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Ms. Momville replied on July 17, 2008 18:00 to the question "Can't view Twitter website on PDA, wants to download a file" in Twitter:

I added my mobile number to my twitter account then began having the same problem. The twitter homepage kept trying to download a file every time I went to the main url. I could access the twitter.com from my desktop with no problem, but not from my laptop (which I used to add my mobile number).
I went to my twitter account settings page and deleted my mobile number and the problem went away.
Does this mean that you can't twitter over the web and by phone/text message? Surely not! Does anybody know?
@momville
http://www.Momville.com

BTW, I use IE7.

mdy replied on April 11, 2008 07:09 to the question "Can't view Twitter website on PDA, wants to download a file" in Twitter:

For what it's worth, I've found that after the recent web UI modifications, I also get a 'page will be downloaded' message from http://m.twitter.com using both IE6 on WinXP and IE7 on Vista. The behavior is consistent.

I get a pop-up box that looks like this:

Do you want to save this file, or find a program online to open it?

Name: login
Type: unknown file type, 2.99kb
From: m.twitter.com

[Find] [Save] [Cancel]

I don't get that error when I use Firefox. Looks like it's more browser dependent than platform (PC v mobile) dependent.

It loads fine on my Treo 680 using the Blazer browser.

Eric Suesz replied on April 11, 2008 05:19 to the question "Can't view Twitter website on PDA, wants to download a file" in Twitter:

Hmmm. I just tried to access the non-mobile site (in addition to the mobile version) on my iPhone, and it appears to work for me. I wonder if something has changed that would affect how Pocket IE access the page. Ack. I'm a Mac guy!

Krisjohn replied on April 11, 2008 05:16 to the question "Can't view Twitter website on PDA, wants to download a file" in Twitter:

Not on purpose, as that's *always* just popped up the "where do you want to save this file" dialogue box. I'm trying to just access the normal Twitter page, which used to work.

Eric Suesz replied on April 11, 2008 05:11 to the question "Can't view Twitter website on PDA, wants to download a file" in Twitter:

Are you accessing this URL from your PDA?

http://m.twitter.com

Might want to double check. I suppose it's possible that something they changed has changed how phone browsers recognize the Twitter site.

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Krisjohn replied on April 09, 2008 22:43 to the question "Can't view Twitter website on PDA, wants to download a file" in Twitter:

Hello?

Krisjohn asked a question in Twitter on March 20, 2008 23:18:

Can't view Twitter website on PDA, wants to download a file

Previously, I could view the main Twitter website on my PDA (Windows Mobile 2003, Pocket IE), but if I tried to view the mobile version it would ask to download a file instead of displaying the page. Now the main website does that too.

My guess is that something's wrong with the headers for the mobile version and a recent upgrade now detects my PDA's browser and redirects there automatically. Could this be looked into, as I rather enjoyed being able to wander through the night's tweets on my PDA in the morning?

Krisjohn replied on January 21, 2008 22:44 to the problem "Feed not posting to Twitter!" in twitterfeed:

Yeah, unfortunately I can't alter the format. The tool just rips text from an HTML page, so I'm stuck with the date as it's been written by the Slashdot guys. I guess I'll mark out some time to learn Yahoo Pipes this year.

Mario Menti replied on January 21, 2008 22:32 to the problem "Feed not posting to Twitter!" in twitterfeed:

You're right in that the check in twitterfeed appears to think the feed is ok, but I suspect that may be a problem with the code that checks the format. I'll try and take a closer look at that. In the meantime, I think the best thing to do will be to fix the date format so that is correct - see also http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/I...

Krisjohn replied on January 21, 2008 22:23 to the problem "Feed not posting to Twitter!" in twitterfeed:

That's odd, because the first time I tried a feed, Twitterfeed told me about the date problem. For this version it was fine.

Mario Menti replied on January 21, 2008 22:18 to the problem "Feed not posting to Twitter!" in twitterfeed:

The post dates on that feed don't validate. It's usually a good first step (but not necessarily a guarantee, since my feed parser is not based on the same source) to validate the feed at http://feedvalidator.org.
If you do this with your feed, you'll see that the dates are invalid, and valid dates are one thing twitterfeed needs in order to decide if an item is new and should be posted to twitter.

Krisjohn replied on January 21, 2008 21:57 to the problem "Feed not posting to Twitter!" in twitterfeed:

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Mario Menti replied on January 21, 2008 18:53 to the problem "Feed not posting to Twitter!" in twitterfeed:

Krisjohn: could you let me know your feed URL, and I'll take a look when I get a minute..

Krisjohn replied on January 21, 2008 09:14 to the problem "Feed not posting to Twitter!" in twitterfeed:

I have a similar problem with one of my feeds. I'm using Dapper to turn my Slashdot user posts into an RSS feed. It works fine as a live bookmark in Firefox, but I can't get Twitterfeed to post anything from it.

I don't think the URLs are identical in my case, since the live bookmark items all go to different places.