twitter-api

Registering an app with Twitter require prior to its development

I want to develop a Twitter web application on GAE/J. So for that first I need to register an app with Twitter on http://twitter.com/apps/new before I go for development? Do I require some token or keys from twitter before development. That token or keys will only be generated when we give our (production) URL to it. It means I need ...

HttpSession problem in Google App Engine/J

I am writting a Twitter web app by using Twitter4J on GAE/J. I am saving Twitter and Request Token objects in session so that to be used after call back. I have two servlets. IndexServlet sets session and HomeServlet get from session (hits on call back by twitter oAuth). If I comment out session handling lines in both servlets then c...

what in your opinion would be best way to get all the retweets from twitter

working PHP probably on amazon ec2... can anyone explain what would be the best way to get all the retweets that contains http links from twitter using either twitter api or some kind of a third party parser (pubsubhub,xmpp, etc)? my application needs the widest aas possible perspective on that data meaning every retweet counts! in order...

How to get a user's friends info on Twitter without breaking the Rate Limit

I am trying to do something that appears to be simple, but I can't figure out a way around it without breaking the rate limit. The first API call I'm making is the get a user's friend's IDs. $friends = $to->OAuthRequest('http://twitter.com/friends/ids.json', array(), 'GET'); That returns a huge string with IDs. In my case, I'm follow...

Struts2 ParametersInterceptor problem with oauth_token

I am developing an application in Struts2 with Twitter4J at GAE/J. I am getting following exception in the GAE log. Unable to understand whats wrong with it. com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.ParametersInterceptor setParameters: ParametersInterceptor - [setParameters]: Unexpected Exception caught setting 'oauth_token' on 'class com.a...

Techniques to avoid DeadlineExceededException in GAE/J?

I am developing an Twitter4J web application in Google App Engine/Java. I need to show two lists. One is Twitter friends and other is followers. With photo and screen name. It is working fine for people who have 20-30 followers and friends. But it gave me DeadlineExceededException when I try a user who has 150+ followers and friends....

Django and python-twitter error

Hi guys, im trying to send my title post to twitter, in my local machine is working great!!!, but in remote i have this error from the snippet file: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Api' im Using python-twitter and this snippet, i dont know why the error, i tested the python-twitter with commands like import twitter a...

Filtering and routing twitter messages

I normally use twitter both as a communication chat and as a short blog service. On my wordpress blog, I import the twitter messages timeline from one twitter account (specific for the blog-visible messages). For communication and chatting, I use another twitter account. Having two account is a solution, but my geeky nature would prefer...

Recommended method to download tweets based on search terms and store

I would like to download tweets based on certain search terms. I'm aware of HTTP GET and such techniques, but I'm not sure the best way to create a simple executable that downloads the tweets and saves them for subsequent analysis. Any ideas? I'm a basic programmer - if you say "use curl" I know roughly what you mean but not how to set...

Identifying twitter user's longitude and latitude

As per my requirement in need to search twitter and display user's location on map. Can anyone help me identifying longitude and latitude from search api result? ...

Getting more than one twitter 's user tweets location and then mapping it onto Google Maps

Hello, I'm trying to create a mashup of a set list of tweets onto a Google Map. The code is in here. My problem is I don't know how to combine the user's location using the set.location function on their tweets (knowing that it's not going to be very fine grained, it just corresponds to what the user enters in their profile) onto a Goog...

Should I use the Twitter API or just the RSS Feed?

Hey guys, simple query Company I work for has set up a twitter handle, and on our website we're just gonna display like, the last 2 tweets. As we're only displaying, is there any advantage of using the API over just the RSS Feed from our profile page? I know the API has a number of calls restriction...does the RSS Feed? Cool, cheers ...

Django - AttributeError - 'User' object has no attribute 'validate'

I'm getting an AttributeError using rcrowley's django-twitterauth: http://github.com/rcrowley/django-twitterauth Looks like it occurs when the validate() method is called on the user object, which the user object does not have. I don't know why the author did this. I'm really new to Django, wondering if anyone else knows. I know you can...

Twitter API method (statuses/user_timeline) returning all user data against every tweet?

Is it just me or is it ridiculous that when retrieving users statuses, every single tweet also contains the full information about the user? So if I want to retrieve 200 tweets from a single user, I will get the user information (name, profile colours, description, etc.) duplicated 200 times! The user information per tweet is probably 15...

OAuth library for BlackBerry apps (for a twitter client)

Hi Is there an OAuth library available for integration with BlackBerry apps? I would like to post a tweet from my app but could not find anything which would help in logging in. Did find this URL but could not get it working in my BB app. Can anyone please help me out. Thanks. ...

JQuery getJSON function

Hello, I am using the following code to get the json feed of a twitter users friends using the twitter api : var url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/"+twitter_handle+".json?callback=?"; //show ajax loading animation $('#loading').show(); $.getJSON(url, function(data) { //hide ajax loading animation $('#loading').hide();...

formatting date from twitter response Zend Framework

Hi everybody, im trying to formatting the date field 'created_at' from Twitter API response with Zend_Date. I want output the date like this: 21 of July of 2009, 12:30:00 (for example) What format is this?: Fri Oct 23 15:47:42 +0000 2009 thanks a lot ...

Finding and adding twitter users?

Any suggestions for a good twitter library (preferably in Ruby or Python)? I have a list of usernames, and I need to be able to programmatically follow these users. I tried twitter4r in Ruby, but finding users doesn't seem to work. When I do twitter = Twitter::Client.new(:login => 'mylogin', :password => 'mypassword') user = Twitter::...

How to programmatically interact with Hashtags.org?

I've recently come across this website. Now, is there any way I can actually communicate with this service? ...

Twitter: How can I form a set of related hashtags?

Now that I know I can no longer communicate with Twitter mashups out there, how can I create a set of related hashtags? For instance, how can I get all tags similar or related to yankees? ...