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A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Could you elaborate on what the problem is? – Mario Menti, on October 02, 2008 09:32

Corbin replied on October 01, 2008 15:32 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Mario, can you look at my feed and see if you can help?
http://www.williamsfortexas.com/artic...

Thanks.

A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Thanks so much, Mario. It appears to be fixed. – paul@mnindy, on September 26, 2008 13:32

A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Hi Paul, this was related to a problem with encodings at twitter's end, caused by some recent changes they did. It was fixed about 12 hours ago, as far as I can see - you can confirm it in your mnindy feed which contains so-called rich quotes which now render ok again, but for a while the entities themselves were printed. – Mario Menti, on September 26, 2008 10:21

A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

I'm seeing it in the web-based version (on both Safari and Firefox): http://twitter.com/mnindy/statuses/93... – paul@mnindy, on September 25, 2008 21:52

jared replied on September 18, 2008 19:07 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

ah, you're right, it's right on the web but not in twitterific, where i saw it.

Mario Menti replied on September 18, 2008 17:41 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

For some reason getsatisfaction has lost a whole lot of this thread. There was a very long discussion, and in the end the upshot was that twitterfeed correctly posts entities like "& # 8 2 1 7 ;" (again, spaces are only there so the web browser doesn't turn it into a quote here), but that some clients don't render the entities correctly. This issue typically affected desktop clients like thwirl (not sure if that's fixed now), while the texts render correctly via the web.

jared replied on September 18, 2008 17:32 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Disappointing that this was reported 7 months ago and still not corrected.

Rick Marshall marked one of Thomas Knoll's replies in Seesmic as useful. Thomas Knoll replied to the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?".

Thomas Knoll replied on July 31, 2008 22:04 to the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

This issue has been solved by the 0.8.4 release

Marco Kaiser's reply to "Why won't my connect button connect?" was just promoted to the most useful! Rick Marshall and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Hi everyone,

we have been digging deep into twhirl to find the bug causing the problem you all have, and we found a possible reason that might be the culprit.

An updated version of twhirl 0.8.2 that fixes the bug can be downloaded from http://beta.twhirl.org/twhirl-0.8.2-t...

Please update your installed version to this and tell us if it solves the problem for you.

Thanks!

ottie replied on July 07, 2008 13:31 to the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

the recently released twhirl 0.8.3 works fine.

JackH replied on July 01, 2008 14:35 to the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

I had the same problem. As I described here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/seesmic/to...
when I though it was mainly a problem with the admin rights.
I just installed
http://beta.twhirl.org/twhirl-0.8.2-t...
now twhirl seems to work.

(Hopefully off-topic: Probably it's unrelated when I had installed the twhirl beta Spybot complaint about firefox.exe being infected by SpyKill. I can't find the fitting registry-key nor the fitting process, so I guess and hope that it's been a false positive by SpyBot. And I did install two firefox AddOns yesterday (both are available on addons.mozilla.org so I don't think they can be the problem) Dunno.)

A comment on the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

thanks, it appears to have fixed the issue for me. – biodtl916, on June 27, 2008 17:59

A comment on the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

It still doesn't work for me, I've been having the same problem on Leopard. – Eric Yang, on June 19, 2008 16:29

A comment on the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

Now could I just request some better-looking (Mac-like) skins for it? ;-) I'll start another thread for that suggestion. – Scott-O-Rama, on June 17, 2008 16:38

A comment on the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

Thank you for your hard work on this. This new version *appears* to have solved the problem. – Scott-O-Rama, on June 17, 2008 16:31

A comment on the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

Thank you. Looks like it's working as intended, now. – Matthew Balousek, on June 17, 2008 09:18

Marco Kaiser replied on June 17, 2008 09:01 to the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

Hi everyone,

we have been digging deep into twhirl to find the bug causing the problem you all have, and we found a possible reason that might be the culprit.

An updated version of twhirl 0.8.2 that fixes the bug can be downloaded from http://beta.twhirl.org/twhirl-0.8.2-t...

Please update your installed version to this and tell us if it solves the problem for you.

Thanks!

SomersetBob replied on June 16, 2008 09:58 to the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

Using XP on a Desktop PC and a laptop, I recently installed Twhirl 0.8.2 on both and had the same initial problem on both on first start: I entered my Twitter user name, but clicking the connect button did nothing. I closed Twhirl and opened it again (using the Desktop icon), THEN I got the password window to link to my Twitter account, and it connected just fine.

It seems to have been working OK on both ever since.