[twitter-dev] What is included In the Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters. restriction?

2009-10-15 Thread leonspencer
What us being counted as part of the length of the query - entire query string? What names (of query string name/value pair), values (of query string name/value pair), and delimiters are counted in the Twitter API restriction Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters? I've run the Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Laying the foundation for API versioning

2009-10-16 Thread leonspencer
Marcel, Is the API description available as a markup file (e.g. XSD)? Or is there some other way of programmatically scanning the APi that I've missed. Thank you, Leon On Oct 16, 12:26 am, Marcel Molina mar...@twitter.com wrote: We've taken the first steps toward introducing versioning into

[twitter-dev] Re: What is included In the Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters. restriction?

2009-10-17 Thread leonspencer
cannot be more than 140 characters long (it is 161 characters). So I don't know what it is counting. On Oct 15, 7:43 pm, leonspencer spencer_l...@yahoo.com wrote: What us being counted as part of the length of the query - entire query string? What names (of query string name/value pair), values

[twitter-dev] Re: What is included In the Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters. restriction?

2009-10-17 Thread leonspencer
-73.985506%2C25km Or For Since... http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twittersince_id=1520639490 On Oct 17, 2:29 pm, leonspencer spencer_l...@yahoo.com wrote: Still waiting for a response here. I tried a query with the Twitter Advanced Search tool:http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ands

[twitter-dev] Re: What is included In the Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters. restriction?

2009-10-17 Thread leonspencer
threads. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 20:39, leonspencer spencer_l...@yahoo.com wrote: And still waiting on a response. More information from a associate: Subject: Re: Do you know what is being counted toward query length Yeah, because your using twitter search and not api! An Api String would

[twitter-dev] Re: What is included In the Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters. restriction?

2009-10-17 Thread leonspencer
Continuing to go it along with the Advanced Search Tool to see what defines the query and length of 140 chars. Latest try resulted in the following response from the tool: You must enter a query. This is the query I entered from using the advanced search tool:

[twitter-dev] Re: What is included In the Queries are limited 140 URL encoded characters. restriction?

2009-10-18 Thread leonspencer
So the conclusion is: 1. DO NOT use the search operators that appear in the queries generated by the Twitter Advanced Search tool. For example, http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ands= Do not use ands in your queries. The default interpretation of spaces in yr queries is logical AND. And

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Permission

2009-10-19 Thread leonspencer
Hello. I havent had the opportunity to incorporate streaming into my application yet. However , user @kshep did note the following regarding the firehose: http://friendfeed.com/kshep/eb7676c9/twitter-api-wiki-streaming-documentation firehose - Returns all public statuses. Available only to

[twitter-dev] Re: still confused about how many user I can follow

2009-10-20 Thread leonspencer
Yeah. The documentation is sketchy. I wasn't able to fine anything definitive from Twitter: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/68916 Additional limits if you are following 2000 or more people: The rules about aggressive following and follow churn still apply. In addition, every user

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter encoding problem

2009-10-20 Thread leonspencer
Hi. I dont think the syntax is right for what you are trying to do. The window.open() syntax is as follows: window.open (URL, windowTitle); Combining this into one string as you have done causes all this to be interpreted as a parameters to Twitter status method, which is not what you

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter encoding problem

2009-10-20 Thread leonspencer
sadullahke...@gmail.com wrote: hey leonspencer, thanks for your reply. dont think title part as page title, it is just a short explanation. what i am trying to do is like i am reading this:http://www.mypage.com/article.aspx;, i mean at the beginning of the status a short explanation

[twitter-dev] Re: twitter encoding problem

2009-10-20 Thread leonspencer
this buttonhttp://twitter.com/ page will be open and the info that i send (i am reading this:http://www.mypage.com/article.aspx;) will be shown in the What Are you Doing? textbox and then user will click update button on twitter page. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, leonspencer spencer_l

[twitter-dev] Re: Book recommendations

2009-10-27 Thread leonspencer
Hi. I don't have a book (but mention a couple below) that I've used. But there seen to be quite a few good tutorials. And you can learn a great deal from the Twitter API Libraries under: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries If developing in PHP, I've found Tijs Verkoyen's library to be fairly

[twitter-dev] Re: Book recommendations

2009-10-27 Thread leonspencer
-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Oct 27, 6:35 am, leonspencer spencer_l...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. I don't have a book (but mention a couple below) that I've used. But there seen to be quite a few good

[twitter-dev] Re: php to json character handling

2009-10-28 Thread leonspencer
I'm doing the same thing - communicating data back to the UI via AJAX and JSON. Haven't noticed problems but I'm not using the PHP json_encode functions. Where you able to determine whether it was JQuery or PHP? Through your logging facility (e.g log4PHP and the JQuery debug console) see at

[twitter-dev] Twitter Lists Need Optional Hashtag binding with list subscription

2009-10-29 Thread leonspencer
/leonspencer/sports I add userA that tweets about sports. But userA also tweets about food. And being a friend, userA will tweet about personal stuff. If a user tweets about sports, dining, and personal stuff, ALL of these tweets are shown under the sports list as well as my timeline. Furthermore