[twitter-dev] Re: Additional attribute in share link

2011-05-24 Thread Ken D.
Looks like a 13-digit timestamp - e.g. Python millis() On May 23, 10:09 pm, Tony House tonyho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking through the FAQ for the tweet button and am not seeing one of the attributes listed. On the page, the different examples have an underscore and equal and a 13 digit

[twitter-dev] Java client for Twitter as a student assignment

2011-05-19 Thread Ken Fogel
I am teaching a course in client GUI Java programming in the fall. In the past I had my students write an email or calendar application. I am thinking of having them write a Twitter program this time around. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone could provide. I am experimenting with Twitter4J

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter group API

2011-03-16 Thread Ken D.
er, there might be.. For Group substitute list. Maximum is 500 followers/list. If they are following you, you can message them. Where's the problem? On Mar 15, 9:25 pm, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: No, there's not. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Richard fireston...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: How to send tweets from multiple accounts without having to login

2011-03-16 Thread Ken D.
You will have stored the tokens for those accounts that you control and on behalf of which you want to send Tweets. You no longer need to authenticate via Twitter, just be logged in to your own system. You can use a form that includes a SELECT tag allowing the choice of account to use when

[twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
Similarly, I have noticed that an exact duplicate tweet is no longer systematically rejected. Our CMS was set up to tweet new content items when they are first viewed by a visitor. If two visitors view the same new item at nearly the same time, two tweets are sent. Until recently, one would be

[twitter-dev] Re: Bigger avatar images for users/profile_image/twitter ?

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
Avatars come in three sizes:         mini = 24x24         normal = 48x48         bigger = 73x73         reasonably_small = 128x128 http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_mini.jpg http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_normal.jpg

[twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
, but basically I think it means I am spending too much time on Twitter... Ken On Mar 7, 8:22 pm, 1537 News 1537n...@gmail.com wrote: What is considered an Exact Duplicate Tweet? On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Similarly, I have noticed that an exact duplicate tweet

[twitter-dev] Re: POSTs to :user/:list_id/create_all returning HTTP status 404 for all requests

2011-03-03 Thread Ken D.
Mistakes are a fact of life, no excuses necessary. What is hard to understand is not being able to change a few characters in the documentation, while developers continue to fall into this silly trap. Is the doc generated from the code? Doesn't look like it. Of course, this documentation bug -

[twitter-dev] Re: display user's profile image - definitive answer?

2011-02-17 Thread Ken D.
A couple of months ago, the consensus seemed to be to use tweetimag.es with user id, like so: http://img.tweetimag.es/i/8970972_o Ken On Feb 17, 1:16 pm, del del1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi All, New to the forum, apologies if I'm covering old ground. I've done a search but can't find

[twitter-dev] Re: Data-expanded-url attribute

2011-02-15 Thread Ken D.
the same. We've set it up to redirect to our home page so all is not lost. Any ideas what could be going on here? Thanks, Ken On Feb 14, 2:04 am, ctrand ctr...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas on this one guys? On Feb 10, 4:06 pm, ctrand ctr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a bunch of shortened

[twitter-dev] Re: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel

2011-02-02 Thread Ken D.
see Grooveshark content in your Twitter right pane. Don't know how many people are using it. Ken On Feb 1, 9:38 pm, Ashley Sarver asarv...@gmail.com wrote: The purpose of this is to find out a way to use twitter's oembed for listen.grooveshark.com links, and embed the media player of a specific

[twitter-dev] Re: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel

2011-02-02 Thread Ken D.
my own) use embed.ly to display content. Tom On 2/2/11 1:25 PM, Ken D. wrote: Ashley, While waiting for native support from Twitter, have you checked out the embed.ly Parrotfish plugin (http://labs.embed.ly/) ? Grooveshark is one of 160-plus OEmbed-compliant media partners supported

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses missing geo /

2010-11-09 Thread Ken D.
Add Location to your tweets does not actually add a location - good point, and you are probably not the first to think so. It only enables your account to accept location information. It is still up to you to send the geo data. On Nov 9, 12:23 pm, Andrew Cross. Gna success@gmail.com wrote: I

[twitter-dev] Re: #newtwitter direct message UI

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
Good points. The order is not random - it's the same each time - just baffling and useless. Perhaps we are meant to delete read messages? A useful 3rd party app might archive and delete them, leaving only new messages on Twitter and helping to resolve the rogue app reading dms issue. On Nov 5,

[twitter-dev] Re: #newtwitter direct message UI

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
Oh great. I just got my first email spam purporting to be a Twitter DM notification. On Nov 5, 9:19 am, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Good points. The order is not random - it's the same each time - just baffling and useless. Perhaps we are meant to delete read messages?  A useful 3rd party app

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
۔ the above Unicode character is the closest I could find to a dot, without being a dot... On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien thequietdr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
cool, that seems to have worked. Just that it's a funny character to work with: #1748; - try and you'll see Anyway it probably defeats the URL parsing. On Nov 5, 5:11 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: ۔ the above Unicode character is the closest I could find to a dot, without being a dot

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
Try tweeting this: http://not-a-url۔com On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien thequietdr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean the Tweet button). THe post I need to make comes

[twitter-dev] Re: Upload image with a tweet

2010-11-04 Thread Ken D.
...@gmail.com wrote: Any Twitter developper have a clue about this ... I ve searched a lot on the web have found nothing On Nov 3, 6:27 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't it have to do with *where* the image is hosted? I thought Twitter had a list of recognized rich content

[twitter-dev] Re: About catching Twitter user status

2010-11-04 Thread Ken D.
you're right, it's pretty hard to find this information. It's way down in 4th position of a Google search for Twitter API : http://dev.twitter.com/doc On Nov 4, 4:44 am, ESN ihsuanli...@gmail.com wrote:  HI,  I am beginner of using twitter api. If I want to collect user status from Twitter,

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion for new feature ..

2010-11-04 Thread Ken D.
Favorite On Nov 4, 10:17 pm, Ronak Kumar Samantray ronak@gmail.com wrote: It would be super-cool to have this feature. Many a times i just skip the tweet for future reference, it would cool if i could mark it somehow.. Ronak Kumar Samantray Hyderabad Mobile : +91-9347290267            

[twitter-dev] Re: Upload image with a tweet

2010-11-03 Thread Ken D.
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't it have to do with *where* the image is hosted? I thought Twitter had a list of recognized rich content websites, à la embed.ly. On 3 Nov, 18:09, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: YOU NEED TO HOST THE IMAGE SOMEWHERE ELSE. Once you upload it  

[twitter-dev] Re: How to display lists from multiple users in an app

2010-11-03 Thread Ken D.
If you own a private list and want to share the content, you just use your own credentials (My Access Token) to fetch it. Real-time or cached, whatever works for you. There is no 'logged in' - each API call is authenticated. How could a user break into your account? A single web page can display

[twitter-dev] Re: How to display lists from multiple users in an app

2010-11-03 Thread Ken D.
I should add you must not use your credentials to display tweets from protected accounts that your account has access to. On 3 Nov, 23:21, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: If you own a private list and want to share the content, you just use your own credentials (My Access Token) to fetch it. Real

[twitter-dev] Re: Copying or Importing Twitter Lists

2010-11-02 Thread Ken D.
Don't know of any public tool, but as you suggest it won't be hard to make one. If you were planning to use the list /create_all method, see this thread first: https://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/8668d4b94d7e0043/eaa833e422b3f4d1 On Nov 2, 7:54 pm, Quy

[twitter-dev] Re: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API

2010-10-06 Thread Ken D.
In my app, the list names are quite descriptive, so until this gets fixed - and I think it will be - I send description=name which makes some sense as the originally input name is transformed (loss of capitals and special characters) and does not appear in the Twitter UI anyway. On Oct 6, 1:06 

[twitter-dev] Re: user details

2010-10-06 Thread Ken D.
Just a wild guess. Try this: import oauth.oauth as oauth On Oct 6, 2:22 pm, ashwin morey ashwinmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a python file and I am running it through command line. But it keeps giving error here CONSUMER = oauth.OAuthConsumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)

[twitter-dev] Re: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API

2010-10-05 Thread Ken D.
://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Ken On Oct 5, 10:08 pm, Bert Lagaisse bert.lagai...@virtual-remote.com wrote: Whenever I create a list, using the twitter.com website, or using the api, and I dont' give a description (which is marked optional in the api), then the list

[twitter-dev] Re: add list members

2010-10-04 Thread Ken D.
Cool. You could visit the tracker page for this issue, http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1884 and star the issue to help get it fixed sooner. This has got to be one of the easiest Twitter bugs to fix. Ken On Oct 3, 6:08 pm, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun

[twitter-dev] Re: add list members

2010-10-03 Thread Ken D.
Damon, Mea culpa! There's an error in the create_all documentation. I should know since I filed the bug... Try: http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/members/create_all.format Afaik, http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/members.xml is correct for adding a single user. Ken On Oct 3, 3:41 pm

[twitter-dev] Re: Comparing Friendship

2010-10-02 Thread Ken D.
a handful of people. On Sep 28, 12:03 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Hey Rick, It's the second time in a week that someone brings up the autofollow/ unfollow question (see also:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/b7b1dfbf6...) and I would love to understand

[twitter-dev] Re: add list members

2010-10-02 Thread Ken D.
Hey Damon, The URL you cite is that of the documentation page. The correct URL (for create_all) is: http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/create_all.xml with parameter user_id=:ids or screen_name=:screen_names The example is:

[twitter-dev] Re: List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-30 Thread Ken D.
corrupt lists that cannot be edited or deleted. May I ask someone from Twitter to kindly contact me to help get these lists removed from my account! Thanks! Ken On Sep 29, 9:33 pm, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1

[twitter-dev] Re: List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-30 Thread Ken D.
-name tag appears below the selected user. But the action has actually failed - the list page shows no members. Attempting to add a member via the API, I get an XML list element with member_count0/member_count. Attempting to delete the list via the API returns the same list... undead! Ken On Sep 30

[twitter-dev] Re: List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-30 Thread Ken D.
Zut alors... Would it not be preferable to create an issue in the tracker as API- related? I'd be interested in learning what happened. And maybe I can get some help removing those lists... So far my research indicates that to kill a zombie you need to destroy its brain... HTH Ken On Sep 30

[twitter-dev] List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-29 Thread Ken D.
I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1.) Creating a list via the API is no problem. Then I post to create_all with batches of 20-90 user ids. Only rarely have I been able to add more than a single batch, even with a few seconds of sleep, but occasionally

[twitter-dev] Re: Comparing Friendship

2010-09-28 Thread Ken D.
Hey Rick, It's the second time in a week that someone brings up the autofollow/ unfollow question (see also: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/b7b1dfbf6500ab83) and I would love to understand the follow economy once and for all. First of all, you say that if someone is

[twitter-dev] Re: Auto tweet implementation

2010-09-15 Thread Ken
Yes. This is a FAQ. Until Twitter staff update the group FAQ, search the group archives for My Access Token. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] Re: list api create_all method not working

2010-09-14 Thread Ken
? Since rate-limiting as listed as false in the doc, would it be more reliable to just loop over :user/:list_id/members 100 times? I need to go for reliable wherever possible... That way we could add up to the 500 members maximum. Recommended or not really? Thanks -Ken On Aug 23, 9:07 pm, Jim

[twitter-dev] Retweet a listed tweet

2010-09-08 Thread Ken
for this? Ken -- 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-dev] Re: Retweet a listed tweet

2010-09-08 Thread Ken
Same on Chrome... also for lists created by me and lists I follow. So what's up? You guys all on IE? On Sep 8, 3:56 pm, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: No... just to clarify, I'm talking about the Twitter.com website. I've wondered about it for some time. See:http://twitter.com/twitterapi/team. Each

[twitter-dev] Re: Obtain email address after authentication

2010-09-07 Thread Ken
, if the user accepts email notifications. Meanwhile, verify_credentials gives you what you need to set up their account and log them in when they return. If you need a user's email address, just ask them for it. Ken -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter logout - hate to open this can of worms again

2010-09-03 Thread Ken
I thought I had found a solution, albeit a horrendously ugly one: redirect them to http://twitter.com/logout, but even that doesn't work. If you are looking for reliable, don't log them in with OAuth - except once, the first time, when you store their token. On Sep 3, 7:23 am, Abraham Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter logout - hate to open this can of worms again

2010-09-03 Thread Ken
, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 01:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: I thought I had found a solution, albeit a horrendously ugly one: redirect them tohttp://twitter.com/logout, but even that doesn't work. If you are looking for reliable

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter logout - hate to open this can of worms again

2010-09-03 Thread Ken
: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: What is the risk of storing a token? It can't be used outside your app. The token being confined to use within an app is very insecure when the app runs on an end-user device. There soon will be a billion smart phones, and many

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret

2010-08-31 Thread Ken
. This new API endpoint would return something like what we now get using My Access Token. Ken On Aug 31, 2:30 am, John SJ Anderson geneh...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's far better developer/business practice to design *proprietary* applications that are secure and register them with Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret

2010-08-31 Thread Ken
oops. really, I had thought this through but got carried away with the 'transparent installation' idea. During the installation, the user would authenticate (via the software provider or directly with twitter?) - and then be delivered the credentials. Sorry. On Aug 31, 10:58 am, Ken k

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I get which user has returned authorized my app on Twitter (oauth)?

2010-08-20 Thread Ken
You've got the request_token, next you'll need the access_token. With that, you'll do verify_credentials. Then Bob's your uncle.. On Aug 20, 10:37 am, d.dinchev vese...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys! I absolutely can not believe I haven't seen this in any tutorial, but follow this scenario: I

[twitter-dev] Re: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?

2010-08-19 Thread Ken
subsequent actions a user may perform while unknowingly logged in to Twitter. Let me turn the question around: why does Twitter not want this? Ken On Aug 19, 4:20 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: The REST API is (mostly) stateless. There is no logged in to log out

[twitter-dev] Re: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?

2010-08-19 Thread Ken
Ingram d...@dmi.me.uk wrote:  On 08/19/10 17:16, Ken wrote: Taylor, I don't need this as much as some other developers but I think I understand why they keep asking for this. Sure, our app is not logged in. But many apps make the user log in to Twitter in order to use the app. Then, when

[twitter-dev] Re: How i can logout using oauth or rest api of twitter?

2010-08-19 Thread Ken
An API method allowing a user to revoke your credentials from within your app, as users can do through http://twitter.com/settings/connections - if they manage to find it. Probably would need to be a TOS requirement... On Aug 19, 6:53 pm, JTOne jthot...@gmail.com wrote: It might be useful to

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source CMS Module and Consumer Secret

2010-08-18 Thread Ken
I am new to this thread having seen it over the past few weeks and wondered what all the fuss was about. The solution by MindcrimeNL above seems optimal, why is it a workaround? Do developers not really want their users to register their own Twitter app? It's not exactly hard to do. You just

[twitter-dev] Re: official twitter equivalent of tweetimag.es

2010-08-16 Thread Ken
There's also http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/:id You might call that less volatile as ids don't change. I notice on the dev page referenced by Abraham, these methods *must not be used* as image source URLs. Any plans to introduce such URLs? On Aug 16, 6:17 am, Abraham Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume and freedom of speech

2010-08-14 Thread Ken
his app. On Aug 14, 6:20 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Simple answer: because people in china can't even get to twitter.com *once*. Tom On 8/14/10 4:37 PM, Ken wrote: Why is this an issue? A few months ago, someone from Twitter I believe suggested a pattern

[twitter-dev] Re: New app for every Twitter account?

2010-08-12 Thread Ken
As Taylor says, you don't need a different app for each account, but actually that's the easy solution, with the added benefit that you never need to do the Oauth dance to capture any tokens. PLUS... each app gets the glory of it's own via tag. Creating an app is no more work than creating a

[twitter-dev] Re: List names - allowed characters

2010-08-10 Thread Ken
Thanks Taylor! Maybe this could be moved to the API documentation. I can report that once, after creating (for the first time) a list called 'Awesome', a second 'Awesome' list got the slug, 'awesome-10'. So I just considered the slug to be unpredictable. Also, I wouldn't mind knowing the

[twitter-dev] Re: Can we automate the user login process on twitter...

2010-08-09 Thread Ken
Punit, If you have regular users with accounts on your site, they only need to go through Oauth once - assuming you have a more convenient login process to offer them. The first time they authorize through Twitter, you need to capture the token and store it. Then they can log in using your less

[twitter-dev] List names - allowed characters

2010-08-07 Thread Ken
Can someone please confirm the allowed characters (and transforms) when creating new list names? We need to check whether a user already has a list with the proposed name. Unfortunately, the API doesn't return an error if the name already exists, instead naming the list, 'new-list-2', which our

[twitter-dev] POST :user/lists

2010-08-06 Thread Ken
I'd like some help as I implement and test the API methods, of which there are dozens. For example, the create list method, titled POST :user/lists on dev.twitter.com, shows the URL endpoint as: http://api.twitter.com/version/:user/lists.format I am not familiar with the notation :user but from

[twitter-dev] Can't remove saved search if no results

2010-08-01 Thread Ken
I give up trying to find the bug submission page on Twitter. Here goes. From Twitter.com, I saw a tweet that had been posted from The Hague (Netherlands). I clicked the from link to see the little map and access the link, Tweets from this place. I clicked Tweets from this place and saw other

[twitter-dev] Re: Can't remove saved search if no results

2010-08-01 Thread Ken
I've since found the bug submission page, but I'll just follow up here and then post a bug. I implemented the saved search api methods - so now it's a developer question suitable for this list! I was able to create saved searches for text queries and for places (e.g. place:55da0f3350b51881) I

[twitter-dev] Permission denied error in Firefox when trying to add a tweet-box with @anywher

2010-07-08 Thread Glide Ken
I'm just trying add a twitter's tweet box with @anywhere but I'm getting the following error in Firefox: Permission denied to get property Window.jQuery from https://api.twitter.com; It works fine for me in Chrome. All I have on the page is the code snippet from Twitter's api tutorial which is:

[twitter-dev] anchor to twitter.com/home?status authentication conerns

2010-07-08 Thread Glide Ken
If I provide an anchor that that takes the user to http://twitter.com/home?status=TheirStatusMsg, I don't have to worry about oAuth or any authentication issues, right?

[twitter-dev] profile_image by id?

2010-06-23 Thread Ken
We have: http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id and we have: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/[screen_name].[format] Is there a way to get the profile image by id? Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Re: profile_image by id?

2010-06-23 Thread Ken
[edit] by the above I mean a URL to be used as img src, not an api call.

[twitter-dev] Re: profile_image by id?

2010-06-23 Thread Ken
the redirect and use the resultant URL. Taylor On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: [edit] by the above I mean a URL to be used as img src, not an api call.

[twitter-dev] Who retweeted?

2010-06-16 Thread Ken
Maybe not a dev question, but I keep wanting to click on retweeted by you and one other to know who that was!

[twitter-dev] Re: Who retweeted?

2010-06-16 Thread Ken
To clarify, I know how to find out, I just expect that text to be clickable.

[twitter-dev] Lost without maps...

2010-06-15 Thread Ken
Geolocation seems to be disabled..? One of our services depends on this. Haven't seen this particular outage mentioned. Any ETA for a fix? Note to self: site must gracefully degrade when there's no Twitter...

[twitter-dev] tco crawler details

2010-06-11 Thread Ken
If tco is to be the new three-letter agency and gatekeeper, we would like to treat it nice and whitelist its crawler. If tco is inadvertantly blocked, what happens? I do not know if we have already been checked by tco as I have not sent or received a dm with one of our own URLs. What are the

[twitter-dev] Re: tco crawler details

2010-06-11 Thread Ken
...@twitter.com wrote: t.co is not a crawler; Are you referring to the URL unpacking process or something else? -john On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: If tco is to be the new three-letter agency and gatekeeper, we would like to treat it nice and whitelist its crawler. If tco

[twitter-dev] Re: tco crawler details

2010-06-11 Thread Ken
to their users. Of course Ken you don't expect them to publish their ip address list do youotherwise some smartass would route this ip address to a clean site and everyone else to the bad content. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net mailto:d...@cognation.net +1-212-203-4357

[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-09 Thread Ken
Sorry if this is pedantic, but can you point to Twitter's definition of malicious ? Obviously, viruses, phishing etc. Presumably, fraudulent or illegal would be included, but this might vary depending on the jurisdiction. Also, if a site is banned in country x, can the government of x request

[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-09 Thread Ken
Chris, I am not worried about that or any of this, but agree that it's unfortunate to lose the choice. And it feels wrong to be obfuscating links to my own website... For apps that display tweets, I understand that the t.co link must be used and not the display link. But what does it mean,

[twitter-dev] Re: link wrapping on the API

2010-06-09 Thread Ken
Not exactly spyware, but deceptive. Don't expect the public to appreciate this. On Jun 9, 9:45 pm, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: If an application wants to provide the original intent of the user, it is forced (by ToS), to present a link that doesn't go to where it says it does.

[twitter-dev] Re: API for archive tweets

2010-06-01 Thread Ken
For use on a web page, try a Google custom search engine (CSE) with setSiteRestriction(twitter.com). You can get older tweets - if they come up in the results. Works well for 'dated' subjects! Hint - use inurl:status On Jun 1, 12:05 pm, msr emess...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I understand the

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug on dev.twitter.com login page

2010-06-01 Thread Ken
Hey, here's a couple of minor probs inside the dev site: - when registering a new app (on Firefox 3.6.3/Ubuntu) - the terms of service thingy shows no text, just grey background. - on the application details page, app description section, the Created by link goes to

[twitter-dev] Re: having trouble with geolocation in tweets

2010-05-24 Thread Ken Hoff
Worked like a charm. Thanks so much! On May 21, 2:29 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Ken, Few things I would check: #1 - is the account that you are using geo-enabled ? You can configure this option on the account settings page:http://twitter.com/settings

[twitter-dev] having trouble with geolocation in tweets

2010-05-21 Thread Ken Hoff
Hey there – I've been trying to get geolocation in my tweets and it's not taking. It posts the tweet to the correct account just fine, but the tweet doesn't contain any location data. The account is geo enabled. Here's an example of my curl call: curl -u username:password -d status=status_text

[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?

2010-05-18 Thread Ken
@melobubu On 4月30日, 午前6:23, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: https://twitter.com/account/geo On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:17, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: there is also a mobile optimized page with just that checkbox on twitter.comthat you could use too. could

[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?

2010-05-18 Thread Ken
that they are not being spied on! Also, wasn't there a way to enable geo on a tweet-by-tweet basis? On May 18, 10:07 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:17:34 pm Ken wrote: I have an issue with the text itself. You can give applications permission

[twitter-dev] Re: Using Oauth to tag tweets with location data from an application.

2010-05-17 Thread Ken
User needs to enable geotagging.. On May 17, 7:05 pm, netlatch netla...@gmail.com wrote: I am sending the data but it is not tagging the location. So I figured that Twitter was blocking it. The application can tag its own tweets fine but when it tries to tag retweets from others through the

[twitter-dev] Re: nested user object bug in statuses/friends

2010-05-09 Thread Ken
Hi Taylor, I confirmed my apps are fully working well. Thank you for your efforts!! Br, Ken On 5月7日, 午後11:03, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Ken, We've done our best to fully purge the cache from the system -- are you still seeing the issue today? Taylor

[twitter-dev] nested user object bug in statuses/friends

2010-05-07 Thread Ken
I noticed nested user tag issue at statuses/friends API. It seems to be same as following another API's report: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/560a544d6703f2b9 Thanks Ken

[twitter-dev] Geolocation bug?

2010-04-29 Thread Ken
Hey sorry to report a bug here.. (I did finally find http://twitter.com/HELP via Google, but there's no confirmation that the report was received. Upon submission of the bug report I was redirected to http://twitter.com/help/start.) Anyway, it is sort of a developer thing, concerning geolocated

[twitter-dev] Re: Geolocation bug?

2010-04-29 Thread Ken
Here is the error from clicking on a neighborhood link, copied from Firebug: I.geometry is null http://a1.twimg.com/a/1272477713/javascripts/geov1.js?1272481439 Line 1

[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?

2010-04-29 Thread Ken
there is also a mobile optimized page with just that checkbox on twitter.com that you could use too. could be useful.. what's the URL? thanks Ken

[twitter-dev] Re: API call to turn on location-based tweets?

2010-04-29 Thread Ken
just what we needed! thanks On Apr 29, 11:23 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: https://twitter.com/account/geo On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:17, Ken k...@cimas.ch wrote: there is also a mobile optimized page with just that checkbox on twitter.comthat you could use too

[twitter-dev] Re: Geolocation revisited

2010-03-22 Thread Ken
On Mar 22, 06:20 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: So if a user enables geolocation on Twitter, but refuses geolocation in Firefox, their location will not show when tweeting through the web? Also, any such user of a moblie device would have to disable transmission of geodata?

[twitter-dev] Geolocation revisited

2010-03-20 Thread Ken
' and _not worry_ about accidently revealing their exact location? Can we promise them that? Thanks, Ken To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation

2010-01-29 Thread Ken Dobruskin
follower email notification that Twitter sends out. Just disable those notifications, and you will never even know that you are followed by spammers, scammers, and churners. On Jan 28, 6:56 am, DenisioDelBoro alya...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 ÑÎ×, 06:42, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Mass account creation

2010-01-27 Thread Ken Dobruskin
+1, Ed. Nice post. The humans will win! Whether every RSS feed, weather station, search query, refrigerator, etc is allowed to be turned into a twitter bot is a policy decision for Twitter. I like to think that Twitter would prefer to be an original source of unique and meaningful content and

RE: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers

2010-01-18 Thread Ken Dobruskin
Zero percent, and report for spam. Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:13:33 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers From: abstar...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Hey Guys, Do you know what % of people read @ messages if you are not a follower

RE: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers

2010-01-18 Thread Ken Dobruskin
? From: and...@badera.us Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:59:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] @ Message read rate for non-followers To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: Zero percent, and report for spam. Date: Sun

RE: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API

2010-01-13 Thread Ken Dobruskin
or competitors! Even assuming that your brandname is universally unambiguous and could only ever refer to your business, you may be in for a case of 'irrelevant automated content syndrome'. Have fun! Ken Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:31:49 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand

RE: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API

2010-01-13 Thread Ken Dobruskin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: Hi, I don't know anything about Wordpress or plugins, but is there any moderation workflow built into these widgets? I just had to cringe at the silly results produced by the indiscriminate use of a twitter search feed

RE: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Ken Dobruskin
I can't wait to hear how they plan to interest real people to follow these accounts. More keyword- (or geo-) based @ replies? save us! Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:03:17 -0700 From: john.l.me...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account

RE: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer QA on Stack Overflow

2009-12-28 Thread Ken Dobruskin
for discussion of the discussion. I agree though that it should be up to Twitter to provide this environment. Ken Abraham On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 21:40, Ken Dobruskin k...@cimas.ch wrote: Jonathan, Good points and initiative. I do not believe Twitter have the resources to recreate

RE: [twitter-dev] The remote name could not be resolved: 'twitter.com' problem

2009-12-20 Thread Ken Dobruskin
You might want to try the Twitterizer API Google group here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitterizer hth, Ken Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:53:05 -0800 Subject: [twitter-dev] The remote name could not be resolved: 'twitter.com' problem From: mr.ki...@gmail.com To: twitter-development

[twitter-dev] URLification

2009-12-17 Thread Ken Dobruskin
When adding a URL surrounded by parentheses or followed by a period, these marks are included in the resulting link. Is a trailing whitespace the only workaround? It's ugly and wastes a character.

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