[twitter-dev] Re: updating follow/shadow/birddog list of users

2009-07-08 Thread Alex Payne
to restart and re-upload all that list again? I see when the curl -d @following ... starts up, it does that. Restarting with huge lists sounds like data loss... Cheers, Alexy -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Payne
with all our apps... ugh Please advise jeffrey greenberg http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com http://www.tweettronics.com -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Aquí 1.0 released today

2009-07-02 Thread Alex Payne
that helped me build this app. Here's the URL for Aquí: http://www.yummymelon.com/aqui Best regards - -Charles -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Security Best Practices

2009-06-30 Thread Alex Payne
an open source project? -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Security Best Practices

2009-06-30 Thread Alex Payne
have to register for their own set of -consumer- keys? That's not what you meant, is it? On Jun 30, 4:39 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: The simplest solution is that every deployment of the tool will have to register for their own OAuth credentials. This isn't ideal. I'd inquire

[twitter-dev] Security Best Practices

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Payne
application is identified as vulnerable or compromised. Please check out the new wiki page ( http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Security-Best-Practices) and let us know what's missing. Thanks! -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Security Best Practices

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Payne
are just email accounts being gotten into, there is nothing twitter apps need to do. If it is something else, there may be other things we can do to keep the accounts safe. Thanks. On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Alex Payne wrote: I wanted to point out a blog post ( http://apiblog.twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Security Best Practices

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Payne
. As it is now, I fell for it, I read the headline, and thought ti was a twitter issue. Just some food for thought. On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Alex Payne wrote: Any recent celebrity-related compromises I'm aware of having been, as you said, media 'hacking'. The last issue I'm aware of that resulted

[twitter-dev] Re: Security Best Practices

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Payne
Apologies, these two sections were under the wrong heading. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 16:32, Support supp...@yourhead.com wrote: Hi Alex, I just thought I'd give you some feedback on the Desktop Application Security section here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Security-Best-Practices

[twitter-dev] Re: tool to let you know when twitter name is available

2009-06-24 Thread Alex Payne
. Thanks, Drew -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Payne
Yup! Wednesday, 5pm. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 16:08, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: Hey Alex/Matt/Doug when you think this can be decided?  Can Wed. at 5pm work for the meetup? Thanks, -damon On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Pablo Lopez pablitolo...@gmail.com wrote: Count me

[twitter-dev] Re: all replies by friends

2009-05-13 Thread Alex Payne
. Unfortunately, a core set of very important people really, really need mailing lists. It's how they network, meet people, develop ideas, and improve software like... Twitter. Oops. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph Dump

2009-04-24 Thread Alex Payne
anywhere, rather than making so many api calls to obtain the same? Thanks. -- Regards, Lakshman becomingguru.com lakshmanprasad.com -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: OAUTH Feature currently disabled

2009-04-22 Thread Alex Payne
-- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70) -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's official comment on our disabling of OAuth

2009-04-22 Thread Alex Payne
My understanding is, at present, that OAuth consumers are not impacted by this issue. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 13:29, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 4/22/09 4:27 PM, Alex Payne wrote: In cooperation with this consortium of other OAuth providers (including Yahoo!, Google, Netflix

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's official comment on our disabling of OAuth

2009-04-22 Thread Alex Payne
, not suitable for production use, then why depreciate key features from basic auth like source registration before you have a production ready release? On Apr 22, 3:27 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/04/whats-deal-with-oauth.html In short: there's

[twitter-dev] Re: This Feature is Temporarily Disabled OAuth Authenticate

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Payne
: I'm getting This Feature is Temporarily Disabled when running oauth/authenticate - is it down right now? @Jesse -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Fast140 Dodginess and OAuth Authorization Clarity

2009-04-16 Thread Alex Payne
://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States -- :: Rod Begbie ::http://groovymother.com/:: -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http

[twitter-dev] Re: API Limit

2009-04-16 Thread Alex Payne
users' api calls. Any idea why we got rejected? (app name is Swattr) Any objections to this approach? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: acceptable Profile Image Formats

2009-04-16 Thread Alex Payne
it's safe to assume that anything I pull out of profile_image_url is going to be either .gif or .jpg or .png? TjL -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: list of blocked users

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
Not presently, but we'll be adding those methods shortly. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:09, peterhoneyman peter.honey...@gmail.com wrote: does the twitter api allow me to retrieve the list of users that i have blocked? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Objective-C/Cocoa open source Twitter client

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
appreciate any feedback. Hope it's of use to you, Nick Nick Toumpelis email: n...@toumpelis.me.uk twitter: macsphere -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: How to add an open source project into wiki?

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
Done! On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:54, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: Could you add my project into the open source project list? http://code.google.com/p/twitterbeis/ Thanks Gary On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Just let us know what you'd like

[twitter-dev] Re: IP Address range

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
twitter. Is there a range of IP addresses that might be valid Twitter endpoints, that I need to pass on to the hosted server admin team? Any help greatly appreciated! Bill -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Max length of Twitter screen name?

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Payne
20 characters. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:26, Knave archkn...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how long a Twitter screen name can be?  Trying to calculate storage space requirements. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: update_profile_image not updating user's profile_image_url

2009-04-14 Thread Alex Payne
://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: public_timeline, invalid profile_image?

2009-04-14 Thread Alex Payne
Yes. We're testing a system that will replace the public timeline method for frequent requesters. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 21:44, Eric Martin emarti...@gmail.com wrote: Alex - seems to still be an issue. Any updates on when we might see a fix? On Mar 30, 12:49 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Automating twitter posts

2009-04-14 Thread Alex
http://easytweets.com On Apr 14, 4:20 pm, Beier beier...@gmail.com wrote: Try HootSuite.com, not only will it automate your RSS tweets, it will also automate you whole Twitter accounts On Apr 14, 7:50 am, dondmcg d...@timesreview.com wrote: I work for a newspaper and we have more and more

[twitter-dev] combined DM feed?

2009-04-14 Thread Alex
Was hoping you would consider offering an API call that would return a combined DM feed of both sent and received DMs. Thoughts?

[twitter-dev] sending DM to all followers?

2009-04-14 Thread Alex
I'm wondering if there is a way - or if you would consider adding a way - to send a DM to all followers via the API? Obviously we could grab the followers list and iterate over it to send the DM to all, though that could require thousands of API calls depending on the user. (And could therefore

[twitter-dev] Re: sending DM to all followers?

2009-04-14 Thread Alex
: Alex, That sounds very spamish although there are certainly some use cases where it is acceptable. Proceed with caution when sending mass DMs. Ensure the messages you are sending are relevant and of value to your followers. Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Tue

[twitter-dev] Re: sending DM to all followers?

2009-04-14 Thread Alex
: Alex, That sounds very spamish although there are certainly some use cases where it is acceptable. Proceed with caution when sending mass DMs. Ensure the messages you are sending are relevant and of value to your followers. Doug Williams Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Tue

[twitter-dev] Re: sending DM to all followers?

2009-04-14 Thread Alex
true or not? On Apr 14, 7:46 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Alex, That sounds very spamish although there are certainly some use cases where it is acceptable. Proceed with caution when sending mass DMs. Ensure the messages you are sending are relevant and of value to your followers

[twitter-dev] Re: New Ruby Twitter API Library: Grackle

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Payne
have any feedback, suggestions for improvement, etc. Thanks. Hayes Davis @hayesdavis -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Search queries not working

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Payne
: next_page -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] A note on our API change policy

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Payne
say a month for now. If Twitter pushes out changes every 2 days it is possible that there would be 15 versions running at any given time. This is an extreme example but something to think about. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 13:56, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Right now, every new machine we

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] A note on our API change policy

2009-04-11 Thread Alex Payne
a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” — Jacob Riis -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth application directory

2009-04-11 Thread Alex Payne
Not yet, but soon! On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:17, Alberto Bajo albertob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Is there any list or directory with applications implementing OAuth? Thanks :) -- Alberto Bajo alber...@ideateca.com http://filesocial.com -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc

[twitter-dev] Re: Article about my experiences deploying a Twitter Web app on Google App Engine Java

2009-04-11 Thread Alex Payne
Handy! On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:30, Dave Briccetti da...@davebsoft.com wrote: Perhaps this will save time for some of you. http://briccetti.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-first-scala-web-app-on-google-app.html -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: StalkDaily worm - it's really spreading :)

2009-04-11 Thread Alex Payne
way to change is to laugh at your own    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70) -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Retry twitter name from name

2009-04-09 Thread Alex Payne
search on google but I didn't find the solution. Thanks. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.json failed

2009-04-09 Thread Alex Payne
 The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. Anything wrong with this API invocation? Thanks -- Gary http://twitter.com/garyzhao -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes for April 8, 2009

2009-04-09 Thread Alex Payne
on the OAuth authorization page. Thanks;  — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford -- Carlos Crosetti -- Peter M. Dentonwww.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter -http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecation of source parameter registration

2009-04-08 Thread Alex
When you say that you can implicitly determine the application, does that mean that source parameters will become mandatory and anything posting via the API will be automatically assigned one? On Apr 8, 10:14 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Applications wishing to append the from

[twitter-dev] Re: Weird API problem, Invalid requests, et cetera

2009-04-06 Thread Alex Payne
=/ Expires: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:26:10 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close It says hi, and that is the weirdest thing to me. :S -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] April 6: emergency maintenance mode, 1 hour, starting at 1600 PST

2009-04-06 Thread Alex Payne
Extremely sorry for the unexpected loss of service. See http://blog.twitter.com/2009/04/thanks-for-your-patience.html for an explanation. Please watch http://status.twitter.com/ for updates. Back soon. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Determining Sex/Gender with the API?

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Payne
. Is this supported, in any way at all? Not the sex of the person logged in as the app, but the owners of the profiles in a search, for example. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json returns others tweets

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Payne
and password), but the weired thing is it returns others tweets. Mine: http://twitter.com/garyzhao It returns: http://twitter.com/rejon -- Gary http://twitter.com/garyzhao -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: How to add an open source project into wiki?

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Payne
Thanks -- Gary http://twitter.com/garyzhao -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter didn't tinyurl my tweets tonight

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Payne
searched the FAQs, this message board, and via Google and didn't find anyone else with this particular issue.) A4: Some other reason? Any ideas? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: invalid xml char in public timeline

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Payne
);        URLConnection conn = u.openConnection();        if(agent != null){            conn.setRequestProperty(User-Agent, agent);        }        doc = builder.build( conn.getInputStream() ); is this a know issue with public timeline feed? any good way to fix this error? -aj -- Alex

[twitter-dev] API Changes for April 1, 2009

2009-04-01 Thread Alex Payne
. As always, you can keep up with these changes at http://bit.ly/api_changelog. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] API Changes for April 1, 2009

2009-04-01 Thread Alex Payne
No, only methods that previously returned User objects. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 17:54, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Does this include the Social Graph API methods? Jesse On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: (Not an April Fool, we promise. We don't

[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for April 1, 2009

2009-04-01 Thread Alex Payne
://twitter.com/zbowling On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: (Not an April Fool, we promise. We don't enjoy humor.)  * Feature (REST API): We now return the same representation of User objects throughout the API. This representation contains all of the attributes we make

[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for April 1, 2009

2009-04-01 Thread Alex Payne
   in_reply_to_user_id/in_reply_to_user_id    favoritedfalse/favorited    in_reply_to_screen_name/in_reply_to_screen_name  /status /user dpc On Apr 1, 5:34 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: (Not an April Fool, we promise. We don't enjoy humor.)  * Feature (REST API): We now return the same

[twitter-dev] Re: python twitter on google app engine

2009-03-31 Thread Alex Payne
like you trying to access temporary files. Is there a way to disable the cache or is that not the best solution? Thank you! -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Wrong Friends Count

2009-03-31 Thread Alex Payne
Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running friends/ids for the user CoffeeCupNews, and while the Twitter UI says he has 17,336 friends, friends/ids is returning 14,872 friends.  Is something stuck in cache right now? Jesse -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
the _normal from the name? Is this part of the API spec? Safe to use? Thanks. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: TweetGrid for iPhone - please test

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
! -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: public_timeline, invalid profile_image?

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
from the user via public-timeline (Data-mining-feed). I checked the announcement-google-group + twitter.com/twitterapi (subscribed to feed anyway ;) ) but could not see any change. The site affected: www.geoheartbeat.com -- Gary http://twitter.com/garyzhao -- Alex Payne - API Lead

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter in iframes

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
the content is public anyways - the rss feed of the content is available for consumption? I know about the clickjacking attack, but that unnecessarily penalizes the good applications. Any thoughts on allowing twitter pages in iframes through registered usage? -- Alex Payne - API Lead

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/replies now include mentions

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
-- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph followers/ids returns nothing

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Payne
results.  I seem to be getting a 200 response, but nothing returned.  Is anyone else seeing this? Jesse -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Inclusion of the source parameter

2009-03-26 Thread Alex Payne
of the HTTP body section or part of the URL? Thanks Olivier -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: paid pro accounts

2009-03-26 Thread Alex Payne
-paid-pro-accounts-on-the-way-2009-3 --ab -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Someone resurrected the Gigantor profile image bug

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Payne
/profile_images/109230522/twitter_normal.jpg - 466x371px... I'll also take this time to request some scrubbing of existing humungo profile images. Thanks, Loren -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: API Wrapper for Lasso

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Payne
?    http://twitterapi.pbwiki.com/Libraries Thanks! Jason -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: How to whitelist an app engine twitter app.

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Payne
of Australia's imports come from overseas. -K. Enderbery -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Change the Web Challenge

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Payne
to seeing your entries! -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: image upload with command line curl

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Payne
is technically wrong. Is Twitter having upload issues, or is it my code? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Updating other people's status?

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Payne
updates from the website? ...or do I need to hold a person's username and their password (in clear text?) Is it possible for me to hash a password, save that and use that to authenticate? TIA Cheers, Cripsin -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Reliability update

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Payne
priorities. Thanks for bearing with us! -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-24 Thread Alex Payne
Unfortunately, nothing definitive. We're still looking into this. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:56, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: Any news from the Service Team? I'd really like to get the counters right in an upcoming release... -ch On Mar 6, 12:18 pm, Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] Re: no response when updating @any_user

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
@any_user I simply get no reply from Twitter- no error, no nothing. This is true whether or not I send a direct message or a update status. Is this an encoding issue? I am a little confused how to encode messages sent to twitter. I am using PHP to send a CURL XML request. -- Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] Re: datatype for key and secret?

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
Yes, VARCHAR. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:56, Chris Westbrook westbch...@gmail.com wrote: What is a good mysql datatype to use to store the user token and secret?  I am new to mysql and am not that familiar with the different types.  Thanks. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http

[twitter-dev] Re: Buggy user details?

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
times it doesn't. Oftentimes the notification tag is wrong (I've posted this before). Is there something really buggy going on here? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison WI United States. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
. Cheers, Jason On Mar 17, 7:09 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Triedhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/81312415/da... ? On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 19:04, Jason Schroeder jasch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex, Any hope Twitter will re-size these existing

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing @ replies in reply timeline

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
. If I wasn't using search to supplement my @replies I would totally miss them. Anyone else noticing this too? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: API Documentation

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Payne
, The favorites method seems to support the optional parameters of since_id and count. Is this just missing from the documentation or are they not officially supported (i.e. should use be avoided as they may be removed?). Rhys -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Payne
accounts once that becomes clear), most of them will be. We want to ensure our Foo brand doesn't run into problems. It still feels greedy. Is option 1 a standard thing to do? Will our accounts be taken from us? Will we be banned? Thanks! -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http

[twitter-dev] Re: Does API authentication failure count against a user's login attempts?

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Payne
             | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/  He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70) -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Direct message appearing and disappearing on each refresh

2009-03-18 Thread Alex Payne
Very much so. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 14:43, benjackson bhjack...@gmail.com wrote: We're seeing an issue where the latest direct message is cut out of the list when refreshing, and then included/cut again upon each refresh. Is this a known issue? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc

[twitter-dev] Re: Free script to gain followers?

2009-03-17 Thread Alex Payne
Don't use products like this, please. Don't use them, and don't write them. Twitter works best when people follow other people they actually want to keep up with. If you're really interesting and 50,000 people are following you, that's great. But if you're following 50,000 people, you're doing

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and IE7

2009-03-17 Thread Alex Payne
This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from: Madison WI United States. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: public_timeline not up to date

2009-03-17 Thread Alex Payne
+/pubDate guidhttp://twitter.com/billthomas/statuses/1342266945/guid linkhttp://twitter.com/billthomas/statuses/1342266945/link /item -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-03-17 Thread Alex Payne
Tried http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/81312415/dave_morin_256_mini.png ? On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 19:04, Jason Schroeder jasch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex, Any hope Twitter will re-size these existing images? Mobile clients (i.e. TwitterBerry) expect a 48x48 image

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Status Code problem

2009-03-16 Thread Alex Payne
doing something foolish? -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Sequential API XML requests and cache

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Payne
. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Batch Request

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Payne
/batch_reply -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Archive

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Payne
, but it will not do well at either if it can't get all the tweets! I see these sorts of threads have been around for years... just wondering how much progress has been made on it. On Mar 9, 6:07 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: We retain any and all tweets that aren't deleted by users. We

[twitter-dev] Re: Email Headers for Follower Request

2009-03-13 Thread Alex Payne
and sure made my life a lot simpler. My question is - why there aren't such headers for the follower request (for blocked profiles)? Are there plans to add such headers to this messages too in the near future? Thanks, Arik Fraimovich (@arikfr) -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http

[twitter-dev] Re: Pushing Twitter data into the clients

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Payne
to offer the firehose via xmpp to developers. Why? Pull based polling is last year. Maybe at the least Twitter could offer a Long polling option like friendfeed to give a psuedo realtime feed Thanks in advance Sam W: www.twitblogs.com Sent from my iPhone On 12 Mar 2009, at 21:21, Alex

[twitter-dev] Re: Inconsistencies b/t XML and JSON

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Payne
like complaining. ;) Thanks! dpc -- Damon P. Cortesi Security Guy, Twitter Apps www. tweetstats | tweepsearch | tweetsum .com -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: New Actionscript3 Twitter API Library

2009-03-10 Thread Alex Payne
. -- personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/--   Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com -- Homestar has a web site? -- Strong Bad - -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Various questions not on FAQ

2009-03-10 Thread Alex Payne
Unique to that type of object. a DirectMessage is distinct from a Status, in our system. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:59, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:  % DMs have their own numbering scheme different from regular

[twitter-dev] Re: TinyUrl and Twitter. Should I use it?

2009-03-10 Thread Alex Payne
tinyurl per se may or may not have, twitter and the twitter community are putting up with it. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieve tweets with ID greater than a passed-in ID?

2009-03-10 Thread Alex Payne
as expected. When I specify the since_id, it still works, but it doesn't honor the since_id in any way. Thanks very much, Greg -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

[twitter-dev] Re: New Actionscript3 Twitter API Library

2009-03-10 Thread Alex Payne
Sure is! Added to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries#ActionScript/Flash. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 14:38, Sandro Ducceschi s.ducces...@gmail.com wrote: Sure thing, hope google code is ok to ;) http://tweetr.googlecode.com/ Thansk already, Sandro On Mar 10, 10:31 pm, Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] Re: How often do users change their screen names?

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
would be very useful for avoiding the need to check everybody.  Even better, return friend or follower names changed since a date. Nick -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x

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