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Real Time Twitter Streaming without constant Polling

I was looking at Twitter Streaming API for getting a real-time feed. But I dont want it stored on my server. I just want it pulled from the server and the browser page will retrieve the data from my server's twitter pull URL. But I want to avoid polling my server every few mill-seconds. Is there a way for my server script to keep pushing...

need help, twitter post wont show up

can somebody help me with these codings... this code work at another twitter account, but when i try to retrive post from "goelalifest" twitter account, it wont show up. <div id="twitter_update_list"></div> <script src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://twitter.com/statuses/u...

high tweet status IDs causing failed to open stream errors?

Erg. Starting in the past few days high tweet IDs (at least, it appears it's ID related, but I suppose it could be some recent change in the api returns) are breaking my code. At first I tried passing the ID as a string instead of an integer to this function, and I thought this worked, but in reality it was just the process of uploading ...

New twitter's API

twitter today presented new APIs Please look at "User login & signup". So there is explained how to authenticate user. And according to this code it's simple to authenticate user at client-side. But how to get auth data now at server-side? ...

Twitter + Grackle, determining the logged in user

This is crazy, but I'm stumped! Once my user has logged into twitter via OAuth how do I determine their username using grackle? @twitter = Grackle::Client.new(:auth => { :type => :oauth, :consumer_key => consumer_key, :consumer_secret => consumer_secret, :token => @access_token.token, :token_secret => @access_token.secret }) ...

Is there a script that posts git commits to twitter?

Git is notorious by its encouraged length limit for commit message titles: first line should not be more than 50 characters long (to fit an e-mail header). That reminds me of... well, is there a hook that automatically posts commit messages to twitter as soon as they're pushed to the server? ...

How to decode entities in Twitter statuses coming back from the search API, through JSON, in Java?

Twitter encodes some entities. They say at least < and >. They also say "When requesting XML, the response is UTF-8 encoded. Symbols and characters outside of the standard ASCII range may be translated to HTML entities." However it's unclear to me whether symbols outside ASCII range are encoded just if you request XML, or also th...

"Could not authenticate you." -error when using Twitter OAuth.

Hello I'm building my first system using Twitters OAuth and have some issues. First, I'm using Abraham's Twitter-class for this and I have followed this tutorial. However, I get these lines on my callback.php: Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in C:\xampp\htdocs\twitter\twitterOAuth\OAuth.php o...

How to integrate location information into Twitter app?

I'm trying to get a Twitter iPhone app working using Matt Gemmell's MGTwitterEngine. I can post tweets OK, but I can't work out how to attach location data to those tweets... anyone have any idea? ...

How to discover whether Geo-tagging is enabled with Twitter / MGTwitterEngine?

Using Matt Gemmell's MGTwitterEngine, how would I find out if the user (that i'm logged in as) has geo tagging enabled? According to the Twitter API, there is a 'geo_enabled' boolean flag, but I can't work out how to interrogate it using MGTwitterEngine. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Geotagging-API-Best-Practice ...

How can I capture certain hashtag in Twitter in C# ?

I have a silver light App that captures the tweets of certain Twitter user. I want to modify that App so that It captures any tweet in the public timeline with a certain #hashtag. How can I do that ? or is there any ready code for that ? Thanks!! ...

.NET (C#) passing messages from a custom control to main application

A custom windows form control named 'tweet' is in a dll. The custom control has couple of basic controls to display a tweet. I add this custom control to my main application. This custom control has a button named "retweet", when some user clicks this "retweet" button, i need to send some message to the main application. Unfortunately th...

scrape a user's entire tweets

I'd like to pull all of a user's tweets. I could do this the hard way (manually scraping twitter) or the easy way: using their api. The problem with the easy (api) way is that I seem to be limited to the 200 most recent tweets. What's a simple way to get all tweets? Thanks ...

Anyone got Twitter xAuth working with the Compact Framework yet?

This question is related to a number of other questions on oAuth on the Compact Framework (one, two) but seems slightly more specific to me, as it specifically involves getting Twitters xAuth API call (meant for non web applications to be able to do oAuth) working on the Compact Framework. Are SSL HTTP connections and the encryption me...

Trouble getting search results using MGTwitterEngine

I'm using a version of Matt Gemmell's MGTwitterEngine, and I'm trying to get some results from the getSearchResultsForQuery method. // do a search [_engine getSearchResultsForQuery:@"#quote"]; // delegate method for handling result - (void)searchResultsReceived:(NSArray *)searchResults forRequest:(NSString *)connectionIdentifier { ...

"Find Friends" using Twitter Oauth or Facebook Connect connections

Using Twitter OAuth, I'm saving the user's data as JSON in a "twitter" field in my database. Likewise, I'm saving the user's Facebook Connect info (including persistent session_key) as JSON in a "facebook" field. For most operations, this is great. However, I'd like to add a "Find Friends" function that will grab the user's friends fr...

How to insert variables in R twitteR updates?

Hello, I am using the twitteR package in R to update my twitter status with results from analysis. The static tweet function works: library(twitteR) sess = initSession('username','password') tweet = tweet('I am a tweet', sess) However, when I add a variable to display some specific results I get an error. library(twitteR) sess = ...

How to let users post links/images to Facebook, Twitter, Buzz etc... from a Rails based website?

I'd like to offer users the ability to post images / links to articles from my web application to Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and any other social network. A perfect example of the functionality I'm trying to replicate is mashable.com ... where each social network is represented by an icon that a) shows the number of shares AND b) allows us...

Retweets by a given user

I am try to get a full list of a user's tweets. I do not particularly care what order they come in, but I need all of them, including what the user has ReTweeted. Essentially, I would like to have status/retweeted_by_me, but for specified user. Is this at all possible? ...

Twitpic API: image comments

Does anyone know whether there's a way to retrieve the latest comments posted against an image on Twitpic - I can't find anything in their API. Any suggestions? ...