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Twitter Widget on Blogger

How can I fix the view of this twitter on my blogger blog. Here it is the widget page: http://twitter.com/goodies/widget%5Fprofile Here it is how it ends looking on the blog (not rounded corners, misplaced names and images): http://my2hours.blogspot.com/ ...

Proper RESTful routing for rails application?

Hello, this is my first post on this website, but I'm all the time getting answers for my questions here, through other users, so thank you very much. Well, actually I'm creating a web application, specifically on rails. All the models structure were built and now I was pretending to start to build the controllers and routing. So, I hav...

How do I send a very simple status update with the iPhone SDK?

Hi, I'm building an app that will allow the user to send a status update to twitter about something they have done in the app. What is the easiest way to authenticate the user in the settings and have the app update their status when they tap a button? Any help/ sample code is greatly appreciated. -GVG PHP/ iPhone SDK Developer http:/...

IE script error with my jQuery plugin

I cannot seem to figure out I am getting the following error in IE 8 (only IE version I've tested so far). The script runs fine in all (chrome, ff, safari) other browsers I've tested. What am I doing wrong? Error: Message: Object doesn't support this property or method Line: 52 Char: 29 Code: 0 URI: http://www.ntierdesign.com/jquery/...

Twitter gem for rails always fails on first status update (console example included)

Every time I try to post to twitter in my rails app, the first post fails. I will explain the issue further after I show a quick example. Here is a live example from the console (with sensitive stuff edited): >> u = User.find(7) => #<User id: 7, login: "[email protected]", email: "[email protected]", crypted_password: "stuff", sa...

401 Unauthorized using oauth-python-twitter

Hi all I'm trying to implement "twitter oauth" in appengine(python) using http://code.google.com/p/oauth-python-twitter. I use the following code to redirect the user into twitter: twitter = OAuthApi(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) request_token = twitter.getRequestToken() response.set_cookie('request_token', request_token.to_string...

weird problem with file_get_contents and twitter

I made this function to verify a user's twitter credentials. Its running on two different webservers. <? function twitauth($username, $password){ if(@file_get_contents("http://".$username.":".$password."@twitter.com//account/verify_credentials.xml")){ return "1";} else { return "0";} } ?> On my webserver, it works fine. On t...

Replacing Classic Login with OAuth for a single user twitter bot

My site uses a php function to tweet an update whenever an event occurs. Right now I'm using the classic login technique, so the username and password for the associated Twitter account are just hard-coded in. The function looks like this: function sendTweet($msg) { $username = 'username'; $password = 'password'; $url = 'http://twitt...

multi user twitter feed

Hi, I'm trying to create a widget on my blog that grabs about 20 twitter accounts and displays the last two posts from each account. At the moment I have a jquery based version that runs a for loop for each account. Naturally I bumped up against the 150 requests per hours maximum pretty fast. My question is two fold: Is there a more eff...

Using oauth and twitter to authenticate actions with php

Im learning about oauth and i have my application setup and im able to authenticate my account and get my token, but im curious how i use this to authenticate an API call? Where before im using http://username:[email protected]/whatever.xml What do i do now with my token to authenticate? ...

How Does Twitter's OAuth System Work?

I have got a demo script that lets me authorize with my app and sends back my token. But all this crap is confusing as hell. I have always used username and password in my CURL or simpleXML functions to authorize the API call. What the hell is going on with this oauth thing by comparison? I get that i will store the token, but what do ...

Displaying tweets in my website using my timezone

Hello everyone. I am able to display my tweets in my website using the JavaScript below. window.onload = function() { var siteName = 'xyz'; $.getJSON( 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?callback=?&amp;rpp=20&amp;q=from:' + siteName, function(data) { $.each(data, function(i, tweets) { ...

Is there any simple way of interfacing with Twitter/OAuth using PHP?

I am losing my mind here. Im looking at a beginners OAuth php package that has a 700 line file. Im used to using 10-12 lines of CURL or just a couple lines with simpleXML to get the same data. Is there a very meat and potatoes way to convey the concepts of interfacing with twitter via oauth without totally alienating someone? Im u...

Django : import problem with python-twitter module

Hi, When I try to import python-twitter module in my app, django tries to import django.templatetags.twitter instead of python-twitter module (in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/twitter.py), but I don't know why. :s For example: myproject/ myapp/ templatetags/ file.py In file.py: import twitter # this impor...

How does Twitter search work?

I know how Google search works. A web-crawler crawls the web following links and downloading every page as it goes along. Then various algorithms index the page based on its content. How does Twitter search work? Does it index every word? I have seen Twitter say "Older tweets are temporarily unavailable.". Does this mean that they only...

Displaying Twitter Pages in Power.com

. Hi, I am wondering how Power.com is able to display Twitter Pages in their website/pages. As far I know Twitter breaks Iframes as they use some JavaScript(Frame breaker scipt) to break frames. Would you please let me know if you have any idea on this? Many Thanks, Regards, Venkat. . ...

Post to Twitter using Terminal with CURL

I got this far: :~ curl -u username:password -d status="new_status" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml Now, how can I alias this with variables so I can easily twit from Terminal? How can I make the alias working through different sessions (when I close Terminal aliases reset). Thanks! ...

How are application like twitter implemented?

Suppose A follows 100 person, then will need 100 join statement, which is horrible for database I think. Or there are other ways ? ...

How can I customize a twitter client in objective c

Hi Folks, I am designing a twitter iPhone app for my school. I wanted to moderate the users who can access the school account. In simple terms i do not want to use the original twitter server but make it local to only few users. Simply lets say a twitter for class. This will be running on our server and only few people can access it. I ...

Twitter oauth implemetion in js

Will above link work for twitter oauth ? ...