twitter-api

Twitter Turning off Basic Auth - is OAuth overkill for some tasks?

According to Twitter docs, basic auth is being turned off this month. I can see the benefit of OAuth when your service accepts third party user twitter login/id's, but for a simple twitter bot that simply post to a single bot twitter account, does OAuth seem like overkill? In the case of the latter, what's the least resource-expendful...

ParsingJSON without any keys in jQuery

I'm playing around with the twitter API and it's returning the following: [ 12345, 12345, 12345, 12345 ] How do I go about parsing this into an array or object? I can't see how to do it using $.getJSON as there are no keys to reference the data with. Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers. ...

twitter connection needs to be closed?

i developed an aplication built on twitter api , but i get erorrs like a mesage that i've parsed and deleted to be parsed again at the next execution , could that be because i left the twitter connection opened or is just a fault of the twitter API. I also tried to delete all direct messages because it seemed too full for me but i...

twitter Search API not working when server issued cookies present

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Change title name in Twitter API using Android?

When you use Twitter API and develop your first simple Twitter client, and post a comment to Twitter - it says "from API". Using the Twitter web it says "from the web". Using Siesmic it says "from Seesmic". How do you the set the application name/title so it shows up like "from myApp" using Android? Thanx for listening! Answers will be...

Authentication versus Google, Facebook, Twitter with community SDK.

Hello, we're developing one service to be integrated with various social networks and would like to allow users to be authenticated with their facebook-google-twitter-etc accounts in a simple one-click way. Most of the huge network providers permit to do it with their proprietary APIs, but for small group of programmers as we are to su...

Accessing the Twitter API via PHP

I'm working on making my script mesh with OAuth instead of Basic Auth, and I'm stuck. So far, I'm just working on authenticating at the moment, but I can't get that working. This code: <?php include 'config.php'; include 'twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php'; // Use config.php credentials $conn = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUM...

Twitter competition ~ saving tweets (PHP & MySQL)

I am creating an application to help our team manage a twitter competition. So far I've managed to interact with the API fine, and return a set of tweets that I need. I'm struggling to decide on the best way to handle the storage of the tweets in the database, how often to check for them and how to ensure there are no overlaps or gaps. ...

retrieving tweets from specific user older than 7 days

i am trying to Get the tweets from any user ... but it returns only last 7 day's tweets... I want to retrieve tweets older than that... how to Do it.. . Right now i am fetching tweets by http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Amihirpmehta this URL but it only gives me tweets that are tweeted in last 7 days. ...

check old login twitter

The story of twitter api (that I did myself ) continues like this; I click twitter button and I open a twitter popup in my user website, and then it's received approval to allow the application (standard procedure). I use "oAuth" for connection. there is no problem until here in my user website, when you want the 2nd access, after you c...

Generate votes for a URL

Guys, I have an idea that I wnat some feedback on/sugestions. I have a list of 3000 rules and sugestions that are on a public website and at the moment they are in either an aspx or Sharepoint page. I want to move this data to a blogging platform, but I want to list them not in time order, but in a ranked order. I would like to use thi...

setup Twitter in Sharekit for iPhone

i try to integrate twitter to iphone app by sharekit i have registerd my application to twitter. i not understand how to setup Callback URL can you tell me more information and step to deploy? ...

Zend_Http_Client - Read from Stream?

I want to access the new Twitter Stream API using Zend_Http_Client. The problem is, that the HTTP request to that web page (http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json) is never finished but keeps loading. So even when I set Zend_Http_Client to setStream(), I can't get the information it sends out. This is what my logic currently ...

MISSING_ARG_APIKEY when post to twitter by Sharekit

how to resolve it? #define SHKTwitterConsumerKey @"" #define SHKTwitterSecret @"" #define SHKTwitterCallbackUrl @"http://example.com/oauth" #define SHKTwitterUseXAuth 0 #define SHKTwitterUsername not have anyfield for API key ...

Post an update(message) twitter

How can I post a message to twitter using only javascript (no serverside authentification). For example I have a form with username, password, and a text field and a submit button. I want to use it on the backend of a website. I have read this, http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/update but I do not know how to handle the authent...

Need help please with "TwitterRequest" iPhone API

Hi, I'm using the TwitterRequest API for the iPhone and I would like to change something: After posting a tweet, in the web, I can see that the tweet was sent from API. I would like to change it. Here's the TwitterRequest code: .h @interface TwitterRequest : NSObject { NSString *username; NSString *passwor...

find tweet location

Hi, I'm using the Twitter search api to search for a keyword so I can grab all the tweets containing that keyword. I also need to find the location of these tweets. Is this possible? I've looked through the JSON and the 'Geo' property is always null - i'd be happy to just use the location that the user has filled out in their profile bu...

Twitter OAuth API - Allow user to revoke application access from application

I'd like to let users disconnect their Twitter credentials - aka revoke application access - from my application. When they look at their user profiles, and they see "your account is currently linked to your twitter profile @abc", I'd like to allow them to remove that connection. It's possible on Foursquare and some other applications. ...

Twitter rate limit

hi, I'm trying to use this: https://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml to check that i'm not going over the rate limiting on twitter. Problem is i'm making calls but the remaining-hits param does not seem to be reducing by as much as i'm calling: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <hash> <reset-time-in-seconds type="inte...

Post to Twitter issue

I am making an iPhone application where you can submit your score to Twitter to share it (as a status update) currently using this code: NSString *twitterURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://twitter.com/?status=My%20score%%20is:%%20%i%%20and%%20CharsPerMin%%20is:%%20%@", currentScore, charPerMin.text]; [[UIApplication sharedAppli...