[twitter-dev] Re: requesting update from Twitter before weekend?
Chinaski007 Thanks for your outrage. I thought i was one of the only few that have issues with how things are being handled. Chad in this thread had done a great job at trying to be as honest as possible. I at least have some respect for how he has been trying hard to help keep us in the loop. The issue goes far beyond the Georgian dude. The attack is apparently serious and Gacebook and Google have been able to handle the similar issue because they don't rely on one data/network provider like Twitter. Also I still think there is a bigger issue that us going on that isn't being told to us which Read Write Web has theorized. - Chris- On Aug 7, 2009, at 10:58 PM, chinaski007 wrote: Frustrating. The last official status update on the API issue was 10 hours ago. I would like to be able to update our app's users of SOMETHING other than "Twitter says they are working on it". I am not touching our code to handle all the new hoops on the assumption that those requirements will subside when Twitter gets a handle on things... but maybe I am wrong and there has now been yet another major API revision that we must frantically code for over yet another weekend? There's been lots of posts from Twitter saying they plan for better communication. Okay, cool. But it's Friday night and I am pulling my hair out with no new information. I am sure they are doing all they can... but many third-party apps have been broken for 2 days now. And just as Twitter is getting bombarded with emails from developers... developers, too, are getting bombarded with complaints/questions from customers. But what sucks is we have nothing to tell them other than "we're waiting to hear from Twitter". So... please, Twitter, update us on what's going on? Are there new permanent API changes we must code for? What is the ETA for whitelisted IPs to work properly? Hate to think that another 12 hours are going to go by with API calls continuing to fail when I wake up in the morning, and no additional updates. (Somewhat jokingly: can we get a fund together to pay that Georgian dude $5000 or so to hang out on Facebook instead of Twitter?!) On Aug 7, 7:32 pm, Dewald Pretorius wrote: And by the way, this is after I have modified all my code to jump through all the additional hoops added thus far. I am doing cURL followlocation on all GET calls, and I am doing a custom scripted follow on any 30x's received on POST calls, which does a POST to the redirected URL. Dewald
[twitter-dev] Re: requesting update from Twitter before weekend?
As an example, we know that the Twitter platform lead is heading out to sushi with other Twitter folks as of 1 hour ago: http://twitter.com/rsarver/status/3187221064 While food is important, would be helpful to also update devs what's going on, too, before a night on the town?!?!?! On Aug 7, 7:58 pm, chinaski007 wrote: > Frustrating. The last official status update on the API issue was 10 > hours ago. I would like to be able to update our app's users of > SOMETHING other than "Twitter says they are working on it". I am not > touching our code to handle all the new hoops on the assumption that > those requirements will subside when Twitter gets a handle on > things... but maybe I am wrong and there has now been yet another > major API revision that we must frantically code for over yet another > weekend? > > There's been lots of posts from Twitter saying they plan for better > communication. Okay, cool. But it's Friday night and I am pulling my > hair out with no new information. I am sure they are doing all they > can... but many third-party apps have been broken for 2 days now. And > just as Twitter is getting bombarded with emails from developers... > developers, too, are getting bombarded with complaints/questions from > customers. But what sucks is we have nothing to tell them other than > "we're waiting to hear from Twitter". So... please, Twitter, update > us on what's going on? Are there new permanent API changes we must > code for? What is the ETA for whitelisted IPs to work properly? > > Hate to think that another 12 hours are going to go by with API calls > continuing to fail when I wake up in the morning, and no additional > updates. > > (Somewhat jokingly: can we get a fund together to pay that Georgian > dude $5000 or so to hang out on Facebook instead of Twitter?!) > > On Aug 7, 7:32 pm, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > > And by the way, this is after I have modified all my code to jump > > through all the additional hoops added thus far. > > > I am doing cURL followlocation on all GET calls, and I am doing a > > custom scripted follow on any 30x's received on POST calls, which does > > a POST to the redirected URL. > > > Dewald > >
[twitter-dev] Re: requesting update from Twitter before weekend?
Frustrating. The last official status update on the API issue was 10 hours ago. I would like to be able to update our app's users of SOMETHING other than "Twitter says they are working on it". I am not touching our code to handle all the new hoops on the assumption that those requirements will subside when Twitter gets a handle on things... but maybe I am wrong and there has now been yet another major API revision that we must frantically code for over yet another weekend? There's been lots of posts from Twitter saying they plan for better communication. Okay, cool. But it's Friday night and I am pulling my hair out with no new information. I am sure they are doing all they can... but many third-party apps have been broken for 2 days now. And just as Twitter is getting bombarded with emails from developers... developers, too, are getting bombarded with complaints/questions from customers. But what sucks is we have nothing to tell them other than "we're waiting to hear from Twitter". So... please, Twitter, update us on what's going on? Are there new permanent API changes we must code for? What is the ETA for whitelisted IPs to work properly? Hate to think that another 12 hours are going to go by with API calls continuing to fail when I wake up in the morning, and no additional updates. (Somewhat jokingly: can we get a fund together to pay that Georgian dude $5000 or so to hang out on Facebook instead of Twitter?!) On Aug 7, 7:32 pm, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > And by the way, this is after I have modified all my code to jump > through all the additional hoops added thus far. > > I am doing cURL followlocation on all GET calls, and I am doing a > custom scripted follow on any 30x's received on POST calls, which does > a POST to the redirected URL. > > Dewald
[twitter-dev] Re: requesting update from Twitter before weekend?
And by the way, this is after I have modified all my code to jump through all the additional hoops added thus far. I am doing cURL followlocation on all GET calls, and I am doing a custom scripted follow on any 30x's received on POST calls, which does a POST to the redirected URL. Dewald
[twitter-dev] Re: requesting update from Twitter before weekend?
I can tell you one thing. Any form of volume requests is still being actively blocked. As a test I turned on one of my cron jobs, and after making less than 200 API calls, my IP address was again completely blocked. Dewald On Aug 7, 10:14 pm, chinaski007 wrote: > Hey guys: > > Any chance you can fill us in on what's happening? Can we restart > crons? Is there an ETA for a solution? Will work on this continue > through the weekend? > > Cheers...
[twitter-dev] Re: requesting update from Twitter before weekend?
I'm trying to get updates from everyone to pass along -Chad On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, chinaski007 wrote: > > > Hey guys: > > Any chance you can fill us in on what's happening? Can we restart > crons? Is there an ETA for a solution? Will work on this continue > through the weekend? > > Cheers... >
