Re: [twitter-dev] inconsistent data when fetching the stream using location boxes

Hi Thomas, Can you provide us with a little more information about this so we can look into it. Information like: * the filter predicates you are sending with your request to the streaming API. * an example of a Tweet that appears to have been delivered in error. Thanks, @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] how home time line in TWITTER works?

Hi Grace, Be default the API returns the most recent Tweets/ReTweets created by users being followed by the authenticating user. When you pass a since_id to the home_timeline method this means the API will return to you the 20 most recent Tweets created since that ID. What this means is you won't

Re: [twitter-dev] Search widgets on both my sites suddenly stopped working

Hi Zippy, The search index is limited in how far back it can go. What this means is if the hashtag you are searching for hasn't been used in the last week there won't be any results returned. In addition, not all Tweets are indexed by the Search API. This is explained a little more in our user su

Re: [twitter-dev] How to autologin to twitter by providing the username and password using API?

Hi Karthikeyan, The Twitter API doesn't provide a way for an application to log a user into Twitter.com. What information are you wanting to provide to the users of your application? Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: error 401 from oauth, starting a few days ago

Hi Arlo, When an error is returned by the API we include some information about the cause in the response body. Take a look at that response body and see if that helps you resolve the problem. If not, let us know what the error says and what your OAuth basestring and authorization header/paramete

Re: [twitter-dev] Post small text & link to twitter from my site

Hi Santanu, The example code you have posted below makes use of basic authentication (username and password). The Twitter API hasn't support this method of authentication for a while and instead requires developers to implement OAuth. We have some guidance about how to make this transition on our

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting 401 errors trying to send direct message

Hi Chris, On our developer resources page you can find some libraires which handle this process for you. You may find these a helpful reference to see how others have implemented the OAuth specification. The libraries are at this link: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/libraries The 401 error can

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting All Child Tweets From Paren Tweets.

Hi Samyag, Replies are not the easiest things to get out of Twitter and there isn't an API method that will reliably do this for you. What you can do is follow the in_reply_to_status_id chain using the /1/statuses/show API request. This will allow you to trace a child Tweet back to it's parent(s).

Re: [twitter-dev] trending topics order

Hi, Yes, trending topic responses are returned in the order of most trending to least trending. In the example you give Guille Franco is trending more than Vuvuzela. Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Fri, Jun 17, 2

Re: [twitter-dev] how to add twitter login functionality to my site

Hi Sheraz, When you say you wish to add a Twitter login to your site do you mean you want users to be able to sign into your site with their Twitter identity, or that you want to be able to log them into Twitter.com? If you want users to be able to sign-in into your website with their Twitter ide

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: ABUIKit / TwUI ?

Thanks for your interest in the library. We hope to have information about it released soon. As soon as we do we'll let you know through the mailing list and through @twitterapi. Best @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Sun

Re: [twitter-dev] Login to twitter using the oauth

Hi Karthi. The Twitter API doesn't provide a way for an application to log a user into Twitter.com. Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:40 PM, karthi wrote: > hi i have used twitter oauth AP

Re: [twitter-dev] Follower count stuck...no one can follow me

Hi Jeff, When I visited the account page for @NYNYfans I was able to follow the account successfully. Is there an error returned when you try and follow the accounts? Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Sun, Jun 19,

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth error

Hi, A 400 error indicates something in the request you are making is malformed. Are you using a library to make requests or did you create your own wrapper? If you created your own library for making requests you may instead want to try one of the libraries listed on our developer resources site:

Re: [twitter-dev] How many REST calls do you save with the streaming API?

Fabien, Thanks for sharing this insight into how much the Streaming API is helping reduce the API calls you are making. It would be really interesting to hear the difference other developers are seeing. Best, @themattharris Developer A

Re: [twitter-dev] Placing follow us and tweet buttons together just impossible

Hi Fernando, You can instruct the follow button to hide the screen_name by passing the parameter show_screen_name as false. When using data attributes this would be written as data-show-screen-name="false". Remember that the user’s screen_name must always be displayed next to the Follow Button th

Re: [twitter-dev] geo_place writeable container for Indonesia

Hi Aldian, We don't have a timeline for any additional place regions. As with language support, if any additional countries/regions are added to our place database we will announce it on the Twitter Blog or through @twitterapi and this list. Best @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] inconsistent data when fetching the stream using location boxes

Hey Thomas, Thanks for providing the examples. I'm a little confused about the latitude and longitude you have provided in your example Tweets. When I query those Tweets through the API I receive geo information which matches your Streaming API filter. Where are you reading the latitude and long

Re: [twitter-dev] How long can we access a past profile picture?

Hi yama, Older profile images maybe available for a short period of time after they are changed. This is due to caching and you shouldn't assume they will be there permanently. In answer to your other question, yes you should use the URL provided in the user object of the API responses. The secon

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem With User/lookup API

Hi Kamesh, The users/lookup method isn't the best way to check for a following relationship. Instead you can either request your friends/ids and see if their user_id is included, or call /1/friendships/show.json: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friendships/show Hope that helps, @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Authenticate displays Authorize screen and on reload it Authenticates and continues to callback

Hey, The authenticate flow will display a login screen in a number of situations: * if the user isn't logged into twitter.com * if the user hasn't allowed the application access to their account before * if you pass the force_login or screen_name parameter to the authenticate endpoint * if the us

Re: [twitter-dev] 500 errors from the search api on specific queries, related to geocode parameter.

Hi Eric, Thanks for the update. I've passed this information onto the relevant team here. So we can keep track of this could you file a ticket on our public issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Thanks @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Error 403 while getFollowers : Twitter Iphone MGTwitterEngine

Hi Echo, We haven't announced an end of life date for these methods but we wanted to mark them as deprecated so help developers know they are not suitable anymore. We recommend moving to the friends/ids, followers/ids and users/lookup pattern at your next opportunity though. Best, @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth

Hi Reet, Our developer resources site includes guidance and examples on how to use OAuth with the Twitter API. You can find more information on the following pages... Authentication: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth Libraries: https://dev.twitter.com/pages/libraries Using One Access To

Re: [twitter-dev] Stream API Issues

Hi Paul, I'm not able to reproduce this issue. I'm making my request like this: twurl -t /1/statuses/filter.json -d "track=Boston,hockey,Obama" -H ' stream.twitter.com' --no-ssl I would recommend not using terms like 'the, and, or' in your filter though. Those words are extremely common and y

Re: [twitter-dev] Poor documentation. For example, regarding lists. Suggestions for improvement.

Hi Dave, Thanks for your feedback, it's important for us to know when developers are not finding the information they are looking for. I have responded to your specific points inline: > Issue #1: Valid version numbers > > I was unable to locate valid values for "version". I tried 1.1.14, > whic

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: A few updates about the permission model change

times successfully. > However, both the X-Access-Level header and the oauth/authorize page > list that we don't have DM access (and for the former, on accounts for > which we've re-authorized). > > > Aaron > > > On Jun 13, 7:56 pm, Matt Harris wrote: > > H

Re: [twitter-dev] 403 and 502 errors?

Hi Sean, We haven't heard of any other reports of this. Are you able to collect any information/logs about the failed requests? Things like the URL request and response body would help us investigate this. Best, @themattharris Develope

Re: [twitter-dev] Annotations

Hi Rob, Annotations are not enabled on the API and are not being actively worked on right now. If this changes we'll let people know but for now they are not available. Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Wed, Jun 22

Re: [twitter-dev] Needs object from desktop application ?

Hi Ari, I'm not familiar with VBA enough to comment on the code, but if you could provide an example of the basestring created, authorization header and signature (remember to exclude any secrets) then we can take a look at what could be going wrong. Best, @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk

Hi dalvir, The REST API lives on the domain api.twitter.com not twitter.com. The request you are making should be made to: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json To understand the reason for the error you will need to inspect the response that comes back from the API. We put mor

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Follow Button

Hi David, Glad to hear this is working for you now. For the benefit of everyone else this issue was identified and resolved in the last few days. Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Davi

Re: [twitter-dev] trying to add...

Hi Mirella, Can you let us know a little bit more about the way you add the Tweet Button to your site. For example are you using a content management system or hosted service? Best, @themattharris On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:20, "mire...@fortheloveofcakes.ca" wrote: > hi > > I'm trying to add the

Re: [twitter-dev] Can't Get OAuth To Work On My Site

Hi David, Can you explain a little more about your setup and what you mean when you say it isn't working. For example: * What language are you using? * Are you using a library? * How far in the process does the OAuth flow get? * Are you seeing any error messages in your code or logs? If you can

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API for getting tweet counts by date?

Hi, The Search API only keeps it's index for about a week so searches older than that are not possible. To perform analysis of Tweets like you ask you will can monitor them as they happen through the Streaming API. Alternatively some third party services maybe able to offer this information. Best

Re: SOLVED Re: [twitter-dev] Needs object from desktop application ?

k you to Tom as well. > As I am a newcomer to twitter application development, > please help me again when I might come across other troubles ahead. > > Sincely, > Ari Endo > > > Matt Harris wrote (2011/06/24 9:21): > > Hi Ari, > > I'm not familiar with VBA eno

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweets not appearing properly from our app.

Hi, It sounds like you are seeing the effects of our caches updating. This can sometimes happen but shouldn't be as apparent. Are you request xml, json or both when you are performing these checks. I'm not familiar with the platform your application is working on but if the short caching propagat

Re: [twitter-dev] How to autologin to twitter by providing the username and password using API?

Hi Karthikeyan, In our Terms of Service ( http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms ) we say that a Service should not replicate, frame, or mirror the Twitter website or its design. In addition, automating the login to twitter.com isn't something you should be doing or are allowed to do. Instead you

Re: [twitter-dev] all xauth access token revoke after oauth

Hi Shinichi, I don't quite follow your question but I think the following information is close to what you are asking about. When you take a user through the OAuth flow we do one of three things. 1. If the user has not authorized your application before a token at the requested permission level

Re: [twitter-dev] Poor documentation. For example, regarding lists. Suggestions for improvement.

e call. It will > prevent much of the "What URL to call?" queries. > > --Regards, > Denzil > > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Matt Harris wrote: > >> Hi Dave, >> >> Thanks for your feedback, it's important for us to know when develope

Re: [twitter-dev] User suggestions and User Suggestions Twitter

Hi Denzil, The suggested user methods return a list of @names which we think users interested in a topic may be interested in following. As the name implies, these are just suggestions. Example calls for both: > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/suggestions.json Returns all of the suggested user ca

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter widgets not using entities to present t.co links

Great, thanks Tim. @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Tim Meadowcroft wrote: > > Thanks Matt, filed as a feature request rather than a defect > >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth error

ine 14 >> >> > > From another CentOS machine, PHP 5.2.10, IT WORKS! (Of course I had to > generate new tokens for every server). > I did the "curl http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.xml"; > call from all the servers and there is no rate li

Re: [twitter-dev] Search Api limit

Hi Alessandro, We've produced a small guide on using search that explains the search rate limits a little more. You can find the page here: https://dev.twitter.com/pages/using_search In it we say: The Rate Limits for the Search API are not the same as for the REST API. When using the Search

Re: [twitter-dev] Get Twitter Statuses based on a timestamp

Hi Shashank, The Twitter REST API doesn't allow you to restrict the date returned by date or time but we do allow you to provide a since_id and max_id. If you know the ID of a Tweet that happened after the maximum timestamp you are interested in you could pass it as max_id. Alternatively, if you

Re: [twitter-dev] To Get Twitter Follower list

Hi Abhishek, It looks like you are using a particular library to make requests. I'm not familiar with which library it is or how it works. >From the Twitter API point of view the request the library should be making is the followers/ids method. This is documented on our developer resources site:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Update status "d" returns success response but doesn't show up on web

Hi, This is expected behavior and is caused by the SMS commands. You can find a complete list of the commands and their aliases on our help site: https://support.twitter.com/entries/14020-official-twitter-text-commands Best, @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: error 401 from oauth, starting a few days ago

Thanks. I was asking about the code as Taylor made a few suggestions about issues with your code. I was wondering if you had implemented them yet. In particular have you updated your URLs to use the correct domain with the /1 included. For example: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeli

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search API - completeness

Thanks for highlighting this typo. I've updated that page so it should be correct now. Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Kstolen Kstolen wrote: > The Twitter Search API docs (http://d

Re: [twitter-dev] Can't Get OAuth To Work On My Site

lready. Can I send you the file I use for my > Twitter Oauth? Thanks. > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Matt Harris > wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> Can you explain a little more about your setup and what you mean when you >> say it isn't working. For

Re: [twitter-dev] Deleting Extra Callback URLs

We've had reports of this in the past but haven't been able to track down the exact cause. Could you send me the application ID which is exhibiting this problem so I can give the engineers an active example. Best, @themattharris Develop

[twitter-dev] New permission level enforcement happens this Thursday (30th June)

Hey everyone, Just a quick reminder that we'll be enforcing the new permission level this Thursday, 30th June. When we enforce the new permission level Read (R) and Read & Write (RW) access tokens will be unable to use the following API methods: /1/direct_messages.{format} /1/direct_messages/sent

Re: [twitter-dev] Pixelated Avatar and Twitter Logo

Hi Robert, You website stylesheet includes this rule: #home_main_right img { width: 150px; height: 150px; } This rule is telling the webpage to render the img's at the 150x150 resolution and is the reason for the images in the widgets being pixelated. To resolve the issue you should rest

Re: [twitter-dev] Pixelated Avatar and Twitter Logo

p the theme but damn I > should have known. > > Thank you! Ill fix that right away. > > -Robert > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Matt Harris wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> >> You website stylesheet includes this rule: >> >> #home_main_right img

Re: [twitter-dev] lists.json API call ignoring the callback parameter as of the last few hours

Hey Tim, This should now be fixed. Let us know if you find it isn't. Best, @themattharris Twitter On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Taylor Singletary < taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Harshad, > > We hope to have a fix for

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Changed to authorizeURL; get the proper permission, but now get 401, 401 after one call

Hey oosswwaalldd, The code you pasted above is the example auth.php file which shows how to do each form of OAuth with the Twitter API. The method it uses when performing the OAuth flow depends on which option you choose from the page. If you use any of the "Sign in with Twitter" links you won't b

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter libraries

Hi Ozgur, Our list of libraries is curated from those provided to us by developers but we haven't had any OAuth compatible ASP libraries recommended to us yet. If you know of any ASP libraries let me know so we can check them out. Best, @themattharris

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: rate limiting due to invalid oauth credentials

Hey Mike, Sorry to hear you were having problems there. If the credentials were being rejected we would have returned an X-Warning header in the response letting you know. There is more information about this in our rate limiting documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting#rest

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