Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Making the twitter user the default user of your application

2010-02-05 Thread John Meyer
On 2/5/2010 11:00 AM, Jorge Vargas wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, hernangarcia wrote: Hey man, good morning. If you are developing a web app, OAUTH is the way to go. I am using Twitter4J but for sure oauth-python-twitter has methods to do the same, this is what I do: after investi

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter.com Help

2010-02-08 Thread John Meyer
On 2/8/2010 9:23 AM, Jamie McElwain wrote: Is it possible to specify a custom Application using "http:// twitter.com/?status"? If so, how can it be done? Thanks, Jamie Exactly what do you mean by specifying a custom application? Are you saying you want the tweets to say sent via "custom a

Re: [twitter-dev] oAuth and more users?

2010-02-08 Thread John Meyer
On 2/8/2010 7:25 AM, _Bensn wrote: Hi there, is it possible to develope a twitter application which uses oauth and it can be used by more different users without that every user musst create the customer key and -secret? we want to develope a own twitter application with own api, and we also wan

Re: [twitter-dev] Link to Individual DM

2010-02-08 Thread John Meyer
On 2/8/2010 5:26 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: I'm trying to find a format that allows me to link directly to individual DMs on Twitter - is this possible? Googling isn't finding anything. Jesse http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-direct_messages%C2%A0sent http://apiwiki.twitter.c

Re: [twitter-dev] Link to Individual DM

2010-02-08 Thread John Meyer
On 2/8/2010 6:58 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Meyer mailto:john.l.me...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2/8/2010 5:26 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: I'm trying to find a format that allows me to link directly to individual DMs on Twitter - is th

Re: [twitter-dev] Link to Individual DM

2010-02-08 Thread John Meyer
On 2/8/2010 6:58 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Meyer mailto:john.l.me...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2/8/2010 5:26 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: I'm trying to find a format that allows me to link directly to individual DMs on Twitter - is th

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth for softwares

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
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. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-oauth-authorize You may not like the fact that you have to integrate a web page, but it is

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
On 2/9/2010 9:20 AM, ryan alford wrote: Your users should not be required to get their own consumer key and consumer secret. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 9, 2010 10:04 AM, "_Bensn" mailto:benjaminroh...@t-online.de>> wrote: Where can they create there own keys? here - https://twitter.com/a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
On 2/9/2010 8:09 AM, _Bensn wrote: @ John Meyer - thanks for editing my post with the url. Is it right, every user who wants to use our application must at first register the application? Yeah. It might be construed as more effort than a basic authentication, but I don't believe it is

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
On 2/9/2010 10:03 AM, ryan alford wrote: So you are saying that the user of a third party application must register a completely new consumer key and consumer secret? Again, you have your terminology wrong. They get a completely new set of oAuth tokens. Same as the fact that every user of tw

Re: [twitter-dev] google app engine and search api

2010-02-09 Thread John Kalucki
ndrum. I'd suggest proxying through another server, or hosting your entire application elsewhere. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:16 AM, enes akar wrote: > Hi; > I have just launched a web site that uses twitter search a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
Is this really necessary? Unless you're web site does some sort of automated action when the user is there I would think this is a little unnecessary (and somewhat an invasion of privacy). On 2/9/2010 1:52 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: Ryan, Re 1) It will probably work best if one can enter a

Re: [twitter-dev] Whitelist IP address in the event that a higher rate limit is needed

2010-02-10 Thread John Kalucki
Federico, Perhaps you could describe your application in a little more detail? If your application is going to be performing automatic repetitive searches, you should be using the Streaming API: http://bit.ly/6JNdZc -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed

Re: [twitter-dev] Longitude and latitude Pairs for major cities

2010-02-10 Thread John Kalucki
You want to find the southwest corner and the northeast corner of each region you wish to cover. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Mark Mason wrote: > I can get a longitude and latitude for a city like chicago, but I d

Re: [twitter-dev] Looking for someone to help wiith oauth

2010-02-10 Thread John Meyer
On 2/10/2010 7:48 AM, Merrows wrote: I am seeking someone skilled in .NET 3.5, C# to help with implementing twitter oauth, and I would welcome any suggestions of how to find someone. TwitterVB implemetns oAuth and can be used with any .NET compliant language: http://twittervb.codeplex.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist IP address in the event that a higher rate limit is needed

2010-02-10 Thread John Kalucki
Post-processing is often required with the Streaming API. -John On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Doza wrote: > I see that searching for phrases is not supported in the Streaming > API. Are there any plans to include that? If not, would the solution > be to add each individual te

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth & maintaining tokens?

2010-02-11 Thread John Meyer
On 2/11/2010 9:30 AM, Paul wrote: My question at last is then, what are good practices for the 3rd party site? Should the site request the user to reauthorize with Twitter each& every time he/she comes to the site? Should the 3rd party site have it's own login/username/password for users and

Re: [twitter-dev] Using multiple whitelisted IP's to fetch data of a single user without break

2010-02-11 Thread John Kalucki
This is going to be tough with cursors. Parallel fetch has been well-aired on the list, and the demand is well-understood within Twitter. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Rushikesh Bhanage wrote: > Hi, > > We are b

Re: [twitter-dev] Sorting by date

2010-02-11 Thread John Kalucki
t statuses. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Quy 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 sequentially goi

Re: [twitter-dev] 401 Authentication Error for Streaming API

2010-02-12 Thread John Kalucki
twitter dot com to get a ticket, or just to me.) -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:04 AM, djpatra wrote: > Hi, > > I was launching single streaming api requests from my Amazon EC2 > instance. I didn't record the

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter dropping lot more tweets than it is fetching

2010-02-12 Thread John Kalucki
ms are exact-matched, and also exact-matched ignoring punctuation. Phrases, keywords with spaces, are not supported. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:39 PM, djpatra wrote: > For a project I want to collect all tweets containing

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth connection and timestamp

2010-02-13 Thread John Meyer
There are several libraries for j2me. Are you talking about a library or an actual twitter client. In either case you would probably be better asking in a client-specific web forum or mailing list. On 2/13/2010 10:22 AM, Fauzil Hamdi wrote: anyone ? On 13 February 2010 19:56, Fauzil Hamdi m

Re: [twitter-dev] Applying for increased twitter stream access

2010-02-15 Thread John Kalucki
approvals and make the whole process a lot clearer and a lot more transparent. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Dima wrote: > Hey, > > Just wanted to make a quick comment and ask if somebody could please > update the d

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

2010-02-15 Thread John Kalucki
in your client, or you haven't been granted access. Contact a...@twitter.com about the later, post here about the former. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Quy wrote: > I applied to get a "shadow" role

Re: [twitter-dev] iPhone twitter streaming app

2010-02-15 Thread John Kalucki
able to support one user on your application -- yourself. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Carl Knott wrote: > Hi, I've written a twitter steaming app that visualizes twitter search > results. I am connecting

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API Irregularity

2010-02-15 Thread John Kalucki
at a...@twitter.com. Please send a brief company description and your use case. There is a retweet stream, but it only provides explicit retweets, not informal RT style retweets. Also, the retweet stream is generally unavailable until we announce our commercial license framework, which should be soon. -John Ka

Re: [twitter-dev] iPhone twitter streaming app

2010-02-16 Thread John Kalucki
hat you've implemented the policies described in the wiki, and double-checked the list at the end of the wiki, and you should be fine. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Carl Knott wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I will

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-17 Thread John Meyer
On 2/15/2010 4:14 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: Oh for crying out loud, is everyone now going to stare themselves blind at the phrase "Gestapo-like" and forget about the issue at hand? It is meant to portray a one-sided action where the accused party is not afforded a voice, or his/her objections,

Re: [twitter-dev] Is it OK to store token in COOKIE?

2010-02-17 Thread John Meyer
On 2/17/2010 5:32 AM, Dmitri Snytkine wrote: Just wondering, is it a bad practive for a web-based app to store user's token and secret in cookies? This would of cause simplify and speed up the login, but is it a security risk? When you boil it down, everything done to increase accessibility i

Re: [twitter-dev] Quite possibly the best tweet I've ever seen.

2010-02-17 Thread John Meyer
On 2/17/2010 12:09 PM, Scott Wilcox wrote: Hi folks, I wouldn't usually post something of this nature but I think you'll agree its worth reading. I give you quite possibly the best tweet I've ever seen: http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong/status/9045920131 Scott. Good, although Tila Tequila

Re: [twitter-dev] Deleting tweets tracked by keyword

2010-02-17 Thread John Kalucki
In this case, we don't have the original status text to match, so we can't forward the deletion message to you. In the follow case, I'm pretty sure that we do send the deletion message, but there are issues with retweet, etc. etc. So, it varies on fractional streams. Best effort all

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Sorting by date

2010-02-18 Thread John Kalucki
ving these sorts of challenges, and they aren't always easy, interest you: http://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oAPbVfwf,Job -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Quy wrote: > Hi John, > > Does that mean that stat

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API question

2010-02-19 Thread John Kalucki
ct a close, driven by either a TCP Close or a TCP Reset. I've run connections over the public internet with close monitoring and rarely noticed a timeout. If you point the same client at a file of streaming data on a web server, does the client detect the end of file at the correct point? -Jo

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter site URL hijacks my sharepoint portal page

2010-07-29 Thread John Adams
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Hemanth wrote: > I have a sharepoint portal page with few web parts. One of these web > parts is a sharepoint page viewer web part. When I configure the page > viewer web part with the URL www.twitter.com and click on OK button, > my portal page is hijacked and r

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API for lists

2010-07-30 Thread John Kalucki
We were planning to do lists, but we postponed the feature to get the bulk of User Streams to market sooner and to also get User Streams out to more users. We'll consider lists as an add-on later. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010

[twitter-dev] DNS change on stream.twitter.com

2010-08-03 Thread John Kalucki
P addresses are always discouraged. If, for some obscure reason, you have an outbound firewall rule by IP address on your client's host, connections may begin to periodically fail as traffic is routed to new IP addresses. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.

Re: [twitter-dev] twitter api for get tweets info that include a "#nowplaying" tag.

2010-08-04 Thread John Kalucki
Check into the Streaming API filter endpoint with the track parameter. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Prakash Panchal wrote: > Hello All, > > i want twitter api for tweets that include a "#nowplaying"

Re: [twitter-dev] Firehose bandwidth requirements

2010-08-04 Thread John Kalucki
average) -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Gonzalo Larralde wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to find an estimation/report of the bandwidth requirements to > download the firehose stream. Anyone here can share this inform

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter streaming api

2010-08-05 Thread John Kalucki
Are you getting retweets of the specified users by other users? Please send an example query and an example tweet markup that was delivered, but shouldn't have been delivered. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Idoshilon wrote: > I

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API and lists

2010-08-12 Thread John Kalucki
If everyone on the list is public, you can fetch the user ids via REST, then use follow. Protected accounts won't show, of course. Also, on User Streams, you cannot specify your follow list. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:39 AM, thiago

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming API 401

2010-08-12 Thread John Kalucki
I can see from the logs that, on at least one occasion, your account was logging in too often and was login rate limited. Log in once and keep the connection open as long as possible. If you keep churning the connection, you'll get limited, and eventually banned. -John Kalucki http://twitte

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter 140 character limit break

2010-08-14 Thread John Adams
I filed a bug with our webclient team. Thanks for finding this. -john On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > On 8/14/10 9:29 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > > On 8/14/10 9:27 PM, Chris White wrote: > >> It appears that the new twitter share link can be

Re: [twitter-dev] Entities support on the Streaming API

2010-08-23 Thread John Kalucki
User Streams is an endpoint on the Streaming API, so, yes, it gets the same data. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:48 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky < zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote: > Does that include user streams (I hope I ho

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-23 Thread John Kalucki
We're not using Cassandra to store tweets just yet. See: http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/cassandra-at-twitter-today.html I don't think we've announced our approach for tweet storage as yet. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Mon, Aug 23, 201

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-25 Thread John Kalucki
It'll still be a long int. I don't know what format is. User_id generation will, someday, be similar. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:59 PM, D. Smith wrote: > Ok, so what column type show we make the status_id now in MySQL? &

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming API rate limiting frequency-track

2010-08-26 Thread John Kalucki
You can test new keywords with a default access account to get an idea of their velocity, then roll it into your main account. Exactitude isn't helpful, as word frequency varies as the tweet volume varies. The limit rates are fixed and have not changed in over a year. -John Kalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: REST API Limits going down

2010-08-26 Thread John Adams
Whitelisting only affects your rate limits. It does not remove authentication or change security requirements. -j On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, David Toussaint < david.toussa...@azionare.de> wrote: > Thanks! I am aware of that switch already but I was not aware that it > is necessary to use

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

2010-08-26 Thread John Kalucki
Every account has access to a default level of track access on the Streaming API. The default access should be sufficient for most keywords. Higher access levels are available on request. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Quy wrote: >

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

2010-08-26 Thread John Kalucki
The number of keywords allowed are documented here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#statuses-filter Try queries with a varying number of keywords and see where you get a 4XX... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Quy

Re: [twitter-dev] Get all the statuses for an specific hashtag

2010-08-28 Thread John Kalucki
You want filter.json with the track parameter. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:51 PM, gabitoju wrote: > Hi everyone. > I've been reading the API documentation and the streaming API docs but > I haven't been able to find a

Re: [twitter-dev] Entities support in Streaming API

2010-08-28 Thread John Kalucki
Our intention is to now leave entities on permanently on the Streaming API. -John On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky < zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote: > Everything looks good here for entities on user streams. Is this now live > permanently, or will ther

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread John Kalucki
Desktop clients that support multiple accounts should continue to open multiple connections on User Streams. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > My initial thought was that this was for applications l

Re: [twitter-dev] Site streams and privacy

2010-08-30 Thread John Kalucki
Site Streams do not change anything in the Twitter privacy model. OAuth'ed applications have always been able to pull your direct messages via the REST API. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:05 PM, jmathai wrote: > I haven't k

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread John Kalucki
ay be little practical efficiency gain. Bandwidth and CPU are nearly free at 1mbit/sec. It's all a balance. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > This is super news. > > However, if you're going to f

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread John Kalucki
Thanks. I've clarified the language. -John On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > John, > > Perhaps you should then rephrase the following at > http://bit.ly/sitestream_doc > > "One Site Streams graduates to production, sites must only use the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread John Kalucki
It's cached. It'll update via a process that is mysterious to me. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > John, > > Is that page cached, because the third sentence of the first bullet > under Important Items still says *exactly* the same? > > On A

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Streaming API access limits increased

2010-08-30 Thread John Kalucki
Spritzer remains at 1%. We can't increase this one at the moment due to technical reasons unrelated to capacity or policy. We'll probably leave this at 1% for a while. Ha. Totally unrelated to Snowflake. Related changes coming soon though. -John On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:30 AM, M.

Re: [twitter-dev] Can we have bulk statuses/show?

2010-09-01 Thread John Kalucki
Fetching a random list of statuses is likely to include a number of statuses that are not in cache. I think accounting for them on a one-by-one basis models our cost fairly well. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Jaanus wrote: >

Re: [twitter-dev] statuses/filter track and retweets

2010-09-01 Thread John Kalucki
matched term is the last word in the text. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Kostya Nikolayev wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using "statuses/filter?track=something" streaming api. > > Noticed that it doesn't return na

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-09-01 Thread John Kalucki
or use the REST API as a fall-back data source. Disruptions during the beta period should be expected and masked by this fall-back. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > John, > > That page still says exactly the same. > > On Aug 30, 5:24 pm, John Kalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] undo retweets in stream api

2010-09-01 Thread John Kalucki
Other than taking the firehose, I don't know how one would keep retweet counts perfectly in sync. Perhaps a statistical model and some sampling via REST will allow you to derate counts with reasonable accuracy? -John On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Furkan Kuru wrote: > Is there any

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: making twitter in asp.net

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 2:07 AM, vijay parmar wrote: On Aug 29, 9:12 pm, vijay parmar wrote: hello sir, i m vijay parmar, i m in 7th sem(B.E. IT)i m making a project of twitter in asp.net... i kindly need your help so plz give me some idea about making twitter in asp.net so i can start making my proj

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 8/19/2010 11:50 AM, briandunnington wrote: as Julio stated above, the official response from Taylor (in another thread) was that this solution will *not* be rolled out. there is currently no other alternative being offered other. and just to repeat what has already been said a few time in thi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 6:03 PM, Mike Desjardins wrote: Yes, and your application's consumer secret ends with the following characters: jOU I obviously know the entire string and have the good sense not to reveal it here. The point is, it's trivially easy for me or anybody else to unzip your "packaged dow

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 6:46 PM, Julio Biason wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Meyer wrote: And that assumes that you distribute the consumerkey and consumersecret with the app. Nothing about Open Source requires this. You could just as easily just distribute the source and require that users

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 7:01 PM, Julio Biason wrote: That's the whole problem with it. Yes, one could simply strings(1) one Mac app and probably retrieve the keys and spam the hell of Twitter with it. For the spammer, it doesn't matter if the key is revoked as he could just get another one; the real problem

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 7:01 PM, Julio Biason wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:56 PM, John Meyer wrote: And rendering the key useless to the spammer. And to you. And your users. That's the whole problem with it. Yes, one could simply strings(1) one Mac app and probably retrieve the keys and spa

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 7:47 PM, Julio Biason wrote: OAuth certainly makes sense as a model for "never type your password in some weird site 'cause you don't know when they say that they couldn't connect to Twitter is really that or they are just storing your login and password to abuse the ecosystem". The

Re: [twitter-dev] How to access the twitter-streams

2010-09-01 Thread John Kalucki
Spritzer is the default level of the sample endpoint. I clarified the documentation. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:24 AM, yaemog Dodigo wrote: > I guess I found it... > > http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json > > is this the spritzer stream? > > I got it from: > http://dev.twitter.com/pag

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Rollout

2010-09-01 Thread John Meyer
On 9/1/2010 9:34 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I just got an email from Twitter about oAuth and t.co. Given that I have about five accounts, I assume I will get more copies. ;-) Anyhow, in the section on t.co, there was this line: "You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that h

Re: [twitter-dev] Connevct to another users application

2010-09-02 Thread John Meyer
On 9/2/2010 2:48 AM, Frank P wrote: Hi There, I am a website builder and used a Twitter API to update a Twitter status when a webaster wrote a new newsitem on his site. Now I have to rewrite the api to use oAUTH. I got it working but is it possible to register the application once and let other

Re: [twitter-dev] Are IDs globally unique? Or just unique for each object type?

2010-09-03 Thread John Kalucki
Unique for each object type. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Colin Howe wrote: > Are IDs globally unique? Or just unique for each object type? > > In other words, is it possible to have a user with the ID 7 and also a > DM with the ID 7? > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: ht

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Home timeline without authentication

2010-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
This won't contain protected accounts, and would only contain tweets from the last ten minutes or so. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Karthik wrote: > > - Create a fake user that has follows the same accounts, > >

Re: [twitter-dev] Hi there

2010-09-05 Thread John Kalucki
These questions are all answered in the documentation: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, omri wrote: > I have a few questions regarding the streaming API : > How many maximum results I have in one response? > Is there a limit of requests? > Is it possibl

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Hi there

2010-09-05 Thread John Kalucki
y a random sample of approximately 10% of the Firehose. You can apply for the Gardenhose by emailing a...@twitter.com. Detail your organization and use case. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Yeah, well, the idea o

Re: [twitter-dev] User Streams or Site Streams?

2010-09-07 Thread John Kalucki
User Streams onto a single connection. To use User Streams would consume an awful lot of resources on both ends. Site Steams does and will support Home Timelines -- but we're not ready to beta this feature just yet due to a performance issue that we're working through. -John Ka

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API

2010-09-07 Thread John Kalucki
ll of their statuses, but not their timelines. This feature has been in production for over a year. If you have OAuth tokens for the users, you can use the Site Streams beta to get protected user's statuses, but currently you will also get a lot of other information for them as well. -John Ka

Re: [twitter-dev] help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-07 Thread John Kalucki
s you haven't provided parameters to track. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM, omri wrote: > def run (self): >status_url = "http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json"; >request = urllib2.Request(s

Re: [twitter-dev] User Streams or Site Streams?

2010-09-07 Thread John Kalucki
As long as you meet the general Terms of Service and follow the Developers rules you should be fine. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Rainux Luo wrote: > Hey John, thanks for your detailed explanation. Another problem I'm > worry about is, although I'll run the app on my VPS

Re: [twitter-dev] Retweet a listed tweet

2010-09-08 Thread John Kalucki
Is the tweet in question from a protected user? -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Ken wrote: > As I work today on some features related to lists, I wonder again why, > on Twitter.com, I am unable to retweet a tweet that appears on

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retweet a listed tweet

2010-09-08 Thread John Kalucki
That is weird. It has been fixed though, but I don't know when the fix will deploy. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Ken wrote: > No... just to clarify, I'm talking about the Twitter.com website. I've > wondered a

[twitter-dev] User Streams Update

2010-09-08 Thread John Kalucki
the cracks, and I want to ensure that everyone has appropriate access to this API. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracke

Re: [twitter-dev] User Streams Update

2010-09-08 Thread John Kalucki
As soon as an issue is clear, we tend to announce what we've learned. If I had the list of changes ready to go, I would have posted them. The current general Twitter API TOS applies to User Streams. Follow the TOS and the User Streams Implementation Suggestions... -John Kalucki

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
What text message does it return with the 401 error? You can still use basic auth with streaming. Does that work for you? You should use your screenname and password for basic auth. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:48 AM, omri wrote: >

Re: [twitter-dev] how to apply Birddog role

2010-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
Without more details about your product, it's hard to direct you to the right Twitter product. Please detail your organization and use case to an email to a...@twitter.com. Note that we aren't granting many whitelist requests at this point, so you may have to wait for a response. -Jo

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
Screenname and password. Your @username, not your email address. -John On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:56 AM, omri wrote: > this is the message i get : > > File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 516, in > http_error_default >raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, m

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-09 Thread John Kalucki
Which URL are you requesting? What is the text message returned? Does this doc help? http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_response_codes -John On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:45 AM, omri wrote: > so.. > succeded with the username and password but now i have : > HTTPError: HTTP

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweet button SSL

2010-09-09 Thread John Adams
At the moment SSL tweet buttons are unsupported. -j On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Jordan McKible wrote: > As far as I can tell, the Tweet button javascript does not work on > https pages without warnings. Chrome in particular gives one of those > big red page warnings involving an Akamai dom

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: help with accessing the streaming api

2010-09-11 Thread John Kalucki
the non-working solution. In this case, do you have access to the firehose? Can you use an existing client library? There are dozens of clients for the Streaming API out there. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:36 AM, omri wrote: > I requ

Re: [twitter-dev] Is gardenhose being ramped up?

2010-09-13 Thread John Kalucki
four times as large as daily peak traffic. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Sanjay wrote: > I just took a look at my bandwidth usage from last night to see the > effect of the VMAs (dramatic BTW), and thought I'd check it out

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is gardenhose being ramped up?

2010-09-13 Thread John Kalucki
I don't know what it could be. We took a spike during the VMAs, but that doesn't match with your data. I'd examine your connection logs to see if you were cycling excessively in the past, or dropping tweets due to parsing errors, or something of that sort... -John On Mon, Sep 13

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search/Stream API

2010-09-15 Thread John Kalucki
Also, all automated repetitive searching should be on the Streaming API. Search is intended largely for ad-hoc queries. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Justin wrote: > Also, from what I understand, search may not include everyth

Re: [twitter-dev] Question about User Vs Site Streams, and Moving away from REST calls.

2010-09-15 Thread John Kalucki
er Streams and Site Streams via revocation of access. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Justin wrote: > I've successfully migrated one of my sites away from making search and > mention rest calls, switched over to the streami

Re: [twitter-dev] Question about User Vs Site Streams, and Moving away from REST calls.

2010-09-16 Thread John Kalucki
nection and a Site Stream connection with a single user have the same cost. Sorry for the incomplete answer. Does this make sense? -John On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Hi John, > > This seems like a rather strange policy. Is the cost of having one User >

Re: [twitter-dev] 401s from http://stream.twitter.com/statuses/filter

2010-09-16 Thread John Kalucki
Streaming still supports basic auth, but User Streams and Site Streams endpoints only support OAuth. If you are getting 401s, chances are you are violating a connection policy. -John On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Aaron Rankin wrote: > I'm seeing plenty of 401s returned from th

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter client to get updates

2010-09-17 Thread John Kalucki
Look into the User Streams endpoint on the Streaming API if you are building a desktop notification service. If you are building a centralized service, you'll want Site Streams. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:41 AM, ram wrote: > I

[twitter-dev] Policy clarification on Streaming API, User Stream and Site Stream products

2010-09-17 Thread John Kalucki
ter client. - *Site Streams:* Allows multiplexing of multiple User Streams over a Site Stream connection. Once more than a handful of User Streams connections are opened from the same host or service, Site Streams *must be* used. The primary use case is website and other service integration

Re: [twitter-dev] Policy clarification on Streaming API, User Stream and Site Stream products

2010-09-17 Thread John Kalucki
We haven't made any decisions about Basic Auth and the Streaming API. Yes, the policy is vague about connection cardinality. We're still in beta... -John On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:31 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky < zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote: > -- > M. Edwa

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter client to get updates

2010-09-18 Thread John Kalucki
It sounds like you should make a REST call to fetch the mentions when you render the page. -John On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:54 AM, ram wrote: > I would like to show the consumers his notifications ( tweets of > people he follows ) when he logs in to our portal. > > Is there a D

[twitter-dev] updating profile Image

2010-09-20 Thread John Meyer
I'm getting a 404 error using the URL http://api.twitter.com/1/account/update_profile_image.xml Is that the correct URL or should I be using something else? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issue

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