[twitter-dev] Re: Additional attribute in share link
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 number (e.g.http://twitter.com/share?_=1306165040196). It looks like the first 10 digits could be a unix timestamp, but I'm not 100% sure about that. It also means the three digits at the end (196) are something else. I couldn't find anything in FAQ, so I'm hoping someone can help. What is this number? Thanks. Tony -- 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: Twitter group API
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: Does anyone know if there is program available to create several groups using one Twitter account and allowing you to message each of those groups individually? For example - Twitter.com/username Group 1 (100 followers) Group 2 (56 followers) Group 3 (77 followers) I would like to send separate messages to each of those groups. Please let me know if you know of any way to do this via API or a 3rd party program. Thank you. -- 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: How to send tweets from multiple accounts without having to login
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 tweeting. Bear in mind that consistently tweeting the same tweets from multiple accounts is probably not a very good idea. As an aside, re-reading the TOS, I wonder whether this pattern on a public web site - whereby a user is enabled to send Tweets without passing the Connect with Twitter step - requires display of the end user's Twitter identity, including visible display of the end user's avatar, Twitter user name, and the Twitter bird mark. (Rules III.3) On Mar 16, 8:12 am, Laddi satinderhundal1...@gmail.com wrote: HI, I have registered application onhttp://dev.twitter.com/. Now please tell how to send tweets from multiple accounts without having to login. Thanks satinder singh hundal -- 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: Recurring Tweets
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 rejected. Now, both are published and we have to delete the duplicate to avoid looking stupid. This behaviour seems to have changed 1-2 months ago. On Mar 7, 4:17 pm, Tammy Fennell tammykahnfenn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi There, I was just scanning the twitter automation rule and it doesn't say anything about reoccuring scheduled tweets. I swear it used to say it was banned, but has Twitter ammended this now for certain business use? Hope so, it's great functionality when used right! Best, Tammy -- 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: Bigger avatar images for users/profile_image/twitter ?
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 http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_bigger.jpg http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_reasonably_small.jpg The original seems to be available at http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1.jpg -- 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: Recurring Tweets
1537, I'm not sure you're going to get an official response since the twitter team will be wanting to prevent abuse. Basically I was talking about two or more consecutive tweets with char- for-char the same content. But I believe the guidelines referred to above warn that near-identical tweets too, if repeated too soon or too often, could be caught by an anti-spam algorithm. And even if some perfect formula allowed such tweets to get through, they could be viewed as spam. More and more I see the same messages repeated after a few hours or the next day. I'm free to unfollow or reply, 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 is no longer systematically rejected. -- 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: POSTs to :user/:list_id/create_all returning HTTP status 404 for all requests
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 - and the FAQ about getting a user's email address, which could also be laid to rest by improving the doc - keeps this list alive, so I shouldn't complain. On Mar 3, 7:24 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: There's obviously no good excuse I can tell you for the documentation being wrong. In this case, the old resource was never deprecated and never existed -- the documentation was wrong from the beginning. We're very aware of documentation bugs and are actively working towards allowing their modification with more fluidity than we have today. Thanks for your patience while we get there. @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:21 AM, sferik sfe...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, February 28, 2011 8:05:09 AM UTC-8, Taylor Singletary wrote: It's a documentation error at the moment, the proper path is: POST :user/:list_id/members/create_all When was the old resource deprecated? Were there any other resources that changed at the same time? I try to pay close attention to the Twitter API Announcements list, but don't recall seeing anything about this. Could you direct me to the relevant post? I'm disappointed that the documentation is not keeping up with the API. If anything, the documentation should be coming ahead of changes, not trailing them. -- 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: display user's profile image - definitive answer?
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 a definitive answer: I'm trying to develop a simple page that will display the last 25 of my twitter feed. All I want to display is each user's profile image (thumbnail) and their tweet. While I am new to this, this seems like a basic development task. When I access my twitter's json file... http://api.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxUserdIdxxx.json?coun... ... I do indeed get the information I need - except the user.profile_image_url is MY profile image?? So I have 25 tweets from different users (correct) all displaying my profile image next to them (incorrect). Why am I not getting each user's profile image? I know I can check the user's profile image viahttp://api.twitter.com/version/users/profile_image/:screen_name.format but as that is not the recommended solution due to rate limits what should I do? Thanks in advance, Del -- 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: Data-expanded-url attribute
I have a possibly related problem. We also use an inhouse shortener that returns a 301 redirect, but Twitterbot misinterprets the shortened URLs. The usual search engine bots follow the redirect correctly, as far as I can tell. Each tweet results in a frenzy of 404s from API users who have received the incorrect URL. Mousing over the shortened URL on Twitter.com shows the incorrect URL in the title tooltip. Fortunately for now, it seems we are not subject to t.co wrapping so the original, correct short URLs can be clicked by Twitter.com users. The incorrectly interpreted URL is always 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 urls which are resolved/redirected to full urls by my webapp. e.g. http://dealush.com/sale/2wml resolves to http://dealush.com/shopping-sales/2wml/sydney-sale-8-off-at-catwalk-w... When I tweet the short URL, sometimes the data-expanded-url attribute is populated for the url and when I mouseover it I can see the full url. However sometimes it is not populated, and there is no data- expanded-url attribute at all! I am wondering if anyone can shed some light onto why it would be so. I am also thinking that this is affecting the counters on my tweet buttons, as tweets that do have an URL with the data-expanded-url attribute give a +1 for the counter, and those that do not have a data- expanded-url don't. Does something need to happen for the data-expanded-url value to populate? Or perhaps there something wrong with some of my URLS? Note: THe example URL above does have a data-expanded-url value. Thanks in advance, Carl PS - Please let me know if you need any additional information from me and it will be forthcoming! -- 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: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel
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 by the plugin. Tweets bearing supported URLs are marked in the timeline and yes, you'll 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 song when the link is posted. How long does requesting permission for a media partnership take, and has anyone had problems requesting a partnership? Has anyone atempted to use oembed on twitter, or began working with oembed? -- 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: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel
I just re-enabled the Parrotfish plugin and it's pretty amazing. It's pulling content from my own website and from just about any URL mentioned in a Tweet. Goes way beyond the advertised performance. On Feb 2, 1:26 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Some Twitter applications (including 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 by the plugin. Tweets bearing supported URLs are marked in the timeline and yes, you'll 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 Sarverasarv...@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 song when the link is posted. How long does requesting permission for a media partnership take, and has anyone had problems requesting a partnership? Has anyone atempted to use oembed on twitter, or began working with oembed? -- 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: statuses missing geo /
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 am succeeded in integrating the twitter with my web application and access the twitter futures. Now, I need your help to get the following in the list of my statuses. geo / coordinates / place / at the below of the user tags of the tweet status list. I have enabled the Tweet Location Add Location to your tweets checked to TRUE. May I know, do I need to make any other settings to be set in order to get the elements filled with the right information. Thanking You Regards, Gna Andrew Cross -- 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: #newtwitter direct message UI
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, 1:18 am, Jef Poskanzer jef.poskan...@gmail.com wrote: The #newtwitter direct message UI sucks. - There's no indication on the main UI that you have an unread message. If you miss the email notification you will never notice the message. - On the DM page, there's no indication of which conversations have unread messages, or even the most recent messages. The conversations are presented in random order. - When a conversation is displayed, again there is no indication of which messages are unread or which is the most recent. Again they are displayed in random order. So. Are there plans to improve it? Has anyone written their own improved version? Anyone want to collaborate on writing one? --- Jef -- 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: #newtwitter direct message UI
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 might archive and delete them, leaving only new messages on Twitter and helping to resolve the rogue app reading dms issue. On Nov 5, 1:18 am, Jef Poskanzer jef.poskan...@gmail.com wrote: The #newtwitter direct message UI sucks. - There's no indication on the main UI that you have an unread message. If you miss the email notification you will never notice the message. - On the DM page, there's no indication of which conversations have unread messages, or even the most recent messages. The conversations are presented in random order. - When a conversation is displayed, again there is no indication of which messages are unread or which is the most recent. Again they are displayed in random order. So. Are there plans to improve it? Has anyone written their own improved version? Anyone want to collaborate on writing one? --- Jef -- 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: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?
۔ 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 the Tweet button). THe post I need to make comes under this form: Please visit A.BBB using very long URL here If I use the Tweet button, the very long URL is shortened (ok) but the company name which is close to an URL form is also rewritened as a short URL (wrong). I need to have the company name left alone somehow, yet keeping the current form A.BBB in plain text (or as a URL, but not shortened) as well as the shortened long URL. Is there a way to tell twitter to not forcibly shorten an URL that's not in full URL format? Or at least mark the first one to be skipped from shortening? (I could do this if I would manually shorten the long URL, but I cannot do that in my production system, I still need Twitter to handle that). I need a JS-only solution and until now nothing I tried works. Thanks! -- 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: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?
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... 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 under this form: Please visit A.BBB using very long URL here If I use the Tweet button, the very long URL is shortened (ok) but the company name which is close to an URL form is also rewritened as a short URL (wrong). I need to have the company name left alone somehow, yet keeping the current form A.BBB in plain text (or as a URL, but not shortened) as well as the shortened long URL. Is there a way to tell twitter to not forcibly shorten an URL that's not in full URL format? Or at least mark the first one to be skipped from shortening? (I could do this if I would manually shorten the long URL, but I cannot do that in my production system, I still need Twitter to handle that). I need a JS-only solution and until now nothing I tried works. Thanks! -- 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: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?
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 under this form: Please visit A.BBB using very long URL here If I use the Tweet button, the very long URL is shortened (ok) but the company name which is close to an URL form is also rewritened as a short URL (wrong). I need to have the company name left alone somehow, yet keeping the current form A.BBB in plain text (or as a URL, but not shortened) as well as the shortened long URL. Is there a way to tell twitter to not forcibly shorten an URL that's not in full URL format? Or at least mark the first one to be skipped from shortening? (I could do this if I would manually shorten the long URL, but I cannot do that in my production system, I still need Twitter to handle that). I need a JS-only solution and until now nothing I tried works. Thanks! -- 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: Upload image with a tweet
OK, I tested it for you. Post a tweet containing the URL of a Flickr image, you get the preview. Post a tweet containing the URL of your avatar on Twitter, no preview. Keep searching, you find somewhere it's been mentioned the media partners or some such. On Nov 4, 3:20 pm, fxbois fxb...@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 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 somewhere else and have a link to it, there is your preview. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:20 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi thanks for your response. I've tried to include in a tweet the url of an image but I don't have the image preview when I click on the tweet and I don't have the little picto (top right corner) that shows that the tweet includes an image. I there anything I miss ? Isn't there any hidden param to the publish method ? On Nov 2, 7:30 pm, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: No, because it needs to be hosted somewhere else. It's just a shortened link to the pic. You can roll your own. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:12 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi, is there any API that can be used to insert an image in a tweet. I know that I can use external services like twitpic but I would prefer to use an internal twitter API if it exists. Thanks in advance Fx -- 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: About catching Twitter user status
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, what approach should I take? How to use java to collect all users status, if I want to use the jsp / java with Twitter API. Thank you -- 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: Suggestion for new feature ..
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 040-66933916 On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: borat, check out hootsuite. this is a list for dev not end-users. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkiss http://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/ http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Alexandre E. Knorst wrote: Hi Guys !! I´m use Twitter for a short time. Sometimes I see important tweets attached with movies and URL links, but, don´t have time for read on this moment. It´s possible mark that tweet for read later ??? And .. other important feauture will be score for ranking tweets. Thanks, -- 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: Upload image with a tweet
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 somewhere else and have a link to it, there is your preview. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:20 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi thanks for your response. I've tried to include in a tweet the url of an image but I don't have the image preview when I click on the tweet and I don't have the little picto (top right corner) that shows that the tweet includes an image. I there anything I miss ? Isn't there any hidden param to the publish method ? On Nov 2, 7:30 pm, Edward Hotchkiss edw...@edwardhotchkiss.com wrote: No, because it needs to be hosted somewhere else. It's just a shortened link to the pic. You can roll your own. Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkisshttp://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- edward.png 3KViewDownload On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:12 AM, fxbois wrote: Hi, is there any API that can be used to insert an image in a tweet. I know that I can use external services like twitpic but I would prefer to use an internal twitter API if it exists. Thanks in advance Fx -- 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: How to display lists from multiple users in an app
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 content retrieved from different accounts - yours and the user's, for example. On 3 Nov, 18:46, Adam Nason apna...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter limits each user account to 20 lists. I have three accounts with different purposes but need the 60 lists across these three accounts to be displayed on one page on my website. Each list link needs to be clickable to the status updates from that list (in that same page likely using ajax). They are private lists (created for viewing only in the app) and I would like to keep them that way though I will take them public if absolutely necessary. I'm just the content manager asking this on behalf of the developer so I know little about oAuth but this is how it has been explained to me: When you request an access token you send Twitter a current timestamp and that timestamp is used to make a signature_basestring. With that signature, you sign every request you send to Twitter. It's a bit tricky not to enter login/pass manually when Twitter asks you to do that. And then there is my concern about the security of my accounts if they are logged into on a public, live webpage (warranted/ unwarranted? not sure). The developer mentioned that even if we take the lists public, we would still need to use oauth/logins to retrieve status updates from the lists. What he proposed is doing the oauth/logins process behind the scenes periodically during the day (based on cron.php timer) and displaying cached messages to users of the app. My preference is to display in real-time assuming that I can get the other two accounts whitelisted. Only one of the accounts is whitelisted for 20,000 requests (per hour?). So the advice I'm seeking is a bit open-ended as to how proceed from here. Private/public lists? Display real-time vs display cached version? Security concerns? The developer is still pretty new to the API so we're hoping someone can toss us a bone here. Thanks! -- 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: How to display lists from multiple users in an app
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-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 content retrieved from different accounts - yours and the user's, for example. On 3 Nov, 18:46, Adam Nason apna...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter limits each user account to 20 lists. I have three accounts with different purposes but need the 60 lists across these three accounts to be displayed on one page on my website. Each list link needs to be clickable to the status updates from that list (in that same page likely using ajax). They are private lists (created for viewing only in the app) and I would like to keep them that way though I will take them public if absolutely necessary. I'm just the content manager asking this on behalf of the developer so I know little about oAuth but this is how it has been explained to me: When you request an access token you send Twitter a current timestamp and that timestamp is used to make a signature_basestring. With that signature, you sign every request you send to Twitter. It's a bit tricky not to enter login/pass manually when Twitter asks you to do that. And then there is my concern about the security of my accounts if they are logged into on a public, live webpage (warranted/ unwarranted? not sure). The developer mentioned that even if we take the lists public, we would still need to use oauth/logins to retrieve status updates from the lists. What he proposed is doing the oauth/logins process behind the scenes periodically during the day (based on cron.php timer) and displaying cached messages to users of the app. My preference is to display in real-time assuming that I can get the other two accounts whitelisted. Only one of the accounts is whitelisted for 20,000 requests (per hour?). So the advice I'm seeking is a bit open-ended as to how proceed from here. Private/public lists? Display real-time vs display cached version? Security concerns? The developer is still pretty new to the API so we're hoping someone can toss us a bone here. Thanks! -- 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: Copying or Importing Twitter Lists
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 quyten...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a tool out there that allows me to copy a Twitter List? For example, I've created a new account and wanted to migrate my Twitter Lists over to this new account or I want to copy an existing public Twitter List and edit it to my liking. I'm thinking of creating a simple tool using the Twitter API but will this hit any rate limiting if this is a public tool? Quy -- 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: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API
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 am, Bert Lagaisse bert.lagai...@virtual-remote.com wrote: Posted ;-) I hadn't run my unittests for my upcoming WP7 twitter client in two weeks. Just ran them again and discovered this feature ;-) I now force the user to enter a description ;-) greets Bert Lagaissewww.virtual-remote.com/twozaic -- 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: user details
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) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'OAuthConsumer' whereas it works when trying to run it through web application. thanks ashy -- 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: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API
Nice find! This is recent, a day or two. There is confusion elsewhere in the doc regarding optional parameters, For example, in DELETE :user/lists/:id, id is said to be optional. If this also fails in the Twitter UI there is hope that it will be fixed soon. For now Bert, this bug is yours: http://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 is not created. However, there is no error message. This bug can only have been introduced in the last weeks I think. Any one else with this problem ? -- 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: add list members
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, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: 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.xmlis correct for adding a single user. Ken Hey Ken, That was it exactly. The create_all works perfectly now. Thanks! /damon -- 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: add list members
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, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: 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: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/firemen/create_all.xml?user_i... Try that.. Hey Ken, Yeah, I was just including those URLs to let you know which methods I was talking about in the documentation. The call being generated by the client lib (Grackle, in this case) should look as you describe, afaik. But there must be something amiss with it. Thanks, /damon -- 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: Comparing Friendship
Interesting! - thanks for sharing. As they say, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. I've just been followed by someone selling business cards. They are following 51,000 and are followed by 54,000. Well, I doubt they are reading many of those tweets, they are too busy selling business cards. Their own stream consists of recycled aphorisms and I doubt many people are reading that. Funnily, three people we follow also follow them, but this can only be due to auto-following. It's all meaningless, and worse, it's a waste of resources. When Twitter is having capacity issues I can't help but think of that. It's also too bad when one's following list is just a mirror of one's followers, because following lists can be a great source of new accounts to follow. The list of accounts we follow is likely to interest our followers, and we now make it available as a Twitter list that can be followed. My observation is that carefully curated followings are the best lists on Twitter. We'll soon be releasing our tool that lets anyone grab a following and make a followable list from it. Of course, the following has to be less than 500, but that's about the maximum number of accounts I could follow... On Sep 30, 5:19 pm, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: It's important to unfollow someone who unfollowed you. I must emphasize here that I am not talking about unfollowing someone who is not following me, but only those who used to follow me, then unfollowed. In this case it's very important to unfollow them right away. This is important because otherwise the schemers that follow you, then get a follow-back and then unfollow you win. Remember kids: if you don't auto unfollow-back that the terrorists will win. And that's not a good thing. Also if you want to follow over 2000 people you must keep you following/followers ratio really tight and that's why I would need to unfollow people who are not following me back. It's really simple. There are good ways to follow and read messages from many thousands of people. One way is to separate them by lists and then read lists instead of your main timeline. second way is to you other third party clients that lets you filter by keywords and stuff like that. I want to follow people with common interests and that common interest happens to be I am interested in following people who follow back When I follow someone I basically giving that person a chance to sell me something. I say, fine, but you give me a chance to sell you something too. I may still follow a few accounts that are so important to me that I will follow them even though I know they don't follow back, but that's just 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 the follow economy once and for all. First of all, you say that if someone is following you, you will follow back, but if they are not following, you will unfollow. If you are not yet following them, do you mean that you would block them? What is the use case for auto-following, and why would it be so important to unfollow users who do not follow back? Is there a cost? Are those users' tweets less interesting if they aren't following you? I mean, we can't all be followed by Justin Bieber! Personally, I'm over that... If one succeeds in building up an account that follows and is followed back by thousands of users - as seems to be the goal - does one ever actually visit the account? It can't possibly make any sense to access such an account via twitter.com. Are there tools that can render such an account usable or meaningful? Finally, why the pretense of following if one will never actually read the users' tweets? Does Twitter have in mind to adapt the system to this reality? This is not a rant, I sincerely want to know! On Sep 28, 4:34 pm, Rick Stuivenberg rickstuivenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What are the oauth functions to check if somebody is following me or not? I am currently making a script to check up if a user is following me, and if so, following them back, and if not, unfollow the user. Can somebody give me a point in the direction what oauth functions I need? btw; I am using twitteroauth. Rick -- 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: add list members
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: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/firemen/create_all.xml?user_id=783214,6253282 Try that.. On Oct 2, 8:16 pm, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: I've tried both create_all.xml and members.xml to add multiple or just one member to a list. The list is owned by me and exists. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/:user/:list_id/create_all orhttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/:user/:list_id/members When the call goes through, the response is a normal #newtwitter web page instead of an API response. Is this a known issue? thanks, /damon -- 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: List-related weirdnesses
I resolved this problem by adding a few seconds of sleep after creating a list and populating it. The problem did not appear when I first tested my code, but it was morning European time and Twitter may not have been too busy. In the process of finding this out, I seem to have created some 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.) 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 it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com,http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself,http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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: List-related weirdnesses
Hey Taylor, These lists are zombies. Through Twitter.com, I have failed to change the status from private to public, change the name or add a member. When I select a member to add from the find people search, then user-actions list-menu button, it appears to have worked: the Your lists: list-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, 10:30 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Ken, Lists really are a sometimes embarrassing corner of the API, not going to mince words there. What is the type of failure you're getting when deleting the lists via the API? A lingering bug around is that lists without users often cannot be deleted correctly. If you're still having this problem, can you try adding a user to a list you haven't been able to delete and then try the deletion? Your batch creation problems do seem to be more availability-bound than anything else. As for the seemingly-chaotic naming convention of duplicately named lists: yes, it boggles the mind. Best to just make sure you check the names of lists a member already has before attempting to create a new one at this time. Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I resolved this problem by adding a few seconds of sleep after creating a list and populating it. The problem did not appear when I first tested my code, but it was morning European time and Twitter may not have been too busy. In the process of finding this out, I seem to have created some 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.) 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 it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com,http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself,http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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: List-related weirdnesses
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, 11:29 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Ken, Bizarre. While I expect a certain amount of List bugginess on a daily basis, this is a bit more severe than usual. And also outside of where I can help you to any level of satisfaction. Hate to pass the buck, but please re-summarize the issues that lead to this zombie state, along with the specific lists in a support ticket athttp://bit.ly/twicket Blargh, Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: Hey Taylor, These lists are zombies. Through Twitter.com, I have failed to change the status from private to public, change the name or add a member. When I select a member to add from the find people search, then user-actions list-menu button, it appears to have worked: the Your lists: list-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, 10:30 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Ken, Lists really are a sometimes embarrassing corner of the API, not going to mince words there. What is the type of failure you're getting when deleting the lists via the API? A lingering bug around is that lists without users often cannot be deleted correctly. If you're still having this problem, can you try adding a user to a list you haven't been able to delete and then try the deletion? Your batch creation problems do seem to be more availability-bound than anything else. As for the seemingly-chaotic naming convention of duplicately named lists: yes, it boggles the mind. Best to just make sure you check the names of lists a member already has before attempting to create a new one at this time. Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Ken D. k...@cimas.ch wrote: I resolved this problem by adding a few seconds of sleep after creating a list and populating it. The problem did not appear when I first tested my code, but it was morning European time and Twitter may not have been too busy. In the process of finding this out, I seem to have created some 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.) 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 it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com,http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself,http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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] List-related weirdnesses
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 it has succeeded. 2.) Viewing the result on 'old' twitter.com, http://twitter.com/#list/[account]/[list-name] will show a timeline (eg a batch of 20 users successfully added) and a link, Following: 0. On the list page itself, http://twitter.com/[account]/[list-name], no tweets are shown, only the Find people to add to your list: search box. 3.) And... I am unable to delete these lists, using either the API or manually on Twitter.com. Oh, and one more thing: If I try to add (via API) a list named mylist twice and I already have say 12 lists, the second mylist will not be called mylist-2, but mylist-13! Are these known issues? I am working on a project where lists are important, so any advice will be appreciated. Cheers! -- 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: Comparing Friendship
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 following you, you will follow back, but if they are not following, you will unfollow. If you are not yet following them, do you mean that you would block them? What is the use case for auto-following, and why would it be so important to unfollow users who do not follow back? Is there a cost? Are those users' tweets less interesting if they aren't following you? I mean, we can't all be followed by Justin Bieber! Personally, I'm over that... If one succeeds in building up an account that follows and is followed back by thousands of users - as seems to be the goal - does one ever actually visit the account? It can't possibly make any sense to access such an account via twitter.com. Are there tools that can render such an account usable or meaningful? Finally, why the pretense of following if one will never actually read the users' tweets? Does Twitter have in mind to adapt the system to this reality? This is not a rant, I sincerely want to know! On Sep 28, 4:34 pm, Rick Stuivenberg rickstuivenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What are the oauth functions to check if somebody is following me or not? I am currently making a script to check up if a user is following me, and if so, following them back, and if not, unfollow the user. Can somebody give me a point in the direction what oauth functions I need? btw; I am using twitteroauth. Rick -- 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
