[twitter-dev] Moving from basic auto to OAuth - and hi!

2010-05-05 Thread themattharris
get as much information to you as we can and listening to your questions and comments as you create cool applications that integrate with Twitter. If you want to get ahold of me you can use this Google Group or find me on Twitter as @themattharris. I'll also be out and about at various events

[twitter-dev] Elevated API latency

2010-05-10 Thread themattharris
://twitter.com/twitterapi and to this mailing list when we have them. Thank you to all the developers who have provided us with examples and datasets of where this has happened to them. Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Annotations Hackfest

2010-05-26 Thread themattharris
Hey everyone, This week the Twitter Engineering team announced they are running an annotation Hackfest. The event will be this weekend (29-30 May) at Twitter HQ (795 Folsom St. San Francisco) and is free to attend. Places are limited so if you want to attend sign up today! If you are in the Bay

[twitter-dev] Re: Annotations Hackfest

2010-05-26 Thread themattharris
Great question. We're really excited to see what developers do with annotations during the hackfest. In some ways the hackfest can be thought of as an early test of annotations and will let us know what we have left to do before we release them to the developer community. The plan, if things go

[twitter-dev] Re: New opt-in API features available today, May 26th: entities, retweets in timelines, custom oauth_callback schemes

2010-05-27 Thread themattharris
I've replied on the ticket but for the benefit of everyone here is the reply: Thanks. The entities in retweets will function for all retweets from now on. If you query a timeline which has retweets in it [1] you should find the entities are included and with the correct offsets. 1. twurl

[twitter-dev] Re: Issue with posting to twitter: http://twitter.com/home?status=doesnotworkifyouarenotloggedin

2010-05-28 Thread themattharris
Hi Priyanka, Thanks. We're aware of the problem and it is being tracked as ticket 1650 [1] on the twitter-api issues log. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1650 Matt On May 27, 8:24 pm, newtothisworld priyankalut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It appears that if you are not

[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date

2010-05-28 Thread themattharris
Hey cballou, What is the actual API call you are making? I ask because the users/lookup.json method requires you pass it user ids for it to work. If you don't pass it any user ids or screen names you will told that no user matches the specified terms. The data is then returned in an undefined

[twitter-dev] Re: Search spam??

2010-05-28 Thread themattharris
I'm wondering whether the search is getting popular tweets mixed in (the default behavior) and that those are what you are seeing. Can you give an example of one or two of the searches that are doing this? Thanks, Matt On May 27, 2:19 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph Methods Page Size change?

2010-05-28 Thread themattharris
Hi Miles, Which API method are you using. The preferred method for retrieving friends and followers is friends/ids [1] and followers/ids [2]. In both cases it is recommended that you add cursor=-1 to the end. Matt 1. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friends/ids 2.

[twitter-dev] Re: Widget Search problem

2010-05-28 Thread themattharris
Hi cfalar, This is a known bug and is being tracked as ticket 1404 [1]. Matt 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1401 On May 27, 12:55 pm, cfalar carolfalard...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the Search widget. If i go on this

[twitter-dev] Re: Important Notice on Incorrect API Endpoints for Search, REST, OAuth (+ some general tips!)

2010-05-28 Thread themattharris
I just wanted to make everyone aware that this issue is open and being tracked [1]. Any progress or developments will be posted on that thread. If you are experiencing a problem with since_id I encourage you to read my comment [2]. Thank you, Matt 1.

[twitter-dev] Re: users/lookup seems not to be working

2010-05-29 Thread themattharris
Hey Abacadabrados, You need to give the user lookup request some valid user ids or screen names. The error you are receiving is because you are sending a user_id of 0 which is not a valid account. Maybe try with your screen name first. You can find more information on how the method works on

[twitter-dev] Re: Trends not currently supporting the callback parameter?

2010-06-01 Thread themattharris
Thanks for letting us know about this. You can follow the progress of this on the issues log [1]. We'll get onto the problem and have it resolved soon. Matt 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1668 On May 27, 9:37 am, Steven steven.pul...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed a

[twitter-dev] Re: Thoughts on annotations

2010-06-01 Thread themattharris
and improve the documentation. For those who are interested in knowing about the other projects please visit the wiki page [1] for a list of them. Matt 1. http://wiki.github.com/themattharris/annotations-hackfest/ On May 31, 12:56 pm, zbowl...@gmail.com zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: I was still

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug with source parameter in Twitter search ?

2010-06-01 Thread themattharris
Hi Ram, Thanks for bumping this to our attention. We're aware a number of uses of source are being missed out and we are tracking this as ticket 1632 on our issues log [1]. You'll be able to track progress on that thread. Matt 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1632 On

[twitter-dev] Announcing Snowflake

2010-06-01 Thread themattharris
Hey everyone, In March we sent a message to you about upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced (http://bit.ly/upcoming-status-id-changes). Today we announced Snowflake - the service we will be using to generate those new IDs. It isn't going live yet! We just know a lot of you are

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: searching for Don and finding don't instead

2010-06-07 Thread themattharris
can read more about the supported advanced search operators on the search site [1]. Hope that helps, Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris 1. http://search.twitter.com/operators On Jun 7, 9:09 am, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

[twitter-dev] Re: Where to post documentation bugs?

2010-06-09 Thread themattharris
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your question. You can file any issues with the docs on dev.twitter.com on the api-issues list [1]. The list has a component- docs which you can mark the issue with. We're working on a number of issues with the docs at the moment and hope to have them and the rest of the

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign out of Twitter through API

2010-06-09 Thread themattharris
Hey GHengeveld, There was a conversation about this back in April which might be help [1]. In it Taylor explains that OAuth is stateless and that the logged in state of a user is based on your system rather than ours. Your application would be interacting with Twitter using the OAuth tokens for

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth status update returning error 401 invalid / used nonce

2010-06-15 Thread themattharris
Hey Craig, Could you let us see what the authorization header you are sending looks like (obfuscating your oauth keys and secrets)? What you're aiming for is a header similar to this: POST /1/statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Connection: close User-Agent: OAuth gem v0.4.0 Content-Type:

[twitter-dev] Re: Repeat Tweets

2010-06-16 Thread themattharris
Thanks for letting us know about these Andy. As Taylor was saying the instabilities the other day are likely to have been the cause for these getting through. It shouldn't happen now but anything that did get through will still be there. Matt On Jun 15, 6:39 pm, Andy Matsubara

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and Direct Message

2010-06-18 Thread themattharris
Hi Dave, I seemed to have missed your message originally. Are you still experiencing problems with this? In answer to your question there isn't anything special required for signing requests to send direct messages. If you are still having problems can you provide us with your signature base

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and Direct Message

2010-06-21 Thread themattharris
://api.twitter.com/1/direct_messages/new.xml Extended error response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?hash request/1/direct_messages/new.xml/request  errorIncorrect signature/error/hash On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:21 AM, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hi Dave, I seemed to have

[twitter-dev] Re: Oauth Echo and Drupal

2010-06-21 Thread themattharris
Hi Tim, That error you are getting is often thrown when curl tries to verify the remote host. You can bypass this check in PHP using: curl_setopt($link, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); BUT this isn't ideal as it only hides the problem on your server. Instead, what you need to do is check the

[twitter-dev] Re: Which IETF standard has the year appearing after the time?

2010-06-21 Thread themattharris
The time format is a little weird and as far as I know, doesn't match any RFC. Instead it matches the ruby default and is represented in tokens by: %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y The format has been like this since the API was first released which means, for backwards compatibility with other

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and Direct Message

2010-06-21 Thread themattharris
acmedav...@gmail.com wrote: I solved the problem. I did not have an between my two parameters in the POST body. Adding between the text and user parameter fixed it. Thanks Matt. On Jun 21, 1:10 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Dave, Looking through your

[twitter-dev] Re: trivial doubt

2010-06-22 Thread themattharris
Hi André, Looking at your code it looks like you have added the line: id : 'twitterdiv' but forgotten to put the comma after it. If you add the comma the widget will work. Matt You don't need the div id = twitterdiv/div as the widget will automatically create that for you. On Jun 22, 6:25 

[twitter-dev] Re: Geo-caching Without Lat/Long

2010-06-23 Thread themattharris
, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit reduction to 75?

2010-06-29 Thread themattharris
Due to the high amount of traffic we are seeing at the moment we have needed to lower the rate limit to 75 to ensure Twitter remains available to as wide an audience as possible. We are posting updates as the situation develops on http://status.twitter.com. Thanks for your patience. Matt On Jun

[twitter-dev] Rate Limit Update

2010-06-29 Thread themattharris
http://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Goodies

2010-06-30 Thread themattharris
Hi Nick, The widgets offer vary basic interaction with Twitter. If they do not receive results it is likely Twitter is over capacity and results will become available once service is resumed. As such, they don't any customizing over the options available on the widget configuration screen. If

[twitter-dev] Rate limits should be resetting now

2010-07-07 Thread themattharris
Hey everyone, We've been working on the rate limit issue which has been affecting many of you and believe we now have it fixed. As the issue affected people in different ways we want to be check your applications are working again. If your rate limit is still not resetting please email

[twitter-dev] If you had rate limits reset issues today you should be ok now

2010-07-08 Thread themattharris
* The request you were trying to make * Any response headers you received Thanks Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] SSL Certificates renewal on Tuesday 20th July

2010-07-19 Thread themattharris
Hey developers, Many of you have noticed our SSL certificate for api.twitter.com will expire on 26th July 2010, with mobile.twitter.com and search.twitter.com soon after. We wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow at 2PM PDT (10PM GMT) we plan to upgrade the SSL certificate on our servers. As

[twitter-dev] Re: SSL Certificates renewal on Tuesday 20th July

2010-07-20 Thread themattharris
A quick update on this renewal process.. As the site only fully recovered this morning from the issues of yesterday we postponed rolling out the new SSL certificates. We now plan to make the SSL change at 5PM PDT (1AM GMT). Best, Matt On Jul 19, 5:56 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread themattharris
ecosystem. We'll continue to keep you posted on other developments and changes as they happen. Best, Matt -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Content: API Changes

2010-08-09 Thread themattharris
, themattharris wrote: Hey Developers, As you might know, this year Twitter launched a suite of Twitter Promoted Products, including Promoted Tweets (http://blog.twitter.com/ 2010/04/hello-world.html) and Promoted Trends, which advertisers can use to deepen their engagement

[twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-12 Thread themattharris
/08/pushing-our-tweet-button.html Best Matt -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts

2010-08-25 Thread themattharris
for every tweet. Tom -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter as a Publish/Subscribe service

2010-08-26 Thread themattharris
Hey VC, Using Twitter for the purpose you describe seems similar to accounts which provide a notification about a new blog post or a news article. In those cases some context is provided about the link in the Tweet so that the timeline is meaningful to somebody who stumbles across it. You don't

[twitter-dev] Re: garbage in json api response?

2010-09-03 Thread themattharris
Thanks for the information collected on this. We're investigating this issue at the moment and updates will be posted to our status blog: http://status.twitter.com/post/1058895068/investigating-invalid-responses-from-the-api Matt On Sep 3, 8:44 am, Marsh Gardiner ma...@apigee.com wrote: I

[twitter-dev] Re: list members cursor is wrong

2010-09-15 Thread themattharris
/list Change your membership to this group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet Button counter url encoding

2010-09-17 Thread themattharris
Just wanted to let you know we've deployed some changes which should have fixed this issue. @themattharris On Sep 14, 11:38 pm, Remo remo.siegw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt Thank you for your response! The #newtwitter looks great btw! Cheers Remo -- Twitter developer documentation

[twitter-dev] Re: problem in twitter share

2010-09-17 Thread themattharris
Just wanted to let you know we've deployed some changes which should have fixed this issue. @themattharris On Sep 8, 8:09 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: There's currently a bug involving URLs that include an character. Tom On 9/8/10 1:02 PM, swati wrote: script src=http

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API is acting weird.

2010-09-21 Thread themattharris
are explained on our help site: http://support.twitter.com/groups/32-something-s-not-working/topics/118-search/articles/66018-my-tweets-or-hashtags-are-missing-from-search-known-issue Hope that's helpful, @themattharris On Sep 21, 8:22 am, Gena01 gen...@gmail.com wrote: So I've been messing

[twitter-dev] Re: #newtwitter and the API

2010-09-22 Thread themattharris
No new registration is needed, #newtwitter is being rolled out gradually and at random. For the API, only the related_results method requires you to have access to #newtwitter. Hope that helps, @themattharris On Sep 22, 2:22 pm, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: As app developers, do we

[twitter-dev] Re: Search with geocode does not respect search radius?

2010-10-11 Thread themattharris
index and how to resolve it. Best, @themattharris On Oct 10, 9:29 pm, Nick nick.fritzkow...@gmail.com wrote: We are having issues with this as well and it has completely broken our system. We have sent many support tickets but have received no response to them. It looks to be breaking plain

[twitter-dev] Re: Woe is me, I can't seek what I find (or Search is failing me)

2010-10-11 Thread themattharris
that one using the Streaming API as well. Best @themattharris On Oct 11, 10:21 am, @IDisposable idisposa...@gmail.com wrote: The Location search has been VERY unstable, and uses this typical search:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?rpp=100geocode=38.627522%2C-90... It's getting worse

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake: An update and some very important information

2010-10-18 Thread themattharris
: [ { name: Matt Harris, id: 777925, id_str: 777925, indices: [ 0, 14 ], screen_name: themattharris } ] }, text: @themattharris hey how are things?, annotations: null, contributors

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API, Basic Auth Ok, OAuth Unauthorized?

2010-10-25 Thread themattharris
%3DMy_tokeN %26oauth_version%3D1.0%26track%3Dtwitter I hope that helps, @themattharris On Oct 25, 3:20 pm, bradley.meck bradley.m...@gmail.com wrote: Correct, I still had the issue when escaping track= Escaping params individually did not work either. Still able to tweet though... Maybe

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth request returns 401, need help

2010-11-18 Thread themattharris
Hey Chrys, A couple of things to check first: 1. Have you been granted xAuth access? 2. Double check the timestamp of your request is within 10 or so minutes of the time returned by Twitter's servers. Our server time is in UTC. 3. Verify your encoding is correct. For example: a password like ab$

[twitter-dev] Re: randomly 401 error

2010-11-29 Thread themattharris
would have expected your URL to look like this: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json?count=5oauth_co... page=1 You can read more about signing requests on our developer resources site: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth#signing-requests Best @themattharris Developer

[twitter-dev] Re: Snowflake, it's almost 9007199254740992 time.

2010-12-06 Thread themattharris
Hi Kevin, Thanks again for pointing this out. We've updated the gist with a fix for the issue you identified: https://gist.github.com/637624 Best, @themattharris On Dec 3, 3:23 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks for pointing this out Kevin. I've passed this onto

[twitter-dev] Re: Please check you are using the correct API and host

2010-12-17 Thread themattharris
SSL (https) is supported on some but not all hosts. You can use SSL on: * api.twitter.com * userstream.twitter.com * betastream.twitter.com * search.twitter.com SSL is currently not supported on: * platform.twitter.com * widgets.twimg.com * stream.twitter.com Best, @themattharris Developer

[twitter-dev] Re: incorrect created_at times?

2011-01-06 Thread themattharris
Hi Jenny, The engineers have said this issue should be fixed but that it may take some time for the cached data to update. This means things going forward should be fine but Tweets prior to today may still report the wrong created_at value. This only affects REST API queries. The Streaming API

[twitter-dev] Re: 401: Unauthorized (Python)

2011-02-08 Thread themattharris
an oauth_token to the request_token endpoint. Making a request to request_token means you don't have a token already and want one. So that parameter shouldn't be in that request. Best, @themattharris On Feb 5, 9:10 am, john john.g...@gmail.com wrote: Matt, The response is empty, that's what I'm

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTPS profile and profile background image URLs are being added to user objects

2011-05-16 Thread themattharris
Just to follow up on this, the correct additional fields are: profile_image_url_https profile_background_image_url_https The original email missed the _url in profile_image_url_https. Best @themattharris On May 16, 3:27 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey everyone

[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread themattharris
the access an application has requested. We hope these responses answer your questions. Please continue to send us your feedback about the permission model and what you would like to see it offer. Best, @themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API

[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-19 Thread themattharris
these questions and answers on the developer resources site. If your email client doesn't render the responses above clearly please visit https://dev.twitter.com/pages/application-permission-model Best, @themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API

[twitter-dev] Re: illegal character in json feed

2011-06-14 Thread themattharris
Hey everyone, Thanks for all the information you provided. We were able to reproduce the problem and the engineers have now released a fix. You shouldn't receive any garbled API responses anymore, if you do please let us know. Best, @themattharris On Jun 14, 7:59 pm, michael hazzard miramardes