Flex and Twittter data visualization
Hi , Is it possible to run the .json file which is has status data from twitter and run it with flex to create a visualization of the data ? ...
Save data after Twitter Oauth
I have a textbox on my site where people can enter a tweet when submitting if the user is not already logged in he will be redirected to twitter's page to login however after this the original tweet that the user typed is lost. is there a way to keep this info? is it true that with oauth I must redirect the user to twitter's login page?...
Adding twitter followers to my DB
i am using a php script to automate posts to twitter. the script to post is woking, but i want it to pull a list of users from my followers automatically. at the moment i am having to import CSV files into my mysql database. i know there is a way that i could pull followers and dump them into the DB directly using twitters API, but I ...
How can I get the link to the twitpic-site with the latest image of a specific user?
Hello, I wrote a little app that uploads a selected picture form the ImagePicker to twitpic with this code (extract): - (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info { [picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES]; UIImage * images = [info objectForKey:@"UIImag...
Embed Facebook Wall Inside a Website Like Twitter
Hello everyone, I was wondering if you can point to any demo/example of an embedded Facebook wall like you might see for Twitter. I would like to add the Facebook updates to a section in my webpage. Your input is kindly appreciated! Thank you. Teixeira ...
Encoding an ampersand for twitter w/ curl
Here's my code: curl -u "u:d" --data-urlencode "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'|tr '&' '%26'`" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json" But when it goes to twitter, the '&' turns into '%'. What am I doing wrong? Thanks! ...
Twitter New tweets feature ?
How does tweeter implement the asynchronous notifications for new tweets ? If it is a form of server push technology, does any one know or suggest how this feature could have been implemented ? Thanks ...
How do I get the counter for facebook share button to show all the time?
I have a twitter share button and a facebook share button in my blog page. The twitter counter always shows, but the facebook one only shows when you post something, and then goes away when the page is refreshed and does not show up again until something is posted. I want it to show all the time as to adhere to design cohesiveness. ...
Populating List<T> within a foreach loop after pattern matching
Hi, I'm fairly new to C# programming and need some help. I am trying to assign values I've gathered from a JSON feed to my own type, a class in which I have defined certain fields (properties) to put the JSON elements into, plus elements that are derived from a RegEx pattern matching process. This will then allow me to access the objec...
LINQ is returning class name and not value data
Hi, I have a collection of TwitterCollection objects held within a List. I am populating the TwitterCollection object (tc) via a foreach loop, and then accessing it through LINQ. My class with its properties looks like this: //simple field definition class public class TwitterCollection { public string origURL { get; set; } p...
Android Intent for Twitter application
Hey, Is it possible to show a list of applications (with intent.createChooser) that only show me my twitter apps on my phone (so htc peep (htc hero) or twitdroid). I have tried it with intent.settype("application/twitter") but it doesnt find any apps for twitter and only shows my mail apps. Thank you, Wouter ...
MGTwitterEngine - efficient way to get and cache profile imags
What is the most efficient way to get and cache a profile image for a user using MGTwitter? Our problem currently is that there must be a call to getUserInformationFor to get the url of the image, then getImageAtURL resulting in two calls to the server. Currently, we just need the image information, so its redundant to have to download ...
Rails debugging in production environment
I'm creating a Twitter application, and every time user updates the page it reloads the newest messages from Twitter and saves them to local database, unless they have already been created before. This works well in development environment (database: sqlite3), but in production environment (mysql) it always creates messages again, even t...
How should I use Twitter API?
Hello, I want to develop a web application that uses the Twitter API. Before going any further there are some questions that require answer: Should I store on my server the list of followers/following or should I query the API each time? Same as 1 but for tweets instead of people. If I store messages in my application, search should b...
Accesing object properties held in List<T> after LINQ group by procedure... any help?
I have a List<T> that is holding several objects called tc of type TwitterCollection. Each instance of tc contains 5 properties. The TwitterCollection class looks like this: public class TwitterCollection { public string origURL { get; set; } public string txtDesc { get; set; } public string imgURL { get; set; } public ...
firefox: bit.ly links in the sidebar of a customised wordpress blog gives a 404 error
I have twitter status updates showing on the sidebar of the blog which often has the bit.ly or ow.ly links as well. But everytime I click on it in the firefox browser it gives me a 404 error because it tries for the following url: www.domain.com/blog/"http://bit.ly/uniquenumber" instead of bit.ly/uniquenumber. I just checked it and it ...
Twitter - Streaming API for worldwide tweet monitoring?
I'm looking to create a Twitter map visualization much like these: http://twittermap.tv/ http://beta.twittervision.com/ However, according to the Streaming API docs: https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#locations Twitter only permits streaming API access of an area's bounding box with each side's length equal t...
Why doesn't my Twitter button work in Internet Explorer 7?
Go to this page for example: http://readme.readmedia.com/State-Treasurer-Fitzgerald-Reminds-Teachers-to-Register-for-Free-Pencils/1052815 Click the Twitter button to post it to Twitter. It works in every browser except Internet Explorer 7, including other versions of Internet Explorer. Any ideas on how to fix this? Or any alternative T...
Is it better to display latest tweets on a webpage using the PHP API or Javascript?
I want to display a user's latest Tweets on a webpage while maintaining the ability to style the Tweets with custom CSS and also maintaining good page load speed. I have managed to display the latest Tweets in 2 ways. Using the PHP Twitter library (by Aaron Brazell). By using this method, my PHP code has to wait for a response from Tw...
Updating # of followers for a big list of Twitter accounts?
The functionality I'm trying to implement is used in a site called Wefollow ( http://tiny.cc/iozHC ): On this WeFollow each account is checked for # of followers # of statuses How can reliably update the information for each account without bumping into the 2000 queries/hour limit imposed by Twitter? I'm trying to build a director...