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Twitter Search API and 'best practice' for creating query string

Hi I'm confused about the differences in query string parameters if you use the advanced search page vs referencing the Twitter search operators page http://search.twitter.com/operators Are both of the following equivalent? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=&phrase=near+city http://search.twitter.com/search?q="%22"nea...

Twitter username input field text plugin!!

Hello, I'm looking for a nice plugin that filters a username input field like Twitter. I tried to user their script but it's impossible to understand. I found other plugins over the net but they don't usually block special characters like é, á, ç, ã and etc.. Twitter script does! Do you know where I can find it? Thanks ...

Communication link failure error message

I'm in the process of testing an application and it's database and for this I want to restart my testing each time completely clean. This application loads a large amount of data from Twitter. Therefore, before I start, I delete all data from the database and kill any processes from my web account associated with this application. When I...

ColdFusion executing unwanted SQL statements

I have an application that loads a vast amount of data from twitter. We have began to notice some performance issues and so I setup SQL Profiler for the applications database. I have noticed the following SQL statement are being executed but do not appear anywhere in my code. Therefore, I am assuming that either SQL Server 2005 or ColdFu...

TweetSharp get followers count

Does anyone know how to use TweetSharp to get some account's follower count? ...

How to shorten a string without slicing through a word while keeping within a character limit in PHP

Possible Duplicate: How to Truncate a string in PHP to the word closest to a certain number of characters? How can I shorten a string to a maximum of 140 chars without slicing through a word. Take the following string: $string = "This is an example string that contains more than 140 characters. If I use PHPs substring functi...

How does twitter live-update your timeline?

Hello guys, Thanks for reading. We are developing a web app. and we're finding out how to live-update some counters and info in the client side, without use scheduled-Json-Updates (yes, timeouts works... but there should be another way ; ) So I was looking at Twitter... they live-update our timeline don't they? I cannot see the timel...

Find number of new followers per day on Twitter

Ok I looked around and couldn't find the answer to this. So the twitter API doesn't make available the date/time a follower became a follower. If I wanted to figure out the number of new followers per day I would some how have to get the previous days and compare the two. Any idea how to do that effectively (like save snap shot every day...

Could a site like Twitter run in App Engine?

Just wondering to know. Anyone has thoughts about it? ...

I want to embed Twitter or something that is connected to Twitter through API in an IFRAME

Does anyone have a sollution for embedding twitter or all of its functionality into an i-frame.... Basically what i want is to embed Twitter within my web - app so my clients can use it as a marketing tool while also using my application. IF someone has an API sollution completed that i can embed through an IFrame i am willing to look ...

Can you locally store tweets from twitter API

Are you allowed to locally store tweets obtained using the twitter api? http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search ...

Get more than 20 last messages

Twitter API documentation says that I can get only 20 last messages (proof link). I'm just wondering if there is any other possibility to get more messages, for example - "all the messages from specific point in time". ...

Should Twitter icons be cached locally or hotlinked to the URL the API returns?

When I built my first handful of Twitter applications, I wrote code to cache user icons locally. At the time, it just didn't seem like a good idea to assume that these icons would always be available at their original locations. These were relatively low-traffic sites though, and even though I was grabbing the user icons on login, it did...

Twitter API: Get my latest post with php

I'm trying to make a simple site that uses php and the Twitter API to write out my latest post from twitter. I found a tutorial showing me how to get my timeline (or last 20 posts) in xml format, but can't figure out how to print out just the latest post, and just the text of it (not the time, date, etc that come with the xml/rss/etc). ...

Newbie Needs help with basic MVC Oauth Twitter set up

Hey everyone. I'm a hobby developer and I am fiddlng around with asp.net MVC and was trying to just get the basic Oauth to work via Twitter. All I did was put a controller named Twitter with this code: (it's from an online example for webforms but i slightly modified it and put it into 2 action methods, index and callback.. is this ri...

How to search tweets in replies and retweets?

I want to make an app almost the same as dell canada. http://www.facebook.com/DellCanada?v=app_137102584517&ref=nf . On the right side, "twitter sphere". it is able to be filtered by a keyword from Replies and Retweets. I have googled for a long time, still didn't get any idea how to do it. And thoughts? Thanks in advance. Regard...

Twitterizer API Questions

Hi all, I've recently been playing around with the awesome Twitterizer Twitter API using C# WPF in Visual Studio 2008. It's been working the most part, but I do have some questions about it. 1) How can I make it so that the login screen is a different windows that closes when you log in, unless there is a login failure? 2) How can I ...

Beginner data caching in PHP

I'm using simpleXML to go through the XML results of a Twitter XML file, but I'm completely lost as to caching the results with PHP. This article seems to be of some help, but I've come across memcache (and memcached. C'mon, namers.) as well, and I have no idea what to do. I'm using this: $sxml = simplexml_load_file( 'http://api.tw...

Max. Requests Twitter

I wanted to use the Twitter API to get the friends status list from many users. How many requests could I request in one moment? Little another question: What's faster: XML or JSON with a lot of data with PHP? ...

[FLEX, RobotLegs Framework] navigateToUrl

Hello, I'm warming up w/ AS3 robotlegs framework. I'm working on a FLEX 4/AIR Application which uses Twitter OAUTH API, my question is : where should I put my "navigateUrl" instruction so the use can authorize my token? Is it in an Actor or in my view? Thanks ! ...