Re: simple tweet this implementation

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Thomson
Not all Twitter clients show the from application text, so it's probably a better idea to just enter the link with the status (and no, you can't modify the from web link when posting from the twitter.com interface). —— Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On 20-Nov-08, at 1:05 PM

Re: excited

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Thomson
I also seemed to have missed it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/twitter-welcome-to-google-friend.html Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Rob Iles rob.i...@gmail.com wrote: Me.MissedBigAnnouncement(); ?? 2008/12/15 JSadamant j

Re: Is there a limit on how quickly an app can post updates?

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Thomson
There's a limit of 1000 updates per day, per user (subject to change). See: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/19026c103592dc51/d9a24f381f656fe9?lnk=gstq=1000#d9a24f381f656fe9 On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Amir Michail amich...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

[twitter-dev] Re: Outdated API documentation refers to /archive?

2009-02-20 Thread Chris Thomson
Yep, the /archive page is gone. The user_timeline method basically replaces it, but you can only go back a certain number of tweets due to technical limitations (the number has escaped me, but it was 3000). Chris Thomson On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:19 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: http

[twitter-dev] Re: Reserved usernames

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Thomson
Any username containing twttr also can't be registered. Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:36 AM, richardhenry richardhe...@me.com wrote: Is this everything, or have I missed

[twitter-dev] Re: Reserved usernames

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Thomson
Ahh, I forgot to mention @archive. Chris Thomson On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote: Any username containing twttr also can't be registered. Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth preparation

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Thomson
Chen, see: http://twitter.com/oauth_clients Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Chen Jie chenyue...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, do I need to sign up with twitter to use OAuth? How can I get my consumer key and secret? On Mar 17, 10:34 am, Steve Brunton sbrun

[twitter-dev] Re: Pre-fill DM textarea?

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Thomson
This isn't documented anywhere, as far as I can tell, but http://twitter.com/direct_messages/create/spam?text= . . . seems to work. Chris Thomson On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:01 AM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: I am adding links to TwitReport to be able to report someone as a dirty spambag

[twitter-dev] Re: Friendship.create is confusing

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Thomson
To simply follow a person, use friendships create. Notifications are for toggling notifications (updates from a particular user) on/off to the authenticated user's SMS device. Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote: Things

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Open Beta for new accounts?

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Thomson
I believe the Connections tab only appears after you authorize an application. You should be able to access it directly, though: https://twitter.com/account/connections Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with search api

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Thomson
Give this a try: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=book+OR+read+OR+offer+from%3Anyankov+since%3A2009-04-01 -Chris Thomson On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:59 AM, nyankov nikola.yan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Does anybody have idea why this url: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q

[twitter-dev] Re: Is there a way to list blocked users for an account?

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Thomson
There isn't a way to do that currently, but there's a ticket open for it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=9 -Chris Thomson On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: Hi There, I wanted to find out which users I have blocked and give them

[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-05 Thread Chris Thomson
Perhaps Abraham's referring to Tweetmeme? http://tweetmeme.com/static.php?page=api -Chris Thomson On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: You will want to read the Search API Docs: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation. Also consider that alot

[twitter-dev] Re: url as an input

2009-04-09 Thread Chris Thomson
There's also the BackTweets API. http://backtweets.com/api -Chris Thomson On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:27 AM, jstrellner jstrell...@urltrends.com wrote: Hi Nick, Yes, we can help with this. We have an API that is nearly complete that will allow you to provide a URL and get all of the tweets

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API returning truncated XML responses

2009-04-15 Thread Chris Thomson
I'm having this issue as well. Here's the full response (including the headers returned): http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/14675/twittercom_statuses_followers.xml.txt -Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24 On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Dossy, More details

[twitter-dev] Re: count parameter need to be documented

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Thomson
it to the newer one, to prevent confusion with future API changes? -Chris Thomson 2009/4/19 Yusuke yus...@mac.com Hi, I found that actually it is inconsistently documented. - user_timeline Not yet documented. max is unknown. It is documented here, http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST

[twitter-dev] Re: geocode doesnt include non-geocoded locations? (web)

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Thomson
that in their privacy policy [1]. 1 - http://twitter.com/privacy -Chris Thomson On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Zee zeeom...@gmail.com wrote: No responses???

[twitter-dev] Re: Registering source app without OAuth

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Thomson
See Doug's message about this from back in April [1], and the FAQ [2]. 1 - http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/e848d30117f9364c 2 - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget%E2%80%9CfromMyApp%E2%80%9DappendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication -Chris Thomson On Sun, Jun 7

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets are not showing up in search results, have not been since Thursday

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Thomson
A common reason that an account wouldn't show up in search is because it is being investigated for spam. See [1] for more details. -Chris Thomson 1 - http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/16817 On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ron Evans ron.ev...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed

[twitter-dev] Re: Birdfeed App

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Thomson
It uses basic auth. -Chris Thomson On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:19 PM, isaiah isa...@me.com wrote: Just curious if anyone knows if the new Birdfeed ipone app that's just been released today uses OAuth 1.0a Pin flow, the other OAuth flow, or basic auth. Anyone know? Isaiah

[twitter-dev] Re: Favourite Count

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Thomson
to show which tweets are most favorited. -Chris Thomson [1] - http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=459 [2] - http://favrd.textism.com On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Twitticism twitticismg...@googlemail.comwrote: Is there anyway to access/utilise the favourite count

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieve Other User's Friend Timeline

2009-07-03 Thread Chris Thomson
There used to be a way, but Twitter removed it a long time ago, on June 4, 2008 [1] because it was too intensive on the servers for a page that hardly anyone used. 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris24dotca/3646823155/ -Chris Thomson On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Yao yao...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieve Other User's Friend Timeline

2009-07-03 Thread Chris Thomson
Sorry about that, wrong link. 1. http://status.twitter.com/post/37217014/with-friends-tab-and-feeds On Jul 3, 1:27 pm, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote: There used to be a way, but Twitter removed it a long time ago, on June 4, 2008 [1] because it was too intensive on the servers

[twitter-dev] Re: User Search API

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Thomson
There's a published roadmap for the next big iteration of the API (version 2) [1]. Your suggestion is already listed under Users and is assigned to ticket #357 [2]. 1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap 2. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=357 -- Chris Thomson On 11

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thomson
You may want to check what thumbshots is doing with the URL http://google.com/ . It's definitely not taking a screenshot of the correct site … -- Chris Thomson On 15-Jul-09, at 7:06 PM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We dereference

[twitter-dev] Re: Is the rate limiting on IP or User a/c

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Thomson
Victor, email twitter-development-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com to unsubscribe. -- Chris Thomson On 2009-07-16, at 2:15 AM, victor castleton vcastle...@optonline.net wrote: Hello All, can anybody tell how to stop me unwanted mail from coming, I am getting hundreds of mails

[twitter-dev] Re: Submitting applications to Twitter

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Thomson
Take a look at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowcanIgetmyappinthesidebarpromotionbox :) -- Chris Thomson On 14-Aug-09, at 6:28 PM, Mytweetopics wrote: Hi, We would like to submit www.mytweetopics.com to Twitter so that it can show up in the listing that Twitter uses to show highlighted

[twitter-dev] Re: How to know numberof result total agian keyword search?

2009-10-03 Thread Chris Thomson
No, there isn't a way. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/30fe89346814f42d# -- Chris Thomson On 2009-10-03, at 8:54 AM, Gohar Sultan wrote: Hi, I am new to twitter API, and i want to know total number of results found against any keyword search

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter.com/followers/befriend_all ?

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Thomson
!). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, though. :) -- Chris Thomson On 2009-10-09, at 8:29 AM, Rick Yazwinski wrote: Bump.. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Rick Yazwinski rick.yazwin...@gmail.com wrote: I see comments via google about having a bot call this regularily to make sure your bot

[twitter-dev] Re: My application for whitelisting has been rejected for no reason!

2009-11-05 Thread Chris Thomson
There's a bug in the whitelisting system that's not properly passing along the reason for rejection. Try emailing a...@twitter.com with the username you submitted the request under, and someone from the Platform team will look up the reason for you. On 2009-11-05, at 1:47 PM, Nish wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Show a specific list you can use the new resource

2009-11-07 Thread Chris Thomson
That method shows information about a list and its owner. Full documentation is at: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-list-id On Nov 7, 11:31 am, Matthew Terenzio mteren...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone explain this? GET '/:users/lists/:list_slug.:format' Show a

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisting rejection e-mail

2009-11-09 Thread Chris Thomson
a...@twitter.com On 2009-11-09, at 8:41 PM, John Meyer wrote: What was the e-mail to submit questions as to why an application was rejected and what I can do to rectify the situation as a developer?

Re: [twitter-dev] Question and/or Feature Request: in-reply-to-direct-message-id for DMs

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Thomson
I'd suggest opening a new issue on the Twitter API bug/enhancement tracker so others can 'star' it to show interest: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry -- Chris Thomson On 2009-11-21, at 2:11 PM, Michael Steuer wrote: Hi Twitter, Twitter Developers, Let me start

Re: [twitter-dev] the name i want is taken but the person doesnt use the account

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Thomson
You could *try* opening a ticket at http://help.twitter.com/requests/ new, but I'm not sure if they release usernames anymore. On 2009-11-22, at 11:14 PM, Enue enuecloth...@gmail.com wrote: I would love for our username to just be Enue, but someone has it already. However, they haven used

Re: [twitter-dev] Is it possible to recreate Twitter's followers screen?

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Thomson
There seems to be a `following` boolean attribute returned for each user in /statuses/followers.xml (and .json)... is that what you're looking for? -- Chris Thomson On 2009-11-23, at 11:16 AM, Ryan Bell wrote: I would like to completely recreate Twitter's followers screen. After some

Re: [twitter-dev] Filing a new support ticket re a reversed user spam complaint

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Thomson
You can open a support ticket here: http://help.twitter.com/requests/new -- Chris Thomson On 2009-12-19, at 7:30 PM, Abir wrote: Hey Guys, 1. An user had done a Report Spam in response to a marketing message we sent based on product keywords in their recent tweet. 2. We talked w

Re: [twitter-dev] Application Suspended

2010-02-14 Thread Chris Thomson
, that may be grounds for your application to be suspended. I'm sure you'll get a response to your support ticket from a Twitter employee in the next few days. -- Chris Thomson On 2010-02-14, at 2:56 PM, Jim Fulford wrote: Hello, I need some help. 4 days ago I started getting emails from my users

Re: [twitter-dev] Yet Another Rate Limit Question

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Thomson
no, posting an update on behalf of a user won't count against the hourly rate limit. -- Chris Thomson On 2010-02-15, at 7:20 PM, Paul wrote: Sorry; I did look at the FAQ and search the archive, but still the answer wasn't clear to me So far I have an ordinary authorized Twitter web

Re: [twitter-dev] Add My Application In Twitter

2010-02-16 Thread Chris Thomson
You can use http://twitter.com/oauth_clients to register a Twitter API application for use with OAuth. Is that what you're looking for? -- Chris Thomson On 2010-02-16, at 2:02 PM, 3rB3r wrote: Hey Guys ... Last Week I Found A URL For Add Application [ API ] In Twitter WebSite , But Now I

[twitter-dev] All replies are appearing in home_timeline

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Thomson
Replies from people I'm not following (not directly, and not through any lists) are appearing in home_timeline. This hasn't always been the case, has it? Is this the new expected behaviour, or is it just a bug? -- Chris Thomson http://twitter.com/chris24

[twitter-dev] Re: New way to get highest id?

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Thomson
You could always poll the search API occasionally for a very common term like 'what' and just take the most recent tweet ID from that. On Mar 3, 10:20 pm, Brian Morearty bmorea...@gmail.com wrote: With the upcoming deprecation of /statuses/public_timeline that was just announced, will there be

Re: [twitter-dev] getting authenticated user's rate-limit-using rest API.

2010-03-21 Thread Chris Thomson
authenticated as themselves. -- Chris Thomson On Mar 21, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Rushikesh Bhanage wrote: Hi, there, I am using rest api method in my app, in that, I have two users(i.e white-listed user accounts.) and need to get each user's account rate-limit request balance, I am using

Re: [twitter-dev] How to add my app to app wiki?

2010-03-21 Thread Chris Thomson
Have you tried requesting access to edit the wiki? See http://twitter.pbworks.com/request_access.php :) -- Chris Thomson On Mar 21, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Dmitri Snytkine wrote: Hello! I recently built by first Twitter app. http://qod.tw Is it possible to add it to Twitter apps wiki here

Re: [twitter-dev] API returns 0 lists even though I follow 3

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Thomson
That method returns the lists owned by the specified user -- not the lists the user is subscribed to. You're looking for http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-list-subscriptions instead. -- Chris Thomson On Apr 1, 2010, at 5:49 PM, ryjennings wrote: http

Re: [twitter-dev] leave API problem

2010-05-20 Thread Chris Thomson
notifications/leave stops the authenticating user from receiving SMS notifications of the specified user's tweets. If you'd like to unfollow a user, you're looking for friendships/destroy: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/friendships/destroy -- Chris Thomson On May 20, 2010, at 12:05 PM, roteva

Re: [twitter-dev] email

2010-06-01 Thread Chris Thomson
In order for someone to receive your tweets, they either have to be following you or following a list that has you added as a member. -- Chris Thomson, via iPad On 2010-05-31, at 10:02 PM, MacGuy flyme2...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a way for the recipient to receive your tweet if you

Re: [twitter-dev] Simple Twitter App?

2010-06-05 Thread Chris Thomson
You may want to take a look at this page: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_single_token -- Chris Thomson, via iPad On 2010-06-05, at 5:21 PM, Iguanasan eulo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Everyone. I'm trying to figure out how to create a simple app. When someone adds a new record to my

Re: [twitter-dev] http://api.twitter.com/version/trends/current.json not working

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Thomson
You're supposed to change version in the URL: http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/current.json :) -- Chris Thomson, via iPad On 2010-06-18, at 4:18 PM, Rahul rahul.jun...@gmail.com wrote: I was trying to get the trends from twitter and this returns no page. Is this the right link to get

[twitter-dev] Re: What uses up my rate limit

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Thomson
Twitter had some issues with incorrect rate limits over the past few days [1]. I believe they've resolved those issues now, so if you're still having the issue you've described, visit the connections page [2] to see if any app using OAuth may be accessing your account. If not, change your

Re: [twitter-dev] Sending 1600 DMs?

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Thomson
You can only send 250 DMs from one account per day: http://support.twitter.com/articles/15364-about-twitter-limits-update-api-dm-and-following -- Chris Thomson On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Mark Sievers wrote: http://twitter.com/blekko/status/19714365588 Kind of curious what would happen