[twitter-dev] Re: Weird oAuth behavior

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
Are you passing a callback_url parameter when you retrieve the request token? On Aug 8, 8:56 pm, Andy andyarn...@gmail.com wrote: My web app now thinks it's a desktop app and gives me a numeric code. I've tried switching the setting from one to the other, and then back again to see if that

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 8, 6:33 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: However, I would hope that Twitter engineers are all in force at the office on a day like this to solve this issue and get our applications back up and running, regardless of whether it is Saturday, Sunday, or Christmas Day. I

[twitter-dev] Re: PubSubHubbub and Twitter RSS

2009-08-09 Thread John Kalucki
Jesse, I've looked into PubSubHubHub, as have others at Twitter. It's not on our roadmap, because the Streaming API meets most of our developers' real-time and push needs. There are holes, to be sure, and we have features on the roadmap to plug those holes as priority and schedules permit. But,

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread chinaski007
You're wrong. If you check the tweets of the other main Twitter developers, you will see that they are doing sushi, rock concerts, weddings, watching movies on Saturday afternoon, etc. And while getting married is certainly a legitimate excuse, some of the other activities, during this major

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 9, 2:28 am, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: You're wrong. If you check the tweets of the other main Twitter developers, you will see that they are doing sushi, rock concerts, weddings, watching movies on Saturday afternoon, etc.  And while getting married is certainly a

[twitter-dev] Re: ASP .NET Development Issue w/OAuth Callback Parameter

2009-08-09 Thread mistermaxx
So, uh...anybody got any working ASP.Net/VB.Net oAuth code that they don't mind posting? Help a brother out?

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread chinaski007
And, by the way, if you're a deckhand on a submarine going down, you think you would go to a movie because it's your time off, or do whatever you can to help out? On Aug 8, 11:47 pm, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: Part of it is DDOS response, part of it is API issues... as one of the

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Part of it is DDOS response, part of it is API issues... as one of the updates most recently noted with the known issues list. And, by the way, if you're a deckhand on a submarine going down, you think you would go to a movie because it's your time off, or do whatever you can to help out?

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread chinaski007
Yep, for sure. And maybe the rash of new 200 errors, and OAuth errors, etc, are not under the purview of API (though I would doubt it). But, at the very least, it's over another, what, 48 hours since the last official update. And those developer updates are presumably the responsibility of

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 9, 2:51 am, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: And, by the way, if you're a deckhand on a submarine going down, you think you would go to a movie because it's your time off, or do whatever you can to help out? Submarines are supposed to go down. And I don't think you can really

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 9, 3:03 am, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, for sure.  And maybe the rash of new 200 errors I remember seeing 200 errors somewhere, but I didn't read the details. 200 means status okay, what's the indication of error? But WHO in API is day on to communicate with us?

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread chinaski007
My point was that my browsing of the tweetstreams of the Twitter engineers I am familiar with, ops and otherwise, reveals another normal weekend, with all the loveliness that the Bay Area has to offer... and while there may be a bunch of Keebler elves drinking coffee and working hard, I don't

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread chinaski007
See here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/acdcb4baf76037c8/d5f4d4204b65d617#d5f4d4204b65d617 On Aug 9, 12:17 am, Bill Kocik bko...@gmail.com wrote: I remember seeing 200 errors somewhere, but I didn't read the details. 200 means status okay,

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Peter Denton
Ok, I think everyone sees your point, chinasky. On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:26 AM, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: See here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/acdcb4baf76037c8/d5f4d4204b65d617#d5f4d4204b65d617 On Aug 9, 12:17 am, Bill

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi There, First, in my own defense, I feel that my original part-time/day off statement was misconstrued. I was trying to make that point that even though I am way over my hours on my contract, I still monitored the situation all day from both sides (dev list and internal ops information). I

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 9, 3:19 am, chinaski007 chinaski...@gmail.com wrote: My point was that my browsing of the tweetstreams of the Twitter engineers I am familiar with, ops and otherwise, reveals another normal weekend, with all the loveliness that the Bay Area has to offer... and while there may be a

[twitter-dev] 200 errors

2009-08-09 Thread Chris Babcock
This is what the 200 response is looking like: [u...@cl-t090-563cl bin]$ time curl -Lsim 10 http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml HTTP/1.0 200 OK Connection: Close Pragma: no-cache cache-control: no-cache Refresh: 0.1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread chinaski007
Chad, you'd definitely be captain of my sinking submarine! ;) On Aug 9, 12:33 am, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi There, First, in my own defense, I feel that my original part-time/day off statement was misconstrued. I was trying to make that point that even though I am way over

[twitter-dev] Status Update: 8/9 12:51 AM PDT

2009-08-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, While it is not strictly API related, I figured I would tell you an update has been made to: http://status.twitter.com/post/157979213/restoring-api-and-sms ...stating that the ability to update via SMS should now be restored. Hopefully this will show you that Ops is making positive

[twitter-dev] Re: ASP .NET Development Issue w/OAuth Callback Parameter

2009-08-09 Thread Andrew Badera
DotNetOpenAuth On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:18 AM, mistermaxx misterm...@comcast.net wrote: So, uh...anybody got any working ASP.Net/VB.Net oAuth code that they don't mind posting? Help a brother out?

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick poll: Can anyone do anything on twitter.com?

2009-08-09 Thread avail4one
Did you try Internet Explorer? On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:22 AM, dean.j.robinson dean.j.robin...@gmail.comwrote: 99.9% of login attempts simply don't work at all in Firefox 3.5, they just redirects to blank https://twitter.com/sessions page If by some fluke it does actually login I can't

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread avail4one
I think it's ok to go for it, what does everyone else think? On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, This is probably a very dumb question, but I thought I'd ask it anyway. I run http://favstar.fm, and I can't call the API more than 60 or so times

[twitter-dev] Working or not work - is it lib dependent?

2009-08-09 Thread Tim Haines
Hey guys, I'm not sure if it would be useful or not - but some 3rd party apps are unaffected, and some are. For me, I can get 60 - 100 requests out before the API stops responding for an hour or so. (I've not measured the hour - it might be a bit shorter or longer). The 60 - 100 calls are

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick poll: Can anyone do anything on twitter.com?

2009-08-09 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:22 AM, dean.j.robinson dean.j.robin...@gmail.comwrote: 99.9% of login attempts simply don't work at all in Firefox 3.5, they just redirects to blank https://twitter.com/sessions page If by some fluke it does actually login I can't logout to change accounts. Logins

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Update: 8/9 12:51 AM PDT

2009-08-09 Thread Tim Haines
Thanks Chad - message appreciated. I would have missed an update to the third most recent post.. On Aug 9, 7:53 pm, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Hi all, While it is not strictly API related, I figured I would tell you an update has been made

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread Abraham Williams
I'm going to say it is a good way to get your app/IP permanently banned from Twitter. Abraham 2009/8/9 avail4one avail4...@gmail.com I think it's ok to go for it, what does everyone else think? On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, This is

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread Tim Haines
That's probably what I would have said if the question was posed to me too. Or maybe ask twitter, but likely not. Hence the dumb question warning. Tim. On Aug 9, 8:25 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to say it is a good way to get your app/IP permanently banned from

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Update: 8/9 12:51 AM PDT

2009-08-09 Thread Rich
Thanks for the update Chad... any news on oAuth, I've not had a single successful auth using mobile safari since Friday On Aug 9, 9:25 am, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Chad - message appreciated.  I would have missed an update to the third most recent post.. On Aug 9, 7:53 pm,

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread avail4one
hmmm, maybe. i honestly wasn't trying to suggest a 'bad idea' was actually good, but i was just reading through recent messages, trying to make some sense out of it all, and realized that I first heard of twitter pretty early on a radio broadcast. that was mostly an advertisement. twitter was

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Sandro Ducceschi
I can't believe all of you people. The API is a free service and if it's down or not working for a while, you just sit down and take it like a grown up instead of complaining and demanding that they send in all forces on a weekend. Some people do have lifes outside of twitter i heard being

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Kinlan
Sandros, I think you are very mistaken, I would say the same if Twitter wasn't running a business based off of growing their base using a Free API, Twitter chose to have a free API and it is supported as such, no guarantees or warranties - however that isn't the point - the Free API is the

[twitter-dev] Re: Time out to twitter.com

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/8/09 9:13 AM, pmduque wrote: Requests fro our IP are getting time out. Even a telnet to twitter port 80 gets time out, although http request to other sites work perfectly. Anyone else with that problem? Yes, been experiencing this problem since the DDoS attack started. :-( -- Dossy

[twitter-dev] OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Joe Bowman
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Twitter in any way, other than as a consumer of their API and a user of their product. Currently, my app running on appengine is having the same difficulty as many of you. There's a lot of false statements and accusations being made against the Twitter folk

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Stuart
Too bloody right! -Stuart On 9 Aug 2009, at 15:00, Joe Bowman bowman.jos...@gmail.com wrote: Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Twitter in any way, other than as a consumer of their API and a user of their product. Currently, my app running on appengine is having the same difficulty as

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
There's a lot of false statements and accusations being made against the Twitter folk right now. These are being made by unhappy people who's products that rely on Twitter aren't working, and don't understand what's going on. Well put. -- personal:

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Would it be okay to start taking a peek at some of the more popular user's pages on twitter.com, and crawl their favorites from there rather than using the api? I guess this assumes my IP wouldn't get blocked as it seems to be by the API. I'm going to say it is a good way to get

[twitter-dev] Website Problems

2009-08-09 Thread César Filho
Hello. I still can't post using Twitter website, can't import contacts to find friends and can't use OAuth. DDoS effects or bugs? I use Linux and Firefox 3.5. Thanks in advance. César Filho

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick poll: Can anyone do anything on twitter.com?

2009-08-09 Thread Jelle De Laender
Well, To be honest. I don't experience any problems. I can login on Twitter.com via Safari 3 (Mac), I can post tweets, I can read tweets from my friends, I can search I cannot change my profile-picture (results in a 'Bad Request') I also use Tweetie. The Mac-app. This app works perfect with 2

[twitter-dev] Re: Continuous oAuth Issues

2009-08-09 Thread gumbah
Same here... good think our app is only in very early beta... On Aug 8, 3:37 pm, Pek wushup...@gmail.com wrote: My app is still experiencing OAuth issues. I've cleared all cookies, and am on FF 3.5.2 Also, my app is no longer able to send out tweets. How can we fix this?

[twitter-dev] Re: DDoS update: Friday 8PM PDT

2009-08-09 Thread Steve Andaz
Whilst i understand your working on fixing the problem, what i dont understand is how come its taking so long. . . . Over the past 18 months with the extensive popularity of twitter shouldnt you have invested in the security used by other social networking sites? Afterall,some of them were

[twitter-dev] Re: Working or not work - is it lib dependent?

2009-08-09 Thread Visibility Extremist
Hi Tim I've found I can use tweetspinner I just have to do the clicking for them, it is just automated stuff that is stopped. Simon

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread shiplu
I guess if you crawl like a crawler It should be okay otherwise how a newly developed spider would work. But if you crawl like a scraper you'll be banned. But I am not sure if Twitter can differentiate between them. I mean the request pattern. Does twitter check it? -- A K M Mokaddim

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/9/09 1:58 AM, chinaski007 wrote: Too, while we may love programming, many of us do this sort of thing as our primary means of surviving and paying the mortgage. Here's some free business consulting for you: DON'T BUILD YOUR PRIMARY BUSINESS ON TOP OF TWITTER. Like it even needed to be

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/9/09 2:42 AM, Bill Kocik wrote: Oh...I get it, you think that the developers are the right people to handle a DDoS attack. I'm afraid I have some bad news for you: you're wrong. So, wait, you believe that Ops people are writing code and putting it in place in an emergency to defend

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick poll: Can anyone do anything on twitter.com?

2009-08-09 Thread shiplu
I can login and tweet. But I cannot register new Application. :( When submit the application credentials the screen goes blank. And I cannot create new twitter account too. I have been trying for 3/4 days. None of these works. -- A K M Mokaddim http://talk.cmyweb.net http://twitter.com/shiplu

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I guess if you crawl like a crawler It should be okay otherwise how a newly developed spider would work. But if you crawl like a scraper you'll be banned. But I am not sure if Twitter can differentiate between them. I mean the request pattern. Does twitter check it? I'm sure they have ways

FW: [twitter-dev] Re: [Feature Request] Hiding certain Hashtags

2009-08-09 Thread Dean Collins
Hi Georg, you might like to check out www.LiveFootballChat.com after Sept 10th then. It's going to be the same as www.LiveBaseballChat.com Regards, Dean Collins Live Chat Concepts Inc d...@livechatconcepts.com +1-212-203-4357   New York +61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6001

[twitter-dev] NO API CONNECTION, BUT STILL FULLY BLOCKED

2009-08-09 Thread chuckblakeman
For what it's worth. I am a Twitter use who does not use TweetDeck, TweetLater, or any other 3rd party software doing API calls to Twitter. I use Twitter directly without any connection to other API calls. Since Wednesday I have not been able to use any Twitter functions and as of Friday

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick poll: Can anyone do anything on twitter.com?

2009-08-09 Thread narendra
No, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 on mac can not login or logout. FF 3.5 can not post, favorite, etc. When is this going to be fixed?

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Why is it important that staff members from all departments need to be at the office during issues like these? If not for anything else, it is important for internal communication and coordination, and for efficient management of the issue. Take the spate of META REFRESH issues that have come

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick poll: Can anyone do anything on twitter.com?

2009-08-09 Thread jcmeloni
Like Jelle De Laender above, I also have not experienced the problems everyone else is having (and I feel a little bad about it). I can do everything via the web interface using FF 3.5.2 on Vista, and the twhirl app I use as primary desktop client also performs all its functions normally. note:

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
And just to add, managing the issue in that manner also facilitates external communications. Then regular status updates can be crafted, and approved by senior management, to go out to all affected parties including the developer community. And Chad won't have to run around like crazy trying to

[twitter-dev] Re: [Feature Request] Hiding certain Hashtags

2009-08-09 Thread Shannon Clark
And this illustrates in part why hashtags filtering won't achieve exactly what might be expected. ie US based tweets about Football likely start rising right about now as training camps open and end around the Super Bowl in Feb. But the rest of the English speaking world would tweet about

[twitter-dev] Re: [Feature Request] Hiding certain Hashtags

2009-08-09 Thread Dean Collins
Lol yepyou could tweet about #MLS ...but no one in the USA apart from 20-30 people would know what you are talking about...ha ha. And yes we already own www.LIveMLSchat.com though who knows if we are ever going to deploy it. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net

[twitter-dev] Re: PubSubHubbub and Twitter RSS

2009-08-09 Thread Jesse Stay
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:23 AM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: There also may be some interesting scaling issues with a Request- Response push mechanism that are avoided with a streaming approach. We'd need quite a farm of threads to have sufficient outbound throughput against the RTT

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread CaMason
it's a clear message to us in the third-party ecosystem that we'd better not make them our primary focus because we can't rely on them being here tomorrow if things get really bad. Surely, that's a wise move anyway, considering Twitter is a third- party supplier of free data. All of us app

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I guess if you crawl like a crawler It should be okay otherwise how a newly developed spider would work. But if you crawl like a scraper you'll be banned. But I am not sure if Twitter can differentiate between

[twitter-dev] ids fails most frequently

2009-08-09 Thread djc8080
During the DDOS attack, the Twitter ids fails the most - returning nothing. Statuses, friends, and followers calls can also fail, returning random/ incorrect error messages; but less frequently. Update calls seem to be ok. FYI

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API is unresponsive, can we crawl the twitter.com website?

2009-08-09 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, If you crawl and/or scrape the site, your IP(s) will be blackholed indefinitely. We do check for this behavior and identify it. -Chad On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Cameron Kaiserspec...@floodgap.com wrote: Would it be okay to start taking a peek at some of the more popular

[twitter-dev] Re: Can Twitter team Respond?

2009-08-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I wonder how many times this weekend has Chad heard, FO, we're busy, when he tried to get a status update for us. On Aug 9, 1:42 pm, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Good luck. On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Jacob yac...@gmail.com wrote: I have thousands of people coming to my

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Stuart
On 9 Aug 2009, at 16:35, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 8/9/09 10:00 AM, Joe Bowman wrote: First off, to people stating that Twitter Ops needs to work 30 hour shifts, and any ops person who hasn't, isn't a real ops person. A real ops person knows that after about 15 hours

[twitter-dev] Re: PubSubHubbub and Twitter RSS

2009-08-09 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: I know Twitter has bigger priorities, so if you can put this on your to think about list for after the DDoS problems are taken care of, I'd appreciate it. Perhaps this question is for John since it has to do with

[twitter-dev] Basic Authentication is down again on our site

2009-08-09 Thread Sean Callahan
Hi Guys, After the original DDoS attack our service, TweetPhoto.com, was blocked. After communicating my IP addresses an waiting about 48 hours it vegan working Friday afternoon. All of a sudden yesterday afternooon no one could login to our site. I wonder why our site was restored Friday in

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Terry Jones
Stuart == Stuart stut...@gmail.com writes: Stuart * I can't believe you lot don't realise that constantly demanding Stuart status updates, while certainly important to you, is little more Stuart than a distraction for those who are actually fighting the good Stuart fight. I woke up this

[twitter-dev] Re: PubSubHubbub and Twitter RSS

2009-08-09 Thread Jesse Stay
Just so I'm clear, my suggestion on PubSubHubbub isn't meant to be a complaint. I'm hoping it at least starts a worthy and constructive discussion on standards-based real time distribution. I'm hoping I'm being constructive here - I'd like to see Twitter survive the next DDoS, and I'd also like

[twitter-dev] Something we CAN do

2009-08-09 Thread Jesse Stay
I got thinking about the whole DDoS situation, and while I certainly have my own opinions around all of this, there's nothing I can do about it. What I can do though is figure out ways I can improve the systems I'm working in. The place I think this starts is in our own Twitter libraries we work

[twitter-dev] Twitter Update, 8/9 10am PST

2009-08-09 Thread Ryan Sarver
I wanted to send an update to everyone who is monitoring this thread and keep you abreast of where we stand. First of all, the attack is still on going. We continue to work with our service provider and the other companies who are being attacked to resolve the issue as best we can. But it is

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I handle 302 redirects with curl?

2009-08-09 Thread Naveen Ayyagari
I see this behavior 1/4 times I call rate_limit_status and I call rate_limit_status every 5 minutes.. On Aug 8, 2009, at 9:01 PM, CaMason wrote: To confirm, I am also seeing this behaviour. Some output I've received on numerous occasions this evening: -bash-3.2# curl --interface eth0

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Adam Cloud
***Scenario*** A band broadcasts their music on a radio station all the time, and people are able to freely tune into it, or go buy their music. They go and play in a city park for free every day just because it's a much nicer experience for the listener then to be just sitting at home listening

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 10am PST

2009-08-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
On Aug 9, 2:34 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: I will continue to give ongoing updates every 5-6 hours throughout the day even if nothing has changed so that you know we are still focused on it. Now THAT'S what we're talking about! Thank you Ryan. It may not seem important to busy

[twitter-dev] Re: Something we CAN do

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 9, 1:07 pm, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really surprised at all the people having issues with 30* redirects when it's an HTTP standard in the first place. Don't be so quick to judge - Twitter's been sending 302's with a Location header that specifies a relative URL,

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Neil Ellis
Nice story Adam, however the band are actually trying to run a business, not doing this for love/free. I can assure you the investors in Twitter will be looking to turn profit. Of course if the band are laid up then the danger is the hotdog man (and all his customers) will go to another

[twitter-dev] Re: NO API CONNECTION, BUT STILL FULLY BLOCKED

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
They haven't overreacted. If you think you can do better, then apply for a job with them. Have you tried your account from multiple IP blocks? They have faced a crushing attack. They are working on it and they have worked hard to communicate with us the status of things. Anyone that was around

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 10am PST

2009-08-09 Thread Duane Roelands
When calling http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml via OAuth (no id passed, looking for information on the authenticated user), I am seeing this response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? statuses type=array / statuses Not sure if that's in the list of things being monitored, but there

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
I'm disgusted by you guys. Were any of you around in 2007 when Twitter was down nonstop? Did you bitch and moan as much then? You're acting like children. The reason they are still facing issues is because of the DDoS. Oh, and they are still also coping with scaling overall and astronomical

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I handle 302 redirects with curl?

2009-08-09 Thread Rich
The one client we are having the most issues with is simple a timeline / DM checker for iPhone push notifications... because these are ALL get request I'ved made sure that they all have the follow location enabled now. Just oAuth and random blocking/rate limiting that I hope they work on next

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
A few of you are acting like real children and a few of you still have your heads screwed on right. I'm confident they are doing everything they can. Chill and enjoy your weekend. They'll get it sorted out. What did you guys do in 2007? Twitter was down all the time then. Your blood pressure

[twitter-dev] Re: Can Twitter team Respond?

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
It will be fixed when it is. Stop complaining. We're all in the same boat. The ETA is when its done. dave On Aug 9, 1:08 pm, freefall tehgame...@googlemail.com wrote: Decentralisation. On Aug 9, 5:47 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder how many times this weekend has

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 10am PST

2009-08-09 Thread Naveen Ayyagari
1. OAuth rarely works - I tried a number of your apps and it seems to work 1 out of 6-7 times. As a note, it worked better with Safari, but not every time. -Not applicable 2. 302 redirect - not sure anymore since our code has been updated to follow them automatically. 3.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 10am PST

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Kinlan
Not to mention that http://search.twitter.com still appears to be completly blocked from the app engine. Paul 2009/8/9 Naveen Ayyagari knig...@gmail.com 1. OAuth rarely works - I tried a number of your apps and it seems to work 1 out of 6-7 times. As a note, it worked better with Safari,

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 10am PST

2009-08-09 Thread Jonathan Joyce (Storm ID)
Hi Ryan, Some details from my perspective... 1. OAuth rarely works - I tried a number of your apps and it seems to work 1 out of 6-7 times. As a note, it worked better with Safari, but not every time. Sporadic all day today. At its worst I'd agree that about 1 in 7 succeeds, but it

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Sean Callahan
Agree with what you said. Very well put. It is affecting most all of us. Our photo sharing service (TweetPhoto) is tied into 20 apps whose users aren't able to upload photo onto our platform. I've communicated by adding an alert to our homepage about the issues which broadcasts the message and

[twitter-dev] RE: API originated posts not showing up in search

2009-08-09 Thread Dean Collins
Hmmm just realized Twitter posts via the API from www.LiveBaseballChat.com aren't showing up in the twitter search stream. So anything with #Twins or #Tigers from @LBBchat is showing up in the profile http://twitter.com/LBBChat BUT NOT appearing in http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tigers

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Sean Callahan seancalla...@gmail.comwrote: Agree with what you said. Very well put. It is affecting most all of us. Our photo sharing service (TweetPhoto) is tied into 20 apps whose users aren't able to upload photo onto our platform. I've communicated by

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/9/09 12:47 PM, Stuart wrote: * I can't believe you lot don't realise that constantly demanding status updates, while certainly important to you, is little more than a distraction for those who are actually fighting the good fight. I hear there's this popular service that makes it easy to

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Dean Collins
On 8/9/09 12:47 PM, Stuart wrote: * I can't believe you lot don't realise that constantly demanding status updates, while certainly important to you, is little more than a distraction for those who are actually fighting the good fight. Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com |

[twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
I remember another service that used to have constant problems due to their astronomical growth ... what was it called? Oh, yeah, Friendster. What ever happened to them? Oh, there was also a service that became wildly popular and grew faster than it could handle ... remember playing a

[twitter-dev] Re: NO API CONNECTION, BUT STILL FULLY BLOCKED

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/9/09 1:53 PM, David Fisher wrote: Anyone that was around in 2006/2007 knows that Twitter was excessively unstable then, and people didn't whine/complain as much. Sure we did, there were just fewer of us at the time. Weren't you around in 2006/2007? Perhaps you have a short memory

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 10am PST

2009-08-09 Thread Beier
Appreciate your updates Ryan, here are the issue we are still experiencing at HootSuite 1. 302 redirect. We still have to follow redirects in order to retrieve proper contents, but not a big deal 2. Rate Limiting. All of our server IPs (supposed to be whitelisted) are bound with 150 limit 3.

[twitter-dev] Twitter Update, 8/9 noon PST

2009-08-09 Thread Ryan Sarver
*Finally* have what we hope is good news for everyone. As of about 10 minutes ago we have been able to restore critical parts of API operation that should have great affect on your apps. As such, most of your apps should begin to function normally again. I have tested a few OAuth apps and they

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Neil Ellis
What did you guys do in 2007? Twitter was down all the time then. Your blood pressure must have been through the roof with weekly visits to a shrink if you responded this way every time it went down. How many people had bet their business/livelihood on Twitter in 2007? Compassion all-round

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 noon PST

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kocik
On Aug 9, 3:13 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Please test your apps from their standard configs to see what results you get and let us know. I am primarily interested in unexpected throttling and issues with OAuth. OAuth appears to be working for my app. Thanks!

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 noon PST

2009-08-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
Thank you for the good news, Ryan. It looks like Twitter Karma is starting to work again, too. On 8/9/09 3:13 PM, Ryan Sarver wrote: *Finally* have what we hope is good news for everyone. As of about 10 minutes ago we have been able to restore critical parts of API operation that should

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 noon PST

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Kinlan
OAuth, Search and the friendship methods are working for me... Paul 2009/8/9 Bill Kocik bko...@gmail.com On Aug 9, 3:13 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Please test your apps from their standard configs to see what results you get and let us know. I am primarily interested in

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 noon PST

2009-08-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ryan, Are there any new requirements we have to comply with for calls to the Search API? I presume we have to handle 302s there as well? Anything else? Dewald On Aug 9, 4:32 pm, Paul Kinlan paul.kin...@gmail.com wrote: OAuth, Search and the friendship methods are working for me... Paul

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
It is like a surreal tech soap opera on this list though :-) Hey maybe I could pitch this to Fox . All the best Neil DO IT! Maybe Twitter would have made a good reality show. Lots of super-dramatic angles and queues pointing at sysadmins typing at a console. :) The mailing list would

[twitter-dev] Re: NO API CONNECTION, BUT STILL FULLY BLOCKED

2009-08-09 Thread David Fisher
Yea, and we all threatened to go to Pownce. That didn't go so well (seeing that Pownce is now dead) dave On Aug 9, 3:05 pm, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: On 8/9/09 1:53 PM, David Fisher wrote: Anyone that was around in 2006/2007 knows that Twitter was excessively unstable then,

[twitter-dev] Re: How do I handle 302 redirects with curl?

2009-08-09 Thread TjL
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Chad Etzelc...@twitter.com wrote: You may have to follow redirects more than once *wink wink nudge nudge* with curl you can add --location flag. There's a good bit of info in the man page as well. So instead of doing curl --netrc -s -D -

[twitter-dev] Re: OK Seriously People

2009-08-09 Thread Neil Ellis
Well there was the Twitter TV program, maybe this is it. Maybe we're in a Borat style movie already ;-) I think it should be in the style of 24 : I can see it now, clock counting down - Jack Bauer torturing sysadmin; developers being exposed as double agents oh the intrigue :-) Of

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Update, 8/9 noon PST

2009-08-09 Thread Naveen Ayyagari
Most calls seem to be working much better for us. in response to the rate_limit_status call, I get HTML back occasionally.. looks like the fail whale page and 502 twitter over capacity.. Got this one about 10 min ago. 08-09-09 19:40:15rate_limit_status response(502): !DOCTYPE html

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