[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing Chad Etzel, Twitter Platform Support

2009-07-31 Thread Sam Street
Welcome :) On Jul 31, 9:59 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all -- We are excited to announce that Chad Etzel has joined our team part-time to support the developer community. He is the one man show behind TweetGrid [1] amongst other projects [2]. We reached out to Chad to join

[twitter-dev] Re: set the from [Application]

2009-08-03 Thread Sam Street
I've had this difficulty too, with the 'source' parameter being ignored. I recommend using OAuth which handles it all fine. I'm weary about providing my password to apps these days On Aug 3, 6:49 am, Pek wushup...@gmail.com wrote: how do you set the from field when you tweet from the API. Right

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and twitter.com home authentication strange behavior

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Street
My app also dies straight during auth http://twicli.com/auth On Aug 6, 10:45 pm, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Especially annoying seeing as I've gone totally oAuth now.  I don't blame Twitter, just the idiots that initiated the DDoS attack On Aug 6, 10:33 pm, Andreu Pere

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with in reply to status id

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Street
The message will not include 'in reply to X' if you are 1. replying to an invalid status id 2. replying to a status id that you posted yourself from the same account On Aug 6, 9:50 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: Difficult to spot the error without knowing the values of

[twitter-dev] Re: Why is Biz saying things are back in action?

2009-08-07 Thread Sam Street
My app http://twicli.com is unavailable. Looks like the ?oauth_token isnt being created properly. Hope things come back soon. Thanks On Aug 7, 7:06 am, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: The most frustrating thing is oAuth being down, meaning new users can't sign in to oAuth apps! On Aug 7, 6:40 

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with in reply to status id

2009-08-07 Thread Sam Street
Oh yeah. This just worked for me through web. My mistake! On Aug 7, 7:59 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/6 Sam Street sam...@gmail.com 2. replying to a status id that you posted yourself from the same account This is actually incorrect. I've posted replies to myself

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth redirects fail....

2009-08-07 Thread Sam Street
My app fails when requesting tokens. I still cant even login to Twitter.com through web - it just freezes. Anyway, nope its solved soon. Thanks On Aug 7, 6:28 pm, Vincent Nguyen kureik...@gmail.com wrote: Me too! My App can request a oauth token but can not do anything when redirecting to

[twitter-dev] Re: Unable to login to my twitter account since wednesday night

2009-08-08 Thread Sam Street
I haven't been able to login for the past few days either. Luckily using Firefox I was still logged in through a session so this is fine and apps like TweetDeck for iPhone seem to work (HTTP Auth API must have no problems logging in) I can not login through the twitter frontpage or through

[twitter-dev] Re: I must be stupid.

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
This library worked perfectly for me http://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/tree/master On Aug 15, 6:28 am, Adam Shannon a...@ashannon.us wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Adam, If you really want to learn this yourself, the best method is to

[twitter-dev] Seeking Beta Tester Developers for my API

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
Hi all, I'm looking for a few developers to help me test the API I have built for http://twicli.com (content sharing user tagging) The API's work as you would expect with each content type (photo, video, audio) having an 'upload' and 'uploadAndTweet' method. The backend of the API is actually

[twitter-dev] Re: Authenticating / release of IDs usernames

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Street
I recommend switching to OAuth where verify_credentials seems to be handled in conjunction with the oauth tokens rather than user/pass. Here's how I use it: 1. User authorizes for the first time 2. Twitter user ID, Screen name, password (and various style data) is stored in my 'twitter_users'

[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread Sam Street
Necessary, for example, if you use a particular account to notify your users of a certain event (sending them notifications). Large apps with high traffic might need to send over 150 alerts from the bot account per hour. Im thinking it's also used for apps that try to deliver tweets in

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

2009-08-17 Thread Sam Street
I totally agree. It's going to work but will need full adoption from all major apps. It's going to be confusing seeing different # retweets because certain apps retweet without the RT API On Aug 17, 4:21 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Favorites are like secret ballots. That has

[twitter-dev] Re: Permanent URL to profile images?

2009-08-18 Thread Sam Street
I cache the users profile image and background when they authorize and each time they reauthorize the return values are compared. If they are different the images are updated and recached. I couldn't find a better way to handle this other than running a cronjob that calls /users/show method for

[twitter-dev] Do not display a background image

2009-08-18 Thread Sam Street
Just noticed something relating to the API method users/show When requesting a user's data I dont see a field relating to whether the user has chosen Do not display a background image If you see here: http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=AstuteCat The default twitter background

[twitter-dev] SUP (Simple Update Protocol), FriendFeed and Twitter

2009-09-07 Thread Sam Street
Hi all, I've recently been doing some research on how FriendFeed manages to push user's twitter updates to users FriendFeed profile so fast. I was very impressed at the speed these updates were delivered to FriendFeed and appears on my profile (within 5 seconds) so I started looking into how it

[twitter-dev] Re: Show off your programming skills and develop custom components

2009-10-08 Thread Sam Street
Sounds interesting as a side project for me. Thanks On Oct 8, 4:43 pm, Avi Hein (Conduit) avi.h...@conduit.com wrote: Are you up to the challenge? Conduit, a SaaS platform that any web publisher can use to offer content and applications to users across the World Wide Web, has launched the

[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository

2009-10-08 Thread Sam Street
It's a nice idea. I'd go ahead with it - but also release the regex publicly. Apps make enough external requests as it is On Oct 9, 12:14 am, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I think it might be a better idea to publish the regex code somewhere, so that developers can directly include

[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository

2009-10-09 Thread Sam Street
Please don't forget the Ive just taken the 'WHOSE HOTTER' quiz and voted for Miley fucking Cyrus spam via @reply (and DM also) On Oct 9, 7:03 am, Dave Briccetti da...@davebsoft.com wrote: A Twitter client can do an HTTP get to here:  http://talkingpuffin.appspot.com/filters/noise and expect

[twitter-dev] Re: Noise-tweet regex repository

2009-10-09 Thread Sam Street
ps. thats not the actual string. I'll paste actual noise here as I discover it though On Oct 9, 10:22 am, Sam Street sam...@gmail.com wrote: Please don't forget the Ive just taken the 'WHOSE HOTTER' quiz and voted for Miley fucking Cyrus spam via @reply (and DM also) On Oct 9, 7:03 am, Dave

[twitter-dev] Re: To find out ids directly that both in (follower/ids) and ( friends/ids ) ?

2009-10-28 Thread Sam Street
I don't think you can do this directly with the API. I've just used http://uk2.php.net/array_diff in the past On Oct 28, 3:38 am, Chi-Shun Chen andrewchen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I had a question, take a example for show what i want: if someone's   Followers/ids = A,B,C,D,E,G  

[twitter-dev] Re: TwitVid upload function

2010-01-19 Thread Sam Street
I don't understand that code. I'm a PHP/MySQL kinda guy ... but if you're having problems with TwitVid - just use Twicli's API. http://twic.li/api - support for photos/videos/audio/sets I don't see the point in separating content over various different sites. The internet is enough of a mess

[twitter-dev] Problem with adding favorites (api.twitter.com/1)

2010-06-04 Thread Sam Street
Im having difficulties adding favorites to Twitter. I am using the following URL: http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/15256536658/create.xml http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/15256536658/create.json Neither seem to work via my OAuth App. I get the following response: string(70)

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with adding favorites (api.twitter.com/1)

2010-06-18 Thread Sam Street
://twitter.com/episod On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Sam Street sam...@gmail.com wrote: Im having difficulties adding favorites to Twitter. I am using the following URL: http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/15256536658/create.xml http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/15256536658/create.json Neither