I am trying to build an application that has many points in common with Twitter. So, I was wondering whether there is a language more suitable to create a site like that. I don't want to discuss about what is the best programming language.. I only ask you what language Twitter uses (if anyone know..) Thanks ...
This is a weird one... With the help of people here, I've got my iPhone app posting to TwitPic successfully - and when I first got it working, I could see an XML result being returned too... But for some reason over the past two days, the API call seems to succeed - the pic appears on TwitPic - but... the response seems to be empty... ...
I have rarely used my Twitter account since I created it a few years ago. However, I recently read an article about people using Twitter to follow professionals in their fields to stay current on the latest trends. This inspired me to search for respected programmers to follow. Unfortunately, I know the names of very few well-known mo...
Soap, REST, xmlrpc. Facebook, twitter, [insert web 2.0 site]. What is the definitive web API and which would be the one that you would most likely replicate in your own code and for what reason? It seems that some web APIs invoke nausea in developers while other invoke pure worship. If you were told to develop an API for a website/pro...
I am reusing a curl function from a long time ago that is now acting differently than I remember. In this particular case, I'm authenticating a user's Twitter credentials. Here's the code as it stands now: $cred = $_POST['twitter_username'].':'.$_POST['twitter_password']; $url = "http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json"; $c...
What ready available algorithms could I use to data mine twitter to find out the degrees of separation between 2 people on twitter. How does it change when the social graph keeps changing and updating constantly. And then, is there any dump of twitter social graph data which I could use rather than making so many API calls to start ove...
Hello, I'd like to know about software development teams that use twitter (or yammer or laconica) in their process. What are you reporting? Do you have automated tweet e.g. from build or test machine? Thanks a lot for your answer. ...
Please, I am solving this problem.. I need to login into Facebook or Twitter or any other website from my PHP script running on my server. I am normaly doing that with CURL, saving cookies to some predefined file. But now I need something new.. I need to stay logged in with my browser, even when the script ends the login process. Is that...
Is anyone else having a difficult time getting Twitters oAuth's callback URL to hit their localhost development environment. Apparently it has been disabled recently. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=534#c1 Does anyone have a workaround. I don't really want to stop my development ...
Please, I would like to set cookies for my browser by my script running at my domain.. but I want to set cookies from another domain. For example, I would like to set cookies that twitter.com sends me (when I would visit by browser), but I don't want to visit their page for the first time. Only when I visit their page after running my s...
I have a text like this: 'Rails on IIS7 http://is.gd/vWPn' (it's a tweet by shanselman). I'd like to display it somehow using wpf. How should I preprocess the text and what controls use then? Current solution is that I create 2 controls: Label and Hyperlink and add them into a TextBlock. In powerboots it looks like this: boots { borde...
In order to be able to detect RT of a particular tweet, I plan to store hashes of each formatted tweet in the database. What hashing algorithm should I use. Cryptic is of course not essential. Just a minimal way of storing a data as something which can then be compared if it is the same, in an efficient way. My first attempt at this wa...
I'm currently working on an app that works with Twitter, but while developing/testing (especially those parts that don't rely heavily on real Twitter data), I'd like to avoid constantly hitting the API or publishing junk tweets. Is there a general strategy people use for taking it easy on the API (caching aside)? I was thinking of rolli...
This is really just for my own use: I would like to be able to search all of my updates, ever. Twitter's search (http://search.twitter.com) is time-limited - it only seems to search the last few weeks of updates, so it is difficult to find something I had posted months ago. ...
I don't know much about programming so will be hiring someone to do it for me, but I was wondering what things would you think would be needed to get certain tweets from Twitter-probably using the Search API & then analyse them & link them to other tweets, before then outputting them into a spreadsheet or similar. What I mean is-would i...
My latest Twitter status update has the URL http://twitter.com/dinomite/status/1743967905 Does anyone know if there is any rhyme or reason behind the number 1743967905? It looks to me as though it might be a sequentially-assigned number for all Twitter users; I certainly haven't update 1.7b times, but all of Twitter might be around tha...
I'm trying to figure out a way to pull all tweets of a specific search term via PHP and the Twitter search api. So functionality would include 1. Include a search term 2. Pull terms from each page. 3. Only pull new terms from last search 4. Export to a db or a flat file. I'm pretty clear on all of these except for traversing across mul...
I don't want to do anything fancy on Twitter except post to it via my site once a day. I have searched around a bit and there are all sorts of super-complex ways to do every little thing that Twitter does, but there seems to be little documentation on how to do the simplest thing, which is make a post! Does anyone know how to do this? O...
The twitter API site lists 3 java twitter libaries. Twitter4j java-twitter jtwitter Do you know others? What are your experiences in support, ease of use, stability, community, etc. ...
Is there a good way to determine how many pages the twitter search api has returned or is there a way to determine how many values were returned and divide that by the number of twits per page? ...