twitter-api

How can I use the Twitter API to get tweets for a specific user and timeframe?

I've been doing some research into using the Twitter API, and I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly. I want to get tweets from a specific user for a specific time-frame. From what I can tell, using the search function to specify a date range doesn't work because only the last 7 days are kept. I could just get the tweets and work...

Identi.ca streaming api, libraries?

Has identi.ca a streaming API like stream.twitter.com? If it has, is there any Python library to implement that? Now I'm using tweepy, but I doesn't seem to have identi.ca support for streaming API. Thank you. ...

Aggregating and displaying facebook and twitter status updates on Coldfusion Page

Hello All, As an experiment I'd like to set up a coldfusion page that will pull and display the status updates from my own facebook account and twitter accounts that fall within an input date range; similar to tools like http://orsiso.com/ http://www.threadsy.com/ and http://www.davidcramer.net/lifestream I assume this will involv...

Pulling facebook and twitter status updates into a SQL database via Coldfusion Page

Hello All, I'd like to set up a coldfusion page that will pull the status updates from my own facebook account and twitter accounts and put them in a SQL database along with their timestamps. Whenever I run this page it should only grab information after the most recent time stamp it already has within the database. I'm hoping this wo...

What's the best way to thread tweets?

I want to build a simple q&a app on twitter. And I'm pretty familiar with the API. I was planning to use the "in_reply_to_status_id" attribute, but it looks like that's not available from the search API (...yet, anyways. It appears to be slated for v2). Any suggestions? Anyone know of a clever way to figure out if an @reply is in resp...

Webpage integration with newest versions of Facebook and Twitter; need to use PHP?

Hello All, As a test I am trying to create the simplest webpage where I can type a short post and have it simultaneously update my twitter account status and my facebook status. I also want to be able to read and display past statuses on this page as well. So basically I am trying to code the simplest example that can push and pull wi...

Stream Twitter by search hashtag and then offical twitter stream

How do I go about calling the twitter API in a way similar to http://socialmedia.duke.edu/#stayconnected We are looking to do the same type of thing. I cannot figure out what is calling to twitter though in the code. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can supply any needed details that you would need. I am using Wordpress but ju...

Javascript issue - On Page load all thre "tabs" show, when clicked it collapses like it should

On a page load of my website, the Twitter area shows all three portions of the "tabs". When I click say on the #HVC "tab" it loads correctly and then all three of the "tabs" look correctly. Any ideas on why it's not loading properly on load? Is there any easier way to do what I am trying to do without so many js files? ...

Cron automated Twitter API access

I am trying to build an application to help our marketing team manage a twitter competition. I had been using the Twitter search API, and I had assumed that it was working but it turns out that I am missing some tweets, due to limitations in the Twitter Search. I have now switched over to trying to use OAuth to get into the API and pull...

How do I use Twitter Streaming API to track new followers of other accounts I don't have login information for?

I'm heavily basing my code off of this excellent tutorial at Ars Technica, so I am able to track my own new followers because my login information is hard-coded in. However, I'd like to track new followers of other people's accounts too. How can I do this without their passwords? import pycurl, json, StringIO STREAM_URL = "http://strea...

twitter_oauth is giving me Invalid / expired Token

I am using twitter_oauth gem for Rails to implement Twitter posting feature. I currently got my app to ask the user for Deny/Allow access of my app. However, after that when I try to publish, nothing happens. And, as I debug, I got the following error request: /1/statuses/update.json error: Invalid / expired Token I believe the consum...

Twitter OAuth - Storing Tokens in MySql

Im using the Twitter OAuth class to connect to Twitter found here: Currently the script just uses the tokens supplied but doesnt store them in a database, i'd like the script to do this. This is what I currently have in my callback script: <?php /** * @file * Take the user when they return from Twitter. Get access tokens. * Verify...

confused in switching from basic auth to oauth in twitter

Hi There, I am using My Twitter library from Andrus Scheffer. Using this library , i am just passing username and password to library file, and calling function was giving me proper results, but now as twitter has given deadline to turn off basic oauth. So I just need to switch to oauth. Currently i am hitting ratelimit statu...

Does the Twitter API allow filtering by username AND hashtag?

Can I get all the tweets of a particular user, in which a particular hashtag is used? I could just get the past 100 tweets then filter them on my end, but it would be much more convenient if Twitter could do the filtering on their end. Is this possible? ...

Twitter Application-android

Hi, 1.Can anyone explain the concept of TweetDeck Application in twitter 2.How to implement new application in twitter in android ...

Problem with twitter api

Hello, I want build a twitter ticker in a website. I have this code: $(document).ready(function(){ $('#twitter-ticker').fadeIn('slow'); for(var i=0;i<tweetUsers.length;i++) { if(i!=0) buildString+='+OR+'; buildString+='from:'+tweetUsers[i]; } var fileref = document.createElement('script'); fileref.setAttribute("type","t...

Are there any websites providing free news, weather, photos APIs for using this data commercially

I want to build a service which needs to get this data from some source for further analysis. Does Google, Yahoo or someone else provides free access to this data for use in other websites using some API. I think Twitter does something like this for their data although they enforce some limits on this. The data I need is mostly for US an...

Blackberry Twitter client

I just want to tweet on my own wall from my Blackberry application. xAuth would be the best way to have seamless UI integartion. But unfortunately, I'm not able to get it work.. I tried twitter_api_me-1.3 which has xAuth implementation but it gives me 401 error while validating with parameters specified at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/x...

Python Twitter library: which one?

I realize this is a bit of a lazyweb question, but I wanted to see which python library for Twitter people have had good experiences with. I've used Python Twitter Tools and like its brevity and beauty of interface, but it doesn't seem to be one of the popular ones - it's not even listed on the Twitter Libraries page. There are, howev...

Twitter $get help

Just wondering if someone can assist me with the following issue. I have come across the following code which pulls in latest Twitter posts and displays them on a site: //Handle the scrolling of the tweets in the footer $(function () { var tweetVP = $("#footerTweetsViewport"); arrTweetNav = ECC.tweetArray(); thisTweetID = a...