By @edent · dabr twitter · 7 comments · 500 words · read ~539 times.
Here's a simple step that Twitter App Developers can do to reduce the amount of abuse which is generated on the platform. A few friends of mine regularly receive harassment on Twitter. Typically, there are two ways to deal with it: Mute the offending user. This means their tweets to you never show up in […]
Continue reading →By @edent · dabr · 11 comments · 500 words · read ~1,027 times.
Way back in 2008, David Carrington created Dabr - a really simple mobile website for accessing Twitter. Dabr@dabrFact of the month: @dabr is now 5 years old! Born in August 2008 when @davidcarrington was inspired by @Whatleydude.❤️ 7💬 10🔁 013:59 - Mon 16 September 2013 In those days, Twitter had a kick-arse API and were […]
Continue reading →By @edent · ai weiwei china dabr · 2 comments · 250 words · read ~584 times.
I've written before about Dabr, the Twitter client I code for. Dabr helps people around the world and is used by some of Twitter's most influential users. Today, I am pleased to announce that Chinese artist, political prisoner, and sower of porcelain sunflower seed, Ai Weiwei uses dabr! On last night's Newsnight, as part of […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api code dabr HowTo mobile php twitter · 3 comments · 250 words · read ~1,892 times.
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 […]
Continue reading →By @edent · dabr twitter · 400 words · read ~687 times.
I contribute code to Dabr - a mobile twitter client. It's a great project to keep my hand in the world of PHP, APIs, SVN, and all the other tools that are essential to the modern online world. Dabr's strength for developers is two-fold Dead easy to install. Unzip the files, fill in your API […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 4SQ api bit.ly dabr FOURSQUARE programming · 500 words · read ~1,474 times.
"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 &apiKey=YOUR_BIT_LY_API_KEY &format=txt You can, […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api dabr twitter · 11 comments · 550 words · read ~5,855 times.
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 […]
Continue reading →By @edent · dabr HowTo oauth php twitpic twitter · 25 comments · 700 words · read ~5,157 times.
I am no longer confused! Here is a quick tutorial in how to post images to Twitpic and Twitter when using OAuth. I'm indebted to Steve Corona of Twitpic, for his help with this. You can see the full code on Dabr's Google Code page. First of all, you'll need to have enabled OAuth for […]
Continue reading →By @edent · bugs dabr parse regex twitter urls · 5 comments · 400 words
The Twitter Engineering Team have a set of text processing classes which are meant to simplify and standardise the recognition of URLs, screen names, and hashtags. Dabr makes use of them to keep in conformance with Twitter's style. One of the advantages of the text processing is that it will recognise that www.example.com is a […]
Continue reading →By @edent · dabr geotagging mobile twitter · 350 words
People have been very excited to see some new functionality in Dabr - the mobile Twitter client I develop for. But what is it and how does it work? Reply to All The @@ symbol allows you to reply to all the people mentioned within the tweet. It only shows up on tweets which mention […]
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