I am a complete newbie to the world of Ruby & Rails moving from the land of PHP & Symfony. I'm currently attempting to setup the Facebook Connect plugin & Twitter oAuth for authlogic. Authlogic works no problem but both of the others fail when I attempt to call their buttons- can someone tell me where I'm going wrong? I've put the stack ...
I'm trying to add some twitter funcionality to my website (php). I publish links like http://twitter.com/home?status=Hello World When the twitter page loads, the text box appears with the text Hello%20World That is, with the text url-encoded. I suppose that it's related with the encoding of the page (actually, windows-1252) b...
I'm working on a small side bar google maps/twitter widget. Every few seconds the map pans to the next point associated with a tweet and displays the tweet in an info window. The problem is that the info window sits in the corner of the map due to the map attempting to center on the point. Img: http://yfrog.com/5yscreenshot20091029at10...
Disclaimer: I have no Twitter API experience nor have I used Twitter until today I've been given the task of creating a 'tweeting contest' - if anyone has Twitter API experience and/or has done this in the past, I would appreciate any useful tips that you may have. So the basic rules are that in order for a user to enter the co...
I'm about to add a feature on my website that will post stuff to the users' twitter accounts. I read that storing an "OAuth" token is better than storing their usernames and passwords (which makes sense). What should I store in my MySQL database? The token, secret and username? Or just the token? What data type(s) would you use? How bi...
Twitter seems to be using an <i/> tag to display their icons from a css sprite. Did they just make up that tag, or is HTML I've never heard of? Brilliant idea at any rate :) ...
First off, I'm doing a contest where users must tweet a message 'just entered #cool-contest, more info at http://unique/url/239843' and I'm basically doing a search using the api: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40twitterapi+OR+%40twitter Sample entry element: <entry> <id>tag:search.twitter.com,2005:5266369259</id> ...
Hello, The Twitter API lets me request another users statuses with user_timeline and the authenticated users @replies with mentions. Is there a way to request another users @replies (both to and from them)? Thanks ...
Hey! I'm basically trying to get the existing code below to make a new ajax request every time it finishes so there would be a constant stream instead of it just stopping after a batch. <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ var twitterq = ''; function displayTweet(){ var i = 0; var limit = $("#twitter-results >...
Hi, I am using Drupal 6.x, I installed successfully Juitter http://drupal.org/project/juitter which is doing exactly what my users need to do, that is Searching Twitter. But to do so they have to navigate to the specific page where the Juitter module is invoked which is something like: ____example.com/juitter and THEN they have to ...
Here is what I have in mind: 1) Create a service that will run every hour or so and search for twits using a specific criteria 2) I also need to filter out garbage (index engine needs to be smart enough, kind of like anti-spam service) What are the best strategies/ideas to accomplish this? PS Any ideas if there is anti-spam engine a...
Hi, goodday. For a research project I would like to get the last 3 months worth of Twitter messages. Technical challenges aside, is this possible? by using some sort of slow polling mechanism to keep the rate limiter at bay? The Twitter API states "Clients may request up to 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for timeline...
Hi experts, as you know Twitter has posted a new cursor based pagination for some API methods. Currently, I'm facing a problem when encoding the json object because the cursor itself is actually a 64-bit numbers and not supported for json encoding in PHP. next_cursor 1299072354878293926 Any solution for this? I can't believe why did...
On a Rails site, I'd like to display a certain Twitter feed, with pagination so the visitor can see previous tweets (as far back as needed). I implemented it using the Twitter gem, using Search method, which has a nice pagination method, but hit a limitation that Twitter will only return the statutes from the last two weeks. So after go...
I am trying to send a direct message via the Twitter API from Access 2000 VBA. I can post a status update to my Twitter account with the following code: tUsername = "TwitterUser" tPassword = "theirpassword" tStatus = "some sample text" xml.Open "POST", "http://" & tUsername & ":" & tPassword & "@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?s...
Hi Any APIs or application that could be used to pull a RSS feed and put it on a configured Facebook, Twitter, ... account ? Kind of a Add This but in something like a Windows Service Thanks ! Patrick ...
What is the best Twitter API Library for Ruby? I want to do simple things like: search for specifics keywords for a date range start following people tweet messages How can I do these things with the library you recommend? ...
I have a small desktop Twitter client written in VB.NET (2.0). Works great. Some of my users have emailed me and said that the application isn't working for them because they are trying to use it on networks where a proxy server is part of the network connectivity equation. I'd like to be able to troubleshoot and debug my application ...
So I have been using an open source twitter php class I got a few months back, and all of a sudden, it started to throw me errors last night. You can see what is happening here: www.campusmediawatch.org It says it requires authentication but I do authenticate and it has been working for months since last night. Any ideas? Here are the ...
I've been working my way through Tim Heuer's Silverlight tuturial, in which you set up a basic interface to search Twitter. I started on the tutorial yesterday, completing through Step 3. It all was working fine. Now, though, I can't call Twitter without getting a "System.Security.SecurityException" error in the OpenReadCompleted handler...