[twitter-dev] Re: Access tokens changing on their own?

2011-06-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
There's an open issue about this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=2197 -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Matt, If I understand correctly, activate the new permission, all Read and Read/Write user_tokens issued to third-party applications will lose their ability to read direct messages. That is a HUGE and MAJOR headache for existing apps and their thousands of users who are currently using any of

[twitter-dev] Re: A new permission level

2011-05-18 Thread Dewald Pretorius
The more I think about this, the less it makes any sense whatsoever to force everyone through a re-authentication if DM access is required. Here's why: 1) For existing user tokens, the users have already granted access with the knowledge that it is to their DMs as well. In other words, they have

[twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam

2011-05-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
that way. It is disrespectful when you treat your business partners that way. Does Twitter like pointing a loaded gun at its own foot and pulling the trigger, again and again? On May 6, 4:38 am, Arnaud Meunier arn...@twitter.com wrote: Dewald, These rules apply to third party apps. @twittersuggests

[twitter-dev] At Reply Spam

2011-05-05 Thread Dewald Pretorius
With reference to @twittersuggests, is other unsolicited @reply spam now also officially sanctioned by Twitter? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam

2011-05-05 Thread Dewald Pretorius
or approved this action in advance? If not, then you may have de facto invalidated that section of your rules and by implication exempted all developers and applications from it. On May 5, 12:45 pm, Arnaud Meunier arn...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Dewald, Neither our TOS nor our Automation Rules Best

[twitter-dev] Five-Oh-Two Fest

2011-04-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Twitter, are you aware that your API is throwing 502s left right and center on blocks/create/nnn.json and report_spam.json? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-15 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Here's one of the best and most thoughtful articles yet on this latest ecosystem bomb: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/twitter-developers.html -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Sometimes it takes just a slightly different perspective for the sun to raise its head above the horizon of the blatantly obvious. And everything suddenly makes perfect sense. In other news, Echofon Pro is a better iPhone client, IMHO. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, You wrote, ...focus your efforts on that and just follow our lead with tweet rendering and interaction. This approach perpetuates and aggravates the fears and hostility in the developer community that you (Twitter) sprouted when you bought Tweetie, and absolutely nothing has been said or

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I used to be counted in the 90% until they defaced Tweetie, sorry, Twitter for iPhone with that moronic #DickBar that shoves irrelevant nonsense in your face. It's like yelling at you, I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS AND HAVE NO INTEREST IN THIS, BUT HERE, TAKE IT ANYWAY. LEARN

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
You're missing the next step, Scott. The #DickBar will become mandatory for all clients. On Mar 13, 3:54 pm, Scott Wilcox sc...@dor.ky wrote: You still have the ability to change to a newly developed client if you want to. Sent from my iPhone On 13 Mar 2011, at 18:50, Dewald Pretorius dpr

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
, they don't show ads next to them that yell, #WHATNOTTOSAYTOAFATWOMAN. On Mar 13, 4:18 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote:  On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:49:45 -0700 (PDT), Dewald Pretorius  dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I used to be counted in the 90% until they defaced Tweetie, sorry

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, Can you (Twitter) please get your message straight? Here's what Ryan said, More specifically, developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no. No you're saying something different. So, which

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, now is the right time to ask for a raise. Just saying... On Mar 13, 8:09 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: To be clear, Raffi is clearly articulating the situation. It's a complex thing and we can't expect to get it perfectly right the first time, so the dialogue and questions

[twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-12 Thread Dewald Pretorius
The most telling change in the Terms of Service occurred in sentence #2 or paragraph #1 under section Rules of the Road. It used to read: We want to empower our ecosystem partners to build valuable BUSINESSES around the information flowing through Twitter. It now (since March 11, 2011) reads: We

[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-02-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Apart from implementing reCAPTCHA on tweet submission, follow, and unfollow, I can't see what Twitter can do to prevent that kind of abuse (can you imagine the revolt by bona fide users?). How else do you determine that it is an actual human and not a piece of automated software behind the browser

[twitter-dev] Re: Follower analysis without whitelisting breaks limits?

2011-02-15 Thread Dewald Pretorius
: It sends you an event when our subject user follows someone else, unfollows someone else, or when they are followed by someone else.  It does not send an event when they are unfollowed by someone else. Tim. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: If I

[twitter-dev] Re: Follower analysis without whitelisting breaks limits?

2011-02-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
If I remember correctly, Site Streams sends you a transaction only when the user follows another user (adding to Following). It does not send you a transaction when someone else follows that user (adding to Followers). I don't know if this work the same in User Streams. Clarification by Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Development platform - A Rant

2011-02-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
If you're basing your business on the Search API it definitely sounds as if you're not aware yet of the [mostly unofficially documented] limits and constraints [mostly just alluded to by John Kalucki and others through their exhortations on this list for people to rather use the Streaming API] on

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-18 Thread Dewald Pretorius
. On Nov 18, 12:48 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Every search engine, social network, blogging platform, content aggregator, and to a certain extent, every used book store and used record store... -John On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ryan, The Gnip blog post states: [QUOTE]Twitter Decahose. This volume-based product is comprised of 10% of the full firehose. Starting today, developers who want to access this sample rate will access it via Gnip instead of Twitter. Twitter will also begin to transition non-display developers

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ryan, Thanks. Can I then suggest that you request Gnip to modify the description of their Twitter Decahose feed. They refer to it as a sample rate, which immediately creates confusion with your statuses/ sample. On Nov 17, 2:09 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Dewald, The basic

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
The minimum Gnip charge is $500 per month, with a minimum of a year contract, if you want to use Gnip in a production application. And that's before the -- still unknown -- additional access charges for the Twitter feeds. You can't use Gnip in a production application if you are not an

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
By the way, if you get Twitter data from Gnip, you are not bound to the Twitter TOS. Your business and contractual relationship is with Gnip, not Twitter. On Nov 17, 3:28 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: The minimum Gnip charge is $500 per month, with a minimum of a year contract

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
what are the benefits for the developer. On Nov 17, 3:49 pm, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote: Dewald, I can't speak for Twitter, but I think you are missing the path they seem to be building. As an independent developer you can still use the streaming API at the default level of 400 keywords

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
: That's explicitly not true. You are bound by both the Twitter API Rules and Gnip's TOS On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, if you get Twitter data from Gnip, you are not bound to the Twitter TOS. Your business and contractual relationship

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter + Gnip Partnership

2010-11-17 Thread Dewald Pretorius
- cell: 1.510.333.0295 Twitter - rycaut On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Dewald, The basic levels of all of the streaming APIs -- Spritzer, Follow, Track -- will remain open, free and direct from us. Elevated levels

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API and OAuth

2010-11-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
you can use any access token, or must request a token from an endpoint specific to the Streaming API. On Nov 8, 7:46 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Streaming API doesn't differ from the REST API with it's authentication. Both use OAuth 1.0. Tom On 11/8/10 11:55 PM, Dewald

[twitter-dev] Streaming API and OAuth

2010-11-08 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Please update your documentation [1] for more detail information on authenticating on the Streaming API with OAuth. We need to know the same type of information that you currently provide [2] for REST OAuth. [1] http://developer.twitter.com/pages/stre0aming_api_concepts#authentication [2]

[twitter-dev] Re: Over the limit for this type of request, please wait a while and try again

2010-10-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Are any of the other POST methods now also similarly rate limited, or is it only destroy friendship? On Oct 5, 11:13 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi James, I'll re-post this in the group thread as well. Due to potential abuse, we've begun locking down bulk

[twitter-dev] Re: Over the limit for this type of request, please wait a while and try again

2010-10-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Matt, I'm aware of those rate limits. I was referring to methods that used to be, Give us all you got, such as destroy friendship. For example, create block, destroy block, etc. On Oct 6, 3:38 pm, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Dewald, There are other methods which

[twitter-dev] Re: #newtwitter and the API

2010-09-22 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Is the URL format http://twitter.com/themattharris earmarked to be phased out at some point in the medium future? In many places in my app the @username is linked to http://twitter.com/username and I will have to modify all those URLs to http://twitter.com/#!/username if the old

[twitter-dev] Re: Why is Basic Auth still enabled on some sources?

2010-09-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
They must have known that this was going to be discovered. We're developers. We like building, testing, and breaking stuff. Unequal applications of the rules. Happens all the time. Months after you've disabled something at the request of Twitter, you find well- known services that do exactly the

[twitter-dev] t.co and fail whales

2010-09-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Twitter folks, how are you going to ensure that t.co links are not affected by over-capacity situations on your infrastructure? If you're routing t.co links through your existing infrastructure, absolutely *everyone's* links are going to be broken when you start throwing fail whales, even when

[twitter-dev] Re: all my client users report failed to validate oauth signature ...

2010-09-01 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I'm seeing a similar thing. Some of my users who have been OAuth authorized for many weeks now suddenly get an invalid OAuth signature. On Sep 1, 1:59 pm, mostafa farghaly keepon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i switched to oauth since 2 weeks or so, and deprecated basic auth completely, and all my

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread Dewald Pretorius
This is super news. However, if you're going to force web services to use Site Streams when it is in production (sites must only use the REST API for data that is not available through User Streams), then please add the ability to subscribe only to certain elements. For example, we need the

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread Dewald Pretorius
John, Is that page cached, because the third sentence of the first bullet under Important Items still says *exactly* the same? On Aug 30, 5:15 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks. I've clarified the language. -John On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread Dewald Pretorius
the foggiest idea of which service it could be, because they will have no record of API requests, or pattern of requests, for received and sent DMs. On Aug 30, 5:15 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: Quoting Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com: Here's another issue

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] Announcing Site Streams Beta

2010-08-30 Thread Dewald Pretorius
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com: Ed, Developer responsibilities and developer agreements mean absolutely nothing to that person who wants to abuse users' DMs. In fact, they will probably trick users to authorize

[twitter-dev] Re: Change in error response objects

2010-08-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, Will the new error construct always be: [errors][code] [errors][message] Or can it be sometimes: [errors][0][code] [errors][0][message] [errors][1][code] [errors][1][message] -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] Re: API Service Disruptions

2010-07-15 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, I don't any longer have the details of the errors during that 18-24 hour period. But, all seems to be good now. On Jul 15, 10:57 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Dewald, you mentioned having problems with user/show -- can you elaborate? On Wed, Jul 14, 2010

[twitter-dev] API Service Disruptions

2010-07-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Please give us something credible to tell our users. users/show has been effectively down for the past 18 hours. I've beaten the Soccer World Cup excuse to a bloody pulp, but now it doesn't fly with my users any more. The SSL certificate thing is also wearing thin guys, especially since this the

[twitter-dev] Re: API Service Disruptions

2010-07-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
, 11:42 am, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: We all need something to tell our users. Telling them Twitter is falling apart is not an option.

[twitter-dev] Re: Dev Portal Login

2010-06-20 Thread Dewald Pretorius
...@twitter.com wrote: There is no SSL certificate for developer.twitter.com or dev.twitter.com -- there's only one for twitter.com. Normally that form submits via SSL to twitter.com and then redirects back to dev.twitter.com. It will be fixed soon. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr

[twitter-dev] Re: Dev Portal Login

2010-06-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Login to developer.twitter.com kicks back developer.twitter.com uses an invalid security certificate. Are things falling apart in the Twitter world? On Jun 15, 4:55 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Sorry for all the issues around this login -- I really want to get this

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

2010-06-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I do not see any security in this solution, except for the user not having to enter his Twitter credentials in an app that only he uses anyway. Open source means, well, open (readable and modifiable by anyone) source. Meaning, your API Consumer Key is

[twitter-dev] Re: tco crawler details

2010-06-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
My guess is that Twitter uses the Google SafeBrowsing API, in addition to other blacklist APIs. http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/ Google SafeBrowsing is basically two databases, which you can host locally, and are constantly updated by Google. One database consists of potential phishing

[twitter-dev] T.co and Privacy Policies

2010-06-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Initially I did not see a privacy issue with t.co But, having thought more about Twitter forcing us to use the t.co link as the first-hop destination, I believe there are some potential privacy issues that need to be clarified. 1) Normally you need to specify in your service or product's

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

2010-06-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
This thing really is a can of worms, in terms of: 1) The impact on the ecosystem if characters are counted after link wrapping. 2) The impact on Twitter's core system and SMS communication if characters are counted before link wrapping. 3) The perception that there is no guaranteed stability in

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

2010-06-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Rich, That of course would be the right thing for Twitter to do. In other words, if they want this change, then they must take the bulk of the pain, instead of creating a problem and dumping it on the developers to solve. On Jun 9, 11:46 am, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: My proposal is you need

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

2010-06-08 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, I'm fine with everything up to the new 140 character count. If you count the characters *after* link wrapping, you are seriously going to mess up my system. My short URLs are currently 18 characters long, and they will be 18 long for quite some time to come. After that they will be 19 for

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

2010-06-08 Thread Dewald Pretorius
This is not unique to me. This will be problematic for anyone who uses a shortening service that shortens URLs to less than 20 characters. In these cases, you are basically adding characters to the submitted text, and then rejecting the submitted text as being too long. On Jun 8, 8:33 pm, Dewald

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

2010-06-08 Thread Dewald Pretorius
wrote: its true, and we understand that. just to correct my previous post, however -- t.co links are 19 characters. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: This is not unique to me. This will be problematic for anyone who uses a shortening service

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

2010-06-08 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi: Never mind. I just saw the Twitter blog post. The motivation for this is to get metrics for Promoted Tweets and Resonance. Hence, the answer is: Suck it up. DeWitt: Yikes, discarding all shortens between t.co and the final link will seriously mess with the click stats of a few million

[twitter-dev] Re: Sorry, your query is too complex. Please reduce complexity and try again.

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
How can this query be too complex? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22for+sale+by+owner%22+near:%22fort+worth%22+within:100mi It's a very simple geo-targeted query. Has Search suffered a frontal lobotomy? These searches used to work before. On May 24, 2:32 am, Cameron Kaiser

[twitter-dev] Re: What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, I don't understand. Why would Twitter on the one hand do duplicate checking and on the other hand advise people to add some kind of unique string to the tweet to circumvent the duplicate checking? You're basically saying it's okay for an application to automatically add a randomly

[twitter-dev] Re: What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
, and there are corner cases where duplicate tweets can be useful.  I'm not here to tell you how to use Twitter. On Thursday, June 3, 2010, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Taylor, I don't understand. Why would Twitter on the one hand do duplicate checking and on the other hand advise people

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-27 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Mo, I think the word injected is causing the confusion. As I understand it it means: - I pull a list of tweets from the API into an array. - Before displaying the list to the user, I inject entries that look like tweets (but are actually entries I get paid to display) into that array. - Then I

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, Read this part of that FAQ: Paid Tweets injected into any timeline on a service that leverages the Twitter API (other than Promoted Tweets). This applies to any Twitter stream, whether user based, search based, or other. Do you realize how confusing that is? 1) Does it mean I can

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, Perhaps you should ask someone to add the http://bit.ly/twitter-ad-faq link as a further reading reference into the 2. Advertising Around Twitter Content section of the API TOS. Stuff is very fragmented at the moment, and you have to accidentally discover pages on separate domains just

[twitter-dev] Re: Search api returning results based on walking shortened URLS: causing problems.

2010-05-26 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I've seen the same thing with some of my own searches, and I just figured the search algo was broken, because it returns results that have absolutely nothing to do with the phrase you searched for. On May 26, 6:24 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: So we have customer that

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Platform blog post

2010-05-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Jeepers. With one blog post Dick has killed the business of more than a few companies that have been doing what they've doing for many months, if not spanning more than a year. I fully understand Dick's rationale, but, phew, why don't you guys consider grandfathering in businesses that existed

[twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Liz, You are 100% correct in summarizing the problem. Not only were those businesses built with the full knowledge of Twitter, Twitter even had specific rules governing sponsored tweets (had to be clearly marked as sponsored, etc.). I'm really baffled by this decision of Twitter, because I don't

[twitter-dev] Re: Is the forced follow really fixed?

2010-05-21 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ed, What I find is people sometimes forget that they've set up an auto- follow service to work on their account. Gosh, I get people who sign up today, and the next day they ask for support because they've forgotten their password. These things will be easier to debug for your friend once

[twitter-dev] Re: parsing out entities from tweets (a.k.a. parsing out hashtags is hard!)

2010-05-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, This is all good, but can you please make the inclusion in the tweet payload optional? Meaning, only include it if it is requested by an additional parameter? I, and I'm sure a lot of others, are already parsing the tweet text. This is just going to consume additional bandwidth and not

[twitter-dev] Intermittent 401 Errors

2010-05-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Since late yesterday (May 10), I've been getting intermittent 401 Could not authenticate you errors. This is on Twitter accounts and code that have been working for a very long time. My code has not changed, and there is nothing wrong with the Twitter accounts either. They are not suspended, or

[twitter-dev] Re: Intermittent 401 Errors

2010-05-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
In fact, the API seems to be really borked at the moment. I've been running more tests on friends_timeline.json, and the following happens: 1) Sometimes the connection is refused. 2) Sometimes I get a 200 OK with an empty JSON array, and seconds later with the very next call on the same Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Intermittent 401 Errors

2010-05-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
makes are proprietary business information. On May 11, 11:34 am, glenn gillen gl...@rubypond.com wrote: On May 11, 3:21 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: As well (I know it has been discussed elsewhere), I am consistently seeing API response times in excess of 3 seconds per call

[twitter-dev] Re: users/show bug with nested user object

2010-05-06 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Over time I've learned it is a best practice to check the integrity of a returned Twitter object despite the fact that the HTTP response code is 200.

[twitter-dev] Blackbird Pie

2010-05-04 Thread Dewald Pretorius
http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/ Can you guys add a meta data element to a tweet, which will provide a blackbird pie hyperlink for a tweet. Basically, the code behind the link should generate the code block that Blackbird Pie currently generates. That way one can include a Blackbird Pie

[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of Connection Refused

2010-05-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
John, Sorry, I should have update this thread. It was the ThePlanet.com outage that affected me. On May 3, 2:21 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Did this happen to start at 10pm PST / 05:00 UTC? On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting

[twitter-dev] Tons of Connection Refused

2010-05-02 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I'm getting tons of connection refused errors. What's going on? The API status is till giving a 100% up indicator.

[twitter-dev] Re: About update limits

2010-04-29 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I can't think of a use or requirement that would need more than 1,000 tweets per day. Unless you're promoting teeth whitening affiliate links that absolutely must be sent at a rate of one tweet every 30 seconds, because we all know how quickly the teeth of some followers turn yellow. On Apr 29,

[twitter-dev] Re: App needs more calls than what Twitter Whitelisted Account offers!

2010-04-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
To be quite frank, you are filling a hole. The functionality you are describing, identifying and getting rid of spam followers, is Twitter's job and should be part of their core system. On Apr 28, 8:41 am, deadlychaos deadlychaos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, We are very excited to develop an

[twitter-dev] Re: Really, You're not going to suspend @julianperretta?

2010-04-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ducking the artillery shells and verbal mortar rounds in this thread, I just want to ask: Did you know @shitmydadsays actually uses status.net, and pushes its tweets from there into Twitter via the StatusNet-Twitter bridge? On Apr 28, 11:21 am, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On

[twitter-dev] Re: Invalid / used nonce but only for certain user names?

2010-04-28 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Cory, I have had similar issues. When you get that 401 error, you need to back off for a second or two, recalculate the nonce, and then resubmit the request. On Apr 28, 10:52 pm, Cory cory.imdi...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any ideas about this? I'm really not sure where to go or what to

[twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-26 Thread Dewald Pretorius
, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: It is not twitter telling you it is China. -- Little androids dreaming of Nexus Ones compiled this text. On Apr 25, 2010 6:53 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Raffi, We really need a resolution for this issue before Basic

[twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-26 Thread Dewald Pretorius
In fact, you could set a threshold per consumer key that you can vary. In other words, you can then allow a higher percentage XAuth (even 100%) to an app that caters largely to a Chinese market. And 0% or 10% to an app that caters largely to the USA market. On Apr 26, 9:43 am, Dewald Pretorius

[twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-25 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, We really need a resolution for this issue before Basic Auth is deprecated. It sounds as if Twitter is telling developers of web apps that they cannot provide service to Chinese users, and other users behind firewalls that block access to twitter.com. But that can't be right, can it? On

[twitter-dev] Re: countdown to OAuth / basic auth removal / OAuthcalypse

2010-04-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, that is super awesome. Thank you. Any chance that you will have OAuth 2.0 in production before then? On Apr 24, 12:40 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi all. you're going to be hearing a lot from me over the next 9 weeks.  our plan is to turn off basic authorization on

[twitter-dev] Re: My applications were Suspended

2010-04-23 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Brian, It is not unreasonable for developers to hope that Twitter does not suspend applications for could violate rules and possible rule violations. I trust this was just a slip of the tongue on your part. We know you must maintain a good-citizen ecosystem. For that to happen, we really do

[twitter-dev] Re: Creating or editing applications through dev.twitter.com causes apps to lose write access

2010-04-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
-- transparently behind the scenes it issues the Twurl console an access token and makes calls on your behalf. I'll look to get this business with read/write access resolved quickly. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Dewald

[twitter-dev] @anywhere and JQuery

2010-04-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Does @anywhere check whether JQuery is already available/loaded on the page? If not, will it cause any problems / conflicts / bloating to have JQuery loaded twice? -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en

[twitter-dev] Re: Local trends broken (and gone from home page?)

2010-04-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Perhaps Twitter should return more meaning full error messages when API features are disabled, so that users don't see this: http://twitpic.com/1g0e3w On Apr 16, 1:23 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: http://status.twitter.com/post/516695583/local-trends-disabled

[twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Marcel, I'd strongly urge you to consider a more structured and controlled environment for annotations. Ideally, I think an OAuth app must register a namespace, or subscribe to an existing namespace of another app, before it can create annotations in that namespace. And these registrations and

[twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, It's not about people using or not using rogue apps. It's about rogue apps poisoning the annotation data and ruining it for everybody. Rogue apps can continue to refresh their consumer keys with new accounts and OAuth app registrations, as soon as the one currently in use is suspended.

[twitter-dev] @anywhere hashtag hovercards

2010-04-15 Thread Dewald Pretorius
How about an @anywhere hovercard for hashtags? Get those promoted tweets displayed all over the place? ;-) -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.

[twitter-dev] Re: Creating or editing applications through dev.twitter.com causes apps to lose write access

2010-04-15 Thread Dewald Pretorius
In that case, you might not want to edit your app settings through dev. because since early this morning, the old edit URL [1] has been throwing a fail whale. You won't be able to restore your r/w setting. [1] http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/details/ On Apr 15, 5:12 pm, Mike Davis (mcdavis)

[twitter-dev] Re: Creating or editing applications through dev.twitter.com causes apps to lose write access

2010-04-15 Thread Dewald Pretorius
, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, you might not want to edit your app settings through dev. because since early this morning, the old edit URL [1] has been throwing a fail whale. You won't be able to restore your r/w setting. [1]http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/details

[twitter-dev] Re: User Stream's API usage

2010-04-15 Thread Dewald Pretorius
John, I know it is still some ways off into the future, but would you consider segmenting out the areas of user streams that don't have privacy implications, to make those parts of the stream available to services as a higher priority compared with the rest? For me, social graph changes are the

[twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation

2010-04-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
OAuth has benefits all around for everybody. In addition to the benefits already mentioned: 1) For a web app like mine, it saves a TON of support workload with people who change their Twitter password, don't change it in my system, and then blame my system for not working because it's not able to

[twitter-dev] User Streams API

2010-04-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
From John's announcement: User streams permissions are not tuned for service-to-service integration, rather they are tuned for end-user-display applications. Needless to say, it is a big disappointment that the user streams API is not available for services, but only for desktop apps. I could

[twitter-dev] Re: User Streams API

2010-04-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: From John's announcement: User streams permissions are not tuned for service-to-service integration, rather they are tuned for end-user-display applications. Needless to say, it is a big disappointment that the user streams API is not available

[twitter-dev] dev.twitter.com

2010-04-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Okay, this seriously rocks. Congrats to everyone who worked on making dev.twitter.com happen. -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.

[twitter-dev] Re: Annotation details

2010-04-14 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, Is the planning for everyone's annotations to be available to everyone else, or will there be private namespaces accessible only to the source application? -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.

[twitter-dev] Re: Promoted Tweets and the API?

2010-04-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Don't be too hasty with that ad blocking code. 1) It sounds as if Twitter will share ad revenue with external apps. 2) It very well might be against (new) API TOS to use the API and block ads (I would do that if I were them). On Apr 13, 10:48 am, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Chirp on Justin.tv

2010-04-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I notice that the Chirp channel is set to a private channel. http://www.justin.tv/twitterchirp Is it going to be made public on Wednesday, or else, where do we get the Access Code? -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.

[twitter-dev] API Weird

2010-04-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
http://api.twitter.com/1/ This also works: http://api.twitter.com/raffi/ Wouldn't it make more sense to kick back 404s on the api subdomain?

[twitter-dev] Basic Auth Deprecation

2010-04-13 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Is Basic Auth going to be deprecated (as in hard switched-off) in June, or are you in June going to announce depracation, with the hard switch-off then coming a few months later? -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.

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