[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-11 Thread PJB
+1 for Dewald getting his own session at Chirp! ;) (Seriously!) On Apr 10, 2:49 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it's because I'm of the older generation, have been there and done that, and have discovered that the top looks so green because of all the crap that lies and

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

2010-04-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
really? that's interesting. i have tests for it working in oauth can you send me details, please? On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Orian Marx (@orian) or...@orianmarx.comwrote: Also, does this endpoint support oauth? I seem to be having trouble making an oauth request to it vs

[twitter-dev] open source twitter-text

2010-04-11 Thread Patrick
The twitter open source code looks simple and fun - http://github.com/mzsanford/twitter-text-rb However, it seems I need to install unicode support. On Linux, I was able to, though on Windows 7, I don't have nmake (don't have C++). Anyways, it still complains about setting $KCODE to utf8 or u

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Final Hack Day schedule for Chirp with discount code

2010-04-11 Thread Nigel Legg
I'd love to be there, but I have commitments here I can't get away from at such short notice. Damn. I'll follow on twitter, assuming people use it. ;-) On 11 April 2010 02:23, funkatron funkat...@gmail.com wrote: I actually would consider buying these tickets, but 5 days notice; that's not

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-11 Thread Nigel Legg
My twitter client will be ready in about a month. I hope I have unique enough features to survive. On 11 April 2010 02:27, Arnaud Meunier arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.comwrote: +1 for the metaphors :) We all know what Twitter would like to see. No surprise here, nothing extraordinary, just

[twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-11 Thread notinfluential
Totally over-dramatic. And way beyond annoying at this point. Dewald, quit your whining and either get back to coding and doing something productive, or maybe you should aim your posts at this group instead: http://groups.google.com/group/delusional-socialist-development-talk @notinfluential

Re: [twitter-dev] Can an authorize URL pass through a parameter?

2010-04-11 Thread Abraham Williams
You can create a custom oauth_callback with your own parameters in your call to get a request_token (temporary credentials) and Twitter is required by spec to append oauth_token to it when your user returns from authorizing access. If the callback URI already includes a query component, the

Re: [twitter-dev] Is it safe to authenticate and send requests via OAuth using Javascript

2010-04-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
just to follow up on this, we're working on an oauth 2.0 implementation (of which we are contributors/authors to the spec). that does have a profile which makes it possible to write JavaScript oauth clients without compromising the keys. I can't give a date yet, however, as the spec is

[twitter-dev] Twitter API - users/search - Help Required

2010-04-11 Thread Jimmy
Hi, I'm working on search api and and came across a problem. Here is my query: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.json?q=ipadpage=1 The result which I got is constant and never changes. I checked the result after some span of time like: after 1-2 hours but I got the same result. As per API

Re: [twitter-dev] Is it safe to authenticate and send requests via OAuth using Javascript

2010-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
just to follow up on this, we're working on an oauth 2.0 implementation (of which we are contributors/authors to the spec). that does have a profile which makes it possible to write JavaScript oauth clients without compromising the keys. I can't give a date yet, however, as the spec

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

2010-04-11 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
Sorry, late night stupidity was in effect. I was sending up message ids instead of message sender ids :-) It's all working great. On Apr 11, 6:35 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: really?  that's interesting.  i have tests for it working in oauth  can you send me details, please?

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter API - users/search - Help Required

2010-04-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
do you mean to be using name search, or the general search API? Try using the search endpoint at search.twitter.con. On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Jimmy breathlo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm working on search api and and came across a problem. Here is my query:

Re: [twitter-dev] Is it safe to authenticate and send requests via OAuth using Javascript

2010-04-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
We are doing all we can to get it done before basic auth removal. I suspect if the spec is not finalized soon, we will just move forward with a draft spec. On Apr 11, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: just to follow up on this, we're working on an oauth

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API - users/search - Help Required

2010-04-11 Thread Nic Ross
Sorry I didn't see my last reply so I am posting it again @Raffi Krikorian I think Jimmy is asking for searching users not tweets. Look at his URLs they contain users/search and also users/search API call limits the result to 1000 (20 result each page) which he is mentioning. The search API

Re: [twitter-dev] Is it safe to authenticate and send requests via OAuth using Javascript

2010-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
We are doing all we can to get it done before basic auth removal. I suspect if the spec is not finalized soon, we will just move forward with a draft spec. Can you send me that draft URL? I'd like to see how much change will be needed (I expect not a great deal). --

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming + Geo = 4square Vision

2010-04-11 Thread znmeb
- Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Nice username grab, raffi! Also, nice lib. I wonder what awesome thing this could be used for testing... :) I'm doing a significant bit of stream pre-processing on the backend before pushing stuff to the browser (it would probably crush most

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API - users/search - Help Required

2010-04-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Well, with name search the users are not going to change much. How many users do you expect to have the name ipad (even with the rate that users are being created). Am I confused? On Apr 11, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Nic Ross iamurdest...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I didn't see my last reply so I

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming + Geo = 4square Vision

2010-04-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
We could just be running JavaScript in V8, for all you know :p On Apr 11, 2010, at 1:15 PM, zn...@comcast.net wrote: - Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Nice username grab, raffi! Also, nice lib. I wonder what awesome thing this could be used for testing... :) I'm doing a

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API - users/search - Help Required

2010-04-11 Thread Nic Ross
Ok don't take it here an example for ipad may be it was his mistake. Lets say take an example for any common names like James or Chang or Chen don't you expect there will be far more results than 1000 So, the point he is making here is will twitter keep the same result of 1000 users for every an

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Streaming + Geo = 4square Vision

2010-04-11 Thread znmeb
- Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: We could just be running JavaScript in V8, for all you know :p Yeah ... and if I didn't have half a dozen other hobbies, I'd write an R language engine for the Java Virtual Machine that would run the pants off the native one. ;-) -- M. Edward

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-11 Thread 46Bit
Nigel Legg wrote: Dewalt, surely it's a bit early to say they are kaput? As far as I can see, all twitter clients have their merits, and people tend to stick with the one that does what they want it to do in the way they want it to do it. I find it odd that, even though twitter has been

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-04-11 Thread 46Bit
I'm Michael Mokrysz, aka @46Bit. I'm still a Student in real life, though I do a small amount of Web Development (PHP, HTML, Javascript) to earn some money doing what I enjoy. I've been messing around with the API for months mostly out of interest and because the clients I make webapps for from

[twitter-dev] TwitterConnect - xAuth and status update for iPhone, iPad, Cocoa (touch)

2010-04-11 Thread Yves Vogl
Hi, I needed a solution to simply post status updates to Twitter from an iPhone app. Just the typical stuff customers like to ask for: „Hey, can ya make our app post some stuff to Twitter, please?“. Using xAuth was obvious because of usability concerns – everything else would just be like a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-04-11 Thread John Kalucki
If you are writing a general purpose display app, I think, (but I am not at all certain), that you can ignore this issue. Reasonable polling frequency on modest velocity timelines will sometimes, but very rarely, miss a tweet. Also, over time, we're doing things to make this better for everyone.

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API - users/search - Help Required

2010-04-11 Thread Jimmy
Raffi and Nic, thanks for replying :) Yes, I'm concerned with the user search and by mistake I wrote ipad, I should have written some name! Now please let me know whether the result should be changed or I'll keep getting the stale result. I reckon twitter keep getting new users every next

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API - users/search - Help Required

2010-04-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
ok - sorry - i was thrown off by ipad. the results should change, but the velocity of change may depend. name search results are ordered so the best results are further up -- new users who get added to the system may not make the top 1000 users that namesearch can return. as users are active in

[twitter-dev] Streaming API TOS

2010-04-11 Thread Dewald Pretorius
With reference to: http://twitter.com/pdfs/streaming_api_eula.pdf Section 5 (ii) (e): You may only use the Content and Content Feed and any data resulting or provided therefrom for internal purposes only and, unless expressly authorized herein, you may not publicly release or disclose any data or

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-04-11 Thread Josh Bleecher Snyder
Hi John (et al.), These emails from you are great -- they are exactly the sort of thoughtful, detailed, specific, technical emails that I would personally love to see accompany future announcements. I think they would prevent a fair amount of FUD. Thank you. I have one stupid question, if you

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-04-11 Thread John Kalucki
A sequence can be on a continuum from unsorted to partially sorted to roughly sorted to totally sorted. Totally sorted is what we mean when we say sorted. Partially sorted could mean anything, I suppose, but roughly sorted is a stricter definition than partially sorted. Informally it means that

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API TOS

2010-04-11 Thread John Kalucki
Both of those use cases are fine. The intent was to prevent people from publishing counts of Tweets per day or similar metrics. (I make no pretense at defending this intent, I'm the messenger.) Go forth and wordle. This EULA is near the end of its life and has been rewritten into the Commercial

[twitter-dev] Some thoughts leading up to Chirp

2010-04-11 Thread Ryan Sarver
I wanted to email everyone and share my thoughts on the acquisition from Friday, the communication around it and where we are going from here. We're incredibly excited about Chirp, and I think an open dialogue going into it is important. I look forward to meeting many of you there and continuing

Re: [twitter-dev] Storing information from the API

2010-04-11 Thread Abraham Williams
Historically Twitter had imposed no limits on length of storage with the understanding that you treat the users wishes with respect. Private, deleted, and geo information should especially be handled with care. Be aware though that for your own protection it is best to have a qualified individual

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Some thoughts leading up to Chirp

2010-04-11 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Thanks for this clarification, Ryan. I think an important part of the tension is coming from the fact you really took your time to (as you say) dig a little bit, and realize the right move was to buy Tweetie. I mean, it’s almost like if it was in Twitter core to... have multiple holes, and

[twitter-dev] Re: Some thoughts leading up to Chirp

2010-04-11 Thread Justyn
Regardless of the companies position moving forward, there are great people working at Twitter who sincerely care about the developer community, including Ryan. If things are unfair, you can bet they feel it too. They're still figuring it out. I don't see them implementing any of the stuff your

RE: [twitter-dev] Some thoughts leading up to Chirp

2010-04-11 Thread Brian Smith
Ryan Sarver wrote: [...] However when we dug in a little bit we realized that it was causing massive confusion among user's who had an iPhone and were looking to use Twitter for the first time. They would head to the App Store, search for Twitter and would see results that included a lot of

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-04-11 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:14 PM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: This is useful stuff for dealing with infinite sequences of events -- like, picking a random example, the insertion of new tweets into a materialized timeline (a cache of the timeline vector). The Twitter stream is an

[twitter-dev] Re: Some thoughts leading up to Chirp

2010-04-11 Thread ConnectMe
Ryan, Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts as well as open up a direct line to communicate with you. It speaks well of the company you work for and the opportunity you're trying to manage. Quite frankly I'm surprised Twitter doesn't acquire more companies. The last one I really

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API TOS

2010-04-11 Thread John Kalucki
The existing EULA has its confusing parts and is at the end of its life. The Commercial License is much better conceived and is aligned with where Twitter is going, and is not based on where we were 12+ months ago when the EULA first was released. On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:16 PM, M. Edward (Ed)