[twitter-dev] Re: Are geotagged tweets visually apparent?

2010-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Friedl
> Use a Twitter service that does, such ashttp://bccth.is, to confirm   > successful tagging of your tweets. Gotcha, thanks much. Jeffrey

[twitter-dev] It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Friedl
RE this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/cd95ce07be341223/e174915c3ea94e69?lnk=gst&q=140 It's been three months since an apparently-silent not-backwards- compatible API change went into effect that causes tweets longer than 140 characters to be

[twitter-dev] Re: How to show "An application would like to connect to your account" EACH TIME users login into my service?

2010-02-03 Thread dzuchara
Abraham and others, Switching from oauth/authenticate to oauth/authorize was a solution for me... Thank you very much! On Feb 3, 6:59 am, Andy Freeman wrote: > Huh?  http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-oauth-authorize > does not mention force_login. > > http://apiwiki.twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile java client - happy with OAuth as it is

2010-02-03 Thread Anton Krasovsky
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Jeff Enderwick wrote: > App-engine is free to a point, and you do get (little) more than you pay > for. But that scheme carries a heavy price: > personally engraved downloads: one heavyweight op per subscriber (one-time > though), That's not strictly necessary, as

[twitter-dev] Getting statuses/retweets in reverse order or getting more than the allowed 100 statuses count

2010-02-03 Thread hernangarcia
Hello there, I couldn't found a way to get the retweets for a status in ASC order, right now it returns up to the 100 latest retweets and I want to get the X first ones, maybe paginated if allowed. Does anyone have an idea for this? Thanks in advance.

Re: [twitter-dev] It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi jeff. yup - we're definitely guilty for not yet putting an error code for when we reject a tweet due to length. we do, however, have this page http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Counting-Characters that we put up a month ago that explains how to count your characters correctly and to help define what

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
seesmic look, i believe, is using oauth talking to api.twitter.com. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Raffi, > > What's going on here? > > Your credibility is at stake here. You've been telling us in many > posts that new apps must use OAuth to get a source attribution, a

[twitter-dev] generate valid user id for twitter

2010-02-03 Thread noelia martin
hi. I'm doing a server context, which make calls to API methods and I would love to know how can I know user ID in general, without any prior id, or how to generate valid user id. I would serve very helpful, thanks

[twitter-dev] Twitter based bug tracker/feedback system, anyone?

2010-02-03 Thread Anton Krasovsky
I wonder if anyone has a twitter based bugtracker / feedback system? Of course, there are many web based systems like that (uservoice, etc), but given that many of my users seem to have mostly mobile-based net access, leaving feedback for them is harder than it should be. Or if I start using twit

[twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, Have you tried it? There is no OAuth flow. I.e., the user types in his Twitter username and password. That's it. If it is indeed using OAuth, does that mean that the background requesting of tokens when you have the Twitter credentials is now available? Meaning, I can also now use it to co

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
it will be available publicly soon! On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Raffi, > > Have you tried it? There is no OAuth flow. I.e., the user types in his > Twitter username and password. That's it. > > If it is indeed using OAuth, does that mean that the background > reque

[twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Thanks! I installed Seesmic Look, but never thought of checking the Connections tab in Twitter. Crow does not taste all that bad with a thick layer of mustard and spices. On Feb 3, 3:49 pm, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > it will be available publicly soon! > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dew

[twitter-dev] False positives for uploading Image

2010-02-03 Thread whomba
Hello all I've been using twitter functionality in my sites for a while now and wanted to expand to uploading images to the users Background. After following the oauth Spec for twitter background I was able to successfully upload an image. Unfortuneatly, this does not always work. Lately, mor

[twitter-dev] Problems

2010-02-03 Thread Vadim Grekov
Hello! I have such problem: my account http://twitter.com/MoscowTwestival has become suspended. I can't understand why? We decided to organize Twestival in Russia, and i have discussed all things with Amanda Rose about it. I think it is a mistake, can you improve it? Vadim Grekov

[twitter-dev] Re: Combining multiple API Searches into the Streaming API

2010-02-03 Thread Ronald
Thanks for the feedback. Implementing the API was a lot easier then expected, my code is rather modular, so replacing the search component is easy. I only need one more step that actually breaks down the single stream output into matches per search I want to do. While it's an extra step in my pro

[twitter-dev] Re: Combining multiple API Searches into the Streaming API

2010-02-03 Thread Jason Striegel
I'll second Dewald's advice with one caveat. If you ever expect your search results to increase to a point where you're getting regular rate limiting (as :) and :( can certainly do that), I'd recommend looking into the Streaming API now. You'll have to add a lot of extra parsing and joining on you

[twitter-dev] Re: Efficiency of Search VS Streaming API for some apps

2010-02-03 Thread Jason Striegel
That wasn't the answer I was hoping for, but thanks for the guidance. :) We're working on adding a new process that will use the streaming api to pull in tweets, then apply a merge operation for phrases and multi- term searches that produces an output similar to what the search api provided. There

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-03 Thread Ted Nyman
That is definitely good news, thanks for the update. -Ted On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > it will be available publicly soon! > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > >> Raffi, >> >> Have you tried it? There is no OAuth flow. I.e., the user type

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > If it is indeed using OAuth, does that mean that the background > > requesting of tokens when you have the Twitter credentials is now > > available? Meaning, I can also now use it to convert all existing > > Twitter accounts to OAuth in one fell swoop? > > it will be available publicly soon! E

[twitter-dev] OAuth on i products

2010-02-03 Thread Scott Herbert
Firstly I'm not an iPhone/iPad/iPod developer nore do I even own one, however I belive neigther of the two devices has the ablity to multi-task, so surely that would make oAuth on either impossabul, as the application couldn't call up a browser window/page. Hopefuly someone more skilled in Apple d

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Sutorius
Hi Vadim, I see that you've filed a ticket about this too, and our Support team should reply there soon. Brian On Feb 3, 11:10 am, Vadim Grekov wrote: > Hello! I have such problem: my accounthttp://twitter.com/MoscowTwestival > has become suspended. I can't understand why? We decided to organize

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Swap
w0t! :D

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Rich
thank you x1000 This is great and works well too! On Feb 3, 11:25 pm, Swap wrote: > w0t! :D

[twitter-dev] Re: Unable to register this application. Check your registration settings.I am

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Sutorius
This is likely an issue related to your Twitter account. Please file a ticket at http://help.twitter.com/tickets/new and our Support team will take a look. Brian On Feb 2, 3:53 pm, kprobe wrote: > I am finally going to upgrade my existing Twitter application to use > OAuth and in trying to regis

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Chad Etzel
ZOMG *faints* one small nit: the redirect back to the app seemed to take longer than it should. not sure what the redirect timeout is, but it might do well to shorten it up by a second or two... otherwise ppl might start to get click-happy while nothing is happening. -Chad On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at

[twitter-dev] Bulk User Look Up - any progress?

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Steuer
Hi Raffi et al, Is there any word on when we might see a bulk user lookup API, as promised repeatedly in this group? For those of us using the social graph APIs, it¹s incredibly painful to then have to fetch the full user object based on the ID one-by-one. Anyway, would just love to know if this

[twitter-dev] .NET and oAuth update problems

2010-02-03 Thread John Meyer
has anybody on a .NET library had problems with doing an oAuth connection and then posting an update with special characters such as !? We're having that problem on TwitterVB and I wanted to know if somebody has gotten it fixed yet?

Re: [twitter-dev] .NET and oAuth update problems

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Badera
Are you following the proper URL encoding? Basic .NET URLEncode doesn't meet OAuth's encoding spec. I forget what it is offhand, but they aren't 100% equivalent. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Ianiv Schweber
Thanks for finally fixing this! One small detail: would be nice if the username field didn't automatically capitalize the first character. Ianiv Schweber ia...@blogaholics.ca Twitter: @ianiv Skype: ianivs Public Key: http://www.blogaholics.ca/ianivpubkey.asc On 2010-02-03, at 3:16 PM, Ryan Sa

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread skabber
Thank you so much. This looks much better. On Feb 3, 4:16 pm, Ryan Sarver wrote: > FINALLY! > > An update has just gone live that fixes rendering of the OAuth screens for > most mobile devices. We also fixed a few small nagging things like the > default action is now "allow" instead of deny if y

[twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Friedl
> we do, however, have this > pagehttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Counting-Charactersthat we put up a month ago > that explains how to count your characters correctly and to help define what > twitter means by "140". But can't you at least update the official API docs (where developers look for the fi

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth on i products

2010-02-03 Thread Shazron
An iPhone OS app can launch its own child browser control (UIWebView). On Feb 3, 11:24 am, Scott Herbert wrote: > Firstly I'm not an iPhone/iPad/iPod developer nore do I even own one, > however I belive neigther of the two devices has the ablity to > multi-task, so surely that would make oAuth on

[twitter-dev] Order of rate limiting with multiple predicates (Streaming API)

2010-02-03 Thread Jason Striegel
Is there any order or precedence to how tweets are selected for rate limiting when using the streaming api with many (hundreds to thousands) of filter predicates. I'm curious if rate limiting is applied to the higher volume predicates in a filter, before it's applied to lower volume ones. We coll

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Fernando Olivares
I've started testing it and it looks good. One comment, though. Is there any chance to move the PIN above the instructions?

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth on i products

2010-02-03 Thread Abraham Williams
It is actually pretty easy. You save the request_token in your application and send the user to the browser to authorized access. When the user has finished authorizing the application they get directed back to the application by the iPhone through a custom protocol handler used as your callback UR

Re: [twitter-dev] .NET and oAuth update problems

2010-02-03 Thread ryan alford
I have it working and have had it working for months. My code is open-source and written in C#. http://twiteclipseapi.codeplex.com/ I haven't tried every special character, though I haven't run across a character that didn't work. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 3, 2010 6:53 PM, "Andrew Badera

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread ap
Did the element id change? I was using this piece of code (iphone) to get the oauth_id, and it's no longer working since around when these new changes got pushed - NSString*authPin = [[_webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString: @"document.getEl

Re: [twitter-dev] generate valid user id for twitter

2010-02-03 Thread Abraham Williams
I'm not entirely sure what you mean but have a look at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show Abraham On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:14, noelia martin wrote: > hi. I'm doing a server context, which make calls to API methods and I > would love to know how can I know use

Re: [twitter-dev] .NET and oAuth update problems

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Badera
Interesting, for some reason I thought there were a few explicit exceptions that had to be made, but your solution looks pretty elegant. --ab On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:48 PM, ryan alford wrote: > I have it working and have had it working for months.  My code is > open-source and written in C#.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
> > we do, however, have this pagehttp:// > apiwiki.twitter.com/Counting-Charactersthat we put up a month ago > > that explains how to count your characters correctly and to help define > what > > twitter means by "140". > > But can't you at least update the official API docs (where developers > lo

Re: [twitter-dev] .NET and oAuth update problems

2010-02-03 Thread ryan alford
I don't want to take credit for it as it is from Shannon Whitley's OAuth library. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 3, 2010 7:53 PM, "Andrew Badera" wrote: Interesting, for some reason I thought there were a few explicit exceptions that had to be made, but your solution looks pretty elegant. --a

Re: [twitter-dev] .NET and oAuth update problems

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Badera
>From Shannon's original stuff, or something more recent? I'd worked with OAuthBase.cs in the past, but seemed to recall there were explicit exceptions in that ver of that stuff ... maybe a year ago now? --ab On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:57 PM, ryan alford wrote: > I don't want to take credit for i

[twitter-dev] non-ASCII Twitter screen names

2010-02-03 Thread PJB
Just FYI, Twitter screen names are not (or, apparently, didn't use to be) restricted to 0-9A-Z-_ 6295462 Magic carpet1 3939231 Walking the dog2 92595586 Its mine\nM2 We're also seeing non-ASCII in some other screen names. (Though we don't currently know what they are... we just know they exis

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread ap
'oauth_pin' element id got changed to 'oauth-pin' for anyone else who's stuff broke On Feb 3, 3:53 pm, Fernando Olivares wrote: > I've started testing it and it looks good. One comment, though. Is > there any chance to move the PIN above the instructions?

Re: [twitter-dev] .NET and oAuth update problems

2010-02-03 Thread ryan alford
I don't know which version(if there are multiple versions). I downloaded it in October I believe. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 3, 2010 7:59 PM, "Andrew Badera" wrote: >From Shannon's original stuff, or something more recent? I'd worked with OAuthBase.cs in the past, but seemed to recall the

[twitter-dev] Re: non-ASCII Twitter screen names

2010-02-03 Thread PJB
Hm, wait... this account was created in Nov 2009 and has spaces and a \n in his screen_name?? http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?user_id=92595586 On Feb 3, 4:59 pm, PJB wrote: > Just FYI, Twitter screen names are not (or, apparently, didn't use to > be) restricted to 0-9A-Z-_ > > 6295462 > Magic

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Will Fleming
It is working correctly on a G1 running Android, but getting the non mobile version on a Nexus One. User-Agent is *Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1; en-us; Nexus One Build/ERD79) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17*

Re: [twitter-dev] False positives for uploading Image

2010-02-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi! hmm - you may be tripping over a known issue where we don't update the "status objects" coming from the api correctly. if you do a users/show call and look at your account, did that get updated after you upload? just to give some background - we embed the user object inside the status object

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread ap
this broke my code - in case anyone needs it and didn't notice, the oauth element id changed from 'oauth_pin' to 'oauth-pin'. On Feb 3, 4:56 pm, Will Fleming wrote: > It is working correctly on a G1 running Android, but getting the non mobile > version on a Nexus One. User-Agent is > > *Mozilla/5

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: non-ASCII Twitter screen names

2010-02-03 Thread Abraham Williams
Huh. I wonder if they can still sign in... You can also see one of them on the web here http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=92595586 Other then an account here and there, from what was probably a bug in the validation code, there should be no accounts being created with such characters.

[twitter-dev] Re: non-ASCII Twitter screen names

2010-02-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Crumbs. This has the potential to really jerk me around. On Feb 3, 9:03 pm, PJB wrote: > Hm, wait... this account was created in Nov 2009 and has spaces and a > \n in his screen_name?? > > http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?user_id=92595586 > > On Feb 3, 4:59 pm, PJB wrote: > > > Just FYI, Twitte

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk User Look Up - any progress?

2010-02-03 Thread Ryan Sarver
Michael, It is definitely on our near-term roadmap, but we've gotten backed up on a few other things. So it is still coming, but I don't have an exact date for you. Social graph relief is neigh :) Best, Ryan On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Michael Steuer wrote: > Hi Raffi et al, > > Is there

[twitter-dev] Limit on number of concurrent requests

2010-02-03 Thread Tim Haines
Hi there, Is there a limit on the number of requests that will be processed per IP concurrently? I've been playing about and it seems to make 100 requests, the responses come back in roughly the same total time whether I use 10 or 100 threads. Still digging to see if it's something at my end hol

[twitter-dev] Re: non-ASCII Twitter screen names

2010-02-03 Thread PJB
I'm speculating, but I wonder if you do a blind form post to change usernames with non-ascii characters whether it will accept them? I think part of the validation by Twitter is done client-side (or so it appears), and that the Twitter databases store screen_name in utf-8 rather than ascii. I se

[twitter-dev] Re: False positives for uploading Image

2010-02-03 Thread whomba
Awesome, well thank you for responding back so quickly! No, if i call a users / show call new info is not updated. the response back from the success call is also incorrect. I have expereinced this before with other calls, and the way i've gotten around it in the past, and implemented it here al

[twitter-dev] Re: Limit on number of concurrent requests

2010-02-03 Thread Tim Haines
Cancel that. 100 threads gives a much better result than 10 threads on my production servers in the states (Ubuntu). I wonder why it makes no/little difference on OSX Leopard from Australia.. Tim. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Tim Haines wrote: > Hi there, > > Is there a limit on the number

[twitter-dev] Re: Mobile OAuth fix is LIVE

2010-02-03 Thread Brooks Bennett
Rocks! On Feb 3, 5:16 pm, Ryan Sarver wrote: > FINALLY! > > An update has just gone live that fixes rendering of the OAuth screens for > most mobile devices. We also fixed a few small nagging things like the > default action is now "allow" instead of deny if you just hit "go" on an > iPhone. I've

Re: [twitter-dev] Order of rate limiting with multiple predicates (Streaming API)

2010-02-03 Thread John Kalucki
We don't support per-keyword rate limiting, although this sounds like a fine feature. It might be best for uncurated keyword terms to hit the Search API until you understand their frequency, and then migrate them to Streaming. Perhaps if you save your high-access level account for your low-frequen

[twitter-dev] Re: 'Incorrect signature' on status update with OAuth when verify credentials works

2010-02-03 Thread Duane Roelands
Ryan: If posting "Hello World" works and posting "Hello world!" fails, then the problem is not the presence or absence of the "status" parameter. These are libraries that were working until recently; it appears that something has changed on Twitter's end. Multiple users of multiple libraries are

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk User Look Up - any progress?

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Steuer
Thanks Ryan On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Ryan Sarver wrote: Michael, It is definitely on our near-term roadmap, but we've gotten backed up on a few other things. So it is still coming, but I don't have an exact date for you. Social graph relief is neigh :) Best, Ryan On Wed, Feb 3, 20

[twitter-dev] Re: 'Incorrect signature' on status update with OAuth when verify credentials works

2010-02-03 Thread Duane Roelands
And please forgive my obnoxious tone; I'm tired and frustrated. :) On Feb 4, 12:05 am, Duane Roelands wrote: > Ryan: > > If posting "Hello World" works and posting "Hello world!" fails, then > the problem is not the presence or absence of the "status" parameter. > > These are libraries that were

[twitter-dev] statuses/mentions for other users?

2010-02-03 Thread Jaanus
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-mentions: "Returns the 20 most recent mentions (status containing @username) for the authenticating user." Is it possible to get this info for any other user than the authenticating one? I was expecting to be able to give this method us

Re: [twitter-dev] statuses/mentions for other users?

2010-02-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
yeah - unfortunately, the only way to go would be to use the search API. unless you're monitoring long term or in real time, then use the streaming API. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jaanus wrote: > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-mentions: > > "Returns the 20 mos

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: streaming apis + oauth

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Mims
* John Kalucki [091030 06:41]: > Currently the Streaming APIs are not intended for use by clients, but > mostly for use by services. Therefore oauth is not yet supported. > There's little need to pass an end-user's credentials on to the > Streaming API as all data currently available is public. Ra

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: streaming apis + oauth

2010-02-03 Thread John Kalucki
We have plans to support OAuth, but at the moment the Streaming API is mostly concerned with service integrations, so the password issue is far less of an issue there. Stay tuned. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Marc Mims wr

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jeffrey Friedl wrote: > > Not doing so is just another way you show that you have no respect for > third-party developers, essentially telling them to get lost. I find it terribly ironic when people complain that it is somehow "contempt" when a company does not doc