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ginag replied on June 11, 2008 19:21 to the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

I also have this problem pulling in a feed to a twitter account for a css gallery:

http://cssloaf.com/rss/
http://twitter.com/cssloaf

A comment on the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

Took me some time to fix it but it seems to work fine now. Thank you! – guezr, on June 11, 2008 12:38

A comment on the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

Took me some time to fix it but it seems to work fine now. Thank you! – guezr, on June 11, 2008 12:38

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I think this may be related to using pubdate rather than pubDate (see also http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guezr.com%2Frss%2Frssfeed.php). If you could fix this and test again, then let me know if it still causes problems. – Mario Menti, on June 10, 2008 19:22

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Sorry, my mistake.. the URLs are different. – Mario Menti, on June 10, 2008 19:14

guezr replied on June 10, 2008 13:22 to the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

Hi there. Maybe I'm not patient enough but my feed also won't show up.
http://www.guezr.com/rss/rssfeed.php
http://twitter.com/gueZr

A comment on the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

I don't see two identical feeds. Which are you talking about? – ccraine, on June 09, 2008 18:42

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As far as I can see the feed is posting, although you have 2 identical feeds set up, so you'll probably want to remove one. – Mario Menti, on June 09, 2008 09:20

ccraine replied on June 09, 2008 01:28 to the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

I'm having a similar problem. My feeds aren't posting at all:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/cit/index.rss

username: deseretnews

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No. These "future" dates could cause a one time delay only. I've noticed that http://twitterfeed.com/feed/list shows "+0000" for the last post, instead of "PDT" in my feed (which should be -0700). That is: /feed/list - "status ok - last post Thu Jun 05 08:43:52 +0000 2008", my feed - "<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:43:52 PDT</pubDate>" – paulsimon, on June 05, 2008 17:45

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Thanks Mario for checking. Whatever you did cleared the fault. Before you had a look, that little icon showed that my user name and password were not correct even though they were. As you say, it must have been the twitter API misbehaving. I shall monitor things much more closely now. Thanks again. Pearl – Beadinggem, on June 05, 2008 16:42

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If twitterfeed posted an item in the future previously, and now you fixed the dates in the feed, then it won't post anything until it finds an item that is now newer than the previous "future" one. Could that explain the problem? – Mario Menti, on June 05, 2008 16:16

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Just taken a look, and for some inexplicable reason I get a 401 error (not authorized) back from twitter when posting to one of your two feeds. However, as far as I can tell the username/password is correct (it's the same as the other entry that posts to the same twitter account, which seems to post ok). This is very odd, so I just ran it manually, and it worked. This may be related to the twitter API misbehaving, but could you keep an eye on your feeds in twitterfeed, and see if it re-appears? Each feed under "my twitter feeds" has a little icon on the left-hand side, and if you hover your mouse over it, it gives you some additional information. – Mario Menti, on June 05, 2008 16:14

Beadinggem replied on June 05, 2008 15:57 to the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

I'm having the same problem as some people here. Feeds were fine then it stopped working a few days ago.
http://twitter.com/beadinggem
http://feeds.feedburner.com/beadinggem
Please help. Thanks, Pearl

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Argh! It hadn't been working all day, but just after I posted this, five items were posted to the Twitter account. (FYI.) – Kate, on June 04, 2008 23:55

Kate replied on June 04, 2008 23:30 to the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

Thanks for the reply, Mario! This is a strange problem. Twitterfeed posted for me only a couple of times since I originally wrote, but many items were left out (and it's not that I reached my 5-item limit). There are big time gaps where no items are posted to the Twitter account, when items are shown in the Yahoo pipe.

I can't get feedvalidator.org to give me results at the moment, but http://validator.w3.org/feed and http://www.validome.org/rss-atom/vali... don't find any date problems (or anything major).

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Hi, Mario! Thank you very much. It seems like Yahoo pipes treat dates differently in RSS format. My mistake, I've relied on correct dates shown by Yahoo pipes in editing mode. I've fixed the dates, but It does not solve initial problem. – paulsimon, on June 04, 2008 15:33

Mario Menti replied on June 04, 2008 13:25 to the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

paulsimon: looking at your feed, I can see pubDates that are a few hours in the future. The most recent appears to be: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:46:53 PDT
... which is quite a few hours ahead of now.

So I think the issue is with the pubDates in the feed - all twitterfeed does it take the dates as they are. If you stick your feed into feedvalidator you can see the references to "Implausible date", since they're in the future (http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?ur...)

paulsimon replied on June 04, 2008 13:14 to the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

I have similar problem. My feed (http://is.gd/qi4 - a Yahoo pipe) has updates but they are not showing up in twitter @rtboard .

The page http://twitterfeed.com/feed/ shows wrong time:
status ok - last post Wed Jun 04 15:27:42 +0000 2008

Actually, the newest item at the moment has pubDate:
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:27:20 GMT

And current time is (while I'm writing this post):
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:46:15 GMT

Therefore above page shows a time from the future.

I have checked:
1. Twitter username and password OK
2. Feed was parsed successfully
3. Status ok, feed is active
4. All feed items have unique links
5. Items have pubDate
6. Items are sorted by pubDate in descending (newest first) order.
7. The feed has newer items.

The problem is intermittent. At one time twitterfeed posts every 30 minutes, at another it stops posting for 12 hours or more. I can not reproduce which my actions trigger a recommencement of posts to twitter.

Maybe It is the problem with Yahoo pipe rss feed? It always works for me though.

A comment on the problem "Feed not showing up in Twitter" in twitterfeed:

As far as I can tell it just posted now, but I could see the issue a little earlier.. if you continue to have problems, please let me know. – Mario Menti, on June 04, 2008 08:10