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ShepProudfoot replied on August 08, 2009 07:17 to the question "Cannot update my one line bio" in Twitter:

at least it's not just me then...

ShepProudfoot started following the question "Settings will not allow me to save changes to my BIO" in Twitter.

ShepProudfoot asked a question in Twitter on August 08, 2009 06:56:

Cannot update my one line bio

"Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand."

this is the message i'm getting when trying to update my One Line Bio. i hit submit and the page hangs for around 30-40 seconds and then, in Safari presents "Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand." - in Firefox, I just get a blank screen.

I use 4 other Twitter accounts and have never had this issue... Thoughts/suggestions?

I thought it may be a temporary problem so left it last night and tried first thing this morning, but still no joy. Please help!! Thanks :)

tlobf replied on July 14, 2009 06:03 to the problem "Hyphen in title is replaced with weird characters" in twitterfeed:

how weird!! haha. the tweetie example has converted the characters...

this is what actually comes through (though i've added a space in the characters so you can actually see them & #8211

tlobf reported a problem in twitterfeed on July 14, 2009 05:58:

Hyphen in title is replaced with weird characters

first of all - the new website is looking fantastic!! well done mario..

just a quick question

the hyphen character in my post comes through fine via Twitter on the web, but on external apps - Tweetie, Seesmic etc etc it comes through as a funny character.

Let me show you an example:

Twitter:
[REVIEW] White Rabbits – It’s Frightening: It’s Frightening, the sophomore effort from Brooklyn/Mi.. http://tinyurl.com/l7qyce

Tweetie:
[REVIEW] White Rabbits – It’s Frightening: It’s Frightening, the sophomore effort from Brooklyn/Mi.. http://tinyurl.com/l7qyce

obviously this isn't a huge deal. i was just wondering if it had anything to do with how twitterfeed parsed that particular character?

tlobf asked a question in twitterfeed on May 15, 2009 09:37:

twitterfeed hasn't updated our rss in nearly 48 hours... suggestions??

hey! twitterfeed hasnt posted to our twitter account in nearly two days - but our rss feed is running just fine.... any ideas?

feed = http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/feed/

twiiter id @tlobf

any help would be awesome!

thanks mario!

tlobf asked a question in twitterfeed on April 19, 2009 20:03:

Switch to Feedblitz has made Twitterfeed slow down...

So, I finally gave up with using Feedburner for my RSS - since the merger with Google, things have been going really downhill. I literally had to ReSynch my feed EVERY time i made a post just to get it to ping properly.. sooo frustrating.

anyhoo - im using feedblitz now and it is working great. updating within minutes of posting etc - great stuff.

my twitterfeed today has been behaving strangely -

i.e - i posted at 12:30pm - it is not 9pm and the post still hasnt appeared on Twitter...

my Twitter user is tlobf and my feed is http://feeds.feedblitz.com/tlobf

if someone could take a look - that would be great!

thanks

tlobf replied on March 13, 2009 14:25 to the question "twitterfeed suddenly stopped working for me, anyone else having the same issue?" in twitterfeed:

yeah - i THOUGHT feedburner was working ok but obvs not.. sorry for wasting your time :-)

tlobf replied on March 13, 2009 12:57 to the question "twitterfeed suddenly stopped working for me, anyone else having the same issue?" in twitterfeed:

the above feeds seemed to be not only out of sync with the MAIN feed but days and days behind... i've resynched them all - hopefully that will kick this problem into touch..

though i don't know why the problem started in the first place..

tlobf replied on March 13, 2009 12:44 to the question "twitterfeed suddenly stopped working for me, anyone else having the same issue?" in twitterfeed:

aaah yes - i should have actually stated..

basically - i set my feedburner account up so i would have an indivdual feed for EACH category on my site.. so the twitterfeed prefix would be (for example)

[News] bla bla bla

[Review] bla bla bla

problem being that NONE of them have updated. apart from a single [Live] review yesterday.. i'm missing about 20 posts i guess.

i have been running twitterfeed like this for about 3 weeks now and it's been fine..

so the individual feeds are:

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobfart...

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobfnews

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobfint...

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobfgigs

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobfpla...

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobfrev...

i paused http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobf - for the simple reason that it would just repeat everything that has already been checked by twitterfeed if you get what i mean...

tlobf asked a question in twitterfeed on March 13, 2009 10:51:

twitterfeed suddenly stopped working for me, anyone else having the same issue?

finally Google and Feedburner seemed to be working in harmony... where i've been having trouble with Feedburner recognising my feed - back to manual pinging again for now until they get back on track.. my main concern at the moment is Twitterfeed has suddenly stopped checking my site - even though i haven't changed any settings..

i haven't had recent posts in over two days (well - apart from one stray)

i paused all of my feeds via twitterfeed, then re-started them to see if it would force it back into action but no joy...

my twitter account is @tlobf

and feedburner addy is: feed://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobf

any help/advice is always appreciated!

tlobf replied on January 30, 2009 13:45 to the question "is it better to use GUID or Publish Date?" in twitterfeed:

it is odd isn't it? havent had an update all day and there have been a least 5 posts... then again - when you check- they will probably be there!! haha

tlobf replied on January 29, 2009 09:18 to the question "is it better to use GUID or Publish Date?" in twitterfeed:

no problems, and thanks for getting back to me. your support is really appreciated.

same thing happened yesterday. had a post that has been picked up by feedburner but not twitterfeed.. normally, i wouldnt be so bothered - but when things sporadically work fine then not at all i end up wracking my brains as to what the problem is..

again - as soon as you read this, the post will probably have been burned...16 hours later. ha!

tlobf marked one of Mario Menti's replies in twitterfeed as useful. Mario Menti replied to the question "is it better to use GUID or Publish Date?".

tlobf replied on January 28, 2009 10:10 to the question "is it better to use GUID or Publish Date?" in twitterfeed:

so as a continuation from yesterdays discussion..

twitterfeed has yet to update my twitter, from posts made last night and this morning. now, probably when you check they will be there! haha, but it certainly isn't checking every 30 minutes like the settings imply.

the feed via feedburner is up to date though, which is all the more confusing.

could i maybe suggest a feature for twitterfeed? like a forced ping or something - along the same lines as ping shot from feedburner...

if you could take a look at my settings mario i would be much obliged.

my twitter is richtlobf
and feed url is : http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobf

if you need any more info from me, don't hesitate to ask

thanks!

tlobf replied on January 27, 2009 10:32 to the question "is it better to use GUID or Publish Date?" in twitterfeed:

thanks mario - for the quick response too..

ill stick with the GUID option for now... pubDATE really doesnt seem to work too well for me anyway.. whether that's down to the timestamp setting in feedburner im not sure..

thanks though!

tlobf asked a question in twitterfeed on January 27, 2009 10:10:

is it better to use GUID or Publish Date?

just curious really...

i've been playing with the setting in twitterfeed for a week or so now, and can't seem to get any consistency with how often twitterfeed updates to my twitter..

for example, all day it was working fine. then yesterday afternoon, my site was updated 3 times and even though feedburner picked up on it, nothing through via twitterfeed..

my twitter is richtlobf
and feed url is : http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tlobf

ive looked around for alternatives to twitterfeed and even though there are a couple, this seems the best and i really want it to work out!

thanks!

tlobf started following the idea "Update frequency to every 5 minutes." in twitterfeed.

tlobf replied to "twitterfeed suddenly stopped working for me", but it was removed. see the change log