[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth rate limit question

2010-03-03 Thread Nik Fletcher
Hey Raffi So, would Twitter prefer that clients use the headers instead of relying on the (now misleading) account/rate_limit_status method to verify the rate limit? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-account%C2%A0rate_limit_status As, even with Oauth-signed requests, this

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Rate Limit Increase - Not seeing it

2010-03-03 Thread Nik Fletcher
Hi there We also thought we were not receiving the correct rate limit - however the account/rate_limit_status method doesn't actually correctly reflect these new request limits. Instead, you'll need to (at least, until - or if - Twitter change this method to respond appropriately to OAuth calls)

Re: [twitter-dev] Data rates from yesterday's meeting?

2010-03-03 Thread Ed Costello
Related question: is there any technical difference between http://stream.twitter.com/spritzer.json and http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json? spritzer.json is what one gets if you click on the link to sample.json in the firehose page on the wiki. -- -ed costello @epc / +13474080372

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth rate limit question

2010-03-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Well - it seems to me that rate limit status may have an issue with it. We will have to take a look. On Mar 3, 2010, at 2:56 AM, Nik Fletcher nik.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Raffi So, would Twitter prefer that clients use the headers instead of relying on the (now misleading)

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth rate limit question

2010-03-03 Thread Ryan Alford
Just to add, I also get the 150 rate limit when using the account/rate_limit_status method. I am using OAuth and api.twitter.com. Ryan On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: Well - it seems to me that rate limit status may have an issue with it. We will

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth

2010-03-03 Thread Berto
Isn't that using a GET request versus the docs saying POST? And I thought parameters were supposed to be normalized except for signature which gets attached at the end? On Mar 2, 3:40 pm, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: * Berto mstbe...@gmail.com [100302 13:28]: At first I thought this

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Rate Limit Increase - Not seeing it

2010-03-03 Thread twittelator
I reported this bug yesterday. Instead of making that extra call, why not look at the response headers which come back with each API ACCESS - you'll get the info you need: X-Ratelimit-Limit = 150; X-Ratelimit-Remaining = 133; X-Ratelimit-Reset = 1267576025; Andrew Stone Twitter /

[twitter-dev] Follow me on Twitter

2010-03-03 Thread AlexBeck
I am creating a project for a rather large client, and have run into a twitter api question. The client wants to create a follow me on twitter bug on the page, but they do not want to land on any page that is a twitter.com address? is it possible to create an experience in a browser where

[twitter-dev] Obj-C xAuth Demo

2010-03-03 Thread Isaiah Carew
Hi guys, For those looking to implement xAuth for Mac OS X, I've set up a complete working demo app. It uses MGTwitterEngine and the OAConsumer libs to do the dirty work and just adds enough to implement the new xAuth flow. I've tried to keep the code as simple to understand as possible,

[twitter-dev] Re: forcing api.twitter.com resources - tomorrow

2010-03-03 Thread Caizer
Hmm.. I tested with oauth via both 'api.twitter.com' and 'twitter.com'. Both works well. And I can see the xauth uri has 'api.twitter.com' in front. Can I just change all those twitter.com to api.twitter.com? including oauth methods? It seems like api documentation for oauth method is not yet

[twitter-dev] Re: icon size issue

2010-03-03 Thread Terence Eden
Noted in issue http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=601 If you're developing for mobile, try http://tinysrc.net/ to dynamically resize the avatars. On Feb 27, 1:44 am, eco_bach bac...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know what the eta is for fixing the icon size issue? I just came

[twitter-dev] Updates Since Last API Call

2010-03-03 Thread Craig Brass
Hello, Just wondering if there is any way to grab all updates since the last API call for the user logged in? Best Regards, Craig Brass

[twitter-dev] Guidance over a Twitter API project

2010-03-03 Thread Edie Dias
Hello, I`m Edie and I am a Webdesigner. Here is the thing. I was asked to do a freelancer with some twitter interactions. The client has a website and wanted to do a promotion. What is suppose to do? The user follows the twitter sites owner. After the following action, automatically sends to the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Rate Limit Increase - Not seeing it

2010-03-03 Thread Ryan Alford
I was able to get that working. I didn't notice that those headers were only sent for requests that counted against the rate limit. Ryan On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:33 PM, twittelator and...@stone.com wrote: I reported this bug yesterday. Instead of making that extra call, why not look at the

[twitter-dev] What is the correct OAuth API endpoint

2010-03-03 Thread Zhami
What is the correct API end-point for OAuth authenticated, *documented* API calls? http(s)://twitter.com http(s)://api.twitter.com http(s)://api.twitter.com/1

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: xAuth

2010-03-03 Thread Marc Mims
* Berto mstbe...@gmail.com [100303 06:42]: Isn't that using a GET request versus the docs saying POST? And I thought parameters were supposed to be normalized except for signature which gets attached at the end? Hmmm. I completely missed the fact that the documentation specifies POST. I used

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Rate Limit Increase - Not seeing it

2010-03-03 Thread Ryan Alford
I just want to ask how you guys handle the following situation. And please correct anything that is incorrect. The user starts up your application, and they have exhausted all of their rate limit(using another application). Your application does not know this when it is first starting because

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: forcing api.twitter.com resources - tomorrow

2010-03-03 Thread Raffi Krikorian
yes - you could just use api.twitter.com for oauth methods. we're working on getting those moved to the versioned endpoints as well, just FYI - so you may have to move them again to api.twitter.com/1 at some point. 2010/3/3 Caizer cai...@gmail.com Hmm.. I tested with oauth via both

Re: [twitter-dev] Data rates from yesterday's meeting?

2010-03-03 Thread John Kalucki
I think in megabits per second, not megabytes per second. If I said megabytes on Monday night, apologies. This rate is now easy enough to deduce. A JSON tweet is about 1,400 bytes. We announced 50mm tweets per day: 5000 * 1400 / (24*3600) * 8 6481480 Or 6.4mbit, average. Peak rate is

Re: [twitter-dev] Data rates from yesterday's meeting?

2010-03-03 Thread John Kalucki
Spritzer.json was depreciated in September 2009. It currently rewrites to /1/statuses/sample.json, and that rewrite rule is being removed. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Ed Costello epcoste...@gmail.com wrote: Related

Re: [twitter-dev] Data rates from yesterday's meeting?

2010-03-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Yep - I used the same logic. I didn't hear the Monday session, just saw the archived tweet stream. It was stated in MB/s, which is why I asked. My calculations agreed with the assumption of bits instead of bytes. ;-) Now I can go write my blog post. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: forcing api.twitter.com resources - tomorrow

2010-03-03 Thread Josh Roesslein
For the OAuth endpoints on api.twitter.com, was the sign off redirection bug [1] ever fixed? This was one issue keeping me from switching from twitter.com - api.twitter.com for the OAuth methods. Josh [1] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1207 2010/3/3 Raffi Krikorian

[twitter-dev] Re: A PubSubHubbub hub for Twitter

2010-03-03 Thread Julien
All, we just posted the results on our blog : http://blog.superfeedr.com/API/PubSubHubbub/Twitter/feeds/streaming/a-hub-for-twitter/ I'll also sent them to John Kalucki and Ryan Sarver. It's their time to play :D On Mar 2, 7:57 am, Julien julien.genest...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew, it's not so

Re: [twitter-dev] Obj-C xAuth Demo

2010-03-03 Thread Clint Shryock
I saw your repository this morning, it all looks fantastic. I appreciate the work you've done. I'll probably appreciate it more when I actually get around to using it +Clint On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Isaiah Carew isa...@me.com wrote: Hi guys, For those looking to implement xAuth

[twitter-dev] Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-03 Thread Ryan Sarver
This is an announcement that we will be deprecating the * /statuses/public_timeline* resource as of April 5th (4/5/10). Please let us know if there are any major concerns. Thanks, Ryan

Re: [twitter-dev] Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser
This is an announcement that we will be deprecating the * /statuses/public_timeline* resource as of April 5th (4/5/10). Please let us know if there are any major concerns. Why? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap

Re: [twitter-dev] What is the correct OAuth API endpoint

2010-03-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Zhami, http(s)://api.twitter.com is best for OAuth-related operations like the requestToken, accessToken, and authorizeToken steps of the OAuth flow. These aren't versioned the way that resource-based APIs are. http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize

Re: [twitter-dev] Follow me on Twitter

2010-03-03 Thread Scott Wilcox
Hello Alex, Not really, no. They'll at least have to travel to the Twitter site to go through the OAuth process. Scott. On 3 Mar 2010, at 02:58, AlexBeck wrote: I am creating a project for a rather large client, and have run into a twitter api question. The client wants to create a follow

Re: [twitter-dev] What is the correct OAuth API endpoint

2010-03-03 Thread Scott Wilcox
Zhami, I'd go with https://api.twitter.com/1 Scott. On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:02, Zhami wrote: What is the correct API end-point for OAuth authenticated, *documented* API calls? http(s)://twitter.com http(s)://api.twitter.com http(s)://api.twitter.com/1 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

[twitter-dev] What is limit for receiving direct messages?

2010-03-03 Thread Ramanean
What is the limit for receiving direct messages? Whether I would be able to receive more than 250 direct messages ?? from different users? Thanks Shan

[twitter-dev] Monday's Dev Meeting

2010-03-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Has anyone published notes about the meeting somewhere?

[twitter-dev] Are there anyway to retrieve user profile from twitter API

2010-03-03 Thread xhe
I now want to enable user to link their twitter account to our website, that means, after OAuth, twitter will forward user to my website, and then I want to retrieve that user's profile, such as twitterId, name..., and prefill the form for user to register. This steps is pretty straightforword,

[twitter-dev] Re: xAuth

2010-03-03 Thread Berto
Raffi, Can you comment on the first part of Marc's last reply? Thanks! On Mar 3, 9:24 am, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: * Berto mstbe...@gmail.com [100303 06:42]: Isn't that using a GET request versus the docs saying POST?  And I thought parameters were supposed to be normalized

Re: [twitter-dev] Introduce yourself!

2010-03-03 Thread Roberto Etcheverry
Hi, I'm Roberto Etcheverry (@retcheverry) and I develop twavel.com (@twaveltak), a travel deal site that feeds on tweets and lets users post their travel deals on Twitter among other things. I'm a Perl and Python programmer, Linux fan and vi addict. I'm using the excellent Net::Twitter Perl

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-03-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hello Twitter Development Community, My name is Taylor Singletary (@episod on Twitter) and I'm Twitter's first developer advocate. I'm all about making the developer experience here awesome. I'm still learning and will always be learning. Learning is fun. A little about my history: I worked

[twitter-dev] Can't access old tweets via statuses/user_timeline

2010-03-03 Thread @seiz
Hi, I am Trying to backup all my tweets (for @seiz) but it seems tweets of a certain age aren't accessible via the api (the oldest tweet i get is ID 1226937920 from 02/2009). I am even using since_id and max_id restrictions in the API call in order to avoid hitting a pagination limit and still

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates Since Last API Call

2010-03-03 Thread @seiz
You have to somehow store the ID of the newest tweet you saw in your last API call and then use since_id in your new API call to only get tweets/mentions etc which are newer than said ID.

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow me on Twitter

2010-03-03 Thread Jaanus
Twitter API lets you follow and unfollow people. But, the user needs to login, and these days the fancy way to do login is through OAuth, which means a trip to twitter.com anyway. On Mar 2, 9:58 pm, AlexBeck alexbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I am creating a project for a rather large client, and have

[twitter-dev] New way to get highest id?

2010-03-03 Thread Brian Morearty
With the upcoming deprecation of /statuses/public_timeline that was just announced, will there be any way to find out the (approximate) highest tweet id? I know the streaming API would work but it seems like overkill. Scenario: in my app I cache tweets for performance and to avoid over- calling

[twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-03 Thread Carlos
why? On Mar 3, 9:45 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: This is an announcement that we will be deprecating the * /statuses/public_timeline* resource as of April 5th (4/5/10). Please let us know if there are any major concerns. Thanks, Ryan

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-03-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
The single thing that would help me the most is a Twitter-created open source library to connect to Streaming, written in *C* and supplied with SWIG .i interface definition files. That way, I would know: a. I had the correct connection algorithm, backoffs, DNS time-to-live, etc. b. I had

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-03 Thread Patrick Kennedy
Because you're suppose to use home_timeline now, which has everything public_timeline has, plus support for retweets. ~Patrick On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Carlos carlosju...@gmail.com wrote: why? On Mar 3, 9:45 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: This is an announcement that we

[twitter-dev] Retweets

2010-03-03 Thread Patrick
I need to fix my retweets logic. Does anyone know someone (or some recommended service) that retweets ad nauseum (via twitter's formal retweet feature), or nearly so?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-03 Thread Abraham Williams
One less method for Twitter to maintain when the data is available through the Streaming API. Abraham On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 20:21, Patrick Kennedy kenned...@gmail.com wrote: Because you're suppose to use home_timeline now, which has everything public_timeline has, plus support for retweets.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Deprecating /statuses/public_timeline resource on 4/5/10

2010-03-03 Thread Patrick Kennedy
Ops. Was thinking about user_timeline v. home_timeline. So, public_timeline is now going away too. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: One less method for Twitter to maintain when the data is available through the Streaming API. Abraham On Wed, Mar 3,

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-03-03 Thread Jaanus
Hi, I’m Jaanus. My day job has nothing to do with Twitter, but a few months back, I started looking into Twitter and iPhone more closely out of personal interest as a hobby project. I wrote down how OAuth works [1] and made a simple Objective-C implementation [2]. Just now, I released a new

Re: [twitter-dev] Retweets

2010-03-03 Thread Josh Bleecher Snyder
I need to fix my retweets logic. Does anyone know someone (or some recommended service) that retweets ad nauseum (via twitter's formal retweet feature), or nearly so? I certainly wouldn't call it ad nauseum, but the esteemed @NickKristof retweets fairly regularly. -josh

Re: [twitter-dev] Retweets

2010-03-03 Thread Abraham Williams
Also @scobleizer. Abraham On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 21:03, Josh Bleecher Snyder joshar...@gmail.comwrote: I need to fix my retweets logic. Does anyone know someone (or some recommended service) that retweets ad nauseum (via twitter's formal retweet feature), or nearly so? I certainly

Re: [twitter-dev] Retweets

2010-03-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Moi (@znmeb) retweets almost exclusively from the web app with the built-in retweet and almost never using the old way. I'd say a good 25 percent of my tweets are retweets, too. Ad nauseam might well describe my stream. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/