[twitter-dev] Re: Authentication required for Twitter REST API Method: trends available

2009-11-10 Thread Rich
Thank Raffi Can it have a coming soon tag too it like the ReTweet documents. However I notice that home_timeline still has coming soon and that has been available for sometime. On Nov 9, 10:33 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: hi all . i really do apologise if it wasn't clear --

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread bob.hitching
hi raffi, this is great. +1 on being about to query trends by lat, lng, radius (or using a bounding box spatial query) this might help what i am doing with GeoMeme - http://www.geome.me which currently uses the Yahoo Term Extraction API to work out trending topics at *any* lat / lng position.

[twitter-dev] Re: Authentication required for Twitter REST API Method: trends available

2009-11-10 Thread Raffi Krikorian
whoops! good catch! i had a [COMING SOON] on the index page of the wiki, but not on the individual pages. corrected! Thank Raffi Can it have a coming soon tag too it like the ReTweet documents. However I notice that home_timeline still has coming soon and that has been available for

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different

2009-11-10 Thread cadams500
I''m not sure if it's related or not... but I had a very similar problem with following users for non-list based items. In fact, even when I would add new users synchronously, I had to put a sleep in there of a few seconds. If I didn't sleep between follow calls, the account would reflect that I

[twitter-dev] Re: Time zone support

2009-11-10 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Emrah e...@ekanet.net wrote: That's the main point of my suggestion! It helps avoiding the need of making calculation to know at what time a Tweet has been posted according to the poster's timezone. It doesn't make sense to see that Jeff said Good morning at

[twitter-dev] can't follow - js broken

2009-11-10 Thread markbrown4
I've been getting the following when trying to follow another user for the last couple of days.. $.metadata is undefined [Break on this error] $.metadata.setType(attr,data);var LI...wrong. Please try again!)).show()}}))};lists.js...257546991 (line 1) twttr is not defined [Break on this error]

[twitter-dev] Count for statuses from a list appears to do nothing

2009-11-10 Thread Ryan Bigg
Specifying different count on the request appears to send back the same file: ryanb...@fp:mocra-web (master)$ wget http://api.twitter.com/1/drnic/ lists/mocra/statuses.json?callback=updateTwitter()count=100 --2009-11-10 11:13:41--

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different

2009-11-10 Thread Eric Gilbert
Yes. On Nov 10, 12:30 am, Tim Haines tmhai...@gmail.com wrote: Does creating the same list twice via sync'ed methods result in   duplicate streams? Sent from my iPhone On 10/11/2009, at 7:20 PM, Eric Gilbert eegilb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm developing an app that builds a few lists.

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different

2009-11-10 Thread sathia nathan
hi i have created 2 twitter in gmail account and yahoo account but i need same user name wat can i do. how it save same user name. Cheers, Eric

[twitter-dev] Why is my app showing 1 user no matter how many users sign up ?

2009-11-10 Thread Gavin Bong
I've successfully retrieved the access token secret. But no matter how many users authorize the app, the admin page shows only 1 user. Am I doing something wrong ? Thanks Gavin

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread @giromide
Have you considered embedding some explanation field for each trend the way Brizzly does it, or would you rather let such clients handle this? I imagine the real problem for Twitter would be curating trend explanations. On Nov 9, 4:13 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: We've heard

[twitter-dev] Re: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread Raffi Krikorian
by trend explanations, do you mean http://whatthetrend.com/? Have you considered embedding some explanation field for each trend the way Brizzly does it, or would you rather let such clients handle this? I imagine the real problem for Twitter would be curating trend explanations. We've heard

[twitter-dev] Re: Why is my app showing 1 user no matter how many users sign up ?

2009-11-10 Thread shiplu
Yes, you must be doing something wrong. But its not related to twitter api. Its related to you application logic. -- A K M Mokaddim http://talk.cmyweb.net http://twitter.com/shiplu Stop Top Posting !! বাংলিশ লেখার চাইতে বাংলা লেখা অনেক ভাল

[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 natefanaro
Looks like that account is no longer 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

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

2009-11-10 Thread neal rauhauser
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/grovel to be able to do a higher volume of messaging? I've been digging for tech support

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API leaving alpha status?

2009-11-10 Thread Christian
thanks! we're moving forward :) On 6 Nov., 15:19, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody knows when it will happen, but it should happen soon. We've been working on operational, monitoring and capacity issues to make the transition. The majority of the issues are settled, so we're

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

2009-11-10 Thread natefanaro
It's not really an issue with volume. You are way below the hourly limit of the number of tweets allowed. Once you hit that limit you'll know. The api will return an error stating you're over your allowed status updates for the hour. From what I can tell not being indexed by search only affects

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

2009-11-10 Thread neal rauhauser
We've got information sources for all 435 House districts and we're trying to make their respective hashtags a known information source for residents. Not being available in search pretty much makes this whole concept a dead end ... we actually don't want followers on the userid that publishes

[twitter-dev] Re: api.twitter.com not returning compressed data

2009-11-10 Thread Dave Briccetti
Jason, I’m glad you mentioned this, because we had neglected to ask for compressed data in TalkingPuffin. For others wanting to do this (in Java/Scala): import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream conn.setRequestProperty(Accept-Encoding, gzip) ... val is = conn.getInputStream val ce

[twitter-dev] Re: can FOLLOW, but can't LEAVE

2009-11-10 Thread mikawhite
Cameron Marcel, My app accessing the api also failed on the 8th or 9th. All is ok now. On Nov 9, 4:35 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Could it be an API issue then? The commands are being posted through statuses/update.json.

[twitter-dev] Background Uploading not working

2009-11-10 Thread Kyle Mulka
There seems to be a problem with uploading backgrounds via the API the last couple days. I've noticed this before, but more so recently. After trying to upload a new background via the API, the URL for the background will be updated with the right file name, but the URL it refers to will give

[twitter-dev] direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a

[twitter-dev] Re: can FOLLOW, but can't LEAVE

2009-11-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Cameron Marcel, My app accessing the api also failed on the 8th or 9th. All is ok now. Interesting. Must have been a temporary glitch then. I'll check myself when I get a free minute. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser *

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). It could be incredibly useful. For example tweets on a specific topic could be targeted to a selected

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

2009-11-10 Thread iematthew
It's been my experience that a user not showing up in FROM:username searches in the search.twitter.com system are missing because they were previously suspended or otherwise disabled on Twitter. A screen name being restored on Twitter doesn't seem to translate into it being restored in the search

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Kaiser wrote: have you considered adding a mechanism for sending a sort of direct message to a list? This would allow users to send targeted tweets to a list (provided the user is a member of the list). Not wild about this, because

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
What I mean is that a tweet directed to a list (by a member of that list) will show up (a) in the tweet timeline of that list, (b) and hence also in the friends_timeline of the followers of the list, (c) but NOT in the user_timeline of the poster. It differs from a regular tweet in point

[twitter-dev] Re: Count for statuses from a list appears to do nothing

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
You can use the per_page parameter for this. I'll update the documentation. Should probably support count as well as an alias. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Ryan Bigg radarliste...@gmail.com wrote: Specifying different count on the request appears to send back the same file:

[twitter-dev] Re: 500 ISE on List API Update?

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
Yes we've been made aware of this. It should be noted that the update sticks despite the 500 response. It's on our todo list of things to investigate. Thanks for reporting it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to be getting 500 Internal Server

[twitter-dev] 500 ISE on List API Update?

2009-11-10 Thread Aaron Brazell
I seem to be getting 500 Internal Server Errors on the List API for updating a list. Can anyone verify? Aaron Brazell CEO, Emmense Technologies Lead Editor, Technosailor.com Author, The WordPress Bible e: aa...@technosailor.com b: http://technosailor.com t: http://twitter.com/technosailor p:

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. The rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only those who follow you would receive it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Marcus Better

[twitter-dev] Re: 500 ISE on List API Update?

2009-11-10 Thread Aaron Brazell
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: Yes we've been made aware of this. It should be noted that the update sticks despite the 500 response. It's on our todo list of things to investigate. Thanks for reporting it. Excellent. While we're at it, we're 404ing

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Badera
Agreed. Working on an app for service professionals who need the ability to target their message at an opted-in group. ∞ Andy 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 Tue, Nov

[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: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
As with all things, there will certainly be vectors for abuse. For every bad use case, there are just as many or more positive use cases. We'll certainly be thinking about many on both sides. Thanks for pointing out some of the potential hazards. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dewald

[twitter-dev] Re: 500 ISE on List API Update?

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
Worksforme: mar...@albatross:~TW% master ./bin/twurl /1/noradio/lists/1416.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? list id1416/id nametall people/name full_name@noradio/tall-people/full_name slugtall-people/slug subscriber_count3/subscriber_count member_count3/member_count

[twitter-dev] Proposed changes to the local trends api

2009-11-10 Thread Walter Smulders
Hi fellow developers! When I saw the local trends api preview that was released yesterday I felt it wasn't really in line with the old trends api and inconsistent. So I made this drawing with my vision on the trends api, I hope you can all figure this out. If not just reply here and i'll try to

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcel Molina wrote: That is indeed an interesting idea that we've been thinking about. Very nice to hear! :-) rules around who can send and receive DMs would continue to be enforced as normal, so for talking purposes, if you DMed a list, only

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Kaiser wrote: The thing I'm not getting is that I don't decide what lists I'm a member of; Agreed. I get added to them by the owner of that list. If @spammymcspammer adds me to @spammymcspammer/spammy_spam, then anyone on that list can

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
Indeed something looks strange there. I've brought this to the attention of the team working on the lists backend. I'll let you know what they discover. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Eric Gilbert eegilb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm developing an app that builds a few lists. Since it seems the

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's their opt-in. If they have followed him for whatever reason and decide they do *not* want his broadcasts, they can simply unfollow him. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dewald Pretorius

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Badera
You shouldn't have to follow someone to opt-in to receive directed messages. Lists have the potential to be a very different conversation than your public timeline. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Marcel, If that is the new line of thinking about bulk DMs by Twitter, then I am immediately going to enable the sending of bulk DMs to all the followers of a Twitter account in my service. I deactivated that feature early in the year when Doug advised me that Twitter does not condone sending

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Marcel, You should talk to Jillian about this as well. I'm sure she will have a contrary opinion on the matter. Dewald On Nov 10, 2:51 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: But people who are added to MarketerMario's list won't get his list broadcasts unless they follow him. That's

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Marcel Molina
I'm not saying any of this is being implemented. I'm just responding in the abstract about the scenario you were proposing. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel, You should talk to Jillian about this as well. I'm sure she will have a contrary

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Understood. My statement regarding re-enabling that feature was part of a conditional if statement. For now the logic is continuing to flow via the else branch. Dewald On Nov 10, 3:23 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: I'm not saying any of this is being implemented. I'm just

[twitter-dev] Re: direct messages to lists

2009-11-10 Thread Dale Folla MeDia
Andrew, Great idea...should be easy enough...just display all the lists and have an opt in button for each, which lets everyone know they want a mutual follow relationship for this purpose. then as people opt in, they automatically follow each user in list, and then in reverse...although opt out

[twitter-dev] Saved search destroy method not always effective?

2009-11-10 Thread Ed Finkler
I'm having some problems getting the saved search destroy method to actually destroy a search. I'm seeing this both in curl and from Ajax calls. The following paste shows me making a call to list my searches from curl, deleting one of the searches, and then getting the list again. The search does

[twitter-dev] .NET Class for handling Twitter Updates and Rate Checks

2009-11-10 Thread ch...@stuffworldwide.com
Not many .NET examples out there... here it is... have fun... using System; using System.Text; using System.Net; using System.IO; using System.Xml; namespace Tweeter { public class TwitterTools { #region Members #endregion public

[twitter-dev] Re: .NET Class for handling Twitter Updates and Rate Checks

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Badera
I for one tend to prefer Google Code or Code Plex for posting lengthy chunks of code intended for resharing ... Also, LinqToTwitter is a pretty solid reference implementation ... FWIW. (Not affiliated, just a user.) ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x]

[twitter-dev] MGTwitterEngine - anyone added list support yet?

2009-11-10 Thread Tim Haines
Hey guys, Has anyone added list support to @mattgemmell's MGTwitterEngine yet? Cheers, Tim.

[twitter-dev] Twit Search Performance

2009-11-10 Thread MuratMetu
Hello, I have used topsy for twit search and we are not happy with performance. Is there any other good api for searching text in the tweets?

[twitter-dev] Re: Twit Search Performance

2009-11-10 Thread John Kalucki
You can also consider the track parameter to the Streaming API method / 1/statuses/filter.format -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Nov 10, 2:53 pm, MuratMetu muratm...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I have used topsy for twit search and we are not happy with

[twitter-dev] /statuses/retweets_of_me resource does not have the retweet_status element

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Ivey (@ivey)
Marcel, et al I'm working on bringing our Retweet-commerce tools up to date with the new RTs, now that they're rolling out, and we've got an issue. /statuses/retweets_of_me is returning just the statuses, without a retweet_status element to tell me who did the retweet. Is this a doc issue, or a

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

2009-11-10 Thread justindclark
So I have an idea for a Twitter web app that I think would be super useful and cool but I have zero experience in any of the required areas. I have been interested in developing web apps for a while but can find no really helpful resources anywhere. Can someone help me get started from step one

[twitter-dev] Retrieving infomation from twitter search api

2009-11-10 Thread pipigu85
Hi, I am currently using the twitter search api to retrieve tweets but some of the tweets returned are not fully formed. I followed the link to the actual tweet itself and it seems that when it comes across tweets with, it gets cut off Example: Actual tweet: Just Voted I am voting for

[twitter-dev] question with twitter color design

2009-11-10 Thread 爵溪
hi,all In twitter's 'setting' we can choose 5 colors (background, text, links, sidebar, sidebar border),but i notice that links in the sidebar have a hover background color( just like white+sidebar background color ) ,which is not from the 5 colors i metioned above and not privided by the api .

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

2009-11-10 Thread Yogesh Mali
Depends on what you use to program. If PHP is your choice, start reading book Twitter:up and running. Nice book for twitter app. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:21 PM, justindclark justind.cl...@gmail.comwrote: So I have an idea for a Twitter web app that I think would be super useful and cool but

[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: Developer Preview: Trends API

2009-11-10 Thread @giromide
Yes. I imagine Twitter would rather not be forced to do the legwork on offering explanations for trends. On Nov 10, 7:34 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: by trend explanations, do you meanhttp://whatthetrend.com/? Have you considered embedding some explanation field for each

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving infomation from twitter search api

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Badera
I've not seen this issue. Do you have a character encoding switch or miss somewhere? Also, doesn't asCharacters have some depth to it? Is there an overload or property at play here? XMLEvent.asCharacters() The asCharacters() method return a java.xml.stream.Characters object. From this object

[twitter-dev] Re: Blocking vs non-blocking list creation: list streams are different

2009-11-10 Thread Eric Gilbert
Great. Thanks, Marcel. Looking forward to the answer. My guess: limit on concurrent follows as countermeasure against bots? On Nov 10, 12:41 pm, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: Indeed something looks strange there. I've brought this to the attention of the team working on the lists

[twitter-dev] Cached Imaged and The API - Nightmare

2009-11-10 Thread TylerC
One of the tools my app offers is the ability to customize and create a avatar that can be updated from the site... the problem I am having is I have all the users cached on the site so profile image/data do not need to be requested when a persons profile is being viewed... The problem is the

[twitter-dev] Re: question with twitter color design

2009-11-10 Thread TylerC
yes I would also like to know how to set this unmentioned color variable. On Nov 10, 11:13 pm, 爵溪 sospar...@gmail.com wrote: hi,all In twitter's 'setting' we can choose 5 colors (background, text, links, sidebar, sidebar border),but i notice that links in the sidebar have a hover background