On Jan 2, 10:45 pm, Ben Metcalfe ben.metca...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm building a twitter authority bot that makes numerous calls to
twitter to derive a given user's authority.
great. can I assume that the non monolingual perspective is
taken care of? ;) as usual happy to throw suggestions out
On Dec 27 2008, 2:17 am, dumis.admarket...@gmail.com
dumis.admarket...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to build an application where a twitter user can store
the birthday date of his friends. Is that possible using Twitter API ?
Besides running into data protection issues, I do not want to
Usually api are to complicated to programm without knowledge and although it
is said so in the documentation that you only need a account (not the users
account), this api is 'too easy' to attract people without much knowledge
and you see the result.
(The users of course are not any better).
It
Cameron's comment shows why a system like Oauth is important:
Making it easy for third party developpers.
Making it easier for users to build trust.
Btw business idea, as it did work with summize:
Build an oauth service between third apps and twitter,
gain the trust from the users, force devs to
Definitely happy to make it more clear which methods require
authentication and which do not. However, to get the effect that's
most intuitive from calling the API methods, calling them as the user
whose data you're interested in is the most straightforward approach.
Which is what brought us
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM, peterhough em...@peterhough.co.uk wrote:
How do they make requests while authenticated as their own account
without supplying a password? Am I missing something here...
Yes. You only need 'a' username not their username.
It is not super obvious but you can
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Peter Denton petermdenton
$host = http://twitter.com/users/show/$businessUser.xml;;
shouldt that be https for more secure transmission of the data`?
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
My question, though, is whether or not this sort of behavior is
intentional, for 3rd party sites to be able to discover the identity
of twitter users on their sites? Personally, I find this to be more
worrisome than the
I thought some of you might be interested:
http://pleasetwitterimplementoauthnow.com/
Please follow the user @oauth_now http://twitter.com/oauth_now to show
your support for a better, more secure Twitter! Once you follow
@oauth_nowhttp://twitter.com/oauth_nowyou will get exactly two
direct
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
I could send a tweet from some account that says @user hello! thanks
for dropping by mysite.com! Hope you enjoyed it! How many people
*wouldn't* be freaked out by that? (In fact, I should try that and see
what kind of
I am adding these notes because I believe every App Dev should
strongly consider the implications their app has on the whole ecosystem
of apps - and what their colleagus are doing. All it takes is one app to be
really stupid to challenge whatever you are doing and create a really bad
mood.
Want
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:45 PM, charris1980
christopher.jason.har...@gmail.com wrote:
is tracking back in twitter yet? i put in track word and it
didn't work, just posted my tweet. tweetbeep.com is down so can't use
that anymore. any suggestions to track keywords throughout twitter?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the best you can do is just point them to the user's profile
on twitter and hope that they login and click follow.
You can do better.
Use the 'tweet this' code examples, programm a 'follow $username'
message and
The author of http://tweetback.holzhauer.it/ pinged me for his tweetback
project and
mentioned that http://mashable.com/2009/01/04/twitter-blog-design/ inspired
him;
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/09/tweetbacks-plugin-for-wordpress/
does the same and I saw another one called chat
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:36 PM, TweetByMail rpill...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a filter set up on my end that can either whitelist or
blacklist a set of friend usernames. A person may want to read all the
updates on the web, but only want a select few emailed to them.
I suggest to your users
In case you'd like some more attention for your twitter application,
Robin Wauter's did an article on TC about where to find
Twitter apps.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/10/5-good-ways-to-discover-twitter-applications/
This and 64 comments / trackbacks give you some ideas on
where to submit
This may be a naive question, but what is a blogformat image?
(defun Chad)
typical blog layouts run at a maximum width with all
the sidebars and such. It is good to have different width
available but the promoted one on your website should
be a max of 400px wide, I think 350 is more like it.
I assume that show user of a non existant name returns an error code?
Nicole
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com wrote:
Does being whitelisted also mean that you can follow more than 2000
people without having 2000 followed? Lextweet.com uses a twitter
account to follow members of the legal community and we are rapidly
approaching
Awesome. I still do downloads of follower lists because it is an easier way
to get a batch of
information from the profile data than requesting every single one, but this
already is a huge advancement.
Small suggestion: Add a last changed info to it for social graph change or a
number?
Like if I
Great. Would be interested to see how much part the Twitter clients have
with the download of AIR apps.
Non standard windows behaviour on a basic level. Using AIR apps takes me out
of my ecosystem. I could are less about cross platform, that is something
hindering me promoting any air app.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:40 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote:
That's exactly how blocking works.
but blocking is a rare plus also a 'negative' action meaning it requires
an extra step because it is unusual to the users of twitter and
it should be additional to avoid mistakes.
following on the
Please tell me if I missed something:
I was trying to figure out why the frak my search did not yield any results
as I was playing around with the Yoast tweetback plugin for WP.
And I think I have found the culprit:
A search for http://tinyurl.com/acu8rb does not bring a result back
if somebody
I would assume that they do use a simple OR.
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:12 PM, ray ray.pig...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm with Jesse on this one
This is like giving somebody the key to the house and then complain
that people can 'just' get into the house.
If you don't want to be DMed by certain people, dont follow them.
If you do get
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Ed Costello epcoste...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm fine with getting DM'd by *people* I follow. But I don't expect to get
DM'd by @cnnbrk or @jetblue unless I'm directly engaging them. There's no
granularity to separate getting DM'd by a friend I follow from DM'd
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:34 PM, guruvan guru...@gmail.com wrote:
Dossy, not this doesn't work for me. I don't really a) have time or b)
want to unfollow a new follower (and likely new user of twitter)
because of poor first judgement. I would like to simply opt-out of
those types of
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:
Apps have an ethical responsibility to provide opt-out, plain and simple if
they're going to enable the sending of mass-DMs in any way. I didn't
opt-into getting sales advertisements from the people I follow when I joined
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:
If you don't have the time to do it, then hire somebody to do it.
Am I really hearing this right? So now *I* have to lose money because I'm
getting spam??? Yeah right.
If you do not know how to use the tools, then
Anything you can do to help people determine better the language of tweets,
so search is more usable for international users. ;))
I am a bit curious about the mentioned 'costs of publishing in journals
and conferences' - don't know about the journals. but none of the
conferences I know of in Tech
As I undertand it, a twitter oauth process will give me as the application
either read or read write access. Which means - unless I am mistaken -
that with read access the app can read user's DMs.
If so, would there be a way to have a third status named Authenticate
or anything like it to
I am surprised nobody is bringing up these too points:
- people will use the more secure thing once they are educated. you know the
kind of stuff where you tell the people you support that they will not get
tech support any more if they do this.
- the argument about 'having to agree on
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 22:26, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote:
The interaction seems unintuitive and redundant for users who have
already granted our application 'trust' by installing it.
I can't understand this notion.
Every single day users are sheep enough to do stupid things -
Question: is to tweet an official word in the english language
both american and english? as in widely used?
does the US and UK trademark system reject such applications?
In the german TM system, a word which is widely used cannot
be trademarked. Like you can use Water as a image mark
(logowise
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:47, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote:
Thanks. These users will be mobile, largely, and asking them to log in to
see what will amount to comments is asking too much. This is more a add
on feature that some may find value in.
Why would they want to see
The language selection is useless, even with a limitation to English.
The problem is probably that normal methods of attributing language
are more or less based on longer text - and not text stripped down
to 140 chars or less.
If you want to make detection f.e. in search, rather get all
results
As retweets are such a basic feature for users, it is hard to understand how
this question could not have come up before in designing of the limitations.
I suggest you add a switch to the api call w/o authentication, then the apps
can decide what to do with this, as in once they are ready they
So if I want to have an information about a list you expect me
to read all of the documention to figure out which version to use
although i am fine in programming. I guess just including something as
a proper documentation for example a link see current available
versions here is too much to
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