[twitter-dev] Many twitter to 1 location that gets pushed out
I'm not too sure if any of that makes sense but here it goes in more detail I've got a website for a local sports association. Presently someone thought it would be a good idea if, by using twitter everybody could be kept appraised of different teams standings/plays/activities in real time aka twittering. The problem arises that no one person wanted to be the 'voice' of the sports organization and the thought of many people logging in as the association is a security nightmare. Basically what was needed was for a select group of people would tweet, which would be picked up by the associations twitter id and broadcast out to the many parents. Diagram below (sorry for its crudeness): twitter twitter twitter \ |/ Association / / / | \ \ \ parent parent parent parent parent parent parent The only way I can think of doing this is by setting up a web page on the association's site that only the approved list of twitters are allowed to access and then, using the API, have the web site post the twitter. But before I do any of this: 1) Has this been done before/ am I re-inventing the wheel? 2) Can the API handle this? 3) Would it get Twitter's blessing (I know they are cracking down). Thanks, Kevin -- 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] Can't get Oauth working
I'm trying to develop a twitter program but no matter what I do, I can't seem to authorize. I've followed several tutorials to the letter, and can't authorize using their methods either. Most of the time I get Woah there! This page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the token information you provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again ... it was probably an honest mistake. But if I use the Abraham Williams solution, I get 401 code back which is unauthorized. I even registered a second program with Twitter, thinking that perhaps it was something wrong with my application registration - same results. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? The error messages I get back are not helpful to me for finding out what's gone wrong. Thanks, -k -- 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: Snowflake, it's almost 9007199254740992 time.
Beware the natural order comparison code linked above. natcompare(10705970246197248, 625058521088) returns -1 incorrectly. See https://gist.github.com/727383 for an example. On Nov 23, 12:26 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey everyone, You may remember a few weeks ago we launched Snowflake having encouraged you all to check your code to make sure you were able to handle the larger numbers it will generate. For those of you whose code couldn't handle the longer numbers we created String versions of the IDs in our JSON responses, identified by an _str at the end of their name - for example the Tweet ID in the JSON response exists twice: once as a number (id) and once as a string (id_str). For API requests which returned arrays of IDs we added the parameter stringify_ids to force all IDs to Strings. For example: https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1stringify_ids=1 We're sending this reminder because at 2.14pm PDT (10.14pm UTC) this Sunday, 28th November 2010 Snowflake IDs will reach 53bits. Only Tweet IDs are generated by Snowflake. This means only Tweets, Retweets, Mentions and Replies are affected this weekend. Things like Saved Searches, Users and Direct Messages are not Snowflaked. If you haven't converted your code to use the String version you should do so immediately. Once the IDs reach 53bits Javascript, and some other languages, misrepresent the numbers. As an example: 2**53 = 9007199254740992 Representing this in Javascript gives (9007199254740992).toString() 9007199254740992 (9007199254740993).toString() 9007199254740992 (9007199254740994).toString() 9007199254740994 (9007199254740995).toString() 9007199254740996 (9007199254740999).toString() 9007199254741000 You can see in this example that the Tweet IDs are being misrepresented in their converted state. We've provided String versions of all of our IDs, even those which are not using Snowflake IDs. We've done this to make it easier for you to convert your code. Even if your code can handle the longer numbers you may want to convert to Strings anyway. Doing so will reduce the risk of problems should you extend your code with a language or library that doesn't support 53bit numbers. If you are using Javascript you may find the following code samples helpful. They were put together by our web team as an example approach to the problem of capturing the String version of the IDs, and sorting them. The first gist looks for the new *_str field and uses it if it's there. If it's missing, the original field is used but stringified first. This doesn't make IDs 53bit safe for you but but does mean you can use String IDs for all other attributes without having to check for them first. The second code sample using the library natcompare.js which performs 'natural order' comparisons of strings in JavaScript. It was written by Kristof Coomans of the SCK-CEN (Belgian Nucleair Research Centre). http://gist.github.com/637624 There has been some great discussion about this in the developer forums, including some questions and answers about the change. You can read more here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter -- 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] User name and password
When creating a free website what is the user name and password you need to use when it asks for it in the twitter widget? -- 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] API username and password
What is the username and password to use if your using a website creator like yola -- 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] Login App
I am currently developing a game that incorporates facebook and twitter. This will be a game available on facebook as all other facebook games are. If you are not familiar, quick steps: search for a game on facebook select allow or deny tracking of data game launches. but before we launch you into the game, we want the users to verify their twitter accounts, via username and password as well. I noticed that facebook follows this exact procedure when users decide to enable twitter on their facebook account. How can we incorporate this same twitter permissions app so we can gather twitter data before launching users into the game? Is it possible to have access to thhis permission app so we can initialize our game launch? We can create a generic twitter username and password prompt screen, but we would prefer to us the twitter login as facebook does for consistency as well as adding comfort to our users that the data is passing specifically to twitter. -- 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] Twitter OAuth Authentication Fails
I have three iPhone apps that use OAuth to communicate with Twitter. They have been working well for several months but recently when trying to set-up authentication and exchange the various OAuth tokens using Safari on the iPhone, Safari brings up a page from Twitter that says: Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing -- we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. Normally authentication works and the page Twitter returns redirects back to our application on the iPhone. Again, this has all worked for several months until very recently. We just noticed the problem ourselves today. Here's an example authenticate URL that used to work but now fails: http://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=r8ZW21dPbUteSOgfFJ0AZnHkIwg1GfvRn9HaNMB7q0force_login=true Does anyone out there know what's going wrong? This has all worked for hundreds of thousands of our customers for several months now and nothing in our app has changed in two months. Can anyone shed light on this for me? 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?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Is there a twitter windows desktop client support oauth ?
i can not find any client support oauth on windows XP……
[twitter-dev] sending messages using api in batch/offline process
I'm new to twitter and have been searching for a solution to send notifications to multiple twitter users in a batch/offline process. This batch exe will be written in c# and will be scheduled to run on a designated server at midnight. It will send various notifications to twitter users who have elected to receive the notifications from our application. I will have the key and secret token for each user because each of the users would have gone through the oauth process. First of all, is this possible? Can someone direct me to a solution/example? Thanks
[twitter-dev] Re: Changing the Content-Type header for OAuth token exchanges
This change has broken Twitter support in our iPhone apps (Runmeter, Walkmeter, and Cyclemeter). (They're among the top 100 iPhone apps in the App Store's Health and Fitness category.) Our customers are starting to write us because they cannot connect to Twitter using our app which uses Sign In With Twitter and OAuth. We would greatly appreciate it if you would go back to text/plain, at least until we can release versions of our app that will accept application/x-www- form-urlencoded. Otherwise our customers are screwed until then. Kevin Wallace Abvio LLC Founder On Mar 10, 1:13 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: This change has been deployed. Let us know if things get wonky. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: All - Per issue 1263 (http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1263) (and the OAuth spec), we're looking to change the Content-Type header for OAuth token exchanges to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. To date it has been 'text/html'. We want to ensure that this will not break existing applications, so if you have any qualms please voice them here. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: A proposal for delegation in OAuth identity verification
It means you're in Portland Oregon...oh wait, that's area code 503...sorry. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Harshad RJ harshad...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Raffi, You said, sends along the user object ass part of it. Does that explain why the user object is in some cases a bit bloated? And what does it mean when the HTTP response code is 503. -- Harshad RJ http://hrj.wikidot.com
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: listed count?
Why can't you just use http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-list-memberships to get the lists the user is listed on...and just do a counter as you go through them? It might require a few extra service calls, but at the moment that seems like the most 'appropriate' way to determine how many lists a given user is currently on. - Kevin http://friendstat.us On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Why would my IP get banned - the API allows developers to retrieve almost every piece of data from user's twitter profiles so developers don't need to scrape. I think if it's a closed site and they want to protect content, then I can understand IP banning but if it's an open system like Twitter, I don't see any reason why my IP would get banned. Maybe someone from the Twitter Platform team can chime in, especially since I only scrape for list counts every 4-6 hours on a small set of users for my application. That's probably why they haven't noticed you (yet). However, screen scraping gets around rate limiting and other controls Twitter places on the API. That's not exactly considered socially agreeable, and it's not fair on other API consumers. It's also against TOS. https://twitter.com/tos -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- It would have been funnier if I didn't have to think. -- Ashley Mills --
Re: [twitter-dev] Hey, Twitter, let us buy sidebar ads! (Or, stop focusing on the biggies.)
A bit of a tangent, but I would at least like a way to see what apps a given user has. It would be great as an API method, but would even be fine if it's just access to a page like http://twitter.com/oauth that you can get when you are logged into Twitter...as it is currently, there is no easy way to discover apps directly via Twitter (that I know of)...and while systems like oneforty are great, they rely on manual additions and are nowhere near a complete listing of what's out there (and there's no easy way to get a quick listing of who's built what that I know of)... Given all the other things going on, it's a low priority nice-to-have on my list, but since the topic was brought up, I thought I would add my two cents ;-) Thanks! - Kevin On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:00 AM, PJB pjbmancun...@gmail.com wrote: Right now, the ad in the sidebar on the right-hand side of Twitter.com is invariably: i) a micro, community, or feel-good sort of app, ii) a mega-app that most people already know about, that has VC, connections to Twitter folks directly, or a good PR firm. This leaves many non-Bay Area (or medium-sized) apps out in the cold. So... can Twitter stop anointing the top dogs in such a willy-nilly fashion? Instead of this annoyingly vague editor's choice language about the selections, can you either set-up a transparent process whereby apps can be submitted, voted on, whatever... or just convert the whole thing to paid ads? It's incredibly frustrating to see sub-par apps like wefollow.com promoted just because its founder is buddy-buddy with Twitter folks. Or for other well-known apps get their version 2 promoted just because, well, it's version 2 and it's well-known. The choices you guys make have significant repercussions. And it's increasingly frustrating to find you guys focusing more and more on market leaders. While I suppose that may make sense from your perspective, it deprives smaller apps of their ability to compete, and it ultimately stifles competition. It would be far easier if we were allowed SOME VOICE by converting the whole thing to paid ads, and letting us buy at least SOME space. (Or why not just list ALL apps, and weight their presence by, e.g., click-thrus, votes, etc.)
Re: [twitter-dev] Source parameter request for mobile Twitter app ignored (and issues with Twitter's policy toward oAuth on mobile/desktop)
Really, on Twitter's side, the oAuth bits of the process are just a couple of variations of forms...so why not just let each application define templates for those forms (and just give details on what fields are required to be there and what placeholders need to be present so Twitter can replace the values in-line as needed when displaying the template) This would let anyone/everyone design a look and feel that fit best with their application (and therefore becomes less confusing for the average end user too)..but doesn't actually change the oauth flow at all... It ads a bit of processing and storage to Twitter's side of things...but otherwise, I think it would appease most people ;-) - Kevin On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: Here's an idea: let's reverse engineer the top desktop and mobile Twitter apps and use their oAuth keys to... Oh, wait, my bad: the top desktop/mobile apps _don't_ use oAuth and boy will they take a UX beating when they start. But one day... :) maybe call me naive, but i for one, am not convinced the oauth experience has to suck. as mentioned before, i'm really open to having a discussion on how to make the oauth UX better. many people have already, and i encourage others to just drop me a line if you have ideas... -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search with HTTP Referrer and User Agent
You're most likely using cURL with PHP so you want to look into cURL options to set headers...on a very generic level it will be something like: $headers = User-Agent: YourAppName; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); - Kevin http://friendstat.us On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:24 AM, marc mctob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a novice programmer. I found this statement to be confusing Applications must have a meaningful and unique User Agent when using this method. A HTTP Referrer is expected but not required. I would like to not run into any limits even though my app is fairly small. How does one set this information? I am using PHP with JSON to make the calls to twitter if that makes any difference. Thank you! Marc
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Possibility to link to the user page not by the name but by the id.
I would also argue that, at the time of status whomever owned the account was the one that actually made the post...so it doesn't really matter who is controlling right now...they are associated with the history of the account, because, well it's a history. As an aside though, is there really that much username changing going on? I would think it's more likely an account goes idle or dead than gets transferred to another user...and for the most part this feels like a discussion about designing a system to scale to handle a kabillion users when it's not even clear yet if 10 users would actually use the service... Don't sweat the edge cases so much, fear will paralyze you...it's better to be 'completely broken' for a small percentage of people than to not exist for anyone... Just my two cents ;-) - Kevin On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Michael Steuer mste...@gmail.com wrote: If user is no longer the same user as the one that posted status id , then the link http://twitter.com//statuses/ would no longer be valid (as the NEW user is not the owner of the status id). On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Actually i can't. For example, i get some link like http://twitter.com/AAA/statuses/11, for the message that was posted month ago. I can't be sure if the current user AAA has the same guid as the AAA month ago. If i had the link like http://twitter.com/redirect?id=111status=222 i would be sure that it's the same user and the same status for that user. Ivan. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Ivey michael.i...@gmail.com wrote: You could do this internally in your application, using statuses/show to make sure you have the correct user info before redirecting. -- ivey On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Ivan Glushkov gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, thanks, Abraham! That's great! But why isn't it documented anywhere? And is there any way to redirect to some status of this user? I mean smth like http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992status=3 ??? Thanks once more, Ivan. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Twitter does support it. http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=9436992 Abraham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:42, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I don't need an application that is able to handle this. Instead i need changes in the twitter API so i can refer to the users and their statuses using the user id, not the username. This is a problem for the aggregator, and there users (so it become also a problem for the twitter users). Is there any plan in this direction? Ivan. On 21 янв, 06:03, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe somebody else can? Abraham On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything. The problem: Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person. This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know what content they might approve after a while. The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter. For example if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point to the same page: twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11 This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses: twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22 Ivan. -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Abraham Williams | Moved to Seattle | May cause email delays Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] I attach my new app to the wrong twitter account: how to change that
You should be able to log in as the account, delete the app ( via http://twitter.com/wrongaccount/oauth where wrongaccount is the one you incorrectly set your app up under)...then log out, log into the account you really want it associated with and set it up as a new app... That is assuming you have access to the account you incorrectly set the app up from in the first place (but if you don't how did you set it up in the first place?!)... - Kevin http://friendstat.us On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: You can try emailing a...@twitter.com but I don't know if they move applications. Abraham On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:35, rebtweeter rebtwee...@yahoo.com wrote: It's the first time I register an app, I was connected to a wrong twitter account, my app is not validated yet, would like to know how I can change the account. Thanks. -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] DMs are automatically tweeted (not what I want!) :)
Also check what apps you've granted access to: https://twitter.com/account/connections and remove any that you no longer want to have access... - Kevin http://wow.ly On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Change your password. Abraham On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:50, SDF wordpressblogsi...@gmail.com wrote: I can't find an answer to how or why this is happening nor can I figure out how to stop the madness :) Since testing a tweet this on a client's site (or so I can narrow down) my DM's are automatically becoming tweets. This is happening for auto-dms and personal dms. So if I receive a dm such as: abcuser: hi there thanks for the follow then the tweet that gets posted within 8 hours is: [abcuser] hi there thanks for the follow via api I cannot delete it via tweetdeck but I can from ubertwitter on my blackberry. How can I stop it from auto-tweeting my dms? Is there something in the API that I triggered somehow? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
Re: [twitter-dev] statuses/update and Lists
Right now lists show all public status of anyone on the list, there is (as far as I know) no way to post a status update to just a specific list. - Kevin http://wow.ly On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Stan ema...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in using the Twitter API to send status update to a list that I have created under my account. I can do this of course from the Twitter Site using my browser but can't find a way to do it using the API. When I call statuses/update for my account to update my status it shows up under my account and my list. How can I update status for just one of my Lists (and just the followers thereof) and not have it appear under my account where it will be seen by all my Followers? Thanks in advance, Stan
Re: [twitter-dev] Statuses/Show Method doesn't display multiple statuses?
I believe you are looking for user_timeline: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline - Kevin http://wow.ly On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:35 AM, beerkid beers...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking to get a result similar to if I visit twitter.com/ USERNAME. I just want to show latest 20 updates from a single user but my developer says that Statuses/Show will only show most recent update. I find it hard to believe that the API wouldn't allow one to achieve what I explained above. What am I missing?
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api
That's what I see as well. - Kevin http://wow.ly On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: i'm confused - what are people seeing? i'm seeing a 404 on that status, not a 500. [ra...@tw-mbp13-raffi twitter (homing_pigeon)]$ curl -v http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.143.162.68... connected * Connected to twitter.com (168.143.162.68) port 80 (#0) GET /statuses/show/15527375.xml HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 Host: twitter.com Accept: */* HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT Server: hi X-RateLimit-Limit: 2 X-Transaction: 1264553246-49270-7281 Status: 404 Not Found Last-Modified: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:47:26 GMT X-RateLimit-Remaining: 19765 X-Runtime: 0.02460 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 150 X-RateLimit-Class: api_whitelisted Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT X-Revision: DEV X-RateLimit-Reset: 1264555010 Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CToOcmV0dXJuX3RvIjJodHRwOi8vdHdpdHRlci5jb20vc3RhdHVzZXMv%250Ac2hvdy8xNTUyNzM3NS54bWw6EXRyYW5zX3Byb21wdDA6B2lkIiVkYTI3NTQ0%250AODg1NWI1M2U2YmE0ZDk3ZjUzYTRkOTYyNSIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29u%250AdHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxhc2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7AA%253D%253D--c18561191b4733080388d38fa9461b6f851b16dc; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/show/15527375.xml/request errorNo status found with that ID./error /hash * Closing connection #0 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: To be accurate: most ids do work... We had no httpstatus 500 errors for quite a while, so this is new and different and bad behavior. We've had a working application that has been functioning for more than a year, and way back when these errors were frequent, and then Twitter did alot of new/good work and they've all but gone away (at least on this api)... until now. . On Jan 26, 12:39 pm, Kevin Marshall falico...@gmail.com wrote: Yes - seems to be a problem for any id other than the example one in the documentation: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1472669360.xml(works) http://twitter.com/statuses/show/12735452.xml(reports no statuses, but this is my account and so I can confirm that there are statuses there to report -- ashttp://twitter.com/users/show.xml?id=12735452 also confirms). BTW - if you use the user_timeline method, I think you can get the same status stuff (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?id=12735452) - Kevin On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: For instance:http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these? -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Getting server 500 errors starting on 1/25/2010 using show api
Yes - seems to be a problem for any id other than the example one in the documentation: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1472669360.xml (works) http://twitter.com/statuses/show/12735452.xml (reports no statuses, but this is my account and so I can confirm that there are statuses there to report -- as http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?id=12735452 also confirms). BTW - if you use the user_timeline method, I think you can get the same status stuff ( http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?id=12735452 ) - Kevin On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: For instance: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/15527375.xml anyone else seeing these?
Re: [twitter-dev] Advanced search capability in API?
I believe all of the params from advanced search can be used with the search api as well...as an example, using the search.twitter.com advanced search form produces a url like: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ands=friendstatusphrase=ors=nots=tag=lang=enfrom=to=ref=near=within=15units=misince=until=rpp=15 Add the same parameters to your search api call and I believe you'll get the same results. Hope it helps. - Kevin http://wow.ly On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM, mapgeek mj.hu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've scanned some previous posts, along with the API documentation, but have come up empty handed. So apologies if I ask a question that has already been asked. Is there functionality in the API that equates to the Twitter advanced search web site? Specifically: - choice of language to search in, and restrict results to - a geographic parameter (location name, lat and lon etc.) - geographic radius Cheers, MH
[twitter-dev] using max_id with Search API
Was not including max_id in the Search API documentation an oversight? Or is it not meant to be used with the Search API. Providing a url like this : http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=kevinmax_id=8210191029, returns what looks to be correct results, however, we can't afford to not have this work in a couple months. Any response would be appreciated. Thanks, Kevin
[twitter-dev] Application Definitions on the Twitter homepage
I apologize in advance is this isn't the right venue for asking this question, but how to developers get their applications posted on Twitter homepages? For instance, I see the following in the upper right hand corner below my profile information: Klout n. a fun way to analyze the social web. Thanks, Kevin
[twitter-dev] Re: After a re-retweet, I don't get an error, I successfully retweeted some random Turkish guy instead.
Hi, It's great the problem has been identified and fixed. However, the API response shows errors instead of the regular error, and the sentence Share sharing is not permissable for this status should be permissIble. Not urgent, but I hope it will be fixed one day :-) Kevin On Dec 4, 5:23 am, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Ergh, rolled back. It should be out for good tomorrow. ---Mark On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: This should be fixed in production now. Trying to re-retweet will result in a 403 On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Ed Costello epcoste...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 14:29, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: The problem has been identified, we should have a fix out today Fantastic, thanks! -- -ed costello @epc / +13474080372 -- ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv -- ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv
[twitter-dev] After a re-retweet, I don't get an error, I successfully retweeted some random Turkish guy instead.
Hi, In my Twitter client, I successfully retweeted a few tweets from various people using various accounts, but when I try to retweet a tweet I already retweeted before, I get an OK response telling me I retweeted this tweet: https://twitter.com/BelkideGeymovir/status/4986322791 The response says my user screen_name is erdemyildirimer (which is wrong). (always this one, with several essays) I should get either an error message or a response telling me I did retweet the actual status… Did anybody here received a more useful response from retweet API?
[twitter-dev] Re: After a re-retweet, I don't get an error, I successfully retweeted some random Turkish guy instead.
It seems that http://twitter.com/BelkideGeymovir/ has removed all his tweets, but he had a lot of status updates when I typed my post, including the tweet I mentioned. On Dec 3, 11:57 am, Kevin kevin.bong...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In my Twitter client, I successfully retweeted a few tweets from various people using various accounts, but when I try to retweet a tweet I already retweeted before, I get an OK response telling me I retweeted this tweet: https://twitter.com/BelkideGeymovir/status/4986322791 The response says my user screen_name is erdemyildirimer (which is wrong). (always this one, with several essays) I should get either an error message or a response telling me I did retweet the actual status… Did anybody here received a more useful response from retweet API?
[twitter-dev] Background images on a0.twimg.com giving access denied
We are uploading Twitter backgrounds via the API. We noticed today new
attempts to upload seem to be successful, but the profiles show no
background image. Looking at the page source, it shows a new
background image URL:
background: ... url('http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/
bg12573586264055.jpg') ...;
However, opening that URL returns an error:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
ErrorCodeAccessDenied/CodeMessageAccess Denied/
MessageRequestId20FB3BC5AEC2A2D5/RequestIdHostIdKheAYU8E/puKx
+qm5jtF9YeLLfc/NHcoCr6q2iOWZy2OR3tbtouA3Fo5aTrHUrZn/HostId/Error
It would appear Twitter is not adding the S3 access key query string
to these background image URLs, or the images are being put into S3 as
private items.
Hope to see a fix soon.
Regards,
Kevin Hunt
Bubble Fusion Labs
[twitter-dev] Re: New behaviour for statuses/update API call for 141+ char sized messages and duplicates?
Thanks for the info, Dave. Although, the fact that the current behavior does not match the API docs does make it a bug. Whether that bug is in the implementation or the docs is really what's up for grabs. -- Kevin On Oct 24, 6:39 am, Dave Sherohman d...@fishtwits.com wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... These are deliberate changes on Twitter's part, so they are not bugs. Whether they are features depends on who you ask... As it currently stands, you must either check the returnedstatusID to see if it's higher than previous IDs or compare the submittedstatusto the returnedstatus(ignoring URLs) to determine whether theupdatewas actually successful or if it was silently rejected by Twitter. Hopefully, in the (very near) future, Twitter will start providing some indication in the response that will make it simple and reliable to determine when anupdatehas been rejected without requiring app developers to try to figure that out on our own, but, so far as I am aware, Twitter has not yet made any statement regarding this. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:53:16AM -0700, Kevin Menard wrote: Hi, I'm seeing the same thing that Ole is. Twitter is not truncating the status, but rather returning the last correctly updatedstatus. -- Kevin On Oct 16, 4:58 am, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: According to my tests, messages will not be truncated anymore! Instead, you will get the most recentstatusupdateas a reply. Is this a bug or feature? Also, it seems as if the API now checks for duplicates in your backlog of statuses and not just you most recent tweet. Previously, only the last tweet was checked: - Last tweet test - Send new tweet with status=test will return the oldstatus(with the old status_id) but if you had something like this: Last tweet Hello, world. Second last tweet test Then you were able to create a new tweet with status=test! This is not possible at the moment. Bug or feature? I'm getting a lot of complaints from my Twitter client users who apparently experience both of these new behaviours or bugs (long tweets fail, duplicates fail.) Ole @ mobileways.de On Twitter:http://twitter.com/janole On Oct 15, 8:26 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: If you send a message longer than 140 twitter will truncate it and set the truncate value on thestatusto True. For duplicates it will just ignore thestatus. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:20 PM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: Hi, I just figured out that when calling statuses/updatewith a text longer than 140 chars, the reply of that API call will be 200 OK with the laststatusof the user. Wouldn't it be better to return some sort of error message? The same seems to be happening when sending a duplicate tweet. Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr s...@mobileways.de On Twitter:http://twitter.com/janole -- Dave Sherohman
[twitter-dev] Re: New behaviour for statuses/update API call for 141+ char sized messages and duplicates?
Hi, I'm seeing the same thing that Ole is. Twitter is not truncating the status, but rather returning the last correctly updated status. -- Kevin On Oct 16, 4:58 am, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: According to my tests, messages will not be truncated anymore! Instead, you will get the most recentstatusupdateas a reply. Is this a bug or feature? Also, it seems as if the API now checks for duplicates in your backlog of statuses and not just you most recent tweet. Previously, only the last tweet was checked: - Last tweet test - Send new tweet with status=test will return the oldstatus(with the old status_id) but if you had something like this: Last tweet Hello, world. Second last tweet test Then you were able to create a new tweet with status=test! This is not possible at the moment. Bug or feature? I'm getting a lot of complaints from my Twitter client users who apparently experience both of these new behaviours or bugs (long tweets fail, duplicates fail.) Ole @ mobileways.de On Twitter:http://twitter.com/janole On Oct 15, 8:26 pm, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: If you send a message longer than 140 twitter will truncate it and set the truncate value on thestatusto True. For duplicates it will just ignore thestatus. Josh On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:20 PM, janole s...@mobileways.de wrote: Hi, I just figured out that when calling statuses/updatewith a text longer than 140 chars, the reply of that API call will be 200 OK with the laststatusof the user. Wouldn't it be better to return some sort of error message? The same seems to be happening when sending a duplicate tweet. Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr s...@mobileways.de On Twitter:http://twitter.com/janole
[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation
This is great. Will there be some mechanism to keep track on new and changed lists coming from the Twitter community, like a public timeline for list creation? Or is the only way to become aware of lists through the API to start checking users for their list creation/inclusion?
[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #
Or a chron job ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: You have to think beyond PHP. 1) Consider having a third-party ping monitoring utility ping your PHP script to hit the Search API for the tag once a minute. 2) Write something in Python or Ruby or C++ and have it run on the server as a daemon, once a minute. Or have curl or something else local on the server cron'd to call your script once a minute. 3) Chad Etzel's TweetHook might be a more real-time option for you and would remove the necessity of you doing something once a minute -- I would definitely check it out. It will automagically post search data back to your hook callback URL. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Chris bigonr...@googlemail.com wrote: I want to write a tool that monitors a channel, say #startnow, and checks say, every minute, to see if its been updated. How would I do this? I'm good with php, but won't that only check every time someone loads a php page? How do people like @hashphp reply to everyone that posts in #php? Thanks, Chris -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: monitor a #
Attention to detail fail. ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: And, that only works if you have appropriate access to the server. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Read #2 Kevin. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Or a chron job ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: You have to think beyond PHP. 1) Consider having a third-party ping monitoring utility ping your PHP script to hit the Search API for the tag once a minute. 2) Write something in Python or Ruby or C++ and have it run on the server as a daemon, once a minute. Or have curl or something else local on the server cron'd to call your script once a minute. 3) Chad Etzel's TweetHook might be a more real-time option for you and would remove the necessity of you doing something once a minute -- I would definitely check it out. It will automagically post search data back to your hook callback URL. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Chris bigonr...@googlemail.com wrote: I want to write a tool that monitors a channel, say #startnow, and checks say, every minute, to see if its been updated. How would I do this? I'm good with php, but won't that only check every time someone loads a php page? How do people like @hashphp reply to everyone that posts in #php? Thanks, Chris -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: attn: Kevin Mesiab - been seeing a lot of Bambibot ...
Thanks for the heads up. On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: ... accounts with Hummingbird links in the bio. Fresh instance from this morning: http://twitter.com/KateSueMuir Kevin, any chance you can help abate the flood of spam your multiple-account managing Mesiab Labs Hummingbird product seems to be bringing upon us? Or are these simply misleading links pointing back at your product for some random reason? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
Good luck and I look forward to reading some drafts, yeah? On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter related topic. My promoter is the PhD at the Department of Computer Linguistics and our first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets. Do you have suggestions about the dissertation topic? Do you have any pending requests or prospect features you want to develop? I will browse known issues, I will think thoroughly about the topic but still - your suggestion might be very helpful. Even the shortest one (like good luck) will encourage me to more intensive research. *** *** *** Does anyone have any suggestions? My ticket has a six-digit number so I'm afraid I won't get any answer :) I'll probably ask for help during my work so I subscribe to this group anyway. Thanks in advance! -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: new cursor-based pagination not multithread-friendly
We can deal w/ rate limiting, just give us some semblance of accuracy or the calls are pointless.
[twitter-dev] Twitter AIR/JS API
For those of you developing in AIR or JS, we've open sourced our Twitter API library. Collaborators encouraged: http://code.google.com/p/adobe-air-twitter/ -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Is twitter a fad or worth development efforts?
You're asking the wrong folks. Most of the developers here do not have any real capital investment in their projects to speak of. Fewer still have a profit model. Is Twitter a Fad? The easy answer, yes. The long answer? Yes, but it needn't be... Unless Twitter makes a very real move to legitimize itself as a stable and growing (relevant) platform for end users, you will be better off focusing your capital on social media projects with more long term sustainability. Be aware, very few actual businesses have invested real dollars and labor into integration w/ Twitter (sales force, dell, whoot, et al) as opposed to the thousands who have adopted Facebook's API. The reason is not a matter of playing favorites, it's a matter of mitigating risk. Presently, Twitter is a fad. It's popularity and its current growth pattern is a result of novelty and a media bubble. However, Twitter has a very real chance to galvanize that momentum into a serious business (one that includes us third party developers), but it must move swiftly. Facebook is posturing to take over Twitter's market space. Not because it wants to obliterate Twitter as a competitor, but because they know what we know. The 'correct' social network exists somewhere between FB and Twitter. Both companies _should_ be racing towards that space. Whoever dominates it (and thusly deserves our investment) will be the one who a.) gets there first and b.) properly courts the developer community to enrich it. There are only two ways to convince real companies to invest real capital: 1.) Prove the users are there 2.) Guarantee a market Apple has shown us this model at scale. A rich developer community, incentivized by a Twitter regulated app store, and a firm developer bill of rights will ensure Twitter stays relevant (and its users enjoy a rich experience) for a lot longer than it should. It also gets to 'grow up' into a real company and earn revenue from a reseller split (again, via Apple). -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Either destroy is/was failing, or my understanding of destroy is/was failing
Pushing statuses to Facebook ? can you clarify this? On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM, John Kaluckijkalu...@gmail.com wrote: There's a note on the Status blog that we're having some delays in processing a proportion of new statuses. This issue looks to largely be resolved, and all the subsequent backlogs have been processed -- except there's still a bit of a backlog pushing statuses to Facebook that should resolve soon enough. I'd imagine that your test status was delayed. Then, when you tried to delete it, it wasn't available. You should try again now. The queues look to be empty. -John On Sep 2, 9:38 am, Ted Neward ted.new...@gmail.com wrote: I've been hacking on the Twitter API, and I'm running into some serious weirdness with destroy. I post a message: C:\ curl -u name:pass -d status=Testinghttp://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? status created_atWed Sep 02 10:10:23 + 2009/created_at id3708721364/id textTesting/text sourcelt;a href=quot;http://apiwiki.twitter.com/; rel=quot;nofollowquot;gt;APIlt;/agt;/source truncatedfalse/truncated in_reply_to_status_id/in_reply_to_status_id in_reply_to_user_id/in_reply_to_user_id favoritedfalse/favorited in_reply_to_screen_name/in_reply_to_screen_name user id70927096/id nameTed Neward/name screen_nameTestingScitter/screen_name location/location description/description profile_image_urlhttp://s.twimg.com/a/1251845223/images/default_profile_no rmal.png/profile_image_url url/url protectedfalse/protected followers_count1/followers_count profile_background_color9ae4e8/profile_background_color profile_text_color00/profile_text_color profile_link_colorff/profile_link_color profile_sidebar_fill_colore0ff92/profile_sidebar_fill_color profile_sidebar_border_color87bc44/profile_sidebar_border_color friends_count6/friends_count created_atWed Sep 02 09:49:13 + 2009/created_at favourites_count0/favourites_count utc_offset/utc_offset time_zone/time_zone profile_background_image_urlhttp://s.twimg.com/a/1251845223/images/themes/ theme1/bg.gif/profile_background_image_url profile_background_tilefalse/profile_background_tile statuses_count4/statuses_count notificationsfalse/notifications verifiedfalse/verified followingfalse/following /user /status . which is all good, but then I try to delete that message: C:\ curl -u name:pass --http-request DELETEhttp://twitter.com/statuses/destroy/3708721364.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/destroy/3708721364.xml/request errorWe could not delete that status for some reason./error /hash What gives? Is this something that I'm doing wrong on my end? Momentary server weirdness? (Though it seems to have been pretty consistent all night.) Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.comhttp://www.tedneward.com -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] OT: Retweet.com API
Just a quick heads up, we've published a very simple JSON API for Retweet.com to perform lookups on urls: http://retweet.com/story/api/http://cnn.com -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Search for user API
Use the search api On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Marc Andrewsbackcirc...@gmail.com wrote: I've scoured the API documentation, but to my surprise, can't find the answer... Does the API allow search for user by first name, last name, or screen name? I'm not interested in searching for tweets from or to a user, only in searching for user profiles matching the above criteria. Thanks, -Marc -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Search for user API
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Kevin Mesiabke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Use the search api On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Marc Andrewsbackcirc...@gmail.com wrote: I've scoured the API documentation, but to my surprise, can't find the answer... Does the API allow search for user by first name, last name, or screen name? I'm not interested in searching for tweets from or to a user, only in searching for user profiles matching the above criteria. Thanks, -Marc -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: General Twitter APIs question - query by application?
One could get started gathering these metrics by analyzing search queries in the vein of: feed://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=source:tweetdeck On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Shannon Clarkshannon.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This isn't specific to the app I'm building at the moment, but the recent thread on how to determine who is using your application reminded me of a general question I have about the APIs. Is there is an API call to return information about updates done via a given application? (i.e. the information which is available via the website about which application was used to post a given status update). Ideally I could see utility for queries of this form via multiple of the API's - as a filter on the streaming API's for example or as an option to filter upon via other API's calls or just as metadata inherent with each update which an app could choose whether or not to use in some manner. Ideal would be options to both positively filter and negatively filter - i.e. for an app to offer a blacklist of applications your users do not wish to see updates which were posted by those apps (but might want to see some aggregated information about what you have negatively filtered - i.e. @rycaut has 3 recent updates from PlaySpymaster which aren't displayed etc. At scale I could also see useful data for the developer community about activity usage patterns of our applications - both raw usage (i.e. # of status updates) but also diversity of usage (# of unique users, % of those users' updates per app type, etc). Potentially as well Twitter might offer aggregated data about usage patterns (perhaps only as relative usage w/o specific data) which could include patterns of usage from even accounts set private (without revealing anything about those accounts just adding their data into aggregated totals - and again if the specific data isn't shown then certain attacks on privacy could be avoided) Anyway, perhaps there are already ways to access this data, if so I'd appreciate a pointer to them, if not, I hope this sparks some discussion. Shannon Founder, Nearness Function - strategic consulting, brand advertising sponsorships Twitter - rycaut Blogs: Slow Brand - http://slowbrand.com Searching for the Moon - http://shannonclark.wordpress.com -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- CHANGE REQUIRED -- URL rationalization
Will the streaming API ever expose tweets from protected users?--or is it an infrastructure limitation that isn't going away anytime soon? Also, will we ever see the ability to get real time tweets based on search operators (http://search.twitter.com/operators)? On Aug 26, 3:06 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: The resources in the Streaming API have been rationalized. You'll need to update the URLs that streaming clients are using over the next two weeks. The old URLs will be deprecated on or after September 9, 2009. The change is documented in the Wiki:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation, specifically inhttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#Methods. The new scheme allows for API versioning, streams that contain objects other than statuses, separates access level control from URLs and allows multiple filter predicates to be specified on a single connection. The cute resource names have, sadly, been dropped we move towards pushing the service out of Alpha. Also, /track and friends have been merged with /follow and friends into a single resource. When you connect to a given resource, you will automatically be given the highest access level possible. The following is a mapping from the old URLs to the new URLs. Otherwise, you should notice only subtle changes to the Streaming API error handling behavior. All other functionality should continue to work as in the past. /firehose - /1/statuses/firehose /spritzer, /gardenhose - /1/statuses/sample /birddog, /shadow, /follow - /1/statuses/filter /partner/track, /restricted/track, /track - /1/statuses/filter For example, if you have been connecting to /gardenhose.json, connect to /1/statuses/sample.json. Note that the Streaming API is still in Alpha test. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc.
[twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth
When a user signs up at TwitPic, for instance, the same credentials they used for Twitter are now valid for use in uploading media. This lets users enjoy a bit of a mash-up with a single sign-on. Is this also true when authorized via openAuth? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: php regex for twitter password
Depending on your deployment scenario, you could let Google do the heavy lifting for you ;) https://www.google.com/accounts/RatePassword?Passwd=poopy On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Sam Streetsam...@gmail.com wrote: http://pastebin.com/m4fd058a4 This code will be able to determine whether a password is weak, ok or strong based on whether it contains lowercase, uppercase + numbers hope thats what you were after -Sam @sampicli http://twicli.com On Aug 15, 7:33 am, Xpineapple kenned...@gmail.com wrote: I could probably play with regex all day and get no where (and so far am). While I could make some progress, I don't know all the rules for a good password. My intent is to ensure server (and service) are safe. With that in mind, can anyone provide a fair enough regex example of sanatizing a password for twitter service? Thanx. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: How do you store the social graph locally?
Your implementation here has much to do with how you intend to use the social graph. Are you simply caching, or do you intend to identify metrics by analyzing the shape of the relationships over time? If you're simply creating a local cache, blowing away the existing store and serializing the response from the api call is sufficient, since you cannot divide the results except by page. If you intend to get a little fancier, there are plenty of algorithms for diff'ing the results. Your saving grace is that the result set is a list of integers. If you take a little time to sort results, you will be able to perform your diffs swiftly. my two cents, not adjusted for inflation. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Arik Fraimovicharik...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 15, 10:56 pm, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: If you store them as blobs, we're going to revoke your compiler privileges. Good thing that lately I was mainly doing PHP or Python, so no compiler privileges were needed - only parser Any other comments on the question in hand? Thanks, -- Arik Fraimovich follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/arikfr -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: How do you store the social graph locally?
If you store them as blobs, we're going to revoke your compiler privileges. :P On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Arik Fraimovicharik...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering how you store a local cache of the social graph methods results locally in your applications. One obvious solution is to create a two column table of the relations, but in such case how do you update it? Just prune everything of the user you're updating and inserting from the beginning? The other solution is to store the results of the API calls as blobs to the DB and parse them everytime in code instead of by SQL queries. The problem I can see with that is duplication of data, less ability to do smart stuff with the data and other issues. Would love to hear how you implemented it in your apps and other ideas related. Thanks, -- Arik Fraimovich follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/arikfr -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Open Auth
Hi Twitter API Team, We are considering not implementing OAuth in our desktop application. The interaction seems unintuitive and redundant for users who have already granted our application 'trust' by installing it. Are we still to expect basic auth to go away? Is it possible to be granted a source attribute without OAuth implementation? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API
Bravo! Great job Twitter API Team!
[twitter-dev] Re: Following Churn: Specific guidance needed
Well said Shannon. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Following Churn: Specific guidance needed
This entire debate focuses on the wrong side of the coin. Follow churn exists as a side effect of the improper Twitter culture of reciprocating follows blindly. If users paid due diligence to those they follow and only followed those people who demonstrate some value to them, follower churn would not exist. Period. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:51 AM, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote: Would be very helpful to know the definition of quick as relates to following churn suspensions. As Cameron pointed out earlier, as soon as they do that, the following churners will adjust their methods to be just inside that definition of OK. This seems like a really short-sighted reason for NOT clarifying what's acceptable and what's not. If it's acceptable then who cares if the churners adjust their methods? At least everyone will know how to avoid problems for a change, right? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Following Churn: Specific guidance needed
And here lies the slippery slope. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote: If users paid due diligence to those they follow and only followed those people who demonstrate some value to them, follower churn would not exist. Period. Obviously they won't so maybe it's time to deal with reality rather than dreaming of a perfect world. Owkaye -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Following Churn: Specific guidance needed
Step 1.) turn off email notifications (legitimat, but easily mitigated problem).Step 2.) getting spammed? Unfollow that user (question why you followed them in the first place). On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: And here lies the slippery slope. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote: If users paid due diligence to those they follow and only followed those people who demonstrate some value to them, follower churn would not exist. Period. Obviously they won't so maybe it's time to deal with reality rather than dreaming of a perfect world. Owkaye -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!
The same TOS that applies to users applies to developers, along with this one: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Terms-of-Service http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Terms-of-ServiceIf you haven't already, I encourage all developers to familiarize themselves with both. You may also, now, find more value in joining the Twitter Developers Alliance, which is presently working on the first draft of the Twitter Developers Bill of Rights, which Twitter has agreed to coordinate with. I'm very interested to learn more about the specifics, if there is some developer TOS I'm unaware of. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
While I laud them for what is obviously a successful campaign, this is getting a little ridiculous... http://screencast.com/t/XB7jPjnBWlr On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. These things have to stop. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Dale Merritt mogul...@gmail.com wrote: I think that should be standard. Opt in only (put in Twitter TOS) On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.comwrote: I'm assuming whoever the developer is behind these two sites is also on this list. There is a lot of concern among twiytter users about your apps sending auto dms to people. It's perceived as abusive and spammy and I agree. After getting a tweaked toucan in my DM inbox, I wonder why I have to put up with this. Unfortunately, unlike Facebook, users can't opt out of these spammy things. I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter JS implementation
No decent implementation of the twitter API exists in js. Sorry. Had to say it. If you're developing a js/xhtml application under the air environment, you may be interested in using our js wrapper for the API. We will be open sourcing it after our release. Let me know. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:25 AM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: http://code.google.com/p/oauth/source/browse/code/javascript/ will get you started -- the oauth stuff is probably the meat of what you need to do to get statuses/update working. JS isn't a great language for this, because of the XSS issues that arise. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:29, Bob Fishel bobfis...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a javascript api implementation (anything that already has a jquery plugin would be a bonus but not necessary) The few I've seen don't allow statuses.update which is a nessecity for me. Thanks -- Internets. Serious business. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Do the order of the Parameters Posted in the URL matter for the Twitter API with oAuth?
No. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM, bosher bhellm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] HotTweeters
Alright... which one of you made HotTweeters.com? ;) Clever adaptation. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: HotTweeters
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hottweeters.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hottweeters.com/That for starters On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Christian Heilmann chris.heilm...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Mesiab wrote: Alright... which one of you made HotTweeters.com? ;) Clever adaptation. ^ how? Time to change my avatar to some tits and win the internets! -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: HotTweeters
While others might waste time educating you with a proper debate, some of us are busy profiting on page views. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Christian Heilmann chris.heilm...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Mesiab wrote: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hottweeters.com/ That for starters Pageviews, the success metrics for people who want instant satisfaction. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/rapidshare.com/ Do we really need more sites that create more traffic for Twitter without a single chance to become a business or help the content quality? Burning money was fun during the first .com boom, can we please stop now? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: What is users/show time caching for profile_image_url ?
Nobody has the answer? It helps me a lot! On Jul 19, 6:42 pm, Kevin Dunglas dung...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm working on a program which update periodically some Twitter accounts avatars. Here is the process: -- while True: GEThttp://twitter.com/users/show/myuser.xml GET avatar located at the url specified in the profile_image_url XML tag Make some change to the avatar POST the new avatar onhttp://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml sleep(some time) -- While the program sleep (between two avatar processing) the user can upload manually a new avatar. My problem is that the value profile_image_url is often outdated an when I try to download the current user avatar using this value I get a 404 error. I guess the address of the avatar is cached, but after how long the users/show page contains the new value? Is there a way to always the get the current (displayed on the twitter.com user profile) avatar ? Thanks !
[twitter-dev] What is users/show time caching for profile_image_url ?
Hello, I'm working on a program which update periodically some Twitter accounts avatars. Here is the process: -- while True: GET http://twitter.com/users/show/myuser.xml GET avatar located at the url specified in the profile_image_url XML tag Make some change to the avatar POST the new avatar on http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml sleep(some time) -- While the program sleep (between two avatar processing) the user can upload manually a new avatar. My problem is that the value profile_image_url is often outdated an when I try to download the current user avatar using this value I get a 404 error. I guess the address of the avatar is cached, but after how long the users/show page contains the new value? Is there a way to always the get the current (displayed on the twitter.com user profile) avatar ? Thanks !
[twitter-dev] Re: Tweet Photo
Have at it https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Swaroop rh.swar...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, is this even allowed (by Adsense)? https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Matt Sanford, signing off.
Congrats Matt. Hope you have a lot of fun on the new team. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Philip Plante pplante@gmail.comwrote: Good luck, thanks for the help on the list. On Jul 17, 10:49 pm, Karthik Murugan fermis...@gmail.com wrote: Good Luck Matt!! On Jul 18, 2:18 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi everybody*, Starting next week I'm not going to be responding to mails on the dev list or working on Google Code issues as part of my daily work. I have been working on the Search and API/Platform teams here at Twitter since the acquisition of Summize a year ago and the time has come for a change. I'm leaving both teams to take on the role of technical lead for the new Twitter internationalization team. Anybody who's gotten me talking about language detection or language-specifics (especially in person) knows this is something I have a personal interest in. The other team member are going to continue to keep an eye on the dev list and the Google Code issues. As always you can email a...@twitter.com directly if you need something. I'll continue working on the Google Code issues assigned to me or in some cases someone will take them over next week. I mostly felt like I should send you all a good bye since you're considered an extension of the API/Platform team. This change should be fully backward compatible so I didn't see the need for 7-days notice. Good night, and good luck; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev * = Who just said Hi, Dr. Nick. out loud? Your cube neighbor thinks you're crazy. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Tweet Photo
Hey guys, just a quick FYI. TweetPhoto has a revenue share option for developers. You can earn revenue from google adwords displayed near photos uploaded by your client. Some of you I know have great volume and this would probably be a relatively painless and tasteful revenue stream to capitalize on. I'm not involved w/ TweetPhoto in any way, but I do plan to integrate their API, and set it as default ;) Hope some of you find this helpful. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.
How quickly are the 30-40 calls issued? On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:03 PM, J.D. jeremy.d.mul...@gmail.com wrote: Today I started getting this error, even only after a handful of API calls. Is this a new change? I've tested with two accounts, one that is whitelisted and another that is not. I'm getting this from both accounts after only 30 or 40 calls. 403 Too many requests in this time period. Try again later. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Too many requests in this time period. Try again later.
Regarding a sleep between calls, until someone from Twitter pipes in it would be worth a use case test, yes. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, J.D. jeremy.d.mul...@gmail.com wrote: WRT the sleep, I've never had to in the past. It just started failing. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: How to pattern-match these crazy shortened URLs?
Code commented w/ don't ask is immediately suspect :P
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:43 PM, ferodynamics duch...@solve360.com wrote:
I go cross-eyed when it comes to reading this stuff. I hacked some
code I found, catches bit.ly but not (for example) ff.im
(Can I post code here?)
function urls2link($text){
if (strpos($text, '...')==0) { // don't ask!
$pattern =
'\bH|h)(T|t)(T|t)(P|p))\://)?(www.|[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,99}.)
[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}';
$pattern .= '(\:[0-9]{1,5})*(/(|[a-zA-Z0-9\.\,\;\?\'\\\+%\$#\=~_\-]
+?))*)($|[^\w/][\s]|[\s]|[^\w/]$)';
$replacement = '\'a target=_new href=\'.((\'$4\' == \'\')?
\'http://$1\':\'$1\').\'
$1/a $16\'';
return preg_replace('¦'.$pattern.'¦e', $replacement, $text); }
else return $text;
};
Works most of the time, but clearly has issues. I figure somebody has
already solved this and wants to share ;-)
--
Kevin Mesiab
CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C.
http://twitter.com/kmesiab
http://mesiablabs.com
http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: How to pattern-match these crazy shortened URLs?
In js, this seems to work:
var x = /(?:http://)*(w{0,3}\.?\w+\.\w{2,3}[/\w]*)/gim
var p = 'a href=$1$1/a';
str.replace( x, p );
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote:
Code commented w/ don't ask is immediately suspect :P
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:43 PM, ferodynamics duch...@solve360.comwrote:
I go cross-eyed when it comes to reading this stuff. I hacked some
code I found, catches bit.ly but not (for example) ff.im
(Can I post code here?)
function urls2link($text){
if (strpos($text, '...')==0) { // don't ask!
$pattern =
'\bH|h)(T|t)(T|t)(P|p))\://)?(www.|[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,99}.)
[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}';
$pattern .=
'(\:[0-9]{1,5})*(/(|[a-zA-Z0-9\.\,\;\?\'\\\+%\$#\=~_\-]
+?))*)($|[^\w/][\s]|[\s]|[^\w/]$)';
$replacement = '\'a target=_new href=\'.((\'$4\' == \'\')?
\'http://$1\':\'$1\').\'
$1/a $16\'';
return preg_replace('¦'.$pattern.'¦e', $replacement, $text); }
else return $text;
};
Works most of the time, but clearly has issues. I figure somebody has
already solved this and wants to share ;-)
--
Kevin Mesiab
CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C.
http://twitter.com/kmesiab
http://mesiablabs.com
http://retweet.com
--
Kevin Mesiab
CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C.
http://twitter.com/kmesiab
http://mesiablabs.com
http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Safe url shorteners
Just wanted to let you guys know about a free service we're prototyping for shortening URL's that overcomes a few of the limitations of other shorteners. http://rt.nu/api/ Specifically shortened links include a screen shot 'preview' w/ a continue/cancel option and the full URL is displayed *before* redirecting users to prevent NSFW accidents ;) and other subversive tricks used by spammers and hackers. (ex: http://rt.nu/iqzh). The API lets you: 1.) Shorten links 2.) Dereference the original url of a shortened link 3.) Click throughs 4.) Referrers 5.) Velocity (clicks per hour) 6.) Rank (ctr vs all other rt.nu links) If you end up implementing RT.nu or playing with the API, we'd really appreciate any feedback. -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://www.mesiablabs.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners
That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We dereference all shortened urls before indexing tweets. In anticipation, rt.nu supplies the API call /api/stats/[short]/originalhttp://rt.nu/api/stats/8kw/original to grab the original url for archiving or displaying to end users. Dale: All links are dereferenced by rt.nu to be qualified before shortening. Currently in beta, we've set the qualifications a bit tight and urls that redirect using some schemes will be rejected, and some bad http status headers will also cause rejection. This will be cleaned up a bit before full public deployment. At present, all urls use rt.nu as the root domain and are typically between 7 and 10 characters. Screenshots are gathered via http://www.thumbshots.com/ which works like this: 1.) If the full url exists in the cache its image is returned, then the url is queued for a new shot. 2.) If the full url does not exist in the cache as a screenshot, the root domain is looked up. If the root domain is in the cache, that shot is returned and the full url is queued for a new shot. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to let you guys know about a free service we're prototyping for shortening URL's that overcomes a few of the limitations of other shorteners. Only one problems with all these URL shorteners, when the companies creating them disappear all their shortened URLs become orphans and therefore useless. Not a major problem on Twitter because of the typical transience of data, but when you run a company like mine that needs to reference historic data it will definitely create future problems when these companies fail. Just something for folks to consider ... Owkaye -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners
Thumbshots.com is a paid service too. Major fail. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Chris Thomson chri...@chris24.ca wrote: You may want to check what thumbshots is doing with the URL http://google.com/ . It's definitely not taking a screenshot of the correct site … -- Chris Thomson On 15-Jul-09, at 7:06 PM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We dereference all shortened urls before indexing tweets. In anticipation, rt.nu supplies the API call /api/stats/[short]/originalhttp://rt.nu/api/stats/8kw/original to grab the original url for archiving or displaying to end users. Dale: All links are dereferenced by rt.nu to be qualified before shortening. Currently in beta, we've set the qualifications a bit tight and urls that redirect using some schemes will be rejected, and some bad http status headers will also cause rejection. This will be cleaned up a bit before full public deployment. At present, all urls use rt.nu as the root domain and are typically between 7 and 10 characters. Screenshots are gathered via http://www.thumbshots.com/ which works like this: 1.) If the full url exists in the cache its image is returned, then the url is queued for a new shot. 2.) If the full url does not exist in the cache as a screenshot, the root domain is looked up. If the root domain is in the cache, that shot is returned and the full url is queued for a new shot. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to let you guys know about a free service we're prototyping for shortening URL's that overcomes a few of the limitations of other shorteners. Only one problems with all these URL shorteners, when the companies creating them disappear all their shortened URLs become orphans and therefore useless. Not a major problem on Twitter because of the typical transience of data, but when you run a company like mine that needs to reference historic data it will definitely create future problems when these companies fail. Just something for folks to consider ... Owkaye -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: User Search API
Is there a published road-map? Thanks. On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Samir, User search is something we would like to offer in the future through the API. The project is not highly ranking on the current overall roadmap, so there is no ship date to report. Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM, SamirR samir.ray...@gmail.com wrote: Are there plans to implement user search in the API (http:// twitter.com/search/users?q=)? Thanks! Samir -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. img src= http://twitterproforum.com/image.php?u=5type=sigpicdateline=1242113349; / 208-447-6016 http://www.mesiablabs.com http://www.plsadvise.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting tweets from Twitter API
The time field returned contains the offset (usually +) Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 + 2009 On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:13 PM, praveen kumar praveen.neteli...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, If we are getting tweets from Twitter API , User's tweet dates are in which timezone. Is it in GMT or else different timezones. -- Regards, Praveen Kumar.N -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. 208-447-6016 http://www.mesiablabs.com http://www.plsadvise.com
[twitter-dev] Grouping API calls
Is there a faculty for grouping several API calls together to reduce round trips? -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. 208-447-6016 http://www.mesiablabs.com http://www.plsadvise.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Appx # of records in gardenhose
Gardenhose? On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:49 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: 2m - 3m, very roughly. On Jul 9, 8:34 pm, dhaval dhaval.parik...@gmail.com wrote: hey can ne one tell me the # of records we get appx in gardenhose per day? Thanks -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. img src= http://twitterproforum.com/image.php?u=5type=sigpicdateline=1242113349; / 208-447-6016 http://www.mesiablabs.com http://www.plsadvise.com
[twitter-dev] Incomplete profile_image_url
I'm trying to debug a tool that deals with profile pictures, but I am having difficulty with what is appearing in the API user data. Some background, with questions at the end. I've tested with PNG and JPEG, and both are able to use the API to change a profile image, with quick response time and confirmed results on the web site. However, the data returned in the API user data for profile_image_url is both incomplete (no extension) and never changes, despite multiple uploads: * profile_image_urlhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/ profile_images/98187860/phpbnQSdI_normal/profile_image_url This is different than my own profile, which returns a URI to an actual file, with an extension. It is also odd that, regardless of how often or with which tool (API vs. web site), this value never changes. In the HTML source of the twitter profile page, an explicit URI pointing to the correct profile image is used (http://s3.amazonaws.com/ twitter_production/profile_images/257370741/ObamaAvatar_bigger.png) * Test account with changed picture: http://twitter.com/users/show/anonymous_.xml * My account without no changes: http://twitter.com/users/show/kmakice.xml One other oddity: This test account has a background image (not one that is currently used, but it still exists) that also lacks an extension. I believe I had changed it through the API, several month ago. That incomplete link, however, DOES resolve to a graphic. * Test account background image: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_background_images/4987975/phpBhOnhz (unchanged) * Test account profile image: http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/98187860/phpbnQSdI_normal (changed) I thought perhaps the funky profile image URI would eventually resolve, but even after several hours, it didn't. (I have since conducted new tests, so the changes aren't that old anymore.) My questions: 1) Is this no-extension link in the *_image_url values a new format? Meaning, if I uploaded a new profile picture to my account, would it also have no extension? 2) Why doesn't the link in the profile_image_url change with each new upload? Thanks, Kevin
[twitter-dev] Re: Incomplete profile_image_url
Thanks for that link. (Have to remember to check the bug list as well as searching here.) I second one a request in one of the latter comments in that thread for some meta information about image changes (*_image_last_modified). I have been tracking changes to profile images for a couple months for research, and this is/will mess that up without some simple way of telling if the image has changed.
[twitter-dev] Bug: RSS/xml alternate links on public profiles show uninterpreted @user.id and current_user.id
I'm not sure when this started (likely within a few days), but we just
noticed the link rel=alternate/ links have been rendering
incorrectly on all public twitter profiles.
They literally appear as uninterpreted ruby string escape sequences:
link rel=alternate href=/statuses/user_timeline/#
{...@user.id}.rss title=Loquatmusic's Updates type=application/rss
+xml /
link rel=alternate href=/favorites/#{current_user.id}.rss
title=Loquatmusic's Favorites type=application/rss+xml /
The timeline RSS can still be scraped from the in-page link (a href
class=xref rss profile-rss), but hopefully they'll fix this soon.
Kevin Hunt
TopFans.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing Doug Williams, Twitter API Support
Congrats to Doug and everyone at Twitter. The activity on @twitterapi is already noticed and welcome. Thanks.
[twitter-dev] Re: Problems with search API and html widget
Perhaps that was the issue with the monitter widget. However, I no longer care because I discovered that my problem with the standard twitter html widget was a Safari 4 bug rather than a problem with twitter's javascript or json results generation. When viewing a page using the widget in Safari 4, the feed results disappear on page refresh or when navigating to the page via the back/forward buttons. I should have checked it using other browsers. :p On Mar 6, 11:12 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Kevin, The most likely cause if that you have multiple widgets, all with very low refresh rates. Since the rate limiting is per-IP that can add up to be enough to rate limit. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Mar 6, 2009, at 05:52 AM, Kevin D wrote: I have also been getting the You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm. response when trying to use the jQuery widget from monitter (http://monitter.com/widget/index.html). I tried that widget because the standard html widget that twitter provides (blogger.js, mytwittername.json) was only returning results for me perhaps 10% of the time. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
[twitter-dev] Question about authority to view social graphs
There are currently two ways you can use the API to see someone's follow network (followers and those you follow). The first is the old way: paginating through the /statuses/friends and statuses/ followers methods. These give a lot more information but do so in smaller chunks. The new way is using the social graph methods, / friends/ids and /followers/ids, that return the entire list but only user IDs. My question is, why can I use the former on protected accounts but not the latter? https://twitter.com/friends/ids/cmakice.xml https://twitter.com/followers/ids/cmakice.xml return 'Not authorized' if the account is protected (this one is) and the authenticating account hasn't been granted access. https://twitter.com/statues/friends/cmakice.xml https://twitter.com/statuses/followers/cmakice.xml I don't have any problems getting this list. Once upon a time, I could get one list but not the other, but that behavior seems to have been opened up. BTW, if no authentication is used on the request, the /followers/ids and /statuses/followers returns a Could not authenticate you. error. For public accounts, /friends/ids does not require authentication and will return the full list of IDs. For both public and private accounts, /statuses/friends will return useful information. Could someone explain the reasoning for these discrepancies?
[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for February 25, 2009
I see in the recent changes the addition of these parameters, but I don't see in the Twitter dev group or on the wiki anything that explains how they work. I'm sure this is in the email stream somewhere, but I've missed it. I understand the purpose/need of these, but are them meant to used in tandem or as an either/or? If they are used in the format /user/show/[id1].xml?user_id=[id2], will the id2 value always take precedence, ignoring id1? Is the preferred form to use /user/show.xml?user_id=[id1]
Are emails still unique?
The update_profile method allows you to set the email address associated with the account. I have been able to do this freely, even when using an email address I know to be fake or already in use. Is there any verification done on the Twitter end to attempt to prevent this (if so, it doesn't seem to be working)? Or is this an indication that I could use my same main email address for multiple accounts? I assume this is a bug with the new method, as the Twitter web site won't let me make that change to an email already in use. Kevin
Re: update_profile_image only succeeds on very small images
Matt,
I tried changing my script to generate a gif, and my issues with
twitter dissapeared, but my image was no longer rendering properly so
I switched the output back to png and added the mimetype to the image
data, but now I'm not getting any response.
foreach($_POST as $key = $var){
$POST[$key] = htmlspecialchars($var,ENT_QUOTES);
}
if($POST['twittername'] != '' $POST['twitterpass'] != ''){
$url = 'http://twitter.com/users/show/' . urlencode($POST
['twittername']) . '.xml';
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$user = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
$image_array = explode('.',$user-profile_image_url);
$filename = $POST['twittername'] . '-' . time() . '.png';
$badge = imagecreatefrompng($POST['badge']);
switch($image_array[(sizeof($image_array) - 1)]){
case 'jpg':
$avatar =
imagecreatefromjpeg($user-profile_image_url);
break;
case 'png':
$avatar =
imagecreatefrompng($user-profile_image_url);
break;
case 'gif':
$avatar =
imagecreatefromgif($user-profile_image_url);
break;
default:
$avatar =
imagecreatefrompng($user-profile_image_url);
break;
}
imagealphablending($badge,1);
imagealphablending($avatar,1);
imagecopy($avatar,$badge,0,0,0,0,48,48);
imagepng($avatar,$filename);
//*
$url = 'http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml';
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,array('image' = @
$filename;type=image/png));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $POST['twittername'] . ':' .
$POST['twitterpass']);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$info = curl_getinfo($curl);
curl_close($curl);
imagedestroy($badge);
imagedestroy($avatar);
unlink($filename);
// */
On Jan 19, 12:18 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi Kevin,
I find that error message misleading. If the image could not be
processed for any reason the error says possibly too big. That's
normally the case with user uploads but it seems like from the API
it's more often something else. Looking back through the Google Group
it seems like GIF is predominantly the issue. If you create a similar
1x1 PNG does it do the same thing? We support GIF and it should work,
but knowing what works and what doesn't will help narrow it down.
Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:01 AM, DeBetta wrote:
I just tested the update_profile_image API call and sent a 190K image
without issue.
What kind of image are you trying to post? Do you have sample code you
can share?
--Peter
On Jan 19, 11:16 am, Kevin Thompson thompson.kev...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm attempting to write a simple script to update the user's profile
image, but I am getting a response that the image is possible too big
each time. The file that I'm attempting to set as the user avatar is
no larger than 5k, and it fails.
I created a 1px by 1px white gif which weighed in at about 43 bytes
and it worked.
My suspicion is that for some reason the API is not correctly
calculating the file size of the image data, or it's checking for a
much smaller value than 700k.
Re: update_profile_image only succeeds on very small images
Peter,
I tried manually passing the image/jpg, but that didnt seem to
help. Still returning a 403.
The following command works fine, so there must be something wrong
with the way I'm passing the mime type to curl in PHP:
curl -F 'ima...@jenjen07-1232480534.png;type=image/png' -H
'Expect:' -u {username}:{password}
http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml
On Jan 20, 7:57 am, DeBetta debe...@gmail.com wrote:
I had similar issues when first working with images. I ended up using
image/jpg for the mimetype regardless of the actual type of file and
that seemed to clear up the issue.
--Peter
On Jan 20, 8:46 am, Kevin Thompson thompson.kev...@gmail.com wrote:
Matt,
I tried changing my script to generate a gif, and my issues with
twitter dissapeared, but my image was no longer rendering properly so
I switched the output back to png and added the mimetype to the image
data, but now I'm not getting any response.
foreach($_POST as $key = $var){
$POST[$key] = htmlspecialchars($var,ENT_QUOTES);
}
if($POST['twittername'] != '' $POST['twitterpass'] != ''){
$url = 'http://twitter.com/users/show/'. urlencode($POST
['twittername']) . '.xml';
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$user = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
$image_array = explode('.',$user-profile_image_url);
$filename = $POST['twittername'] . '-' . time() . '.png';
$badge = imagecreatefrompng($POST['badge']);
switch($image_array[(sizeof($image_array) - 1)]){
case 'jpg':
$avatar =
imagecreatefromjpeg($user-profile_image_url);
break;
case 'png':
$avatar =
imagecreatefrompng($user-profile_image_url);
break;
case 'gif':
$avatar =
imagecreatefromgif($user-profile_image_url);
break;
default:
$avatar =
imagecreatefrompng($user-profile_image_url);
break;
}
imagealphablending($badge,1);
imagealphablending($avatar,1);
imagecopy($avatar,$badge,0,0,0,0,48,48);
imagepng($avatar,$filename);
//*
$url =
'http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml';
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,array('image' = @
$filename;type=image/png));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $POST['twittername'] .
':' .
$POST['twitterpass']);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$info = curl_getinfo($curl);
curl_close($curl);
imagedestroy($badge);
imagedestroy($avatar);
unlink($filename);
// */
On Jan 19, 12:18 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi Kevin,
I find that error message misleading. If the image could not be
processed for any reason the error says possibly too big. That's
normally the case with user uploads but it seems like from the API
it's more often something else. Looking back through the Google Group
it seems like GIF is predominantly the issue. If you create a similar
1x1 PNG does it do the same thing? We support GIF and it should work,
but knowing what works and what doesn't will help narrow it down.
Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:01 AM, DeBetta wrote:
I just tested the update_profile_image API call and sent a 190K image
without issue.
What kind of image are you trying to post? Do you have sample code you
can share?
--Peter
On Jan 19, 11:16 am, Kevin Thompson thompson.kev...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm attempting to write a simple script to update the user's profile
image, but I am getting a response that the image is possible too big
each time. The file that I'm attempting to set as the user
Re: Changing profile image via PHP/Curl
I'm having the same problem as James with the pastebin script. There
was a problem with your picture. Probably too big.
Additionally, I came across this thread having a similar error with
the api returning a 500 server error when attempting to update a user
profile image. My code is using PHP GD to essentially merge a
watermark with the users existing avatar, then send the raw image data
as an update.
$url = 'http://twitter.com/users/show/' . urlencode($POST
['twittername']) . '.xml';
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$user = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
$badge = imagecreatefrompng($POST['badge']);
$image_array = explode('.',$user-profile_image_url);
switch($image_array[4]){
case 'jpg':
$avatar =
imagecreatefromjpeg($user-profile_image_url);
break;
case 'png':
$avatar =
imagecreatefrompng($user-profile_image_url);
break;
case 'gif':
$avatar =
imagecreatefromgif($user-profile_image_url);
break;
default:
$avatar =
imagecreatefrompng($user-profile_image_url);
break;
}
imagecopymerge($avatar,$badge,0,0,0,0,48,48,100);
ob_start();
imagepng($avatar);
$image = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
//*
$url = 'http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml';
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,array('image' = urlencode
($image)));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $POST['twittername'] . ':' .
$POST['twitterpass']);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
imagedestroy($badge);
imagedestroy($avatar);
On Jan 6, 1:05 pm, James N. Weber jame...@gmail.com wrote:
Chad- Thanks for all your help with this! I downloaded it from
pastebin, and then uploaded it to my server, no changes. It is giving
me the There was a problem with your picture. Probably too big.
error still, with several photos. Any ideas what's going on?
On Jan 6, 1:31 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
So after some fiddling with your code, I got it to work:
I think part of the problem was that you can't use URLs to the image
(like you were doing).
Anyway, the following code (see pastebin link) gives examples of how
to do it with File Uploading through a form, or just using canned
local images from your server.
http://pastebin.com/f6eb4650c
Hope this helps,
-Chad
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/6 James N. Weber jame...@gmail.com:
Thanks for the help, Chad. I think I need the PHP equivalent of -F in
curl- I'm not sure how to set that.
I tried changing it to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, and Twitter gave me a
Something is technically wrong. page- the robot lobster with a
broken claw.
Any ideas?
The code I took the below line from is not uploading an image to
Twitter, but rather between two internal servers on one of the sites I
maintain and it works fine for me...
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect: '));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('img' = '@'.$filename));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
Hope it helps you.
-Stuart
--
http://stut.net/
update_profile_image only succeeds on very small images
I'm attempting to write a simple script to update the user's profile image, but I am getting a response that the image is possible too big each time. The file that I'm attempting to set as the user avatar is no larger than 5k, and it fails. I created a 1px by 1px white gif which weighed in at about 43 bytes and it worked. My suspicion is that for some reason the API is not correctly calculating the file size of the image data, or it's checking for a much smaller value than 700k.
invalid profile_image_url returned in JSON timeline
In my friends_timeline.json for tweet 1005190499 I'm getting a profile_image_url value of http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64498715/rollins_narrowweb__300x460_0_normal.jpg -- which is a 404. The correct, working profile image URL that shows up on twitter.com is http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64499571/rollins_narrowweb__300x460_0_normal.jpg Just so you guys are aware :)
