twitter-api

How does the dispatch action call work in the Twitter sidebar

I would like to understand how the call for replies works as follows: <a href="http://twitter.com/replies" data="{"dispatch_action":"replies"}"> <span>@phwd</span> </a> This was taken from the homepage of Twitter. The section in particular being: data="{"dispatch_action":"replies"}" I believe (think), it is using Twitter's own twi...

How do I create a reply button for a Twitter client that automatically fills in a username in the 'tweet' form?

Using the Twitter API, and just want to have a simple 'reply' button on every tweet (say, 'How do I create a reply button?' from @kraykray) that automatically puts '@kraykray' into the tweet form. Don't need the system to log that it's any kind of special message. ...

mgtwitterengine and oauth 401 error: Boggled

OK... so here is my code: twitterEngine = [[MGTwitterEngine alloc] initWithDelegate:self]; [twitterEngine setConsumerKey:CONSUMER_KEY secret:CONSUMER_SECRET]; accessToken = [twitterEngine getXAuthAccessTokenForUsername:profile.twitterUserId password:profile.twitterPassword]; NSLog(@"Access token: %@", accessToken); the...

Error 424 from Twitter API

I'm experitmenting with the Twitter API (OAuth). I have a test bed that can tweet from my dev box, but fails in production. I get a status code of 424 returned when trying to tweet. I can't spot the difference between my live environment and my dev environment so really need to understand what a '424' is, but can find no documentation r...

How to Post to twitter wall from my website

Hi Guys, I'm building an application where users post their tips on various topics on my website. While posting their tips - I've recently implemented the option where they can post that tip to their facebook wall as well. They simply check the box - saying "Post to Facebook" and then the facebook pop-up opens up where they login and p...

JQuery overlay - issues with opening twitter "Allow Access" box

Hey guys I'm using Jquery flowplayer tools overlay to open external links. External links are working fine with this piece of code shown in the link: http://www.demiseonline.com/misc/Iframeoverlay.html Now using this overlay - I wanted to open the twitter dialog which asks users to Allow access to their account. So in the code below,...

twitter oauth must authorize user everytime they login

I am adding twitter oauth login to my site . and so far i got it to work using oauth. however every time i login i go through the whole authorization process. ( the prompt that allows the user to request or deny the application) is there a way to by pass that once the user has authorized the app? Perhaps i am misunderstanding the process...

Video OverLay on FaceBook & Twitter Profile

Hi, How to show video overlay (eg: http://www.ispeakvideo.com/examples.php) on FaceBook & Twitter public profile page? ...

twitter share url forgeting the tweet content after login

I'm trying to add a "share via twitter" link to our website. I'm aware of the standard http://twitter.com/home?status=TWEET method, and it works good enough for my purposes when the user is logged in to twitter already. If, however, the user is not logged in, twitter displays the login form first (which is only reasonable). After the lo...

What date RFC does Twitter use?

Doc use : Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 +0000 2009 as an example. Can anyone identify the rfc? Cheers ...

How to Format time in Yahoo PIpes to get the minutes past..??

I fetched the tweets from twitter api using yahoo pipes. Now, twitter gives the time in this format "Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010". I want to know how many minutes have past since "Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010". How, can i format "Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010" in order to get the minutes past?? in other words, i want to subract "no...

Twitter search for my recent tweets

Has twitter search stopped supporting this: from:username since:2010-05-01 It used to work! The reason I care is I use the following javascript to display recent tweets on my webpage var username = '...' var od = new Date(); od.setMilliseconds( od.getMilliseconds() - 518400000 ); var month = od.getMonth() + 1 if (month<10) month = (...

String codification to Twitter

I'm developing a program that sends tweets. I have this piece of code: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("Recomendo "); sb.append(lblName.getText()); sb.append(" no canal "+lblCanal.getText()); sb.append(" no dia "+date[2]+"/"+date[1]+"/"+date[0]); sb.append(" às "+time[0]+"h"+time[1]); byte[] defaultStrBytes = ...

Twitter oauth_callback parameter being ignored!

Hi guys, I'm trying to get Twitter authentication working on my ASP.NET site. When you create the app on the Twitter website, you have to specify a callback URL, which for sake of argument, I have set to http://mydomain.com I've read the oAuth 1.0a spec, and to override this callback URL with your own custom one you have to send the oa...

Twitter oauth php problems

I'm writing some backend script for a twitter app and heres how it's going On the app you click a button that sends you to login.php on my server which logs into my database connects to twitter with my consumer key and secret: $to = new TwitterOAuth($consumer_key, $consumer_secret); $tok = $to->getRequestToken(); $request_link = $to->g...

Twitter api for iPhone OS4

Hi, It looks like the twitter api refused to work for iPhone OS4 :( (Twitter+OAuth http://github.com/bengottlieb/Twitter-OAuth-iPhone). When I building the project to which I just add the Twitter+OAuth I see the following: It's really really important for me! Any help will be greatly appreciated! Many thanks in advance!!!!!!! ...

Merge Twitter Outh and Facebook Connect Friends

Basically what I want to do is download all a users facebook and twitter friends and somehow find a way to figure out which entries represent the same person. I know it's possible because a lot of social search sites like spokeo achieve what I want and more, so does anyone know how they go about doing it or the best way to go about it? ...

using APIs with oauth for single user

I'm trying to make use of various APIs including twitter, youtube, etc because we want to embed recent entries (tweets, videos) on our website. However, since I'm just retrieving my own data, I'm wondering how I can do this simpler than the multi-step process required by OAuth. Twitter provides me with my own access token I can use di...

Plotting a word-cloud by date for a twitter search result? (using R)

Hello all, I wish to search twitter for a word (let's say #google), and then be able to generate a tag cloud of the words used in twitts, but according to dates (for example, having a moving window of an hour, that moves by 10 minutes each time, and shows me how different words gotten more often used throughout the day). I would apprec...

How can I get the followers of a user on twitter, then get posts from those followers over a period of time so i can create a database?

I've been assigned a research project to enhance social networking based adaptive e-learning and to do so I need to be able to extract several (hundreds, maybe thousands) of status updates or tweets in order to perform factor analysis on key words. Apparently this can be done with javascript but I have never used javascript before so I'...