[twitter-dev] A little Google Voice SMS example in Perl

2010-10-23 Thread Neal Rauhauser
I take no responsibility for what you perl monks do with this one ... mind the SSL dependency, the CPAN load didn't handle that for me and it required manual intervention. #!/usr/bin/perl use Google::Voice; my $g = Google::Voice-new-login('acco...@gmail.com', 'password);

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweeting with Net::Twitter + OAuth

2010-09-30 Thread Neal Rauhauser
I do things precisely in this fashion, works fine for me. Contact me here and I'll look your stuff over if Marc does not get to it first ... It's better to use nrauhau...@gmail.com as opposed to this, which is a very large junk box for me. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:37 AM, wkossen

[twitter-dev] Ogilvy's NetVibes - anyone have a contact there?

2010-08-17 Thread Neal Rauhauser
The NetVibes Twitter widget seems to have some Oauth troubles and I have no idea how to contact the folks at Ogilvy Global PR. This is the site that's affected http://thedailyinfluence.netvibesbusiness.com/#Social_Media_%26_WOM It's been broke for 36 hours now.

[twitter-dev] 'unix way' Twitter scripts - will they still work?

2010-05-17 Thread Neal Rauhauser
I've published a handful of 'unix way' scripts written in perl and based on Marc Mims' Net::Twitter library. The basic idea was to lower the barrier of entry for folks who want some simple thing done - say a unix admin who wants a system to be able to tweet/DM. There are a lot of things that

[twitter-dev] Federating Microblogging - how soon?

2010-04-04 Thread Neal Rauhauser
Every time I have to sit and wait ... and wait and wait for this hovercard horse hockey I think to myself Is this the last misstep on the part of Twitter before a federated solution starts to take hold? Seriously, it totally, completely screws the experience for those of us using

[twitter-dev] entirely indecent conduct from a user

2010-03-21 Thread neal rauhauser
What does it take to get this nitwit removed? http://twitter.com/grandpa_dempsey -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email

[twitter-dev] massive #fail - auto profile popups

2010-03-19 Thread neal rauhauser
The automated profile popups are a profound source of #fail. Anyone using an Atom based machine is basically twiddling their thumbs for 30% of the time they're trying to use the web interface. Chrome users already had this feature with the bit.ly expander and it did much, much more. There

Re: [twitter-dev] massive #fail - auto profile popups

2010-03-19 Thread neal rauhauser
: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 23:26, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.comwrote: The automated profile popups are a profound source of #fail. Anyone using an Atom based machine is basically twiddling their thumbs for 30% of the time they're trying to use the web interface. Chrome users already

Re: [twitter-dev] Chrome plugin to shut down unwanted Twitter popups?

2010-03-19 Thread neal rauhauser
Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:12 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: Someone suggested that a Chrome plugin to shut

[twitter-dev] tidy method for spotting new followers?

2010-03-14 Thread neal rauhauser
I've been asked to produce an automated response to new followers and I'm scratching my head over how to go about handling this. I have the login to the accounts in question, we're not fancy enough to have Oauth, and I may or may not have access to the email account behind the given Twitter ID.

[twitter-dev] Simple Perl Scripts For Twitter

2010-02-25 Thread neal rauhauser
I've cobbled together some simple perl scripts for Twitter based on Marc Mims' Net::Twitter module. http://github.com/StrandedWind/Simple-Perl-Scripts-For-Twitter/ These are 'unix way' tools - simple things less than a page long that perform basic Twitter functions in such a fashion that

[twitter-dev] disparities between bit.ly Google Analytics?

2010-02-21 Thread neal rauhauser
Is anyone else seeing dramatic disparities between what bit.ly reports and what Google Analytics reports in terms of clicks? We're seeing like 10:1 over reporting from bit.ly ... if Google Analytics is right. -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com GV: 202-642-1717

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: disparities between bit.ly Google Analytics?

2010-02-21 Thread neal rauhauser
. Who knows how bit.ly does their click tracking, I sure don't On Feb 21, 9:36 pm, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing dramatic disparities between what bit.lyreports and what Google Analytics reports in terms of clicks? We're seeing like 10:1 over reporting from

Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

2010-02-20 Thread neal rauhauser
I'm Neal Rauhauser, @StrandedWind. Iowa State software engineering back when - dodged a punchcard programming class by one semester. Cisco Certified Network Design Professional for a decade, recently lapsed as the cert is devalued at both resellers and in general due to their failure

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk creation of Twitter Accounts

2010-02-19 Thread neal rauhauser
This is not only not something that can be done automatically, but even if you have a legitimate need, say brand protection for a large operation, you can still get blocked from registering accounts if you have too many. I think we got to around a hundred and then got the door slammed on our

[twitter-dev] mass de-follow - does the account get in trouble?

2010-02-18 Thread neal rauhauser
I'm following 595 and over the last two months I've marked every single person who responds by placing them on a list. Only 203 of these are actively engaged. Am I going to hit some tripwire if I drop 300+ people in a few minutes? -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk:

Re: [twitter-dev] direct message whitelisting?

2010-02-06 Thread neal rauhauser
I'd like a public answer for this, we have whitelisted systems and some of our customers are starting to use their accounts as 'command centers', our software permits them to mass message members of certain lists. Right now the biggest list is a dozen and it's used infrequently, but we have

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter based bug tracker/feedback system, anyone?

2010-02-05 Thread neal rauhauser
Anton, We have a system that bridges a Twitter ID to Best Practical's Request Tracker help desk. This is development grade stuff right now, not at all ready for paying customers, but I'm looking for early adopters. We could have a credible offering by the end of first quarter.

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

2010-01-27 Thread neal rauhauser
Every time I saw this thread in my inbox my blood pressure rose. I just took the time to read it and there is actually some valid content in here. I run bots. Political campaign stuff, adaptively speaks in hashtags, low frequency, provides some value. We ask people to NOT follow them as

[twitter-dev] suddenly removed from whitelist?

2009-12-26 Thread neal rauhauser
Has anyone else been suddenly dropped from the whitelist? User ProgressivePST is mine - we're doing social media consulting for political campaigns. Our application does low frequency tweets scattered among many hashtags on behalf of a number of campaigns, ballot initiatives, and Progressive

Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-11-30 Thread neal rauhauser
Sign in to your Twitter account, go to http://twitblock.org, and drop EVERY SINGLE JUNK FOLLOWER YOU HAVE. No, the junk followers aren't britbots, but if you don't have any losers following you your britbot exposure goes way, way, way down. I'm particularly suspicious of the followers

[twitter-dev] Updates not being indexed?

2009-11-10 Thread neal rauhauser
I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns and initiatives - political stuff, House Senate, health care reform, etc. http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began populating their hashtags. #MA08 is represented by

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates not being indexed?

2009-11-10 Thread neal rauhauser
in the search index. You can test that by searching for from:ProgressivePST http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3AProgressivePST This probably happened because of the amount of automated tweets containing links that you have. On Nov 10, 10:41 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates not being indexed?

2009-11-10 Thread neal rauhauser
in your own database. On Nov 10, 11:11 am, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: I've been kind of slinking along in development mode and I'm not terribly slick with Twitter. I'm now at a point where there is going to be a LOT of attention on this - how does one ask/register/apologize

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread neal rauhauser
You have to view Twitter in its native environment - desktop/laptop AND cell phone. People who'd never give their phone number to a political campaign or ballot initiative will sign up for updates by agreeing to be on a list and they'll engage in flashmob behavior - just ask Congressman

[twitter-dev] Re: I need a lot of help. Would be appreciated.

2009-11-10 Thread neal rauhauser
Do you have any of the requisite skills? You can obviously run an email client but there are a few requirements beyond that :-) Not being rude here, just noting that to design, code, probably run a database - these are non-trivial tasks. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 PM, justindclark

[twitter-dev] Re: Retweeting to an entire list

2009-10-17 Thread neal rauhauser
use Net::Twitter; $user = user name ; $pass = password ; my $nt = Net::Twitter-new( traits = [qw/API::REST API::Search/], username = $user, password = $pass ); my $result = $nt-followers() ; foreach $user ( @$result ) { $name = $user-{'screen_name'} ; $msg