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twitter geocode to google maps

Hi Im trying to make this tutorial to work but Im having some difficulties. http://woorkup.com/2009/12/26/how-to-play-with-google-maps-and-twitter-api/ When I run the loadFromTwitter function I get a javascript error. It says "invalid label". The code so far is: loadFromTwitter = function(lat,lng,r) { var url = 'http://search....

How to put a UITableView in the center of a UIView

I am just trying to create a simple Twitter app. Currently I have a UITableViewController that shows everyones name and pictures in the cells. When the cell is clicked, it pushes a new UIViewController that has a UIImageView and a UITableView. Their name is displayed as the title on the Navigation Bar and their picture is shown in the UI...

commenting with login w/twitter or facebook connect

Im building my blog in rails and I want to enable comments I would like to have something posterous-like with a "facebook connect" and "login with twitter" option. The user can login with one of them and then post. No anonymous posts. I dont want to add more login-services, just stay simple (i.e. no disqus) How can I do this? ...

403 Forbidden: The server understood the request....

Building an actionscript Twitter client and using OAuth for the sign in process. Having an extremely frustrating issue with the following error message. '403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.' The following 2 steps ALWAYS work after I click my 'Sign In with Twitter' button, I make it to the T...

Pull twitter profile image

Is there a quick way to pull twitter profile image in PHP or Javascript? I need to get the url of the FULL image (not avatar size). Thanks. Any code sample is good. ...

Is there a out of the box Javascript "Tweet this" link solution around, which does not eagerly load files from other domains while loading the page, but still features URL shortening?

Requests to third party servers keep slowing my site down, so I am trying to have as few as possible. In my book, the ideal "tweet this" solution should be a small javascript snippet to be hosted on my own site not have any activity while loading the page (at least as few as possible, but no additional HTTP requests) just when clicked...

Twitter sharing problems with umlauts ä & ö

I'm having trouble sharing messages containing scandinavian ä & ö to twitter through a share-button on my site. If I use UTF8-codes above %7F, i just bump into an "Invalid Unicode value in one or more parameters" error. An example: http://twitter.com/home/?status=%40user+blah%26%E4 I've tried a bunch of different encodings, but none se...

Streaming multiple tweets - from multiple users? - Twitter API

Hi, I have a big list of Twitter users stored in a database, almost 1000. I would like to use the Streaming API in order to stream tweets from these users, but I cannot find an appropriate way to do this. Help would be very much appreciated. ...

Parsing Data returned from Twitpic API

Hi there, I just wanted to ask you if anyone can help me parsing the returned data from the Twitpic API? I'm creating a HTTPFormRequest using the ASIHTTPRequest Wrapper for Cocoa. This all happens in an iPhone application: NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://twitpic.com/api/upload"]; NSString *username = t_user; NSString *pa...

What language does twitter and facebook use?

hi gurus! I'm using php for the last 6 months and i can pretty much do anything with it. But BIG websites like Facebook and Twitter doesn't appear to use php. I wanna know what languages they use and why they chose that language over php. Is Ruby on Rails a good language to build robust and big websites? I've seen RoR's video on youtu...

Jesey Oauth client and "%20" spaces

HI all. I am trying to use the Sun Jersey Client API with Jesey Oauth to connect to twitter. Lets say I already have the oauth token and token secret. String accessToken = MY_TOKEN; String accessTokenSecret = MY_TOKEN_SECRET; String url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; // initialize the params and secret. OAuthParameters p...

character countdown like on twitter

how can i make a character countdown like the one on twitter with jquery? and also limit the input to textarea. ...

How Create a Scheduler (e.g. to schedule tweets, or an api request)

I have a table of schedule items, they may be scheduled for the same time. I'm wondering how to have them all execute at the correct time when: The problem I see is that executing one scheduled item (like a scheduled twitter post) requires an API request which may take up to a second or two - probably longer. If I execute them sequentia...

Twitter OAuth fails signature validation on different domain with same code

I wrote a "Sign in with Twitter" option for my webapp on my local machine using this Twitter OAuth library - https://docs.google.com/View?docID=dcf2dzzs_2339fzbfsf4 and it all works great. But when I move the code to the actual production server it fails on getting a Request Token (a.k.a. the first step) with a simple "Failed to validate...

How do I tweet, using the DotNetOpenAuth library?

I just downloaded the DotNetOpenAuth library and ran the AuthConsumer demo. It is an excellent library so far! Everything worked as advertised, which has not been my experience with a lot of Facebook and Twitter sample code that I have been working with recently. What I am trying to figure out is: How do I tweet using this library? I ...

Decoding JSON feed via PHP from Twitter not working?

Hello my fellow coders! So I'm pulling down a user's tweet steam in JSON format via PHP. I'd like to decode it into an associative array or at least some more usable fashion rather than a string so that I can maneuver through it. I've been reading like mad about json_decode, but for me it seems like when I use it, before and after, the...

Filtering Twitter statuses by date (via API)

Is there a way to view twitter statuses for a particular day through the API? I figured this would be a pretty basic function, but after looking through the documentation and parameters it doesn't seem to be so straight forward. Has anyone done this through the API? I know it possible, b/c the Momento app for iPhone pulls it off flawless...

How to avoid java.security.AccessControlException through jtwitter (twitter API) from java applet

I am writing a simple applet (my first) to retrieve the most recent status from a twitter account. This works fine when running from javaw.exe launched from within eclipse. However, when run from a browser I get the error: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.net.SocketPermission twitter.com:80 connect, resolve) ...

How to bind in Twitter in my homepage?

Hi guys, I will use twitter and show it on my page like a news-flash. I found a lot of Twitter API Demos with updating twitter, but I don't want this, want only read and show in any form I like. Anyone knows good and easy classes for this? ...

How do I use cURL to update Twitter?

Hi, I'm looking to update twitter using cURL. I've written a bash fuction, but I'm not sure how to get it to accept a line as an argument to use as status text. The current function just accepts the first word as an argument. Also, can I prevent it from returning the XML file or suppress it from going to stdout? Thanks #!/bin/bash f...