[twitter-dev] Search and Timelines not returning many results.

2010-06-10 Thread @IDisposable
We're still seeing very low tweet rates from our polls. We have 40+ searches and 40+ timeline (actually List timelines) that have been running fine for may months. Over the last two days, even though we've gotten successful polls, the rate of tweets is WAY down (like an order of magnitude). In

[twitter-dev] Re: What tools do you use?

2010-06-10 Thread @IDisposable
Using: ASP.Net 3.5 with MVC 2.0 http://asp.net/mvc C# Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Twitter LinqToTwitter http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com (thanks @JoeMayo) dotNetOAuth for oAuth http://code.google.com/p/dotnetoauth/ (thanks @AArnott) Newtonsoft JSON.Net for JSON

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-06-10 Thread @IDisposable
I'm Marc Brooks @IDisposable I'm the Hack Prime (Sr. Architect) at Infuz http://infuz.com We have a platform BuzzRadius http://buzzradius.com that enables location and/or special interest sites that build siloed, curated, rated and ranked Tweet/Link/Trend/People listings of twitter. You can see

[twitter-dev] t.co Is cool, and I might have an issue with it anyway.

2010-06-10 Thread @IDisposable
Unlike many posters here, I REALLY LIKE the t.co shortening idea. In addition to enabling the blocking of malicious links, it will enable Twitter to start offering some metrics and buzz rating on shared links. I might have an issue with adhering to the letter of the TOS, if not the actual spirit.

[twitter-dev] Re: t.co Is cool, and I might have an issue with it anyway.

2010-06-10 Thread @IDisposable
Oh, I know it... that's why a Sitemap.xml, ROBOTS.TXT and offering an OEmbed endpoint on your sites is a really good idea. Seehttp://oembed.com/ for the use of the latter. What's their business model? What do they sell to whom? OEmbed.com is the place where the standard is spelled out...

[twitter-dev] Erroneous return from location-based search

2010-06-24 Thread @IDisposable
It seems that every time someone checks into the Blue Bottle Coffee location on foursquare, they appear in our location search for St. Louis, MO. This is odd because the people tweeting are usually from Brooklyn or NYC, and the Blue Bottle is in Brooklyn... thus they really should not appear in

[twitter-dev] Any way to get a REASON for why an account was suspended.

2010-07-07 Thread @IDisposable
We are building a State of Twitter in St. Louis whitepaper for our local companies/agencies/etc. In doing this, we gathered the list of influential people from our own STLTweets site and are mining for extra information from Twitter, Klout, TrstRank, etc... For a couple high-ranking people we

[twitter-dev] New attack/Phish going on?

2010-07-12 Thread @IDisposable
We've seen a huge increase in links coming in for http://*.man-plus.com or http://supportcenter-twitter.com domains in the last couple hours... Given the name, and the fact that those domains are not reliably resolving, I wonder if a Phish is ongoing Are any Twitter folks or other API users

[twitter-dev] Re: New attack/Phish going on?

2010-07-12 Thread @IDisposable
As further information, supportcenter-twitter.com was registered TODAY and man-plus.com was registered on the 28th of June... I smell a phish. On Jul 12, 4:40 pm, @IDisposable idisposa...@gmail.com wrote: We've seen a huge increase in links coming in for http://*.man-plus.com orhttp

[twitter-dev] Breaking change on Lists API endpoint?

2010-07-23 Thread @IDisposable
When trying to translate a list slug to a list ID, we make a call against the API endpoint https://api.twitter.com/1/STLT_Business/lists/tech.xml (where STLT_Business is the Twitter Screen name and tech is the list slug) This returns a nice valid XML like this: list id7866001/id

[twitter-dev] Re: Breaking change on Lists API endpoint?

2010-07-23 Thread @IDisposable
Thanks for your good-humored analysis of the issue. This is a new feature we haven't documented or announced yet, and causes a conflict we should have obviously thought more deeply about in advance. Okay, so I read into this that it is going to stay... can you then correct the return type to

[twitter-dev] Re: Better support for Developers

2010-07-27 Thread @IDisposable
Just some thoughts. Votes please. That's trivially done with the LinqToTwitter library. Head over to http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com

[twitter-dev] Re: How to retreive all tweets in time range in .net

2010-08-05 Thread @IDisposable
I need to retreive all the tweets in a time range (say for last seven days), irrespective of the user who made them. That's going to be a LOT of tweets. Our site http://stltweets.com follows just St. Louis located people, mentions and 1500+ curated users. We get 6 unique tweets every

[twitter-dev] Best practice question- back-channel posting to add metadata to a tweet.

2010-08-20 Thread @IDisposable
So, I've got a nice bunch of Bayesian filters to do spam detection, tweet categorization and link canonicalization and classification. The stuff runs great on http://stltweet.com now, but I'm looking to share the load for other properties I'm developing for other locations/ verticals. In this

[twitter-dev] Re: Best practice question- back-channel posting to add metadata to a tweet.

2010-08-20 Thread @IDisposable
On Aug 20, 2:36 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: Hmmm ... maybe build your own Status.Net infrastructure / servers,   stream your processed tweets into it Got that already... and it's running fine :)... and sell subscriptions to the  outputs? Someday, when

[twitter-dev] Re: Recent API changes and new fields

2010-08-20 Thread @IDisposable
listed_count represents the number of public lists a user is listed in. This field is an integer. As this is a new field it is possible some users will not have a listed_count value yet. Very nice, thanks... I assume this will be correctly set when doing the mass-lookup of users by screen

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search/Stream API

2010-09-15 Thread @IDisposable
Also, all automated repetitive searching should be on the Streaming API. Search is intended largely for ad-hoc queries. If Stream honored the location search (where the tweep's profile's location mattered), I would switch in seconds. Sadly, they are NOT equivalent. Marc -- Twitter developer

[twitter-dev] Re: Authorizing for partial control

2010-09-20 Thread @IDisposable
- The possibility to ask for (by the app) and grant (by the user) a more fine grained level of authorization (more than just read/write only) Totally agreed!. Specifically, I want: 1) One time tweet WRITE 2) Ongoing tweet WRITE 3) Non-public READ 3) Non-DM READ 4) Full READ 5) Profile and

[twitter-dev] Re: Woe is me, I can't seek what I find (or Search is failing me)

2010-10-11 Thread @IDisposable
The Location search has been VERY unstable, and uses this typical search:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?rpp=100geocode=38.627522%2C-90... It's getting worse all the time! Is this what we can expect going forward? If so, how can I follow all 20+ people we used to get tweets from on

[twitter-dev] Re: Woe is me, I can't seek what I find (or Search is failing me)

2010-10-11 Thread @IDisposable
From that thread ticket 1930 was filed on our issue tracker which we will update when a fix is deployed:    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1930 Excellent, I hope it gets fixed while there is still time to back-fill some of this data,,,otherwise we're going to have a

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting a Twitter User's Profile Image

2010-10-11 Thread @IDisposable
So what's the right way to get user profile image? One option is to throw yourself at the mercy of someone tracking and caching those images. We've used Shannon Whitley (@swhitley) SPIURL as a backup source on other projects like http://tweet08.com http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=652

[twitter-dev] Re: Sign out from twitter using Oauth

2010-10-20 Thread @IDisposable
Sorry, there is currently no way to accomplish this. Nor should there be... there is NO way that any site other than Twitter should control my login status on Twitter. Now to the OP's question: When I logged out from my application, I need to logout from twitter also. What _you_ can do is

[twitter-dev] Re: Occasional 401s with correct tokens

2010-10-24 Thread @IDisposable
However, we get occasional 401s. After digging around a bit we found that correctly-signed requests can timeout on the server side and Twitter returns a 401. I'll be willing to bet that you got an invalid / used nonce message too... I suspect your machine's clock is out of sync with twitters

[twitter-dev] Re: Entities display_url and expanded_url

2010-10-27 Thread @IDisposable
Is the expanded_url field only intended to be present for t.co- shortened links, or will it be extended to work with bit.ly and other services? If you want expanded urls for all shorteners, I recommend using http://untiny.com -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

[twitter-dev] Re: TwitterOAuth example gets 401 all the time

2010-11-01 Thread @IDisposable
Check to make sure the clock on the server/computer is correct. If it is off by more then five minutes this is likely the problem. It can't be Abraham. It's synchronized with NTP so it should be perfect. Unless you've verified the time, it certainly CAN be. Even if a machine it setup to

[twitter-dev] Location-based search is returning tweets that should not be included (again)

2011-01-21 Thread @IDisposable
In response to this query: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?rpp=100geocode=38.627522%2C-90.19841%2C30misince_id=28525950136229890 I get tweets like this: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/28525953676218368.json We're talking about a location search for St. Louis MO, radius of 30 miles.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API rate limit on some keywords

2011-02-01 Thread @IDisposable
have observed that sometimes some of the keywords get a 420 code? Any ideas why is this happening? You get a 420 NOT USED when a search term hasn't been used recently where the recently is whatever small timeframe (sometimes 7 days, often less) is currently available in the search index. I get

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter dump where i only care about size

2011-03-06 Thread @IDisposable
Is such a collection available for download anywhere, or is there an existing program I could use to simply record twitter data for some period of time? (I've heard about both the firehose and the streaming API, but can't seem to find anything that is ready to run with that for this

[twitter-dev] Re: Bigger avatar images for users/profile_image/twitter ?

2011-03-06 Thread @IDisposable
have on file is now dead, I use spiurl as a backup source for images http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/ which downloads and caches images from Twitter and runs on google's AppSpot (you can clone your own if you want control) The SPIURLs look like this: http://purl.org/net/spiurl/IDisposable/normal

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter dump where i only care about size

2011-03-07 Thread @IDisposable
of Twitter's data distribution rules, but my intent is to use this strictly for classroom assignments and we will not post or distribute the data in any way. Cordially, Ted On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:55 PM, @IDisposable idisposa...@gmail.com wrote: Is such a collection available for download

[twitter-dev] 401 Unauthorized responses on OAUTH

2011-03-18 Thread @IDisposable
We're getting a ton of 401 errors when people are trying to OAuth against some of our sites. These sites have been in production for years (and one new one went up yesterday). When we get the error, we get no message in the Response. From the client perspective, it happens when you click the

[twitter-dev] Re: Can you search for tweets linking to any page within a domain?

2011-04-04 Thread @IDisposable
Say I have a website athttp://instantwatcher.comand I want to search for all tweets, including ones condensed by TinyURL, that link to any URL within this domain. Is this possible, and if so how can I do it? You basically have to suck the firehouse (or use search or whatever) to get all the

[twitter-dev] Re: Quick question on iPhone tweets

2011-04-06 Thread @IDisposable
There's actually a much easier way for you to implement the simple ability to Tweet from your application without having to code up the OAuth song dance or xAuth, but the frictionless approach comes with the downside of less control, attribution, and feedback. I second this recommendation,

[twitter-dev] Throw us a bone?

2011-04-25 Thread @IDisposable
With the recent outage at Amazon, we lost 3 days of database server... Everything is back running and I've back-filled what I can, but the Search API is only returning back as far as 4/26. This leaves us a huge gap for tweets that we don't get on lists or timelines from 4/21 0700 UTC to 4/26ish

[twitter-dev] Re: list/statuses

2011-06-03 Thread @IDisposable
Try using per_page=200 instead of count=100... it's a documentation error. On May 31, 3:24 am, ogierepier ogierschel...@gmail.com wrote: I have already tried asking for 200 tweets, but the results stay the same because the api divides it in pages of 20 and you get the first page back. You