I am using the twitter API to integrate twitter with my blog's commenting system. The problem with the twitter API and many other web APIs out there is that they require the user's username and password to do anything useful. I don't want to deal with the hassle and cost of installing a SSL certificate, but I also don't want passwords ...
I just saw the hilarious "The Rise and Fall of Twitter" which made me think: if you reimplemented twitter, what would you do differently? What technologies would you use? What languages? How do you ensure that the service is scalable? What else would you change? ...
I have Laconica (self hosted twitter) configured on my local intranet and would like to integrate the public stream into SharePoint site with a web part. How can I do this? ...
I would like to create a blog where my Twitter updates essentially create blog posts, with a comment thread. If there isn't blog software that does this right now (I did some searching but couldn't find the commenting aspect) what would be the simplest approach and starting blog software to do this? Potentially an alternate approach to ...
In every MVC framework I've tried (Rails, Merb, Waves, Spring, and Struts), the idea of a Request (and Response) is tied to the HTTP notion of a Request. That is, even if there is an AbstractRequest that is a superclass of Request, the AbstractRequest has things like headers, request method (GET, POST, etc.), and all of the other things...
What algorithm does twitter use to determine the 10 topics that you can see at search.twitter.com? I would like to implement that algorithm and I would also like to show the 50 most popular topics (instead of 10). Can you describe the most efficient algorithm? Thanks! (Twitters API can be found at- http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST%20API...
I'm running my site through the W3C's validator trying to get it to validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict and I've gotten down to a particularly sticky (at least in my experience) validation error. I'm including certain badges from various services in the site that provide their own API and code for inclusion on an external site. These badges u...
Since I've joined twitter I have found it very helpful to keep my finger on the pulse of technology and where it is going. I follow many of the top Microsoft developers and find it interesting to see their struggles, opinions, and influences... codinghorror / Jeff Atwood shanselman / Scott Hanselman haacked / Phil Haack RickStra...
I am looking for good programming people to follow on Twitter. What are your suggestions? ...
I would like to use the API to return all tweets that match my search query, but only tweets posted within the last five seconds. With Twitter's Search API, I can use the since_id to grab all tweets from a specific ID. However, I can't really see a good way to find the tweet ID to begin from. I'm also aware that you can use "since:" in...
I'm making a twitter client, and I'm evaluating the various ways of protecting the user's login information. Hashing apparently doesn't do it Obfuscating in a reversable way is like trying to hide behind my finger Plain text sounds and propably is promiscuous Requiring the user to type in his password every time would make the applicat...
I'm making a twitter client, and I'm evaluating the various ways of protecting the user's login information. IMPORTANT: I need to protect the user's data from other other applications. For example imagine what happens if a bot starts going around stealing Twhirl passwords or Hotmail/GMail/Yahoo/Paypal from applications that run on the u...
I'm not that familiar with WCF, but I thought I'll learn while trying to consume an existing service. One of the REST APIs I thought of was the Twitter API. I thought of developing a WPF client that will just output to the screen the last 5 tweets by a certain Twitter user. I was wondering if someone could please briefly outline the st...
I have this PHP script that I wrote to automatically follow users that post messages with certain terms. It works 100% of the time on a bunch of test accounts but then does not work on the account I'd like to use it with. I've checked the account's API rate limit and it's well within the boundaries. I've also verified that the userna...
Let's say I wanted to make a python script interface with a site like Twitter. What would I use to do that? I'm used to using curl/wget from bash, but Python seems to be much nicer to use. What's the equivalent? (This isn't Python run from a webserver, but run locally via the command line) ...
I realized that I'd like to publish my StackOverflow questions and answers on my twitter feed, but I don't want to do it manually. Where would I begin for this? What techniques/technologies/etc are available that would enable this? Perhaps someone has done this, or something similar (posting to blogs, etc?) Ulf's suggestion about my ...
Anyone have an pointers on an easy way to consume a search.twitter.com feed with ASP.Net? I tried using the RSSToolKit, but it doesn't provide anything for parsing the and other tags in the feed. For example: I want to parse this feed: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=c%23 and make it appear on a page just like it does in the t...
Does anyone know of a twitter clone written in .NET (or ideally C#)? I wanna experiment with a private twitter network between some friends and work colleagues. ...
I'm not a JS guy so I'm kinda stumbling around in the dark. Basically, I wanted something that would add a link to a twitter search for @replies to a particular user while on that person's page. Two things I am trying to figure out: how to extract the user name from the page so that I can construct the right URL. ie. if I am on http:...
I was wondering if InnoDB would be the best way to format the table? The table contains one field, primary key, and the table will get 816k rows a day (est.). This will get very large very quick! I'm working on a file storage way (would this be faster)? The table is going to store ID numbers of Twitter Ids that have already been processe...