[twitter-dev] Re: Where in API docs to get first tweet only

2009-10-11 Thread Abraham Williams
You can check out the error codes here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/HTTP-Response-Codes-and-Errors Abraham On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 18:14, Scott Haneda wrote: > > Thank you. I think I just got booted from hitting the public timeline too >

[twitter-dev] Re: Where in API docs to get first tweet only

2009-10-10 Thread Scott Haneda
One last question I think. Is there a way to control how many items come back in a request to the public timeline? I currently can not tell how many there are in the result set, I will have to wait an hour. However, if I could get a larger batch, I could query it much less often. -- Sc

[twitter-dev] Re: Where in API docs to get first tweet only

2009-10-10 Thread Scott Haneda
Thank you. I think I just got booted from hitting the public timeline too much. I requested whitelisting via the whitelist form. Since I am not authenticating, and am just curl'ing the json resource for the public timeline, is there a way for me to tell what is really happening? I curr

[twitter-dev] Re: Where in API docs to get first tweet only

2009-10-10 Thread John Kalucki
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation On Oct 10, 3:16 pm, Scott Haneda wrote: > Thanks Peter.  Any pointers on general docs on what the heck spritzer   > and garden hose is? > > The public timeline api says this: >         statuses/public_timeline >         Returns the 20 most

[twitter-dev] Re: Where in API docs to get first tweet only

2009-10-10 Thread Scott Haneda
Thanks Peter. Any pointers on general docs on what the heck spritzer and garden hose is? The public timeline api says this: statuses/public_timeline Returns the 20 most recent statuses from non-protected users who have set a custom user icon. The public timeline is ca

[twitter-dev] Re: Where in API docs to get first tweet only

2009-10-10 Thread Peter Denton
Hi Scott, Since it seems you are looking for a sampling situation, you might want to poll the public timeline and check for 1st tweet, (created at and 1st update timeframe are same/near day). Also, you could expand your sample size and look into accessing the spritzer or garden hose and again runn