iirc it treats the string as a filename if preceded by and @. May want to add a note in the docs.
-- Brad Webb, http://seeteeohh.com Sent from my iPhone On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Dharmesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex, > > I finally figured this out. As you probably guessed, was not an issue > with the Twitter API. > > In case someone else winds up on this thread, here's what the issue > ended up being: > > When using PHP CURL and doing a POST (vs. a GET), there are two ways > to pass in the POST parameters. One is as a A=B&C=D string. The > other is to use an associative array. As it turns out, there's some > issue with using the associative arrays when there is an @ symbol as > the first character. There's likely a simpler explanation, but I > don't know what it is. Simply switching to using a URL encoded > parameter string fixed the problem. > > Thanks, and sorry for the false alarm. > > Regards, > Dharmesh > > On Nov 15, 3:47 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Could you please provide an example of the failing request and >> response? >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 23:56, Dharmesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm having an issue posting status updates that start with an >>> @someone. >> >>> Posting updates that are not @someone replies seem to work just >>> fine. >> >>> The error occurs when updating with an @reply to users that are >>> followers and not followers. >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
