[twitter-dev] Getting number of lists a user is on

2009-12-01 Thread Quy
Is there an API call that will allow me to grab the number of lists that a user is on? I thought the users/show call would do this but it doesn't. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show Thanks, Quy

[twitter-dev] reset-seconds in Twitter API

2009-12-01 Thread Quy
When I ping the rate limit Twitter API to get my status: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0rate_limit_status The reset-time-in-seconds is 1259717740 How do I interpret that? I ping it again but this number doesn't seem to change.

[twitter-dev] How do I know when user posted new tweet

2009-12-09 Thread Quy
I plan to use the API to grab the latest tweets from a user but don't want to have to ping the user every 10 minutes. What's the best way to check if there is a new tweet from a user? Should I check the status id of the last tweet and see if it has changed?

[twitter-dev] profile_image_url bigger thumbnail image

2009-12-14 Thread Quy
In the xml returned using the API, I noticed all the profile_image_url are of the form *_normal.*{jpg,gif} Can I just replace normal with bigger and assume there will always be a bigger 73x73 version? Thanks, Quy

[twitter-dev] Replies on user timeline

2009-12-17 Thread Quy
filter out @replies to show statuses/tweets that make more sense? Thanks, Quy

[twitter-dev] Search tweets across a group of users

2009-12-25 Thread Quy
Hi, I was wondering what is the best way to search across all tweets among a group of users or users that I follow. For example, I want to search for the keyword Brittany Murphy among a group of users or users that I'm following. Thanks Quy

[twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Quy
Why don't you just simply retrieve the HTML for the user's twitter profile page and look for id=lists_count and just grab the number in this tag. That's what I'm doing now. Of course, Twitter could change the HTML on this page but they probably won't do it often. Quy On Feb 9, 9:20 am, Orian

[twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Quy
don't see any reason why my IP would get banned. Maybe someone from the Twitter Platform team can chime in, especially since I only scrape for list counts every 4-6 hours on a small set of users for my application. Quy On Feb 9, 9:54 am, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Why don't you

[twitter-dev] Sorting by date

2010-02-11 Thread Quy
When I am sorting tweets, can I just do a simple sort DESC on status_id instead of the creation date? I assume status_ids are created sequentially going up so sorting on status_id would be more efficient than trying to sort on the created_at field.

[twitter-dev] What streaming api access level do I have?

2010-02-15 Thread Quy
the Streaming API. So, I have access but role do I have? And how can I request a shadow role if I don't have it yet? thanks, Quy (@quytennis)

[twitter-dev] Re: Sorting by date

2010-02-18 Thread Quy
to sort statuses. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Quy quyten...@gmail.com wrote: When I am sorting tweets, can I just do a simple sort DESC on status_id instead of the creation date? I assume status_ids are created

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter

2010-03-13 Thread Quy
Why don't you use the Tweetmeme follow button? It's pretty cool and uses a pop-up: http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2010/02/23/follow-button/ On Mar 5, 6:07 pm, Jaanus jaa...@gmail.com wrote: There are many ways, though, to implement the OAuth interface to sign in the user. Many sites (see

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-03-19 Thread Quy
My name is Quy Le (@quytennis) and I used to be a software engineer but now I'm product manager at a high-tech company. I've been using the Twitter API for the past 3 months on a Twitter project that hopefully will go live in a few weeks. I've been using PHP/mySQL/ memcached to build my site

[twitter-dev] List count

2010-03-19 Thread Quy
Is there an easy way to get the total number of lists for a user? I don't want to have to page through GET lists and count. Quy To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.

[twitter-dev] new suggested users api

2010-03-22 Thread Quy
How do I page through this API call? users/suggestions/category Do we always just get the first page of suggested users for a category? Quy To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME

[twitter-dev] Adding in_reply_to_status_id to Tweetbox

2010-04-16 Thread Quy
, then Tweetbox will autofill the in_reply_to=[screen name] parameter with the appropriate Twitter screen name. Quy -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Fetching number of retweets

2010-06-29 Thread Quy
What is the easiest way to get the number of retweets for a given tweet using the API? I'm trying to create a feed of popular tweets from users for my Twitter site. Thanks in advance, Quy

[twitter-dev] Twurl installation problem

2010-08-16 Thread Quy
/twurl:19:in `main' Any idea how to fix this? I've followed the instructions at http://github.com/marcel/twurl/blob/master/INSTALL Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Quy

[twitter-dev] Limit to search API query parameters

2010-08-24 Thread Quy
how many from: parameters I can pass in? What is the max number of parameters? thanks, Quy

[twitter-dev] How do track number of mentions for a keyword?

2010-08-26 Thread Quy
I see all these tools that can track the number of mentions of bmw or apple on Twitter during the day/week. What is the easiest way using the Twitter API to count the number of mentions for a keyword during the day? Do I have to get access to the firehose or streaming API? Quy -- Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: How do track number of mentions for a keyword?

2010-08-26 Thread Quy
. The default access should be sufficient for most keywords. Higher access levels are available on request. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Quy quyten...@gmail.com wrote: I see all these tools that can track the number of mentions of bmw

[twitter-dev] Search across Twitter Lists

2010-09-10 Thread Quy
I would like to search for keywords across tweets from a Twitter List? Is there an easy way to do this? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] search results - how far does it go back

2010-10-04 Thread Quy
When try to search on results from a user like from:mashable, I only see results going as far back as 24 hours? I thought the archive went back further for a search. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] Search across Twitter Lists or home timeline?

2010-10-25 Thread Quy
Is there a way for me to run a search across tweets from users I'm following or users on a list? I was thinking of using DataSift but they don't support lists (you have to pass in individual screen names to run a search) Thanks, Quy @quytennis -- Twitter developer documentation and resources

[twitter-dev] Copying or Importing Twitter Lists

2010-11-02 Thread Quy
the Twitter API but will this hit any rate limiting if this is a public tool? Quy -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your

[twitter-dev] Re: Copying or Importing Twitter Lists

2010-11-02 Thread Quy
Is there a better way to grab all the members of list? This API call only returns 20 members at a time so it'll take 25 calls to get a 500 member list: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/:user/:list_id/members Quy On Nov 2, 12:29 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Don't know of any public tool

[twitter-dev] Re: Copying or Importing Twitter Lists

2010-11-03 Thread Quy
I know I can page but can I get more than 20 members somehow from another call? Maybe Twitter can great another social graph API that returns 500 members in one API call like we can do today for friends/ followers. Quy On Nov 2, 8:20 pm, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: paging

[twitter-dev] Re: How to display lists from multiple users in an app

2010-11-03 Thread Quy
If you take the lists public, you can simply use the Twitter List widget to show real-time status updates from your list: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_list Quy @quytennis On Nov 3, 10:46 am, Adam Nason apna...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter limits each user account to 20 lists

[twitter-dev] Using http://api.twitter.com/version/users/lookup.format

2010-11-08 Thread Quy
Hi, If the social graph API calls return up to 500 ids, does that mean I need to call the lookup API call 5 times to get extended information since the lookup max is 100 users? Is there a better way to do this? Quy -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc

[twitter-dev] Smaller follow button

2010-11-08 Thread Quy
Is it possible to use the internal Javascript API to create a smaller follow button that also detects if the logged in user also follows a user - similar to Facebook's Like button. Quy -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http

[twitter-dev] Twitter Anywhere down?

2010-12-12 Thread Quy
Is Twitter Anywhere down? None of the follow buttons or hovercards that I'm using on my site are working. Quy @quytennis -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http

[twitter-dev] Custom Follow Button

2011-02-10 Thread Quy
Can anyone point me to any good AJAX/Jquery/PHP scripts that use a custom follow button? I find the @Anywhere follow buttons to be too big for my needs. Quy -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues

[twitter-dev] Re: Celebs that tweet

2011-03-30 Thread Quy
This site is no more official than http://www.celebritytweet.com/ or http://celebritytwitter.com/ These sites definitely aren't affiliated with Twitter. Quy On Mar 30, 5:30 am, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: Who /what is celebs that tweet? www.celebsthattweet.com is this something