Re: [twitter-dev] Issues with OAuth

2010-07-19 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ap, This is the right place for reporting issues like this -- well, one of the right places anyway -- we have some issues with OAuth today that are related to some wider issues related to updating objects associated with users (like access tokens). We hope to have this fixed soon! Thanks,

Re: [twitter-dev] friends_ids.json and favorites.json return content truncated to 4659 bytes

2010-07-19 Thread Taylor Singletary
Thanks Mark! We're looking into this. It's related in some way to the duplicate HTTP headers we are sending and Content-Type/Content-Length issues. This is very helpful! Taylor On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: $ curl

[twitter-dev] Seeing weird, malformed HTTP responses? We're on it.

2010-07-19 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Developers, Along with a host of other issues we've been keeping you in the loop on http://status.twitter.com -- we have another issue that a number of you have pointed out: *Our HTTP responses appear to be insane.* - We're sending Content-Length twice, with differing numbers -- and

Re: [twitter-dev] abruptly cut connections with JSON

2010-07-19 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Cameron: We're looking into this particular instance of API nuttiness: http://bit.ly/9Z8j9B No word yet on whether it's directly related to the other issues floating around at the moment. Taylor On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: I'm getting reports

Re: [twitter-dev] Life of an access token

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi, Our system currently issues access tokens that do not expire, but may be revoked by the user at any time through their account settings. With the user's expectations properly communicated, an access token can be used to post updates any time. Taylor On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Sushil

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter account representing an application

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi, For a single login scenario like this, it's likely easiest to just use the My Token feature we have on the developer portal -- go to http://dev.twitter.com/apps and select your application (or create one if you need to), then when viewing your application's details page, select the My Token

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
=1279638245, oauth_consumer_key=150423549-eAqqrDB7nsbvxE85cHValKZazJ6z4137CEJ6Bnfn, oauth_token=tnruTl8uNRwGvICnzYpww, oauth_version=1.0 Is it Streaming API OAuth issue? Thanks, Kostya On Jul 19, 10:59 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Ap, This is the right place

Re: [twitter-dev] 500 error when requesting access token

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ryan, oauth_verifier is always required on the access token step in the OAuth 1.0a protocol, regardless of oauth_callback matching a pre-registered one or not. We'll pass the oauth_verifier to you on your callback step which you then need to send along with your access token request. You may

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1279640138%26oauth_token %3DtnruTl8uNRwGvICnzYpww%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26track%3D Thanks, Kostya On Jul 20, 6:18 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Kostya, I'm able to connect to the streaming API over OAuth fine

Re: [twitter-dev] Access personal Twitter direct messages from PHP script

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Khachik, For single-user applications like this, we've made it particularly easy to retrieve an access token for your own account -- on dev.twitter.com/appsjust navigate to the details page of your application and select the My Token button on the right-hand sidebar. This will provide you an

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: create a new app

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
This issue should be resolved now -- app creation and editing should work fine for you now. Do let us know if you continue to see the issue. Thanks! On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Tara t...@mac.com wrote: I've been getting this error when I try to save changes to an existing app, too.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
%26oauth_signature_method %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1279640138%26oauth_token %3DtnruTl8uNRwGvICnzYpww%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26track%3D Thanks, Kostya On Jul 20, 6:18 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Kostya, I'm able to connect to the streaming

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Issues with OAuth

2010-07-21 Thread Taylor Singletary
, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Kostya, I'm unable to reproduce your issue, unfortunately. Are you still getting a 500 error when trying to connect to streaming via OAuth? Have you tried using a different access token or even API key? Does

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Problems Loading Profile Images

2010-07-21 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Everyone, We had some issues with profile updates and image uploads last week and early this week. Some images uploaded in that time period resulted in incorrect image URLs, and while this should now be fixed for more recently updated/created images, those with avatars saved while in this

Re: [twitter-dev] Problems with Twitter4J and OAuth on Android

2010-07-21 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Clay, Just noticed that you have an API secret in this code sample you've provided -- you'll want to go to your application record and regenerate a new key/secret pair. As for the code itself -- I see you setting your consumer key and secret as constants near the top, but then in askOAuth

Re: [twitter-dev] Whitelist confirmation . . .

2010-07-21 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi there, We're a bit behind on processing whitelisting requests, as we had a hiatus of approving requests during the World Cup. Whitelisting is a privilege granted on a case-by-case basis (criteria and acceptance rates change over time), but we don't generally provide whitelisting for research

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Trying to do a GET after autenticating via OAuth

2010-07-21 Thread Taylor Singletary
the parameters through the query also? On Jul 21, 9:25 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, If you've gotten to the point of retrieving an access token, it's likely you managed to get the composite signing key right (or your library handled it for you) -- as when

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth page showing opening and ending tag mismatch

2010-07-22 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Jonathan, One conjecture I can think of based on the screenshot is that this may be due to the broken image upload issues we were having recently -- but the further reports on the original link you provided suggest otherwise. Looking into this. Taylor On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:11 AM,

Re: [twitter-dev] Twython 502 error

2010-07-22 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Dirk, Can you try adjusting the amount of users down to about 80 at a time and let me know if that stops the 502s? It's likely a performance problem. Taylor On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:14 AM, dirknbr dirk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am using twython with the bulk lookup method for 100 users

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Problems Loading Profile Images

2010-07-22 Thread Taylor Singletary
rbther...@gmail.com wrote: Not seen it happen at all anymore since corrections were made. On Jul 21, 2:08 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Everyone, We had some issues with profile updates and image uploads last week and early this week. Some images uploaded

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter oAuth for PHP, some advice needed

2010-07-22 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Paul G, In addition to Paul's great recommendations here, there's another shortcut you can use to more quickly implement the portions of OAuth you need to continue functioning. We offer the ability to simply get the access token for the user who owns your application, directly through an

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Not able to connect to twitter API from Google Appengine

2010-07-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi folks on Google App Engine experiencing difficulties, We're looking into it! Taylor On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Livid v2ex.li...@me.com wrote: I'm getting the same error for my community (with a built-in Twitter OAuth client) running on GAE: http://v2ex.appspot.com Traceback (most

Re: [twitter-dev] UnAuthorized exception

2010-07-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi George, Happy to help but just need to clarify a few things: xAuth isn't something you use when you're executing a Twitter API resource, like posting a tweet or fetching a timeline. You do use OAuth to sign the request. xAuth is just the variation of OAuth that you perform to obtain an OAuth

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Not able to connect to twitter API from Google Appengine

2010-07-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi folks on Google App Engine experiencing difficulties, We're looking into it! Taylor On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Livid v2ex.li...@me.com wrote: I'm getting the same error for my community (with a built-in Twitter OAuth client

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Not able to connect to twitter API from Google Appengine

2010-07-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
with the simple search request. So basically its for all API calls to twitter. -Nischal On Jul 23, 8:56 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hey all, We're still looking into this. To help us eliminate some possibile issues, can someone who's

Re: [twitter-dev] Status of contributions API?

2010-07-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
Our focus has veered a bit on the Contributors API -- the feature itself continues to be evaluated and utilized by a few accounts, but the actual API expression of using Contributor features is on hold for now as we focus on more important things. Would certainly make for some great client

Re: [twitter-dev] Breaking change on Lists API endpoint?

2010-07-23 Thread Taylor Singletary
Thanks for your good-humored analysis of the issue. This is a new feature we haven't documented or announced yet, and causes a conflict we should have obviously thought more deeply about in advance. Here's a work around to access the same end point you know and love for lists named all:

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth Echo Twitpic problems

2010-07-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Gerard, Though I know it doesn't sound like it should matter, can you try your request against Twitpic after inserting spaces after each comma in your Authorization Header? Also want to make sure that you aren't executing your verify_credentials request in the preparation sequence (calling the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: xAuth

2010-07-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi folks, Sorry to hear you're having trouble getting xAuth to work. First question: Have you applied for and been approved for xAuth privileges? Second question: If so, was this previously functioning for you and only now not working? Third question: Can you share, without compromising your

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth Echo Twitpic problems

2010-07-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json Any other ideas would be grateful, as I've spent over a week on trying to get Twitpic to work. Thank you Gerard On Jul 26, 3:38 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Gerard, Though I know it doesn't sound like it should

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth Echo Twitpic problems

2010-07-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
OK response, but not using Echo. Thanks for your help thus far. Gerard On Jul 26, 5:05 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Gerard, Steps 1-3 of this process are correct from the perspective of initially negotiating permissions for your user. Once you've

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth Echo Twitpic problems

2010-07-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
=15389554-7q4tTgSwJ9oB6iWZh7DvRjkn60eKTc1T4VRkNl4, oauth_version=1.0, oauth_signature=ImtWt09x9StbIV5H3G7xC3PM4bc%3D There's also another one in the first post. Thanks Gerard On Jul 26, 6:30 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Gerard, Thanks for the code sample

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting redundant places removed

2010-07-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Rajesh, We don't have a formal process yet for removing erroneous places from our database. Your best bet at the moment is to file a Support ticket, offering as much information as you can about the incorrect place (if you know the place_id, specific string for the name, lat/long, etc.)

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet entities in other api calls

2010-07-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
We'll have this available on nearly ever call that returns a tweet soon. Taylor On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:22 AM, _ado adri...@tijsseling.com wrote: Tweet entities are currently only shown for timeline api calls. Will it be available soon for all API calls returning tweet data?

Re: [twitter-dev] bypass @anywhere in blogpost replies

2010-07-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
First, I wanted to recommend that you check out our @Anywhere-specific mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-dev-anywhere One approach you could take is to explicitly declare all the containing blocks that you *do *want @usernames to be linkified in, rather than using the

Re: [twitter-dev] I can't authorization using OAuth.

2010-07-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
The first time the call fails it's a good fail as you can't verify the credentials of an account that you're not indicating any identifying means for. In the second example, we'll need more information to help you debug further. Can you share the HTTP Authorization header you passed to this

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting 401 Unautherised when tryint to authenticate with oauth on favorites create and destroy.

2010-07-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Onn, Our documentation at http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/favorites/create/:idmay have been unclear in the past (it may even still be unclear). You don't need to pass the id element directly as a parameter -- it's a globbed parameter from the resource URL itself -- can you try your request

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet entities in other api calls

2010-07-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
-research.net wrote: Even Search? Streaming? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: We'll have this available on nearly ever

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret

2010-07-27 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Folks, There are a few hold ups to rolling this out more widely, the most pressing being that we are currently unable to serve SSL content on dev.twitter.com-- there are also better solutions than this rudimentary one that we simply can't implement yet. We're also concerned with releasing (and

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter public timeline

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Alfredo, I recommend taking a look at the Twitter Streaming API at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api for an application like this. Taylor On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Alfredo Baraldi alfredo.bara...@gmail.comwrote: I'm creating an application that relies on public / timeline:

Re: [twitter-dev] Non-web application Authorization - Granting Multiple Times

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Gaurav, Once you've gone through all the steps of OAuth and have acquired an access token (made up of an oauth_token and oauth_token_secret), you can then persist the access token in whatever means of storage your application uses. Then, when making an API call on behalf of a Twitter user for

Re: [twitter-dev] Invalid / used nonce

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Mounir, Two things to verify: one is that you are using a timestamp that is within about 5 minutes of our system clocks. We return the current time in a Date HTTP header with every request. Second, verify that you've never used the nonce you are creating for each request -- this is across all

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Invalid / used nonce

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
of the communication, but it seems to be working again. (and again, I did not modify the code :) ) I will try again tomorrow, I hope it will be working. Regards On 28 juil, 17:27, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Mounir, Two things to verify: one is that you are using

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: C# Issues With Special Characters

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Milo, Though the process of URL encoding for OAuth is usually handled well by URL encoding libraries, there are times when they don't do the right things as far as what OAuth is expecting. Things like encoding ~ characters when they are to remain unencoded, for example. One thing you want to

[twitter-dev] Announcing a limited User Streams testing period for desktop apps

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
working with User Streams at http://bit.ly/user_streams Thanks! Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/epsiod

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: wating for whitelist confirmation for over a week

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Adam, We're processing requests again but have a considerable queue backed up. Taylor On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Adam Wride adamwr...@gmail.com wrote: Any word on the whitelist requests? On Jul 12, 2:49 pm, David dtran...@gmail.com wrote: Hey hkimscll, I think you just need

Re: [twitter-dev] How to get all Verified Users @ http://twitter.com/verified

2010-07-28 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Sean, Unfortunately there is no way to accomplish this using direct methods on the API at this time. Taylor On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Sean Callahan seancalla...@gmail.comwrote: Is there an API call or a quick way to get a list of all users on Twitter that are verified? I am

Re: [twitter-dev] Invalid / used nonce

2010-07-29 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Mounir, In this case I'm fairly confident then that it's the Twitter API implementation of OAuth that's at fault here and these invalid nonce errors are spurious for you. While I hate to suggest working around bugs like this, it might be your best strategy -- if you encounter an invalid nonce

[twitter-dev] Twitter Planned Network Maintenance on Sat, July 31st

2010-07-30 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Developers, Twitter’s hosting provider, NTT America, is upgrading a portion of our internal network starting on July 31st at 11PM Pacific (August 1st, at 600 UTC). This maintenance will last approximately five hours. During this time, there may be intermittent periods when some users are

Re: [twitter-dev] Whitelisting takes 7 days or 72 hours?

2010-07-30 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Rohit, We're behind in processing whitelisting requests and I don't have a good estimate of turn around time to give you right now. We're also in the process of re-evaluating our whitelisting policies. While we've never been cavalier in granting privileges to detailed requests for additional

[twitter-dev] Re: Discovering Who To Follow through the Twitter API

2010-07-30 Thread Taylor Singletary
/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: Hi Developers, We're rolling out new features to the site today called Suggestions for You, These features help users discover relevant Twitter users

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Cannot access homepage/timeline for over 24 hours

2010-08-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Everyone, Are you still experiencing this issue of getting a 500 when you load your home page? We had a brief time on Saturday where there were some systematic issues (and scheduled maintenance). Thanks, Taylor On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:35 AM, xfreakyn cheryl_funkys...@hotmail.comwrote:

Re: [twitter-dev] Can i hav an Auto Response to Tweets via API.

2010-08-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
We have a few rules on automation that are germaine to all who are considering building applications like this: http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915-automation-rules-and-best-practices Taylor On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: We can read Tweets

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting all retwitts for a specific twitt

2010-08-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
There would be no stable way to accomplish querying for all retweets performed on a specific Tweet using the REST or Search API today. A path to accomplishing this would be through the Streaming API ( http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#statuses-retweet ) -- specifically the retweet

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting Mentions using API (not for authenticated user)

2010-08-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
The mentions timeline via the REST API requires authentication as you noticed. While you can use the search API for this, your results will be limited by the tweets that enter the Search API's archive (more about what you won't find in the Search API:

Re: [twitter-dev] Image Uploading

2010-08-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi @dominiek, Here's that state of image uploading and the Twitter API (and website): Up until very recently, image upload via the API or on the site was a bit of a crap shoot -- it was a synchronous process, and if our servers couldn't process the image quickly enough or ran into any problems,

Re: [twitter-dev] UserShow authentication for AppEngine

2010-08-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
You can make calls to that resource without authentication. You will be rate limited by your IP address, which on Google App Engine means your rate limit will be shared by any other servers accessing Twitter from whatever your IP address is at the moment. You also could use OAuth and authenticate

Re: [twitter-dev] Image Uploading

2010-08-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
No one likes the black bars. We're working on it. Taylor On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Andrew W. Donoho andrew.don...@gmail.comwrote: On Aug 2, 2010, at 12:19 , Taylor Singletary wrote: Long story short, we're continuing to iterate on this issue and tweak the image manipulation routines

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What happened to updating display picture via API?

2010-08-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Raghu, We have a couple issues with image uploads at the moment that we're still cleaning up. Read a bit more about the current state of image uploads in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/461034bc45cdcfb4?hl=en_US Taylor On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:15

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Using the Authorization header

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Everyone on this thread, A few clarifications: - The realm isn't required, but we'll take a realm if you provide one. Really, it's a no-op in our system. We don't care if you have it or not, and if you provide it, we don't do anything with it. - Timestamp is important in that the

Re: [twitter-dev] Please help - OCRegister is search rate-limited, but we need to use it as a reporting tool

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Sonya, To request additional privileges for Search, just send an email to a...@twitter.com from the same email address as you have associated with your Twitter account. Include as many details as possible, including the IP addresses your office broadcasts from, and if possible, some example

Re: [twitter-dev] GAE Twitter API Access

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi there, The library you're trying to use only uses basic authentication which is about to completely go away. While there are many reasons your integration could not be working, the most likely is that you're being rate limited before you even make your first API call. If you use OAuth for

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth 401 Error

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi All, If you're using OAuth, you should have 350 API calls per hour on GET requests. The one-hour window begins after your first request within the group. Most POST requests are not rate limited, but have certain kinds of business logic limits that change from time to time. You may be running

Re: [twitter-dev] Count the favourited tweets of a specific user

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Joachim. There's no direct way to accomplish this right now and we don't have any official plans to enable this at this time. Taylor On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Joachim Seibert jseib...@seibert-media.netwrote: Hi there, I'm searching for the possibility to get the number how often

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API issue involving server cookies

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Mike, Thanks for reporting this bug, I'm able to reproduce and I'll report it to the team. Thanks! Taylor On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Mike Ward m...@blueonionsoftware.comwrote: There appears to be an issue with Twitter's API and cookies. The following yields no results found: GET

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How is this a solution?

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
in your open source projects. Taylor Singletary http://twitter.com/episod On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:34 PM, briandunnington briandunning...@gmail.comwrote: i have seen it stated a few times that this solution is still being evaluated and it sounds like it might not see the light of day (which

Re: [twitter-dev] search.twitter.com/search and api.twitter.com/1/search not returning the same.

2010-08-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Keef, At this time, api.twitter.com/1/search doesn't really exist. Except for when it does. It's an undocumented end point and we'd like everyone to move away from it. Because it is janky. Please use search.twitter.com for your search operations for now. Taylor On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:17

Re: [twitter-dev] Who to follow

2010-08-06 Thread Taylor Singletary
The Who to Follow/Recommended Users API is not yet ready. We'll announce it here when it is though. Thanks, Taylor On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:12 AM, iLyas ilyas.osmano...@gmail.com wrote: Who to follow is ready ?

Re: [twitter-dev] Some twitterapi updates unavailable

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Mark, We're looking into this and are not quite sure what's going on with these particular statuses. If you come across any other status ids that can't be fetched via statuses/show, cannot be favorited, or retweeted (all three actions fail with these particular tweets), please let us know the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
For clarity: There is nothing stopping you from using localhost as your oauth_callback during testing for OAuth 1.0a. While the form for your application on dev.twitter.com will not allow you to store a localhost domain as your pre-registered callback URL, our OAuth sub-system has no trouble

Re: [twitter-dev] what's wrong with the search API?

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Bruce, I can't help you without a bit more information -- this looks like debug output but I need more identifying information about the specific query you were executing, the URL you were executing it against, and if possible, the actual JSON or XML response from the server. Also helpful:

Re: [twitter-dev] Using @anywhere session credentials for REST API

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
We'll have a solution for this announced soon that will allow you to move more seamlessly between the (non-OAuth 1.0a) access tokens that make up @Anywhere requests and server-side REST requests using OAuth 1.0a access tokens. There are also other things you can do with @Anywhere using advanced

Re: [twitter-dev] List names - allowed characters

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
At this time: - List names can have up to 20 characters. - Slugs are automatically created based off of list names - All slugs are downcased and stripped at time of creation, most non-alphanumeric characters will be converted to dashses. - When comparing existing list slugs for the current user,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Punit, First, some advice: I recommend using HTTP header-based OAuth rather than putting your OAuth parameters directly in the query string. It separates concerns and makes your debugging ultimately easier. That said, the first issue you're probably running into is that you aren't

Re: [twitter-dev] Can we automate the user login process on twitter...

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Punit, The OAuth sequence cannot be automated. For web-based applications, you will have to do the entire OAuth sequence, utilizing either a callback or the PIN-code/out-of-band flow. Desktop and native mobile applications that demonstrate a need and adhere to our policies can request

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
(the user and the application). On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Andrew W. Donoho andrew.don...@gmail.comwrote: On Aug 9, 2010, at 08:37 , Taylor Singletary wrote: As a reminder, it's proper OAuth to always send an oauth_callback on the request token step of OAuth negotiation -- even if you've

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
The friends/ids method has a friend of its own: users/lookup -- which allows you to bulk your users/show calls by about 100 users at a time. So you would perform the sequence of using friends/ids and then for each set of 100 ids you get back, you'd send them to users/lookup to get the detailed

Re: [twitter-dev] Uploading a Profile Image help

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Also a reminder: the Twitter API is at the http://api.twitter.com subdomain. Twitter API has version numbers in the URL as well. The original poster in this thread is using http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml when they should be using

Re: [twitter-dev] archive search

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Ilija, You're right, the Search API and search.twitter.com does not go very far back in time. Twitter does not offer an API that can retrieve or search against historical tweets at this time. Taylor On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Ilija subasic.il...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible

[twitter-dev] Seesmic Desktop joins the Twitter User Streams preview period

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
, like the favoriting or retweeting of your tweets. Learn more about developing with User Streams at http://bit.ly/user_streamsand download the new Seesmic Desktop 2 beta with User Streams at http://d.seesmic.com/sdp/install.html?config=main . Keep on streaming, Taylor Singletary Developer

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and a readonly app

2010-08-10 Thread Taylor Singletary
The other kind of OAuth is called two-legged OAuth, where the only identifying party is the application itself. There may be a future where some resources are available via two-legged OAuth but we haven't decided anything for sure yet. Taylor On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Brian Medendorp

Re: [twitter-dev] Sign in automatically

2010-08-10 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Diogo, If you're intent is to provide access to multiple users for the same Twitter account, at this time it'd be best for you to obtain an access token for the Twitter account and your application (we offer a feature on dev.twitter.comthat makes this very easy, you can find it in the sidebar

Re: [twitter-dev] The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

2010-08-10 Thread Taylor Singletary
Can you share how you're making the request? With what language and library? When we return an error we usually include more information than just the status code. Was there any structured data in the response indicating the reason it may be forbidden? What's the exact URL and POST body you are

Re: [twitter-dev] search randomly limits result set

2010-08-10 Thread Taylor Singletary
The search API's available corpus of tweets for search varies -- it's not always exactly a week, as tweet velocity has an effect on how many tweets can be made readily available for searching. Search also contains only a portion of the total amount of tweets in the system at any one time:

Re: [twitter-dev] statuses/friends_timeline doesn't return replies

2010-08-11 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi PBro, This typically works pretty well though there is the odd case of a missing @mention here and there. Could you verify that both user1 and user2 are being followed by the observer user? Thanks, Taylor On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:55 AM, PBro brouwe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to

Re: [twitter-dev] Trying to post update results in 500 Internal Server Error

2010-08-11 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi there, One thing that sticks out is your oauth_timestamp in that example.. it should be the UTC epoch time, in seconds. You'll want to remove extra granularity. Taylor On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:21 AM, rara-avis brittany.hun...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. I'm trying to post an update to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends_timeline doesn't return replies

2010-08-11 Thread Taylor Singletary
and user pbro is following both user1 and 2. So yes the observer user is following both users. On Aug 11, 4:13 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi PBro, This typically works pretty well though there is the odd case of a missing @mention here and there. Could

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Trying to post update results in 500 Internal Server Error

2010-08-11 Thread Taylor Singletary
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:45 AM, rara-avis brittany.hun...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks. I did that, but problem still remains. On Aug 11, 10:29 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, One thing that sticks out is your oauth_timestamp in that example.. it should

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth and Hardware

2010-08-11 Thread Taylor Singletary
One implementation option you have is to build only the portions of OAuth that you need to meet your goals. On dev.twitter.com we provide a feature that allows you to retrieve the access token for your own account, owning the application. You would then hard code this access token and your API

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can we use localhost to tweet messages using oAuth authentication??

2010-08-11 Thread Taylor Singletary
If your intent is to have Twitter redirect to a specific URL after the OAuth authetnication page is complete, you'll want to make sure that your application is marked as being a web-based application and you've provided a default callback URL (even though it doesn't have to correspond to your

Re: [twitter-dev] New app for every Twitter account?

2010-08-11 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Marc, In this case, instead of using the username/password of a different account while making a request, you would use an access token/access token secret belonging to a different account. You don't need to create separate applications for each account, but you need to authorize the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Any way to turn off 'user-scalable' meta tag in OAuth authorization form?

2010-08-12 Thread Taylor Singletary
There's no known way to do this today, Tony. While it's obviously not a policy at Twitter, I thought I'd just take the time to share my personal opinion on embedded web views and the OAuth flow: - Not into it. Why? somewhat-related-opinion By redirecting to a standard web browser on the

Re: [twitter-dev] Cannot get the access token,

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi OLiE, I'm not too experienced with Android programming, so am unsure whether your code is correct or not. But there's something you might want to check on dev.twitter.com/apps and that's whether your application is set as browser and with a default callback URL set. This is a quirk in our

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

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
We had some caching/rate limiting issues related to tweet counts for a portion of yesterday but these should be relieved now. Please let us know if you continue seeing the zero counts after a reasonable amount of time (they won't update instantaneously). On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, artesea

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

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi James, Can you share more about your certificate issues? Can you share some URLs where we can investigate or if you're implementing it yourself, the particulars of your configuration? Thanks, Taylor On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:30 AM, James Jones ja...@freedomnet.co.nz wrote: getting cert

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is Twitter misusing their own t.co url shortener?

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Nik's analysis here is correct -- t.co links will always be 20 characters. When building a character counter in an application, you'll know that any pasted URL comprises exactly 20 characters. Taylor On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Nik Fletcher nik.fletc...@gmail.comwrote: I don't know how

[twitter-dev] Important: Basic Auth will be temporarily turned off for 10 minutes at 2pm Pacific TODAY

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Developers, Today we're going to do a brief exercise with turning basic authentication off for 5 to 10 minutes at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern. This is to simulate the effect that the deprecation of basic auth will have -- both on applications and our own servers. This is the first of such tests

[twitter-dev] Twitter API the Basic Auth Shutdown: Everything you need to know.

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
transitioning your application, we recommend reading our write up at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/basic_to_oauth and leveraging the Twitter Developer mailing list when you need assistance. As always, we're here to help. Let's walk into this new morning together. Thanks, Taylor Singletary Developer

Re: [twitter-dev] Reading Tweets on Date

2010-08-16 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Anil, There's no way to fixate the search API on a specific date in exactitude. Instead, you could perform a query similar to the one you have in your example here to bound the results until a certain date, then use the rpp and page paramaters to paginate through the set iteratively, stopping

Re: [twitter-dev] Tracking Twitter Client Statistics

2010-08-16 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Victor, Currently the best means to track these kind of statistics is likely by maintaining them yourself. With an application on the iPhone platform, you could utilize a local cache on the device, counting API actions and interesting statistics, then batch push them to your own server for

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