[twitter-dev] Is Twitter misusing their own t.co url shortener?

2010-08-13 Thread D. Smith
How long has it been since Twitter started their own t.com url shortener? Not sure, but I don't think it's been long enough to shorten over 3.5 trillion urls. Well, I just noticed that the the url shortened by t.com was this:http://t.co/5ywZYau So the value is 5ywZYau From what I understand the

[twitter-dev] Re: Request to improve Tweet button JS interface

2010-08-16 Thread D. Smith
What, nobody else thinkgs it could be useful to have some sort or JS based UI for the Tweet button? The Facebook JS UI is pretty good, you can open the prompt and pre-fill it with a text message to be posted to the wall right from your own javascript, user then just has to click on Post button.

[twitter-dev] Re: Request to improve Tweet button JS interface

2010-08-16 Thread D. Smith
for are part of the @Anywhere arm of the platform:http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere Taylor On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:29 AM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: What, nobody else thinkgs it could be useful to have some sort or JS based UI for the Tweet button? The Facebook JS UI is pretty good, you

[twitter-dev] Request to better style the Tweet button

2010-08-21 Thread D. Smith
Just a small request: please add the style=cursor: pointer; to the official Tweet button. It will look better when you mouseover the button. Tweetmeme button does that. Also please add the same to the Follow button and other buttons produced by @Anywhere UI Thanks!

[twitter-dev] twitter-dev-anywhere group still active?

2010-08-23 Thread D. Smith
Why nobody is approving new threads in twitter-anywhere group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-dev-anywhere?hl=en I posted a question 2 or 3 days ago and still it does not show there. I that group still active?

[twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-23 Thread D. Smith
Another one hits the MySQL brick wall. I'm surprised someone with as much data as you have have managed to stay with MySQL for as long as you have. I must have been a real pain to constantly fight the loosing MySQL optimization battle. It would be very interesting to know what made you choose

[twitter-dev] Re: Revoked Access

2010-08-23 Thread D. Smith
Sure, just test the authentication every time you want to perform some action on behalf of user or just do this periodically for every user via cron. (I think API method is called verify_credentials) On Aug 23, 8:32 pm, Paranoid Android a.paranoid.andr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working with the

[twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-25 Thread D. Smith
/cassandra-at-twitter-today.html I don't think we've announced our approach for tweet storage as yet. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:03 PM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Another one hits the MySQL brick wall. I'm surprised

[twitter-dev] Getting 401 in the past 2 days

2010-08-27 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I started getting 401 'count not authenticate' errors starting about 2 days ago when I try to send tweet via API. I use OAuth, use php pecl OAuth for that, just like I did before. The last tweet was successfully posted from my website was 2 days ago Here are the headers from the debug (I

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting 401 in the past 2 days

2010-08-29 Thread D. Smith
Never mind, the bug was in my own script. It was setting empty values of oauth_token, and oauth_secret. I corrected the problem and all works fine again. On Aug 27, 4:36 pm, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Hello! I started getting 401 'count not authenticate' errors starting about 2 days

[twitter-dev] Is there stats for API clients usage?

2010-09-12 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I know Twitter published some statistics on how users generally use Twitter. I am looking for per-app stats, at least for the top 100 or so apps. Is there a stat like this available anywhere? I am just researching the popularity of various API based Twitter clients, very interested to know

[twitter-dev] A Plea to allow auto-unfollow-back vote here!

2010-09-26 Thread D. Smith
If auto-follow back is allowed but auto-unfollow back is not allowed, that actually plays in favor of spammers in a big way! Now a spammer can use the tactic to follow/wait for follow-back, then unfollow you, knowing that now thanks to Twitter's infinite wisdom, the automated auto-unfollow-back

[twitter-dev] Re: Comparing Friendship

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
It's important to unfollow someone who unfollowed you. I must emphasize here that I am not talking about unfollowing someone who is not following me, but only those who used to follow me, then unfollowed. In this case it's very important to unfollow them right away. This is important because

[twitter-dev] Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
Hello there! I am pretty experienced with using PHP for Twitter, but now I want to use firehose and Java seems to be a much better fit because of 'Threads', so I can listen to Firehose the pass a job to a thread and return right away. PHP cannot do that, well, maybe to some crazy hacks that I am

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
to make use of it fairly easily in a Java environment. We'd love to start collecting libraries built around the Streaming API. Regardless of language, does anyone have libraries to share with everyone? Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Hello

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Twitter4J seems to be popular, but I don't have first-hand experience with it. -John On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:32 AM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Oh, man, I am new to Java, don't even know what Scala is... I've heard about it that it's like based

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-10-01 Thread D. Smith
. We'd love to start collecting libraries built around the Streaming API. Regardless of language, does anyone have libraries to share with everyone? Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Hello there! I am pretty experienced with using PHP

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-10-02 Thread D. Smith
- research.net wrote: Yeah, the Perl library uses AnyEvent to achieve threading. -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com: perl has the same

[twitter-dev] Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with certain keywords in them. Do I need to provide any authentication in order to connect? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
, it will give you an error page. Tom On 10/7/10 6:49 PM, D. Smith wrote: Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with certain keywords in them. Do I need to provide any authentication in order to connect? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with certain keywords in them. Do I need to provide any authentication in order to connect? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Can I use any Twitter account username/password or does the account have to be registered with Twitter API? On Oct 7, 1:18 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json track=keyword1,keyword2 etc. -John On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, D. Smith emai

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
with the streaming API it's best to take a crawl - walk - run approach. Crawling is using the sample stream, walking is moving up to garden hose, and running is going beyond. Taylor On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:26 AM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Can I use any Twitter account username/password

[twitter-dev] Is it possible to search with wildcard in streaming api?

2010-10-10 Thread D. Smith
For example I want is to search for words that have 'truck' in it and want to get all tweets that have 'truck', 'trucks', 'trucking', 'dumptruck', etc. I it possible to use wildcards like *truck* or do I have to just include all possible words that contain truck? -- Twitter developer

[twitter-dev] What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
I have seen this field in streaming api, but never got a chance to see any actual data for this field. Can someone explain to me what usually will be the the place when it's not null? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
12, 2010 at 12:49 PM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: I have seen this field in streaming api, but never got a chance to see any actual data for this field. Can someone explain to me what usually will be the the place when it's not null? -- Twitter developer documentation

[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:26 PM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Interesting. How is it that in the sample status the geo is null and the place is not null? How is the place determined if there is no geo data? Does this mean that status can have place object not null even when

[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
I think it's also strange that you include Street address, Country but NO City and NO State! I think State and City/Town name would be very helpful On Oct 12, 6:55 pm, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Great explanation, thanks. On Oct 12, 6:51 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/247f43d441defc03.json Things like city and state come from the Geo hierarchy indicated by the contained_within data returned from the place URL. @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:31 PM, D. Smith emai

[twitter-dev] Question about source field

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
I noticed that the value of source field looks somewhat strange: source:a href=\http://www.echofon.com/\; rel=\nofollow\Echofon \/a, Why in the world would you have an html string as a value and on top of than why do you include the rel=nofollow tag? This just looks wrong, not structured. The

[twitter-dev] No country code in 'place' but country value is set

2010-10-17 Thread D. Smith
http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/917f05e8dd09575f.json No country code, but country is United Kingdom This is just one example. I wonder why this is? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi