[twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Warden
I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the Twitter API. It would be a free release limited to academic researchers, an anonymized version of the network connections of several million users with public profiles. What I'm hoping to release is something like this: , ,

Re: [twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Warden
d.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/social-network-data-and-research.html On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Quoting Pete Warden : > > I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the >> Twitter API. It would be a free re

[twitter-dev] Re: graph API call returning 'This Method requires authentication'

2009-08-29 Thread Pete Warden
A late follow-up on this, but I'm hitting the same problem: - It's only happening with friends/ids.json, all other calls work - Bizarrely I can call it fine from command-line curl on the same machine, but using curl within PHP I get the error - I've tried rejigging my curl/php code to use the in-u

Sample code for using Yahoo's geocoding to emulate near in the search API

2009-02-18 Thread Pete Warden
I needed a way for users to be able to enter readable place names and do searches restricted to the neighborhood. The search API only supports lat,long so I had to implement some geocoding to translate names into coordinates. I ended up using Yahoo's free GeoPlanet service, with 50,000 requests po

Re: Frequent HTTP 500 server errors from search API

2009-02-18 Thread Pete Warden
I'm hitting the same 500 problem with complex queries. It's occasional enough that I can live with it, but the big issue for me is that I'm using the JSON interface and appear to get back HTML in the error content. This doesn't allow me to do any error handling, as the

Re: Sample code for using Yahoo's geocoding to emulate near in the search API

2009-02-18 Thread Pete Warden
een near: within: syntax and geocoding. > > > > Anyone is welcome to clone/edit it for their own use. > > > > -Chad > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Pete Warden > wrote: > >> > >> I needed a way for users to be able to enter readable

[twitter-dev] Re: is there an "Intro to Twitter API with PHP"?

2009-02-22 Thread Pete Warden
I don't have any pure tutorials, but this PHP class might be a good place to start: http://code.google.com/p/php-twitter/source/browse/trunk/class.twitter.php It includes a method to retrieve DMs. The hardest part for me when I rolled my own in PHP was parsing the results into a native structure.

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-23 Thread Pete Warden
twitter_id: http://twitter.com/petewarden Company: http://twitter.mailana.com/ Email: p...@mailana.com cheers, Pete On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Aaron Brazell wrote: > twitter_id: http://twitter.com/technosailor > Company: http://emmense.com > Email: aa...@technosailor.com > -- >

[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?

2009-02-24 Thread Pete Warden
Thanks for putting this together, it's a great way of supporting the community. The link shows up on the front page now, but asks for a PBWiki login, and then refuses access. Is there a permissions issue? Pete On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Doug Williams wrote: > Hi all, > Thanks for your res

[twitter-dev] Re: one-click follow

2009-02-26 Thread Pete Warden
Well, actually there kinda-is: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2008/12/how-to-create-a-oneclick-twitter-follow-button.html There was a hole in December that allowed the user's twitter.comauthentication cookies to be used by another page's Javascript. That's now been fixed, so the techn

Re: Social graph (was Re: [twitter-dev] Does this exist?)

2009-02-26 Thread Pete Warden
(Privately mailed, since I'm nervous about edging off-topic) I'm working on some related areas, capturing conversation data from Twitter at http://twitter.mailana.com/ . My approach has been the classic disk-space trade off, creating massive indices to pre-cache queries. You're right though, even

[twitter-dev] Patch for permanent portrait URLs with SPIURL

2009-03-11 Thread Pete Warden
ers using this, so here's my patch to authenticate those API calls: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2009/03/adding-authentication-to-the-spiurl-permanent-twitter-portrait-project.html Pete Warden