Summary
Twitter’s way of linking URLs is broken. It’s annoying to users, and a pain in the arse to developers. This quick post talks about the problem and offers a solution.
I’ve raised a bug with Twitter and I hope you’ll star it as important to you.
Preamble
A common trope in programming classes is “how …
Twitter has announced that it will soon open up a native photo sharing service.
Rather than using an external service like Embed.ly to retrieve thumbnails, all the data is embedded within Twitter Entities.
So, if you request a status using “include_entities=true”, you will be able to grab the image and display the thumbnail using the following …
Quick Summary
Twitter’s secure API hides the contents of the tweets you are reading. But it doesn’t hide the images of those you converse with.
Raised as Issue 2175.
A Bit More Detail
Twitter has a secure (HTTPS) and insecure (HTTP) API.
When calling the secure API, all the content of the returned message (tweets) are encrypted. Eavesdroppers …
“Oi!” shouted Whatleydude, “Get Dabr to show images from foursquare checkins!”
“Righty-ho sir!” I said. I started coding furiously. Of course, things are never quite as simple as I first thought….
So, how do we go from http://4sq.com/fgIWov
to
?
1 Expand the URL
Get your Bit.ly API Key.
http://api.bitly.com/v3/expand
?shortUrl=http://4sq.com/fgIWov
&login=YOUR_BIT_LY_USERNAME
…
I attended the Mobile Monday meeting “200,000 Apps – Where’s Mine” last night.
One thing that became clear is that apps don’t do a very good job of promoting themselves. One crippling problems with most app stores is that there’s no (easy) way to share an app with a friend.
Here’s some basic code for …
Another quick Android tutorial. I couldn’t find an easy or correct method of launching a browser when you click on a homescreen widget. Well, here it is…
public class clickWidget extends AppWidgetProvider
{
@Override
public void onUpdate( Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int appWidgetIds )
{
RemoteViews remoteViews =
new RemoteViews( context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget );
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.ImageView01, drawableResourse);
ComponentName myWidget …
Looking for some Twitter API help. Bit of a geeky post, this…
Pagination is the act of splitting data into logical pages. Suppose I had a list of item, numbered 0 – 99. If I want 20 items per page, it’s trivial to see that pagination looks like:
p1 = 0-19
p2 = 20-40
p3 = 41-61
p4 = …
Twitpic has implemented an OAuth API. No more having to hand out passwords to all and sundy. Only I’m too much of a dunderhead to get it working. Perhaps it’s a combination of heatstroke or this rotten head-cold, but I just can’t see what I’m doing wrong. Any help much appreciated.
The …
As I mentioned in my last post about VoteUK, I found the TheyWorkForYou API to be a little lacking when it came to image sizing.
I posted a request asking if there was a pattern to the image sizes and, if not, was it possible to have the sizes returned in the API.
The “standard” open …
This is one of the longest and geekiest posts I’ve done.
It’s a work in progress.
All comments and abuse welcome.
#hashtag – As long has there has been a way to search Tweets* people have been adding information to make the easy to find. The #hashtag syntax has become the standard for attaching a succinct tag …
What is “Implicit Knowledge”? Essentially it’s stuff that everyone knows, but no one has written down. Usually it’s something that people have worked out through their own experiences.
This sort of knowledge is common in life – but is fatal in computing and design. Take the following tweet I received.
The complaint was …
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