[twitter-dev] Re: Adding member to list does nothing

Thanks Ed! Must of really run a-muck! -Paul On Dec 8, 12:27 am, Ed Costello wrote: > 6444795764 does not appear to be a valid twitter user id / id number, nor does > 2074698. > The only list you appear to have is "my-uber-peeps" with id "2074438". > > So, try using a valid user id number and co

[twitter-dev] Ping bot now available

Hi everyone, I looked for a few minutes without finding a ping bot account on twitter. So here it goes http://twitter.com/pingpongbot using the streaming API, therefor should be fast. Works on public replies for now, suggest ideas if you wish. ...

[twitter-dev] Rate Limit & New API Features

Hi Twitter API folks, Over the last few months, there's been some big new features to the API to match the Twitter.com feature set. Whilst that's awesome for third-party developers and users alike, the rate limit has remained the same. Looking back over the documentation, the last increase was in

[twitter-dev] Re: After a re-retweet, I don't get an error, I successfully retweeted some random Turkish guy instead.

Hi, It's great the problem has been identified and fixed. However, the API response shows "errors" instead of the regular "error", and the sentence "Share sharing is not permissable for this status" should be "permissIble". Not urgent, but I hope it will be fixed one day :-) Kevin On Dec 4, 5:

Re: [twitter-dev] Rate Limit & New API Features

There are several projects in the pipeline to help with rate limiting issues. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Nik Fletcher wrote: > Hi Twitter API folks, > > Over the last few months, there's been some big new features to the > A

[twitter-dev] How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

Is there any way to check via the api that the tweet you tried to send was not sent because it was a duplicate? I get a 200 OK response so maybe there is another way? BTW I am using Tweet#. Thanks,

[twitter-dev] Daily Tweet Limit

I want to limit tweets from certain users to say 5-10 per day. Is this possible? Can you help?

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > hi anton. > that's interesting

Re: [twitter-dev] Daily Tweet Limit

> I want to limit tweets from certain users to say 5-10 per day. Is this > possible? Can you help? It is not possible with the Twitter API. But why not have your application simply do the filtering up to a certain count? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit & New API Features

Thanks for the super-speedy reply, John! Cheers -N On Dec 8, 2:29 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > There are several projects in the pipeline to help with rate limiting > issues. > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki > Services, Twitter Inc. > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Nik Fletcher

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. http://www.opencellid.org/api On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky wrote: > Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something >

Re: [twitter-dev] How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

Currently, we recommend people look at the tweet ID and just "remember" it. It is on the short list to get an appropriate error code returned if we reject a tweetx On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Stuart Smith > wrote: Is there any way to check via the api that the tweet you tried to send was

[twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

Hi Raffi, thanks for the reply but I'm still unsure of the process. If I send a tweet with the same text more than once via twitter.com I get a pop-upm saying to try some other text as I've sent that text before and the tweet is not created so there is no id. If I use Tweet# and do the same I get

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's too expensive for me at this stage. Anton On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham Willia

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anton Krasovsky wrote: > Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle > seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to > signup for Fireeagle. T

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

When you create a status you get a 200 response and the current user/status object which includes the status id. If you try to create a duplicate status it should return the same status object with a status id that matches the previous one. Abraham On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52, Stuart Smith wrot

[twitter-dev] enablert option for statuses/user_timeline

Any thought given to adding an 'enable_rt' argument or somesuch to methods like statuses/user_timeline? I understand and completely agree with not putting newRTs in those timelines by default, but integrating two calls to make a complete timeline is not ideal. -- -

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get a user's first tweet?

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therearepaginationlimits On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 21:12, Adam Shannon wrote: > I believe that it's 3200. > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 19:17, Quertant wrote: > > What is the max count? > > Sorry, I am new to the twitter API. > > > > On D

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Regarding the search API based on Geo location

Both of those links work fine for me. Maybe it was just a temporary hiccup. Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 15:42, Diogo wrote: > Hi all, > > If been using the search API for some months for various projects and > now Ive been asked to code an app that is supposed to search for a > specific word

Re: [twitter-dev] Gone over update limit and don't know why

You are looking at the rate limiting for GET requests. POST request for creating updates has a different limit: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 15:34, Stuart Smith wrote: > I am using Tweet# and using a loop to generate a number of tweets from >

Re: [twitter-dev] API Ready Apps List

Awesome. Who is going to be the first to integrate all of them into a single project? Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 16:13, Peter Denton wrote: > Hey Everyone, > As promised, I have published the list of people who have API's ready for > other app developers to use in their twitter projects. >

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

Are they same users being returned in the results? Can you check for duplicates and exit the loop as a temporary solution? You should open a bug ticket: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:46, hansamann wrote: > I am still seeing this issue. I am

Re: [twitter-dev] analytics api

I would be interested in trying a widget to embed on sites. Abraham On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:51, Peter Denton wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am working on an analytics product called @tweetStory ( > www.tweetStory.com) and am curious if people would have interest in > accessing our API. > > We h

Re: [twitter-dev] API Ready Apps List

TwitterLand combines 9 Twitter related app APIs into a single Ruby library: http://github.com/squeejee/twitterland/ On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome. Who is going to be the first to integrate all of them into a single > project? > Abraham > > On

[twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

Hi Abraham, so I should keep a list of all of the tweets I send and check the id of each and every status I send to see if it matches a previously sent id? That's quite a lot of additional processing. Does this 'duplicate text' have a time period for which it is invalid? i.e. how long do I have to

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile geolocation and cellid

AFAIK they mostly target smarphones and require both cell id and wifi ssid data to do the lookup, so it's not an option for j2me-only devices. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Markwell wrote: > Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com > > On Tue, Dec 8, 20

[twitter-dev] unexpected update status behavior when "RT..." text included

Hi, I just came across a weird bug. When updating statuses with the text "RT..." included, unexpected things happen. for instance, when updating my status with this: RT... http://duncsweb.com/2009/12/07/review-snaptu-twitter-facebook-rss-google-calendar-flickr-tv-movies-picasa-more-on-your-mobil

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

oh - i apologise, i think i misunderstood your question. yes - if you send a duplicate tweet while using the twitter.com website, we put up an error on the web page. however, if you send a duplicate tweet through our API, we will silently fail and return a 200 response. i'm not positive what you

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

> Does this 'duplicate text' have a time period for which it is invalid? > i.e. how long do I have to wait before sending the same text? we currently reject tweets that have an exact string match to any tweet sent "recently" (a few hours). > Is this what I have heard called 'recurring tweets'? If

Re: [twitter-dev] unexpected update status behavior when "RT..." text included

> I just came across a weird bug. > When updating statuses with the text "RT..." included, unexpected > things happen. If it's first position in a line, it's probably being seen as an SMS command (there is an RT SMS command). -- personal: http://www.cameronka

[twitter-dev] 404 Errors on friends and followers using cursors

If you get the following URLs and continue to using the next_cursor, you receive incorrect 404s: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/debra_bee.xml?cursor=1305544343158947280 http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/fraying_ends.xml?cursor=-1 http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/Sabrinita_Linda.xml?c

Re: [twitter-dev] unexpected update status behavior when "RT..." text included

i think that's precisely it. the twitter API follows (mostly) the same commands that are available over SMS. if you send a tweet that starts with "RT", then the API will assume you are attempting to do a native RT. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: >> I just came across a w

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to build a form to Login into Twitter?

Can you clarify what you mean by login into Twitter? If you are want to use the API to interact with Twitter on behalf of the user my OAuth example is a good place to start. If you want to be able to log users into the Twitter website from your site I don't think there is any way to do that witho

Re: [twitter-dev] Looking for a simple Open Source Client - for Site Customer Support

With a little bit of work you could use Drupal with the Twitter module and a few others. http://drupal.org http://drupal.org/project/twitter http://drupal.org/project/twitter_search http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2 Sbraham On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:33, coolrebel wrote: > Does anyone know of

Re: [twitter-dev] analytics api

Thanks Abraham, We are going to be working on our API over the next month and will let you know when we have some methods exposed. Thanks! Also, for all of your help and support. Cheers Peter On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would be interested in

[twitter-dev] Twitter REST API Method: favorites

authentication is required for this method? they say yes, but i already tried without authentication with sucess. -- best regards, Daniel

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter REST API Method: favorites

that seems to be a deficiency in the format we chose to notate whether the endpoint requires authentication. if you are calling api.twitter.com/1/favorites/raffi.json for example, then you don't need to authenticate because my favorites are public. however, if you were to call api.twitter.com/

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: After a re-retweet, I don't get an error, I successfully retweeted some random Turkish guy instead.

There is actually a comment in the code (placed by me) about the misspelling :) Didn't want to break anybody's parsing though. On errors vs. error, I'll take a look. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Kevin wrote: > Hi, > > It's great the problem has been identified and fixed. > > However, the API

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter REST API Method: favorites

On that note, are there any plans to bring the favorites API in line with other statuses APIs, ie. deprecate the page parameter, allow 'since_id', 'max_id' and 'count', etc.? On 12/8/09 11:28 AM, "Raffi Krikorian" wrote: > that seems to be a deficiency in the format we chose to notate whether >

Re: [twitter-dev] analytics api

I'm definitely interested. I have one app that just came online and one that is coming online next week. Thanks, Dale skype: dalemerritt On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Peter Denton wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am working on an analytics product called @tweetStory ( > www.tweetStory.com

[twitter-dev] Google Chrome Betas now Support Twitter Extensions

Google Chrome beta for Windows and Linux now support extensions. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-holidays-mac-linux.html You can check out the Twitter extensions: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?q=twitter As well as my own: https://chrome.google.com/extension

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting number of lists a user is on

+1 for adding the count to users/show Wynn Netherland @pengwynn On Dec 1, 2:28 pm, Quy wrote: > Is there an API call that will allow me to grab the number of lists > that a user is on? > > I thought theusers/showcall would do this but it doesn't. > > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-M

[twitter-dev] Re: Ping bot now available

Hi Fabien, Just a thought in case you haven't considered it: be careful not to get caught in an infinite loop. There are bots that listen to keywords and reply to you. Someone may trigger a situation like that by making you echo such keywords, either maliciously or by accident. Diego On Dec 8, 8

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting number of lists a user is on

I second that, users/show should be consistent with what you can see by going to someone's profile page. On Dec 8, 5:00 pm, Wynn Netherland wrote: > +1 for adding the count to users/show > > Wynn Netherland > @pengwynn >

Re: [twitter-dev] Looking for a simple Open Source Client - for Site Customer Support

People have made their own suggestions, so I'm not going to mirror them. I would suggest, however, that customer to business communication probably would be better conducted on a forum other than twitter (people who are trying to describe problems they are having aren't at their most succinct

[twitter-dev] Send to certain user

We have an existing security product that when an alert happens we send a text and email. We now need to send to a Twitter account. What is the syntax to send 'test alert' to user 'test123' direct from the web address bar. I am trying to do this within php without installing curl.

[twitter-dev] Dedicated IP Whitelist

Hi, I am on a shared web hosting space, but my domain has a dedicated IP on the server. Am I correct in saying that the twitter API sees the dedicated IP address instead of the shared IP address that the server has? I have been trying very hard to get a twitter API script running but I get nothing

[twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

Hi Raffi, I read on a blog somewhere that the recurring tweets (which I believe are the same as tweets with duplicate text) are going to be allowed i.e. the logic that rejects them will no longer be active. >From what you say this is unlikely to happen. The reason I am so interested in this partic

[twitter-dev] Re: 404 Errors on friends and followers using cursors

I am seeing the same issue. In my case, the first four iterations work (i.e. I retrieve 400 users), but the next call gives me a 404.

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

Are you using "page" parameter? If so, it was recently deprecated, so that would explain what you are seeing... the first page over and over again. Check the API documentation to see how to use the "cursor" parameter. On Dec 6, 8:25 pm, hansamann wrote: > Hi all, > > my code is calling api method

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Ping bot now available

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, dbasch wrote: > Just a thought in case you haven't considered it: be careful not to > get caught in an infinite loop. There are bots that listen to keywords > and reply to you. Someone may trigger a situation like that by making > you echo such keywords, either mal

Re: [twitter-dev] Send to certain user

this is not a question about the API... however, try "d test123 test alert" or something like that. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:42 PM, park2 wrote: > We have an existing security product that when an alert happens we > send a text and email. We now need to send to a Twitter account. What > is the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How to detect 'Duplicate text' failure to send tweet

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Stuart Smith wrote: > Hi Raffi, I read on a blog somewhere that the recurring tweets (which > I believe are the same as tweets with duplicate text) are going to be > allowed i.e. the logic that rejects them will no longer be active. > From what you say this is unli

[twitter-dev] /favorites/create not versioned?

When I POST to http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/id.json I get a 404 not found HTML page returned... Is the favorites/create API not versioned? The APIWiki still says: http://twitter.com/favorites/create/id.format, not http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/id.format Which is it??? Than

[twitter-dev] Re: /favorites/create not versioned?

Never mind, the error was on my side... It's working now (and in case you're wondering, the API is versioned and available at /1/favorites/ create On Dec 8, 2:29 pm, Michael Steuer wrote: > When I POST tohttp://api.twitter.com/1/favorites/create/id.jsonI get a 404 > not found HTML page returned..

[twitter-dev] Re: Track streaming : how to match tweets?

Thanks Mark, but as I said, we need to fetch more complex feeds to. So we'll use the OR with the simple query, and then query the search API with the complex query to see if a given tweet matches what we need! Julien On Dec 8, 12:55 am, Mark McBride wrote: > Note that search API whitelisting is

Re: [twitter-dev] Dedicated IP Whitelist

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Jesse Bunch wrote: > Hi, > > I am on a shared web hosting space, but my domain has a dedicated IP > on the server. Am I correct in saying that the twitter API sees the > dedicated IP address instead of the shared IP address that the server > has? It sees whateve

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

Thanx, I think the issue exists because I am using the page parameter (via twitter4j). @twitter does deprecating also mean it stops working? :-) Cheers Sven On Dec 8, 1:06 pm, Randy wrote: > Are you using "page" parameter? If so, it was recently deprecated, so > that would explain what you are

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends issue?

> @twitter does deprecating also mean it stops working? :-) yes. sorry. for us, it does. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi

[twitter-dev] Seeking some assistance with my twitter account

Hello: I use to third party twitter apps 1. Seemic for Windows 2. Tweetdeck Both are running throughout the day while I work on other applications. However, when trying to follow someone new and add them to my follower list, it tells me I have hit my limit. Is there an automated way to send a m

Re: [twitter-dev] Seeking some assistance with my twitter account

What limit does it tell you you've hit? The API request/hr limit? On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM, steve8004 wrote: > Hello: > > I use to third party twitter apps > > 1. Seemic for Windows > 2. Tweetdeck > > Both are running throughout the day while I work on other > applications. However, when t

Re: [twitter-dev] Seeking some assistance with my twitter account

It sounds like the followers/following ratio constraint... On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Mark McBride wrote: What limit does it tell you you've hit? The API request/hr limit? On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM, steve8004 wrote: Hello: I use to third party twitter apps 1. Seemic for Windows