I've implemented twitter authentication in my rails app, on my local dev box. However I'm not able to get the application to log off. Isn't it enough to clear these two cookies? remember-token and -twitterauth-session? ...
OBJECTIVE: To learn a little more about some technologies I'm familiar with but not an expert in: Postgres, Compass/Sass, Google Maps API, Twitter API, and ASP.NET MVC 1.0, Flickr API THE SITE: Just a fun little app with CRUD for addresses of my friends, then a page that kind of has a map of where they live, their last five tweets, an...
I have experience with both .NET(5yrs) and Python(1yr) and I want to create a simple web project with Twitter as the backbone. I have experience with AppEngine, and have always wanted to try Azure. I'm going to make extensive use of sending and parsing tweets from lots of users at a time, and since I've set a short deadline for this I'd ...
I'm looking forward to create a bunch of Twitter applications for a website, and was wondering what solution stack worked best when trying to rapidly prototype small twitter applications? Google App Engine + Python/Django? Google App Engine + Java? Heroku + RoR? Good Old LAMP? Also, any recommendations on particular frameworks/librar...
You know the Twitter menubar how it's sort of rounded. How do I do that (in CSS?). I also want to make sure it goes around all my menu items. ...
Hey everyone, I'd like to be able to give my users the ability to display their recent tweets on their profile on my website. I have a PHP twitter wrapper and understand how to make API calls etc, but I'm just wondering how to manage the user information. What is the best practice here? I want them to be able to enter their credential...
I am going to use twitter in an app I'm making and am wondering the best way to go about doing this. I have some experience with Rest and have thought about just calling the API straight up and parsing the xml. My question is what is the best way? I'm seen some Twitter Frameworks such as MGTwitterEngine, but am wondering if it would be...
I am parsing the public timeline xml from twitter and want to display images next to the statuses. The problem is some image urls contain strange characters: e.g. http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68803670/Gryn_i_h%E4ngmattan_normal.jpg Some of the characters can be replaced with urlencode, but I have no idea...
If a picture's worth 1000 words, how much of a picture can you fit in 140 characters? Note: That's it folks! Bounty deadline is here, and after some tough deliberation, I have decided that Boojum's entry just barely edged out Sam Hocevar's. I will post more detailed notes once I've had a chance to write them up. Of course, everyone shou...
Hello How to use twitter api with "http basic auth"? I think I should use the "consumer key"! because twitter gave you limit rate of requests per hour, how can they count my requests if I didn't use my consumer key? ...
Can I fetch the tweet from Twitter if I know the tweet's id? ...
I'm developing a Twitter application on OAuth and I want to provide the ability to post updates in the future. The basic plan is to run a script every hour and find any updates which need to be posted, and then authenticate the appropriate user and use the statuses/update API call. However, I don't know how I can use OAuth for this. I ...
The webapps that depend on the public timeline of twitter, how often do they collect the data? There must be hundreds of thousands of messages every minute, correct? How do they manage to collect all the tweets, without missing any of them? ...
What is a good way to show the most-recent tweets on a #topic by distinct users? For example, if five users have written a combined total of twenty tweets on #example, but one zealot has the fifteen most recent, I want only his latest. Duplicate-elimination is a plus, because parrots are low value. ...
I'm developing a twitter messaging utility using Twitter API (twitterizer). But since I'm within a corporate proxy, I'm getting the error '407 Proxy Authentication Required'. Is there any way to authenticate the user before calling the API or use the default proxy settings? P.S Internally the API is using HttpWebRequest. ...
Hi, I am using twitter api for posting. I want to know is there any method for changing the application name for example when i post it shows: about 1 hour ago from web it should be converted to about 1 hour ago from myapplication name Please guide me on this. ...
I'm trying to pass a username and password variable to the twitter credentials but it keeps returning that I'm not authenticated. However, when I use the actual username and password, instead of the variables, it successfully authorizes. $username = $_POST["username"]; $password = $_POST["password"]; $url = "http://search.twitter.com/s...
Reference another SO question I had, I was given this article about Twitter moving from Rails to Scala, and in the article is this comment: By the end of this year, Payne said, Twitter hopes to have its entire middleware infrastructure and its APIs ported to the new language. Ruby will remain, but only on the front end. "We...
Here is the only way I know to ask it at the moment. As Understand it Scala uses the Java Virtual Machine. I thought Jruby did also. Twitter switched its middleware to Scala. Could they have done the same thing and used Jruby? Could they have started with Jruby to start with and not had their scaling problems that caused them to mo...
A client would like me to add their Twitter stream to their website homepage, using a custom solution built in PHP. The Twitter API obviously has a limited number of calls you can make to it per hour, so I can't automatically ping Twitter every time someone refreshes my client's homepage. The client's website is purely HTML at the mome...