[twitter-dev] Unable to login to my twitter account since wednesday night

2009-08-07 Thread d d
I figured that maybe it was just a glitch with a few accounts but it would appear that it has singled me out because I do not see any other issues of this sort. When I attempt to login it takes a really long time and then finally goes to the www.twitter.com/session page and I even tried to select

[twitter-dev] GAE Twitter API Access

2010-08-04 Thread D
I am using this http://python-twitter.googlecode.com/hg/twitter.py file to access Twitter's UserTimeline and ProfileImg from GAE - Google App Engine. My GAE app url is http://test.appspot.com and it is accessed using custom domain http://www.mydomain.com. I tried both URL's in twitter application

[twitter-dev] Re: GAE Twitter API Access

2010-08-08 Thread D
Hi Taylor, After dubbing more into it, I found that this seems to be GAE error, nothing with twitter api. Sorry for that and Thanks for your help. D On Aug 5, 7:33 am, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi there, > > The library you're trying to use only uses basic authentication which

[twitter-dev] Send status update with OAuth/PHP/cURL

2009-04-21 Thread Doug D
I've been digging in to the Twitter OAuth stuff and am able to sign into my site with the Twitter authentication, but I'm wondering if there is a way to use the OAuth credentails to send a status update using PHP and cURL. The code below sends an update, but only when a static username:password is

[twitter-dev] Re: Send status update with OAuth/PHP/cURL

2009-04-21 Thread Doug D
' excellent Twitter PHP Oauth lib: > > http://twitter.abrah.am/ > > -Chad > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Doug D wrote: > > > I've been digging in to the Twitter OAuth stuff and am able to sign > > into my site with the Twitter authentication, but I'

[twitter-dev] from: modifier doesn't work when searching for hashtags

2009-07-07 Thread d...@daveboden.com
The from: operator successfully filters out posts from the user @RetweetTestRecv when looking for posts with RetweetTestRecv in the text. Here's the search string and corresponding URL: -from:RetweetTestRecv RetweetTestRecv http://search.twitter.com/search?q=-from:RetweetTestRecv+RetweetTestRecv

[twitter-dev] Re: from: modifier doesn't work when searching for hashtags

2009-07-07 Thread d...@daveboden.com
by the re- indexing of hashtags. Or something. :o) Cheers, Dave On Jul 7, 9:16 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > Ditto. I don't see any problem. > -Chad > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Abraham Williams<4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I get the same results for both links

[twitter-dev] Re: 200 "errors"

2009-09-07 Thread d h
The same also, blank 4.01 .

[twitter-dev] Follow or Login from Twitter Widget returns 'This Method Requires a GET'

2009-09-15 Thread D Simone
7;t work. http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:f2DO358g1UkJ:help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/41003.mobile+Follow+or+Login+from+Twitter+Widget+returns+%27This+Method+Requires+a+GET%27&hl=en&client=firefox-a&gl=ca&strip=0 Cheers, D

[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 th

[twitter-dev] Re: Request to improve Tweet button JS interface

2010-08-16 Thread D. Smith
What, nobody else thinkgs it could be useful to have some sort or JS based UI for the Tweet button? The Facebook JS UI is pretty good, you can open the prompt and pre-fill it with a text message to be posted to the wall right from your own javascript, user then just has to click on "Post" button. A

[twitter-dev] Re: Request to improve Tweet button JS interface

2010-08-16 Thread D. Smith
e arm of > the platform:http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere > > Taylor > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:29 AM, D. Smith wrote: > > What, nobody else thinkgs it could be useful to have some sort or JS > > based UI for the Tweet button? The Facebook JS UI is pretty good,

[twitter-dev] What's the status of OAuth2 API?

2010-08-16 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the cookie 'twitter_anywhere_identity' under my sites' domain. This sounds like how the Facebook JS API is doing the OAuth2 authentication where I then read the value of that cookie on the server side and then request data from fa

[twitter-dev] Re: What's the status of OAuth2 API?

2010-08-16 Thread D. Smith
nto one, and we've yet > to decide which profiles we'll support. > > Taylor > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, D. Smith wrote: > > Hello! > > I looked at Twitter Anywhere API and it says the API will set the > > cookie 'twitter_anywhere_iden

[twitter-dev] Re: What's the status of OAuth2 API?

2010-08-16 Thread D. Smith
hat you should be able to exchange > those tokens for long-lasting OAuth 1.0A REST tokens without explicitly > indicating that you would do that? > > Taylor > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:36 PM, D. Smith wrote: > > All I say is that if the 'twitter_anywhere_ide

[twitter-dev] Request to better style the "Tweet" button

2010-08-21 Thread D. Smith
Just a small request: please add the style="cursor: pointer;" to the official Tweet button. It will look better when you mouseover the button. Tweetmeme button does that. Also please add the same to the "Follow" button and other buttons produced by @Anywhere UI Thanks!

[twitter-dev] twitter-dev-anywhere group still active?

2010-08-23 Thread D. Smith
Why nobody is approving new threads in twitter-anywhere group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-dev-anywhere?hl=en I posted a question 2 or 3 days ago and still it does not show there. I that group still active?

[twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-23 Thread D. Smith
Another one hits the MySQL brick wall. I'm surprised someone with as much data as you have have managed to stay with MySQL for as long as you have. I must have been a real pain to constantly fight the loosing MySQL optimization battle. It would be very interesting to know what made you choose Cas

[twitter-dev] Re: Revoked Access

2010-08-23 Thread D. Smith
Sure, just test the authentication every time you want to perform some action on behalf of user or just do this periodically for every user via cron. (I think API method is called verify_credentials) On Aug 23, 8:32 pm, Paranoid Android wrote: > I'm working with the twitter via a third party appl

[twitter-dev] Re: Status IDs are changing on 21st September

2010-08-25 Thread D. Smith
assandra-at-twitter-today.html > > I don't think we've announced our approach for tweet storage as yet. > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki > Twitter, Inc. > > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:03 PM, D. Smith wrote: > > > Another one hits the MySQ

[twitter-dev] Getting 401 in the past 2 days

2010-08-27 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I started getting 401 'count not authenticate' errors starting about 2 days ago when I try to send tweet via API. I use OAuth, use php pecl OAuth for that, just like I did before. The last tweet was successfully posted from my website was 2 days ago Here are the headers from the debug (I ch

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting 401 in the past 2 days

2010-08-29 Thread D. Smith
Never mind, the bug was in my own script. It was setting empty values of oauth_token, and oauth_secret. I corrected the problem and all works fine again. On Aug 27, 4:36 pm, "D. Smith" wrote: > Hello! I started getting 401 'count not authenticate' errors starting > a

[twitter-dev] Is there stats for API clients usage?

2010-09-12 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I know Twitter published some statistics on how users generally use Twitter. I am looking for per-app stats, at least for the top 100 or so apps. Is there a stat like this available anywhere? I am just researching the popularity of various API based Twitter clients, very interested to know

[twitter-dev] A Plea to allow auto-unfollow-back vote here!

2010-09-26 Thread D. Smith
If auto-follow back is allowed but auto-unfollow back is not allowed, that actually plays in favor of spammers in a big way! Now a spammer can use the tactic to follow/wait for follow-back, then unfollow you, knowing that now thanks to Twitter's infinite wisdom, the automated auto-unfollow-back se

[twitter-dev] Re: Comparing Friendship

2010-09-28 Thread Ken D.
Hey Rick, It's the second time in a week that someone brings up the autofollow/ unfollow question (see also: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/b7b1dfbf6500ab83) and I would love to understand the "follow economy" once and for all. First of all, you say that if someone i

[twitter-dev] List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-29 Thread Ken D.
I am creating private lists and then adding members with the create_all method. 1.) Creating a list via the API is no problem. Then I post to create_all with batches of 20-90 user ids. Only rarely have I been able to add more than a single batch, even with a few seconds of sleep, but occasionally

[twitter-dev] Re: Comparing Friendship

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
chance to sell me something. I say, fine, but you give me a chance to sell you something too. I may still follow a few accounts that are so important to me that I will follow them even though I know they don't follow back, but that's just a handful of people. On Sep 28, 12:03 pm, "Ke

[twitter-dev] Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
Hello there! I am pretty experienced with using PHP for Twitter, but now I want to use firehose and Java seems to be a much better fit because of 'Threads', so I can listen to Firehose the pass a job to a thread and return right away. PHP cannot do that, well, maybe to some crazy hacks that I am no

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
r-- you should be able > to make use of it fairly easily in a Java environment. > > We'd love to start collecting libraries built around the Streaming API. > > Regardless of language, does anyone have libraries to share with everyone? > > Taylor > > > > On Thu,

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
Kalucki wrote: > Twitter4J seems to be popular, but I don't have first-hand experience with it. > > -John > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:32 AM, D. Smith wrote: > > Oh, man, I am new to Java, don't even know what Scala is... I've heard > > about it that

[twitter-dev] Re: List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-30 Thread Ken D.
corrupt lists that cannot be edited or deleted. May I ask someone from Twitter to kindly contact me to help get these lists removed from my account! Thanks! Ken On Sep 29, 9:33 pm, "Ken D." wrote: > I am creating private lists and then adding members with the > create_all method. &g

[twitter-dev] Re: List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-30 Thread Ken D.
gt; > As for the seemingly-chaotic naming convention of duplicately named > lists: yes, it boggles the mind. Best to just make sure you check the > names of lists a member already has before attempting to create a new > one at this time. > > Taylor > > On Thu, Sep 30, 20

[twitter-dev] Re: List-related weirdnesses

2010-09-30 Thread Ken D.
lease re-summarize the issues that lead to > this zombie state, along with the specific lists in a support ticket > athttp://bit.ly/twicket > > Blargh, > Taylor > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ken D. wrote: > > Hey Taylor, > > > These lists are zombies. &

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-10-01 Thread D. Smith
x27;s Scala-TwitterStreamer : > >http://github.com/acrosa/Scala-TwitterStreamer-- you should be able > > to make use of it fairly easily in a Java environment. > > > We'd love to start collecting libraries built around the Streaming API. > > > Regardless of language,

[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-10-02 Thread D. Smith
sky" > > > research.net> wrote: > > Yeah, the Perl library uses "AnyEvent" to achieve threading. > > -- > > M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb > > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee in

[twitter-dev] Re: Comparing Friendship

2010-10-02 Thread Ken D.
s than 500, but that's about the maximum number of accounts I could follow... On Sep 30, 5:19 pm, "D. Smith" wrote: > It's important to unfollow someone who unfollowed you. I must > emphasize here that I am not talking about unfollowing someone who is > not following me,

[twitter-dev] Re: add list members

2010-10-02 Thread Ken D.
Hey Damon, The URL you cite is that of the documentation page. The correct URL (for create_all) is: http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/create_all.xml with parameter user_id=:ids or screen_name=:screen_names The example is: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/firemen/create_all.xml?user_id

[twitter-dev] Re: add list members

2010-10-03 Thread Ken D.
41 pm, Damon Clinkscales wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Ken D. wrote: > > Hey Damon, > > > The URL you cite is that of the documentation page. The correct URL > > (for create_all) is: > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/create_all.xml > >

[twitter-dev] Re: add list members

2010-10-04 Thread Ken D.
ct 3, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ken D. wrote: > > Damon, > > > Mea culpa! There's an error in the create_all documentation. I should > > know since I filed the bug... > > > Try:http://api.twitter.com/1/:user/:list/members/create_all.format > > > Afaik,http:

[twitter-dev] Re: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API

2010-10-05 Thread Ken D.
Nice find! This is recent, a day or two. There is confusion elsewhere in the doc regarding optional parameters, For example, in DELETE :user/lists/:id, id is said to be optional. If this also fails in the Twitter UI there is hope that it will be fixed soon. For now Bert, this bug is yours: http:

[twitter-dev] Re: Creating a list without description silently fails (on website as wel as using API

2010-10-05 Thread Ken D.
In my app, the list names are quite descriptive, so until this gets fixed - and I think it will be - I send description=name which makes some sense as the originally input name is transformed (loss of capitals and special characters) and does not appear in the Twitter UI anyway. On Oct 6, 1:06 am

[twitter-dev] Re: user details

2010-10-06 Thread Ken D.
Just a wild guess. Try this: import oauth.oauth as oauth On Oct 6, 2:22 pm, ashwin morey wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a python file and I am running it through command line. But it keeps > giving error here > > CONSUMER = oauth.OAuthConsumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) > AttributeError: 'module

[twitter-dev] Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with certain keywords in them. Do I need to provide any authentication in order to connect? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/E

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
l, it will give you an error > page. > > Tom > > On 10/7/10 6:49 PM, D. Smith wrote: > > > > > Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with > > certain keywords in them. Do I need to provide any authentication in > > order to connect?

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
c/get/search > > > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, D. Smith wrote: > > Hello! I want to start using streaming API to monitor all tweets with > > certain keywords in them. Do I need to provide any authentication in > > order to connect? > > > -- > > T

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Can I use any Twitter account username/password or does the account have to be registered with Twitter API? On Oct 7, 1:18 pm, John Kalucki wrote: > stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json > track=keyword1,keyword2 > > etc. > > -John > > > > On Thu, Oct 7, 201

[twitter-dev] Re: Is authentication required to use Streaming API?

2010-10-07 Thread D. Smith
Sorry for asking all these questions, but what is the sample endpoint? Does it contain real tweets or just some sample tweets for testing purposes only? On Oct 7, 1:33 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi D, > > There are a few different levels of the streaming API. You can use the

[twitter-dev] What is the "new_id" in streaming API?

2010-10-08 Thread D. Smith
What is the meaning of the property "new_id" in json object returned from streaming api? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/lis

[twitter-dev] Is it possible to search with wildcard in streaming api?

2010-10-10 Thread D. Smith
For example I want is to search for words that have 'truck' in it and want to get all tweets that have 'truck', 'trucks', 'trucking', 'dumptruck', etc. I it possible to use wildcards like *truck* or do I have to just include all possible words that contain truck? -- Twitter developer documentat

[twitter-dev] What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
I have seen this field in streaming api, but never got a chance to see any actual data for this field. Can someone explain to me what usually will be the the "place" when it's not null? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://tw

[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
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[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
tharris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:26 PM, D. Smith wrote: > > Interesting. How is it that in the sample status the geo is null and > > the place is not null? > > How is the place determined if there is

[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
I think it's also strange that you include Street address, Country but NO City and NO State! I think State and City/Town name would be very helpful On Oct 12, 6:55 pm, "D. Smith" wrote: > Great explanation, thanks. > > On Oct 12, 6:51 pm, Matt Harris wrote: > > &

[twitter-dev] Re: What data is usually contained in the place field?

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
p://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/247f43d441defc03.json > > Things like city and state come from the Geo hierarchy indicated by > the contained_within data returned from the place URL. > > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > > On Tue,

[twitter-dev] Question about source field

2010-10-12 Thread D. Smith
I noticed that the value of source field looks somewhat strange: "source":"http://www.echofon.com/\"; rel=\"nofollow\">Echofon< \/a>", Why in the world would you have an html string as a value and on top of than why do you include the rel="nofollow" tag? This just looks wrong, not structured. The

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about source field

2010-10-14 Thread D. Smith
C'mon guys, just admit that you messed up with the source field and correct it. It makes no sense to return html string for any value. Just return the the object with an app name and url, maybe a unique app ID too. On Oct 12, 8:41 pm, "D. Smith" wrote: > I noticed that t

[twitter-dev] No country code in 'place' but country value is set

2010-10-17 Thread D. Smith
http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/917f05e8dd09575f.json No country code, but country is "United Kingdom" This is just one example. I wonder why this is? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhan

[twitter-dev] Re: Copying or Importing Twitter Lists

2010-11-02 Thread Ken D.
Don't know of any public tool, but as you suggest it won't be hard to make one. If you were planning to use the list /create_all method, see this thread first: https://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/8668d4b94d7e0043/eaa833e422b3f4d1 On Nov 2, 7:54 pm, Quy w

[twitter-dev] Re: Upload image with a tweet

2010-11-03 Thread Ken D.
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't it have to do with *where* the image is hosted? I thought Twitter had a list of recognized rich content websites, à la embed.ly. On 3 Nov, 18:09, Edward Hotchkiss wrote: > YOU NEED TO HOST THE IMAGE SOMEWHERE ELSE. Once you upload it   > somewhere else and have a link

[twitter-dev] Re: How to display lists from multiple users in an app

2010-11-03 Thread Ken D.
If you own a private list and want to share the content, you just use your own credentials (My Access Token) to fetch it. Real-time or cached, whatever works for you. There is no 'logged in' - each API call is authenticated. How could a user break into your account? A single web page can display co

[twitter-dev] Re: How to display lists from multiple users in an app

2010-11-03 Thread Ken D.
I should add you must not use your credentials to display tweets from protected accounts that your account has access to. On 3 Nov, 23:21, "Ken D." wrote: > If you own a private list and want to share the content, you just use > your own credentials (My Access Token) to fetch

[twitter-dev] Re: Upload image with a tweet

2010-11-04 Thread Ken D.
, fxbois wrote: > Any Twitter developper have a clue about this ... I ve searched a lot > on the web have found nothing > > On Nov 3, 6:27 pm, "Ken D." wrote: > > > Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't it have to do with *where* the image is > > hosted? I thought

[twitter-dev] Re: About catching Twitter user status

2010-11-04 Thread Ken D.
you're right, it's pretty hard to find this information. It's way down in 4th position of a Google search for "Twitter API" : http://dev.twitter.com/doc On Nov 4, 4:44 am, ESN wrote: >  HI, > >  I am beginner of using twitter api. If I want to collect user status > from Twitter, what approach sh

[twitter-dev] Re: Suggestion for new feature ..

2010-11-04 Thread Ken D.
"Favorite" On Nov 4, 10:17 pm, Ronak Kumar Samantray wrote: > It would be super-cool to have this feature. Many a times i just skip the > tweet for future reference, it would cool if i could mark it somehow.. > > Ronak Kumar Samantray > Hyderabad > > Mobile : +91-9347290267 >                040-6

[twitter-dev] Re: #newtwitter direct message UI

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
Good points. The order is not random - it's the same each time - just baffling and useless. Perhaps we are meant to delete read messages? A useful 3rd party app might archive and delete them, leaving only new messages on Twitter and helping to resolve the "rogue app reading dms" issue. On Nov 5,

[twitter-dev] Re: #newtwitter direct message UI

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
Oh great. I just got my first email spam purporting to be a Twitter DM notification. On Nov 5, 9:19 am, "Ken D." wrote: > Good points. The order is not random - it's the same each time - just > baffling and useless. > > Perhaps we are meant to delete read messag

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
۔ the above Unicode character is the closest I could find to a dot, without being a dot... On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien wrote: > Hello all, > > I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that > is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean the > Tweet button).

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
cool, that seems to have worked. Just that it's a funny character to work with: ۔ - try and you'll see Anyway it probably defeats the URL parsing. On Nov 5, 5:11 pm, "Ken D." wrote: > ۔ > the above Unicode character is the closest I could find to a dot, > withou

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting to tweeter directly via JS?

2010-11-05 Thread Ken D.
Try tweeting this: http://not-a-url۔com On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien wrote: > Hello all, > > I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that > is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean the > Tweet button). > > THe post I need to make comes under this form:

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses missing

2010-11-09 Thread Ken D.
"Add Location to your tweets" does not actually add a location - good point, and you are probably not the first to think so. It only enables your account to accept location information. It is still up to you to send the geo data. On Nov 9, 12:23 pm, "Andrew Cross. Gna" wrote: > I am succeeded in

[twitter-dev] Problems with search API and html widget

2009-03-06 Thread Kevin D
I have also been getting the "You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm." response when trying to use the jQuery widget from monitter (http://monitter.com/widget/index.html). I tried that widget because the standard html widget that twitter provides (blogger.js, mytwittername.json) was only re

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems with search API and html widget

2009-03-09 Thread Kevin D
h   > very low refresh rates. Since the rate limiting is per-IP that can add   > up to be enough to rate limit. > > Thanks; >    — Matt Sanford > > On Mar 6, 2009, at 05:52 AM, Kevin D wrote: > > > > > > > I have also been getting the "You have been rate

[twitter-dev] Re: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel

2011-02-02 Thread Ken D.
Ashley, While waiting for native support from Twitter, have you checked out the embed.ly Parrotfish plugin ( http://labs.embed.ly/ ) ? Grooveshark is one of 160-plus OEmbed-compliant media partners supported by the plugin. Tweets bearing supported URLs are marked in the timeline and yes, you'll s

[twitter-dev] Re: Media Partnerships and Oembed for Twitter's Detail Panel

2011-02-02 Thread Ken D.
g my own) use embed.ly to display > content. > > Tom > > On 2/2/11 1:25 PM, Ken D. wrote: > > > Ashley, > > > While waiting for native support from Twitter, have you checked out > > the embed.ly Parrotfish plugin (http://labs.embed.ly/) ? > > > G

[twitter-dev] Re: Data-expanded-url attribute

2011-02-15 Thread Ken D.
I have a possibly related problem. We also use an inhouse shortener that returns a 301 redirect, but Twitterbot misinterprets the shortened URLs. The usual search engine bots follow the redirect correctly, as far as I can tell. Each tweet results in a frenzy of 404s from API users who have receiv

[twitter-dev] Re: display user's profile image - definitive answer?

2011-02-17 Thread Ken D.
A couple of months ago, the consensus seemed to be to use tweetimag.es with user id, like so: http://img.tweetimag.es/i/8970972_o Ken On Feb 17, 1:16 pm, del wrote: > Hi All, > > New to the forum, apologies if I'm covering old ground. I've done a > search but can't find a definitive answer: > >

[twitter-dev] Re: POSTs to :user/:list_id/create_all returning HTTP status 404 for all requests

2011-03-03 Thread Ken D.
Mistakes are a fact of life, no excuses necessary. What is hard to understand is not being able to change a few characters in the documentation, while developers continue to fall into this silly trap. Is the doc generated from the code? Doesn't look like it. Of course, this documentation bug - an

[twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
Similarly, I have noticed that an exact duplicate tweet is no longer systematically rejected. Our CMS was set up to tweet new content items when they are first viewed by a visitor. If two visitors view the same new item at nearly the same time, two tweets are sent. Until recently, one would be rej

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

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
> Avatars come in three sizes: > >         mini = 24x24 >         normal = 48x48 >         bigger = 73x73 >         reasonably_small = 128x128 > > http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_mini.jpg > http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/361706538/mk1_normal.jpg > http://a3.twimg.com/profile_im

[twitter-dev] Re: Recurring Tweets

2011-03-07 Thread Ken D.
w or reply, but basically I think it means I am spending too much time on Twitter... Ken On Mar 7, 8:22 pm, 1537 News <1537n...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is considered an Exact Duplicate Tweet? > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ken D. wrote: > > Similarly, I have noticed

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter group API

2011-03-16 Thread Ken D.
er, there might be.. For "Group" substitute "list". Maximum is 500 followers/list. If they are following you, you can message them. Where's the problem? On Mar 15, 9:25 pm, Tim Haines wrote: > No, there's not. > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Richard wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is

[twitter-dev] Re: How to send tweets from multiple accounts without having to login

2011-03-16 Thread Ken D.
You will have stored the tokens for those accounts that you control and on behalf of which you want to send Tweets. You no longer need to authenticate via Twitter, just be logged in to your own system. You can use a form that includes a SELECT tag allowing the choice of account to use when tweetin

[twitter-dev] Re: Additional attribute in share link

2011-05-24 Thread Ken D.
Looks like a 13-digit timestamp - e.g. Python millis() On May 23, 10:09 pm, Tony House wrote: > I'm looking through the FAQ for the tweet button and am not seeing one > of the attributes listed. > On the page, the different examples have an underscore and equal and a > 13 digit number (e.g.http:/

[twitter-dev] Search API reporting temporary error

2010-06-15 Thread Mack D. Male
There seems to be something wrong with the search API. It is only returning a tiny subset of what I would expect (after looking at the same query on search.twitter.com for instance) and is reporting the following: "adjusted since_id to 16201119561 due to temporary error" Any word on what this tem

[twitter-dev] Search?

2010-06-28 Thread Mack D. Male
What's the deal with search? It's not returning all the data. Just look at any of the trending topics for instance. The Status site hasn't been updated.

[twitter-dev] Re: Search?

2010-06-28 Thread Mack D. Male
If you want every tweet on a topic we highly suggest > the streaming interface. > > Jonathan > @jreichhold > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Mack D. Male wrote: > > > > > What's the deal with search? It's not returning all the data. Just > > look at any of the trending topics for instance. The Status site > > hasn't been updated.

[twitter-dev] Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-08 Thread Mack D. Male
Until a couple of hours ago, searching for something like "edmonton OR #yeg OR near:edmonton" (or the API equivalent) worked just fine. Now it doesn't return anything new, and seems to return an odd set of old results. You can search for them separately, as in "edmonton OR #yeg" and "near:edmont

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-08 Thread Mack D. Male
Awesome, thanks! On Sep 8, 7:05 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > Our Search Team informs me that they shipped a new query parser today. > This is likely a bug in the new parser, and I've let them know about > it. > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 17:48, Mack D. Male wrote: > > >

[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?

2009-09-09 Thread Mack D. Male
ot;You must enter a > >> query" if I try this search on my browser window. > > >> On Sep 8, 10:05 pm, Alex Payne wrote: > > >> > Our Search Team informs me that they shipped a new query parser today. > >> > This is likely a bug in the new pa

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems Connecting to the API

2009-10-18 Thread Michael D. Ivey
Not just you. Every machine I've tried times out, but istwitterdown.com says No and Seesmic Web works. Seems to be connectivity issue. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: Does anyone else have problems connecting to the API at the moment (Sunday mor

[twitter-dev] Re: Problems Connecting to the API

2009-10-18 Thread Michael D. Ivey
Yes. Unable to connect via Tweetie from home (one of my traceroutes was from home) and lots of reports from iPhone, AT&T and Comcast users in Southeast. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2009, at 9:56 AM, John Kalucki wrote: And here's the next question: Is anyone having trouble from non

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retweet API methods returning 404

2009-12-17 Thread Michael D. Ivey
"I say I say I say, it was a joke, son." - Foghorn Leghorn Sent from my iPhone On Dec 17, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Dimebrain wrote: Interesting, how do you approach API testing if not live? Wouldn't mind comparing notes. On Dec 17, 7:07 am, Andrew Badera wrote: Personally, my unit's testes don't

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search - the page you were looking for doesn't exist

2010-01-11 Thread Mack D. Male
Twitter Search has been very problematic today, mainly for searches using operators. For instance, this search currently returns an error message: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=near%3Aedmonton "The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may ha

[twitter-dev] Re: RETWEETS in Search API -- FROM filtering is not working

2010-01-22 Thread Mack D. Male
This is a problem when filtering by geo as well - searching for tweets "near:vancouver" also returns retweets of users in vancouver by users in other locations. On Jan 22, 10:18 am, "Ryan G." wrote: > Hello, > > As @Sarah Richards reported earlier, we are being impacted across many > of our web p

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

2010-10-07 Thread Mack D. Male
I'm seeing this problem too, but it only started today, around five hours ago. Here's an example search: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=near%3Aedmonton That's returning a fraction of the tweets it was before. This problem happens occasionally, but not usually for this long. On Oct 7, 3:10 pm

[twitter-dev] Re: location based search and user location field

2010-10-10 Thread Mack D. Male
Any update on this? It is still an issue. On Oct 7, 9:46 pm, Siim Saarlo wrote: > Hi, > > Search API with location restriction (geocode parameter) used to > search through tweets that were geotagged and also tweets that were > tweeted by user who had set her location in profile settings. > Seems

[twitter-dev] Geocoded searches broken

2010-11-26 Thread Mack D. Male
Since yesterday, geocoded searches have been broken intermittently. Sometimes results are returned normally, then for stretches of time (30 minutes or more) no results are returned. During that time, there's a "warning" like the following: adjusted since_id to 8230615843933184 due to temporary err

Re: no element found

2009-02-18 Thread Mack D. Male
Looks like they just added the "source" property to a result...so make sure you're decoding properly. On Feb 18, 12:21 pm, TCI wrote: > I am getting an error "no element found" when querying the API for > CostaRica's followers... Anything going on?

Re: no element found

2009-02-18 Thread Mack D. Male
Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Mack D. Male wrote: > > > > > > > Looks like they just added the "source" property to a result...so make > > sure you're decoding properly. > > > On Feb 18, 12:21 pm, TCI wrote: > >> I am getting an error &quo