Re: [twitter-dev] oauth API and application name

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 2:46 AM, Stan Miasnikov wrote: Hi, I have implemented the oauth for a desktop application. The application has been approved and I get the token back and also can make HTTP requests using the token. However, when I post an update using the app, it shows ...via API instead of the

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and Hardware

2010-08-13 Thread Bess
I'd like to learn more about how to use OAuth on hardware without a browser or UI. Currently Java is being supported. What if I design a hardware chip that must be written in C or C++, what are the options to get hardware to post tweet On Aug 11, 6:13 pm, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends_timeline doesn't return replies

2010-08-13 Thread PBro
I've done some further testing and found that when the 'in_reply_to_screen_name' is filled I do get replies to users that I follow. But when that field isn't set I don't get them. And I found that the replies with in_reply_to_screen_name empty also are not displayed on my twitter homepage So

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-13 Thread artesea
Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes me to the search page containing their tweet, plus our autotweet everytime we do a blog post. Also will you be counting all tweets containing the URL, or only

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-13 Thread James Jones
getting cert errors now On 13/08/10 9:12 AM, artesea wrote: Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes me to the search page containing their tweet, plus our autotweet everytime we do a blog post.

[twitter-dev] Is Twitter misusing their own t.co url shortener?

2010-08-13 Thread D. Smith
How long has it been since Twitter started their own t.com url shortener? Not sure, but I don't think it's been long enough to shorten over 3.5 trillion urls. Well, I just noticed that the the url shortened by t.com was this:http://t.co/5ywZYau So the value is 5ywZYau From what I understand the

[twitter-dev] Re: New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?

2010-08-13 Thread pthomsen
I read in the techcrunch article, that the posting url is wrapped in t.co, but then when displayed in the stream, the url gets unwrapped again, so you should see the moxs.ie url (in my case). This doesn't happen for me. I only see the t.co url. Is there a whitelist of URLs that are accepted by

[twitter-dev] Re: Any way to turn off 'user-scalable' meta tag in OAuth authorization form?

2010-08-13 Thread Tony.In.Portland
For me the issue is usability. When I render the page on the iPhone in a webview that takes up most of the screen LCD, the size of the letters for the username and password input fields are tiny. I showed my dad who is an older guy, but still likes Twitter, and he said he couldn't read the letters

[twitter-dev] OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread TheGuru
I'm curious to post this question to see if Twitter has fully thought out the impact of forcing OAuth onto their API applications. While it may appear to be a more secure method preferred in principle by users, the fact of the matter is that one of the main benefits of the API, is the ability for

[twitter-dev] Re: search for hashtags

2010-08-13 Thread bitstream
Thank you guys for your insight. I was in a rush so I picked simple search but I'll revert it to stream. Not quite clear what do you mean by saying to revert stream every hour but I guess it's in the docs. On Aug 13, 1:58 am, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: In both cases it's still

[twitter-dev] Total number of tweets containing a word

2010-08-13 Thread Abhi
Hi All, What is the best way of counting the number of tweets containing a phrase The Lost World 1. Is there an API call, I can make to retrieve this information or 2. Should I make an Search API call for the keyword at regular interval and store the tweets in my database and analyze this data.

[twitter-dev] Searching for a phrase and multiple keyword as OR

2010-08-13 Thread Abhi
Hi I was wondering what is the best way of searching for a phrase and a KW Example The Lost World and book and what if I wanted to try different combinations where The Lost world is mandatory however other keywords read, reading, book are or The Lost world and read OR The Lost world and reading

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 4:31 AM, TheGuru wrote: I'm curious to post this question to see if Twitter has fully thought out the impact of forcing OAuth onto their API applications. While it may appear to be a more secure method preferred in principle by users, the fact of the matter is that one of the main

[twitter-dev] OAuth and immediate redirect back to my site without questions

2010-08-13 Thread Krot Vyacheslav
Hello, all! I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making single sign on with twitter on my site. Everything works fine, but one thing reallly annoyes me! If the client is signed in twitter and has already granted access to my application twitter asks him again after

[twitter-dev] Re: Is Twitter misusing their own t.co url shortener?

2010-08-13 Thread Nik Fletcher
I don't know how Twitter are shortening the URLs. However. IIRC Twitter's shortener is designed to always use 20 characters (I believe) so that as developers we can pass in full URLs knowing how much space each URL will take up in a tweet and show the character count accordingly. Matt / Taylor

Re: [twitter-dev] Total number of tweets containing a word

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 10:34 AM, Abhi wrote: Hi All, What is the best way of counting the number of tweets containing a phrase The Lost World 1. Is there an API call, I can make to retrieve this information or 2. Should I make an Search API call for the keyword at regular interval and store the

[twitter-dev] Send Custom Header

2010-08-13 Thread alex
Accept: */* Connection: close User-Agent: OAuth gem v0.3.4.1 Authorization: abcdefgh Host: api.twitter.com how to send the above header to api.twitter.com through PHP ?

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth and immediate redirect back to my site without questions

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 12:15 PM, Krot Vyacheslav wrote: Hello, all! I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making single sign on with twitter on my site. Everything works fine, but one thing reallly annoyes me! If the client is signed in twitter and has already granted access to

Re: [twitter-dev] Send Custom Header

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 12:41 PM, alex wrote: Accept: */* Connection: close User-Agent: OAuth gem v0.3.4.1 Authorization: abcdefgh Host: api.twitter.com how to send the above header to api.twitter.com through PHP ? I do not know the exact code, but you will most likely want to use cURL.

Re: [twitter-dev] Cannot get the access token,

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi OLiE, I'm not too experienced with Android programming, so am unsure whether your code is correct or not. But there's something you might want to check on dev.twitter.com/apps and that's whether your application is set as browser and with a default callback URL set. This is a quirk in our

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is Twitter misusing their own t.co url shortener?

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
If you used a Base62 algorithm, then you can simply increase the value by one for the next url. I assume that Twitter did this for security reasons, just like bit.ly. Tom On 8/13/10 3:55 PM, Nik Fletcher wrote: I don't know how Twitter are shortening the URLs. However. IIRC Twitter's

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 5:04 AM, pthomsen wrote: I read in the techcrunch article, that the posting url is wrapped in t.co, but then when displayed in the stream, the url gets unwrapped again, so you should see the moxs.ie url (in my case). This doesn't happen for me. I only see the t.co url. Is there a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
We had some caching/rate limiting issues related to tweet counts for a portion of yesterday but these should be relieved now. Please let us know if you continue seeing the zero counts after a reasonable amount of time (they won't update instantaneously). On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, artesea

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi James, Can you share more about your certificate issues? Can you share some URLs where we can investigate or if you're implementing it yourself, the particulars of your configuration? Thanks, Taylor On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:30 AM, James Jones ja...@freedomnet.co.nz wrote: getting cert

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread TheGuru
And, just to clarify, I am referring to web based api applications, where are many, all if which are affected, as xAuth is NOT, apparently, and option in this type of setup. On Aug 13, 8:54 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/13/10 4:31 AM, TheGuru wrote: I'm curious to post

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread TheGuru
API is not blocked if the twitter client (web app), is making api calls on your behalf (curl call behind the scenes). That is the crux of the problem. On Aug 13, 8:54 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/13/10 4:31 AM, TheGuru wrote: I'm curious to post this question to see if

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
In that case, just get back to work and stop tweeting :-) Tom On 8/13/10 4:15 PM, TheGuru wrote: And, just to clarify, I am referring to web based api applications, where are many, all if which are affected, as xAuth is NOT, apparently, and option in this type of setup. On Aug 13, 8:54

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread TheGuru
Ha, well, I'm not the one circumventing this issue at work, I'm the one who has an application with hundreds of thousands of users, many of which are now affected... On Aug 13, 9:21 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: In that case, just get back to work and stop tweeting :-) Tom On

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
And you have a valid point, but you can't expect Twitter to build their stuff so that people can tweet while their boss does not want them to. ;-) Tom On 8/13/10 4:26 PM, TheGuru wrote: Ha, well, I'm not the one circumventing this issue at work, I'm the one who has an application with

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and immediate redirect back to my site without questions

2010-08-13 Thread Otto
On Aug 13, 8:58 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/13/10 12:15 PM, Krot Vyacheslav wrote: Hello, all! I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making single sign on with twitter on my site. Everything works fine, but one thing reallly annoyes me! If the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is Twitter misusing their own t.co url shortener?

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Nik's analysis here is correct -- t.co links will always be 20 characters. When building a character counter in an application, you'll know that any pasted URL comprises exactly 20 characters. Taylor On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Nik Fletcher nik.fletc...@gmail.comwrote: I don't know how

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and immediate redirect back to my site without questions

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Oops, sorry, my bad. I guess you're right :-) Tom On 8/13/10 4:32 PM, Otto wrote: On Aug 13, 8:58 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/13/10 12:15 PM, Krot Vyacheslav wrote: Hello, all! I am a newbie to twitter api, so i have a simple question. I'm making single sign on with

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume

2010-08-13 Thread TheGuru
Yes, I understand that, and this wasn't the point for the development of the app, but it was a bonus (unintended) side affect, that, quite frankly, Twitter benefits from, in terms of usage statistics, volume, etc. And, as mentioned, I'm willing to bet this wasn't thought about during the

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume and freedom of speech

2010-08-13 Thread earth2marsh
At least people at work have the potential to use phones to access Twitter… I'm worried about users like those in China behind The Great Firewall. Currently, they can interact with Twitter by using proxies and http basic auth. But OAuth requires access to twitter.com (or some sort of mediation).

[twitter-dev] Re: New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?

2010-08-13 Thread Matt LeMay from bit.ly
Hi, folks- Yes indeed, t.co links will be unwrapped in the stream, so bit.ly pro users will still be able to use custom domains, along with bit.ly's analytics features. We put a post up on our blog explaining how publishers can continue to use bit.ly pro domains with the Tweet Button:

[twitter-dev] Lat,long, vs long/lat

2010-08-13 Thread Dan
Why is it that in most of the API, geo-co-ordinates are represented as lat,long? e.g. http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/21059379505.json ...geo:{type:Point,coordinates:[44.6994873,-73.4529124]}... (like most of the world does it) but in the places API it is long,lat? e.g.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-13 Thread James Jones
why when I click on the count it will send me to the search for both the url of the page and the base url? On 13/08/10 9:12 AM, artesea wrote: Anyone else getting the count to work? Had several people press the button and it still shows zero, and when clicking on the zero it takes me to the

[twitter-dev] Streaming API (filter) and retweets, JSON Output

2010-08-13 Thread Joe
If we are listening to the stream api/filter using track and getting JSON output, I cannot see anywhere that I can determine if something is a retweet except explicitly checking the text of the tweet. Am I missing something or should I simultansously be listing to the retweet stream and try to

[twitter-dev] Tweet Button - Need Success, Status Text Callbacks

2010-08-13 Thread Adam Stiles
Facebook's JS SDK allows us to do something like the Tweet Button... pre-populate the status message, use our Application Id, etc. We'd love to use the tweet button like this too but its missing some functionality that we need. The FB JS SDK gives us a javascript callback that let's us know that a

[twitter-dev] Important: Basic Auth will be temporarily turned off for 10 minutes at 2pm Pacific TODAY

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Developers, Today we're going to do a brief exercise with turning basic authentication off for 5 to 10 minutes at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern. This is to simulate the effect that the deprecation of basic auth will have -- both on applications and our own servers. This is the first of such tests

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Denton
sorry if this has been asked, and did not see on the documentation. Can we see a global views of shares from our account? i.e. if Ive set up the via paramter, can I then see counts for that account? On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, James Jones ja...@freedomnet.co.nz wrote: why when I click on

Re: [twitter-dev] Send Custom Header

2010-08-13 Thread Julio Biason
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:41 AM, alex aakba...@gmail.com wrote: Accept: */* Connection: close User-Agent: OAuth gem v0.3.4.1 Authorization: abcdefgh Host: api.twitter.com how to send the above header to api.twitter.com through PHP ? http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php ? -- Julio

[twitter-dev] Re: Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-13 Thread bruce
I'd like a way to add this to my google site(s), but google is trying to protect me from the referenced .js - any way around this? On Aug 12, 10:28 am, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey everyone, Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users to share

[twitter-dev] OAuth + Whitelisting, transition questions

2010-08-13 Thread Matt Trinneer
Hello, I'm curious to understand how the transition to OAuth will take place for whitelisted accounts. Currently I have 2 streaming accounts, which if I understand correctly will not be impacted at all, and a whitelisted basic auth access (20k/hour) for a specific set of IPs. I've read that the

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth + Whitelisting, transition questions

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 8:08 PM, Matt Trinneer wrote: Hello, I'm curious to understand how the transition to OAuth will take place for whitelisted accounts. Currently I have 2 streaming accounts, which if I understand correctly will not be impacted at all, and a whitelisted basic auth access (20k/hour)

[twitter-dev] Drop on Twitter from @Anywhere Follow Buttons

2010-08-13 Thread epitaphmike
Do you know if there is a way to drop the on Twitter after the username in the @Anywhere Follow Buttons? I feel the leading Twitter t logo is sufficient for the targeted audience coming to my site. I would also like to set a standard width is possible.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume and freedom of speech

2010-08-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
IHMO the discussion of international politics and social media should take place in a wider forum, such as Twitter itself, and not be limited to oAuth vs. basic authentication. ;-) There was a keynote speech at Open Source Bridge 2010 by Danny O'Brien about this - see

[twitter-dev] geo/search international POIs

2010-08-13 Thread Clay Graham
I am finding that POI level results are pretty good in the US but I usually cant get anything below the neighborhood level for POIs internationally, even in big cites such as Rome. Is there a place I can go to to understand what POI support is available from geo/search? http://ratecred.com Clay

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and impact on Twitter userbase / volume and freedom of speech

2010-08-13 Thread TheGuru
Add that to the list of even more reasons why this is an issue. However, even stating oh well, tell them to use their cell phones, obviously isn't a solution of any degree. Smart Phone penetration in the US, for example, is still less than 20%... On Aug 13, 9:43 am, earth2marsh

[twitter-dev] alerts on share button alerts

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Denton
Hello, seeing tons of reports about alerts happening because of the share button. i.e. it alerts every variable. Anyone else seeing this?

[twitter-dev] anywhere back button bug in IE

2010-08-13 Thread dndrnkrd
As early as Monday, I'm getting reports of extra history states logged in IE from my users. I've run my code that uses @anywhere with and without anywhere.js on the page and have confirmed that 2 extra history entries are being created by including the platform, and then one new state is being

[twitter-dev] Re: alerts on share button alerts

2010-08-13 Thread Jerry Thompson
Would be great if there was an official response from Twitter on this. If the problem is fixed and its a user cache problem persisting the error, could a simple fix be to add a random number to the JS URL? On Aug 13, 3:32 pm, Clint Ecker clintec...@gmail.com wrote: I had some people reporting

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter dialog after adding official tweet buttons to site (FF/Win)

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 10:38 PM, Jerry Thompson wrote: Hi All, Getting a weird JS dialog box in Firefox/Win after adding the tweet buttons from Twitter today. Does the error code 1281727137826 mean anything in particular? I cannot reproduce this problem in FF/Mac, Safari/Mac. But I received a number

[twitter-dev] SMS Fast Follow Analytics

2010-08-13 Thread epitaphmike
Currently you can see who is following you with a Twitter account. Is there going to be a way to see what people are following you via SMS Fast Follow. Any form of Analytics, whether it is the phone number, number of followers, mobile carrier, etc. etc.

[twitter-dev] Open Source Android/Twitter Application

2010-08-13 Thread Clay Graham
When the Google/Twitter application for android came out last May it was widely announced that this application was going to be made open source as an example to developers how to use best practices and patterns when developing applications for android, as well as OAuth.

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Source Android/Twitter Application

2010-08-13 Thread Dossy Shiobara
Now that I finally have an Android handset, I'm interested in this as well. Clay Graham claytan...@sightlyinc.com wrote: When the Google/Twitter application for android came out last May it was widely announced that this application was going to be made open source as an example to developers

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Source Android/Twitter Application

2010-08-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I suspect Google's priorities have changed, as have Twitter's. Tim Bray is very accessible in social media - I recommend talking directly to him. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter API keys fail to verify

2010-08-13 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/13/10 11:58 PM, Gurpartap Singh wrote: Will talk in points: # An existing OAuth app which already has xAuth access, works perfectly in the implementation. # Created a new OAuth app with Twitter. Got xAuth access for it through email. # Replaced the implementation's API keys to the

[twitter-dev] Twitter API the Basic Auth Shutdown: Everything you need to know.

2010-08-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Developers, Basic authentication is being deprecated beginning on August 16th. After August 31st, API clients will no longer be able to identify themselves using only a login and password when accessing the Twitter REST API. For those that just like to skim, here are the basics: - Basic

[twitter-dev] OAuth with Rails help getting going

2010-08-13 Thread Rajinder Yadav
Hello, I'm not having success with the following code, I get a Sorry, page doesn't exist! webpage. I am using the OAuth v0.4.1 gem. Your help and guidance is very appreciated, thanks! If I type the following out in IRB, it seems to work, but of course I can't redirect from the shell.

[twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Android/Twitter Application

2010-08-13 Thread Clay Graham
Ed, Thanks for the advice. I have emailed Tim directly, no reply. Will keep trying. Can I be the only one who is hungry for this? Clay On Aug 13, 2:35 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: I suspect Google's priorities have changed, as have Twitter's. Tim   Bray is

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Android/Twitter Application

2010-08-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On second thought, though, given the rapidity at which Twitter is deploying new features to twitter.com via standard Javascript libraries, maybe there's a future for a pure Javascript in-browser open source Twitter client, which I think could run in the Android browser. You really only

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Android/Twitter Application

2010-08-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Yeah - but I turn that off on my Verizon Droid Incredible (along with WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS) to conserve battery anyhow. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Source Android/Twitter Application

2010-08-13 Thread Brad Bosley
Clay, I've been waiting for it too! Hopefully they don't back out of the promise. Regards, Brad Bosley On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Clay Graham claytan...@sightlyinc.com wrote: Ed, Thanks for the advice. I have emailed Tim directly, no reply. Will keep trying. Can I be the only one who

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth with Rails help getting going

2010-08-13 Thread Rajinder Yadav
On 10-08-13 08:35 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote: Hello, I'm not having success with the following code, I get a Sorry, page doesn't exist! webpage. I am using the OAuth v0.4.1 gem. Your help and guidance is very appreciated, thanks! If I type the following out in IRB, it seems to work, but of

[twitter-dev] People randomly getting unfollowed?

2010-08-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I don't think this has happened to me, but a number of my friends and some well-known Twitter people have reported that Twitter is unfollowing people from their accounts on its own, apparently in some random fashion. I don't have any more detail than that, or I'd file an issue. But I've