Hey Scott,
Just guessing here, but I think you may be looking at the (most recent)
status id that is returned, rather than the user id?
Tim.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Scott Aikin wrote:
> I've encountered a strange problem where sometimes verify_credentials
> gives me the wrong user id.
The argument of, "Clearly defining rules helps the spammers because
then they know exactly how to stay just within the boundaries," holds
_absolutely no_ water.
Imagine you own an ice rink. You draw a circle with a radius of 2
meters on the ice, and make the rule that it's okay to skate inside
the
Michael,
FYI - I raised this same question a few days ago with this discussion
thread: http://bit.ly/9PyWaG
Twitter is apparently going to review their process. Let's hope they
come up with something more reasonable for app developers.
Regards,
-Anil
On Feb 14, 2:02 pm, Michael wrote:
> I saw a
Thanks, Ryan, I really appreciate it.
The app's launched, by the way, so the cat's out of the bag – it's
called Feathers (decorate your tweets!) :) There's a short 1-min
screencast at http://feathersapp.com if you guys want to take a look.
It's already getting a stream of awesome reviews on Twitte
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Ryan Sarver wrote:
> Thanks for the thorough follow up. First of all we definitely care and we
> try to show that as opposed to just saying it. The @username issue is a
> really sticky one for us for a number of reasons. With that being said, I'm
> going to meet wi
Twitter should at least send a notification suspension, as well as a
tracking code possibly, for both parties benefits, twitter and the app.
*Reason*: My app was suspended, for something perfectly harmless, and was
re-granted permission the next day, but it took a few communications with
twitter
Wow. What's really of concern is the capricious approach Twitter
seems to have with app developers. Some apps are given a month to
make a change, some are cut off immediately, some are sent legal
letters, some are contacted beforehand, some aren't.
Frankly, there should be no tracking code. If
Sounds like Twitter dropped the ball with notifications. It appears that
Twitter normally does send notifications before suspension as Refollow [1]
got 2 warning. Although Rob had the issue of no response to clarifications.
Abraham
[1] http://refollow.tumblr.com/post/380619972/weve-been-suspended
This type of behavior by Twitter and treatment of developers is a
_great_ motivator to delve into the specs of the Google Buzz API.
On Feb 15, 3:11 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like Twitter dropped the ball with notifications. It appears that
> Twitter normally does sen
The http://twitter.com/friendships/add/abraham links appear to no longer
work. Was there an announcement in regards to the removal of this
functionality that third party applications might be relying on?
Abraham
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:38, TjL wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Mat
Correction. Delv into what the specs might someday be. :-P
Abraham
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:38, Dewald Pretorius wrote:
> This type of behavior by Twitter and treatment of developers is a
> _great_ motivator to delve into the specs of the Google Buzz API.
>
> On Feb 15, 3:11 pm, Abraham Willi
hmm. thats news to me too.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>wrote:
> The http://twitter.com/friendships/add/abraham links appear to no longer
> work. Was there an announcement in regards to the removal of this
> functionality that third party applications mig
I thought Twitter didn't like bots? If so, why did they apparently
have one send out suspension warnings? That's at least my conclusion
given their non-response to questions, at least in that case.
(As well, it seems as though the OAuth push is, at least in part,
about app policing.)
One would
Awesome!
Abraham
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 19:55, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> TTYtter 1.0.0 is released, a large update to the internals of TTYtter which
> allows multiple extensions to be installed and executed, along with
> significant code rewrites and new features.
>
> For people using TTYtter as
Look, it is self-evident by now that this heavy-handed Gestapo-like
action against applications is causing great anxiety in the developer
community. We now have two very recent incidents, one of which was
handled by Brian, who is part of the Platform team.
For every person who has commented on thi
"the wrath of the platform team" <- that's a highly unfair characterization.
just sayin'.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote:
> Look, it is self-evident by now that this heavy-handed Gestapo-like
> action against applications is causing great anxiety in the developer
> comm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Abraham
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 13:51, Dewald Pretorius wrote:
> Look, it is self-evident by now that this heavy-handed Gestapo-like
> action against applications is causing great anxiety in the developer
> community. We now have two very recent inciden
Dude, really? Gestapo?
Look, I don't think it's awesome or anything, but be *really* careful
about attributing malice to something which could just be
incompetence. Encourage fair play, for sure, but let's stick to the
facts and avoid rhetoric.
--
Ed Finkler
http://funkatron.com
Twitter:@funkatr
Raffi,
People keep quiet and don't say what they really think on these forums
because they are scared of falling out of favor with you guys. That is
what I meant.
On Feb 15, 5:54 pm, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
> "the wrath of the platform team" <- that's a highly unfair characterization.
> just say
i, for one, enjoy hearing (constructive) criticisms -- people should feel
free to mail to this list, send a tweet to @twitterapi, find us on IRC, or,
in the case of sensitive information, reach out to some of us directly. it
forces us at twitter to become better.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:06 PM,
So in general it's not possible to see that for example that old tweets
mentioning e.g., @pumpkingod (my old screen name) are actually referring to
user id 13447902 whose current screen name is @copumpkin? Are there any
plans to add a way to look those up?
Thanks,
Daniel
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at
Hi, I've written a twitter steaming app that visualizes twitter search
results. I am connecting to the stream using my own twitter account.
Can I continue to use my own account when I release the application or
would the user have to provide there own username/password? I want to
be able to use my
On a per tweet basis we can get:
"from_user_id":2674844
Is this the same as 'id' for a user? If not, what's the quickest way
to get one from the other?
I notice some methods can take either user_id OR id, and was wondering
what the difference is?
Finally, does followers/ids return user_id or id?
I am working on an Android application which is to serve as a simple
Twitter client. I am using OAuth for authorization and have
registered
my application with Twitter as new OAuth client.
Now when the user authorizes the application, I expect to be taken to
the Callback URL(which is pointing to my
i'm having trouble getting a geolocation to show up when I am
searching within a specific radius of a geolocation. i'm using the
twitter4j library. is it possible to search a location and have the
specific lat and long returned in the results.
thanks
Hi,
I was creating a simple application which requests statuses of a
certain list within my Twitter account using the following command:
http://api.twitter.com/1/id/lists/list-id/statuses.xml.
For some reason, after doing some requests, i get a HTTP 400 Bad
Request.
I have read that a client may
I was reading this thread and I was wondering if anyone knew how to
search within a specific geolocation and then have the coordinates
(when applicable) to show up in the results. I got my program to
search within a certain area, and I was able to get the coordinates
when not looking in a specific
Raffi,
Just out of pure curiosity, does Twitter have any statistic pages anywhere
regarding the volume of tweets processed etc?
Scott.
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i don't think there is a way to do this currently.
could i ask a favor and ask you to note this feature request on the google
code tracker?
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> So in general it's not possible to see that for example that old tweets
> mentioning e.g., @pumpki
I am still really struggling with this, I have searched everywhere and
no matter what code I use I end up with a post that has escaped
quotes, here is a sample:
Lets see if we fixed the issue with \"quotes\", even when they are
\'single\' quotes, nope no luck yet...
What format will twitter accep
I applied to get a "shadow" role level of access to the streaming api
and not sure how to check what role I have?
After I login into my twitter account, I goto this URL: :
http://twitter.com/help/request_streaming
which then displays this message at the top:
You're already set to access the Stre
I figured out how to implement Abraham's OAuth code. I added this to
my callback page, but nothing shows up:
$to = new TwitterOAuth($consumer_key, $consumer_secret,
$oauth_access_token, $oauth_access_secret);
$content = $to->OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/statuses/
user_timeline.xml?', array('s
Nevermind. Figured it out. The code works now.
I'd like to have a link on my website that visitors could click that
would, if they are logged in to their Twitter account simultaneously,
directly add them as followers.
I have attempted to modify a Classic ASP script that did status
updates, for this purpose:
'function asp_twitter_update(strMsg
i think you're referring to from_user_id which shows up in the search API --
unfortunately, we haven't yet rectified our user IDs between search and REST
APIs.
note the WARNING on
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:06 AM, redders wrote:
> On a
we do, but, unfortunately, not public at this time.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Scott Wilcox wrote:
> Raffi,
>
> Just out of pure curiosity, does Twitter have any statistic pages anywhere
> regarding the volume of tweets processed etc?
>
> Scott.
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Tea
You can check if you are getting rate limited with this method:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0rate_limit_status
If you are using OAuth on http://api.twitter.com then you should be getting
350 (last I heard) hits per hour. Otherwise you will be limited to 150/h.
When I changed my screen_name last year all the replies continued to show up
in the replies API method. This might have changed with the switch to
mentions.
Abraham
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:21, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> So in general it's not possible to see that for example that old tweets
> m
Over the last few minutes, I'm seeing a huge jump in Fail Whales. What
happened?
--
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- Everyone is entitled to my opinion. -- James Carpent
> > Look, it is self-evident by now that this heavy-handed Gestapo-like
> > action against applications is causing great anxiety in the developer
> > community. We now have two very recent incidents, one of which was
> > handled by Brian, who is part of the Platform team.
>
> Dude, really? Gestapo?
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 14:55, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Quite. I've never felt in any way intimidated by the API group, and any
> disagreements I have had with their policies have been entirely
> constructive.
>
Ditto. However if anyone wishes to anonymously pass information to the
Twitter Platfo
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Quite. I've never felt in any way intimidated by the API group, and any
> disagreements I have had with their policies have been entirely constructive.
I feel more intimidated by people in this group than the core Twitter team.
I mean, som
Oh for crying out loud, is everyone now going to stare themselves
blind at the phrase "Gestapo-like" and forget about the issue at hand?
It is meant to portray a one-sided action where the accused party is
not afforded a voice, or his/her objections, rationale, or
explanations are ignored.
C'mon,
> Oh for crying out loud, is everyone now going to stare themselves
> blind at the phrase "Gestapo-like" and forget about the issue at hand?
> It is meant to portray a one-sided action where the accused party is
> not afforded a voice, or his/her objections, rationale, or
> explanations are ignored
We're seeing the same thing, especially with OAuth. Nothing's posted on
status.twitter.com yet. Any updates?
Thanks!
Yu-Shan
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Over the last few minutes, I'm seeing a huge jump in Fail Whales. What
> happened?
>
> --
> -
we're aware of the issue and are working on it - i expect a post to
status.twitter.com in a bit.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Yu-Shan Fung wrote:
> We're seeing the same thing, especially with OAuth. Nothing's posted on
> status.twitter.com yet. Any updates?
>
> Thanks!
> Yu-Shan
>
>
> On Mo
I apologize for my choice of words.
Now, can we get back to discussing Twitter using OAuth as a mechanism
to heavy-handedly suspend applications as witnessed by the two recent
cases we know of, while measuring the guilt of the application against
nebulous rules that nobody knows exactly what they
Sorry; I did look at the FAQ and search the archive, but still the
answer wasn't clear to me
So far I have an ordinary authorized Twitter web application using
OAuth, not whitelisted or anything. From what I understand in the
FAQ, that limits API requests from my website to 350/hr.
People ar
GET requests to the REST API (not the streaming API or search API; they fall
under different limits) count against the hourly rate limit. If you're making
the request as an authenticated user, it count's against the user's rate limit.
Otherwise, it counts against the IP address's (your website's
Frankly, I sort of hope that Twitter DOESN'T further define their
nebulous rules. Why? Because when they do, the axe often falls on
legitimate app developers (rather than abusive users or problem apps)
in really short-sighted ways. Moreover, their rules are usually
blanket pronouncements withou
I've been using OAuth in my iPhone application for several weeks now
without issue. Today users started reporting that they can no longer
complete login with username and password. Now it returns a
"Connection Allowed" with a PIN, and wants the user to enter the PIN
into the app. Which of course th
Hey,
Just wanted to make a quick comment and ask if somebody could please
update the documentation appropriately. On the wiki there is just a
mention of emailing a...@twitter.com to gain elevated access to the
stream. But it seems that we should be accessing this link in stead,
http://twitter.co
Well PJB, there is always a completely different approach that Twitter
could take.
They could bolster their internal coding and defenses against what
they consider to be abuse, much like they did for duplicate content,
and then not suspend applications at all.
That way applications can try whatev
On 15 Feb 2010, at 22:59, Abraham Williams wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 14:55, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Quite. I've never felt in any way intimidated by the API group, and any
> disagreements I have had with their policies have been entirely constructive.
>
> Ditto. However if anyone wishe
Hi,
Please correct me if I am wrong. Isn't the purpose of the email to
a...@twitter.com is to not let people gain access at will?
Regards,
Atul.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Dima wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Just wanted to make a quick comment and ask if somebody could please
> update the documentati
hi denvog.
could you please file a report in the google code tracker? i'm not aware of
a change here.
if you could - please post the path through the API that your application is
taking, report what used to occur, and then report what is currently
happening? do you know when this started happin
Yep, that should have been implicit in my post.
Anti-spam actions should be chiefly aimed at abusive users, rather
than developers. After all, it may be pretty easy for Twitter to
limit what Web-based apps can do, but won't such behavior just shift
to the Desktop, in even more flagrant and ridic
The third alternate approach is that I just STFU and make take the
approach of "every man for himself."
On Feb 15, 9:51 pm, PJB wrote:
> Yep, that should have been implicit in my post.
>
> Anti-spam actions should be chiefly aimed at abusive users, rather
> than developers. After all, it may be
Here at gnip we get a lot of people who ask us if they should move to
the streaming api and we talk to a lot of people who we "politely"
suggest that they move to the twitter streaming api. we've written up
a primer on the whole process that covers most of what we've learned.
would love to get som
As the documentation states, email a...@twitter.com with a brief description
of your company and your use case. Jumping right to the request_streaming
URL is counter-productive.
Please pardon our dust during construction. Once we have the licensing
framework in place, we hope to accelerate approva
The request_streaming URL just allows you to input some data and accept the
EULA. It has no other real or practical purpose.
If you have been granted shadow access, you should be able to follow more
than 400 users on stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/follow.json.
If you cannot, you either have a bug
Carl,
At this point, we are not encouraging end-user applications to communicate
directly with the Streaming API. The primary purpose of the Streaming API is
currently for service-to-service integrations. For example, we don't
currently support oAuth.
You may release your application, however. Ea
Are you receiving limit messages?
If not, than the issue isn't with your Streaming API role, but rather how
you are defining your search terms. You may need a broader predicate set to
catch more of them
If you are receiving limit messages, you can request a higher access level
at a...@twitter.com
Hi Raffi. Thanks for your reply.
After a lot of searching, I found a thread related to my issue. http://droolfactory.blogspot.com/2010/02/fix-for-twitter-oauth-
iphone-due-to.html">Fix for Twitter-OAuth-iPhone Due to Twitter Mobile
OAuth Update. I implemented the recommended change, and it appears
yeah - i remember that issue... your application is screen scraping to get
the OAuth PIN?
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:07 PM, DenVog wrote:
> Hi Raffi. Thanks for your reply.
>
> After a lot of searching, I found a thread related to my issue. href="http://droolfactory.blogspot.com/2010/02/fix-for
Scenario One: Pissed Off Developer Develops Desktop App.
1) Desktop app instructs user to register his own OAuth app in his own
Twitter account, and enter the consumer key & secret in the desktop
app.
2) User gets his own vanity anchor text & hyperlink in the source area
of his tweets.
3) If Twitt
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