[twitter-dev] Still experiencing Streaming API connection issues
Hey guys, Per http://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/89088788592214016, it sounds like Streaming API issues are resolved. But our connection attempts are still being rejected as they have been since a couple hours ago with the following response: html head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1/ titleError 401 UNAUTHORIZED/title /head body h2HTTP ERROR: 401/h2 pProblem accessing /1/statuses/filter.json. Reason: preUNAUTHORIZED/pre/p hr /ismallPowered by Jetty:///small/i Nothing has changed on our side. So are our credentials somehow invalid now or are there still general issues? Thanks, -jonathan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Still experiencing Streaming API connection issues
Or, someone mistakenly reset our password around the same time the Streaming API went down :-/ Basic auth FTW! Thanks for the help Nick and sorry for crying wolf. On Jul 7, 5:39 pm, Nicholas Chase nch...@earthlink.net wrote: Check your Access Tokens; mine have been spontaneously changing for weeks. Nick On 7/7/2011 8:25 PM, Jonathan Strauss wrote: Hey guys, Perhttp://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/89088788592214016, it sounds like Streaming API issues are resolved. But our connection attempts are still being rejected as they have been since a couple hours ago with the following response: html head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1/ titleError 401 UNAUTHORIZED/title /head body h2HTTP ERROR: 401/h2 pProblem accessing /1/statuses/filter.json. Reason: pre UNAUTHORIZED/pre/p hr /ismallPowered by Jetty:///small/i Nothing has changed on our side. So are our credentials somehow invalid now or are there still general issues? Thanks, -jonathan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] follow JS Event + user Web Intent
Congrats on the launch of JS Events, they make Web Intents that much more powerful! I managed to get follow event tracking working fine with the new Follow Button. But when I try to implement my own custom button UI using the user Web Intent (e.g. http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=jhstrauss), the follow event doesn't seem to work the same. Is this a known issue or is there a different approach for tracking JS Events from Web Intents rather than from Twitter-hosted buttons? Thanks, -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://awe.sm We're hiring! http://awe.sm/jobs Blog: http://jonathanhstrauss.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jhstrauss -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Unwanted Link Shortening with t.co
Twitter is just wrapping your link in t.co. When it gets displayed in Twitter, it will show the link on your domain as you passed it in. On May 18, 12:35 pm, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: Since switching to the new Intents linking, by URLs are being shortened. I have a registered Twitter application, and a relatively short URL already (http://TagsBy.me). I'd like to continue using my own URLs, even if it means I have to build a shortener with an even shorter domain. However, I'd like to know what the rules/guidelines are that Twitter uses for overriding links, since there are many exceptions that I see in my Twitter stream. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Auto Populating Tweets Broken?
I'm totally with you guys on the value of switching to web intents, and we recommend all our customers doing new implementations use them. However, there are just too many legacy implementations against the old hack, as Taylor deemed it, for you to expect everyone to switch over in such a timeframe. For a very long time the /?status= method was the only way to tweet from a website and web intents are only a few months old, so I hope you guys don't diminish the priority of fixing this bug just because you want to force everyone to the new way of doing things. -jonathan On May 18, 7:50 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Omar, Sorry for the confusion -- we recommend Web Intents as we've developed the Tweet Intent specifically for this purpose -- let us know what tweaks you think the display needs to look good in a full browser tab. Intents are optimized to load quickly and service the user's intent as efficiently as possible -- the old way requires a more significant load time and invites the user to engage in all kinds of other fun Twitter activity aside from tweeting -- maybe they'll even forget why you sent them there in the first place. This is a bug and while I don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed, it was not intentional and this old hack has not been deprecated. @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM, omegdadi omegd...@gmail.com wrote: Hey There, +1. This issue is affecting all of our products at the moment. I can't find any notification anywhere about this being deprecated today. Please restore this functionality. And allow us some time to migrate w/ a date in mind. If it's no longer going to be supported, we need to know sooner as we have clients waiting for an answer at the moment. We would like to use intents, but we need a full page to send the user to since we can't always open a popup window (ie from Flash.) and that page doesn't look good in a full browser tab. Thanks, Omar On May 17, 3:05 pm, Arnaud Meunier arn...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Yahel, Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(takea look on the intent/tweet intent). It really is super easy to implement. For example:http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar Arnaud / @rno http://twitter.com/rno On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon yah...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobarnolonger works. Has this feature been totally removed, or is this a temporary glitch? (Perversely,http://twitter.com/?status=foobarworks, but that was the older method that broke last year and we were told to add /home to fix it.) I know we're supposed to move to the official Tweet button, but we have a very large scale CRM that still relies on the old method. Please let me know ASAP, as we have a lot of broken tweet links in the wild. Thanks, Yahel -- Yahel Carmon (917) 445-3498 Twitter:http://twitter.com/yahelc Facebook:http://facebook.com/yahel LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/yahelc -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Auto Populating Tweets Broken?
Thanks for the clarification and bug link Matt! I understand how big of a pain supporting this legacy method must be, especially given the fundamental changes in #newtwitter. I just wanted to emphasize how many sites still use this and probably aren't in a position to easily figure out how to fix it. Thanks, -jonathan On May 18, 5:48 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, This is being investigated by our engineers at the moment. We'll be posting updates to this ticket on our issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1650 Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@awe.sm wrote: I'm totally with you guys on the value of switching to web intents, and we recommend all our customers doing new implementations use them. However, there are just too many legacy implementations against the old hack, as Taylor deemed it, for you to expect everyone to switch over in such a timeframe. For a very long time the /?status= method was the only way to tweet from a website and web intents are only a few months old, so I hope you guys don't diminish the priority of fixing this bug just because you want to force everyone to the new way of doing things. -jonathan On May 18, 7:50 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Omar, Sorry for the confusion -- we recommend Web Intents as we've developed the Tweet Intent specifically for this purpose -- let us know what tweaks you think the display needs to look good in a full browser tab. Intents are optimized to load quickly and service the user's intent as efficiently as possible -- the old way requires a more significant load time and invites the user to engage in all kinds of other fun Twitter activity aside from tweeting -- maybe they'll even forget why you sent them there in the first place. This is a bug and while I don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed, it was not intentional and this old hack has not been deprecated. @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM, omegdadi omegd...@gmail.com wrote: Hey There, +1. This issue is affecting all of our products at the moment. I can't find any notification anywhere about this being deprecated today. Please restore this functionality. And allow us some time to migrate w/ a date in mind. If it's no longer going to be supported, we need to know sooner as we have clients waiting for an answer at the moment. We would like to use intents, but we need a full page to send the user to since we can't always open a popup window (ie from Flash.) and that page doesn't look good in a full browser tab. Thanks, Omar On May 17, 3:05 pm, Arnaud Meunier arn...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Yahel, Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(takealook on the intent/tweet intent). It really is super easy to implement. For example:http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar Arnaud / @rno http://twitter.com/rno On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon yah...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobarnolongerworks. Has this feature been totally removed, or is this a temporary glitch? (Perversely,http://twitter.com/?status=foobarworks, but that was the older method that broke last year and we were told to add /home to fix it.) I know we're supposed to move to the official Tweet button, but we have a very large scale CRM that still relies on the old method. Please let me know ASAP, as we have a lot of broken tweet links in the wild. Thanks, Yahel -- Yahel Carmon (917) 445-3498 Twitter:http://twitter.com/yahelc Facebook:http://facebook.com/yahel LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/yahelc -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https
[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet Button Error
+1 On Mar 3, 5:01 pm, Tom Mc ugg...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed the same thing, and if I've got firebug open, I see an error referring to jQuery not being defined. On Mar 3, 9:54 am, Jerry Thompson jerrycando...@gmail.com wrote: Just noticed that the Twitter's Tweet button which opens up a popup window for sharing, upon posting to Twitter, there's a link to Return to X site. Clicking this link will open the originating site within the JS popup. Shouldn't it simply just close the popup window as the user is already on the originating site? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Sharing a link on Twitter via an email
Hey Lukas, This is pretty much the exact scenario for which we designed the awe.sm /share endpoint documented here: https://github.com/awesm/awesm-dev-tools/wiki/Create-API#share awe.sm creates Twitter-friendly tracking links. But unlike conventional URL shorteners, we create a unique tracking link for each share action (in your case per email recipient who clicks the tweet call-to-action) and allow you to encode metadata in that link that doesn't necessarily need to go into the destination URL string (but can also be dynamically inserted if you like, see https://github.com/awesm/awesm-dev-tools/wiki/Redirection-Patterns). For example, the following GET call loads the tweet button share interface with a unique link tagged with the awe.sm campaign value of CAMPAIGN and the awe.sm notes value of RECIPIENT each time you click it: http://api.awe.sm/url/share?v=2key=5c8b1a212434c2153c2f2c2f2c765a36140add243bf6eae876345f8fd11045d9channel=twittertool=mKU7uNurl=http://totally.awe.smcampaign=CAMPAIGNnotes=RECIPIENTdestination=http://twitter.com/share?url=AWESM_TARGET%26text=This+link+was+created+dynamically%26via=awesm If you're interested in chatting more about the specifics of your use- case and how we might be able to help, drop me a line to jonathan [at] awe.sm. Best, -jonathan On Feb 23, 7:37 am, Lukas Wittenbraker lkwittenbra...@gmail.com wrote: The links within the email pull customer specific information from our database. (customer name, ID, etc) for tracking purposes on the back end. This is the reason I can't pre shorten the links. I may be up a creek and not able to solve this issue. I was hoping there was some sort of script that could shorten the link, or divert it to a url that automatically shortens and posts to twitter. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, I think you want to pre-shorten your links before you even put them in the email you're sending out. By pre-shortening the links, they'll already be of an appropriate length for sharing on Twitter. When the user clicks the link from within an email, your shortening service will unroll the link and redirect the user to your chosen destination, parameters intact. If you're looking for a way to embed a Tweet box or something fancier, email is really the wrong place for that. @episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:22 PM, ReapMarketing lkwittenbra...@gmail.com wrote: I am running an email campaign and my developer is having issues with getting the link to share on Twitter. The links are user specific and contain necessary scripts on the tail end that cannot be removed for campaign tracking purposes so the link ends up being over the character limit. Is it possible to shorten these dynamic links from the click within the email to the sharing within Twitter. I see their are some javascript processes available, but I am limited by the fact that I am operating within the email itself so I can't apply a javascript to the header, like I could on a webpage I work in. If this is not clear or you think I could explain better please let me know. Otherwise if you have any ideas I'd appreciate your recommendation. Thanks, ReapMarketing -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: custom share button and following - works for one twitter user but not for another
Are you already following the second Twitter account (i.e.
schoolsvhunger) from your logged in Twitter user? The suggestions will
only show you up to 2 Twitter users you don't currently follow, which
is why you have the option to specify up to 7 (1 via and up to 6
related).
-jonathan
On Feb 22, 8:28 am, KennyB kenny...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
When I share my page with the related url param as
'schoolsserve:Schools Fight Hunger', I am asked if I want to follow
schoolsserve after sharing the suggested text.
When I only change the related url param to be 'schoolsvhunger:Schools
Fight Hunger' (no other changes), I am not asked if I want to follow
schoolsvhunger after sharing the suggested text.
The code I'm using is below; shown with the 'non-working'
schoolsvhunger related param in play.
Any ideas why this wouldn't work? Would it be some kind of privacy
setting that schoolsvhunger has set?
div id=custom-tweet-button class=socialicon
?php
$text = JText::_('SCHOOL PROFILE HEADER TWITTER TEXT');
$related = 'schoolsvhunger:Schools Fight Hunger';
// $related = 'schoolsserve:Schools Fight Hunger';
$twitterurl =
'http://twitter.com/share?url='.rawurlencode($url).
'related='.rawurlencode($related).
'text='.rawurlencode($text);
?
a href=?php echo $twitterurl; ? target=_blank
rel=nofollowTweet/a
/div
The a tag generated by the above is:
a rel=nofollow target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/share?
url=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.schoolsfighthunger.org%2Fschool%2F2000463-
albertville-elementary.htmlamp;related=schoolsvhunger%3ASchools
%20Fight%20Hungeramp;text=My%20school%20joined%20%40schoolsvhunger
%20to%20%23fighthunger%21%20Make%20sure%20your%20school%20is%20taking
%20part-join%20the%20fight%21Tweet/a
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Kenn
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[twitter-dev] Re: replies to a particular tweet?
From
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/cdc34ae78a2350b8:
GET /1/related_results/show/:id.{format}
Requires authentication.
If available, returns an array of replies and mentions related to the
specified Tweet. There is no guarantee there will be any replies or
mentions in the response. This method is only available to users who
have access to #newtwitter.
Example: twurl /1/related_results/show/12345678.json
On Jan 21, 6:49 pm, Rosie Svaskova rsvask...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello. Is there a way in the Twitter API to get the replies to a
particular tweet?
From what I understood, there isn't.
Not in an easy pragmatic way. There is an feature request in for it:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142
There are a couple of third-party websites that provide APIs but they
often miss statuses.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks
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[twitter-dev] Re: Is it possible to get in_replies for status id?
From
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GET /1/related_results/show/:id.{format}
Requires authentication.
If available, returns an array of replies and mentions related to the
specified Tweet. There is no guarantee there will be any replies or
mentions in the response. This method is only available to users who
have access to #newtwitter.
Example: twurl /1/related_results/show/12345678.json
On Jan 21, 5:31 pm, jparicka jpari...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using twitter python
http://python-twitter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/twitter.py
and it seems that one can get in_replies only for a specific user,
using the api.GetReplies()
I need to pull replies for a specific tweet, using it's status ID.
Is this even possible?
Thanks!
Jan
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[twitter-dev] Re: @Anywhere follow and update events?
I have seen similar requests come up a number of times on this list and never any response from Twitter. This is something that would make @Anywhere much more extensible and I'd love to see it. @themattharris or @episod, any thoughts? -jonathan On Dec 13, 1:39 pm, Jim Spath jsp...@pangeamedia.com wrote: Hi, I am using the hovercards and T.Status.update() functionality in @Anywhere. I was wondering if it possible to specify event callbacks when the user has successfully followed or tweeted. I've looked through the documentation and searched and didn't seen anything, but maybe I missed something? Thanks! Jim -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter
@themattharris, Pat's ticket just got rejected for not being an API issue :-/. See http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1904 I have just filed it (again) via http://twitter.com/help/escalate. -jonathan On Sep 28, 9:24 pm, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@awe.sm wrote: Heh, thanks Pat! That was on my To Do list for tonight, I swear :-) On Sep 28, 9:04 pm, Pat Diven II p...@addtoany.com wrote: Hey Jonathan, how's the Mission? Figures that I'd find a thread started by you for the same issue we're also having. :) So yes, we're also getting bit by the same issue. One thing I noticed on #newtwitter is that theencodingis mangled during a redirect (from /home?status= to /?status=): Redirect FAILS on #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20... Direct URL WORKS on #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20stuf... Unfortunately we're all not supposed to use the latter method. It works on #vintagetwitter but it doesn't preserve the status message after the user logs in to either version anyway. I just submitted the issue because it looks like @jhstrauss didn't get around to it yet:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1904 Cheers, Pat - @micropat On Sep 24, 8:51 pm, Matt Harris mhar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Jonathan, Absolutely! Just wanted to put the Tweet Button out there as an option. So we can track this can you file an issue on: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list I'll keep that updated with progress. Thanks, @themattharris On Sep 24, 2010, at 18:54, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@awe.sm wrote: Hey Matt, I know the tweet button very well, and I agree that it's better for most use-cases (we're actually driving our customers towards using / share instead of /home?status= for their custom share to Twitter interfaces). However, all legacy 'Share on Twitter' or 'Tweet This' implementations (that don't go through OAuth) use /home?status= and if the things that worked before stop working as #newtwitter rolls out to the full userbase, it's going to break a lot of stuff for people who haven't yet had a chance to switch to the tweet button or a custom integration with /share. Thanks, -jonathan On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, I'll look into this but have you consider using the Tweet Button instead. Using the Tweet Button gives a better experience and means users don't need to leave your website to tweet your message. You can get the Tweet Button on our Goodies page: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton or create your own using the developer resources: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button Best, @themattharris On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@awe.sm wrote: The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter but breaks on the first URL encoded (%26) or # (%23) for users with #newtwitter: http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%... Is this intentional? Thanks, -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://awe.sm Blog:http://jonathanhstrauss.com Twitter:http://twitter.com/jhstrauss -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter
Heh, thanks Pat! That was on my To Do list for tonight, I swear :-) On Sep 28, 9:04 pm, Pat Diven II p...@addtoany.com wrote: Hey Jonathan, how's the Mission? Figures that I'd find a thread started by you for the same issue we're also having. :) So yes, we're also getting bit by the same issue. One thing I noticed on #newtwitter is that the encoding is mangled during a redirect (from /home?status= to /?status=): Redirect FAILS on #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20... Direct URL WORKS on #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20stuf... Unfortunately we're all not supposed to use the latter method. It works on #vintagetwitter but it doesn't preserve the status message after the user logs in to either version anyway. I just submitted the issue because it looks like @jhstrauss didn't get around to it yet:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1904 Cheers, Pat - @micropat On Sep 24, 8:51 pm, Matt Harris mhar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Jonathan, Absolutely! Just wanted to put the Tweet Button out there as an option. So we can track this can you file an issue on: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list I'll keep that updated with progress. Thanks, @themattharris On Sep 24, 2010, at 18:54, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@awe.sm wrote: Hey Matt, I know the tweet button very well, and I agree that it's better for most use-cases (we're actually driving our customers towards using / share instead of /home?status= for their custom share to Twitter interfaces). However, all legacy 'Share on Twitter' or 'Tweet This' implementations (that don't go through OAuth) use /home?status= and if the things that worked before stop working as #newtwitter rolls out to the full userbase, it's going to break a lot of stuff for people who haven't yet had a chance to switch to the tweet button or a custom integration with /share. Thanks, -jonathan On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, I'll look into this but have you consider using the Tweet Button instead. Using the Tweet Button gives a better experience and means users don't need to leave your website to tweet your message. You can get the Tweet Button on our Goodies page: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton or create your own using the developer resources: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button Best, @themattharris On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@awe.sm wrote: The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter but breaks on the first URL encoded (%26) or # (%23) for users with #newtwitter: http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%... Is this intentional? Thanks, -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://awe.sm Blog:http://jonathanhstrauss.com Twitter:http://twitter.com/jhstrauss -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter
The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter but breaks on the first URL encoded (%26) or # (%23) for users with #newtwitter: http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%23newtwitter+vs+%23vintagetwitter Is this intentional? Thanks, -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://awe.sm Blog: http://jonathanhstrauss.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jhstrauss -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: URL encoding of status= parameter in #newtwitter
Hey Matt, I know the tweet button very well, and I agree that it's better for most use-cases (we're actually driving our customers towards using / share instead of /home?status= for their custom share to Twitter interfaces). However, all legacy 'Share on Twitter' or 'Tweet This' implementations (that don't go through OAuth) use /home?status= and if the things that worked before stop working as #newtwitter rolls out to the full userbase, it's going to break a lot of stuff for people who haven't yet had a chance to switch to the tweet button or a custom integration with /share. Thanks, -jonathan On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, I'll look into this but have you consider using the Tweet Button instead. Using the Tweet Button gives a better experience and means users don't need to leave your website to tweet your message. You can get the Tweet Button on our Goodies page: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton or create your own using the developer resources: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button Best, @themattharris On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@awe.sm wrote: The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter but breaks on the first URL encoded (%26) or # (%23) for users with #newtwitter: http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%... Is this intentional? Thanks, -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://awe.sm Blog:http://jonathanhstrauss.com Twitter:http://twitter.com/jhstrauss -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: problems with 2000 followers barrier
This is how we architected the first version of TweetPo.st back before the streaming API was available. It was a good workaround for regularly polling the accounts of all our users individually to know if they had tweeted. However, we ran into the same issue with the follower/following ratio. The good news is that this is exactly what the Streaming API is designed to solve. We switched to using the Streaming API with the follow predicate (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/ streaming_api_methods#follow). But that was before Site Streams (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/site_streams), which basically does exactly what it sounds like you want right out of the box. -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://awe.sm Blog: http://jonathanhstrauss.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jhstrauss On Sep 21, 8:05 am, Adam Cloud cloudy...@gmail.com wrote: http://support.twitter.com/entries/68916 http://support.twitter.com/entries/66885-i-can-t-follow-people-follow...Maybe ask some of users to follow you back to prove your the legitimacy of your app. 2010/9/21 Валентин ValeZ Любимов valentin.lyubi...@gmail.com Hi, developers My blog servicewww.liveinternet.ru(up to 1 500 000 blogs) recently have developed the integration with twitter. Our users fix their twitter accounts by OAuth and every message in twitter adds in their blogs. Our account @liveinternet_ru automatically follow users' accounts, analize it's timeline every 5 minutes and process all new messages. It was working great untill we reached 2000 followers limit for @liveinternet_ru and I totally don't know what to do. Check each of thousands accounts for updates every 5 minutes? Ok, we can automatically follow @liveinternet_ru by every of 2000 accounts (but it's strange and not needed by anyone), but if just one of our users unfollow @liveinternet_ru we'll return to the same situaton. Automatically follow every 5 minutes to reach 2000 followers? I don't know what to do. I belive, that Twitter is genious thing, but 2000 follower limit makes me sad and lost. Help me? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts
Matt, I've been using data-counturl from the start and still seeing 0 counts. Here is the source for the button on http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shortening-for-wordpress/ which is showing 0 tweets: a href=http://twitter.com/share; class=twitter-share-button data- url=http://awe.sm/59O75; data-counturl=http:// blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shortening-for- wordpress/ data-text=Tweet Button with Shortening for WordPress data-count=vertical data-via=snowballfactory data- related=jhstrauss:Author of the postTweet/ascript type=text/ javascript src=http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js;/script As you can see, BackType is indexing the tweets correctly: http://www.backtype.com/page/blog.snowballfactory.com%2F2010%2F08%2F15%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening-for-wordpress%2F/conversations Yet Twitter search doesn't appear to be: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.snowballfactory.com%2F2010%2F08%2F15%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening-for-wordpress%2F From what I can see, the issue appears to be related to what short URLs Twitter is choosing to index for the count. Thanks, -jonathan On Aug 24, 12:10 am, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey everyone, This is a repeat of a message on another thread. I've updated the Tweet Button docs today with information which I hope will answer a number of your questions. In particular the example about using a short URL with the parameter data-counturl should help those of you whose counts are staying at 0. http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button#using-shorturl For reference the documentation URLs are: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button and http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button_faq Hope that helps, Matt On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:10 AM, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: Just tried something else, I click on a tweet containing one of my short urls this actually redirects to http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20818utm_source=tweetutm_medium=twitt... by setting data-counturl=http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20818; it finally counts all the posts. If you are still seeing zeros, double check to see where you exactly redirect to. Regards Ryan On Aug 22, 12:27 pm, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone from Twitter looking at this list??? I now have a post with 32 tweets when looking athttp://twitter.com/#search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fldv.org.uk%2F20818 Yet the post itself is still showing 0. Until this is fixed there is no point having the numbers displayed. Completely useless. Ryan On Aug 19, 9:22 am, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: I don't give a damn about bit.ly or t.co. I just want people to a) tweet with my own shortlink, and b) display the number of people using that shortlink. I'm not expecting twitter to workout thathttp://ldv.org.uk/20680isa shortlink forhttp://www.libdemvoice.org/office-of-the-public-guardian-finally-star... I'm just expecting them to count the number of tweets withhttp://ldv.org.uk/20680 in them as per the spec. Ryan On Aug 19, 12:53 am, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@snowballfactory.com wrote: I'm pretty sure they're only indexing a subset of redirect links for the count at this point. So, the 4 or 5 being counted are probably ones that were shared with t.co or bit.ly. -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founderhttp://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me On Aug 18, 12:12 pm, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: Happens in all browsers even days after the number of tweets is up to 4 or 5 (ok not a busy site but still zero make it look crap) Like I said before clicking on the number brings me to a page showing all the tweets so they are there, just for some reason twitter when doing the count lookup isn't finding them (url to short??? doesn't like .org.uk???) My shortlinks are the same for each post as I'm just using the wordpress post id with a 301 redirect. Not seeing any reply from Twitter other than it's probably a cache issue, which it clearly isn't. Ryan On Aug 16, 1:13 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said that this works. You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for every tweet. Tom -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts
Ah, canonicalization. Thanks Matt. As you probably know, those URL parameters (other than awesm=) are standard Google Analytics tracking parameters. So, it's something that should probably be handled better by the counter code. But at least we now know the root cause. Thanks, -jonathan On Aug 24, 5:23 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, The count we use is completely separate to search so no inference should be drawn from there. As well as that the search index is only 5 or so days now so anything Tweeted before then won't be found. When counting URLs we count the final destination of a shortURL so it doesn't matter which is used. Knowing this I took a look at the code you shared and it looks good, but here's the problem I noticed. The URL being Tweeted is not the URL you placed in data-counturl. You can see this when you hover over the short URL in the backtype results. Instead of: http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni... You are Tweeting: http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni... When I replaced your data-counturl with the Tweeted URL I was shown a count of 6. In this case 6 makes sense as this is the number of t.co links created from that longer query string URL. The 3 other URLs are not counted recognised because they have different utm_content and awesm values. I've passed this information onto the Tweet Button team who are working on ways to identify that the URLs like this below are collapsed into the correct URL: http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni...http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni... I hope this explains why your situation occurs, Best, Matt On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@snowballfactory.com wrote: Matt, I've been using data-counturl from the start and still seeing 0 counts. Here is the source for the button on http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shorteni... which is showing 0 tweets: a href=http://twitter.com/share; class=twitter-share-button data- url=http://awe.sm/59O75; data-counturl=http:// blog.snowballfactory.com/2010/08/15/tweet-button-with-shortening-for- wordpress/ data-text=Tweet Button with Shortening for WordPress data-count=vertical data-via=snowballfactory data- related=jhstrauss:Author of the postTweet/ascript type=text/ javascript src=http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js;/script As you can see, BackType is indexing the tweets correctly: http://www.backtype.com/page/blog.snowballfactory.com%2F2010%2F08%2F1... Yet Twitter search doesn't appear to be: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.snowballfactory From what I can see, the issue appears to be related to what short URLs Twitter is choosing to index for the count. Thanks, -jonathan On Aug 24, 12:10 am, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey everyone, This is a repeat of a message on another thread. I've updated the Tweet Button docs today with information which I hope will answer a number of your questions. In particular the example about using a short URL with the parameter data-counturl should help those of you whose counts are staying at 0. http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button#using-shorturl For reference the documentation URLs are: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button and http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button_faq Hope that helps, Matt On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:10 AM, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: Just tried something else, I click on a tweet containing one of my short urls this actually redirects to http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20818utm_source=tweetutm_medium=twitt... by setting data-counturl=http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20818; it finally counts all the posts. If you are still seeing zeros, double check to see where you exactly redirect to. Regards Ryan On Aug 22, 12:27 pm, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone from Twitter looking at this list??? I now have a post with 32 tweets when looking athttp://twitter.com/#search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fldv.org.uk%2F20818 Yet the post itself is still showing 0. Until this is fixed there is no point having the numbers displayed. Completely useless. Ryan On Aug 19, 9:22 am, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: I don't give a damn about
[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button
Yeah, we've been seeing similar issues for awe.sm-powered links (on 400 domains). It would seem that Twitter's counter is only indexing *some* redirect URLs. There are other folks complaining about this issue on this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/ed8bf9ded82fd5ca Still waiting on official acknowledgment from Twitter, but it's a real issue being experienced by a bunch of publishers trying to use their own custom redirect links. -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me On Aug 18, 11:00 am, Clint Ecker clintec...@gmail.com wrote: Taylor, We're seeing 0-tweet counts on every article on Ars. I've literally never seen anything by a 0-count on any article since you released the button. People are tweeting these links, so I'm pretty sure there's clicks: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2Fg3kPchF Clint On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: We had some caching/rate limiting issues related to tweet counts for a portion of yesterday but these should be relieved now. Please let us know if you continue seeing the zero counts after a reasonable amount of time (they won't update instantaneously). On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes me to the search page containing their tweet, plus our autotweet everytime we do a blog post. Also will you be counting all tweets containing the URL, or only those via the button? Cheers Ryan
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts
I'm pretty sure they're only indexing a subset of redirect links for the count at this point. So, the 4 or 5 being counted are probably ones that were shared with t.co or bit.ly. -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me On Aug 18, 12:12 pm, artesea ryancul...@gmail.com wrote: Happens in all browsers even days after the number of tweets is up to 4 or 5 (ok not a busy site but still zero make it look crap) Like I said before clicking on the number brings me to a page showing all the tweets so they are there, just for some reason twitter when doing the count lookup isn't finding them (url to short??? doesn't like .org.uk???) My shortlinks are the same for each post as I'm just using the wordpress post id with a 301 redirect. Not seeing any reply from Twitter other than it's probably a cache issue, which it clearly isn't. Ryan On Aug 16, 1:13 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said that this works. You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for every tweet. Tom
[twitter-dev] Re: WordPress
There are now a number of WP plugins for the tweet button. But, I like to think mine is the best ;-) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/ -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me On Aug 12, 1:07 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Until a Tweet Button plugin is released you could add a button by either visiting our Tweet Button page [1] and coping the code, or follow our developer documentation [2]. Best, Matt 1.http://twitter.com/tweetbutton 2.http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/12/10 8:52 PM, ClaudioLessa wrote: Is there a step-by-step set of instructions on how to apply the tweet button to a WordPress blog? Thanks! Hi, If you host your blog at wordpress.com : http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/08/12/the-new-tweet-button-lau... If you host your own blog, then I don't know - you will most likely have to wait until an addon is released, or write your own. Tom -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button
I just posted a WP plugin that uses the dataurl attribute to make the tweet button work with awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, and tinyurl: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/ It also allows multi-author blogs to automatically add the post author to the recommended users screen after the tweet. On Aug 12, 12:18 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Clint, Include a data-url attribute in the a element. It will get wrapped in a t.co but the user will still hit the arst.ch domain. a href=http://twitter.com/share; class=twitter-share-button data-url=http://arst.ch/xyz; data-count=vertical data-via=abrahamTweet/ascript type=text/javascript src=http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js;/script Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:30, Clint Ecker clintec...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users to share your website with their followers. When they click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your website, so the user never has to leave. Hi Matt, I'd really like to use this on Ars Technica, but it seems to force the t.co shortener on us. We have our own shorturl system (arst.ch) and I need to use that. Can you explain how I might go about doing that—I've scoured the docs and have seen no mention of custom Short URLs. Thanks! Clint
[twitter-dev] Re: New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?
I've just posted a WP plugin that makes it easy to use the tweet button with awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, and tinyurl: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/ On Aug 13, 8:17 am, Matt LeMay from bit.ly matthew.le...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, folks- Yes indeed, t.co links will be unwrapped in the stream, so bit.ly pro users will still be able to use custom domains, along with bit.ly's analytics features. We put a post up on our blog explaining how publishers can continue to use bit.ly pro domains with the Tweet Button: http://blog.bit.ly/post/945591208/using-bit-ly-with-twitters-tweet-bu... And we are working on some additional tools and resources for publishers. If you have any specific questions about implementation, do not hesitate to contact supp...@bit.ly, or to e-mail me directly! Thanks- Matt LeMay m...@bit.ly On Aug 13, 10:06 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/13/10 5:04 AM, pthomsen wrote: I read in the techcrunch article, that the posting url is wrapped in t.co, but then when displayed in the stream, the url gets unwrapped again, so you should see the moxs.ie url (in my case). This doesn't happen for me. I only see the t.co url. Is there a whitelist of URLs that are accepted by twitter for 'unwrapping-in-the-stream'? If so, how do I get on that list? Thanks, Per Yesterday I noticed that t.co links were unwrapped in the search, but it looks like that is no longer the case at the moment. Probably taken offline for a few hours to perfect the algorithm, like Twitter usually does after implementing something new (happened to Lists too). It looked like all t.co links are unwrapped, so don't worry ;-) Tom
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Button Counts
I am seeing the issue with awe.sm links. It seems unlikely, but my theory is that Twitter isn't unwrapping *all* redirect links to attribute to the count, only those on certain domains. See: http://backtweets.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fextend%2Fplugins%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening%2F vs. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fextend%2Fplugins%2Ftweet-button-with-shortening%2F Anyone have any info on this? On Aug 16, 5:13 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/16/10 2:05 PM, artesea wrote: On my website I have added the Twitter Button and I want it to use my own customer short URL. However I'm finding it never counts the number of search results. eg: http://www.libdemvoice.org/office-of-the-public-guardian-finally-star... hashttp://ldv.org.uk/20680as a shortlink I'm using data-url withhttp://ldv.org.uk/20680and continuously get back 0. Click on the zero and at the moment I get 4 search results. I noticed that bit.ly mentioned an undocumented data-counturl, setting this to the shortlink continues to bring up 0, however using the full link I get 1, but as most people tweet our shortlink already I want those numbers, and those using the full link are those RSS-Tweet people who I don't really care about. Is there any reason why using my custom short links we aren't getting back any results? I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said that this works. You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for every tweet. Tom
[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet Button w/ Shortening for WordPress
I'm not sure if my reply failed or is pending, but version 0.2.1, which fixes this issue, is now live at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/ Thanks Ed! -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me On Aug 16, 2:04 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: Looks great!! It doesn't seem to be putting the button on pages, though - just posts. I check the box, hit the Save button, and it comes back unchecked. -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Jonathan Strauss jonat...@snowballfactory.com: Adds a fully configurable official Twitter tweet button to your self- hosted WordPress blog. You can set it up to use awe.sm, bit.ly, tinyurl, su.pr, or digg to shorten the links shared through the tweet button. Features: * Choose the placement of the button on your posts: top; bottom; top bottom; or manual * Choose the type of Twitter tweet button you want: vertical count; horizontal count; or no count * Optionally use awe.sm, bit.ly, su.pr, digg.com, or tinyurl to shorten the links shared through the tweet button (default is Twitter's t.co) * Specify the via Twitter username to be included at the end of the tweet and in the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet * Optionally add the author of a given post to the recommended users to follow screen after the tweet (requires the author to enter their Twitter username in their WP profile) * Disable the button on Pages http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-button-with-shortening/ Enjoy! -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me
[twitter-dev] Image Tags in Tweets?!
The last few tweets from @twitter feature the #endmalaria hash tag. On some pages, like http://twitter.com/twitter and http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23endmalaria, the hash tag is followed by an image of a mosquito (http:// a1.twimg.com/a/1272044617/images/mosquito.gif) which is hyperlinked to a different page than the hash tag itself. Yet on other pages, like http://twitter.com/twitter/status/12719532503, and in the API (http:// api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/12719532503.xml), the mosquito image doesn't appear at all. What gives? Is this some kind of annotations test or something totally different? -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Chirp is coming to San Francisco April 14 and 15
First of all, I want to extend an invite to everyone here to the pre- Chirp party we're co-hosting with 140, Klout, LiveIntent, Ellerdale, and Plancast on Tuesday, April 13. See http://tweetvite.com/event/prechirp for all the details. Secondly, is there a wiki or something for coordinating among Chirp Hack Day participants? We're a couple people, but are interested in teaming up with some other folks if it makes sense. So, it would be great to have a central place where people could list hack ideas or areas that interest them and how to get in touch. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to me directly if you want to chat about hack ideas. Hope to see you on Tuesday night, -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me On Apr 6, 3:06 am, Arnaud Meunier arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.com wrote: Really excited to be in San Francisco (first time for me there) next week! Quite a long trip from Paris, but I just couldn't miss such an occasion to meet you all :) For those who would be interested, I made a little Chirppage on Twitoaster, threading Attendees' conversations in real time:http://twitoaster.com/twitter-chirp-conference/ See you (very) soon, Arnaud | @twitoaster |http://twitoaster.com On Apr 5, 9:04 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all -- With only nine days left until Biz's opening speech,Chirp-- Twitter's first conference for developers -- is fast approaching! The two day event will be in San Francisco on April 14th and 15th. You can image how excited we are to have a conversation with everyone from the ecosystem in the same room. The conference opens at the Palace of Fine Arts from 9AM to 6PM on April 14th. The schedule features keynotes from Biz Stone, Ev Williams, Ryan Sarver, and Dick Costolo which include announcements and roadmap details. On April 14th at 7PM we all move to Fort Mason to start the Hack Day. Here is where everyone will have a chance to collaborate, meet other members of the ecosystem, and have the entire Twitter team on call to answer questions. After an Ignite session at 8PM on the night of the 14th, we'll leave the doors to Fort Mason open all night for developers who want to dig into their code or conversations. The content on April 15th will pick up at 10AM. The day includes breakout talks on technology, best practices, policy, design, and more. Additionally, we're hosting times for developers to meet with Twitter's designers, Legal team, Platform team, the EFF and others to get their individual questions answered. Even Ev and Biz are hosting an hour so everyone can meet the founders. We'll wrap the entire conference with a rockin' party later that night! We have more space at Fort Mason than the Palace of Fine Arts so last week we opened tickets for the Hack Day. There are still $140 Hack Day passes and a few full conference tickets left so if you would like to attend please head tohttp://chirp.twitter.comandregister. We hope to see you there! Thanks, Doug http://twitter.com/dougw
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)
First of all John, that may be the best Saturday night reply ever :-). We are trying to use the count parameter with the follow predicate on an account with shadow access role and have been getting some curious responses when testing. Here is a brief description of the testing scenarios: * following a single Twitter ID * using a count parameter of -1000 * tweeting from the Twitter ID being followed and then immediately starting the connection described Scenario A - if the connection is started within 1-2 seconds of the tweet, it will show up in the historical results and then the connection will hang for ~10min before disconnecting Scenario B - if the connection is started 10 seconds from the tweet, it will not show up in the historical results Questions: 1) In reading On filtered streams, the number requested is the number of statuses that are applied to the filter predicate, and not the number of statuses returned. from http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#count, are we to understand that the count parameter for the follow predicate should be keying off the expected volume of *all* tweets in the reconnect period, not just the ones from users we're following? 2) If that is the case, won't our count parameter always need to be a function of total Streaming API tweet volume as opposed to anything we can measure within our app? 3) And finally, what would be the explanation for the hang we see in testing Scenario A above? Thanks, -jonathan = Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me On Feb 27, 8:31 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Each developer will come to understand Fullness in a unique inner-directed manner. One might decide that exhausting the predicate list constitutes adequate Fullness. Another might decide that data loss becomes unacceptable at another point, perhaps due to the rapid cycling. A third might develop another Fullness heuristic. We should not judge their reasons, rather their reasoning and purity of motive. And their careful adherence to the connection guidelines, as offered in the Wiki of Truth. On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Alam Sher alamshe...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, great. When we say a default access account or elevated access is TOO FULL. Does that mean, we have started getting rate limit messages in stream? Or it is something else? Thanks, Alam Sher On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:31 AM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: The elevated access account can reconnect much less frequently by adding new predicates to a default access stream that cycles based on demand. When the default access account cycles, very little data will be lost, as it receives a small fraction of your total feed. Once the default access account is too full, the elevated access account can be restarted with the current predicates. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Alam Sher alamshe...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, but exactly this portion of the documentations goes above my head. Can you please explain a bit more to me how a default access account can be used along with the elevated access account to minimize the data loss? Thanks, Alam Sher On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:15 PM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Yes, this is indeed what you should be doing. If you have a low tolerance for data loss, you will then use a total of four accounts: 2 elevated and 2 default access accounts. If you can tolerate a few missing tweets on each reconnect, you can just use the two elevated accounts. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Alam Sher alamshe...@gmail.comwrote: So in case, if I have 20K users and I have to, say track 60K keywords for them + also have to follow all of them. I should be applying for 2 higher access accounts one for track predicates and other for follow predicate. Does this make sense? Thanks, On Feb 25, 8:44 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: This technique works for updating any filter predicate. The count parameter should work on a shadow account. It won't work on a default access account. We have a number of very large integrations using this technique with Birddog access -- it should scale down to Shadow access just fine. The documentation makes it clear which cases are supported and which ones are not:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#count The count parameter isn't supported on track streams for computational complexity reasons, and it isn't supported on the default access role for policy reasons. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed
[twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates
Heh :-) The app we're building, TweetPo.st, is designed to post the user's tweets to Facebook. So, the call-to-action I proposed would be specific to our app: i.e. if TweetPo.st users were not seeing the expected behavior from the app. But, we have decided to do basically what you suggest to start. However, this will not help us if a user starts out in the clear and is then subsequently quality filtered for whatever reason. But, hopefully that's a real edge-case. Thanks again! -jonathan On Feb 24, 11:52 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: I don't know if you could detect this via Facebook updates. You could, perhaps, start following them on the stream and poll their timelines in parallel until you determine that their tweets are flowing -- then turn off the polling. -John On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@snowballfactory.com wrote: On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues in play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real solution. Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this feature was the right solution, and it's good to know it's at the top of the list. However, we know first-hand how big a time sink scalability can be, so we won't hold our breath on seeing it too soon ;-) In the meantime, we may be able to do a workaround using user input (i.e. Click here if your tweets aren't showing up on Facebook). We're already doing direct polling for protected updates, so it would just be a matter of detecting the quality filtered public updates and flipping the direct polling bit on our side. Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing this feature when you're able to get to it. -jonathan = Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me
[twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates
Indeed several, but people love ours because we do it smarter: * change @mentions to Twitter real names * post links to FB wall so your friends can see previews, watch videos, and/or play audio inline * give you the option of an inclusive (#fb) or exclusive (!fb) filter on what tweets to post See #3 on http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/ :-) On Feb 25, 6:17 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: FYI: There's already an app that posts Tweets to Facebook. -John On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@snowballfactory.com wrote: Heh :-) The app we're building, TweetPo.st, is designed to post the user's tweets to Facebook. So, the call-to-action I proposed would be specific to our app: i.e. if TweetPo.st users were not seeing the expected behavior from the app. But, we have decided to do basically what you suggest to start. However, this will not help us if a user starts out in the clear and is then subsequently quality filtered for whatever reason. But, hopefully that's a real edge-case. Thanks again! -jonathan On Feb 24, 11:52 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: I don't know if you could detect this via Facebook updates. You could, perhaps, start following them on the stream and poll their timelines in parallel until you determine that their tweets are flowing -- then turn off the polling. -John On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Strauss jonat...@snowballfactory.com wrote: On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues in play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real solution. Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this feature was the right solution, and it's good to know it's at the top of the list. However, we know first-hand how big a time sink scalability can be, so we won't hold our breath on seeing it too soon ;-) In the meantime, we may be able to do a workaround using user input (i.e. Click here if your tweets aren't showing up on Facebook). We're already doing direct polling for protected updates, so it would just be a matter of detecting the quality filtered public updates and flipping the direct polling bit on our side. Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing this feature when you're able to get to it. -jonathan = Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me
[twitter-dev] Re: Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates
On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues in play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real solution. Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this feature was the right solution, and it's good to know it's at the top of the list. However, we know first-hand how big a time sink scalability can be, so we won't hold our breath on seeing it too soon ;-) In the meantime, we may be able to do a workaround using user input (i.e. Click here if your tweets aren't showing up on Facebook). We're already doing direct polling for protected updates, so it would just be a matter of detecting the quality filtered public updates and flipping the direct polling bit on our side. Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing this feature when you're able to get to it. -jonathan = Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me
[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
On Feb 19, 12:54 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? I'm Jonathan Strauss, and I'm co-founder of a startup called the Snowball Factory[1] that builds performance marketing tools for social media. Our core product is called awe.sm[2] and is a campaign tracking platform for social media (no, it's not just another URL shortener ;-) ) with some pretty robust APIs[3]. We've also built fbShare.me, the original retweet badge knock-off for Facebook, as well as TweetPo.st, which cross-posts tweets to Facebook in a more intelligent manner. I guess at this point, our top feature request is the ability to disable quality filtering in the Streaming API when using follow predicates[4] :-D And a final fun fact, we just moved into an office with Klout on the ground floor of the same building Twitter is in. So, folks are welcome to stop by if they're ever in the neighborhood. @jhstrauss [1] http://snowballfactory.com [2] http://totally.awe.sm [3] http://developers.awe.sm [4] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/9f5e05fe93516a74 = Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Best Practice (Multiple Connections or Single)
On Feb 24, 2:06 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: The documentation should be pretty clear on this topic. One main connection, and perhaps an auxiliary connection to manage query velocity. Hey John, Do you recommend this kind of 2 connection setup for updating our user list when using the follow predicate? We've been trying unsuccessfully to use the count parameter when reconnecting to add new users to our follow list. I've found several oblique mentions of the count parameter only working in some cases, but no specifics on how or why. We currently have shadow role access for the TweetPo.st app. We're trying to update our Streaming API connection when new users signup for TweetPo.st without losing tweets for existing users during reconnect. Any suggestions on the best way to do this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -jonathan = Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me
[twitter-dev] Quality Filter in Streaming API with follow predicates
From http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#ResultQuality: Removing the quality filter from streams with follow predicates is, quite reasonably, an often requested feature. Does anyone have any ideas on the status of this feature or any suggested workarounds? We are working on a new version of TweetPo.st powered by the Streaming API. However, some of our beta testers are apparently being quality filtered and we are trying to figure out a way to get their tweets. They are OAuthed, so we can in theory poll their accounts directly for updates. However, we don't have a systematic way of figuring out whether they are being quality filtered in the first place or if that status changes subsequently. So, our specific questions are: A) Is there any update on the status of removing the quality filter from streams with follow predicates? B) Is there any way to programmatically check if a given user is being quality filtered? C) Is there any way to be notified when a given user's quality filter status changes? Any help here would be greatly appreciated as we would ideally like to use the Streaming API as much as possible and it's hard to explain to users when their tweets don't show up. Thanks! -jonathan = Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me
