Re: [twitter-dev] Getting invalid timestamps from search API

2011-07-09 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I've been seeing this too... and our code has been stable for months... not sure what it's about... because we also have seen an increase in (though still very few of) non-parseable messages... we obtain tweets via xml... www.tweettronics.com On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Doza wrote: > Hi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TweetDeck joins Twitter

2011-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
and worked on is pretty close to zero. So you'll either have to do something radically new related to Twitter, or use Twitter as just a part of your offering. jeffrey greenberg http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com http://www.tweettronics.com On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Tammy Fennell wrote:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search API rate limit change?

2011-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
re I could find it? Jeffrey Tweettronics.com On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Waldron Faulkner wrote: > Without prior notice, I can understand (circumstances), but without > any kind of subsequent announcement?? Means we have to discover issues > ourselves, verify that they're

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search bug: confusing Swedish place "Åre" with English verb "are"

2011-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Any response on this from twitter? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: > Hi, > We have a customer who is trying to find tweets with the Swedish word > "Åre", which is a place, and is getting tweets with the English word > "are&q

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search bug: confusing Swedish place "Åre" with English verb "are"

2011-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
seems that search.twitter.com sees them as the same word. Can this get addressed? And/or is there a workaround (not involving streams)? (fyi: Geographic/location related search will not work in this situation). Thanks, jeffrey greenberg www.tweettronics.com -- Twitter develope

[twitter-dev] Garbled http headers and XML payloads - addressed?

2010-07-20 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Has this issue been addressed? We've seen a huge increase in the last 36 hours and it's affecting us... Just to say it we started seeing these once or twice a day since the world cup ended... And then this nasty spike... Jeffrey Greenberg Tweettronics.com

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co issue -- querying for original url in streaming & search apis

2010-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Just to say it, this matching of "actual" URL as well as the shortened, supplied URL has been regarded as a bug by our users; it confuses them. I would prefer it if it were optional to search so that I could turn it off... They only want to match the literal text... We provide means for th

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

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
ff, etc) are used. Can you check whether there is consistent handling and spec for these from the search team? Thanks, Jeffrey http://www.tweettronics.com On Jun 7, 10:50 am, themattharris wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > > Thanks for bumping this to our attention. Some of the threads fall off &g

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

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Hello Twitter, Anyone home? j On Jun 2, 11:28 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: > We have a user that is causing us to create a search of the form: >    Don SomeLastName > which is returning tweets containing "don't" and SomeLastName. > > Thats a no good! > > Is t

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

2010-06-02 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
We have a user that is causing us to create a search of the form: Don SomeLastName which is returning tweets containing "don't" and SomeLastName. Thats a no good! Is there a decent workaround for this by modifying the search? e.g. Don SomeLastName -don't but how do you escape the single qu

[twitter-dev] search.twitter.com 420 errors today when we did not get them before

2010-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
us in particular? We have been using this api for more than 18months without much problem. Our production app is using basic auth: is that a factor? (We are going to switch to oauth later today). This change of behavior is impactng our business. @JeffGreenberg jeffrey greenberg

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search request failed. error 420

2010-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
for more than 18months without much problem, but right now we are, and it's impactng our business. @JeffGreenberg jeffrey greenberg tweettronics.com On May 27, 7:18 am, Jonathan Reichhold wrote: > 420 is a rate limit.  The actual error message in the response does state > this. >

[twitter-dev] Search api returning results based on walking shortened URLS: causing problems.

2010-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/9b869a9fe4d4252e/861a2aa59b563f33?lnk=gst&q=search+url#861a2aa59b563f33 Thanks, Jeffrey Greenberg tweettronics.com

[twitter-dev] search api :slowdown or throttling?

2010-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Our app uses the search api extensively and we've noticed that the response time has fallen dramatically for aggregates of search requests in the past days . Is that really the case? Our production app is using basic auth at the moment, and we're wondering if that's a factor in

Re: [twitter-dev] Logical AND supported in streaming API filter endpoint

2010-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
When will we get - aka "not"? On Monday, April 19, 2010, Mark McBride wrote: > To date the streaming API has only supported logical OR in track > keywords (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#track). >  Today we're happy to announce that we support logical ANDing in > productio

Re: [twitter-dev] Announcing Twurl: OAuth-enabled curl for the Twitter API

2010-04-20 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm already a whitelisted app (Tweettronics.com) and do not want access downgraded. I'm concerned that switching to oauth and "registering" my app at dev might cause my whitelisting status to change. Can you assure me that won't happen? Thx Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:38 P

[twitter-dev] Re: Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
ither create a homebrew boolean production scheme (e.g. the regex idea I mentioned at the start) or via a heavier weight free-text search capability (e.g. lucene). Is that right? jeffrey greenberg On Apr 19, 1:52 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > In brief: Take all of your search terms and put the

[twitter-dev] Re: Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I was unable to attend Chirp in person, so I could not hear John Kalucki's comments on this... Anyone have any notes on this... John? j On Apr 16, 3:36 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: > So I'm looking at the streaming api (track), and I've got thousands of > searches.  (http:

[twitter-dev] Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
#x27;m looking for recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream... Thanks, jeffrey greenberg -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream with thousands of searches

2010-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
#x27;m looking for recommended ways to demultiplex the search stream... Thanks, jeffrey greenberg -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Twitter Archive - Looking for an API...

2010-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
or research use", which won't help me. jeffrey greenberg http://www.tweettronics.com http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
re purchasing, I'd be elated, and sympathetic to everyone else. You're more likely figuring it all out, just as we are. I'll live with being unsettled, but if you can clarify, it would be appreciated. jeffrey greenberg http://www.tweettronics.com http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com On S

[twitter-dev] Regarding Recent vs Most Popular parameters in Search api

2010-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I understand where your headed regarding 'search'... What i'd like is that the default on the current search API be unchanged, so that it still returns "recent" by default... That way I don't have to change my existing application: www.tweettronics.com to ensure it's adherence to the current behav

[twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Friedl
> we do, however, have this > pagehttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Counting-Charactersthat we put up a month ago > that explains how to count your characters correctly and to help define what > twitter means by "140". But can't you at least update the official API docs (where developers look for the fi

[twitter-dev] It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Friedl
RE this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/cd95ce07be341223/e174915c3ea94e69?lnk=gst&q=140 It's been three months since an apparently-silent not-backwards- compatible API change went into effect that causes tweets longer than 140 characters to be

[twitter-dev] Re: Are geotagged tweets visually apparent?

2010-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Friedl
> Use a Twitter service that does, such ashttp://bccth.is, to confirm   > successful tagging of your tweets. Gotcha, thanks much. Jeffrey

[twitter-dev] Are geotagged tweets visually apparent?

2010-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Friedl
cess... I was under the impression that the "not yet available on the web site" comment was for users geotagging their tweets from twitter.com, but it seems that geotagging is completely invisible on the web site? Am I missing something?

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Oi8vdHdpdHRlci5jb20vc3RhdHVzZXMv% > > 250Ac2hvdy8xNTUyNzM3NS54bWw6EXRyYW5zX3Byb21wdDA6B2lkIiVkYTI3NTQ0%250AODg1NW > > I1M2U2YmE0ZDk3ZjUzYTRkOTYyNSIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29u%250AdHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxh > > c2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7AA%253D%253D--c18561191b4733080388d38fa9461 > > b6

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
k you can get the > same status stuff (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?id=12735452) > > - Kevin > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg > > > > wrote: > > For instance:http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml > > > anyone else seeing these?

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
For instance: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these?

[twitter-dev] Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Since 2010-01-25 23:19:02 GMT we are seeing 500 server errors which we haven't seen in a long while. Using the http://twitter.com/users/show.xml api... Not on every call though... seems as if some server in your array/chain is choking somehow?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Anyone using phirehose?

2010-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
You need to look into 'nohup'. jeffrey greenberg On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM, GeorgeMedia wrote: > Just in case anyone is having the same issue I had with PHP scripts > running from the command line stopping on them, I discovered my > problem. > > I was connectin

[twitter-dev] Re: Loose ends for List and Retweet APIs

2010-01-17 Thread Jeffrey
On Dec 18 2009, 6:38 pm, Marcel Molina wrote: > Or conceivably (though arguably janky) there could be an additional > parameter you provide for the user timeline that opts you in to having > retweets appear. e.g. ?include_retweets=true Yes... please add this to the API. It would restore the abi

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting retweets in user timelines

2009-12-15 Thread Jeffrey
+1 There are several threads looking for a way to get built-in retweets via teh user_timeline as was available before with organic (i.e., "RT ...") tweets. Has there been any decision made on what will be done here? Built-in retweets are invisible to the user_timeline which is a loss of funct

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweets and the Public Timeline

2009-11-19 Thread Jeffrey
I strongly urge and hope for the ability to see built-in retweets in the user_timeline as this affects my application, since these tweets are suddenly not visible. If that is not possible, perhaps a new API could be created that would allow an unauthenticated view of tweets and retweets?

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweets and the Public Timeline

2009-11-18 Thread Jeffrey
Not having retweets in the user_timeline represents a loss of functionality. With user_timeline you can get the tweets of any user using the "id" parameter, but there is no way to get the tweets of another user using home_timeline without being authenticated *as that user*. So this limits the ab

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming Api - Keywords matched

2009-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
ding some light?. jeffrey greenberg tweettronics.com On Nov 3, 9:59 am, Fabien Penso wrote: > I agree, however it would help a lot because instead of doing : > > for keyword in all_keywords >  if tweet.match(keyword) >   //matched, notify users >  end > end > > we co

[twitter-dev] Field sizes documented as maximum "character counts" vs number of utf8 encoded bytes

2009-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
The user description field (for instance) is documented as a maximum of 160 characters, but how many bytes is that exactly? If we get bytes from twitter that are utf-8 bytes, will we then see a maximum number of how many bytes per char, 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes/char ? This matters when spec'ing a dat

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

2009-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
This looks just great... can't wait to try itj On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Peter Denton wrote: > I would say, 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter, Please Explain How Cursors Work

2009-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
John,Please clarify this scenario. If one makes a complete set of calls starting from cursor -1 unto the end at one moment, and then another set of the same calls later is there any invariance? If so what? >From the statements above I understand: - always 5000 followers are returned (if the user

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

2009-09-24 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
as you wish, and it goes over the wire as a string in any case (doesn't it) jeffrey greenberg http://www.tweettronics.com http://www.inventivity.com On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Jesse Stay wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > >> This goes for a

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 "errors"

2009-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I am seeing this error right now when doing a search. (FWIW: I'm using since_id) This is seriously messing things up! @jeffGreenberg @tweettronics Details: url: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23fail%20since%3A2009-08-19&rpp=100&since_id=3397530515 httpresponse = 200 returned text:

[twitter-dev] Re: My Issue with the ReTweet API and my solutions

2009-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
t such tracking has any fundamental value as far as estimating user influence, given the signal to noise ratio that is going on I do think that this API can help solve other issues, such as the challenge of having threaded tweets. Is support of threaded tweets an intended effect

[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids

2009-08-04 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Chiming in: Please do support both methods of access for 'a while" rather than a hard cutover... thx! At least two week would be appreciated... jeffrey greenberg http://www.inventivity.com http://www.tweettronics.com On Aug 4, 10:15 am, Alex Payne wrote: > What our infrastructure

[twitter-dev] Re: Intermittent network failures?

2009-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I spoke too casually. For the sake of accuracy: I too do not see this as a new problem: it's been going on for months, not just weeks or just recently... On Jul 10, 1:17 pm, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > On 7/10/09 3:38 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: > > > Just to say it, this has

[twitter-dev] Re: Intermittent network failures?

2009-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Just to say it, this has been going on for weeks jeffrey http://www.tweettronics.com On Jul 10, 11:52 am, Matt Sanford wrote: > Hi all, > >      There is currently a back-end issue and our operation folks are   > working on it. Hopefully it will be resolved soon. I'll upda

[twitter-dev] Intermittent network failures?

2009-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm not sure what these are but I see them often enough to wonder about the reliability of the network between Twitter and my app. The portion of my app the speaks with Twitter runs on Amazon AWS/EC2. I see a small variety of Curl failures that occur throughout the day. I'm not clear whether th

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-08 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm liking Andrew's thoughts regarding sensitivity to what spam is, and am thinking about the gmail like vote-if-spam approach. Wondering if the api community (or really twitterers) would use an api such as this: smellsLikeSpam( list_of_tweet_ids )... Twitter could aggregate and apply policy to

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
-blown app responsibility? Thanks. jeffrey On Jul 7, 3:59 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > Anyone can send a Direct Message to @spam with the username of a potential > spammer. We factor those reports into our automated spam detection tools. > We're well aware of the issue, and we appreciate the

[twitter-dev] Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
he era of dealing with Twitter spam with all our apps... ugh Please advise jeffrey greenberg http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com http://www.tweettronics.com

[twitter-dev] Re: PostTwitpocalypse: Php / windows wierdness in handling larged tweet ids?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I have found that upgrading my windows PHP development environment to 5.2.6 (fixed the problem)... It may be that 5.2.4 is sufficient though... (...Well i'm having a great time talking to myself...)

[twitter-dev] Re: PostTwitpocalypse: Php / windows wierdness in handling larged tweet ids?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
fyi: it appears this is a well-known php shortcoming in certain 32 bit systems... php takes ints as signed... so you have to convert to double and pay attention to some php.ini settings for precision/mantissa conversion to get consistent results across systems But i'm still not clear if i can c

[twitter-dev] PostTwitpocalypse: Php / windows wierdness in handling larged tweet ids?

2009-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
at that point on my windows/dev box. I'm wondering if this is a json_decode issue, or a php issue under windows? And what can I do about it? windows php is: 5.2.3, and linux php is; 5.2.4 Appreciating your responses and suggestions in advance! jeffrey http://www.tweettronics.com http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I seem to be picking these up from the social graph... are they ever elided from there?

[twitter-dev] Re: lots of 404s?

2009-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
hmm... Chrome sometimes shows the xml but mostly just a 404 error -- the latter is confusing as to what's going on... Anyway, why are there so many? Admittedly I'm plowing through hundreds of thousands of users, but it *seems* like a lot of them are 'suspended'... What is the lifetime of a suspend

[twitter-dev] lots of 404s?

2009-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm seeing alot of 404 failures... some are for users that are suspended and some are just failng. These are id's i'm getting from the social graph apise.g. this is failing: http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?user_id=41714775 here's some more from my logs: getuser failed: /33687642 - /33687642 get

[twitter-dev] Re: Search: Resolution of Since, and howto avoid pulling redundant search results

2009-05-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
http://search.twitter.com/operators > > Thanks, > Doug > -- > > Doug Williams > Twitter Platform Support > http://twitter.com/dougw > > > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Jeffrey Greenberg < > jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What i

[twitter-dev] Search: Resolution of Since, and howto avoid pulling redundant search results

2009-05-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
What is the resolution of the 'since' operator? It appears to be by the day, but I'd sure like it to be by the minute or second. Can't seem to find this in the docs. The use case is that I want to minimize pulling searches results that i've already got. My solution is to record the time of the

[twitter-dev] What is current search time range limit?

2009-04-27 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Is there an absolute time limit past which searches will fail? What is that limit exactly I thought I had read 4 months but don't see this info in the new documentation. Furthermore, with the API I am seeing something like 25 days ... example: search "dominoes pizza". I searched this on 4/17 and

[twitter-dev] Combining search operators: possible? Limitations!

2009-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm not clear on what is possible with search. I've played with the advanced search page, and with the api directly, but I could still use some explanation... There are the usual "and" "or" "not" operators but it does not appear to me that these can be combined in anything but the most simple way

[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for April 1, 2009

2009-04-02 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
days will further requests be populated correctly? thx, jeffrey http://www.tweettronics.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we make this a private list?

2009-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
#x27;s question about making 'basic information more accessible"... it's pretty accessible, and simple, and I think nicely summarized on one page (albeit a _large_ page) ... and sometime RTFM is the right response ... careful of bloating the help so that it becomes unreadably l

[twitter-dev] Re: followers/ empty arrays!

2009-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
http://www.tweettronics.com) bug #362 is classified as 'low' priority, but for a certain sort of app (like twinfluence) this can be profoundly disabling... cheers! jeffrey

[twitter-dev] Re: Friends and followers listing ends abruptly for large numbers

2009-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Interesting... I've reported this also: I'm seeing consistent 502 errors on users with large follow lists when using the social api The fact is that it's inconsistent: i am able to see page 648 and 649, but not 1000... On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > Google Is Your F

[twitter-dev] Re: Consistent 502 errors for users with large friend & follower lists

2009-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Protocol Buffers is yet another RPC scheme that requires compilation of the data types. If on the other hand you define simple data types this can be much simpler and finessed, and including dealing with such RPC issues as endian-ness. wondering if is there any sort of compression of XML that

[twitter-dev] Re: Consistent 502 errors for users with large friend & follower lists

2009-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
True JSON is probably more compact. But NO to Google's Protocol Buffers - it's yet another RPC interface requiring compilation. But really I want to focus on the 502 errors!

[twitter-dev] Consistent 502 errors for users with large friend & follower lists

2009-03-02 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
ondering if there are any interesting alternatives to a scheme that transfers something other than XML, one that pack more data/byte? Thanks Jeffrey http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com