[twitter-dev] Re: Consistent 502 errors for users with large friend follower lists

2009-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
True JSON is probably more compact. But NO to Google's Protocol Buffers - it's yet another RPC interface requiring compilation. But really I want to focus on the 502 errors!

[twitter-dev] Re: Consistent 502 errors for users with large friend follower lists

2009-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Protocol Buffers is yet another RPC scheme that requires compilation of the data types. If on the other hand you define simple data types this can be much simpler and finessed, and including dealing with such RPC issues as endian-ness. wondering if is there any sort of compression of XML

[twitter-dev] Re: Friends and followers listing ends abruptly for large numbers

2009-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Interesting... I've reported this also: I'm seeing consistent 502 errors on users with large follow lists when using the social api The fact is that it's inconsistent: i am able to see page 648 and 649, but not 1000... On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: followers/ empty arrays!

2009-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
This has been reported before too. Between this and bug #362, there is no way to reliably get accurate information for users with more than 200k followers... While there aren't many of them (at this point), they are influential and visible, so this situation is really hurting me as well. (

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Let's please keep this list focused on developers working with/on the twitter api... other uses, like the promotion of application or looking for help with alpha testing of applications is not appropriate (though we can sympathize with the problem). RE: doug's question about making 'basic

[twitter-dev] Combining search operators: possible? Limitations!

2009-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm not clear on what is possible with search. I've played with the advanced search page, and with the api directly, but I could still use some explanation... There are the usual and or not operators but it does not appear to me that these can be combined in anything but the most simple ways. Is

[twitter-dev] What is current search time range limit?

2009-04-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Is there an absolute time limit past which searches will fail? What is that limit exactly I thought I had read 4 months but don't see this info in the new documentation. Furthermore, with the API I am seeing something like 25 days ... example: search dominoes pizza. I searched this on 4/17 and

[twitter-dev] Re: Search: Resolution of Since, and howto avoid pulling redundant search results

2009-05-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
/operators Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: What is the resolution of the 'since' operator? It appears to be by the day, but I'd sure like

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
hmm... Chrome sometimes shows the xml but mostly just a 404 error -- the latter is confusing as to what's going on... Anyway, why are there so many? Admittedly I'm plowing through hundreds of thousands of users, but it *seems* like a lot of them are 'suspended'... What is the lifetime of a

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I seem to be picking these up from the social graph... are they ever elided from there?

[twitter-dev] Re: PostTwitpocalypse: Php / windows wierdness in handling larged tweet ids?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
fyi: it appears this is a well-known php shortcoming in certain 32 bit systems... php takes ints as signed... so you have to convert to double and pay attention to some php.ini settings for precision/mantissa conversion to get consistent results across systems But i'm still not clear if i can

[twitter-dev] Re: PostTwitpocalypse: Php / windows wierdness in handling larged tweet ids?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I have found that upgrading my windows PHP development environment to 5.2.6 (fixed the problem)... It may be that 5.2.4 is sufficient though... (...Well i'm having a great time talking to myself...)

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

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
with all our apps... ugh Please advise jeffrey greenberg http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com http://www.tweettronics.com

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

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 15:41, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.comwrote: So i'm seeing a ton of tweet spam that appends the trending topics to the tweet.  For example, Hey here is myhttp://spam/1234Michael Jackson MJ iran They get picked up by searches ( for instance see

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

2009-07-08 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm liking Andrew's thoughts regarding sensitivity to what spam is, and am thinking about the gmail like vote-if-spam approach. Wondering if the api community (or really twitterers) would use an api such as this: smellsLikeSpam( list_of_tweet_ids )... Twitter could aggregate and apply policy

[twitter-dev] Intermittent network failures?

2009-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm not sure what these are but I see them often enough to wonder about the reliability of the network between Twitter and my app. The portion of my app the speaks with Twitter runs on Amazon AWS/EC2. I see a small variety of Curl failures that occur throughout the day. I'm not clear whether

[twitter-dev] Re: Intermittent network failures?

2009-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
action, for example. It's there anything going on? On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure what these are but I see them often enough to wonder about the reliability of the network between Twitter and my app.  The portion of my

[twitter-dev] Re: Intermittent network failures?

2009-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I spoke too casually. For the sake of accuracy: I too do not see this as a new problem: it's been going on for months, not just weeks or just recently... On Jul 10, 1:17 pm, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 7/10/09 3:38 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: Just to say it, this has been

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-08-04 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Chiming in: Please do support both methods of access for 'a while rather than a hard cutover... thx! At least two week would be appreciated... jeffrey greenberg http://www.inventivity.com http://www.tweettronics.com On Aug 4, 10:15 am, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: What our infrastructure

[twitter-dev] Re: My Issue with the ReTweet API and my solutions

2009-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
value as far as estimating user influence, given the signal to noise ratio that is going on I do think that this API can help solve other issues, such as the challenge of having threaded tweets. Is support of threaded tweets an intended effect of the api? jeffrey greenberg http

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 errors

2009-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I am seeing this error right now when doing a search. (FWIW: I'm using since_id) This is seriously messing things up! @jeffGreenberg @tweettronics Details: url: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23fail%20since%3A2009-08-19rpp=100since_id=3397530515 httpresponse = 200 returned text:

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter, Please Explain How Cursors Work

2009-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
John,Please clarify this scenario. If one makes a complete set of calls starting from cursor -1 unto the end at one moment, and then another set of the same calls later is there any invariance? If so what? From the statements above I understand: - always 5000 followers are returned (if the user

[twitter-dev] Re: Nero 9 - FULL Version - [Precracked] 51MB ONLY!

2009-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
This looks just great... can't wait to try itj On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.comwrote: I would say, considering I can only recall a few spam posts getting through, you guys [sic] do a great job. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Chad Etzel

[twitter-dev] Field sizes documented as maximum character counts vs number of utf8 encoded bytes

2009-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
The user description field (for instance) is documented as a maximum of 160 characters, but how many bytes is that exactly? If we get bytes from twitter that are utf-8 bytes, will we then see a maximum number of how many bytes per char, 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes/char ? This matters when spec'ing a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Anyone using phirehose?

2010-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
You need to look into 'nohup'. jeffrey greenberg On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM, GeorgeMedia georgeme...@gmail.com wrote: Just in case anyone is having the same issue I had with PHP scripts running from the command line stopping on them, I discovered my problem. I was connecting

[twitter-dev] Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Since 2010-01-25 23:19:02 GMT we are seeing 500 server errors which we haven't seen in a long while. Using the http://twitter.com/users/show.xml api... Not on every call though... seems as if some server in your array/chain is choking somehow?

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
For instance: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these?

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
(http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?id=12735452) - Kevin On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: For instance:http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these?

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash   request/statuses/show/15527375.xml/request   errorNo status found with that ID./error /hash * Closing connection #0 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: To be accurate: most  ids do work... We had

[twitter-dev] Regarding Recent vs Most Popular parameters in Search api

2010-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I understand where your headed regarding 'search'... What i'd like is that the default on the current search API be unchanged, so that it still returns recent by default... That way I don't have to change my existing application: www.tweettronics.com to ensure it's adherence to the current

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
as we are. I'll live with being unsettled, but if you can clarify, it would be appreciated. jeffrey greenberg http://www.tweettronics.com http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: You are also free and welcome to express your

[twitter-dev] Twitter Archive - Looking for an API...

2010-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
won't help me. jeffrey greenberg http://www.tweettronics.com http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
ways to demultiplex the search stream... Thanks, jeffrey greenberg -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
ways to demultiplex the search stream... Thanks, jeffrey greenberg -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Re: Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I was unable to attend Chirp in person, so I could not hear John Kalucki's comments on this... Anyone have any notes on this... John? j On Apr 16, 3:36 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm looking at the streaming api (track), and I've got thousands of searches

[twitter-dev] Re: Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
create a homebrew boolean production scheme (e.g. the regex idea I mentioned at the start) or via a heavier weight free-text search capability (e.g. lucene). Is that right? jeffrey greenberg On Apr 19, 1:52 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: In brief: Take all of your search terms

Re: [twitter-dev] Announcing Twurl: OAuth-enabled curl for the Twitter API

2010-04-20 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm already a whitelisted app (Tweettronics.com) and do not want access downgraded. I'm concerned that switching to oauth and registering my app at dev might cause my whitelisting status to change. Can you assure me that won't happen? Thx Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:38

Re: [twitter-dev] Logical AND supported in streaming API filter endpoint

2010-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
When will we get - aka not? On Monday, April 19, 2010, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: To date the streaming API has only supported logical OR in track keywords (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#track).  Today we're happy to announce that we support logical

[twitter-dev] search api :slowdown or throttling?

2010-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Our app uses the search api extensively and we've noticed that the response time has fallen dramatically for aggregates of search requests in the past days . Is that really the case? Our production app is using basic auth at the moment, and we're wondering if that's a factor in this? jeffrey

[twitter-dev] Search api returning results based on walking shortened URLS: causing problems.

2010-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
?lnk=gstq=search+url#861a2aa59b563f33 Thanks, Jeffrey Greenberg tweettronics.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search request failed. error 420

2010-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
for more than 18months without much problem, but right now we are, and it's impactng our business. @JeffGreenberg jeffrey greenberg tweettronics.com On May 27, 7:18 am, Jonathan Reichhold jonathan.reichh...@gmail.com wrote: 420 is a rate limit.  The actual error message in the response does

[twitter-dev] search.twitter.com 420 errors today when we did not get them before

2010-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
or for us in particular? We have been using this api for more than 18months without much problem. Our production app is using basic auth: is that a factor? (We are going to switch to oauth later today). This change of behavior is impactng our business. @JeffGreenberg jeffrey greenberg

[twitter-dev] Search API: searching for Don and finding don't instead

2010-06-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
We have a user that is causing us to create a search of the form: Don SomeLastName which is returning tweets containing don't and SomeLastName. Thats a no good! Is there a decent workaround for this by modifying the search? e.g. Don SomeLastName -don't but how do you escape the single

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: searching for Don and finding don't instead

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Hello Twitter, Anyone home? j On Jun 2, 11:28 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: We have a user that is causing us to create a search of the form:    Don SomeLastName which is returning tweets containing don't and SomeLastName. Thats a no good! Is there a decent

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: searching for Don and finding don't instead

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris 1.http://search.twitter.com/operators On Jun 7, 9:09 am, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Twitter, Anyone home? j On Jun 2, 11:28 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: We have a user that is causing

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co issue -- querying for original url in streaming search apis

2010-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Just to say it, this matching of actual URL as well as the shortened, supplied URL has been regarded as a bug by our users; it confuses them. I would prefer it if it were optional to search so that I could turn it off... They only want to match the literal text... We provide means for

[twitter-dev] Garbled http headers and XML payloads - addressed?

2010-07-20 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Has this issue been addressed? We've seen a huge increase in the last 36 hours and it's affecting us... Just to say it we started seeing these once or twice a day since the world cup ended... And then this nasty spike... Jeffrey Greenberg Tweettronics.com

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search bug: confusing Swedish place Åre with English verb are

2011-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
as the same word. Can this get addressed? And/or is there a workaround (not involving streams)? (fyi: Geographic/location related search will not work in this situation). Thanks, jeffrey greenberg www.tweettronics.com -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search bug: confusing Swedish place Åre with English verb are

2011-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Any response on this from twitter? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We have a customer who is trying to find tweets with the Swedish word Åre, which is a place, and is getting tweets with the English word

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API rate limit change?

2011-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Taylor, Yeah this was definitely NOT good.In the past, when there is a service disruption, your api group would post something on your status page and tweet about it... Instead, I'm finding out about this from my customers... Did y'all tweet about this or present this somewhere where I could

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TweetDeck joins Twitter

2011-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
either have to do something radically new related to Twitter, or use Twitter as just a part of your offering. jeffrey greenberg http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com http://www.tweettronics.com On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Tammy Fennell tammykahnfenn...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I think Ernandes

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting invalid timestamps from search API

2011-07-09 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I've been seeing this too... and our code has been stable for months... not sure what it's about... because we also have seen an increase in (though still very few of) non-parseable messages... we obtain tweets via xml... www.tweettronics.com On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Doza