[twitter-dev] Possible to increase DM count?

2010-03-22 Thread olympyx
I'm developing an application that is dependent on DMs. I realize that whitelisting only affects/increases API requests. Is it possible for specific accounts to have their DM allotment increased? If so, how does one go about requesting this? If not, would you please consider offering this?

Re: [twitter-dev] getting authenticated user's rate-limit-using rest API.

2010-03-22 Thread Rushikesh Bhanage
Hi, (Note: In my app, single white listed useraccount's requests are not sufficient to complete particular task, so i need to switch from one account to another without breaking operation, if previous A/C's hits got over. ) In my case both the users are authenticated. Now problem is that

[twitter-dev] how registered application user can follow the logged in user in rails

2010-03-22 Thread bhagi
Hi, I am developing an application which is using twitter's apis for authentication and twitting. Through /friendships/show?target_id api logged in user can follow the my application user but now i want to follow that user with my registered application's user id. So can anybody help me out for

[twitter-dev] Importing contacts from Twitter to other site

2010-03-22 Thread inderpreet.dbydx.com
How can I export my twitter contacts to my site. I have tried using some API, but in all of them I don't get the email id of the user's contacts. Is it possible to fetch the email id's of friends ?? If I need to export the email ids , is there an API available for the same? To unsubscribe

[twitter-dev] Streaming API , statuses/filter using track

2010-03-22 Thread Kislay
Hi , I would like to know whether the streaming API allows us to get older tweets using filter with track predicate . Say , I have created a filter using a certain set of keywords , and if the real time stream does NOT contain any matching tweets , does it look in the older set of tweets , or

[twitter-dev] Google Maps / Twitter Mashup

2010-03-22 Thread barkclark
Hi, i was using this as a base code to workout a google maps / twitter mashup for my website. http://code.google.com/p/geo-api/source/browse/#svn/trunk/demos/twitter-neighborhoods Problem is i do not what the neighbourhood function in it and only want tweets from scotland. Every time i try to

Re: [twitter-dev] Importing contacts from Twitter to other site

2010-03-22 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi, There's no way to retrieve email address for friends or otherwise in the Twitter APIs. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, inderpreet.dbydx.com ispy1...@gmail.comwrote: How can I export my twitter contacts to my site.

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API , statuses/filter using track

2010-03-22 Thread John Kalucki
The Streaming API only serves current statuses and a short history, controlled by the count parameter. Use one of the REST APIs to backfill. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Kislay kislaychan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Send Cyrillic character (OAuth)

2010-03-22 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Patrick, The entry point to the app is in HomeController#index -- but there's not much interesting stuff there. The most interesting parts of OAuth are handled in both the service_provider.rb model, the TheDanceController for the various OAuth steps, and then the api_request.rb model for the

[twitter-dev] new suggested users api

2010-03-22 Thread Quy
How do I page through this API call? users/suggestions/category Do we always just get the first page of suggested users for a category? Quy To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as

[twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for personal alerts?

2010-03-22 Thread MaartenB
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your response, afaik will the whitelist only affect the number of API calls and not the number of updates you're allowed to create. Thanks for the DM tip that seems to work! However in this particular case I'll prefer sending public readable tweets instead of private DM's.

[twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized

2010-03-22 Thread Uladzimir Pashkevich
Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply! Screen name of the account is dmlreach. Please see the request and 2 responses. Request: GET /1/account/verify_credentials.xml HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic MY_AUTH_STRING_HERE Host: api.twitter.com OK response headers: Status: 200 OK X-Transaction:

[twitter-dev] Re: Why does changing this one char invalidate this message

2010-03-22 Thread Oli
Hi again Mark. I have just used realterm to connect instead of hyperterminal (shows every char including hidden ones) and I have had success with my first example, however I am still struggling to get the full example working (I had tried to simplify to a working/non- working example as much as

[twitter-dev] Geolocation says wrong town

2010-03-22 Thread tux_advocate_hpu
Last week, geolocation was OK, but today, it says the wrong town. I am sending Lat/Long with my tweets... the exact same Lat/Long as last week. But now it says 'Jamestown, NC' instead of 'High Point, NC'. This is not good b/c our organization is called 'High Point University' and it looks

[twitter-dev] Re: Geolocation says wrong town

2010-03-22 Thread tux_advocate_hpu
I got this fixed. I am now adding a 'place_id' to all my Tweets. I still do not know why this problem starting happening in the first place... I figured out the correct place_id using instructions from this page: https://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-geo-reverse_geocode

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Project website

2010-03-22 Thread IanQuigley
Are you sure they check this forum for update requests? You might want to email them directly. I did. Ian To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Why does changing this one char invalidate this message

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
I tested this by 1) Replacing the basic auth header with my own 2) Opening a connection via telnet on OS X telnet twitter.com 80 3) Pasting in the sample 4) Looking at the response And it works for me. Note that if I do it a second time I get a 200 and an empty response, as you're going to

Re: [twitter-dev] getting authenticated user's rate-limit-using rest API.

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
Authenticate as the second user. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Rushikesh Bhanage rishibhan...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, (Note: In my app, single white listed useraccount's requests are not sufficient to complete particular task, so i need to switch from

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Project website

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
Done ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM, IanQuigley irquig...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure they check this forum for update requests? You might want to email them directly. I did. Ian To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 403 on statuses longer than 140 characters

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
Complete is probably overly optimistic. However for the case of when we return 403s on status updates and how you can tell why we did so the documentation is now more up to date. Enjoy! ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Andy Freeman ana...@earthlink.net

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 401 Unauthorized

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
Everything looks fine with your POST conversation. Can you email directly with more details? 1) What library/tool are you using to make your POSTs? 2) What are the OS/architectures you're running on in your different environments? 3) Are there odd characters in the password? (could this be a

[twitter-dev] Re: Geolocation revisited

2010-03-22 Thread Ken
On Mar 22, 06:20 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: So if a user enables geolocation on Twitter, but refuses geolocation in Firefox, their location will not show when tweeting through the web? Also, any such user of a moblie device would have to disable transmission of geodata?

[twitter-dev] /filter question

2010-03-22 Thread rob
Quick question: When consuming the Streaming API on the Filter endpoint can you provide both the track and follow predicates? ex: ?track=foofollow=1234566 We would like to have a single user with elevated access for both the track and follow roles and utilize a single connection. Thanks, Rob

Re: [twitter-dev] /filter question

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
You can. However this will be a logical ORing of predicates. So you'll get all tweets from user 1234566, and all tweets with the keyword foo ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:28 AM, rob robert.bag...@gmail.com wrote: Quick question: When consuming the Streaming

[twitter-dev] Re: Does users/search have a much lower limit? Blocked after 70 calls.

2010-03-22 Thread raffi
hi roy. i just added a note to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users-search that states that this endpoint is limited to 60 calls per hour. hope that helps! On Mar 18, 4:14 am, Roy Rodenstein roy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm still having an issue from a couple of weeks

[twitter-dev] Regarding Recent vs Most Popular parameters in Search api

2010-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I understand where your headed regarding 'search'... What i'd like is that the default on the current search API be unchanged, so that it still returns recent by default... That way I don't have to change my existing application: www.tweettronics.com to ensure it's adherence to the current

[twitter-dev] Announcing push.ly

2010-03-22 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi all, I have recently launched http://push.ly/ - twitter mentions pushed to your phone (and free)! Right now it has iPhone integration with Tweetie, TweetDeck, and Echofon. If you have written (or know of) other iPhone twitter clients that have custom URI schemes that allow you to open the app

[twitter-dev] OAuth Echo progress, next steps?

2010-03-22 Thread Jaanus
How is OAuth Echo going? What are the next steps? I would really like to start posting pictures from @cremeapp to all sorts of places, and also build my own serverside stuff, but it's all pending on Twitter's next steps. I guess there will be more news at Chirp but I won't be there and it's still

[twitter-dev] Search API fails with Chinese

2010-03-22 Thread Irokez
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=^_^lang=en - works perfectly http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=^_^lang=zh - Twitter search has timed out Is there a way to solve the problem? To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply

[twitter-dev] How To: Test the upcoming Content-Type HTTP header change in advance

2010-03-22 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hey Everyone! We wanted to let you all know that you can now opt-in to testing the Twitter API setting the appropriate Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded on the OAuth-related token exchange steps (request_token, access_token). Some background: To date we've been returning

[twitter-dev] 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-22 Thread Dewald Pretorius
When is the change going live to return a 403 response code on a duplicate post? I'm still getting the old behavior. A 200 OK is returned with the details of the latest successful tweet on the account. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [twitter-dev] 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
On api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: When is the change going live to return a 403 response code on a duplicate post? I'm still getting the old behavior. A 200 OK is returned

[twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-22 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Yes, I just tried it again. URL: https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json Headers: Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:09:39 GMT Server: hi Status: 200 OK X-Transaction: 1269292179-62279-30903 ETag: 05ef33cb30cec1cfa0c5887d4862c9df Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:09:39 GMT X-Runtime: 0.26340

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
I just tried it and got a 403. Can you give me a screen name you're using, the data posted, and the data returned? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I just tried it again. URL:

[twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-22 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I will email the details to a...@twitter.com, so be on the look out for a ticket from me. On Mar 22, 6:27 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: I just tried it and got a 403.  Can you give me a screen name you're using, the data posted, and the data returned?   ---Mark

[twitter-dev] Re: 403 on duplicate post - when?

2010-03-22 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ticket #915557 On Mar 22, 6:27 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: I just tried it and got a 403.  Can you give me a screen name you're using, the data posted, and the data returned?   ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Dewald Pretorius

Re: [twitter-dev] /filter question

2010-03-22 Thread John Kalucki
However, the roles system currently does not allow elevated access for multiple parameters. On the same account, you can get a track elevation or a follow elevation, but not both. In this rare case, we'll just have to maintain a second connection with a second account name. Note that follow is

[twitter-dev] Almost real time

2010-03-22 Thread Alberty Pascal
Hi all, while it's not possible to use AND search predicate in filter streaming, how it could be possible to get back almost real time search results ? My goal is to be sure that I got all the tweets for a complex search as fast as possible. Get a small amount (rpp) of tweets very often (every

[twitter-dev] Wrong User ID for a reply

2010-03-22 Thread Vikas
Hi, I am trying to fetch the User ID to include in the Reply field and it fetches the correct user ID if you are following the person and some wrong User ID if you are just replying to a Tweet from the Search topics. Has anyone seen this kind of behavior and what could possibly be wrong here? I

[twitter-dev] Re: Wrong User ID for a reply

2010-03-22 Thread S Wang
From the API documentation: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search Warning: The user ids in the Search API are different from those in the REST API (about the two APIs). This defect is being tracked by Issue 214. This means that the to_user_id and from_user_id field

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API fails with Chinese

2010-03-22 Thread S Wang
Pretty odd, I am able to use curl to get http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=^_^lang=zh but have the same problem as you fetching it through Firefox/Safari. On Mar 22, 12:51 pm, Irokez iro...@gmail.com wrote: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=^_^lang=en - works

Re: [twitter-dev] Almost real time

2010-03-22 Thread John Kalucki
Pick the lowest frequency term to track upon, then post-filter on your end. Repeated automated searches should not be run against search.twitter.com -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Alberty Pascal

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API fails with Chinese

2010-03-22 Thread twitterdoug
This is most likely because there are extremely few results in chinese that match the query. Right now Twitter Search handles lang queries in a relatively inefficient way, so that queries for common terms that match extremely few results may time out. We can (and will) make this better, but the

Re: [twitter-dev] public_timeline

2010-03-22 Thread Josh Roesslein
I thought twitter was reconsidering keeping public timeline around. Not sure if there has been a final verdict yet. Josh On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Patrick kenned...@gmail.com wrote: Since pubic_timeline is not going to be deprecated, and since I am using epiTwitter for oAuth, how

Re: [twitter-dev] public_timeline

2010-03-22 Thread Patrick Kennedy
Yes, it was announced here that they're keeping it. Anyways, a cURL request should be perfect for public_timeline tweets. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: I thought twitter was reconsidering keeping public timeline around. Not sure if there has been a

[twitter-dev] Bulk User Relationship Lookup?

2010-03-22 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
The bulk users/lookup call recently added to the API is a great new tool for developers. This call would become even more useful with a corresponding bulk lookup for user relationships. Are there any plans for this? Also, I'm assuming that the following and notifications nodes returned in the

Re: [twitter-dev] Bulk User Relationship Lookup?

2010-03-22 Thread Abraham Williams
I provide a simple API that returns common friends and follower of two specific Twitter users. It currently works for the 5000 most recent (although soon to be increasing) and only on public accounts. http://github.com/abraham/intersect/blob/master/README

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Project website

2010-03-22 Thread Ricky
@Ian: I think we have our answer. @Mark: Thanks! Ricky On Mar 22, 1:15 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Done   ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM, IanQuigley irquig...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure they check this forum for update requests? You

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Project website

2010-03-22 Thread Ricky
@Mark: Sorry to bother you a second time, but you missed the link on the open source page. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Open+source#NET Thanks again, Ricky On Mar 22, 1:15 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Done   ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Project website

2010-03-22 Thread Mark McBride
Ok, got that one too. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Ricky ri...@digitally-born.com wrote: @Mark: Sorry to bother you a second time, but you missed the link on the open source page. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Open+source#NET Thanks again, Ricky On