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Twitter double encode entity references?

Why is twitter double encoding XML entity references? Here's an example tweet: xml entity ref test < & ' The response from statuses/friends_timeline: <status> <created_at>Wed Jun 24 00:16:15 +0000 2009</created_at> <id>2302770346</id> <text>xml entity ref test &amp;lt; &amp; '</text> <source>web</source> <truncated>false</...

What's the best way to get the data I want from Twitter?

I'm currently saving some Twitter data in MySQL. My host only lets me run cron jobs every hour, so to semi-simulate realtime results, I've copied the same file 6 times, and run one every 10 minutes (the host DOES let you control the hourly offset). This is stupid, I think. Is there some mechanism I can learn about that would push the da...

APIs that allow status updates to be posted to several sites?

Does anyone know of an API that will allow for posting status updates to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook? ...

Can you get the exact date a user started following another using the twitter API?

Let's say user A follows user B, and B follows A. I want to know the exact date A started following B and viceversa. Is this information stored on twitter? Can I retrieve it using the API? To clear out: The point of this question is finding a way to know who followed who first. (I'm assuming both A and B deleted the notification e-mails...

Ajax in javascript not working.

$(document).ready(function() { $('#content').html(''); $.ajax({ url:'data.json', dataType: "json", success: function(data) { $('#content').append('<p>'+data.rank+'</p>'); } });}); In this code (it works) data.json contains the JSON data in this format: { "user_id":"3190399", "user_name"...

Make links clickable in PHP with twitterlibphp?

Hey guys, I'm using Twitter's PHP API, called twitterlibphp, and it works well, but there's one thing that I need to be able to initiate, which is the linking of URLs and @username replies. I already have the function for this written up correctly (it is called clickable_link($text);) and have tested it successfully. I am not too famil...

How did they apply Twitter oAuth here?

Hello all, I have just succeeded in creating oAuth authentication for my twitter application using PHP. I then saw this site and I am surprised how they open a new window, close that window and then continue the request in the initial window?! Can Someone explain with some Javascript (I am guessing they are using this) how they did thi...

Removing @replies from twitter so they are not displayed on my website

Ive been trying to exclude twitter @replies from my website using bits of code I googled but still unfortunately lost. its located here www.johnnyharu.com Can anyone help? Another newbie ...

iphone MGTwitterEngine - post a tweet with my app signature

I'm using MGTwitterEngine in an iPhone app, and it works great. The one thing I want to change is the "posted from MGTwitterEngine" that appears on Twitter. Obviously I'd like it to say "from MyCoolApp", and link to the app's website. When you register an app with Twitter (http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/create), you get this info: * ...

Cross domain ajax response failing

Ok...so ive been wriggling around with this piece of cod for quite a while now... first i used this code which worked... $(document).ready(function() { $('#content').html(''); $.ajax({ url:'data.json', dataType: "json", success: function(data) { $('#content').append(''+data.rank+''); } }...

Cross Domain json response failing

$(document).ready(function() { $('form#search').bind("submit", function(e){ e.preventDefault(); $('#content').html(''); // Define the callback function function getGeo(jsonData) { $('#content').append(''+jsonData.rank+''); bObj.removeScriptTa...

building a jsonp wrapper for json data

Ive been tryin to solve this for a long time and now know why its not possible. The url http://twittercounter.com/api/?username=Anand_Dasgupta&amp;output=json&amp;results=3 returns a json but when i append a "&callback=get" along with it,it doesnt specify the callback wrapper function. So the only solution now is to build a wrapper m...

How to automatic post to twitter with wordpress?

I'm developing a site LAMP with Wordpress I want to let twitter reflect it automatically if I do post of a diary. My environment is no crontab (Can't use) But Few days later I can use crontab. How to automatic post to twitter with wordpress? is there any plugins or other slutions? ...

Calling Twitter API in X-Code Iphone Application

Hi , Is there any wrapper available for Twitter in X-Code? if not then do I have to call original Twitter API in my Iphone's application ? ...

How do you use OAuth to Twitter from an iphone app?

I'm looking for a simple example of how to send a Tweet from an iphone app. I've seen some very complex methods, but it can't be that difficult. I have registered the app with twitter, so I have the key & secret. Just need to know where to put these so I can send a status update and have it say "sent from MyApp". ...

Use Twitter API in iPhone

Hello All I need to use Twitter api from iPhone 3.0 (SDK 3.0). can i use it for twitpic, twitter search, Twitter account verification and twiter status update. Please help me, if any links, code snippet on how to use. ...

Does anyone know of any open source versions of Twitter?

I built a GIS application around Twitter and now its getting some interest. But one of the requirements is that they don't want any outside dependencies. So I'll need to mimic Twitters functions. Anyone know of any open source Twitter projects? ...

$.getJson function not working

var query1 = urlencode($('input[name="searchTerm"]').val()); //user1 $.getJSON('http://twitter.com/friends/ids.json?screen_name='+ query1 +' }); This is a simple code that gets the json data from the url http://twitter.com/friends/ids.json?screen_name=Planemad&amp;jsoncallback=? (click url to view the json data) The data looks like...

Scope of variable in Javascript problem

var query1 = urlencode($('input[name="searchTerm1"]').val()); //user1 var query2 = urlencode($('input[name="searchTerm2"]').val()); //user1 var rpp = 20; //number of tweets to retrieve out var c=0; var f1=new Array(); var f2=new Array(); var common=new Array(); $.getJSON('http://twitter.com/followers/ids.json?screen_name='+ query1 + ' ...

Scope problem with nested $.getJSON

$.getJSON('http://twitter.com/followers/ids.json?screen_name=/…'+ query1 + ' $.getJSON('http://twitter.com/followers/ids.json?screen_name=/…'+ query2 + ' f2=data1; f1=data; for(var i=0; i "less than" f1.length; i++) { for(var j=0; j "less than" f2.length; i++) { if ...