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twitter request limit

hi guys , Regarding the twitter API request limit, how does one counts as a request? I'm using python-twitter, so if I have client = twitter.Api(username='acc',password='pw') self.client.GetFriends(result[0]) Does this count as 1 request? Or as many as the number of friends I have? I asked this because I have the following code: ...

xAuth Authentication for Twitter Share in Android?

Hi Folks, I am working on the Twitter Authentication. The Basic Authentication will expire on August 16th onwards. So we have to use OAuth to use Twitter Authentication. But Its some Complicated to implement. XAuth is cuts off the two steps. But the Problem is i used Twitter4j to authenticate.And also had bad documentation too. I want t...

JSON parser doesn't work

For some reason my json twitter parser isn't working? Anyone got any ideas as to why? <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <script type="text/javascript"> function outputHtmlToDiv(tweet,i){ count = i + 1; $('#wrapper #sidebar .profile')...

Twitter Oauth URL encoding inconsistencies?

I'm reading the walkthrough at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth but there seem to be an inconsistency in encoding the callback URL. The callback is listed as: oauth_callback - http://localhost:3005/the_dance/process_callback?service_provider_id=11 The signature base string is listed as: POST&...oauth_callback%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flocal...

Posting A Message From a Website To Twitter

Is it possible to post a message from a website to twitter account? For Example, If a user post a comment in my website, that comment should also be posted to my twitter account. Is there any API or any PHP based scripts? ...

include facebook and twitter as login option.

How to include login with facebook and twitter option in a website. ...

twitter oAuth cURL Example not working - why?

The following code simply gives me: Failed to validate oauth signature and token // Set url $url = "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"; // Params to pass to twitter and create signature $params['oauth_callback'] = "http://localhost/twitter/tweet/"; $params['oauth_consumer_key'] = $...

Get user updates using Twitter Stream API is not working

Hi All, Let say I have the user Snoop Dogg. I would like to have all his public outgoing messages (updates, retweets..) and public incoming messages (replies) using the streaming API I first thought that the following will do. http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?follow=3004231 But I just discovered that get only the inc...

another twitter oAuth cURL access token request that fails

The following function gives a validation error instead of the token: failed to validate oAuth signature and token function request_token() { // Set url $url = $this->site.$this->request_token_path; // http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token // Params to pass to twitter and create signature $params['oauth_consumer_...

Validate twitter URL

Hi all, I am trying to validate a twitter url, so that at least it contains a username. I do not care if it exists or not, just that there is one. I am using the below javascript regex var re = new RegExp('((http://)|(www\.))twitter\.com/(\w+)'); alert(re.test('http://twitter.com/test_user')); but it is not working. The strange thi...

fetch tweets through location

Can I fetch all the tweets from users of a particular location filtered by a particular keyword? For example, I want to look up all the tweets made during a day in a particular location with a keyword "XYZ". Can this be done? ...

How do you create a twitter link that auto-populates the users status with some text?

How do you create a link (<a>) that will send the user to Twitter and auto-populate the status field with some text? I've clicked links like this before, but not sure how it's created. ...

Twitter stream bounding box - how to cover London/UK

I'm attempting to stream Tweets from the UK as a whole, using Twitters stream API, however I'm having trouble with my bounding box. The LAT/LON pairs I'm using to define a bounding box of the whoe UK(Ire included) is as follows. -9.05, 48.77, 2.19, 58.88 However when I try to use this with the Twitter stream API, it states the follow...

Replace broken twitter images with javascript?

In most cases you can replace a broken image with some code that looks like this: <img src="image.jpg" onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='default.jpg'"> However, it doesn't seem to work with broken twitter profile images like this: http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/52087244/Photo_26.jpg Is this because it is returning 403 instead...

how to trigger an event whenever a tweet is updated

I wanted to know how to trigger an event (say. storing a tweet from a particular user in a text file or mailing it etc.) when a particular user updates his tweets. Do we need to poll for the updates every few seconds or is there any other way out. ...

Embed twitter feed with images

When embedding a twitter feed - what's the best way (if any) to display the image referenced in a tweet directly - not as a link to e.g. Twitpic? The image should be displayed as img, like in a blog post. ...

Utilizing Twitter's Streaming API w/ jQuery?

Twitter's Streaming API seems to provide a way to receive realtime tweets without constantly polling for new data. Would it be possible to make use of this API using jQuery (or maybe falling back to pure JS)? As far as I can tell, there's no built-in way for jQuery to stream an HTTP request with JSON. Is that correct, or did I miss some...

iphone Can someone please explain to me what #ifdef does here?

Can someone please explain what #ifdef..#else..#endif does in this piece of code? It's from an open-source iphone twitter client. #ifdef ENABLE_OAUTH @interface NTLNTwitterClient : NTLNOAuthHttpClient { #else @interface NTLNTwitterClient : NTLNHttpClient { #endif int requestPage; NSString *screenNameForUserTimeline; BOOL pa...

Does Twitter OAuth support queryString parameters containing spaces in the callBack url?

For background information, I'm using TweetSharp 1.0 to do my tweeting. Callback urls are being recieved regardless of whether they contain a querystring parameter (CallbackConfirmed is true) but they don't redirect upon authorization when they have contain a querystring parameter. They head off to twitter looking fine and dandy (examp...

Are there any libraries/apache modules for implementing a persistant data stream like Twitter's Firehose?

I'm looking at building something like Twitter's fire hose to expose my company's data to the masses and want to build a proof of concept to show how we could use it. Preferably I would like to find an apache mod that would allow for the persistent connection, but so far I've not found anything with my searched. If there aren't any mod...