[twitter-dev] Re: When requesting user updates api returns 502 error

2009-07-07 Thread Kaan ŞENGÜL
For example, my username is gkaans and I want all of my tweets. At first, I want to get status count by this url ( and using System.Xml library in C#) http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/; + user.username + .xml? count=1 When I get the number of tweets, I rerequest that user's timeline

[twitter-dev] Re: When requesting user updates api returns 502 error

2009-07-07 Thread Doug Williams
Kaan, The documentation for the method [1] states that the limit for the count parameter is 200. Therefore, you will have to use a combination of the count and page parameter to access all of the tweets (up to 3200 [2]) for a given user. 1.

[twitter-dev] Re: When requesting user updates api returns 502 error

2009-07-07 Thread Kaan ŞENGÜL
Thanks for your reply. I'll try that.. Thank you so much again.. On Jul 7, 9:57 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Kaan, The documentation for the method [1] states that the limit for the count parameter is 200. Therefore, you will have to use a combination of the count and page

[twitter-dev] stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-07 Thread infopete
we're writing an application to do live gps tracking with Twitter. We'd like to be able to have a full url in a message which we could parse or use as a direct web link. GPS logging will be done on pocket pc based phones and we already have a test application available (Twittrack). We're

[twitter-dev] users.show follower count vs followers/ids count

2009-07-07 Thread Idan Gazit
Hi Folks, I've run into an interesting question that's not really addressed by the docs. Background = In the documentation for followers/ids, it states: (Please note that the result set isn't guaranteed to be 5000 every time as suspended users will be filtered out.) In addition, it

[twitter-dev] Dumping Tweets

2009-07-07 Thread praveen kumar
Hai, I have problem while getting tweets from the API. According to Twitter API Tweets *created_at *time is in GMT Timezone* *but some times *created_at* of tweet is showing *future time* (GMT). Please help me, is there any changes that i should in my code while getting tweets from Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Prakoso
So far, according to my test, that is the case. i.e. the delta is the number of suspended accounts. HTH, Chris On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Idan Gazit i...@pixane.com wrote: Hi Folks, I've run into an interesting question that's not really addressed by the docs. Background =

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug? 200 Http Code + Empty answer with Status/Show on a specific Status ID

2009-07-07 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Anybody experiencing the same problem? On Jul 6, 2:32 pm, Arnaud arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.com wrote: Hello, I am experiencing a strange problem (bug?) with the /statuses/show method on a specific status ID: n° 2490912395. The problem is occurring since 2009-07-06 03:16:11 UTC. Could you

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug? 200 Http Code + Empty answer with Status/Show on a specific Status ID

2009-07-07 Thread Abraham Williams
I just pulled it unauthenticated and it worked fine. It was probably just a temporary Twitter bug. https://twitter.com/statuses/show/2490912395.xml Abraham On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 07:59, Arnaud Meunier arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.comwrote: Anybody experiencing the same problem? On Jul 6, 2:32

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-07 Thread Abraham Williams
There is no way to turn URL shortening off. Two ways you could handle this though are: 1) Keep the URLs short enough that Twitter does not turn them into bitly links. I don't think the exact size/composition is published so you would have to experiment to see where that line is. 2) Shorten it

[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count

2009-07-07 Thread Idan Gazit
Hey Chris, Not that I doubt you (I saw your earlier thread on the subject) -- I just want to hear it from the mouths of the twitter devs themselves. Hey devs, throw us a bone! :) -I On Jul 7, 3:41 pm, Chris Prakoso brajamu...@gmail.com wrote: So far, according to my test, that is the case.

[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Prakoso
No problem. Yes, a confirmation would be good. If I could just written-off all users in the delta as suspended, it would save me a lot of API calls. Chris On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Idan Gazit i...@pixane.com wrote: Hey Chris, Not that I doubt you (I saw your earlier thread on the

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug? 200 Http Code + Empty answer with Status/Show on a specific Status ID

2009-07-07 Thread Arnaud Meunier
The bug is only occuring in JSON format. Try this : https://twitter.com/statuses/show/2490912395.json I made tests with both Authenticated (HTTP Basic OAuth) and UnAuthenticated requests. It still doesn't work. Arnaud. On Jul 7, 3:04 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I just

[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count

2009-07-07 Thread Damon Clinkscales
Alternatively, an explanation of why the followers/ids total count differs from that of users/show would be terribly interesting. It used to be the case (at least when the feature first launched) that some folks, particularly those who have large follower lists, had duplicate ids in the

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-07 Thread infopete
Thanks for the hint. It looks like I get get this much in http://www.infonote.com/tw?1234567890123 before it gets converted to bit.ly I'll look into compression algorithms to see what I can do. On 7 July, 14:11, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There is no way to turn URL

[twitter-dev] Deletion page in Firefox 3.5

2009-07-07 Thread Mike
As can be seen in the screenshot, the numbers on the page where you can delete your Twitter-account aren't correctly aligned in Firefox 3.5. Screenshot: http://i32.tinypic.com/21bt3p.png

[twitter-dev] Re: Deletion page in Firefox 3.5

2009-07-07 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Mike, I opened a ticket for out front end team. Thanks for the bug report. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Mike wrote: As can be seen in the screenshot, the numbers on the page where you can delete your Twitter-account aren't

[twitter-dev] Re: API to find users based on email

2009-07-07 Thread Abraham Williams
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=353 Abraham On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:13, David dors...@topofmind.com wrote: I have been digging around the API documentation all day and cannot really find how to do this. I would like my app to be able to browse our users contacts and

[twitter-dev] API to find users based on email

2009-07-07 Thread David
I have been digging around the API documentation all day and cannot really find how to do this. I would like my app to be able to browse our users contacts and find matching users in Twitter (much like twitters main site does with google, yahoo, and aol). What methods would I use to do that?

[twitter-dev] Problem with search api. BUG?

2009-07-07 Thread xabi
Hi there: I'm trying to do a search like this: curl -i http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=txcomptroller; and I get this: -- 8 8 - link type=text/html rel=alternate href=http://twitter.com/ SanAngeloEcoDev/statuses/2516021916/

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug? 200 Http Code + Empty answer with Status/Show on a specific Status ID

2009-07-07 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Another example of a status affected by this bug: https://twitter.com/statuses/show/2514621302.json Once more, only JSON format seems to be failing. Arnaud. On Jul 7, 4:21 pm, Arnaud Meunier arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.com wrote: The bug is only occuring in JSON format. Try this :

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug? 200 Http Code + Empty answer with Status/Show on a specific Status ID

2009-07-07 Thread JDG
Seems like you should be opening a bug. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:31, Arnaud Meunier arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.comwrote: Another example of a status affected by this bug: https://twitter.com/statuses/show/2514621302.json Once more, only JSON format seems to be failing. Arnaud. On Jul 7,

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem with search api. BUG?

2009-07-07 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, The issue here is that the status is over 140 characters so it is truncated. You can see the same on http://twitter.com/SanAngeloEcoDev, where the tweets ends in ... and only the direct status page includes the truncated section. This is something Twitter used to support

[twitter-dev] Re: Bug? 200 Http Code + Empty answer with Status/Show on a specific Status ID

2009-07-07 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Just did it: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=797 On Jul 7, 6:38 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like you should be opening a bug. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:31, Arnaud Meunier arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.comwrote: Another example of a status affected by this

[twitter-dev] Help with twitter profile.

2009-07-07 Thread Slicey
Basically I am trying to make a site where a user come to the site, types in their username, song title, artist title, and uploads a song, this then gets stored in a database along with a random generated code. What I am trying to do is make a twitter clone page of the users profile. eg. if a

[twitter-dev] Re: Stream API : Tracker

2009-07-07 Thread John Kalucki
A fix for this issue will be deployed this afternoon, PDT. -John Kalucki Services, Twitter inc. On Jul 6, 12:21 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: The documentation is incorrect. But, instead of fixing the documentation, it's reasonable to fix the code. For the time being, you'll

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Code Change Required: follow parameter delimiter

2009-07-07 Thread John Kalucki
A reminder: Support for space separated track and follow lists will be dropped in this afternoon's Streaming API deploy. Only comma separated lists will be accepted. On Jun 12, 11:53 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: The follow post parameter now takes acommaseparated list of userids

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-07 Thread Brian Smith
Infopete wrote: It looks like I get get this much in http://www.infonote.com/tw?1234567890123 before it gets converted to bit.ly Try removing the ?. Some people have already researched the circumstances under which URLs get shortened vs. left alone. IIRC, one requirement is that all

[twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls

2009-07-07 Thread Chad Etzel
Yes, length is considered (I think 24 characters is a number I've heard somewhere). Also, I've heard Al3x say that URL format is also considered. I'm not exactly sure what that entails, but I would guess that some query string characters would make it a candidate for shortening. The best bet is

[twitter-dev] from: modifier doesn't work when searching for hashtags

2009-07-07 Thread d...@daveboden.com
The from: operator successfully filters out posts from the user @RetweetTestRecv when looking for posts with RetweetTestRecv in the text. Here's the search string and corresponding URL: -from:RetweetTestRecv RetweetTestRecv http://search.twitter.com/search?q=-from:RetweetTestRecv+RetweetTestRecv

[twitter-dev] Re: from: modifier doesn't work when searching for hashtags

2009-07-07 Thread Abraham Williams
I get the same results for both links. Abraham On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 14:57, d...@daveboden.com d...@daveboden.com wrote: The from: operator successfully filters out posts from the user @RetweetTestRecv when looking for posts with RetweetTestRecv in the text. Here's the search string and

[twitter-dev] Re: from: modifier doesn't work when searching for hashtags

2009-07-07 Thread Chad Etzel
Ditto. I don't see any problem. -Chad On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Abraham Williams4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I get the same results for both links. Abraham On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 14:57, d...@daveboden.com d...@daveboden.com wrote: The from: operator successfully filters out posts from

[twitter-dev] Re: from: modifier doesn't work when searching for hashtags

2009-07-07 Thread d...@daveboden.com
Thanks for your replies. I now also see the results I'd expect. Just to prove I'm not completely loopy, here's a screenshot of what I was seeing. You can see all the requests from user RetweetTestRecv included in the results there. When I hit refresh on the browser, it changed to being good

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API -- Code Change Required: follow parameter delimiter

2009-07-07 Thread Cary Knoop
A prelude to perhaps allowing searching for phrases at a later time? Certainly something that many would find useful and would effectively limit the stream sent over the wires. For instance, at this time, if I would want to capture the phrase Joe Jackson I have to search for the keyword Jackson

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

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
So i'm seeing a ton of tweet spam that appends the trending topics to the tweet. For example, Hey here is my http://spam/1234 Michael Jackson MJ iran They get picked up by searches ( for instance see the search stock market at http://www.tweettronics.com ) What is Twitter doing or planning on

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

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Payne
Anyone can send a Direct Message to @spam with the username of a potential spammer. We factor those reports into our automated spam detection tools. We're well aware of the issue, and we appreciate the help. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 15:41, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.comwrote: So

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

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Denton
Also, you could filer this out on your side. If you have the trending topics on hand, you could write the same rule to eradicate spammy posts. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: So i'm seeing a ton of tweet spam that appends the trending topics

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

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
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 of our own... And obviously you're dealing with spam of different kinds already: @spamming, follower spamming to name two of em... but can you speak to

[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 Doug Williams
The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our abuse support staff at the moment. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? Zac Bowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey

[twitter-dev] catching up with gardenhose

2009-07-07 Thread braver
We've lost gardenhose data 6/28-7/7, if anybody could share it we'd appreciate it very much! I'm @khrabrov, authorized for it. Cheers, Alexy

[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: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Terry Jones
Zac Good to know before I started spamming @spam with my own log data. Right. When Twitter becomes a religion, I'm sure they'll set up an account where apps can go to confess that they're spammers. Until then you'll have to wait :-) Terry

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

2009-07-07 Thread Vinayak Joshi
abuse support - ha ha. just imagine - Q: What do you do? A: I support abuses at twitter. I am sorry this is slightly off topic but I could not resist Cheers On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Doug Williamsd...@twitter.com wrote: The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our

[twitter-dev] Twitter Live Event Beaming

2009-07-07 Thread Juslin Guo
Dear All, I not sure if this is the place to ask this question. May i check does anyone know of a full-screen application/flash app/web-apps that allow me to beam on a projector/led screen live updates from twitter. I have an event where we would like to let the stadium audience twitter in.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Live Event Beaming

2009-07-07 Thread Howard Siegel
Presumably you are going to use a hashtag for the tweets you want to display. If so, any twitter client that lets you track tweets with your hashtag in real time would work for you. - h On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 20:25, Juslin Guo juslin...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I not sure if this is the

[twitter-dev] Whitelist Limits

2009-07-07 Thread whoiskb
From what I can tell, the white list limits are 20,000 calls per hour. I am curious if any app out there has come close to hitting that limit yet, and if so could you provide some usage details about your application? I am trying to make a decision about creating a single user desktop app vs a

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

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Paladino
I'm not sure if this will help in your scenario or not, but a couple of third-party products have been released recently aimed at helping to solve this problem. One is a Firefox plugin called Clean Tweets ( http://www.blvdstatus.com/clean-tweets.html) that works directly with the search results

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Live Event Beaming

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Paladino
http://visibletweets.com provides pretty impressive visualization of tweets based on a search phrase. Michael Paladino http://tidytweet.com On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Juslin Guo juslin...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I not sure if this is the place to ask this question. May i check

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Live Event Beaming

2009-07-07 Thread Christopher St John
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Juslin Guojuslin...@gmail.com wrote: I not sure if this is the place to ask this question. May i check does anyone know of a full-screen application/flash app/web-apps that allow me to beam on a projector/led screen live updates from twitter. I have an event