[twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thousands of new accounts that they can use to send out a wide variety of niche interest tweets. They already have a quote from an outsourcing company that

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread John Meyer
Sounds like a swit (spam twitterer) to me. Have you told them about twitter's blacklisting policy? On 1/7/2010 5:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell wrote: Hi All, Would be interested to hear both the community's opinion on this and the official Twitter view. I have a client that wants to create thou

RE: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Ken Dobruskin
I can't wait to hear how they plan to interest real people to follow these accounts. More keyword- (or geo-) based @ "replies"? save us! > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:03:17 -0700 > From: john.l.me...@gmail.com > To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Badera
I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving anyone this sort of tool. Not that certain other people on this list haven't already done so for profit, sadly. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 5

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Meyer wrote: > Sounds like a swit (spam twitterer) to me.  Have you told them about > twitter's blacklisting policy? That was my initial reaction. :) > On 1/7/2010 5:50 AM, Jonathan Markwell wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Would be interested to hear both the comm

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Ken Dobruskin wrote: > I can't wait to hear how they plan to interest real people to follow these > accounts. More keyword- (or geo-) based @ "replies"? save us! Definitely will not be doing that. They will marketing the service via some of their high profile clien

Re: [twitter-dev] Mass account creation

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Markwell
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > I would point them to examples of other apps (local news spammers come > to mind) that have recently been blacklisted. Thank you I'll do that. Any links you know off the top of your head? > That aside, I for one am 100% opposed to giving any

[twitter-dev] search by longitude latitude

2010-01-07 Thread WhoItBe
Hi there, I'm looking for a sample search call made by longitude latitude and radius. Also, I'd like to generate the longitude latitude based on a address/ zip code. Thanks.

Re: [twitter-dev] search by longitude latitude

2010-01-07 Thread Raffi Krikorian
The search API has a geocode parameter - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search the API, however, doesn't provide a way to translate physical addresses to latitudes and longitudes. On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:04 AM, WhoItBe wrote: Hi there, I'm looking for a sample searc

Re: [twitter-dev] search by longitude latitude

2010-01-07 Thread John Meyer
This is what you would use GeoAPI for: http://docs.geoapi.com/ On 1/7/2010 9:08 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: The search API has a geocode parameter - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search the API, however, doesn't provide a way to translate physical addresses to latit

[twitter-dev] Re: Access to user retweets without authorisation

2010-01-07 Thread Alison W
btw, yes, this is the same issue as the thread, but that started back in mid-November and still hasn't been resolved, hence this call. AW 2010/1/7 Alison W : > I have a product which I need to update for the 'internal' RT feature > (as opposed to sending with 'RT' on the front manually). As a s

[twitter-dev] Access to user retweets without authorisation

2010-01-07 Thread Alison W
I have a product which I need to update for the 'internal' RT feature (as opposed to sending with 'RT' on the front manually). As a security feature of the product I do not ask for nor require the user to give me authorisation for Twitter access in any way - I'm never doing an update and only retri

[twitter-dev] Re: rate limit: plz reply as soon as possible : urgent

2010-01-07 Thread Terence Eden
>From what I can tell, you're trying to get all of XYZ's friends - then see all of the friends of each of them. Is that right? My first question is "Why"? Depending on what you are trying to do, there may be a better way to achieve it. If there really is no other way, you can apply for whitelist

[twitter-dev] Getting Twitter information onto a google map

2010-01-07 Thread John Turley
Hi, I'm quite new to this. I think that I have all the backend done to get the information I want from twitter but I can't get it to display on the map. I took a look at some of the source code from similar sites to my project and it seems I get stuck at one point. For example, http://www.teamerge

[twitter-dev] Getting Twitter information onto a google map

2010-01-07 Thread John Turley
Hi, I'm new to this so bare with me. I would like to know how you call twitter posts onto a google map. Say, for example, I wanted to display a map of twitter posts that contained the word "biscuits" or some other word. Any tutorials? I've looked around, even looking at similar mashups source cod

Re: [twitter-dev] Access to user retweets without authorisation

2010-01-07 Thread Julio Biason
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Alison W wrote: > I have a product which I need to update for the 'internal' RT feature > (as opposed to sending with 'RT' on the front manually). As a security > feature of the product I do not ask for nor require the user to give > me authorisation for Twitter acc

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter with Google Visualization

2010-01-07 Thread Kidd
Hi Peter, Thanks for the response. I'd like to calculate on the fly. I'm not sure there's a reason to rewrite data that already exists on the twitter servers. The only issue would be if there services weren't available. I'm just trying to figure out how to access twitters data on the fly. Any o

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter with Google Visualization

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Denton
Hi Kidd Main reason to localize the data is for user experience. If twitter search slows down, you may have page loads waiting for the content you need. Also, you will get only 3200 results, or a historical snapshot of 7 days from a query, so you run the risk of losing data outside. It all depends

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-07 Thread st...@implu.com
I would agree with several views expressed in various posts here. 1) A cursor-less call that returns all IDs makes for simpler code and fewer API calls. i.e. less processing time. 2) If we must have a 'cursored' call then at least allow for cursor=-1 to return a larger number than 5k. -Steve On

[twitter-dev] Re: Search for users near this place?

2010-01-07 Thread Jason
Hi, I saw this geocode parameter. How does this work with search by location? For example, if I had a search box with 'Find users near: '. Do I need to parse this location to long/lat or will Twitter sort this out for me? If the location needs to be geocoded are their tools available to do this?

[twitter-dev] Etag for Social Graph & other methods

2010-01-07 Thread bobrik
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/5f7df55e3ddf85ed/ - here notification about dropping cursorless getting. Twitter returns ETag header in HTTP response. I'm getting something like this: bob...@callisto ~ % curl -X HEAD -I "http://twitter.com/followers/ i

[twitter-dev] Encountering Periodic "403 Access Denied" when sending Direct Messages via API

2010-01-07 Thread Alvin Lai
Hi, I'm getting periodic "403 Access Denied" when I try to send direct messages via API. I'll get a success response followed by several 403s then a success response again. Anyone encountering this? Alvin

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search for users near this place?

2010-01-07 Thread Raffi Krikorian
any tweet created using the ge On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Jason wrote: > Hi, > > I saw this geocode parameter. How does this work with search by > location? > > For example, if I had a search box with 'Find users near: '. > > Do I need to parse this location to long/lat or will Twitter sor

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Search for users near this place?

2010-01-07 Thread Raffi Krikorian
(sorry - that was sent too early) any tweet created using the geotagging API, that is within the specified radius, will be returned. additionally, the search infrastructure parses the "location" field in a user's profile and will return tweets by users who have set their location to within that r

[twitter-dev] Re: Social Graph API: Legacy data format will be eliminated 1/11/2010

2010-01-07 Thread Zaudio
Yes - Please can we have that urgently - yes or no? Thanks Simon On Jan 6, 8:15 pm, PJB wrote: > Can we please get some confirmation that the cursor-less calls won't > be going away this coming Monday? > > On Dec 22 2009, 4:13 pm, Wilhelm Bierbaum wrote: > > > > > We noticed that some clients

[twitter-dev] about search result

2010-01-07 Thread lch1721
Hi everyone~ I want search result that include in_reply_to_status_id Is it impossible? I'm get status_ids from search result and show every tweet now.

[twitter-dev] LBS Location Implementation

2010-01-07 Thread RobertS
Are there any plans to implement other LBS attributes (altitude, heading, speed) beside latitude & longitude, like the ones of the Geolocation API Specification? interface Coordinates { readonly attribute double latitude; readonly attribute double longitude; readonly attribute double

Re: [twitter-dev] LBS Location Implementation

2010-01-07 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hey robert. this is all very interesting -- what's your use case? On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:16 PM, RobertS wrote: > Are there any plans to implement other LBS attributes (altitude, > heading, speed) beside latitude & longitude, like the ones of the > Geolocation API Specification? > > interface