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

2010-10-20 Thread Josh Roesslein
Isn't the point of having versioned API's so changes can be rolled out w/o breaking a much of applications at once? Why not increment to version 2 and replace all ID's as strings in the JSON format? Keep version 1 around for a few months allowing everyone to upgrade and then kill it off. This can

Re: [twitter-dev] Keep it real

2010-06-15 Thread Josh Roesslein
Thanks a ton Abraham for all your help on this list, you will be missed. As for a possible replacement for Q/A off of this list, has a stackoverflow sort of site been considered? I think this would make a good addition to the dev.twitter.com website. Just an idea. Josh On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at

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

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
Not sure I totally like this idea. Seems almost like double authentication to me. The user has to still sign in via the web to replicate the app and then we have to fetch an access token again by asking for their credentials?? So its like doing a 3-legged dance + the xAuth. I really question the

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

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
Sorry over looked the access token being included. I still do not think this fits well with open source desktop apps. I think for now just not distributing a key with the app's source, but provide it when the app is built (hidden in the binary or such). On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Cameron

Re: [twitter-dev] Python Twitter

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
I author a library called Tweepy [1] that works fine with OAuth. [1] http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:39 PM, pythonista sitecontac...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am using the simplegeo fork of python-oauth2, and it is working fine. However, I then realize it

Re: [twitter-dev] dev.twitter.com usability - FAIL

2010-04-28 Thread Josh Roesslein
Yeah one improvement may be to place the API hurl tool into each API documentation page with all parameter pre-filled so it is ready to be experiment with to see how the responses look. This also helps avoid out of date info if the responses should change. Josh On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:21 PM,

Re: [twitter-dev] API errors with Python Tools

2010-04-16 Thread Josh Roesslein
You might also consider looking into Tweepy [1]. It is a library I have written and released open source. The way I handle errors is I parse the message Twitter sends and then throw an exception. You can then catch it and extract that message. If you have any trouble at all we have both a mailing

Re: [twitter-dev] dev.twitter.com

2010-04-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
Very nice! RIP apiwiki. Josh

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation

2010-04-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
I am all for oAuth replacing basic, but one of the remaining issues is consumer keys. With 1.0 signing is required thus requiring distributing keys with your application. We all know this is pretty unsafe since any hacker could yank them out. oAuth 2.0 does seem to solve a lot of the issues

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

2010-04-10 Thread Josh Roesslein
We have been seeing Twitter releasing more and more open source software lately. I think opening up any client acquisitions would help calm some of the panic and also help keep the community in the loop for helping improve the software. I think Twitter has more to gain by open sourcing than

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth Revoke Token?

2010-04-08 Thread Josh Roesslein
There is no API endpoint that I know of and don't think one should exist. Users should not trust thirdparties to self-revoke access to their accounts. Users should know how to do it from twitter.com via the connections page. It might be nice if we could generate a redirect link to a page on

Re: [twitter-dev] public_timeline

2010-03-22 Thread Josh Roesslein
I thought twitter was reconsidering keeping public timeline around. Not sure if there has been a final verdict yet. Josh On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Patrick kenned...@gmail.com wrote: Since pubic_timeline is not going to be deprecated, and since I am using epiTwitter for oAuth, how

Re: [twitter-dev] Best way to auto-discover new followers

2010-03-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
A method via the streaming API to get friendship / follower updates would be nice. Now it may be better to use the users/followers method instead of followers/ids. The reason is this is ordered from newest to oldest based on when the user followed you. So you would start paginating from the start

Re: [twitter-dev] Best way to auto-discover new followers

2010-03-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
:42 AM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.comwrote: A method via the streaming API to get friendship / follower updates would be nice. Now it may be better to use the users/followers method instead of followers/ids. The reason is this is ordered from newest to oldest based on when the user

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: forcing api.twitter.com resources - tomorrow

2010-03-03 Thread Josh Roesslein
For the OAuth endpoints on api.twitter.com, was the sign off redirection bug [1] ever fixed? This was one issue keeping me from switching from twitter.com - api.twitter.com for the OAuth methods. Josh [1] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1207 2010/3/3 Raffi Krikorian

Re: [twitter-dev] X-Twitter-Client header is not working

2010-02-09 Thread Josh Roesslein
Twitter no longer allows you to set the source attribute of updates any more via basic authentication. You must use OAuth authentication. Josh On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Sagar Tambe sagar.path...@gmail.com wrote: Can i use X-Twitter-Client header for adding status updates? I have tried a

Re: [twitter-dev] Authorization with OAuth

2010-02-09 Thread Josh Roesslein
Chances are your signing if incorrect. You might want to check out this existing OAuth library [1] for python. Even if you don't use it, check out the source to see how it goes about signing. I have used this library with success. If you have any questions about it, I can probably help there.

Re: [twitter-dev] How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-02 Thread Josh Roesslein
They where grandfathered in. Any applications prior to OAuth are still allowed to set the source via basic auth until June when basic auth is planned to be shutdown. All new applications may only set the source parameter via OAuth. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Feras Allaou

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: a security problem puzzled me about using oauth in Desktop Client

2010-01-31 Thread Josh Roesslein
I wonder if Twitter could provide developers with an URL for dynamically generating additional consumer tokens for their applications. When the user installs a new application it will contact the developer's server to download its own consumer key/secret. The developer's server will use its master

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: a security problem puzzled me about using oauth in Desktop Client

2010-01-31 Thread Josh Roesslein
is keep key hierarchies mapping a master consumer key to subsidiary consumer keys...? On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if Twitter could provide developers with an URL for dynamically generating additional consumer tokens for their applications

Re: [twitter-dev] Search API domain

2010-01-31 Thread Josh Roesslein
is on api.twitter.com; the original trends information (global trends, daily global trends, weekly global trends) are on search twitter.com. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have discovered that the search methods search and trends seem to work okay

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: a security problem puzzled me about using oauth in Desktop Client

2010-01-31 Thread Josh Roesslein
That's not all that secure, eventually it will be loaded into memory and can be found by any hacker with some patience. As soon as you distribute any sort of data it is no longer private. You're average Joe might not be able to find it, but any skilled hacker will. And after all the average Joe

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: a security problem puzzled me about using oauth in Desktop Client

2010-01-31 Thread Josh Roesslein
How is it better or more secure to have crackers misappropriated your sub key to mimic your application instead of your primary key? They are still pretending to be your application and users won't know any different. If each sub key had its own listing on

Re: [twitter-dev] What tools do you use?

2010-01-30 Thread Josh Roesslein
Curl - http://curl.haxx.se/ A command line tool for making HTTP requests. Handy for testing out the API w/o any coding. Tweepy - http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy/ A Python library that supports the entire REST API, OAuth, and Streaming API. MIT licensed.

[twitter-dev] Search API domain

2010-01-30 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hello, I have discovered that the search methods search and trends seem to work okay with the domain api.twitter.com. But the methods trends/current, trends/daily, and trends/weekly return 401's. They only appear to work correctly on the search.twitter.com. I have opened an issue here [1]. Will

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: a security problem puzzled me about using oauth in Desktop Client

2010-01-30 Thread Josh Roesslein
I suppose the only other way to make the UX good and to keep the consumer secret absolutely hidden is to proxy all requests through a hosted server. This does come as a cost of having to pay for a server to perform the proxy work. But it's really the only option at the moment I can think of that's

Re: [twitter-dev] What is the lifespan of the OAuth token?

2010-01-28 Thread Josh Roesslein
I believe Twitter currently does not expire access tokens. They may become invalid in the future due to the user revoking access to your application. Otherwise it should be good still for a long time. Josh On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Dmitri Snytkine d.snytk...@gmail.com wrote: Is this the

Re: [twitter-dev] remove my e-mail from summary mail

2010-01-25 Thread Josh Roesslein
David, You can control your membership here [1]. Josh [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Fanel Dev fanel@gmail.com wrote: Hello, can't find how to remove my e-mail of the summary mails I receive every day. Could you

Re: [twitter-dev] oAuth proposal

2010-01-22 Thread Josh Roesslein
Not 100% sure what you are suggesting. Are you suggesting for the authorization step that instead of directing the user to twitter instead receive a captcha image which the user inputs that # and we send back to get the access token? I am not sure that is such a good idea, mainly because captchas

Re: [twitter-dev] Tickery

2010-01-21 Thread Josh Roesslein
Looks interesting and useful. I'll be sure to check it out more. Thanks for sharing! Josh

Re: [twitter-dev] API Limit of 150 is Obsolete

2010-01-20 Thread Josh Roesslein
Yeah an increase in API requests would be nice to have with the addition of new API features. I would almost like a solution where twitter sets a guaranteed hits/hour soft limit. By soft limit I mean if you go above this limit you may be rate limited if the twitter cluster is currently under heavy

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-13 Thread Josh Roesslein
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: If that is the reason for disallowing the source param, why is this policy not being applied uniformly? How would users of Tweetie, Twitterrific, etc. feel if all their updates now said 'from web'? How would the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-06 Thread Josh Roesslein
Not really sure how capping followers would be of much benefit. A better solution might be better garbage collection of inactive or spam accounts. I believe twitter already does this, maybe not the best it could, but there is something in place. Capping the follower limit will hurt users who

Re: [twitter-dev] Check status

2010-01-06 Thread Josh Roesslein
You might want to check out the streaming API [1]. It allows you to follow users and recieve their updates. Josh [1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#follow On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:29 PM, jazzman121 jazzman...@gmail.com wrote: hey! Guys Im sorta new to the twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Preproduction Server?

2010-01-01 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hello, I tend to use many test accounts while developing. When I hit a rate limit I just switch. There is a sandbox in the works from what twitter has been telling us. So hopefully that will make life a little easier for testing with the API. Josh

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-31 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hello, Just wanted to make a quick update here. I have patched Tweepy to use 'twitter.com' as the host for the OAuth setup. This should resolve the issue for now until Twitter resolves this issue [1]. Josh Tweepy Author [1] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1207

Re: [twitter-dev] CORRECTION: Cursoring: Addition of string-encoded equivalents of JSON cursor parameters starts 1/11/2010

2009-12-22 Thread Josh Roesslein
I wonder if in the next API version you could just make next_cusor and previous_cursor strings. Is there really a use case for having to return them as JSON ints? Most of the time they get converted to strings and appended onto the API requests. Josh On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Wilhelm

Re: [twitter-dev] Account Suspension, Retweet Limitations

2009-12-18 Thread Josh Roesslein
You might be running into some sort of anti-spam measure twitter has in place. I'd fire off an email to a...@twitter.com and see if they can help. Josh On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM, kovshenin kovshe...@live.com wrote: Hey everyone, I've recently setup a new account and made it retweet some

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
, Josh Roesslein Tweepy author On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM, shiplu shiplu@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Josh Bleecher Snyder joshar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The tweepy twitter client uses api.twitter.com for the host for oauth calls:    REQUEST_TOKEN_URL = 'http

Re: [twitter-dev] Oauth using api.twitter.com vs twitter.com

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
Sorry left off the link to the issue. [1] http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy/issues#issue/8 Josh On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention. I have opened an issue for it here [1]. I will look

Re: [twitter-dev] API Versioning Revisited

2009-12-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
I am not sure how beneficial this would really be. Versioning from what I understand is for changes to the API that might break applications that have not yet updated. It wouldn't really provide any security against bugs/quirks in Twitter's backend which can cause downtime. So even older versions

Re: [twitter-dev] member_count lists issue

2009-12-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
I have been noticing some quirky behavior with the Lists API today. So that might be causing your issue. Josh On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Matthew Terenzio mteren...@gmail.com wrote: I SEEM to be getting a zero member count from a list where the only member is the owner of said list.

Re: [twitter-dev] What exactly does the follow parameter to friendships/create do?

2009-12-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hey Josh, Notifications when enable will cause tweets from the followed user to be sent to the authenticated user's device. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-notifications%C2%A0follow for more details. Josh On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Josh Bleecher Snyder

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Request without oauth

2009-12-10 Thread Josh Roesslein
By using oauth your application won't break in the future if the user switches passwords. Also you don't need to store their password in the plain. You only hold onto the credentials until you get the token. Then you can discard them. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Fauzil Hamdi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Unexplored Dark Underbelly of OAuth

2009-12-10 Thread Josh Roesslein
The user still has to be shunted between browse and app to generate a new api key then paste it over. Having to manually copypaste a key on a device that does not support clipboards would be very UX unfriendly. Hey remember this 40 char random string to type back into the app. Yeah users won't do

Re: [twitter-dev] Create twitter list

2009-12-10 Thread Josh Roesslein
Here is a link to the documentation for creating lists: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-POST-lists Josh On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Anandaraju P G anandra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there How can I create New list, Which api I need to use for this. -- Regards

Re: [twitter-dev] Today's Platform Announcements at Le Web

2009-12-09 Thread Josh Roesslein
Thanks a lot for sharing that video link. Was just looking around for a recording since I missed the talk. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.com wrote: Hi All, Ryan made various big announcements this morning at Le Web that affect all of us. :) I'm sure many

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth on j2me app

2009-12-01 Thread Josh Roesslein
is like that ? 2009/12/1 Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com Responses to questions below. Hope it helps. Josh should i get request token everytime user want to login ? You must fetch a request token when ever you begin a new OAuth handshake. You need this to build the authorization redirect

Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-12-01 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hopefully as time goes on twitter will start pushing out more sophisticated anti-spam measures. On twitter.com/jobs does have an open position for anti-spam engineer so they are actively seeking to form a bigger team for this cause. So if you are looking for work and are a spam killing ninja might

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth on j2me app

2009-12-01 Thread Josh Roesslein
, application must request again and users will input the pin code again. is that so ? 2009/12/1 Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com Yeah that is pretty much the gist of it. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Fauzil Hamdi asfau...@gmail.com wrote: correct me if i wrong : no access token yet

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter status update with Basic Auth Lua

2009-12-01 Thread Josh Roesslein
Your basic auth value should be in a header not the post body. The other X- values I think also go into headers, but I don't provide those really so not sure. I'm not even sure if twitter pays attention to those. Josh On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Prometheus3k prometheu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What Is The Status of Twitter OAuth?

2009-12-01 Thread Josh Roesslein
Yeah I understand your caution Dewald. It's not fun running into issues you have no control over and then taking the blame from you users. I would say begin implementing OAuth support in your product in prep for the depreciation of basic auth. Maybe even offer a hybrid approach where you support

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What Is The Status of Twitter OAuth?

2009-11-30 Thread Josh Roesslein
I was not aware oauth was still considered beta. It has been live for months now and seems to be in stable condition. So it should be fine for production use. Josh On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: JDG, you're talking apples and oranges. If Twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Oauth on j2me app

2009-11-30 Thread Josh Roesslein
Responses to questions below. Hope it helps. Josh should i get request token everytime user want to login ? You must fetch a request token when ever you begin a new OAuth handshake. You need this to build the authorization redirect url which sends the user to twitter to authorize your

[twitter-dev] Re: retweets vs mentions

2009-11-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
Mentions are any tweets that contain @yourscreenname in the tweet. Retweets are tweets that repeat a previously posted tweet (kind of like email forwarding). On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Mentions are anyone who replies or mentions or retweets you, retweets

[twitter-dev] Re: reg'd on oauth but still shows from API instead of from [MyApp]

2009-11-13 Thread Josh Roesslein
Um looks like that page just uses the browser to post to the API endpoint using basic auth. Josh On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Janine clickbangde...@gmail.com wrote: i recently bought a script and hired a coder to code the script and make a text area for posting tweets using the site. I

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph Methods: Removal of Pagination

2009-11-13 Thread Josh Roesslein
Well I think most issues should have been long resolved by now. Cursors have been live for a while now and there was plenty of warning ahead of today. The turn off should have no affect if you have ported to Cursors. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Naveen Ayyagari knig...@gmail.com wrote: I

[twitter-dev] Re: List creation with oAuth credentials

2009-11-08 Thread Josh Roesslein
Twitter API team seems to want to make the API more RESTful. So that is my guess why that end point is /:user/lists.xml POST versus something like /lists/create.xml Josh On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Dimebrain daniel.cre...@gmail.com wrote: The current endpoint for creating a new list is:

[twitter-dev] Re: List creation with oAuth credentials

2009-11-08 Thread Josh Roesslein
, PUT and DELETE commands will require authentication to work. It would be good to at least know which url structure Twitter intend to support because as it stands now their is a disjoint between this new API and the old ones. P Sent from my iPhone On 8 Nov 2009, at 16:49, Josh Roesslein

[twitter-dev] Re: Pyramid scheme to gain followers

2009-11-07 Thread Josh Roesslein
Yeah. :\ I've seen this done on other follower increase sites. No clue how well it works or the quality of followers you gain. I'll pass on it. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Wow - http://www.tweetpopular.com Sadly I bet a bunch of users go for this too.

[twitter-dev] Re: Stepping down from API Support role

2009-10-30 Thread Josh Roesslein
Thanks for all the help Chad! Good luck to you with your future plans. Josh

[twitter-dev] Re: Very slow response with API from Slicehost

2009-10-21 Thread Josh Roesslein
I just did a few tests on my slicehost VPS and the delay seems okay here. 2-5 seconds range which is about the same I'm getting locally. Are all API endpoints slow for you or just a select few? Josh On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Hwee-Boon Yar hweeb...@gmail.com wrote: I have been having

[twitter-dev] Re: API 140 character truncation change?

2009-10-20 Thread Josh Roesslein
This is the new intended behaviour from what I have been told. All tweets 140 in length will be silently ignored. I'm guessing they don't throw an error here yet to not break any existing clients until they have upgraded. Eventually I'm sure we will be some sort of 400 error in the future. For

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Permission

2009-10-19 Thread Josh Roesslein
Firehouse is only available to select parties that must be authorized by Twitter. Currently twitter only gives this out when they feel your application needs it. You can try asking for it I guess, but no guarantee they will allow you access. Josh On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Shashi

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

2009-10-19 Thread Josh Roesslein
Does this list have non-member moderation enabled? Having that on helps block most of the spam bots that troll google groups. Josh On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: It's not that *this* list is a target. It's that *every* list is a target. The cost to send

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug? Updates 140 characters return success with prior update payload

2009-10-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
This is a change in the API confirmed by one of twitter's API members. The docs should be updated soon. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: Updates longer than 140 characters should be forcibly truncated according to the documentation.  Instead, the update

[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API

2009-10-16 Thread Josh Roesslein
I personally would rather be a bit more patient and let them iron out the API first before releasing it. I don't want to implement it then out of no where it changes drastically and now I have to scrub work and re-code. I'm sure we will soon have details, but until then chill and give them time

[twitter-dev] Re: Non-standard HTTP Errors? httplib.BadLineStatus

2009-10-15 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hi Ryan, Hmm that is an odd error. I have not really experienced this in my Tweepy library during development. I don't use urllib2, but instead httplib directly. If this just happens once in a while maybe just catch that error and just retry the request. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone else getting HTTP 404 with APIs today?

2009-10-15 Thread Josh Roesslein
Just ran my unit tests and they all pass now. :) Seems the issues have been resolved for now. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I was having issues with favorites/destroy most of the day. Haven't tried today yet. Josh -- Josh

[twitter-dev] Re: New behaviour for statuses/update API call for 141+ char sized messages and duplicates?

2009-10-15 Thread Josh Roesslein
If you send a message longer than 140 twitter will truncate it and set the truncate value on the status to True. For duplicates it will just ignore the status. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:20 PM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: Hi, I just figured out that when calling statuses/update

[twitter-dev] Re: New spam reporting API now available

2009-10-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
Awesome work! Let's make those spammers cry. :) On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: On the heels of adding a Report as spam button to twitter.com (http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/help-us-nail-spammers.html), you can now also simultaneously block and

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

2009-10-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of IDs. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from users/show once I have the ids?  I'd essentially like to do this, but 100

[twitter-dev] Re: Seeing retweeted_details for user_timeline payload

2009-10-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
I think its been enabled for a select few for testing. I don't think its gone public yet. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new retweet functionality has been turned on? Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Martin martin.duf...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: The little twitter button

2009-10-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets Is that what you are looking for? Josh On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dawg ad...@sailinganarchy.com wrote: How do I get the little twitter button I see on many blogs and sites? I have set up FaceBook to work with our database of articles but I cannot

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 errors on followers/ids

2009-10-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
I just tested this using both my python library and curl without any issues. Can you access http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml?user_id=15972892 in your browser? Josh On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: I’m getting 401 errors on requesting followers/ids,

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth wed desktop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
Providing an API endpoint for basic auth credential exchange for a token would be a nice solution, but I can see it getting abused. An attacker could bombard this endpoint trying to guess an account's password. Protection can be placed to limit calls to this endpoint by IP which might be enough

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

2009-10-12 Thread Josh Roesslein
Might also be an option to proxy the single connection across all your scripts so its shared. This way you reduce the load on yours and twitter's servers. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:28 PM, EastSideDev eastside...@gmail.com wrote: This is not to circumvent the limits. I will open up another

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

2009-10-07 Thread Josh Roesslein
Twitter should really in this case either white list all GAE IPs (I'm sure an email to Google could get all IPs they use) or allow charging API requests to an authenticated account rather than by IP (much like the REST API does). This way each GAE application would just set up a twitter account

[twitter-dev] Re: API for marking tweets seen

2009-10-07 Thread Josh Roesslein
Yes that would be a nice feature to have. A simple true/false value in the status payload marking it read/unread would do just fine. Also having an API endpoint to toggle this would also be nice for marking statuses as unread/read. Josh On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Theyagarajan S

[twitter-dev] Re: friendship/create, and OAuth?

2009-10-05 Thread Josh Roesslein
I have tested friendships/create using my python libraryvia oauth and works fine. My guess is you are not generating a valid oauth request (ex. invalid signature). Could you provide a link to the code you are trying and what libraries you are using? It would help others in diagnosing your issue.

[twitter-dev] Re: Lookup lots of user_ids from screenames?

2009-10-04 Thread Josh Roesslein
Andrew, I'd email a...@twitter.com about getting whitelisted. If they deny it then maybe just do a little bit at a time until you have processed all your username - ids. Josh On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Andrew McCloud and...@amccloud.com wrote: I don't thin you understood my question. I

[twitter-dev] Re: cannot delete own status

2009-09-30 Thread Josh Roesslein
None of those IDs appear to be valid any more. Either they have been deleted already or the account that posted them has been deleted. Josh On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:02 AM, twittme_mobi nlupa...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, my twitter app has the functionality to delete own statuses ,

[twitter-dev] Re: First time working with OAuth want to do some automated stuff

2009-09-29 Thread Josh Roesslein
If you are new to OAuth check out http://oauth.net first. There is important details you need to know in the spec before you get started. The site also provides links to libraries for about every major language out there. Not sure if you rolled your own twitter library or what language you using.

[twitter-dev] Re: Deleting a Retweeted Tweet

2009-09-24 Thread Josh Roesslein
I think the extra meta data the retweet API brings is a good addition. Currently you have to use up some of your 140 chars for the retweet heading + username (Rt @whoever ...). So you might get stuck having to truncate the original tweet. With the retweet API you no longer need to include that in

[twitter-dev] Re: Deleting a Retweeted Tweet

2009-09-23 Thread Josh Roesslein
Now does this deletion occur recursively including retweets of retweets? Let's say Bob retweets John and Mike retweets Bob's retweets. Will Both John and Mike retweets be deleted if John original tweet is deleted or just Bob retweet? I'm not sure I like the idea of the delete of retweets if the

[twitter-dev] Re: Announcing Twitterfall Reply Search service and API.

2009-08-26 Thread Josh Roesslein
Nice work. I've been looking for something like this to query replies to a given tweet. Always thought it would be nice if twitter supported this in their API. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Sean P. seantpa...@gmail.com wrote: Very cool! I will definitely watch this project as it develops!

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Josh Roesslein
How is that scrapping? He is just launching IE and pointing the browser at a twitter web page for viewing. As long as he does not parse that page for data and just uses it to display that's not scrapping. Now I don't think there is a legit way of passing login credentials, that the user will have

[twitter-dev] Re: I can't use OAuth and I want to apply source(from[myApp])

2009-08-22 Thread Josh Roesslein
Well even with a proxy the users of the app would still need to access twitter.com. Unless twitter makes an exception here I don't see any other way of setting a custom source. It's a shame china is blocking twitter, but I'd imagine they would probably end up blocking your site soon if it became

[twitter-dev] Re: API profile image update

2009-08-18 Thread Josh Roesslein
Thanks for sharing that link Mitchel. It seems the curl example does work just fine, so maybe the issue is within my code. Just seems twitter doesn't handle the error gracefully. Should be a 4xx error being returned if its client issue. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mitchel Berberich

[twitter-dev] Re: API profile image update

2009-08-18 Thread Josh Roesslein
Okay I've seem to have fixed the code and it works perfectly now. :) Made a few mistakes which where causing the issues and the 500 error. Anyone else experiencing the 500 error should check their code. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.comwrote: Here is the code

[twitter-dev] Re: API profile image update

2009-08-18 Thread Josh Roesslein
One more related question: Is it possible to use oauth for these profile image endpoints? The issue is signing the POST body which the spec does not specify. Does twitter support this in anyway or is basic auth the only option? Josh

[twitter-dev] API profile image update

2009-08-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hi, Since Saturday I have been experiencing trouble with the update profile image and update background image endpoints. I keep getting back a 500 server error. This is new, untested code so the issue might be on my end. But since it's a 500 error the error might be on twitter's end. Has anyone

[twitter-dev] Re: API profile image update

2009-08-17 Thread Josh Roesslein
Thanks David. So it seems to be a twitter issue not our code. I guess I'll just wait a bit until it gets fixed. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:51 PM, David Carson carson63...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Josh, I spent yesterday trying to implement profile image updating for the first time, with no result

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform downtime is expected

2009-08-16 Thread Josh Roesslein
Anyone having troubles also with profile image / background update API endpoints? I'm getting 500 errors so I'm guessing the error is on twitter's end. Just want to be sure its not my code. Josh

[twitter-dev] Re: If my site was being rate limited, would I get this error? Error #110: Connection timed out

2009-08-16 Thread Josh Roesslein
Most likely its probably just a temporary issue going on with twitter's servers. It will probably clear up on its own once twitter becomes stable again. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:35 PM, mapes911 mapes...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are developing a social network and part of the

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth

2009-08-15 Thread Josh Roesslein
Looks nice. Seems like a Digg for twitter almost. Look forward to seeing it in action. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Thanks, here's a little sneak preview (attached). On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Jesse Stayje...@staynalive.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: instwitter python library

2009-08-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
Looks like you have a good start. I like how you used generators for the streaming API. In my library I went with a callback. So looks like your are going 3-2 instead of the usual 2-3. It's good you are support python 3. For me I believe right now python 2 is in bigger demand and for me porting

[twitter-dev] Re: MyTwitterButler.com Legal issues Update 2

2009-08-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
Well this goes to show you Biz Stone is no longer running the show at Twitter. Seems the investors / board have taken control and are unleashing the pack of lawyers. I hate to see twitter using such evil tactics. Sure you guys coined the term twitter but the user base came up with tweet. I think

[twitter-dev] Re: Submitting applications to Twitter

2009-08-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
Just because you app isn't listed in the promo box doesn't mean all hope is lost. If it's good the people will come. But it does help a little bit to get listed there. :) Good luck with your app. Josh

[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API

2009-08-13 Thread Josh Roesslein
This new api looks very cool. Good work twitter API team. :) Josh

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