[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread Zac Bowling
Hi Matt, I understand the change need to happen. In regards to xAuth though and finding an upgrade path, the assumption is that those that got access to that were developing desktop/mobile clients (not centralized services) so there is no centralized storage of tokens or user data (only in

[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread Zac Bowling
Matt, This maybe a harder architectural shift, but a better solution would be to move permissions from being per application, but instead a per authentication token method, wherein that each token stores the permissions that the app requested and was granted at the time they authorized. So

[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread Zac Bowling
Thanks Matt! I still urge you to reconsider the mass breakage of older and existing apps and the crippling mobile/desktop user experiences apps going forward. My own judgement is that yes, maybe user didn't realize that didn't want to give that level of access and matbe the web flow can help

Re: [twitter-dev] New Twitter API?

2010-09-14 Thread Zac Bowling
. Either way, there is so much rick-rolling to be had now on twitter with the video embedding. Zac Bowling @zbowling PS: Can someone at twitter bump my main @zbowling account up in the rollout queue? On Sep 14, 2010, at 8:57 PM, PeekURL.com wrote: I run a URL shortener that plays Youtube

[twitter-dev] Twitter dev

2010-08-30 Thread Zac Bowling
to jump now before the oauth apocalypse and the fall out silly questions :-) Thanks everyone! Zac Bowling z...@zacbowling.com http://twitter.com/zbowling Sent from my iPad -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Recent API changes and new fields

2010-08-24 Thread Zac Bowling
Is there a time line for the streaming API getting these changes? Zac Bowling On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey everyone, Thanks for the questions. I'll try and answer them all in this message. 1) are the counts turned on? This weekend

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter 140 character limit break

2010-08-14 Thread Zac Bowling
Yay! Robots! Genuine bug and not a scaling issue. Zac On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: On 8/14/10 9:29 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: On 8/14/10 9:27 PM, Chris White wrote: It appears that the new twitter share link can be used to break the 140 character limit.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Any way to turn off 'user-scalable' meta tag in OAuth authorization form?

2010-08-12 Thread Zac Bowling
The only issue with that is that you can't return the user to the app after the oath flow (unless you implement a protocol handler on your platform and Twitter supported calling back to it). I'm back and forth on this myself. The security advocate in me agrees with you Taylor, but the UX guy

[twitter-dev] Profile updates in user stream

2010-06-18 Thread Zac Bowling
Would it be possible to add profile changes to the user stream? Zac Bowling @zbowling Sent from my iPhone

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

2010-06-17 Thread Zac Bowling
I knew twitter had a business plan up their selves somewhere... Just didn't think it would of involved porn spam. :-) Good one... Caught me off guard there :-) Zac Bowling @zbowling On Jun 17, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: That was actually a test of a new Promoted Tweets spin

Re: [twitter-dev] Keep it real

2010-06-15 Thread Zac Bowling
~50 behind Al3x from when he was around). That number just blows my mind. You not being here as much will make a huge dent that will be really hard to fill. Hope for the best in your quest for a work and hope we can work on something awesome together someday. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Jun

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

2010-06-14 Thread Zac Bowling
blacklisting desktop apps without taking out legitimate ones though. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Jef Poskanzer wrote: Yeah, what Ryan said. Also, On Jun 13, 1:40 pm, segphault ryankp...@gmail.com wrote: Facebook and Google Buzz both offer desktop-appropriate OAuth

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

2010-06-12 Thread Zac Bowling
the user can optionally edit the source attribution tag and link when they set it up the clone, then I would probably direct my users to use this approach over manually creating their own original consumer and secret. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Jun 11, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote

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

2010-06-12 Thread Zac Bowling
and it doesn't take down all the versions of our apps. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Jun 12, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Jef Poskanzer wrote: I don't understand why you are suggesting this only for open source programs. Were you thinking that an attacker would be incapable of decompiling

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

2010-06-12 Thread Zac Bowling
through your own web service (which would render the ease of use you get from xAuth moot but you are sacrificing usability for security). Zac Bowling @zbowling

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

2010-06-12 Thread Zac Bowling
. I can only hope it's fixed OAuth 2.0. Just ideas. :-) Zac Bowling @zbowling

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread Zac Bowling
fixes and workarounds) or: http://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2 (the official upstream) Zac Bowling @zbowling On Jun 3, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Steve C wrote: I just looked at your code briefly, but I believe the problem is this line: oauth_request = TwitpicOAuthRequest(http_method=POST

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread Zac Bowling
fork, I've fixed a few issues and added some changes to support XAuth and a few other minor issues (like forcing Authentication headers on POSTs for Twitter). Zac Bowling @zbowling On Jun 3, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Yann Malet wrote: Zac, I would love to do this but I can't find any documentation

[twitter-dev] Annotations in Streams - June 7th

2010-06-02 Thread Zac Bowling
Awesome. I have earlybird ready to receive the annotations and dump them to the console as they are received when these changes go live. I will push it to github after it hits for some sample code for anyone that wants to play. http://github.com/zbowling/earlybird/ (The version in master

[twitter-dev] Thoughts on annotations

2010-05-31 Thread Zac Bowling
the bugs. I'll leave twitter to document those if and when they open up annotations to more developers. Thanks all! Zac Bowling @zbowling

[twitter-dev] List data in user streams

2010-05-30 Thread Zac Bowling
Thanks who ever pushed this at Twitter. Not documented, but its awesome to find. Started getting list_member_added and list_member_removed events now in the user stream API on betastream. Missing pieces coming together. (Found it while hacking here at the hackathon. We are still here burning

[twitter-dev] Parking

2010-05-29 Thread Zac Bowling
Weird to ask this here, but does anyone know the parking situation at Twitter HQ for the hackfest? I usually just take the ferry but it does come on saturdays and would rather avoid BART :-) Zac Sent from my iPad

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API OAuth explanation?

2010-05-24 Thread Zac Bowling
The format is fairly simple and almost self explanatory. Check out this for a working sample: http://github.com/zbowling/earlybird Zac Bowling On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Jonathon Hill jhill9...@gmail.com wrote: Hey we need documentation! Jonathon On May 24, 4:50 pm, Mark McBride

Re: [twitter-dev] Hard lesson learned

2010-05-23 Thread Zac Bowling
Hey Miguel, Long time :-) OAuth 1.0a spec lays it out clearly for hmac/sha1 signatures. Has all the specific details. Soon though with OAuth WRAP/2.0 it will make it much easier by just leaving it all up the transport layer and using ssl/tls. Hope mono is doing well! Zac Sent from

Re: [twitter-dev] Command-line implementations of Twitter OAuth was Announcing Twurl: OAuth-enabled curl for the Twitter API

2010-05-17 Thread Zac Bowling
of twurl and updated all own my scripts to recognize the rc file and Mac keychain format and use it if it's detected. It makes it far less complicated to use command line tools. It would be nice to standardize this or something maybe. Zac Bowling @zbowling Sent from my iPad On May 17

[twitter-dev] Weird inconsistency in social graph

2010-05-16 Thread Zac Bowling
. The second one has @mm, but the other two don't. --- followers/1274040599.txt2010-05-16 13:09:59.0 -0700 +++ followers/1274040541.txt2010-05-16 13:09:01.0 -0700 @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ 129004024 16909593 11009852 +7101692 19130449 14793018 129424089 Zac Bowling @zbowling

Re: [twitter-dev] WebSockets protocol for streaming API

2010-05-16 Thread Zac Bowling
the paramaters of what we are filtering on the stream, or request all sorts of things that you would have to do on the querystring and have to reconnect to change them). Zac Bowling @zbowling On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: I did a quick reading, and I couldn't

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to filter out utf-8 characters in java

2010-05-13 Thread Zac Bowling
PHP treats strings as c strings basically (char/byte arrays). It won't really do anything special automagically and leaves it up to you to make sure you treat your strings safely. Make sure your code is encoded in utf-8 and make sure your content types are set to UTF-8 in your responses. Use

Re: [twitter-dev] The most shameful bug a site can have! Fix it quickly before it causes havoc dear Twitter

2010-05-10 Thread Zac Bowling
if someone else was actually following me or not (eg: http://twitter.com/zbowling/status/13698520461 and http://twitter.com/zbowling/status/13653464851 ) http://gist.github.com/396262 Zac Bowling @zbowling On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: We're aware

[twitter-dev] Enable xAuth for app owners

2010-05-08 Thread Zac Bowling
/413/my_token page is fantastic but it would be just a little bit nicer for single user apps to avoid one step of hunting down that access token. It makes one less step to get up and running with twurl and my OAuth enabled fork of earlybird. Zac Bowling @zbowling

[twitter-dev] bug with auth on help.twitter.com/zendesk

2010-05-05 Thread Zac Bowling
+taken Zac Bowling @zbowling

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to userstream preview

2010-05-05 Thread Zac Bowling
users you don't follow -g growl notifications for new tweets -t track keywords separated by commas. -u userstream path. Default: /2b/user.json -h userstream hostname: Default: betastream.twitter.com Zac Bowling

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth support and reformatted DMs live on user streams

2010-05-05 Thread Zac Bowling
My fork of earlybird works: http://github.com/zbowling/earlybird/ Fixing it to support hydrated objects. One thing is that it doesn't appear to support query string passed OAuth params but if I pass it as authentication headers it works. Zac Bowling On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mark

[twitter-dev] Javascript (google analytics) in search RSS feed.

2010-05-05 Thread Zac Bowling
Just seen someone tweet this. The search.twitter.com RSS feeds are returning javascript pointing to google analytics in the description tag. Causing validation errors. In the ATOM feed it's marked as format='html' so it doesn't choke there for me but the RSS feed is choking in my reader. Zac

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth support and reformatted DMs live on user streams

2010-05-05 Thread Zac Bowling
social graph comes down initially. Right now I don't know the user's screen_name unless I also hit api.twitter.com or he tells me on the command line. With that I could drop the dependency on the twitter gem. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mark McBride mmcbr

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to userstream preview

2010-05-04 Thread Zac Bowling
Who is updating earlybird? :-P Zac Bowling On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: The hydrated social events (as described in the previous email) are now live. Please let me know if you have questions/issues/concerns with the new data ---Mark http

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to userstream preview

2010-05-04 Thread Zac Bowling
I was going to tackle it if no body else did :-) Already started working on a fork my self: http://github.com/zbowling/earlybird Zac Bowling On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: I can hack that together. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Tue

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Zac Bowling
can work around anything you make. Now make some annotations. :-) Zac Bowling On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: This is a great idea for how to bootstrap and fuel the adoption and consensus on namespaces and key names. I'm going to talk to our analytics

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Thoughts moving forward

2010-04-14 Thread Zac Bowling
Will be there. Telling the other devs around me. Zac Sent from my iPad On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to say that third-party developers should get together tonight at 9pm right at the end of Ignite Chirp. Look for me (with a 12 inch beard)

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-09 Thread Zac Bowling
doesn't seem Mac happy, and please buy a Android company to even that side out too. See you all at Chrip! I'm sure this will be a lively debate so: INB4 insanity Zac Bowling On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: It's great for Loren. But, there's a problem

Re: [twitter-dev] Chirp is coming to San Francisco April 14 and 15

2010-04-05 Thread Zac Bowling
Going to be off the hook. Geek style. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I look forward to meeting all you awesome developers there. Abraham On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:04, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all

Re: [twitter-dev] Getting IP of user from Tweets

2010-03-11 Thread Zac Bowling
The user's IP isn't available. Would be a huge security and privacy issue. However location is possible using the new geo features. It's opt in and it requires the user use client that supports sending location data, but the accuracy is far greater then any kind of geo-ip lookup could offer. Zac

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-04 Thread Zac Bowling
either way. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Carlos carlosju...@gmail.com wrote: What is the replacement for this endpoint for mobile applications? On Mar 3, 9:45 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: This is an announcement that we will be deprecating

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Permanent Profile URL

2010-02-26 Thread Zac Bowling
Absolute tweet link? Sounds like a neat and simple 3rd party api service. Like bit.ly for specific tweets and users profiles that follows the user as they change their username. Zac Bowling On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net wrote: However, there's still

Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

2010-02-21 Thread Zac Bowling
the community bring up with OAuth to help with designing our own OAuth client and server implementations and try to contribute back where I can. I will be at Chirp this year. Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.comwrote: We have not had

Re: [twitter-dev] Private account

2010-02-14 Thread Zac Bowling
Not to promote another service but Yammer is kind of designed for this setup. Yammer is a lot like Twitter in a lot of ways but built for business and all the timelines are only visible to other employees in the same company. Zac Bowling On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter status update through a Ajax Post

2010-02-13 Thread Zac Bowling
Looks like cross server Ajax to me. Can't do that because of the same origin design of Ajax. Not sure how it worked before (unless running locally.) Unless my tired eyes are lieing to me, you are not running this inside ASP (runat=server) so that JS is running in the browser. On Feb 12, 2010 9:07

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

2010-02-04 Thread Zac Bowling
Yes, what magic is this? I'm confused. It takes username and password but then uses OAuth? I wonder if they are injecting the username/password into the OAuth form on the page. Twitter should really randomize that page or require captcha or something. Zac Bowling On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11

Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net

2010-01-27 Thread Zac Bowling
Entity codes. Just decode them... using System.Web; ... string decoded_stuff = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(encoded_stuff); There is a way to do this with System.Xml but whatever. Zac Bowling On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Rejeev Thomas rejeevtho...@gmail.comwrote: Please help friends

Re: [twitter-dev] Not able to read unicode from Twitter Response XML in C#.net

2010-01-27 Thread Zac Bowling
Also: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2008/10/21/Different-ways-how-to-escape-an-XML-string-in-C.aspx Zac Bowling On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Entity codes. Just decode them... using System.Web; ... string decoded_stuff

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can new twitter account be created from API?

2010-01-26 Thread Zac Bowling
Strictly speaking, there is an API of sorts to create accounts, but limited to certain partners. Citysearch is using it IIRC. Although it would be great for mobile clients because there isn't a nice mobile web page to create an account so it takes a PC to get started for new users. Seen a note on

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Preproduction Server?

2010-01-01 Thread Zac Bowling
). It's unlikely to get blacklisted as long as your not DOSing twitter or spamming people. Zac Bowling On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:51 AM, evolutional evolutio...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just starting out on writing a simple C++ library that integrates with the Twitter API. As this is in the early

Re: [twitter-dev] What You Put In Not The Same As What You Get Back Out

2009-12-30 Thread Zac Bowling
Twitter has to host those files. Pure guess here but like thunbnails, it's not completely unresonable that they maybe want to optimize them for size to save a few dollars on the hosting bills. Why does it mater? Zac Bowling On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Kyle Mulka repalvigla...@yahoo.com

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

2009-12-29 Thread Zac Bowling
or bugs that popup as things happen. Stack Overflow is awesome but it's not a good platform for what goes on here. Zac Bowling On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Jonathan Markwell j.l.markw...@inuda.comwrote: Hi Ken, Andrew, Thank you for your thoughts! I had considered a Stack Exchange and have

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

2009-12-27 Thread Zac Bowling
, and I'm still going on using them because OAuth sucks for desktop/mobile situations still and would die with a 15 day heads up on removal). Also iPhone app devs using this API will would probably have a hard time squeezing a 15 day return on Apple right now. Zac Bowling On Sun, Dec 27, 2009

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweets with !, ', and other characters refused..

2009-12-24 Thread Zac Bowling
Make sure you are using UTF-8 and not a ISO-8859-x. Zac Bowling On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:49 PM, thetwitmaniac alon.a.ta...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm building a desktop twitter client and for some reason whenever I try to post a tweet with an exclamation mark or apostrophe, the tweet

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Contributor API

2009-12-14 Thread Zac Bowling
I'm curious about rate limiting and what impact this has. Which account gets rate limited basically. Zac Bowling On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Justyn justyn.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Raffi, Curious how the contributors will be associated? Will it essentially be linking accounts

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

2009-12-12 Thread Zac Bowling
This question gets asked every few weeks. Probably need to update the documentation. Right now it means subscribe with SMS to their updates. (In the twitter from a long long time ago, I believe this also controlled getting IM notifications). Zac Bowling

Re: [twitter-dev] search.twitter.com no longer showing deleted tweets

2009-12-07 Thread Zac Bowling
Little late to the party :-) http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/twitter-finally-removing-deleted-tweets-from-search-results/ Zac Bowling On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM, TJ Luoma luo...@luomat.net wrote: Good news/bad news. Not sure when this started, but search.twitter.com is no longer

[twitter-dev] URL detection on Twitter.com no longer picking up querystring

2009-12-04 Thread Zac Bowling
software that already shipped that the users will start using very soon. Any ideas? Zac Bowling Senior Software Engineer - doubleTwist z...@doubletwist.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retweet streams have been frozen for 2 weeks

2009-12-01 Thread Zac Bowling
The link to http://help.twitter.com/requests/new on the help twitter site VERY hard to find. It took me a long long time and getting lucky to stumble on it. The move to zendesk should make it easy to enter tickets :-P Zac Bowling

[twitter-dev] Retweet streams have been frozen for 2 weeks

2009-11-28 Thread Zac Bowling
if something is failing and just returning some kind of cache maybe? Don't know. A quick search on twitter shows I'm not alone: http://twitter.com/#search?q=retweets%20by%20others Zac Bowling

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter app marked inactive?

2009-11-25 Thread Zac Bowling
I hope OAuth suspensions are rare in general. It could drive a few devs back to Basic Auth if they fear disconnection. :-) Zac Bowling On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Gotcha, thanks for the info Brian. ∞ Andy Badera On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:48 PM

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter app marked inactive?

2009-11-25 Thread Zac Bowling
I hope OAuth suspensions are rare in general. Wouldn't want to drive any devs back to Basic Auth if they fear disconnection. :-) Zac Bowling On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Gotcha, thanks for the info Brian. ∞ Andy Badera On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Please allow me to see people who RT me! !

2009-11-22 Thread Zac Bowling
personal brand. Also as third party engineers we are all probably the last to care to be preached at about twitter elitism. Zac Bowling @zbowling

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: retweets vs mentions

2009-11-18 Thread Zac Bowling
mentions stream that doesn't contain retweets maybe. It wouldn't fix retweets done manually though unless twitter adds tweet parsing magic. Zac Bowling On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:59 AM, twittme_mobi nlupa...@googlemail.com wrote: So basically statuses/retweet results are included in statuses/ mention

[twitter-dev] Re: Moderators, can you trim this address from list?

2009-11-13 Thread Zac Bowling
Yes I'm getting the same thing. Kind of annoying. Zac Bowling On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I'm getting them too, and I haven't sent anything... I think they're going to everyone on the list Okay. I see only an rjmol...@gmail which

[twitter-dev] Re: Fully Featured PHP 5.3 Twitter Client

2009-11-13 Thread Zac Bowling
Still find PHP Namespaces weird. I wish one of the other proposals won out. Zac Bowling On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Wage jonw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let the group know that I've written a OO interface to the Twitter API for PHP 5.3 http

[twitter-dev] Re: MGTwitterEngine - anyone added list support yet?

2009-11-11 Thread Zac Bowling
the data is coming from because there is no handle back to the account). Twitter's api isn't overly complicated so it's easy enough to roll your own API wrapper, which is what did in my own project. Zac Bowling @zbowling On Nov 10, 2009 3:01 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Has

[twitter-dev] Re: MGTwitterEngine - anyone added list support yet?

2009-11-11 Thread Zac Bowling
since then to remember exactly that issue. :-) It also was written before Objective-C 2.0 ;-) Zac Bowling @zbowling On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Zac, That's what I decided to do too. Interested in your point of concern given as an example though

[twitter-dev] Re: Is image shrinking broken?

2009-11-02 Thread Zac Bowling
This happened a while back. Probably a regression. Their thumbnail servers are not working or something. Zac Bowling

[twitter-dev] Re: Suspended account?

2009-10-31 Thread Zac Bowling
Interesting. What is odd is all the lists he is on. So if we are following someone or have them on a list and they get suspended, will it redirect to the suspended account? Zac Bowling On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:19 PM, John Adams j...@twitter.com wrote: On Oct 31, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Zac

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

2009-10-30 Thread Zac Bowling
Sorry to see you go Chad. You helped me and the rest of the community out a ton in your time at Twitter. I owe you a beer sometime (maybe have a 3rd party twitter-dev meet up at 21st Amendment or something sometime if you are in SF?). Zac Bowling - @zbowling On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM

[twitter-dev] Re: Check when a friendship was created

2009-10-25 Thread Zac Bowling
and don't really care so much about what I have to say and are just shooting for quantity rather then quality). IIRC correctly, it could be against the TOS too. Zac Bowling On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, TylerC tyle...@gmail.com wrote: I am seeking the need to know when a friendship or when

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse II Update - Scheduled for Tuesday 9/22 at 11:30am PST

2009-09-21 Thread Zac Bowling
All things being prefect, it would good if the development staffs of many companies were not out at TC140 when this happened. Zac Bowling On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:55 PM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed, but then they're probably aware of the situation and have made plans to mitigate

[twitter-dev] Re: My Issue with the ReTweet API and my solutions

2009-08-17 Thread Zac Bowling
of retweets and outweighs any slight input requirements and an API complexity required for it. Point 4, I think you missing the point of how it would work internally. As I understand it, the original 140 char message stays intact. Point 5, I'm confused with what point you are trying to get across. Zac

[twitter-dev] Re: Cease Desist from Twitter

2009-08-13 Thread Zac Bowling
Wow. Twitters legal team thinks twitter owns blue backgrounds. Hehe. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Twitlonger stu...@abovetheinternet.org wrote: I recently got a letter by email from a UK law firm representing Twitter claiming that my website www.twitlonger.com was

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth vs. Basic authentication strictly on iPhone

2009-08-12 Thread Zac Bowling
Pictures in email signatures is obnoxious and annoying. Zac Bowling On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Bradley S. O'Hearnebrad.ohea...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, Thank you for the information -- that does give me a much better idea of the helpful utility of OAuth within the Twitter ecosystem

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-12 Thread Zac Bowling
Apparently you fail to recall the MikeRoweSoft.com case. The deal with MikeRoweSoft is a different issue then this one. Mike Rowe was perfectly fine in his use. However when Microsoft sent him a CD and said they would pay $ Zac Bowling

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-12 Thread Zac Bowling
personal page, so they backed down and gave him a bunch of free stuff. Using Twitter in a domain name directly related to a service that involves Twitter is a whole other issue that pretty much can get you in a lot of trouble. Zac Bowling

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse: The Second Coming is on the horizon

2009-07-31 Thread Zac Bowling
Just store everything in strings and give up :-) Zac Bowling On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Josh Roessleinjroessl...@gmail.com wrote: Well 64 bit should last for a while. Curious how long it will be until 128 bit will be required.

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Zac Bowling
Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? Zac Bowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey Greenbergjeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, so you're saying that we ought to auto-report spamming that we detect. And I guess we have to formulate some spam detection strategies

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Zac Bowling
Good to know before I started spamming @spam with my own log data. Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Doug Williamsd...@twitter.com wrote: The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our abuse support staff at the moment. Thanks, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: WWDC Twitter developer meetup at Twitter HQ: RSVP!

2009-05-24 Thread Zac Bowling
Count me in! Zac Bowling On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, There's great crossover between Twitter API developers and Mac/iPhone developers. Andrew Stone, developer of Twittelator Pro, suggested that we all get together during WWDC

[twitter-dev] Re: replies blog post clarification...

2009-05-13 Thread Zac Bowling
Riddle me this, what happens in this scenario: I'm following user A and user B 1. User A sends an @reply to user B. 2. User B changes his name. 3. Tweet is going to user B's old name. Will I see the tweet? Zac Bowling On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I find all replies to a status?

2009-04-23 Thread Zac Bowling
Protected updates really complicate the API. I really wish that twitter could phase that feature out to make things easier all around, but I'm sure the privacy worry warts would have a hissy fit. Zac Bowling On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Jason

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I find all replies to a status?

2009-04-22 Thread Zac Bowling
I see the bug was closed as WONTFIX. Would it not be possible for search to get a param for in_reply_to_status_id? I'm not working on any twitter projects anymore but it could lead to some very interesting clients. Zac On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's official comment on our disabling of OAuth

2009-04-22 Thread Zac Bowling
they are authorizing the consuming app. The other idea is a possible man in the middle attack. I made a proof of concept for something like that but it was to many steps to setup to think anyone could ever deploy it. Interested to hear what it is. Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign in with Twitter

2009-04-16 Thread Zac Bowling
the permissions they are granting us are for that same user that they probably already set up previously. Does that make sense? Zac Bowling On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Ivan Kirigin ivan.kiri...@gmail.com wrote: Zac, this can be solved just be properly modeling user accounts

[twitter-dev] Re: Determining Sex/Gender with the API?

2009-04-02 Thread Zac Bowling
Bought! :-) Now I just need to cast Time Magicus Level 20 to find the time to develop it. Zac Bowling On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: http://www.beardorbra.com/ On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:18, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: That would

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter user picture sizes

2009-04-01 Thread Zac Bowling
our client runs where bandwidth is usually small quiet often, etc, etc. You know the deal :-) Zac Bowling On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: It's one of our top issues right now. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 23:05, Andrew Maizels andrew.maiz...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for April 1, 2009

2009-04-01 Thread Zac Bowling
Fantastic news. Are the direct message's recipient and sender objects updated as well? Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: (Not an April Fool, we promise. We don't enjoy humor.)  * Feature (REST API): We now return

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter in iframes

2009-03-30 Thread Zac Bowling
Wow. That would be one evil clickjacking attack concept if it could work. Are pages on m.twitter.com protected from clickjacking as well? Zac Bowling On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Actually, that 'follow' button it a great clickjacking target, unless

[twitter-dev] Re: Image resizing failures is starting to get out of hand ... :-)

2009-03-28 Thread Zac Bowling
http://twitter.com/account/profile_image/hchua11 It's a cute dog. Kinda big though. Zac Bowling On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: Check out @hchua11 - avatar image is 500k+ and so are the thumbnails. D'oh.  Really sucks to watch a mobile app

[twitter-dev] A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Zac Bowling
I would love it if Twitter would develop an equivalent to Facebook's FQL, Yahoo's YQL, Amazon's SimpleDB, or Google's GQL (used for app engine data storage). Basically an abstracted SQL-like query engine for doing queries and getting back data the data you want using virtual tables of different

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Zac Bowling
for. It doesn't even have to be SQL like but just a some kind of structured query language for twitter. That would be awesome. Zac Bowling On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm positive that a third party was providing a tql api for their database of tweets

[twitter-dev] Re: A Twitter Query Language (TQL) ?

2009-03-22 Thread Zac Bowling
If it was built and twitter charged something similar to the rate that Amazon's SimpleDB charges for processing power required to preform the query, I would gladly pay. Zac Bowling On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: There was the one I mentioned in my

[twitter-dev] 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
if I make 24,385 unfollow requests and several requests to pull his social graph down as it runs. I can also throttle it as I was planning to do and do it across a few days. Thanks, Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
Haha, being that you know who I work for and the we own Twhirl, I probably shouldn't comment about Tweetdeck. :-) Loic loves everyone, but he had an auto-follow bot that followed everyone that followed him. Got a little crazy. The biggest issue was Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling

[twitter-dev] Re: 24,386 unfollow calls

2009-02-23 Thread Zac Bowling
ASCII FAIL WHALE print insert ascii fail whale here! time.sleep(1.5) --- Thanks a ton! Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts

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