[ubuntu-uk] Twitter fail on 12.04?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 13 June 2013 20:39, SuperEngineer <boosys at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am I the only one who's noticed a complete twitter fail on 12.04 apps
> recently? It is a is a possibility it is a fail on my behalf but...
>
> on 2 separate machines [desktop running 12.04 64 bit AND netbook running
> 12.04 32 bit there is no longer access to twitter from apps.  Access to
> actual Twitter account via browser is fine - so no nasty things done to
> account.
>
> Access via Hotot or Gwibber on both machines [using latest Hotot from
> ppa on desktop, version from standard repo on 32 bit] a fail. Access via
> standard Cwibber also a total fail fail on both machines.
>
> I have removed permissions directly on Twitter and reinstated but still
> no access.  Hotot authorises token but fails authentication on sing in.
> Gewibber can't successfully re-authorise.  All were working 100% until 3
> days ago.
>
> I'm stuck on this one as to next move - especially having thrown Mint 15
> onto a spare partition and see Hotot work perfectly with no problems. I
> had suspected Twitter API but the Mint vesrion is as per my 12.04 64 bit
> desktop from ppa & this confuses me - unless a library/package in 12.04
> is no longer compatible with / is missing / is corrupt on 2 machines at
> the same time].
>
> I’m stuck as to next next move except to report bug - which I don’t want
> to do until I find I'm not the only person affected.
> Suggestions [or confirmations] welcome.


Twitter retired API 1.0 yesterday which may have affected some apps. I use
web TweetDeck for as an application on desktops as it's about the only
thing that works properly.

s/
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