Reading this discussion reminded me of the flickr API. Might be
another good way to find geo locations? Perhaps using it in
combination with Placemaker could help reduce the error rate. I think
with flickr you can only search for specific words, but on the other
hand you can find locations for thi
Hi,
I just wanted to look into the URL shortening issues, but found that I
could not get Twitter to shorten my URLs anymore. Has Twitter dropped
the practice of using bit.ly?
I am very interested in the reverse lookup - finding tweets that link
to a given web site. I think it would have been nex
On Jun 18, 5:08 pm, Stuart wrote:
> If you have a reasonable use case Tweetmeme will be happy to whitelist
> you. Send a request to @tweetmemedev for more info.
Thanks, will do once my project is a bit further down the road. What
tweetmeme offers is definitely what I wuld be looking for.
Björn
My reply yesterday got swallowed by Google it seems...
On Jun 18, 4:58 pm, Matt Sanford wrote:
> Twitter disabled the automatic URL shortening if there is any
> slowness or other problem accessing the shortener.
Thanks for the clarification!
> simply because a shortening service failed
On Jun 19, 7:00 am, AJ wrote:
> This case study shows the difference between various trending
> applications. A good real time semantic analysis is the key that makes
> the difference, I think.
Maybe I misunderstood, but isn't the more likely explanation that the
topic simply wasn't trending?
Hi,
The problem is: how to find tweets that point to a certain URL. Most
of those tweets would use a shortened version of the URL, and most of
them probably bit.ly. Bit.ly does not provide a way to list all
shortened versions of a URL, and creates individually shortened
versions of each URL per U
On Jul 15, 4:27 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Badera wrote:
>
> > But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in users
>
> That is an option, but in my experience, it is relatively rare.
If you want to create a bitly url via the API, you h
On Jul 15, 4:17 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
> The solution is to go about this the opposite way.
>
> Bit.ly will return the same shortened URL for any request using the same
> source URL. So, use bit.ly to shorten the URL, then search Twitter for the
> bit.ly URL you get back. The same is true fo
On Jul 15, 4:04 pm, Vision Jinx wrote:
> They also have an API...
>
> http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
>
> http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation#REST_API
Yes, but they don't offer a way to see all variations of a URL, so it
does not help much.
Björn
On Jul 15, 5:04 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
> There's a horrible solution to
> that, too... tweet the original URL and then read back the status to get the
> Twitter-specific bit.ly URL. Ugh.
Actually that is a pretty good idea, thanks!!! It is horrible, but I
can't think of a better way atm. I thin
On Jul 15, 5:18 pm, Bjoern wrote:
> Actually that is a pretty good idea, thanks!!!
Argh, except that Twitter rate limits will bite me :-( What I have
implemented is a search web site that shows associated tweets to the
URLs, so potentially it would generate a lot of requests (one page
On Jul 15, 5:45 pm, Bill Kocik wrote:
> Status updates don't count toward your rate limit
> (although Twitter may separately notice a large number of updates
> which are nothing more than URLs and mark you a spammer or something,
> but that's another discussion).
Interesting, thanks! I did n
On Jul 15, 5:57 pm, Matt Sanford wrote:
> Have you thought about using one of the APIs built for this,
> like backtweets [1]?
I thought about them, but only as a last resort. Did not know about
backtweets - they look good, but they also have a limit of 1000 calls/
day. I had also looked into
On Jul 15, 6:36 pm, "Joel Strellner" wrote:
> There are 3 API's that I know of that you can use:
>
> Twitturly (Ours - Private beta only at the moment)
> Tweetmeme
> BackTweet
>
> Between the 3 of us, I am sure you can accomplish whatever your end-goal is.
Thanks - they are better than nothing
Hi,
I am working on a Twitter-based game and I realize I might have a
problem with limits. I want the players to submit moves via dm and
send the results back via dm. It seems to me sending results via dm is
better than sending a @reply, as @reply might spam too many uninvolved
users.
Not suppos
On Jul 16, 5:32 pm, jmathai wrote:
> If you're sending DMs then you should be limited to 1000 DMs / user /
> day or 100 / user / hour. I run into the limit issue as well but for
> a game that seems ample, no?
I gathered from this link that the limit for dm's is 250, not 1000:
http://help.twitte
On Jul 17, 9:53 am, jmathai wrote:
> Both of these are enforced:
>
> 250 / hour
> 1000 / day
More confusing info, as the Twitter support website states
# 1,000 total updates per day, on any and all devices (web, mobile
web, phone, API, etc. )
# 250 total direct messages per day, on any and al
Hi,
probably it is too late to change it now, but someone has to say it: I
think it is the wrong approach to do HTML escaping in the API on the
Twitter side. For starters, not every consumer is a Website. Secondly,
even if I am a website, now I have to rely on Twitter getting the
escaping right.
Just had an idea: maybe Twitter could add an optional parameter to
switch off HTML escaping (&escapeHTHML=false or something like that).
That way developers who are unaware of the issue would get the escaped
HTML, and the developers who are aware could get the proper data.
On Jul 17, 1:57 pm, CreativeEye wrote:
> 1) Get Twitter Public timeline repeatedly.
My understanding is that this does not give you all tweets, just a
random selection.
> 2) Get follower network - user profiles and get their statuses.
You would reach the API limit quickly, I'd expect.
I don'
Hi,
this is maybe a bit random, but I feel like throwing the idea out
there for fun. It was suggested in a recent discussion thread that to
get the Twitter variant of an URL, one could just post the URL to
Twitter and see what Twitter makes of it.
Since it is infeasible to generate a lot of URLs
I understand the idea and I think it is interesting, but I am worried
that it involves too much politics. Once such a group was established,
I would have to make sure that my voice gets heard in that group. That
would mean investing time in politics, which I am not keen on.
Of course now the poli
(somehow got the response above as email, too - sorry for replying
twice...)
Hi,
look for example at this: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/2689100482.json
My status update was "test html escaping by twitter bold" but
Twitter sends me "test html escaping by twitter bold<\/
b>"
So it has tra
On Jul 17, 4:44 pm, Matt Sanford wrote:
> Your proposal works if everybody plays by the rules but I think
> email spam has taught us that's an unrealistic expectation. Think of
> shortening malwareurl.com via Bit.ly and then including the hash for
> the URL to a popular YouTube video.
By now I have also create a a ticket for this:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=845
My apologies for writing both at the issue tracker and in the forum. I
did not plan to create an issue at first, because I thought it
unlikely that it would be fixed. When I thought about addi
On Jul 17, 5:07 pm, Matt Sanford wrote:
> Short Answer: It's working as designed for security reasons. We
> don't like it any more than you do.
Thank you for your answer. There are pros and cons for both
approaches, and you had to make a decision.
Björn
On Jul 19, 12:01 pm, Zac Witte wrote:
> For most of this week I have been seeing duplicate tweets appear when
> I quickly paginate through a set of results using the json search api.
Could one reason be that the search results change so quickly? Like
the search for the first request provides 100
I was interested to read about the way Tweetmeme sets up it's retweet
button: http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/
I also want to create a pure javascript Twitter service that people
could integrate into their web site. It also needs to know the URL of
the site it is sitting on,
I prefer to let users retweet via prepared status update, not by
making them authorize me to be allowed to tweet on their behalf.
However, the prepares statuses only work if the user is already logged
in to Twitter. Otherwise the prepared message will be lost when the
user has logged in.
Therefor
On Jul 20, 3:00 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also if you send someone tohttp://twitter.com/home?status=tweet then the
> status should be preserved when they log in.
Just tried it and it does - brilliant! Just what I need. Somehow the
last time I tried it it didn't work, so I
Hi,
I am still a bit confused about OAuth. I see the point for apps that
take over people's accounts (ie send messages to their streams etc.).
But what if my app only accesses it's own account?
The API Wiki sounds as if I should use OAuth in any case, but I don't
really see the point? It only se
On Jul 22, 8:49 pm, Joseph wrote:
> That's what I meant. Short of doing a search, with tude[]=%3A) and
> store it in my cache (which will eat up a lot of API calls), do you
> have any hints on how to extract this out of the API?
Isn't it just searching for the Strings ":-(", ":-)" and "?"? I don
On Jul 22, 6:55 pm, Grant Emsley wrote:
> It will improve the security of your account since it won't be sending
> username/password in plaintext anymore.
Although I think the OAuth keys are also in plaintext?
But thanks, I'll try to use it.
Hi,
just wondering about a best practice thing. Suppose I show results of
specific Twitter searches on a web site. How would I go about caching
the searches?
The naive approach seems to be to first check in my own database, then
do a twitter search with the since_id parameter to only get results
Hi,
I am struggling a bit to find an elegant way to transfer the data from
the API calls to my models and save them in my database.
Was wondering if anybody would be willing to share their ideas? I am
not very experienced with Rails yet.
Atm. I figure the parsed JSON is a hash like parameters f
Hi,
just wondering if I read this right: while OAuth provides a way to
give a 3rd party access to an account without the password, it does
not provide a way to simply establish the identity of a Twitter user,
without giving away the rights?
The only reason I would need access to the account is t
On Oct 8, 12:20 pm, Andrew Badera wrote:
> Sign-in with Twitter with Read access only?
So this is a parameter I can pass when requesting the authentication
token, and the user will see that I am requesting read only access?
Guess I overlooked that one.
Thanks!
Björn
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