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Keep getting OAuth::Unauthorized error when using oauth and twitter ruby gems

I am using the ruby twitter gem and oauth to gain access to users twitter accounts. In my code, I have: unless @user.twitter_authd? oauth = Twitter::OAuth.new('token', 'secret') session[:twitter_request_token] = oauth.request_token.token session[:twitter_request_secret] = oauth.request_token.secret @twitter_auth...

Problem Embedding External JavaScript in HTML page

I am trying to embed a 3rd party chart (Twist) into an HTML page. Also on the HTML page, I am using a text input to allow for a user to dynamically enter new parameters to be sent to Twist. In javascript, I am attempting to append the text input to the end of the call to the external chart. I cannot, however, figure out how to have ...

Which C#/.NET Twitter API do you recomend?

I wondering if I'm going to make a twitter app, but not sure which one of these libraries I should use. Any suggestions? C#/.NET Libs The app should be able to post new tweets, read tweets(from "All Friends"), read "Mentions" and Direct Messages. Possibly also a search function... ...

Twitter API Limit

I have heard that Twitter limits the number of API calls a third party app can make per hour. I believe the limit is around 100. My question is, does that limit apply per user, or is it 100 calls per app? 100 for the entire application seems very low, but I wanted to make sure and I couldn't find my answer in the documentation I was re...

Using SimpleXML to get twitter avatar url (weird)

Im using simplexml to get the twitter profile avatar url from the xml status page. this is the code im using <? $username = twitter; $xml = simplexml_load_file("http://twitter.com/users/".$username.".xml"); echo $xml->user->profile_image_url; ?> The xml page loads when i visit it, but for some reason nothing is being echoed. No error...

Zend Framework: Zend_Oauth and Zend_Service_Twitter

First of all, I am able to successfully authenticate using Oauth. I am using Padraic's tutorial found here: http://blog.astrumfutura.com/archives/411-Writing-A-Simple-Twitter-Client-Using-the-PHP-Zend-Frameworks-OAuth-Library-Zend%5FOauth.html Now, my problem is that I already have a Twitter model using Zend_Service_Twitter. But since Z...

Twitter API from

I have created a page on my site where users can post directly to their twitter accounts using a form on my site. I am using curl to send the data. However, when they post something it says it was posted "from API" I would like to change that to my sitename/link. I read something about doing it through OAUTH but I do not want my users to...

How do I use cURL/PHP to dump the current twitter trending topics into mySQL

Trying to run a cron job every few hours that reads the current Twitter Trending topics listed here: http://search.twitter.com/trends.json And then dump the top 10 trends into a mySQL table on my server how to do this? thanks ...

twitterlibphp - can't follow at all

Hey, This is driving me absolutely crazy. I can update my status using twitterlibphp and I can get followers, following etc but no matter what I do $o->follow(twitter_id) just will not work. It responds with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <hash> <request>/notifications/follow.xml</request> <error>There was a problem follow...

Want to share a MGTwitterEngine iPhone Xcode skeleton project?

Anyone want to share an Xcode project that has MGTwitterEngine in it? Mine won't compile. Are there certain project settings to set? I just made a stock tab bar app for iPhone and added the MGTwitterEngine files. Tons of compiler errors. What am I missing? ...

How to use Twitter as the Login for a Website

We are developing an asp.net 2.0 web application in that user can sign-up or sign-in using twitter account. when the user click on the twitter button, it should take you to the twitter login page. after your login is successful twitter should able to forward me back to my page webpage. Please let me know. eg. twitter ...

Get Twitter User Name after oauth Authentication

Using oAuth i can able to sucessfully login and forward it back to my asp.net application. how can i get the username of the authenticated person. At this point i just have an authenticated oAuth. ...

twitter status is not decoding #

Hello, I am using the following to share something on twitter from my site.. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/home?status=&lt;?=$res?&gt;" name="share" ><img src="images/referral_twitter.jpg" alt="Share On twitter" /></a> where $res=Track SunGlass Up for #share #barter at http://su.pr/2UBgEg - #ihave but if i ...

Twitter name length in DB

I'm adding a field to a member table for twitter names for members on a site. From what I can work out the maximum twitter name length is 20 so it seems obvious that I should set the field size to varchar(20) (SQL Server). Is this a good idea? What if Twitter starts allowing multi-byte characters in the user names? Should I make this f...

how to access facebook or twitter using blackberry API?

Hi, I am newbie for such kind of social networking Application integration using blackberry API. i want to develope such kind of application which can use the facebook or twitter social networking site integration using available blackberry api. how to access the faceBook using blackberry API? Is there any webservice available of face...

Display Twitter tag cloud in Wordpress

Is there a way to display a tag cloud of terms from a single Twitter account within Wordpress i.e. on a page or in the sidebar? I know there's a Delicious Wordpress sidebar tag-cloud - so figured there might be. ...

Regular Expression for Parsing Hashtags in Java

I realize there are a couple of questions on this on the site, but none of them actually do a great job. They miss on some pretty typical use cases. Here is the Twitter message I am trying to parse (as you can see, some of these are not tags, just part of URLs, etc.): #anothertag Arrogance and bad PR http://www.adobe.com/index.html#anch...

[error] => This method requires authentication.

[request] => /statuses/user_timeline.xml?oauth_version=1.0&oauth_nonce=8ad5454ef97aeec8ff000235eea2acfc&oauth_timestamp=1251469868&oauth_consumer_key=y2l1dK2jFnxTb01CHTUMrw&count=10&since_id=3446495596&oauth_token=37899551-G1yCwWHI8rtkcjgTILEV0O98kyOlCzNfo0Dhhr88&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_signature=Jf1SOC7dG1y5ose3mwTfDbjt2g...

Validating XML from Twitter

When I receive XML data (via a Twitter API call, in this instance), I imagine it's best practice to somehow validate it before I begin working with it? My app has had a lot of untractable issues lately, and I want to rule out bad XML data. Does XML ever go "bad" somehow? Would an overloaded server like Twitter's ever spit out just half ...

Unpredictable log file writing in PHP

Hi there. I have a script that runs every two minutes for a "Tweet-getter" application. In a nutshell it puts tweets onto Facebook. Every now and then it hiccups and despite my error checking, reposts old tweets continuously, every two minutes (the cycle of it being run as a cron job). I have a log.txt that in theory would help me determ...