[twitter-dev] Re: users/lookup

2011-08-09 Thread Justin
So it only works with POST for me when using authentication. Not sure if this is an issue with the API itself. On Aug 9, 12:17 pm, Justin wrote: > I'm using the users/lookup.json API and passing a valid list of > user_ids that I retrieve from friends/ids (yes, there are <100). >

[twitter-dev] users/lookup

2011-08-09 Thread Justin
I'm using the users/lookup.json API and passing a valid list of user_ids that I retrieve from friends/ids (yes, there are <100). I keep getting the response: "No user matches for specified terms" when making the call, even though the list is valid and I have inspected the request being sent. Any

[twitter-dev] How to get lots of data really fast

2011-04-26 Thread Justin
I want to search for lists on Twitter using the Twitter API. I have tried using REST API with OAUTH and since the results are paged after 20, I can't seem to make large requests fast. In fact, it can take an entire minute or longer to complete all the back/forth requests involved with paging. Wha

[twitter-dev] Re: Search across multiple accounts

2011-02-23 Thread Justin
I thought about that but figgured there must be a way to do it more efficiently - Taylor provided a link (above) to to solution... Thanks for the suggestion though :-) On Feb 23, 5:52 pm, yaemog Dodigo wrote: > Hi Justin, > > you could follow (with the streaming api) users 1,2,and 3.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search across multiple accounts

2011-02-23 Thread Justin
Fantastic, thanks Taylor... I had tried that but with "=" instead of ":". Works a treat now :) Also, thanks for quick response... On Feb 23, 5:50 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi Justin, > > See this thread for an explanation of how to do multi-user search and/

[twitter-dev] Search across multiple accounts

2011-02-23 Thread Justin
27;t see anything in the REST documentation straight away), is there a way to aggrigate streams of a defined list of users? Say; last X tweets from user1, user2 and user3? If not part of the twitter api, any suggestions? Many thanks Justin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http:/

[twitter-dev] t.co wrapped urls in search api response, no unwrap param or entity currently?

2010-10-28 Thread Justin
I have a nightly batch process that does two searches based on a number of params from the day's data. I don't see that anything has changed here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search But now I'm seeing t.co urls in the tweet.text instead of the real url (even though the

[twitter-dev] Re: Provide a spam score (or rather a “good citizen” flag)

2010-10-16 Thread Justin
Rating/scoring users is something I'm working on as well and I agree. I've found sorting out bots and pure spammers to be very difficult. Some folks tweet so much they resemble bots/spam. Feels like a pipe dream but if they can I'd love a karma scoring system directly from the API. On Oct 16,

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-10-01 Thread Justin
Alternatively, you can just dump to disk and have a separate process read through the queue. That would be ideal as you wouldn't lose any messages if your database goes down. (I guess I'm assuming your db is on it's own machine). On Oct 1, 12:11 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote: > Yeah,

[twitter-dev] Re: 403 with null response?

2010-10-01 Thread Justin
rking fine sense. I've added additional logging, including the full headers and the method called when it happens so if it does happen again I'll have more info. On Oct 1, 3:46 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi Justin, > > Do you know the exact method call you were making w

[twitter-dev] Re: Custom background design

2010-10-01 Thread Justin
Just make your background and set here: http://twitter.com/settings/design Take a look at the background in the link you sited, you'll see how simple it is. http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/98968019/fan_news_twitter_bg.PNG On Sep 30, 11:27 am, Erik wrote: > Hi.  I want to update a

[twitter-dev] Re: List of new users registering on twitter datawise

2010-10-01 Thread Justin
Since the vast majority of twitter users won't ever visit your site, why not just create a page if that user or a friend visits? Check out how wefollow.com does it, it works well. On Oct 1, 12:40 pm, Rajiv Kaushal wrote: > Hi Taylor, > > Thanks for clarification. Actually, my thought was to cre

[twitter-dev] Re: How many user are using my app?

2010-10-01 Thread Justin
There's probably a better way, but: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=a+source:hootsuite That gets any message coming out of hootsuite with "a" in it, limited by the reliability of the search data of course. On Sep 30, 10:33 am, Luco wrote: > Hey there, > > is there a possibility to check out

[twitter-dev] 403 with null response?

2010-10-01 Thread Justin
Just noticed this in my log: Oct 01/2010 12:20:05 pm : process 25236 -> response NULL Oct 01/2010 12:20:05 pm : process 25236 -> caught http status 403, backing off. EXITED When I get any status other than 200 I back off and log the response, in this case the response was null. My rate limit is

[twitter-dev] Re: Site Streams - Unfollow Events?

2010-10-01 Thread Justin
It sounds like it's the same (NO) for both: Friendship Events Created - To you, from you Deleted - From you So, unfollow events from you not to you as the target. There doesn't seem to be any way to tell when someone stops following other than using the rest API to check followers and compare it

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about truncated entities in the streaming API

2010-09-23 Thread Justin
Actually I'm still unsure, are entities provided in the retweeted_status? Where is retweeted_status documented, especially it's use in the streaming api? Still digging... On Sep 23, 10:36 am, Justin wrote: > It looks like I should be looking for "retweeted_status"

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about truncated entities in the streaming API

2010-09-23 Thread Justin
It looks like I should be looking for "retweeted_status"... I overlooked that. On Sep 23, 10:14 am, Justin wrote: > Are entities not delivered if the tweet is truncated? Can they be in > the future? > > I've noticed that when retweets are delivered they h

[twitter-dev] Question about truncated entities in the streaming API

2010-09-23 Thread Justin
Are entities not delivered if the tweet is truncated? Can they be in the future? I've noticed that when retweets are delivered they have "RT @whateverusername: " prepended, this often shoves a url or hash tag off the end of a message and I don't seem to receive the entity either, even though it wa

[twitter-dev] Re: Using @Anywhere under SSL

2010-09-22 Thread Justin
It is a shame Cassie, I'm having to use OAuth - more flexability but would be nice to have the simplicity of Anywhere On Sep 21, 8:37 pm, Cassie Lynn wrote: > "yet"? Do we have any way of knowing when this might happen? And > thanks for asking this here Justin! I asked on

[twitter-dev] Filtered Streaming API, Count, and Confusing Wording in the Wiki

2010-09-20 Thread Justin
I found my answer elsewhere, but the wording on the wiki seems confusing, I'd remove count as a param if it's not usable. 09/20/2010 09:45:50 pm : HTTP failure 4 of 20 connecting to stream: HTTP ERROR 416: Requested Range Not Satisfiable (Parameter count not allowed in role statusDefaultFiltered).

[twitter-dev] Re: newbie question on rate limits

2010-09-20 Thread Justin
You can lookup 100 users per rate limited call, that should be plenty to play around with. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users-lookup On Sep 20, 10:38 am, Vijay wrote: > "You really shouldn't be planning for the case where every single Twitter > user uses your application"

[twitter-dev] Re: Using @Anywhere under SSL

2010-09-20 Thread Justin
Thanks for the reply Tom, Sorry, I didn't realise there was another group - I see I'm not the only one in need of it... Here's hoping the Twitter team impliment it soon... Justin On Sep 20, 11:00 am, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > FYI, there's a Mailing List specifically

[twitter-dev] Using @Anywhere under SSL

2010-09-20 Thread Justin
iment this. I'd prefer to use @Anywhere over oAuth, but may not have a choice :-( Thanks Justin -- 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/twit

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about User Vs Site Streams, and Moving away from REST calls.

2010-09-16 Thread Justin
e policy. Is the cost of having one User > > Streams connection not far lower than having a connection to Site > > Streams? That's what Justin asked, just one connection. > > > Tom > > > On 9/16/10 6:22 AM, John Kalucki wrote: > > > Our intention is that User S

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search/Stream API

2010-09-15 Thread Justin
Also, from what I understand, search may not include everything, it's filtered a bit, streaming is everything. On Sep 15, 11:29 am, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > The search gives you back a list of tweets from the past, the stream > will send tweets to your application the moment they are sent. >

[twitter-dev] Question about User Vs Site Streams, and Moving away from REST calls.

2010-09-15 Thread Justin
I've successfully migrated one of my sites away from making search and mention rest calls, switched over to the streaming API and I'm loving it. I still need to move it to OAuth but now that I have that in test I'm reading up on the User and Site streams and I have a question. It seems the User st

[twitter-dev] Re: win phone 7 xAuth

2010-09-02 Thread Justin Hart
Like Taylor said, find your time offset relative to Twitter's. The WP7 Emulator timestamp is terribly off, and it is probably a good idea to keep your own offset anyway with devices that may have been off- network a long time (or in the future, zune devices which dont have a source). In my person

[twitter-dev] Re: Need Help!! - How Oauth will work in my case?

2010-08-23 Thread Justin
om 20k > before 5 days to 12k right now. Initially I thought that this might be due > to twitter running over-capacity because I was busy in finishing part of app > to launch it in two days. But i just read one mail from Justin who is having > same problem, now I realized that this cut off

[twitter-dev] Re: API Rates and Questions

2010-08-20 Thread Justin
does honor the backoff ( actually it backs off on anything other than HTTP 200 ). On Aug 20, 3:27 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi Justin, > > A few things: > > a) It sounds like you're trying to use the search API with authentication, > maybe even against api.twitter.com/1

[twitter-dev] Re: API Rates and Questions

2010-08-20 Thread Justin
Good thing I asked, I knew basic auth was being shelved but I let the date slip my mind completely. Looks like I've got a busy week ahead. On Aug 20, 3:27 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi Justin, > > A few things: > > a) It sounds like you're trying to use the searc

[twitter-dev] API Rates and Questions

2010-08-20 Thread Justin
I've got a monitor running on a whitelisted app to search and check mentions. Up until recently it has always shown 20,000 at the rate limit. Today I enabled another search job and I noticed my rate limit is 12,000 while I was debugging it. I'm rarely using more than a couple thousand requests per

[twitter-dev] Re: TwitPic 401 Unauthorized image upload

2010-07-27 Thread Justin Hart
My guess is that is the case. It is for Twitgoo as well. In Twitgoo we are using the $_POST array in PHP, which only grabs body parameters, not querystring parameters. Thats one of those awkward things about PHP. On Jul 27, 5:30 am, globaljobber wrote: > Hi Justin, > > Don't su

[twitter-dev] Re: TwitPic 401 Unauthorized image upload

2010-07-26 Thread Justin Hart
Oop, it looks like you've moved on (in a different thread). I'm actually working on some OAuth stuff in C# right now so I'll let you know if I come across something. On Jul 26, 10:49 pm, Justin Hart wrote: > I think I see what you're doing wrong - when you're a

[twitter-dev] Re: TwitPic 401 Unauthorized image upload

2010-07-26 Thread Justin Hart
I think I see what you're doing wrong - when you're adding the "X-Auth- Service-Provider" and "X-Verify-Credentials-Authorization" to the request, those are meant to be HTTP headers, not in the multipart POST body. Twitgoo supports putting those in the post body by setting everything to lowercase

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo Example (PHP)

2010-05-24 Thread Justin Hart
If you dont mind the Zend Framework stuff, I've got one over here: http://pastie.org/975634 Hopefully you can translate that to whatever you're using. On May 24, 1:42 pm, Greg wrote: > Hello Developers, > > Does anyone have any example how to use TwitPic's OAuth Echo in PHP? > I've been lookin

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth Echo Enabled Providers

2010-05-20 Thread Justin Hart
This is now active on Twitgoo. You can see the documentation here: http://twitgoo.com/docs/Content/Developer/upload.htm On May 19, 9:05 am, Justin Hart wrote: > I am the lead dev on Twitgoo and I just built full echo support for > 'upload' there.  Its on the beta site right now

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth Echo Enabled Providers

2010-05-19 Thread Justin Hart
I am the lead dev on Twitgoo and I just built full echo support for 'upload' there. Its on the beta site right now, so if you want to test, please contact me for the info, otherwise it should be out by the end of the week. It will have full support of header, query string and multipart body param

[twitter-dev] Re: DDoS Status Update

2009-08-07 Thread Justin Hart
to what you guys are doing. --Justin

[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?

2009-07-21 Thread Justin Hart
Hi, what app were you using? Just the website? On Jul 20, 4:20 pm, Abir wrote: > Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 > when i was inputting but the post count is 133? > > On Jul 20, 3:11 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you look at the sta

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread Justin
l carry on the fight tomorrow - at least I have a direction now - will try some other request methods. Many thanks once again for your quick responses. @JustinReid On Jul 13, 5:26 pm, Matt Sanford wrote: > Hi Justin, > >      The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and librarie

[twitter-dev] Rate Limit reporting

2009-07-13 Thread Justin
I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not quite there yet... So how to return the rate limit for a given user? Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate (log in) The obvious way to do this is via GET with: http://username:passw...@twitter.com/acc

[twitter-dev] Background Image URL always non-empty

2009-05-21 Thread Justin Hart
(was posted a while ago, but no replies) If a background image is turned off by a user, its last value is still shown in the api for the verifyCredentials and user/show actions. For example, I get this: ... http://static.twitter.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.gif ... although I would e

[twitter-dev] always non-empty?

2009-05-07 Thread Justin Hart
This is an older post, but I saw no activity around it. I'm seeing this too. It seems that the field profile_background_image_url should either be blank or there should be another flag (like the tile flag) that says if the background_image is being shown or not. Thanks. http://groups.google.co

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-03-26 Thread Justin
Let's get me in there too :) twitter: @justinpoliey email: jd...@njit.edu website: http://justinpoliey.com Developer of twitterlibphp On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post > their contact info in this thread (Twitter username

[twitter-dev] Good tool or spam?

2009-03-23 Thread Justin Hart
I have a tool developed for the #TCOT community which will allow a user to follow everyone on that list in batches of 25. Is this kosher or does this run up against the Twitter TOS? Here's the tool: http://tweetforchuck.com/tcot/

[twitter-dev] Questions about TOS

2009-03-23 Thread Justin Hart
I have a tool which will allow users to follow everyone on the #TCOT list (in batches of 25). Someone brought up a concern that this might infringe on Twitter's TOS? Any thoughts on this. see below: http://tweetforchuck.com/tcot/

[twitter-dev] White listed IP Address?

2009-03-23 Thread Justin Hart
Looks like I received white list approval on my account... how can I check white list approval on an IP address?

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-02-25 Thread justin kruger
this to work in a format like this: >> >> machine twitter.com >>        login YourTwitternameHere >>        password SeKrEt >> >> Also note that this doesn't do any error-checking to make sure that >> the auto-follow has worked. >> >> FWIW >> >> TjL > > > > -- > Doug Williams > > do...@igudo.com > http://www.igudo.com > -- -- Justin Kruger -- Sr. Software Engineer - MySpace MDP http://jDavid.net jdavid@gmail.com "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - -- Oscar Wilde

Reply notification?

2009-01-03 Thread Justin Hart
Is there any notification we can set up for @replies?