[twitter-dev] Re: update_delivery_device method

2009-10-31 Thread TJ Luoma
You used to be able to get Twitter via IM. Back before most people were using it. Heck even by the time I got here it was starting to flake out, although there are some IM clients now which will fetch your feeds (Trillian, for one) TjL On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Gijsbert

[twitter-dev] Re: can FOLLOW, but can't LEAVE

2009-11-09 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:37 PM, TJ Luoma luo...@luomat.net wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I have users complaining that of the commands listed on        http://help.twitter.com/forums/59008/entries/14020 they all still work right

[twitter-dev] Re: can FOLLOW, but can't LEAVE

2009-11-09 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I have users complaining that of the commands listed on        http://help.twitter.com/forums/59008/entries/14020 they all still work right for status updates *except* LEAVE (FOLLOW *does* work). On my own testing,

[twitter-dev] Re: Time zone support

2009-11-10 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Emrah e...@ekanet.net wrote: That's the main point of my suggestion! It helps avoiding the need of making calculation to know at what time a Tweet has been posted according to the poster's timezone. It doesn't make sense to see that Jeff said Good morning at

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting Blocked user list

2009-11-13 Thread TJ Luoma
The only list of blocked users you can access is your own. I haven't heard of any plans to let you access others' blocked user list On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:33 AM, stevie stevie@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,           Can anyone suggest me if there is a way for getting the blocked users list

[twitter-dev] Re: Moderators, can you trim this address from list?

2009-11-13 Thread TJ Luoma
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I've been hit with NDRs on this address numerous times recently. If you could unsubscribe that address, it would be great. User: if you're actually active on list, please use a reliable email server, and not that

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting Blocked user list

2009-11-14 Thread TJ Luoma
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM, stevie j stevie@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Loumat for the reply. What I am trying is toget just the current authenticated user/my blocked list - but there seems to be no proper API? Am I missing something?

Re: [twitter-dev] Migrating followers

2009-11-25 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Iain scotland.digi...@mediacom.com wrote: Hi Is it possible to migrate followers from one commercial brand page to another commercial brand page? Both pages are owned and maintained by the same commercial brand? Do you mean They were following Twitter user X

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweets not found on search

2009-11-25 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: not all tweets appear in twitter search -- twitter search filters tweets for quality, relevance, etc. Not to mention that some people are simply excluded altogether for no known reason.

Re: [twitter-dev] What Is The Status of Twitter OAuth?

2009-11-30 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: How can you say that if OAuth is not yet in stable production mode?? Because there have been several sites that used Twitter user's login for nefarious purposes, and Twitter wants to start getting people out of the habit

Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-11-30 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:19 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter, what say you? Developer community, what say you? Twitter, Inc. can't even keep up with porn spammers reported manually using the Report As Spam links, what makes you think they would be able to keep up with

[twitter-dev] simply verify that user exists

2009-12-06 Thread TJ Luoma
Sorry, I'm having a brain cramp. I've been checking the wiki and can't for the life of me figure out what's the preferred way of taking a name and validating / verifying if the name is valid Twitter account. Is http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=FOO; (and checking the response) the

[twitter-dev] curl --netrc fails for adding to lists

2009-12-06 Thread TJ Luoma
Summary: When I try to add someone to a list using 'curl' with --netrc it is failing, but if I use -u username:password it works. Of course the first thought is that ~/.netrc isn't setup right (although it's been working fine for months). But I double checked that it is. Watch: 1) Verify that

[twitter-dev] search.twitter.com no longer showing deleted tweets

2009-12-07 Thread TJ Luoma
Good news/bad news. Not sure when this started, but search.twitter.com is no longer showing deleted tweets.

Re: [twitter-dev] search.twitter.com no longer showing deleted tweets

2009-12-07 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Little late to the party :-) http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/twitter-finally-removing-deleted-tweets-from-search-results/ Really? Seems like it worked more recently than that. Then again I was sick-and-in-bed for

Re: [twitter-dev] Announcements

2009-12-09 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: there will be much more information about this soon.  in general, the API for browser-less apps is designed for applications or environments

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Send to certain user

2009-12-09 Thread TJ Luoma
You can DM anyone who follows you. Only people you follow can DM you. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:47 PM, park2 parkfo...@googlemail.com wrote: I managed to get something working thanks. What is the exact criteria needed to be able to send direct to a user. eg do you have to follow them they

Re: [twitter-dev] Current policy on following apps

2009-12-21 Thread TJ Luoma
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Adam Green a...@vibemetrix.com wrote: My goal is NOT to build a bulk follower that blindly follows and unfollows thousand of users each day. I understand the negative aspects of these. But I also realize that building a following is an essential part of being a

Re: [twitter-dev] How can I perform a search within my followers only?

2009-12-26 Thread TJ Luoma
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM, humbucker oursystemfai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I would like to use the twitter search api to display tweets containing a #hashtag BUT from my followers only,  I can't find this option, is it possible friends? how? Quich other question, when I perform the

Re: [twitter-dev] Missing favorites... please help!

2010-01-05 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Orian, is this still an issue?  If so let me know... It's been going on for awhile (week or so) with my account (@TJ) too. They disappeared, reappeared, and then have largely disappeared again. TjL

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation in June

2010-01-18 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: we have a command line tool that acts exactly like curl but does all the oauth signatures transparently to the end user (the user simply needs to register the keys with the tool).  this way people who rely on the ability

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth for softwares

2010-02-09 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/9/2010 3:57 AM, Thomas wrote: Hello, still no OAuth solution for softwares (not web apps) ? There is oAuth for desktop and mobile software.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: question regarding API FAQ: reclaim inactive username

2010-02-15 Thread TJ Luoma
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks for the thorough follow up. First of all we definitely care and we try to show that as opposed to just saying it. The @username issue is a really sticky one for us for a number of reasons. With that being said, I'm

[twitter-dev] favorites paging limit?

2010-02-17 Thread TJ Luoma
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-favorites doesn't mention any limits to the page parameter. Through trial and error I figured out that curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s --netrc 'http://twitter.com/favorites.xml?page=175' was too much but curl --location --referer

[twitter-dev] Re: favorites paging limit?

2010-02-18 Thread TJ Luoma
Adding to my own question / observation: Another problem seems to be that when the maximum is exceeded, the server still sends Status 200 $ curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s --netrc 'http://twitter.com/favorites.xml?page=175'|cat -v|less HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:26:48

Re: [twitter-dev] banned from search?

2010-02-19 Thread TJ Luoma
This has been a problem for months. Some people just don't have their tweets show up in search, ever. I reported one of these for a friend via getsatisfaction months ago. No change. On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: I just came across this article recently

[twitter-dev] Suddenly can't authenticate via 3rd party apps

2010-03-02 Thread TJ Luoma
Is something weird going on with the API this morning? Tweetie 2 on the iPhone Tweetie on the Mac both said they couldn't authenticate me. I logged into the website with the same username/password that I've been using. But I still can't authenticate via the commandline either: $ curl

[twitter-dev] Re: Suddenly can't authenticate via 3rd party apps

2010-03-02 Thread TJ Luoma
I did some further investigating and discovered that curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s --netrc http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml; works fine but curl --location --referer ;auto -D - -s --netrc http://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml; fails. (I still can't

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: forcing api.twitter.com resources - tomorrow

2010-03-02 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Dewald Pretorius dewaldpub...@gmail.com wrote: There appears to be ground for confusion here. I'm sure some folks are still sending some API calls to twitter.com. I'm not even sure what Twitter is talking about. The initial post in this thread was completely

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: forcing api.twitter.com resources - tomorrow

2010-03-02 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: Both of those curl commands work for me.  Perhaps you have a .netrc entry for twitter.com but not for api.twitter.com? Argh. I thought it would match *.twitter.com AND that curl would complain if I used --netrc but it didn't

Re: [twitter-dev] how do we get the via Client name on Tweets

2010-03-10 Thread TJ Luoma
It has to be a registered app which uses OAuth. (Existing non-OAuth apps were grand-fathered in when this policy was adopted) On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:02 PM, pranzb bhatpra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I wanted to know how do we get our client name at the end of every tweet. Like for eg:

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting IP of user from Tweets

2010-03-11 Thread TJ Luoma
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:08 PM, PRAVEEN KUMAR erpraveen2...@gmail.com wrote: I want to get IP address of user based on the last tweet sent by him. Message may be sent from machine or from mobile but in both the cases whatever IP he has used I need that in my application to find out user's

[twitter-dev] missing tweets

2010-03-15 Thread TJ Luoma
I've seen Tweetie on the Mac and Brizzly users both complaining that twitter.com is showing them tweets that the others are missing. Is this a known issue right now? Is the cause known? TjL

Re: [twitter-dev] missing tweets

2010-03-15 Thread TJ Luoma
the weekend, or are new tweets from today missing? -John On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:12 AM, TJ Luoma luo...@luomat.net wrote: I've seen Tweetie on the Mac and Brizzly users both complaining that twitter.com is showing them tweets that the others are missing. Is this a known issue right now

Re: [twitter-dev] Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-03-18 Thread TJ Luoma
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone seen this?  User @johnnymatosj started showing up in my feed and I checked and oddly enough I was following him.  I never heard of him so there is some bug or he got a hold of my password (this account hasn't added any

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation

2010-04-13 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: we'll make sure to message it long before hand! I'm still unclear what people who use 'curl' will do after basic auth is deprecated. Is there an OAuth for the commandline? If so: pointers, please. TjL

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation

2010-04-14 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Dean #39;at#39; Cognation dot Net d...@cognation.net wrote: But why is oauth better than basic for a desktop client? i understand it for the webapps but on a desktop client whats the point? Basically you are saying the desktop end user cant be trusted? Sorry

[twitter-dev] Really, You're not going to suspend @julianperretta?

2010-04-28 Thread TJ Luoma
He's been plagiarizing people for weeks, and has been reported for spam by dozens of people that I know about. Here's just one example: http://twitter.com/sween/status/3736262373 http://twitter.com/julianperretta/status/12991042505 But hey, I guess he's famous, so why make him follow the same

Re: [twitter-dev] Really, You're not going to suspend @julianperretta?

2010-04-28 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/28/2010 7:50 AM, TJ Luoma wrote: He's been plagiarizing people for weeks, and has been reported for spam by dozens of people that I know about. Spam I understand, but are you actually trying to report plagarism

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic authentication

2010-05-18 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Jef Poskanzer jef.poskan...@gmail.com wrote: For my command-line twitter applications there is no third party, just the end-user and twitter.  Basic Auth + https would be just fine for that. +1 I don't access anyone's account information except my own. This

[twitter-dev] t.co mixed messages

2010-06-09 Thread TJ Luoma
On the list we were told: our current plan is that no user will see a t.co URL on twitter.com but we still have some details to work through. the links will still be displayed as they were sent in, but the target of the link will be the t.co link instead. and, we want to provide the same

[twitter-dev] can I install twurl into $HOME?

2010-06-23 Thread TJ Luoma
When trying to install twurl, I am told to run these commands: sudo gem i twurl --source http://rubygems.org rake dist:gem sudo gem i pkg/twurl*gem sudo gem i oauth except that I am on a shared server where I do not have write permissions anywhere outside of ~/ I thought that maybe if I left

Re: [twitter-dev] can I install twurl into $HOME?

2010-06-23 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: If you don't have sudo rights on the machine you want to run twurl on you will need to tell your system to install gems into your user folder. For most cases this happens automatically when you leave sudo off of the

[twitter-dev] twurl equivalent of curl's -D/--dump-header mode - or how do I get status response from Twitter?

2010-09-05 Thread TJ Luoma
I had been in the habit of using curl -D - to get the header information from Twitter to tell me Status 200 (or HTTP/1.1 200) before proceeding. It was the most reliable way that I knew of to make sure that Twitter was functioning before parsing the data that I got back from the API. I can't

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Any plans to increase user_timeline limit of 3200

2010-09-16 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Invader avm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I eagerly await when your infrastructure is ready to allow a larger limit. I wouldn't hold your breath. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Install twurl without root access?

2010-10-04 Thread TJ Luoma
The key to getting this to work is making sure that GEM_HOME is set to somewhere you have write access too: Here is it failing: $ gem install twurl ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions into the /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 directory. [1]

[twitter-dev] twurl errors in cron

2010-10-04 Thread TJ Luoma
I'm getting the following error when running twurl -t /1/statuses/user_timeline/amazondeals.rss in a cron script: /home/luomat/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/twurl-0.6.0/bin/../lib/twurl/configuration_controller.rb:2: uninitialized constant Twurl::AbstractCommandController (NameError) from

[twitter-dev] twurl block is sending 502 even when it succeeds

2010-12-30 Thread TJ Luoma
I am trying to block users on the command line like this: twurl -t -d screen_name=$1 /1/blocks/create.xml I am consistently getting - HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway\r\n as a response to this (Twitter Over Capacity) even when it works (verified via API and via website) Is this why so few 3rd

[twitter-dev] twurl is getting Read-only application cannot POST

2011-01-03 Thread TJ Luoma
I have authorized twurl successfully but when I try to create a block, it tells me that it's read only # twurl -t -d screen_name=dwikirowi /1/blocks/create.xml opening connection to api.twitter.com... opened - POST /1/blocks/create.xml HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\nConnection: close\r\nUser-Agent:

Re: [twitter-dev] twurl is getting Read-only application cannot POST

2011-01-04 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: To be able to send POST requests to the API you need to ensure your application is of access type: Read Write The message you are getting means your application is Read Only. To change this you need to visit 

Re: [twitter-dev] twurl is getting Read-only application cannot POST

2011-01-04 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Deleting applications is a known issue at the moment being tracked on our issue tracker:     http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=2040 Why is the 'delete' button still shown if you know it isn't

Re: [twitter-dev] twurl is getting Read-only application cannot POST

2011-01-04 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Go to https://twitter.com/settings/connections and find the application you are testing with. Coffee says that next to it will be read-only access. You will have to revoke access then a new authorization should work.

How do I uninstall/reinstall twurl? (was Re: [twitter-dev] twurl is getting Read-only application cannot POST)

2011-01-05 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: At this point I would recommend creating a new application. If you are still having issues deleting the existing one you should be able to rename it to something else and delete it later. I had the same idea. So I did

Re: How do I uninstall/reinstall twurl? (was Re: [twitter-dev] twurl is getting Read-only application cannot POST)

2011-01-06 Thread TJ Luoma
'twurl accounts' shows 3 consumer keys. Changing it to 2nd one does seem to have solved the problem. I don't know why, because, as I stated and demonstrated before, none of my apps were every read/write, but at this point I don't give a sh*t why, as long as it's working. It only cost me ~3 days of

Re: [twitter-dev] A new permission level

2011-05-19 Thread TJ Luoma
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Frank Ash nut...@gmail.com wrote: To disguise this as a security issue is laughable at best and a bit insulting. As USAmericans learned after 9/11/2001, you can push through just about any policy you want if you wrap it up as security. It's just astounding to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Unwanted Link Shortening with t.co

2011-05-22 Thread TJ Luoma
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: I understand what's happening. The issue is that now my domain doesn't appear in my tweets. It's a marketing issue. I'd like to know what the workaround is, since one seems to exist for other link shorteners. This is part of

[twitter-dev] Web page to see who I have blocked?

2011-05-24 Thread TJ Luoma
Is anyone aware of an oAuth-enabled web service which will show me who I have blocked on Twitter? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

Re: [twitter-dev] Web page to see who I have blocked?

2011-05-24 Thread TJ Luoma
://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/blocks/blocking) Hope that helps, Arnaud / @rno On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:03 AM, TJ Luoma luo...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone aware of an oAuth-enabled web service which will show me who I have blocked on Twitter? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https

Re: [twitter-dev] TweetDeck joins Twitter

2011-05-25 Thread TJ Luoma
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: When Tweetie became part of the Twitter family the user growth was huge, creating more opportunities for developers to build applications for the growing audience. Except for developers who had developed, you know,

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter's iOS integration and what this means for developers

2011-06-06 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Jason Costa jasonco...@twitter.com wrote: There have been a lot of questions about what the iOS announcement today means for developers. The integration points noted in Apple’s keynote create huge opportunities for both Twitter and iOS developers. The first