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Can I do the following with the Twitter API?

Hi, I'm looking to do the 2 following tasks automatically via the twitter API? Allow a user to provide their credentials and have their twitter account to subscribe to my website feed directly from a form on the site. Allow a user to integrate tweets from my websites twitter feed into their outgoing tweets. I'm finding it hard to fi...

Plotting Tweets from DB in Ruby, grouping by hour.

Hey guys I've got a couple of issues with my code. I was wondering that I am plotting the results very ineffectively, since the grouping by hour takes ages the DB is very simple it contains the tweets, created date and username. It is fed by the twitter gardenhose. Thanks for your help ! require 'rubygems' require 'sequel' require...

how can I capture response from twitter.com? ( ruby + twitter gem)

how can I capture response from twitter.com? To make sure that everything went ok? I am using ruby and ruby twitter gem and the my code is basically like that oauth = Twitter::OAuth.new('consumer token', 'consumer secret') oauth.authorize_from_access('access token', 'access secret') client = Twitter::Base.new(oauth) client.update('Hee...

readUTF timeout

I am getting a timeout with the following code at readUTF. Any idea why? hc = (HttpConnection) Connector.open("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/" + username + ".json"); int rc = hc.getResponseCode(); if (rc != HttpConnection.HTTP_OK) { throw new IOException("HTTP response code: " + rc); } DataInputStream dataInputStream =...

Twitter search c#

Hi, I have implemented a method which manually scrapes the Search Twitter page and gets the tweets on different pages. But since there is a fast refresh rate, the method triggers an exception. Therefore I have decided to use TweetSharp API instead var search = FluentTwitter.CreateRequest() .AuthenticateAs(TW...

Strange characters and encoding while using twitter API

I begun developing my own SIMPLE twitter client in my server (to bypass twitter.com blocking rule stablished by some dumbass at govt. office) Please check this image so you can see the accented characters converted into weird symbol: It is being developed with this class Twitter PHP class by Tijs Verkoyen This is my heading code, ...

Twitter API question

I have a question regarding Twitter API. I came across something called "Parameters and Values" in the API console here : http://dev.twitter.com/console. What can I put here ? I want to filter the response of public statuses to only those have the Hashtag #Give .. Can I do that from here ? What language should I use here ? ...

Twitter Substring Searches

If there is a way to do this, it should be a fairly straightforward question. Using the twitter search api, is there a way to return results that contain a part of the word (searching "#dog" would return "#dogs" as-well)? Thanks ...

Audio Tweets from Within an iPad App, Sending a Selected Recording from the App Sandbox

I'm updating a music app I have with the ability to share your .wav recordings via Twitter (this is somewhat similar to TweetMic). The app already has e-mail sharing and has functioning text-only tweet capability using the code from iCodeBlog's Twitter tutorial. Somehow, I can't figure out how to use something such as chir.ps or some o...

Why does Net::Twitter complain "HTTP::Message content not bytes"?

We have been using Perl's Net:Twitter CPAN module (version 3.12) and basic authentication (not OAuth) for almost a year now to syndicate updates from our site to our Twitter account. We just migrated to a new server last week and since the move our updates to Twitter have stopped and the following error is being reported whenever we try ...

PHP Twitter API - How to pull in multiple users tweets?

How would I go about pulling in tweets from multiple twitter users with PHP and displaying them as part of one combined list on my page? ...

not autolinking all-numeric twitter hashtags in perl?

I'm producing HTML from twitter search results. Happily using the Net::Twitter module :-) One of the rules in Twitter is that all-numeric hashtags are not links. This allows to unambiguously tweet things like "ur not my #1 anymore", as in here: http://twitter.com/natarias2007/status/11246320622 The solution I came up with looks like: ...

Replies to a particular tweet, Twitter API

Hello. Is there a way in the Twitter API to get the replies to a particular tweet? Thanks ...

Combine multiple twitter feeds into one list with PHP?

Hi, How would I go about combining multiple users twitter feeds into one list and display them on my page? ...

Twitter widget stops page from rendering in IE 8, anybody know why?

The widget works fine in Firefox but it completely stops the page from being rendered in IE8. This is the error report it gives me: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Media Center PC 3.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0...

Regular expression help

in twitter when you write @moustafa will change to <a href='user/moustafa'>@moustafa</a> now i want make the same thing when write @moustafa + space its change @moustafa only ...

Follow an user in twitter via Rest API

Hello. How using the twitter rest api can i follow a user in something like this format: http://myuser:mypassword@urloftwitterapi/follow?user=useriwannafollow There is a very simple method like this? Thanks ...

Twitter-OAuth update_profile_*_image methods problem [EpiTwitter]

People, I have been struggling over the two methods - Update Profile Image and Update Background Image I am using EpiTwitter library. I am uploading GIFs, Twitter returns the expected result for update_profile_background_image but returns 401 for update_profile_image , but the image is not changed. Here are the headers catched from $...

Using Twitter OAuth to post updates automatically

Here's my scenario. I have a web site, which automatically posts updates to Twitter using cURL at the moment. But I hear Twitter is going to turn this feature off and move to OAuth. I tried implementing OAuth in my site, but the user actually has to manually authenticate before being able to post anything to twitter. How can I use OA...

How do I migrate from a basic plaintext password authentication to an OAuth based system?

Hello, Found out today that Twitter will be discontinuing its basic authentication for its API; the push is now towards OAuth but I don’t have a clue as to how to use it or whether it’s the right path for me. All I want to be able to do is post a tweet linking to the most recently published post when I hit publish. Currently I’m sendin...