Status updates ignored, even though statuses not identical?

2008-12-11 Thread LeeS
I have a twitter bot running at http://twitter.com/shortyawards for the site http://shortyawards.com. I'm noticing in our logs that many of our status updates using the json API are being ignored. The 'text' field of the json response comes back with the previous status, ignoring the new status

Re: Status updates ignored, even though statuses not identical?

2008-12-12 Thread LeeS
Thanks Alex. Let me know if there's anything I can do on my end. Lee On Dec 11, 3:36 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: You're not the first to report this issue, I'm afraid.  This crops up from time to time due to some low-level, complicated caching logic in our system.  We're

Re: Status updates ignored, even though statuses not identical?

2008-12-12 Thread LeeS
You should know it also ignores updates through the Twitter site itself. As of now, our bot's updates haven't been accepted for the last hour, so I logged into Twitter.com and tried to make an update manually, but that also doesn't work. Lee On Dec 12, 10:24 am, LeeS lse...@gmail.com wrote

[twitter-dev] Getting sample of recent statues (not real time) for large list of specific users

2009-09-08 Thread LeeS
For a new project we'll need to retrieve the text of recent statuses for a large group of specific users (several thousand to start), matching a smaller list of keyword strings. Both the users and keywords will grow over time but the keyword set will probably remain at least an order of

[twitter-dev] Re: Getting sample of recent statues (not real time) for large list of specific users

2009-09-09 Thread LeeS
://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 8, 10:17 pm, LeeS lse...@gmail.com wrote: For a new project we'll need to retrieve the text of recent statuses for a large group of specific users (several thousand to start), matching a smaller list of keyword strings.   Both the users

[twitter-dev] Authenticating for my own site's API, when my site uses Twitter OAuth for logins

2009-10-17 Thread LeeS
Let's say I have a site that uses Twitter OAuth to allow users to log in. Now, I want to add my own API on my site, which itself needs authentication. What's the best way to handle authentication for my API? I can't see how I can use Twitter OAuth because it'll direct the user to Twitter's

[twitter-dev] Re: Draft of List API documentation

2009-10-17 Thread LeeS
So far, I've observed the limits to be 20 lists per user, 500 users per list. Lee On Oct 17, 5:57 pm, Rod Begbie rodbeg...@gmail.com wrote: Some questions on lists that came from a quick hack I made this morning (http://github.com/rodbegbie/emulate-with_friends): 1) Are there any

[twitter-dev] Re: Feature Request: Publicly Mark Tweets That You Like (i.e. digg a tweet)

2009-04-25 Thread Jennie Lees
other tweets up/down manually' thing; it's such a jump to get that level of user interaction frequently enough to be meaningful. -J -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-19 Thread Jennie Lees
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.comwrote: Man, it is so good to hear this from someone who's actually done it! The other point, though, is that the real thing, even traffic / social network analysis, is compute-resource intensive and requires a kind of

[twitter-dev] Re: A question regarding categorization of tweets

2009-07-22 Thread Jennie Lees
TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com) is the obvious answer, you can group your contacts into different panels and thus not have the noisy drown out the intelligent. Pretty sure other clients do it too, to different extents - a bit of googling and trying them out won't hurt if TD's not to your

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread Jennie Lees
... but the response comes back in one second (or just really really fast). Any help appreciated... Brian Roy justSignal -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees

[twitter-dev] List API: Rules for converting list name - list slug

2009-10-17 Thread LeeS - @semel
Anyone have the rules for converting the user-entered name of the list into the list slug? This would save our app an API call when creating new lists. Lee

[twitter-dev] Re: Updates to the List API (list descriptions, cursoring lists of lists, finding by list id rather than slug more consistent names)

2009-10-30 Thread LeeS - @semel
Does calling the status timeline for a list count against rate limit? What I'm thinking of is doing an Ajax widget that auto updates with new tweets from a list every few seconds, similar to how many people use the Search API to do this by hashtag. If the status API request is rate limited this

[twitter-dev] Turning a list's status timeline into an JS/Ajax widget

2009-11-01 Thread LeeS - @semel
Does calling the status timeline ( '/:users/lists/:list_slug/ statuses.:format') for a list count against rate limit? What I'm thinking of is doing an Ajax widget that auto updates with new tweets from a list every few seconds, such as the Search widget Twitter provides:

[twitter-dev] Lists API call not working?

2009-11-30 Thread LeeS - @semel
I'm trying to use this call from the documentation, which previously worked - now it doesn't: http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/lists.xml I get redirected to http://api.twitter.com/lists/not_yet This seems to affect other API calls I've tried as well. Lee

[twitter-dev] Re: Lists API call not working?

2009-11-30 Thread LeeS - @semel
lists on twitter.com at the moment.  I'd expect this would cause the API to stop working too.. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM, LeeS - @semel lse...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to use this call from the documentation, which previously worked - now it doesn't: http://api.twitter.com/1

[twitter-dev] Authorizing users for my app's API

2009-11-30 Thread LeeS - @semel
Here's the situation: My app lets users OAuth via Twitter as their login. Simple and standard. Now, I've created an API for my app. I want other apps, say Twitter clients, to be able to use my app, as if they are one of my app's users. What's the best way to let the user authorize that app to

[twitter-dev] Real Time Twitter Booze -- SF 12/7, NY 12/10

2009-12-02 Thread LeeS - @semel
Hi all, We're the cofounders of Sawhorse Media, which created Listorious, Shorty Awards, Muck Rack, Venture Maven. We're anxious to meet more folks doing Twitter development so we're getting a few together for drinks. If you're building a business around the real time web or just tinkering with

[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread LeeS - @semel
Everything is down for me too. Twitter.com itself shows a fail whale. Lee

[twitter-dev] Re: Tons of 502s

2009-12-06 Thread LeeS - @semel
I'm glad the fail whale is still around. I hadn't seen it in a while and was starting to miss it. Lee

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get the most followed users?

2009-12-06 Thread LeeS - @semel
You've got to basically build your own database of users. That's what I did to create this page: http://listorious.com/top/followers Lee On Dec 6, 10:15 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you want the top 1000 by followers you could parsehttp://twitterholic.com/. On Sat, Dec

[twitter-dev] Reminder: Twitter developer event tonight in SF

2009-12-07 Thread LeeS - @semel
Link: http://realtimebooze.eventbrite.com/ The founders of Cotweet, Klout, Involver, Posterous, Twittorati, and Listimonkey will be there in addition to a few members of the Twitter API team. If you're building a business around the real time web or just tinkering with a few product ideas, please

[twitter-dev] Undeletable list?

2009-12-15 Thread LeeS - @semel
I seem to have created an undeletable list in one of my accounts (list id 4667928) I can't delete it via the API, and deleting the list via twitter.com also fails. Lee

[twitter-dev] Cannot create list with a specific slug, even if that slug doesn't exist in the account

2010-01-04 Thread LeeS - @semel
In my account, there's no list named 'design': http://twitter.com/shortyawards/design results in a 404 page When I try to create one with that name, I get numbers appended to it: curl -u .. -dname=design http://api.twitter.comtyawards/lists.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? list

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-23 Thread Jennie Lees
Hello folks. I'm Jen. Just moved to SF from Scotland where I ran a data intelligence startup which dug into Twitter sentiment analysis (see festbuzz.com for an example). I'm consulting, writing, speaking and doing a day job at a Silicon Valley tech co. for now, but I have a list as long as my arm

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Natural Language Processing Projects

2010-03-01 Thread Jennie Lees
If you're new to NLP, I recommend getting a book like Natural Language Processing with Python, using the Python Twitter API, and writing a Bayesian spam classifier. If you're less new, I've been working in sentiment classification for a while now and it's a lot of fun. Also things like

[twitter-dev] @anywhere fails if ShareThis on the page?

2010-06-04 Thread LeeS - @semel
I get this Javascript error when trying to use @anywhere on the same page as a ShareThis widget. Error: Permission denied for [name of my site[ to get property Window.document from http://wd.sharethis.com. Source File: http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?id=[my api key]v=1 Line: 1

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth still working for everyone.?

2010-12-02 Thread LeeS - @semel
I am using this library on all my sites: https://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async, all of which are now broken and fail to let anyone log in. Any way this can be rolled back until all the various oAuth libraries people are using are brought up to date? Lee On Dec 2, 5:35 pm, Dave-twiends

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth still working for everyone.?

2010-12-02 Thread LeeS - @semel
for the mistakes which some developers tend to make. I'd recommend diving into the code and fixing the errors, instead of asking the Twitter API team to accept your broken OAuth implementations. :-) Tom On 12/2/10 11:42 PM, LeeS - @semel wrote: I am using this library on all my