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• Getting 401 on Twitter OAuth POST requests

  - by Baishampayan Ghose

  I am trying to use Twitter OAuth and my POST requests are failing with a 401 (Invalid OAuth Request) error. For example, if I want to post a new status update, I am sending a HTTP POST request to https://twitter.com/statuses/update.json with the following parameters - status=Testing&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=xxx& oauth_nonce=xxx&oauth_timestamp=xxx&oauth_signature=xxx& oauth_consumer_key=xxx&in_reply_to=xxx&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1` My GET requests are all working fine. I can see on the mailing lists that a lot of people have had identical problems but I could not find a solution anywhere. I am using the oauth.py Python library.

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• LinkedIn / Twitter / Facebook as OAuth and OpenId use

  - by monkeylee

  Firstly I understand OpenId is for authentication and OAuth is for authorisation and unlike other questions on the site I am not asking which should be used for which but if anyone can advise a solution for my issue. I want to allow users to login to my site via their LinkedIn/Twitter/Facebook account once logged in say via LinkedIn they could also then authorise their Twitter and Facebook account as a optional login method. This would allow the user to authenticate via any of the three but end up with their user account on my site as the end result. I also want to use the authorisation they have provided to get basic user details (profile pic/name etc) and post status updates. I don't want to ask a user to login with their account via openId then have to authorise the same account again via oauth to allow my site to publish to their service feed and have to do this for each of the 3 services. Any ideas or issues to this issue Lee

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• Twitter xAuth vs open source

  - by Yorirou

  Hi I am developing an open source desktop twitter client. I would like to take advantage on the new xAuth authentication method, however my app is open source which means that if I put the keys directly into the source file, it may be a vulnerability (am I correct? The twitter support guy told me). On the other hand, putting the key directly into a binary also doesn't make sense. I am writing my application in python, so if I just supply the pyc files, it is one more seconds to get the keys, thanks to the excellent reflection capatibilities of Python. If I create a small .so file with the keys, it is also trivial to obtain the key by looking at the raw binary (keys has fixed length and character set). What is your opinion? Is it really a secutiry hole to expose the API keys?

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• Twitter date unparseable?

  - by Andreas

  Hi, I want to convert the date string in a Twitter response to a Date object, but I always get a ParseException and I cannot see the error!?! Input string: Thu Dec 23 18:26:07 +0000 2010 SimpleDateFormat Pattern: EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZZ yyyy Method: public static Date getTwitterDate(String date) { SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat(TWITTER); sf.setLenient(true); Date twitterDate = null; try { twitterDate = sf.parse(date); } catch (Exception e) {} return twitterDate; } I also tried this: http://friendpaste.com/2IaKdlT3Zat4ANwdAhxAmZ but that gives the same result. I use Java 1.6 on Mac OS X. Cheers, Andi

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• Twitter + OAuth Problem -- Cancel Button

  - by Adam Storr

  Hi everyone, I'm implementing OAuth to post on Twitter... which works perfectly. My issue is for those who entered the Twitter login area by accident and want to press the "Cancel" button. Unfortunately, the "Cancel" button is dismissed but then immediately reappears. Here is the code for the "Cancel" button: - (void)cancel:(id)sender { if ([_delegate respondsToSelector: @selector(OAuthTwitterControllerCanceled:)]) [_delegate OAuthTwitterControllerCanceled: self]; [self performSelector: @selector(dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:) withObject: (id) kCFBooleanTrue afterDelay: 0.0]; } I think what I need to do is put the right code in the viewDidDisappear area... the problem is I don't know what code to put in. Any help would be great! Thanks so much!

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• Posting to self-hosted WordPress from Tweetie (or other Twitter Clients)

  - by Mike Wills

  Is there a plugin yet that allows me to post to my self-hosted WordPress install from Tweetie or another Twitter client?

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• twitter basic authorisation not working?

  - by Bunny Rabbit

  URL url = new URL("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"); HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); conn.setDoOutput(true); String cridentials = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode((username + ":" + password).getBytes()); conn.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", "Basic " + cridentials); OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream()); wr.write(status); wr.flush(); wr.close(); why the above code for updating twitter status is not working ? i am running it on google app engine.

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• Track unicode words from Twitter using Ruby and the Tweetstream API

  - by Régis B.

  I am trying to track a set of keywords from Twitter by using the Streaming API (can't post the link here because of spam limitations: google twitter streaming API). I am doing this inside Ruby, using the TweetStream gem: http://bit.ly/cODAWI The problem I have is that I want to track keywords that contain some unicode/UTF-8 characters. For instance: require 'rubygems' require 'tweetstream' TweetStream::Client.new("my_user_name", "my_password").track("é") do |s| puts s.text end (you can try it out, provided you installed the tweetstream and json gems) This piece of code does not print anything, while replacing "é" with "e" outputs a bunch of tweets continuously. I did not find any reliable documentation about Unicode in Ruby, so I have no idea where the problem comes from. Thanks for your help!

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• Twitter Trends API weekly.json causing error "Cannot use object of type stdClass as array"

  - by tucson

  I have the following PHP code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$URL); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); $obj = json_decode($result); foreach ($obj[0]->trends as $trend) echo utf8_decode($trend->name); which works fine for URL #1 (into the variable $URL): http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/1.json?exclude=hashtags but causes an error "Cannot use object of type stdClass as array" for URL #2: http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/weekly.json?exclude=hashtags I have searched for a while, but can't figure out a code to fix this and handle both URLs. Any help would be much appreciated.

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• Getting search results from Twitter in php

  - by Mark Mayo

  I'm attempting to put together a little mashup with some twitter APIs. However, the whole area is new to me (I'm more of an embedded developer dabbling). And frustratingly, every tutorial I am trying in Php is either out of date, not doing what it claims to do, it or is broken. Essentially, I just want a nice bit of example code - say, an HTML file, a connection.js for the JQuery magic, and a php file - 'getsearch' which contains the relevant Curl calls to the API to just return the results for a given search term. Followed the tutorial to the letter at http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/02/using-jquery-php-ajax-with-the-twitter-api/ and even downloaded the guy's code and chucked it on my webserver, but it just seems to sit there. I'm relatively competent at php and html, but it's the Curl and the JQuery side of things which is new to me, and would appreciate any thoughts, links, or code suggestions. I've attempted reading the API - but even that seems sparse - and several links are broken to their own tutorials, so that's put me off a bit for now.

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• is there a twitter user login framework for gae

  - by zjm1126

  i want to someone login use twitter , so, has a framework that you already make successful doing this , thanks

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• Merge Twitter Outh and Facebook Connect Friends

  - by G Ullman

  Basically what I want to do is download all a users facebook and twitter friends and somehow find a way to figure out which entries represent the same person. I know it's possible because a lot of social search sites like spokeo achieve what I want and more, so does anyone know how they go about doing it or the best way to go about it? I have a basic idea of the facebook and twitter api calls I need to be making however feel free to add any advice or warnings there as well. I know facebook hashes the emails which seems like it could pose a problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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• twitter API - web application

  - by idopaz

  How can i use twitter API for my web application?

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• Update twitter profile image using OAuth

  - by sjobe

  I'm trying to get twitter update_profile_image to work using OAuth. I was using curl with regular authentication and everything was working fine, but I switched to OAuth using this library, and now everything except update_profile_image works. I read something about twitter OAuth having problems with multipart data, but that was a while ago and the plugin is supposed to have dealt with that issue. My working regular authentication with curl code $url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/account/update_profile_image.xml'; $uname = $_POST['username']; $pword = $_POST['password']; $img_path = 'xxx'; $userpwd = $uname . ':' . $pword; $img_post = array('image' => '@' . $img_path . ';type=image/jpeg', 'tile' => 'true'); $format = 'xml'; //alternative: json $message = 'Test update with a random num'.rand(); $opts = array(CURLOPT_URL => $url, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HEADER => true, CURLOPT_POST => true, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $img_post, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_ANY, CURLOPT_USERPWD => $userpwd, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Expect:'), CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT => true); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt_array($ch, $opts); $response = curl_exec($ch); $err = curl_error($ch); $info = curl_getinfo($ch); curl_close($ch); My current OAuth code [I had to cut it down, so do not minor look for syntax errors] include 'EpiCurl.php'; include 'EpiOAuth.php'; include 'EpiTwitter.php'; include 'secret.php'; $twitterObj = new EpiTwitter($consumer_key, $consumer_secret); $twitterObj->setToken($_GET['oauth_token']); $token = $twitterObj->getAccessToken(); $twitterObj->setToken($token->oauth_token, $token->oauth_token_secret); try{ $img_path = 'xxx'; //$twitterObj->post_accountUpdate_profile_image(array('@image' => "@".$img_path)); $twitterObj->post('/account/update_profile_image.json', array('@image' => "@".$img_path)); $twitterObj->post_statusesUpdate(array('status' => 'This is my new status:'.rand())); //This works $twitterInfo= $twitterObj->get_accountVerify_credentials(); echo $twitterInfo->responseText; }catch(Exception $e){ echo $e->getMessage(); } I've been trying to figure this out for a while, ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not in any way tied to this library, so feel free to recommend others.

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• Twitter-OAuth update_profile_*_image methods problem [EpiTwitter]

  - by KPL

  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 $apiObj-headers in my case while using the update_profile_background_image Array ( [Date] = Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:51:36 GMT [Server] = hi [Status] = 200 OK [X-Transaction] = 1272131495-55190-23911 [ETag] = b6a421c01936f3547802ae6b59ee7ef3" [Last-Modified] = Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:51:36 GMT [X-Runtime] = 0.13990 [Content-Type] = application/json; charset=utf-8 [Content-Length] = 1272 [Pragma] = no-cache [X-Revision] = DEV [Expires] = Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT [Cache-Control] = no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre- check=0, post-check=0 [Set-Cookie] = *REMOVED* [Vary] = Accept-Encoding [Connection] = close ) and for update_profile_image - Array ( [Date] => Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:57:58 GMT [Server] => hi [Status] => 401 Unauthorized [WWW-Authenticate] => Basic realm="Twitter API" [X-Runtime] => 0.02263 [Content-Type] => text/html; charset=utf-8 [Content-Length] => 152 [Cache-Control] => no-cache, max-age=300 [Set-Cookie] => *REMOVED* [Expires] => Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:02:58 GMT [Vary] => Accept-Encoding [Connection] => close ) Can somebody help me out?

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• twitter bootstrap typeahead (method 'toLowerCase' of undefined)

  - by mmoscosa

  I am trying to use twitter bootstrap to get the manufacturers from my DB. Because twitter bootstrap typeahead does not support ajax calls I am using this fork: https://gist.github.com/1866577 In that page there is this comment that mentions how to do exactly what I want to do. The problem is when I run my code I keep on getting: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'toLowerCase' of undefined I googled around and came tried changing my jquery file to both using the minified and non minified as well as the one hosted on google code and I kept getting the same error. My code currently is as follows: $('#manufacturer').typeahead({ source: function(typeahead, query){ $.ajax({ url: window.location.origin+"/bows/get_manufacturers.json", type: "POST", data: "", dataType: "JSON", async: false, success: function(results){ var manufacturers = new Array; $.map(results.data.manufacturers, function(data, item){ var group; group = { manufacturer_id: data.Manufacturer.id, manufacturer: data.Manufacturer.manufacturer }; manufacturers.push(group); }); typeahead.process(manufacturers); } }); }, property: 'name', items:11, onselect: function (obj) { } }); on the url field I added the window.location.origin to avoid any problems as already discussed on another question Also before I was using $.each() and then decided to use $.map() as recomended Tomislav Markovski in a similar question Anyone has any idea why I keep getting this problem?! Thank you

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• Twitter bootstrap modal loads wrong remote data

  - by Victor S

  I'm using Twitter Bootstrap modal featurs and loading data from remote locations. I'm providing the remote url for a set of thumbnails with the hope that once the thumbnail is clicked, the appropriate data (a large version of the image) is displayed. I'm using the html declarative style to define the remote urls and all the features of the modal. What I find is that Twitter bootstrap modal loads first remote url then does not display subsequent remote data, (although a request to the proper url is made in Chrome) but displays first loaded data always. How do I get it to show the proper data? View: #gallery-navigation %ul - @profile.background_images.each do |image| %li = link_to image_tag(image.background_image.url(:thumb)), remote_image_path(image.id), :role => "button", :data => {:toggle => "modal", :target => "#image-modal", :remote => remote_image_path(image.id)}, :id => "image-modal" / Modal #image-modal.modal.hide.fade(role="dialog" aria-hidden="true" data-backdrop="true") .modal-body Controller: def remote_image @image = current_user.profile.background_images.find(params[:image_id]) respond_to do |format| format.html { render :partial => "remote_image", :locals => { :image => @image } } end end

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• gaema twitter handle error..

  - by zjm1126

  i use gaema for twitter user loggin http://code.google.com/p/gaema/ and my code is : class TwitterAuth(WebappAuth, auth.TwitterMixin): pass class TwitterHandler(BaseHandler): def get(self): twitter_auth = TwitterAuth(self) try: if self.request.GET.get("oauth_token", None): twitter_auth.get_authenticated_user(self._on_auth) self.response.out.write('sss') return twitter_auth.authorize_redirect() except RequestRedirect, e: return self.redirect(e.url, permanent=True) self.render_template('index.html', user=None) def _on_auth(self, user): """This function is called immediatelly after an authentication attempt. Use it to save the login information in a session or secure cookie. :param user: A dictionary with user data if the authentication was successful, or ``None`` if the authentication failed. """ if user: # Authentication was successful. Create a session or secure cookie # to keep the user logged in. #self.response.out.write('logged in as '+user['first_name']+' '+user['last_name']) self.response.out.write(user) return else: # Login failed. Show an error message or do nothing. pass # After cookie is persisted, redirect user to the original URL, using # the home page as fallback. self.redirect(self.request.GET.get('redirect', '/')) and the error is : Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\webapp\__init__.py", line 511, in __call__ handler.get(*groups) File "D:\zjm_code\gaema\demos\webapp\main.py", line 76, in get twitter_auth.authorize_redirect() File "D:\zjm_code\gaema\demos\webapp\gaema\auth.py", line 209, in authorize_redirect http.fetch(self._oauth_request_token_url(), self.async_callback( File "D:\zjm_code\gaema\demos\webapp\gaema\auth.py", line 239, in _oauth_request_token_url consumer_token = self._oauth_consumer_token() File "D:\zjm_code\gaema\demos\webapp\gaema\auth.py", line 441, in _oauth_consumer_token self.require_setting("twitter_consumer_key", "Twitter OAuth") TypeError: require_setting() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) thanks

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• How do I retrieve twitter xml for Flash site via php properly

  - by daidai

  Am I using TwitterScript to retrieve Twitter data for inside a Flash site. Due to Twitter's crossdomain policy, I need to setup a php proxy... Firstly I made a simple one <?php $url = $_GET['url']; readfile($url); ?> but I then get this error URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration which is only resolved by getting my host to turn fopen() on, which I don't want to do. Then I found this <?php function get_content($url) { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); ob_start(); curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); $string = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return $string; } #usage: $url = $_GET['url']; $content = get_content ($url); var_dump ($content); ?> which solves that problem but the data now is the correct XML but looks like: string(39950) "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <statuses type="array"> <status> ... </statuses>" How do I get the XML data out of that string?

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• twitter streaming api instead of search api

  - by user1711576

  I am using twitters search API to view all the tweets that use a particular hashtag I want to view. However, I want to use the stream function, so, I only get recent ones, and so, I can then store them. <?php global $total, $hashtag; $hashtag = $_POST['hash']; $total = 0; function getTweets($hash_tag, $page) { global $total, $hashtag; $url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q='.urlencode($hash_tag).'&'; $url .= 'page='.$page; $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); $json = curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); echo "<pre>"; $json_decode = json_decode($json); print_r($json_decode->results); $json_decode = json_decode($json); $total += count($json_decode->results); if($json_decode->next_page){ $temp = explode("&",$json_decode->next_page); $p = explode("=",$temp[0]); getTweets($hashtag,$p[1]); } } getTweets($hashtag,1); echo $total; ?> The above code is what I have been using to search for the tweets I want. What do I need to do to change it so I can stream the tweets instead? I know I would have to use the stream url https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json , but what do I need to change after that is where I don't know what to do. Obviously, I know I'll need to write the database sql but I want to just capture the stream first and view it. How would I do this? Is the code I have been using not any good for just capturing the stream?

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• Codeigniter Twitter Library : What is my Callback URL. Where can i find it?

  - by Tapha

  I would like to know where i can find my callback url in ci? Im quite new to it so not really sure. Here is the lib im using. <?php class Home extends Controller { function Home() { parent::Controller(); } public function index() { // This is how we do a basic auth: // $this->twitter->auth('user', 'password'); // Fill in your twitter oauth client keys here $consumer_key = ''; $consumer_key_secret = ''; // For this example, we're going to get and save our access_token and access_token_secret // in session data, but you might want to use a database instead :) $this->load->library('session'); $tokens['access_token'] = NULL; $tokens['access_token_secret'] = NULL; // GET THE ACCESS TOKENS $oauth_tokens = $this->session->userdata('twitter_oauth_tokens'); if ( $oauth_tokens !== FALSE ) $tokens = $oauth_tokens; $this->load->library('twitter'); $auth = $this->twitter->oauth($consumer_key, $consumer_key_secret, $tokens['access_token'], $tokens['access_token_secret']); if ( isset($auth['access_token']) && isset($auth['access_token_secret']) ) { // SAVE THE ACCESS TOKENS $this->session->set_userdata('twitter_oauth_tokens', $auth); if ( isset($_GET['oauth_token']) ) { $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $parts = explode('?', $uri); // Now we redirect the user since we've saved their stuff! header('Location: '.$parts[0]); return; } } // This is where you can call a method. $this->twitter->call('statuses/update', array('status' => 'Testing CI Twitter oAuth sexyness by @elliothaughin')); // Here's the calls you can make now. // Sexy! /* $this->twitter->call('statuses/friends_timeline'); $this->twitter->search('search', array('q' => 'elliot')); $this->twitter->search('trends'); $this->twitter->search('trends/current'); $this->twitter->search('trends/daily'); $this->twitter->search('trends/weekly'); $this->twitter->call('statuses/public_timeline'); $this->twitter->call('statuses/friends_timeline'); $this->twitter->call('statuses/user_timeline'); $this->twitter->call('statuses/show', array('id' => 1234)); $this->twitter->call('direct_messages'); $this->twitter->call('statuses/update', array('status' => 'If this tweet appears, oAuth is working!')); $this->twitter->call('statuses/destroy', array('id' => 1234)); $this->twitter->call('users/show', array('id' => 'elliothaughin')); $this->twitter->call('statuses/friends', array('id' => 'elliothaughin')); $this->twitter->call('statuses/followers', array('id' => 'elliothaughin')); $this->twitter->call('direct_messages'); $this->twitter->call('direct_messages/sent'); $this->twitter->call('direct_messages/new', array('user' => 'jamierumbelow', 'text' => 'This is a library test. Ignore')); $this->twitter->call('direct_messages/destroy', array('id' => 123)); $this->twitter->call('friendships/create', array('id' => 'elliothaughin')); $this->twitter->call('friendships/destroy', array('id' => 123)); $this->twitter->call('friendships/exists', array('user_a' => 'elliothaughin', 'user_b' => 'jamierumbelow')); $this->twitter->call('account/verify_credentials'); $this->twitter->call('account/rate_limit_status'); $this->twitter->call('account/rate_limit_status'); $this->twitter->call('account/update_delivery_device', array('device' => 'none')); $this->twitter->call('account/update_profile_colors', array('profile_text_color' => '666666')); $this->twitter->call('help/test'); */ } } /* End of file welcome.php */ /* Location: ./system/application/controllers/home.php */ Thank you all

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• Filter tweets by client name

  - by Ido Shilon

  I'm trying to filter tweets results by client name like - using source operator. I'm trying to do it with a a client named "single platform" , to get tweets like http://twitter.com/#!/phoenixparknyc/status/43340419475570688 but the search doesn't seems to work (tried with quotes as well) http://twitter.com/#!/search/source%3Asingle%20platform%20Specials%2FEvents%20 Any idea how to make the search works ?

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• Problem with the size of the Twitter image

  - by Dayerman

  I have used this code to get a feed reader form twitter. I have list them in the listView as the article says, but with some images I have a problem with the size and they are anormally big...I have tried unsuccesfully to fix the size of the image with: <ImageView android:id="@+id/photoUser" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:maxWidth="10dp" android:maxHeight="10dp" android:paddingRight="12dp"/>

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• Google tweets – Now search twitter archives using Google

  - by samsudeen

  Google has launched a Twitter archive service which allows you to  search tweets in real time as well as on its huge public archive (remember Twitter crossed 10 billionth tweet last month). The search results are displayed as tweets with twitter logo. To explore the twitter search go to Google.com homepage  and select   “Show options” on the search results page, then select “Updates.”.  The search is similar to the Google search with options to dig through the tweets by timeframe. You can explore results by zooming through a particular time range  or date. In addition to the time chart, it also displays the relative volume of an activity on Twitter about the topic. as you can see there is a spike about GSLV launch after 3 PM today.There is also a short cut link “Now” on the left corner which displays the latest results on the topics searched.The tweets also gets refreshed automatically.   Considering the huge volume of activity (50 million messages per day) on twitter, the archive is going to more and bigger. By providing such feature Google has once again proved it is way ahead of others in search Related Posts:None FoundJoin us on Facebook to read all our stories right inside your Facebook news feed.

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• Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

  - by ScottGu

  On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here).  In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we’ll ship the final release of it next month) and the VS 2010 RC tools for Silverlight 4.  I also had the chance to talk for the first time about how Silverlight and XNA can now be used to build Windows Phone 7 applications. During my talk I did two quick Windows Phone 7 coding demos using Silverlight – a quick “Hello World” application and a “Twitter” data-snacking application.  Both applications were easy to build and only took a few minutes to create on stage.  Below are the steps you can follow yourself to build them on your own machines as well. [Note: In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Building a “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application First make sure you’ve installed the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP – this includes the Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone development tool (which will be free forever and is the only thing you need to develop and build Windows Phone 7 applications) as well as an add-on to the VS 2010 RC that enables phone development within the full VS 2010 as well. After you’ve downloaded and installed the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP, launch the Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone that it installs or launch the VS 2010 RC (if you have it already installed), and then choose “File”->”New Project.”  Here, you’ll find the usual list of project template types along with a new category: “Silverlight for Windows Phone”. The first CTP offers two application project templates. The first is the “Windows Phone Application” template - this is what we’ll use for this example. The second is the “Windows Phone List Application” template - which provides the basic layout for a master-details phone application: After creating a new project, you’ll get a view of the design surface and markup. Notice that the design surface shows the phone UI, letting you easily see how your application will look while you develop. For those familiar with Visual Studio, you’ll also find the familiar ToolBox, Solution Explorer and Properties pane. For our HelloWorld application, we’ll start out by adding a TextBox and a Button from the Toolbox. Notice that you get the same design experience as you do for Silverlight on the web or desktop. You can easily resize, position and align your controls on the design surface. Changing properties is easy with the Properties pane. We’ll change the name of the TextBox that we added to username and change the page title text to “Hello world.” We’ll then write some code by double-clicking on the button and create an event handler in the code-behind file (MainPage.xaml.cs). We’ll start out by changing the title text of the application. The project template included this title as a TextBlock with the name textBlockListTitle (note that the current name incorrectly includes the word “list”; that will be fixed for the final release.)  As we write code against it we get intellisense showing the members available.  Below we’ll set the Text property of the title TextBlock to “Hello “ + the Text property of the TextBox username: We now have all the code necessary for a Hello World application.  We have two choices when it comes to deploying and running the application. We can either deploy to an actual device itself or use the built-in phone emulator: Because the phone emulator is actually the phone operating system running in a virtual machine, we’ll get the same experience developing in the emulator as on the device. For this sample, we’ll just press F5 to start the application with debugging using the emulator.  Once the phone operating system loads, the emulator will run the new “Hello world” application exactly as it would on the device: Notice that we can change several settings of the emulator experience with the emulator toolbar – which is a floating toolbar on the top right.  This includes the ability to re-size/zoom the emulator and two rotate buttons.  Zoom lets us zoom into even the smallest detail of the application: The orientation buttons allow us easily see what the application looks like in landscape mode (orientation change support is just built into the default template): Note that the emulator can be reused across F5 debug sessions - that means that we don’t have to start the emulator for every deployment. We’ve added a dialog that will help you from accidentally shutting down the emulator if you want to reuse it.  Launching an application on an already running emulator should only take ~3 seconds to deploy and run. Within our Hello World application we’ll click the “username” textbox to give it focus.  This will cause the software input panel (SIP) to open up automatically.  We can either type a message or – since we are using the emulator – just type in text.  Note that the emulator works with Windows 7 multi-touch so, if you have a touchscreen, you can see how interaction will feel on a device just by pressing the screen. We’ll enter “MIX 10” in the textbox and then click the button – this will cause the title to update to be “Hello MIX 10”: We provide the same Visual Studio experience when developing for the phone as other .NET applications. This means that we can set a breakpoint within the button event handler, press the button again and have it break within the debugger: Building a “Twitter” Windows Phone 7 Application using Silverlight Rather than just stop with “Hello World” let’s keep going and evolve it to be a basic Twitter client application. We’ll return to the design surface and add a ListBox, using the snaplines within the designer to fit it to the device screen and make the best use of phone screen real estate.  We’ll also rename the Button “Lookup”: We’ll then return to the Button event handler in Main.xaml.cs, and remove the original “Hello World” line of code and take advantage of the WebClient networking class to asynchronously download a Twitter feed. This takes three lines of code in total: (1) declaring and creating the WebClient, (2) attaching an event handler and then (3) calling the asynchronous DownloadStringAsync method. In the DownloadStringAsync call, we’ll pass a Twitter Uri plus a query string which pulls the text from the “username” TextBox. This feed will pull down the respective user’s most frequent posts in an XML format. When the call completes, the DownloadStringCompleted event is fired and our generated event handler twitter_DownloadStringCompleted will be called: The result returned from the Twitter call will come back in an XML based format.  To parse this we’ll use LINQ to XML. LINQ to XML lets us create simple queries for accessing data in an xml feed. To use this library, we’ll first need to add a reference to the assembly (right click on the References folder in the solution explorer and choose “Add Reference): We’ll then add a “using System.Xml.Linq” namespace reference at the top of the code-behind file at the top of Main.xaml.cs file: We’ll then add a simple helper class called TwitterItem to our project. TwitterItem has three string members – UserName, Message and ImageSource: We’ll then implement the twitter_DownloadStringCompleted event handler and use LINQ to XML to parse the returned XML string from Twitter.  What the query is doing is pulling out the three key pieces of information for each Twitter post from the username we passed as the query string. These are the ImageSource for their profile image, the Message of their tweet and their UserName. For each Tweet in the XML, we are creating a new TwitterItem in the IEnumerable<XElement> returned by the Linq query.  We then assign the generated TwitterItem sequence to the ListBox’s ItemsSource property: We’ll then do one more step to complete the application. In the Main.xaml file, we’ll add an ItemTemplate to the ListBox. For the demo, I used a simple template that uses databinding to show the user’s profile image, their tweet and their username. <ListBox Height="521" HorizonalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,131,0,0" Name="listBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="476"> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Height="132"> <Image Source="{Binding ImageSource}" Height="73" Width="73" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,10,8,0"/> <StackPanel Width="370"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding UserName}" Foreground="#FFC8AB14" FontSize="28" /> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Message}" TextWrapping="Wrap" FontSize="24" /> </StackPanel> </StackPanel> </DataTemplate> </ListBox.ItemTemplate> </ListBox> Now, pressing F5 again, we are able to reuse the emulator and re-run the application. Once the application has launched, we can type in a Twitter username and press the  Button to see the results. Try my Twitter user name (scottgu) and you’ll get back a result of TwitterItems in the Listbox: Try using the mouse (or if you have a touchscreen device your finger) to scroll the items in the Listbox – you should find that they move very fast within the emulator.  This is because the emulator is hardware accelerated – and so gives you the same fast performance that you get on the actual phone hardware. Summary Silverlight and the VS 2010 Tools for Windows Phone (and the corresponding Expression Blend Tools for Windows Phone) make building Windows Phone applications both really easy and fun.  At MIX this week a number of great partners (including Netflix, FourSquare, Seesmic, Shazaam, Major League Soccer, Graphic.ly, Associated Press, Jackson Fish and more) showed off some killer application prototypes they’ve built over the last few weeks.  You can watch my full day 1 keynote to see them in action. I think they start to show some of the promise and potential of using Silverlight with Windows Phone 7.  I’ll be doing more blog posts in the weeks and months ahead that cover that more. Hope this helps, Scott

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