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color code passed to flash variable in Twitter badge

I'm trying to create a simple interface to automate the creation of a flash twitter badge for a WordPress theme. My question is this, on the twitter page which has a simple color customizer, the standard hex color codes are getting translated to something to be passed to the flash as a variable. Can anyone shed any light on what that c...

python regular expression for retweets

i'm working on a regex that will extract retweet keywords and user names from tweets. here's an example, with a rather terrible regex to do the job: tweet='foobar RT@one, @two: @three barfoo' m=re.search(r'(RT|retweet|from|via)\b\W*@(\w+)\b\W*@(\w+)\b\W*@(\w+)\b\W*',tweet) m.groups() ('RT', 'one', 'two', 'three') what i'd like is to c...

Classic ASP Twitter Libraries

Does of anyone know of any Classic ASP (VBScript) Twitter libraries? Thanks. ...

Twitter app development best practices?

Let's imagine app which is not just another way to post tweets, but something like aggregator and need to store/have access to tweets posted throught. Since twitter added a limit for API calls, app should/may use some cache, then it should periodically check if tweet was not deleted etc. How do you manage limits? How do you think goo...

Can I search all twitter messages using their API?

Is it possible to use Twitter's API to grab search results? For example, if I wanted my page to show all tweets (man I hate that term) with the word "cat" in it? Is it also possible to get just the matching results that were after a certain date? ...

Filter or remove item.description from an RSS feed

I would like to remove the item.description part of a twitter feed within yahoo pipes and I haven't figured out how to do it yet. Obviously the filter module will remove posts with that item so I've been trying to use Regex. I think clearing the item.description field would work well enough. Is there a Regex expression that would repla...

What is the best Twitter API wrapper/library for .NET?

I'm looking for a way to programatically generate a twitter feed for a .NET application. Any recommendations as to a good wrapper for the twitter api to ease the work? Boaz ...

Who can crack this twitter regexp?

I would like to grab all the hashtags using PHP from http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23eu-jele%C4%A1%C4%A1i The hashtags are in the content, title nodes within the RSS feed. They are prefixed with # The problem I am having is with non-English letters (outside of the range a-zA-Z). If you look at the RSS feed and then view th...

Getting 401 on Twitter OAuth POST requests

I am trying to use Twitter OAuth and my POST requests are failing with a 401 (Invalid OAuth Request) error. For example, if I want to post a new status update, I am sending a HTTP POST request to https://twitter.com/statuses/update.json with the following parameters - status=Testing&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=xxx& oauth_nonce=xxx&o...

Full text search with embedded DB in Delphi

We are creating an open source Twitter client and are looking for an embedded DB with the smallest footprint possible that works with Delphi and that lends itself well to full text search (I know that doesn't go with small footprint very well). Ideally it should be free or open source too (demanding I know). I am leaning toward SQLite...

Any Ideas for free API to post very small sound snippets to Web?

Twitter provides a free API to post small text messages to the Web. TwitPic provides a free API to post small pictures to the Web. Is there anything for sounds, these sounds would be small less than 12 seconds, and could be saved to needed format. It would be great if the API would work well with Twitter, but not required. If there is...

Google App Engine database inconsistency

Im writing a twitter app in Google App Engine. It accepts commands as Direct Messages, so i have setup a third party cronjob service to invoke a handler that processes DMs at regular intervals. I have a Model 'Info' that has just one entry, it stores some common data which are used in many places in the App(in this case, the time when th...

What are some ways to have fun with a large amount of data? (ie, the Twitter, del.icio.us etc. APIs)

Twitter, Google, Amazon, del.icio.us etc. all give you a lot of data to play with, all for free. There's also a lot of textual data available through initiatives like Project Gutenberg. And that, it seems, is just the tip of the iceberg. I have been wondering how you could use this data for fun. I'm a first year IT student, so I have no...

What's the best way to normalize "time" in PHP?

I'm looking for a way to turn user input into normalized data fit for calculation. The input is some length of time, and is coming from Twitter, so it's string only. Ideally I'd love these results: an hour and a half --> 01:30 27.52 --> 00:28 5:24 --> 05:24 Is this is a particularly difficult thing to do? I...

Caching/storing twitter API data in MySQL db...

I have a database of twitter usernames in a mysql DB. I would like to populate the currently empty description, location and url fields with data. What would be be the best way to do this? Thanks! ...

Bash TAB-completion inside double-quoted string

Problem I'm writing a Twitter client for the command line (in C). I'm currently working on doing TAB-completion for Twitter screen names, like so: tweet "@s<TAB> @sourcebits @spolsky However, I can't get it to work mid-string, e.g.: tweet "Foo bar @s<TAB> since Bash treats the string as one word. I couldn't find anythin...

How can I search/summarize my PHP results?

Hi there, I've retrieved a series of objects from the Twitter API, and I want to summarize them. I'm most familiar with analyzing results from a SQL query, but given a series of objects like this: array(9) { ["results"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(9) { ["text"]=> string(14) "4.2 #runlogger" ["to_user_id"]=> NULL ...

RegExp: How to extract usernames out of Tweets (twitter.com)?

Hello! I have the following example tweet: RT @user1: who are @thing and @user2? I only want to have user1, thing and user2. What regular expression can I use to extract those three names? I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance! PS: A username must only contain letters, numbers and underscores. ...

Using TwitPic API from ObjectiveC/iPhone

There's a similar question on here about this which I've read and I've tried to follow the advice given there... and I think I'm 95% complete but the remaining 5%... well you know ;-) So I'm trying to call the twitPic API to upload an image and I've got the image contained in a UIImageView which I'm displaying on the screen (I can see i...

How to update Twitter status from c#?

I would like to update status on Twitter without using external libraries nor dll-s. I've found for example this solution: http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet2556.htm But it does not work and does not give any error. Could you please tell me how to update status programmatically from c#? When I catch error I get: 500 Internal Se...