[twitter-dev] Status Element

I am trying to process the Status Element, but followers_count is always coming back empty. All other fields (user.id, user.name, etc.) are OK. Any ideas? this is in response to an API call to get public_timeline (which returns the Status Element).

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Element

Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Joseph wrote: > > > I am trying to process the Status Element, but followers_count is > > always coming back empty. All other fields (user.id, user.name, etc.) > > are OK. Any ideas? this is in response to an API call to get > > public_timeline (which returns the Status Element).

[twitter-dev] Re: Read and store Twitter responses

This may not be the best thing to do in the case of statuses. Optimization implies that you have two tables (minimum), one for the user info, and one for the tweets. Doing a batch update, means that you're skipping the step of checking to see if the user is already in the database, so for every tw

[twitter-dev] rpp and page

This is for a search: there are two parameters that do not seem to be working (or I can't figure out where the correct documentation is): rpp (for number of entries per page returned, and page (number of pages returned per search). And it seems as if no matter what I enter for "since" and "to" (si

[twitter-dev] Re: rpp and page

case). On Apr 21, 10:34 am, Nick Arnett wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Joseph wrote: > > >  page (number of > > pages returned per search). > > I'm not sure if you meant what you wrote here, but page is the page number > of the search results for one qu

[twitter-dev] Re: rpp and page

e > docs:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:41, Joseph wrote: > > > This is for a search: there are two parameters that do not seem to be > > working (or I can't figure out where the correct documentation is): > > rpp (

[twitter-dev] Search API

If I do a search the API, is there an easier way to get all output, than doing multiple calls, each specifying a page number?

[twitter-dev] Detecting positive / negative / question

Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do any of the data structures returned by API calls have it? The search API allows the search for a "tude", but as far as I can see, "tude" is not part of the data structure returned.

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

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? Thanks, Joseph On Jul 22, 10:52 am, Doug Williams wrote: > Joseph,I assume you mean the sentiment

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

well. On Jul 23, 12:42 am, Bjoern wrote: > 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

Tom, thanks for the link. I've been to the site in the past. I just revisited, and entered "Sarah Palin" in the search box. It returned 50 tweets, labeled 39 as neutral, 5 positive and 6 negative. I checked the actual tweets, and here's what I found: - Neutral: I only found one (maybe). The other

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API + PHP and Python

Have you resolved this problem? suggestion: did you try writing the raw output to a file (like every hour, and then create another file, and so on), and then have another script process the JSON? On Jun 8, 1:16 pm, Chad Etzel wrote: > Hi All, > > I am stumped.  For several days I have tried to w

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/friends page count?

Just as aside, does anyone know if each call to a new page counts against the API limit? On Jul 24, 8:08 am, "st...@implu.com" wrote: > I'm experiencing the same issue with implu. With 14,408 follows, I > should go up to > page 145. However, the last page of data is 101 and 102 onwards > returns

[twitter-dev] Search / track term

If I'm tracking a hash tag (using the streaming API), will that hash tag (or search term), be returned as part of the JSON stream I'm receiving?

[twitter-dev] Open streams limits

Using the streaming API, is it possible to open up more than one stream using the same login credentials, or would that be a considered bad behavior? For instance, I would like to open up a stream to track one set of keywords, and another to track another set of keywords.

[twitter-dev] Re: Open streams limits

ion needs to track more keywords or a higher rate than the > default /track level, contact us. > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki > Services, Twitter Inc. > > On Jul 27, 6:31 am, Joseph wrote: > > > Using the streaming API, is it possible to open up more than one >

[twitter-dev] track syntax

I am trying to use the track streaming API, but I'm having trouble with the syntax. The example shows how to use a tracking list stored in a file in the format: track = word1, word2, etc.. I tried the following (following a successful fsockopen call to stream.twitter.api: POST /track.json track

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

to the whole dev community. > > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:18, Joseph wrote: > > > I am trying to use the track streaming API, but I'm having trouble > > with the syntax. The example shows how to use a tracking list stored > > in a file in the format: t

[twitter-dev] Where did Advanced Search go?

>From twitter.com. I'm pretty sure it was there a couple of days ago. Am I not caffeine'ated enough, or is the feature really gone?

[twitter-dev] Search API and using since_id and max_id

I want to retrieve all tweets that meet a certain criteria, so I tried using the since_id as a starting point, and incrementing by a reasonable delta for subsequent calls, and using that value for a max_id. I was expecting to get different results when I do: Run 1: since_id=2815106475 max_id-sinc

[twitter-dev] Search API confusion

If I do a search request, and I include the following: &ors=%23wine+%23winery I Only get results for #wine Wouldn't this request be the same as doing a search with any of the words: #wine or #winery? or is the search API intercepting every hash tag, and if I have more than one hash tag, it ign

[twitter-dev] Have tweet ID, need the URL prefix

If I have a tweet ID, how do I access the tweet using a url. I'm assuming there's an http://www.twitter.com//1234567890?

[twitter-dev] Android Intent and URL shorterning

Hi First off, I am able to successfully call to the official app with my crafted Intent. My issue is about preventing urls that I pass in the EXTRA_TEXT field of the intent from being converted to bitly-shortened links. I am using my own url shortening service and would prefer for my urls to be k

[twitter-dev] OAuth problem

Hi i am a newbie here so please... patience I have a simple problem i am using Twitter4j as a client library (just a detail as my problem does not related to it) twitter4j does its job, i can get a request token , i can get an authorize url , i can even get a valid access token all works fine and

Re: [twitter-dev] Early look at Annotations

awesome idea! I know I can find a use for it. Some concerns, however, below... Joseph Cheek Marcel Molina wrote: the sentence Namespaces aren't intended as a way for people to claim their little slice of the tweet space. and the sentence If you want a given key to mean one thin

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Annotation details

ing to Chirp! 8-))) Joseph Raffi Krikorian wrote: I'm thinking of something like the RFC process for Internet protocols. really - i think that's just too formal. just mail the list, or hit me/marcel up over email. Part of this stems from my concern over something I thought I h

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

comments inline... Dewald Pretorius wrote: Marcel, I'd strongly urge you to consider a more structured and controlled environment for annotations. agreed, but... Ideally, I think an OAuth app must register a namespace, or subscribe to an existing namespace of another app, before it can c

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Early look at Annotations

not necessarily - twitterbots are easy to build. you can't rely on lack of usage by humans to kill a twitter app. Raffi Krikorian wrote: if there happens to be a rogue app, then users will stop using it. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Subscription se

[twitter-dev] what's the best way to replicate a twitter bot's followers list?

At our next company hackathon, I'd like to make a twitter bot for Plaxo where you can follow it and get DMs with all your Plaxo notifications (e.g. "John commented on your status update", etc.). The biggest challenge I'm facing is how to know when a notification gets generated that the recipient i

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

exactly. and for those who think their closed-source oauth app hides their app key and secret, have you ever run "strings" on your binary? (for those keeping score, it's basic auth: 2, oauth: 0) thanks! Joseph Cheek @cheekdotcom JDG wrote: > Which eliminates one of the b

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

somewhere? that could be trivially intercepted. Joseph Cheek @cheekdotcom Chris Babcock wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:49:49 -0400 > Jason Martin wrote: > > >> On another note, how "Open Source friendly" is OAuth? I'm not sure >> if people who write

Re: Absurd Misunderstanding of Open Anything (Was: [twitter-dev] Re: Open Auth)

nor can oauth assure the provider that a desktop app is legitimate when the app authenticates itself to the provider. John Kristian wrote: > An OAuth Consumer that's deployed to users' desktops or mobile devices > can't keep a secret. One should assume its consumer key and consumer > secret will

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter's "Tweet" Trademark Torpedoed

looks mightily similar to twitter in color and form. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Sam Johnston wrote: > [snip] > > That's too bad for Twitter but it's great news for the rest of the > community as it's one

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22follow+me+on+twitter%22+gmail.com as an example... JDG wrote: > surely you're joking. PLEASE tell me you're joking, because my skin is > crawling. > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:01, Dossy Shiobara > wrote: > > > On 8/22/09 5:49 AM

[twitter-dev] Re: get the id's of twitter users who have authenticated with OAuth?

This won't work for mobile/desktop apps. Any ideas for mobile/desktop app tracking? thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom JDG wrote: > they do. when you get an access token, the screen name and their ID > are returned to you along with the token. Use it. Store it. >

[twitter-dev] Re: get the id's of twitter users who have authenticated with OAuth?

I agree. I've seen a lot of resistance to user apps that "phone home" in the past. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom mcdade wrote: > Thanks JDG for the advice but I wrote an App, not a webapp. > > The program runs on the users computer and they auth, I rea

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

it doesn't appear that he's scraping at all. he's just starting a process to show the user's twitter page and wants to have the user logged in already. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom Andrew Badera wrote: > Actually ... IS that PocketIE, or is that Interne

[twitter-dev] blocks/exists q

blocks/exists tells if i am blocking a user - is there a way to tell if a user is blocking me? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter based message board

You wrote one too? I wish I had known - I just wrote my own module for drupal auth with twitter credentials last week. www.cheek.com/downloads/Twitter_Auth I looked for a twitter auth module on drupal.org but didn't find yours. Oh well. It was a good learning experience 8-). Joseph

[twitter-dev] whitelisting q

tes with a certain hashtag and am concerned that if there are more than 1000 updates per day with that hashtag that I will only be able to respond to the first thousand. What's the proper thing to do in that case, split it among several different accounts? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth and HTTP Authentication under same Application Name?

it's not conspicuous enough. You need to enclose it in tags. 8-))) Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Raffi Krikorian wrote: > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowdoIget“fromMyApp”appendedtoupdatessentfrommyAPIapplication

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated URL shortening

I have seen my URLs both shorted and not; it appeared to me that the gating factor was the length of the tweet - if the non-shortened version fit in 140 chars, it would leave it alone. this was just based on observation, however. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http

[twitter-dev] Re: Receiving Invalid 403 Errors - You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.

i believe the dm limit is 250 per day. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Are you sending the news items to your users via DMs? > > If so, your servic

[twitter-dev] Re: Website!

> Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org > Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham > Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Madison, WI, United States -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax

are you really just opening stream.twitter.org? Normally you would want to open http://stream.twitter.org/path/to/url.xml... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > You can set both the track and follow parameters when us

[twitter-dev] Re: Alert: "Twitpocalypse II" coming Friday, September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs!

use signed 64bit ints, but i'm not sure about the db... will need to check... might be signed32... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Nicholas Moline wrote: > And nobody thought about the significance of accelerating anything > called

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

out of curiosity, how can you tell if your account is flagged as spammy, and what can you do about it? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > This is taken from the Twitter Rules, not the TOS, so this isn't > expres

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

ok. i have an account that never shows up in search results or in track.xml. i thought that might be it, but i guess not. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > The account will be suspended. It won't work, and it

[twitter-dev] statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

Quick q: is there any time that a search for a screenname won't return every tweet that statuses/mentions will? i can see that it would return more, but will it ever return less? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

so statuses/mentions will retrieve mentions from protected users' timelines, even if you are not authorized to see them? Joseph JDG wrote: > I believe that search does not return statuses of protected users > (even when authenticated, though I may be wrong and should be > correcte

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

will they be included in statuses/mentions? Joseph Hwee-Boon Yar wrote: > Along the same line, updates from accounts considered spamming > wouldn't be included in search results too. > > -- > Hwee-Boon > > On Sep 17, 12:07 am, JDG wrote: > >> I believe t

[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/mentions vs search/screenname

thanks - i'll change my client code! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom JDG wrote: > Those will, so long as they haven't actually been suspended. As for > your other question, you would only receive mentions from protected >

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

I ran into this problem too. I adjusted my search to use http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml instead - it seems to work much better. Search isn't consistent and it isn't real-time. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

I actually haven't done this in PHP, only in bash. The thing about stream is that you need something that returns data without buffering it. I'm sure there's a way to do this in PHP, but I haven't tried it yet. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

curl buffers, even when called with -N. You won't get satisfactory results with curl unless you get a lot of data. Use wget instead. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: > I'd suggest trying to get this to w

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help

You also need a keep-alive of greater than 30 seconds. And by default PHP funtions timeout after 30 seconds, so you'll need to change that to keep the script running indefinitely. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Jim Gilliam wrote: &g

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

gt; On Sep 19, 7:33 am, Greg Avola wrote: > >> Do you have any documentation on how to use filter.xml in PHP? The API >> doc don't really spell it out. >> >> Can you just pass a parameter in the URL like filter.xml?track=term? >> >> On Sep 19, 9:15

[twitter-dev] Re: Posting from PHP page through API not showing in search

also some accounts aren't indexed by search (or stream/filter, either). I created an account for testing and it's posts don't get indexed either. You could be running into that issue. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom retsoce

[twitter-dev] Re: Will there be a Geolocation status method?

slightly off topic: does anyone know an easy (web?) method to translate location names (ie, "Atlanta, Georgia") to geodata coords and vice versa? thanks in advance Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Raffi Krikorian wrote: > >

[twitter-dev] Re: How to append source parameter in curl ?

made OAuth libs available (almost any other language, actually). Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Ershad K wrote: > Thank you very much for your kind reply. > > I have registered my application in twitter and got some keys. I'm new &

[twitter-dev] Re: Update on the Retweet API (we collapse retweets, not you & we're adding statuses/retweets)

is (having "gaps" in tweets brought about by deleted tweets) breaks the programmatic ability to follow a thread. Not sure. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Cameron Kaiser wrote: > Still, I'm sort of with Dewald and others that I

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

x27;doze, but I've been doing Linux for a long time and I'm pretty good at it). thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com www.twitter.com/cheekdotcom | Dewald Pretorius wrote: > I've run into a serious issue and I don't know if I am overlooking > something. &

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

To be fair to Twitter, the problem lies in PHP's json_decode() function, not the twitter API. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Chad, > > Shouldn't Twitter be providing an API that works for ever

[twitter-dev] Re: Deleting a Retweeted Tweet

what? Every time my app submits a tweet with the reply id set, that limits the people who can see it? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Hwee-Boon Yar wrote: > On Sep 24, 2:16 pm, Josh Roesslein wrote: > >> This could be

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 404 (The specified key does not exist) when requesting user avatar image from amazon ec2

3.twimg.com/profile_images/433197623/twigroups_avatar_normal.png > > Requesting this image from local machine, or directly from browser > goes fine. > > > > > > > > -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: Deleting a Retweeted Tweet

ouch! deleting tweet IDs in my messages ASAP... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Cameron Kaiser wrote: >>> With the current way RT works (without the RT API) and at least as of >>> a month ago, making RTs a reply makes it

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

least far past twitter's usefulness (sorry, twitter...) i know this is akin to COBOL programmers in the fifties saying "hmm, i wonder if we should concern ourselves with what will happen to our apps in the year 2000?" and giving it no further thought, and i apologize, but i'm ok with th

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

. > > -Chad > -- Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom

[twitter-dev] Re: SERIOUS Problem With Cursors In JSON Followers/Friends Ids

t that *is* how it was announced - increase the new *maximum* status ID [emphasis mine] to 4294967296. $ echo $[ 65536 * 65536 ] 4294967296 thanks! Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Chad Etzel wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM

Re: [twitter-dev] Adding line breaks in tweets

imics the behaviour of HTML clients. bottom line: I don't think you will find a client that will honor a NL. you might be able to get a few  s in to emphasize your URL by separating it from your text, but it's iffy and (at six chars for a single blank space) expensive. Joseph Cheek j

[twitter-dev] Problems with starting twitter account

First off, I would like to say that the issue that I am having is already putting a bad taste in my mouth in reguards to your website. I signed up for an account the other day, and since yesterday its been telling me that i need to confirm my email address which I have tried to do numerous times at

Re: OAuth callback for local dev testing

I'm also noticing this bug...looks like twitter just blindly appends ? oauth_token=xyz to the oauth_callback URL without first checking whether the oauth_callback URL itself already contains a query string. I checked on http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list but I don't see an open issue