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Twitter Tools “Broken”

All–

I’m very sorry that Twitter Tools is not currently working. The breakage appears to be due to an issue on the Twitter side.

Thank you kindly for your patience while things get straightened out.

Your friend,
–Alex King

PS. Thank you to those of you went to the forums as requested, I’m sure you already found this information posted there.

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Posted September 1st, 2007 @ 8:09 AM

14 Replies

Marc David adds this Comment:

Thanks Alex for the update! After I sent you an e-mail about this, THEN I checked your blog. You are obviously aware of the issue and it does seem like Twitter did something on their side to break your awesome Twitter Tools.

Again, thanks for keeping us in the loop. As long as you know about it, that’s good enough for me.

September 1st, 2007 at 10:25 am
Blaine Cook adds this Comment:

Hi Alex,

we had an outage last night in our caching infrastructure. We thankfully didn’t lose any updates, but those made between ~3 AM PST and ~10 AM PST were not deliveried to IM or SMS, and won’t appear on the first page of updates for a given user.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

Blaine

September 1st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

Hi Blaine–

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment here. I believe what the Twitter Tools users are experiencing is the 301 error discussed in the Google Groups thread linked in the post above.

The 301 location given is the same as the requested location:

http://twitter.com/s[...]imeline.json

Hope this helps.

September 1st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
i must be an acrobat : a blog by joshua hoover » Twitter Tools Wordpress Plugin Fix adds this Pingback:

[...] is not an issue in Alex’s code, as he points out in a recent blog post. This is an issue with Twitter’s infrastructure, which users are noticing more as the service [...]

September 1st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Jeremy adds this Comment:

Alex,

I’ve just resolved the 301 issue. I no longer see any redirects for requests from your API client in the logs.

The issue was related to the request filter in front of our application.

Requests with twitter.com in the HTTP host: header were working fine, but host:twitter.com:80 was inducing a 301.

We’ve modified our filter to account for this. My apologies for not catching it sooner!

Jeremy

September 1st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Josh Hoover adds this Comment:

Hi Alex,

Just in time to release a needless patch! Heh. Oh well, I wanted to learn more about Wordpress’ development environment for plugins. In case you’re interested, I put a patch up that utilizes CURL when available. You can find the link in my post: http://joshuahoover.[...]-plugin-fix/

Funny that I just finished writing that post and Jeremy announces that they fixed it on their end. I figured they would sooner or later, but it gave me an excuse in the mean time to learn more about Wordpress plugin development.

Keep up the great work with the plugins!

Josh

September 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Marc David adds this Comment:

Awesome job guys. Thank you Alex for updating us on this and thanks to Twitter and staff for fixing it.

The logon error I had is gone and it now says successful as I used to.. so it’s back to Tweets with Twitter and Twitter Tools.

September 1st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Scott-O-Rama adds this Comment:

Hi Alex-

Your Twitter plug-in looks fantastic, but currently I use Jaiku. Any chance of encouraging you to make the same type of plug-in for Jaiku? I’m willing to donate! Give me an idea of how much of a donation we’d need to raiser to convince you to work on a Jaiku version.

September 1st, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Anonymous adds this Comment:

Alex, do you work for twitter or something?

September 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 am
Alex adds this Comment:

I have little interest in Jaiku (or Pownce), so while a port of Twitter Tools to those platforms is not likely to be challenging technically, it’s going to need to be a fully funded Crowd Favorite development project to get done (or someone else can do it) since it isn’t something I’m likely to make time for.

September 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
Scott-O-Rama adds this Comment:

Okay… thanks for reply. I like Twitter, but there’s just something about Jaiku I like better. Not sure what. Also the Twitter badges were not updating on my blog when I tried them out. Some people have told me that Twitter can be fairly unreliable at times.

If I knew more about code I’d try to covert Twitter Tools myself.

September 4th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Scott-O-Rama adds this Comment:

P.S. Would you be interested in taking the part of Twitter Tools that creates a daily digest post and creating a separate plug-in from it that could work with any RSS feed? Would donations to the cause help?

September 4th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Keola Donaghy adds this Comment:

Just found this thread, sorry about the earlier comment on Twitter Tools. Am using the excellent Macro plugin and will drop a payment via PayPal tomorrow. Mahalo

September 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 pm

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