Some other 4xx message? -- -ed costello

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Post Problem

2010-07-02 Thread @epc
On Jul 2, 6:34 am, Chandrashekhar cpmah...@gmail.com wrote: Whenever I post data with any URL twitter automatically executes/ invoke that url during posting process. I dont want to invoke posted data content URL by twitter. Then you should not post those URLs to twitter. Any URL posted to

[twitter-dev] Status of contributions API?

2010-07-23 Thread @epc
Is there a target for the contributions API opening up? Alternately is there a document somewhere laying out who you need to be / how much it costs to utilize the contributions API? Asking mostly out of curiosity as I work through a new app for a client. -- -ed costello

[twitter-dev] Re: Status of contributions API?

2010-07-23 Thread @epc
On Jul 23, 4:08 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Our focus has veered a bit on the Contributors API -- the feature itself continues to be evaluated and utilized by a few accounts, but the actual API expression of using Contributor features is on hold for now as we

[twitter-dev] Re: How is this a solution?

2010-08-07 Thread @epc
On Aug 6, 2:45 pm, Julio Biason julio.bia...@gmail.com wrote: I may sound pissed and I am: Twitter was build on top of open source apps (like Rails and now Cassandra) and basically you guys are slapping every other open source application that use your APIs in the face. What's the approved

[twitter-dev] Re: Install twurl without root access?

2010-08-27 Thread @epc
I know nothing about Ruby, however gem install twurl appears to install it into ~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin on OS X. You then need to put that directory in your shell’s path variable. -- -ed costello -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

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

2010-10-13 Thread @epc
When in_reply_to_status_id was originally added you could reply to a tweet without including the @username in the tweet, and twitter would accept that (and thread that) as a proper reply. On the one hand this freed up a few additional characters for the reply, but also lead to confusion since

[twitter-dev] Re: delimited (streaming API) now default?

2010-11-30 Thread @epc
On Nov 29, 12:07 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: What I did notice is that 0x6EF = 1775 and 0x710 = 1808 -- in both cases the Hex values are 6 bytes longer than the object we are returning. This came up in March, see:

[twitter-dev] Re: Hexadecimal Tweet Length on Streaming API?? When??

2011-01-03 Thread @epc
The streaming API transmits in chunked encoding, it sounds like you are consuming it raw. See http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/ee8b7024d51821c1 and http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/69131a43f64638b2? for previous discussions about this. -- -ed

[twitter-dev] Re: PHP OAuth app stopped working magically

2011-01-03 Thread @epc
On Jan 3, 8:29 am, Nicolás López Zerpa nico89...@gmail.com wrote: Authorization: OAuth oauth_version=1.0,oauth_consumer_key=ir4GfsoPEjUNHWD1fpevgA,oauth_times tamp=1294056882,oauth_nonce=9e61a75246ee4c0195f4c75c4ad53943,oauth_sign ature_method=HMAC-

[twitter-dev] Re: Return number of tweets for an account

2011-01-13 Thread @epc
On Jan 13, 11:06 pm, David dtran...@gmail.com wrote: The number of tweets is listed in the statuses_count field for the user. You can access this by hitting the /users/show endpoint of the API. Note that that only counts tweets still in twitter’s database. If a user deletes a tweet, the count

[twitter-dev] Re: Incorrect signature

2011-01-17 Thread @epc
On Jan 16, 2:10 pm, Thomas thomasrei...@gmail.com wrote: ?php $time = time() + 10800; Why are you setting the timestamp for 3 hours in the future? oAuth/twitter are very picky about the time being close to accurate, being 3 hours off is definitely one potential problem with your code. -- -ed

[twitter-dev] Re: Is there any timestamp for when a user starts following someone?

2011-01-30 Thread @epc
There's no API method, and no data returned in any of the user calls. If you can regularly retrieve a user's followers you can intuit when (say if you retrieve daily), otherwise there's no way. -- @epc -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via