[twitter-dev] New notification email extra headers

2011-06-07 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi guys, Thanks for creating the new twitter event notification emails (favs, retweets, mentions). Could I please request that "X-Twitteremailtype:" headers be included in those emails as well? DM emails already have: X-Twitteremailtype: direct_message and Follwer emails have: X-Twitteremailtyp

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread Chad Etzel
nevermind, i must have been out of the loop.. i was using the old form so use http://dev.twitter.com/apps and DO NOT USE http://twitter.com/apps (which, should be deleted or auto-forwarded or something) caramba, -chad On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > Aside from all

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread Chad Etzel
Aside from all the emotional/philosophical stuff in this thread, I am concerned about a major possible bug: I have updated my apps to use Read/Write/DM permissions, and then it saves it as Read-Only... I tried to change it back to just Read/Write, and again it is saved as Read-Only. Is anyone els

Re: [twitter-dev] Keep it real

2010-06-14 Thread Chad Etzel
Abraham, Thank you for all your help and contribution to this community. I know lots of people (including myself) who owe you a debt of gratitude for the help you have given here. I feel your pain, so to speak, as I have become similarly recluse on this list. I'm sure we'll see you lurking around

Re: [twitter-dev] What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:08 PM, TjL wrote: > > Push notifications for mentions. > > Push notifications for mentions only for people who follow you. > > Push notifications for mentions only for people you follow. > > Push notifications of new posts by only a select group of people (like > SMS noti

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Orian Marx (@orian) wrote: > I seem to remember some debate over how uberTwitter comes out with > such a large share in that analysis, ... I've always been amazed by this, actually... check out: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tweetphoto+source:ubertwitter&resu

[twitter-dev] Chirp tracking on MadChat

2010-04-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, I have setup a special Chirp tweet tracking page on MadChat (an as of yet unreleased site I've been working on) so folks who are not at the conference (or even if you are) can easily read all of the Chirp chatter. It is intentionally minimally designed to look like a chatroom and have no

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-04-11 Thread Chad Etzel
I'd like to see more epsilon-delta proofs on this list personally :) Chad On Apr 11, 2010, at 17:14, John Kalucki wrote: A sequence can be on a continuum from unsorted to partially sorted to roughly sorted to totally sorted. Totally sorted is what we mean when we say "sorted". Partially

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming + Geo = 4square Vision

2010-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
plus the whole user/pass thing... but this will definitely be useful for testing other streams in the future. -Chad On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > hotness! > one thing that may be of use: http://github.com/r/twstreamer > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:48 PM,

[twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming + Geo = 4square Vision

2010-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
Hey all, Remember TwitterVision? As a break from the current flame threads, here is something I threw together today on my day off to show at least one thing that I don't think Twitter will implement itself. Mahsup: Twitter Streaming API, Twitter Geo data, Foursquare "API" (more like semi-scrapi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > If you're an entrpreneur with strong ethical standards, then never > ever accept investment capital. You cannot be serious. Believe it or not there are ethical investors out there. Also, bootstrapping a company that goes huge is almost i

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Sourcing Tweetie for Mac and iPhone

2010-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
No, Etherpad was completely closed from the start. The team convinced Google to open-source it a few days after acquisition. Guys, this whole thread seems kind of... dunno, immature? Tweetie (in all of its flavors) are the IP of Atebits (and now Twitter, Inc). Demanding that it be open-sourced 5 s

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Nigel Legg wrote: > Surely all twitter developers are getting their success on the coattails of > Twitter, rather than twitter getting success on the coattails of the > developers? This is a good point (is applies in my case, anyway). Had it not been for my hobby-

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
On Apr 10, 2010, at 5:23, Dewald Pretorius wrote: Twitter has now displayed a distinctive predatorial stance towards the developer ecosystem. Whoa now. If by "predatorial" you mean "makes strategic acquisitions in line with their business goals" then sure. See also: Google, Facebook, App

Re: [twitter-dev] "What happened, happened."

2010-04-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Sorry, but you #LOST me... -Chad On Apr 9, 2010, at 20:26, Taylor Singletary > wrote: Let there be no doubt that not only will Chirp be an opportunity for developers to learn and talk to platform developers & Twitter employees directly about what will obviously be a hot topic on everyo

[twitter-dev] Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread Chad Etzel
As dougw pointed out, a timely article: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html Chad -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API Changes: Popular Tweets vs. Recency

2010-04-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Since you are listening, here is my feedback... I have been running TweetGrid.com for quite a while. You may have heard of it, maybe not... it's not huge. It never got any press, it was only created by one guy in his spare time. It started off as a tiny personal project, then grew into a hobby and

[twitter-dev] Streaming API running dry again?

2010-04-01 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, I am using the filter stream, and twice in the last 24 hour period the stream has run dry... the connection remains open but no tweets arrive. If I manually kill the connection and reconnect everything works properly again (so I don't think my account somehow got banned). I know this issu

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-03-27 Thread Chad Etzel
So, I guess for the since_id issue, it boils down to this question: Regarding the since_id parameter, when you (Twitter) flip the switch on the new ID format, will I (as a developer) have to change any of my code in order for it to function the way it does now? This question applies equally for bo

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API from:username performance issues?

2010-03-26 Thread Chad Etzel
d, > > I didn't get there in time, the results looked fine to me. Should you > be able to reproduce this, could you please send more information? > dumps of results would be most useful, with complete HTTP requests/ > responses... > > best, > > doug > > On Mar

[twitter-dev] Announcing push.ly

2010-03-22 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, I have recently launched http://push.ly/ - twitter mentions pushed to your phone (and free)! Right now it has iPhone integration with Tweetie, TweetDeck, and Echofon. If you have written (or know of) other iPhone twitter clients that have custom URI schemes that allow you to open the app

[twitter-dev] Search API from:username performance issues?

2010-03-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi dev team, I've gotten progressively more complaints from TweetGrid users about searches in the form of "from:username" not updating in a timely fashion. I haven't changed my code in a while, so after investigating it appears that the search index does lag behind a bit for "from:" searches as co

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Chad Etzel
ZOMG *faints* one small nit: the redirect back to the app seemed to take longer than it should. not sure what the redirect timeout is, but it might do well to shorten it up by a second or two... otherwise ppl might start to get click-happy while nothing is happening. -Chad On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at

[twitter-dev] hurl.it is curl for the browser

2010-01-13 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, I stumbled upon this tonight (tho apparently it's been out a while), but I thought it would benefit lots of devs. http://hurl.it/ is basically a curl client for the browser, but you can also copy permalinks of your HTTP requests so others can see... a nice thing to be able to do if you ar

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification

2009-12-18 Thread Chad Etzel
This might be relevant to your interests: http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching_urls Something definitely changed in the twitter web front-end code which is borking url matching as of a month or so ago... -Chad On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Harshad RJ wrote: > Although

[twitter-dev] WordPress implements a Twitter API root

2009-12-12 Thread Chad Etzel
fyi.. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/ seems to only support xml from my limited initial testing. -chad

Re: [twitter-dev] Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread Chad Etzel
everything appears dead... website (failwhale), API, streams, ... -chad On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Twitter, are you aware that the API has been throwing tons of 502s on > all calls since around 5:00 PM CST? > >

[twitter-dev] Stepping down from API Support role

2009-10-30 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, Today is the last day of my Twitter API Support contract. I will be stepping down from this role and return to full-time 3rd party Twitter app development. In other words, I will no longer be under Twitter's employ. This also means that I will no longer be responding to the dev-list in an

[twitter-dev] Re: Extraneous tweets?

2009-10-30 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Steve, This is expected behavior. From the documentation: References matched are statuses that were: -Created by a specified user -Explicitly in-reply-to a status created by a specified user (pressed reply "swoosh" button) -Explicitly retweeted by a specified user (pressed retweet button) -Cr

[twitter-dev] Re: API call accounting by account rather than IP for non-authenticated requests

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
This is the current behavior, as far as I can tell. I just made a call to users/show to a public account (one which normally would not require authentication), but I used my username/password in the request. The rate-limit for my username decremented and the rate-limit for my IP did not. Is this

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter connection giving a 502 Bad Gateway error

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
If you are getting a response from the servers (even error codes) then you are not blocked. A blacklisted IP looks like it goes into a blackhole and no data is returned, ever. Are you able to ping and traceroute to twitter.com? -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:11 PM, hima latha wrote: > I tried

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocked from stream.twitter.com

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
I've forwarded your information. We'll reply to you privately. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Robert Hartung wrote: > > Hello, > > i mady my own little application for twitter which ended in many > problems and errors finally. > > I rewrote my Stream API and now it works perfectly but un

[twitter-dev] Re: White listing rejected - no reason

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
Email your username to a...@twitter.com and we can look up the reason and help you figure things out. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Arnaldo de Moraes Pereira < eggh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've submitted my application to be on the white list, but this request has > been reject

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
This sounds like a 3rd party API application opportunity to me... -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:11 PM, leonspencer wrote: > > The new lists are a great way reduce the clutter in timeline. However, > I immediately notice management problems with the lists where tweets > are duplicate in timelin

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: Can you have OR relationship with author and keywords?

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
If you do something like: from:louisvillemojo OR louisville OR kentucky it will do what you describe, but if you want to do something like from:louisvillemojo OR (louisville AND kentucky) then it will not work. You would have to do 2 separate queries in that case. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 a

[twitter-dev] Re: 503 with gigantic retry-after value

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Ben, It sounds like that value is a unix timestamp, which is a bug. The retry-value should be a "seconds from now" value... The search team is investigating. Thanks for reporting. -Chad On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Benjamin Darfler wrote: > > We are using the search api and respecting th

[twitter-dev] Re: Making crossdomain.xml less restrictive on api.twitter.com?

2009-10-29 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, After discussing this internally, we have decided that we will make the crossdomain.xml policy more open on the api.twitter.com domain. We don't know exactly what that entails yet or when it will go into effect, but this is something that we want to open up. Expect another post when we've

[twitter-dev] Re: How to query multiple Followers in one single call

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, Currently there is not a way to do this. The ids/friends, ids/followers, statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods can only return data for one user at a time. -Chad 2009/10/28 Duarte Aragão : > > Hi, > >  Is it possible from the API in one single Call get the Followers/ > Friends of

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, Currently we discard a tweet if it is an exact duplicate of the previous tweet, however we still return a success code (200). We are planning on changing this so it will return an error code when a tweet is not posted. -Chad On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jai wrote: > > What is the c

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisting Notification

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, The queue is being worked on, hopefully everything will be cleared out tomorrow. If you haven't gotten a response by tomorrow night, please let me know. -Chad On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Atul Kulkarni wrote: > It took me a little longer than a week. Be patient... the form you fill

[twitter-dev] Re: Not getting direct message emails

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
This is a known issue being worked on presently. Thanks, -Chad On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Dale Cook wrote: > > For some reason we're no longer getting emails when a user sends > though a direct message. This is happening on a number of accounts. Is > anyone else having this problem? >

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion: Ability to just search amongst a user's friends

2009-10-27 Thread Chad Etzel
This is something that we're considering internally. I'll bring it up again, though. -Chad On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: > I have a project in which it would be tremendously easier if I could just > specify a search to take place amongst a particular user's Twitter friends

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is blocking requests.

2009-10-26 Thread Chad Etzel
You can send your IP(s) to a...@twitter.com to have them checked against the blacklist... -Chad On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > > I'm still waiting to hear a response from Twitter Support.  The irony > here is that in order to check help.twitter.com, it redirects throug

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Chad Etzel
thrown if I try to pull a protected user's timeline? > > To make a long story short, it does appear that invalid users are > returning 401 instead of 404. > > Thanks, > Ryan > > On Oct 20, 9:10 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: >> Hi Ryan, >> >> I think part of th

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Chad Etzel
nsaction: 1256061882-45021-11545 >> > * Authentication problem. Ignoring this. >> > < WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Twitter API" >> > < Status: 401 Unauthorized >> > < Last-Modified: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:04:42 GMT >> > < X-RateLimit-Remaini

[twitter-dev] Re: linespaces / whitespace being removed: bug or feature?

2009-10-20 Thread Chad Etzel
Just to follow up. We have determined that this is a bug and the engineering team is working to figure out how this snuck in. I'm afraid I don't have an ETA on a fix, but we are working on it. -Chad On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: > We are investigating th

[twitter-dev] Re: linespaces / whitespace being removed: bug or feature?

2009-10-20 Thread Chad Etzel
We are investigating this internally. Please don't bump. -Chad On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Michael Ivey wrote: > I don't know the answer, and I wasn't getting pissy. > > I was (rather politely, in fact) pointing out that the folks from Twitter > have repeatedly asked us not to bump thread

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized -- user_timeline -- using Numeric ID

2009-10-20 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Ryan, This sounds like a bug. Can you provide full HTTP request/response headers+body traces for some of these requests? (be sure to obscure the authentication header). Using curl -vvv would be good. -Chad On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Ryan Rosario wrote: > > I have been running into a r

[twitter-dev] Re: Where is the Twitter WADL?

2009-10-20 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Edd, We may provide a WADL in the future, but right now one is not available. -Chad On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Edd wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am keen to start implementing a Twitter Web Service application but > I can't find any published WADL in the Twitter API docs. My IDE > (NetBeans

[twitter-dev] Re: Nero 9 - FULL Version - [Precracked] 51MB ONLY!

2009-10-19 Thread Chad Etzel
hat troll google groups. > > Josh > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: >> >> It's not that *this* list is a target. It's that *every* list is a >> target. The cost to send spam is practically zero, so it would take >> more time and energy

[twitter-dev] Re: Nero 9 - FULL Version - [Precracked] 51MB ONLY!

2009-10-19 Thread Chad Etzel
, considering I can only recall a few spam posts getting >>> through, you guys [sic] do a great job. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Why yes we can, and we do... loads of it. >>&g

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems Connecting to the API

2009-10-19 Thread Chad Etzel
Ryan, Are you still experiencing this? I just tried several user timelines (w/o authentication) from my home computer (outside of twitter network) with no errors... -Chad On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Rosario wrote: > > I keep getting {"request":"/statuses/user_timeline.json? > user_id

[twitter-dev] Re: Nero 9 - FULL Version - [Precracked] 51MB ONLY!

2009-10-19 Thread Chad Etzel
Why yes we can, and we do... loads of it. The problem is that these spammers are spoofing the "from" address of list owners who usually get automatically posted and skip the moderation step. This is a flaw of the way Google Groups handles incoming posts, and not of the group admins. -Chad On Mo

[twitter-dev] Re: Nero 9 - FULL Version - [Precracked] 51MB ONLY!

2009-10-19 Thread Chad Etzel
I have asked Alex to modify his settings to Moderated, which should cut back on his spoofed spam. -Chad On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Peter Denton wrote: > now with only 48 megs of adware! > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: >> >> Foxtrot Oscar. >> >> On Oct 19, 2:0

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate limiting - App Engine (again)

2009-10-18 Thread Chad Etzel
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM, vivekpuri wrote: > > Will someone from Twitter please respond if there is an ETA to resolve > this issue. Work arounds can never be really as effective as the real > deal. Sorry, I thought it was clear from the previous email. There is no ETA because it's not goi

[twitter-dev] Re: Separate terms using commas?

2009-10-15 Thread Chad Etzel
Ok, now everybody is just getting confused, here. Dear OP, Are you asking about Streaming API or the Search API? -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Oren Rose wrote: > > It will work if you do "#term1 OR #term2 OR #term3" spaces mean "AND" > for Twitter search term. > > Also, please note t

[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?

2009-10-15 Thread Chad Etzel
e it authenticated > me again) and then my app got a connection closed error. > Hence I was asking, if one authentication nullfies previous one for the same > user. I am using the same ID to work and tweet hence the problem I suppose. > > Regards, > Atul. > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009

[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?

2009-10-15 Thread Chad Etzel
r connection with the same credentials is the first connection closed? > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: >> >> On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can >> take up to 1 week. >> -Chad >> >> On Thu, Oc

[twitter-dev] Re: Approx time for White listing?

2009-10-15 Thread Chad Etzel
On average under 72 hours, but depending on the state of things it can take up to 1 week. -Chad On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Atul Kulkarni wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the approximate expected time for white listing from the day of > application? > > -- > Regards, > Atul Kulkarni > www.d.umn

[twitter-dev] Re: url fail

2009-10-15 Thread Chad Etzel
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Chris Babcock wrote: > > With the OP's reputation as a spamware vender and FUDmonger, I think we > may have to face the fact that he has finally unleashed his master plan > to bring down the Internet. We may be looking at the equivalent of the > 'Dr. Doofenshmirtz

[twitter-dev] Re: Download Avira 2010 an key 2014

2009-10-15 Thread Chad Etzel
You would think that Google Groups would use the SPF record result at least: Received-SPF: fail (google.com: domain of a...@twitter.com does not designate 80.80.228.43 as permitted sender) client-ip=80.80.228.43; If all you have to do is spoof the from address then we're all doomed. -Chad On T

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Image Update Via API -> Access Denied

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
009 at 11:15 PM, TylerC wrote: > > In this case it was /home/49090/domains/***/html/clients// > tools/avatars/city_ninja.png > > On Oct 14, 11:10 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: >> Most likely the content-type is not being set correctly. What is the >> value of $new_imag

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile Image Update Via API -> Access Denied

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
Most likely the content-type is not being set correctly. What is the value of $new_image? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM, TylerC wrote: > > Hey all I am having trouble getting Twitter to update profile > avatars... From what I can tell I have the API calls straight but when > I go to Twi

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
>>> >>> > Hi Chad, >>> >>> > Statuses/followers. >>> >>> > I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 >>> > followers with statuses/followers. >>> >>> > Is there any

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
i Chad, > > Statuses/followers. > > I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 > followers with statuses/followers. > > Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it > clearer? > > Tim. > > On Oct 15, 2:42 p

[twitter-dev] Re: New cursor methods are way too slow

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Tim, You said "Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for me." Can you explain what you meant by that? Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines wrote: > > Hi'ya, > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Interface for twitter translators

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, You probably want to use the Google Group for your particular translator language: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-translators-italian http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-translators-german http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-translators-spanish http://groups.google.com/grou

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
s(length = 0).  If > I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the same error with direct > messages. > When I view the request header, the only header there is the "Content-Type". > Ryan > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Chad Etzel wrote: >> >> On We

[twitter-dev] Re: /users/show.xml? doesn't return xml string

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, ArnieLapinig wrote: > > Hello, > > I found the problem... the Twitter API does return XML, but on my LAMP > system, the PHP > var_dump($variable) method strips away the XML tags! This seems > ridiculous to me, but > then the documentation on var_dump is skimpy...

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
ntent-length to 0 for the request to work if you specify the username in the URL... -Chad > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chad Etzel wrote: >> >> Can you post your code snippet (in something like pastie or pastebin)? >> Content-length should almost always be required fo

[twitter-dev] Re: "Starts with" token in Search API

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
I know this is a feature that many people would like to see (including myself). It may be on the Search team's roadmap, but please create a Google Code ticket for it so we can track it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Snook wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error

2009-10-14 Thread Chad Etzel
Can you post your code snippet (in something like pastie or pastebin)? Content-length should almost always be required for POSTs (from HTTP spec). -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:56 AM, eclipsed4utoo wrote: > > Ok, this is really starting to screw with me.  On Sunday, I received > this error.  

[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Etzel
Believe it or not, I've been reading every post on this thread with great intent. I have been proxying major points to "powers that be" and started an internal discussion on the topic at hand. The resulting decisions and policies that may be made/enforced from these discussions is, how do you say,

[twitter-dev] Re: Obama: Afghanistan decision in 'coming weeks'

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Etzel
Cut it out, Abraham :P ugh, spammers suck :( On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:27 PM, News <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Obama: Afghanistan decision in 'coming weeks' > > http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 > > http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 > > http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 > > Obama: Afghanistan decision in 'coming weeks'

[twitter-dev] Re: Ummmm, how in the heck does someone get support around here

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Etzel
ason a whitelist request is rejected?  I sent in a > comma sep list of my entire /24, just because I do not know what IP's I am > yet to use.  Is that probably it? > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Ch

[twitter-dev] Re: Ummmm, how in the heck does someone get support around here

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Etzel
ue to the bug? Looks like it's been ignored : < > > Thanks > > -Sam > > On Oct 13, 9:37 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: >> There is currently a bug in the system that will inadvertently omit >> rejection reasons. Please email a...@twitter.com with your username and >

[twitter-dev] Re: Ummmm, how in the heck does someone get support around here

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Etzel
There is currently a bug in the system that will inadvertently omit rejection reasons. Please email a...@twitter.com with your username and we can lookup the information. -Chad On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: > > I brought this up on this list before, let's look at this: >

[twitter-dev] Re: Duplicate Tweets

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Etzel
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM, PJB wrote: > > Wrong.  Basic Authentication will obviously ALWAYS be an option for > desktop clients, regardless of whether or not it is via API. Please explain this statement? -Chad >> Furthermore, the app in question explicitly offered the option of a >> recu

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisting - Turn Around

2009-10-13 Thread Chad Etzel
It can take up to a week. Unfortunately, everyone's project is timely and wants more data as soon as possible :( We're working through the backlog. -Chad On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Kyle B wrote: > > Hi, > > I requested to be whitelisted on October 9th, which is less than a > week I know

[twitter-dev] Re: Opening multiple sockets with the streaming API

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Are you using separate username/password combos to connect each socket? -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, EastSideDev wrote: > > I have been using 3-4 scripts, to collect data, using the streaming > APIs. Each script opens up a socket and keeps it open, unless it's > closed by twitter (main

[twitter-dev] Re: Screen Scraping against TOS?

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
While it may not explicitly be stated in the TOS, screen-scraping is highly discouraged, and we have detection methods that could potentially ban IPs for this behavior. Plus, it kind of subverts the whole point of the OAuth flow. -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM, eclipsed4utoo wrote: > > I

[twitter-dev] Push DMs to iphone with Prowl

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
*not an official twitter feature/product. just a personal project i'm sharing* Hi All, If you're like me and don't have unlimited text SMS on your phone plan, you may have disabled DMs as text messages. I've been using Prowl [1] to send DMs to my iphone as push notifications for a while now. In

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Michael Steuer wrote: > Can someone just ban this guy from the list... He’s only been posting noise, > unrelated crap and has now moved on to being rude and offensive... Is there > no moderator on this list? Yes, that is what "summarily banned" means :) There are

[twitter-dev] Re: List of all accounts

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Mr. Troll has been summarily banned. To answer the question at hand: Twitter does not provide such a list of users. -Chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Atul Kulkarni wrote: > If you wanted to be racist, then I am going to ignore it. It is simply not > worth spending time with people like yo

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed & desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ryan Sarver wrote: >> >> 1. What can be improved about the web workflow? >> 2. What can be improved about the desktop workflow? >> 3. What other models of distributed auth do you think we could learn >> from a

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed & desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
ugh.. found typo in my response... this sentence should read: "Each user gets an API Key which allows manipulation of some aspects of their accounts, but *NOT* as much as knowing the actual account password combo." -chad On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chad Etzel wrote: >

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed & desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Chad Etzel
Speaking as a developer... On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Sarver wrote: > > 1. What can be improved about the web workflow? The desktop OAuth flow is pretty good, but the mobile device OAuth flow is terribly painful. Since Twitter is very mobile focused, having smooth OAuth flows on as m

[twitter-dev] Re: Mentions included in replies?

2009-10-11 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi, The "replies" method is an alias of the "mentions" method for backward compatibility of clients that are hardcoded with "replies." They both return the same data. Thanks, -Chad On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:00 AM, twittme_mobi wrote: > > Hi All, > > why do we need mentions included in the res

[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelisted IPs only work when authed?

2009-10-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Please note: Bumping is highly discouraged. Bumping after 122 minutes is *really* highly discouraged. -Chad On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Charles wrote: > > Bump > > On Oct 9, 4:08 pm, Charles wrote: >> I recently received email that confirmed my whitelisting status.  I >> have several IPs wh

[twitter-dev] Re: Pulling Profile Images Over HTTPS

2009-10-08 Thread Chad Etzel
There is a workaround for this from an earlier thread: In order to accomplish retrieving the assets over ssl to avoid security warnings in browsers, you will need to replace http://a1.twimg.com/ (or a2, a3, ...etc) with https://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/ in your example: https://s3.a

[twitter-dev] Re: is there a search request limit in place?

2009-10-08 Thread Chad Etzel
My FireBug shows that it is pulling the most recent tweets from the Search API, but the page itself is not displaying them if there are new tweets. Also, the livetwitter jquery pluging or whatever is driving it is not using the since_id parameter... so it might "upset" the search team when it is p

[twitter-dev] Re: At Symbol (@) in Twitter Search

2009-10-08 Thread Chad Etzel
Currently there is no way to do wildcard/substring/fuzzy searching. Only exact tokens are searchable. I agree this is somewhat limiting, but otherwise the searching/indexing performance would suffer horribly. -Chad On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Nick wrote: > > Karthik - I'm not sure what you

[twitter-dev] Re: whitelisting process?

2009-10-07 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Edwin, The process can take up to a week, but it is usually sooner than that. However, it seems like everyone and their brother now thinks they need whitelisting for their use-case, so the number of applications per day has been growing dramatically. We'll get to it, have no fear. -Chad On

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate limiting - App Engine (again)

2009-10-06 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi All, GAE sites are problematic for the Twitter/Search API because the IPs making outgoing requests are fluid and cannot as such be easily allowed for access. Also, since most IPs are shared, other applications on the same IPs making requests mean that fewer requests per app get through. One w

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit response code(s)

2009-10-05 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:53 PM, jmathai wrote: > > Why are 400, 403 and 503 valid response codes to signify that a call > is being rate limited?  Was there a dart board involved? I don't know, but it would be really hard to play 301 with that dartboard. > >   * 400 Bad Request: The requ

[twitter-dev] Re: Radio Silence on API Request?

2009-10-05 Thread Chad Etzel
I'm working through the backlog now... -Chad On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Waldron Faulkner wrote: > > Hey, Twitter API staff, can you recommend a next step for me to take? > It's been more than a week since I issued a rate-limit request, and I > haven't heard anything, nor seen any changes. W

[twitter-dev] Re: List API Announcement.

2009-10-02 Thread Chad Etzel
Marcel gave a bit of info about the upcoming List API with the announcement: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/d9e4ce113ea74668/12ef432e648d019b He told me that preliminary documentation should be hitting the wiki sometime next week. -Chad On Fri, Oct 2

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming api documentation error (?)

2009-10-02 Thread Chad Etzel
Thanks, Gabriele. Fixed! -Chad On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:33 AM, gabriele renzi wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm in the process of implementing a consumer for the streaming API, > but while perusing the documentation I noticed an inconsistency in >  http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Document

[twitter-dev] Re: plus (+) characters in the search string

2009-10-01 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi there, The + character is not a searchable token in the Search API, so your search of "%2Bt" will only return results with a lone 't' in the result. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Gold wrote: > > Hey all, > > I have a client that is wanting to use the plus character (+) as p

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing TweetHook.com

2009-09-29 Thread Chad Etzel
ou avoid running smack bang into the Twitter > Search rate limits with its lovely "enhance your calm" response. > > Dewald > > On Sep 29, 2:39 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: >> ** DISCLAIMER ** - This is not officially affiliated with Twitter. I >> am writing from m

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