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Wayne Bishop replied on May 03, 2009 00:28 to the problem "Random 401 Unauthorised errors" in twitterfeed:

Ok all the feeds appear to be recovering now, thanks Mario.

Wayne Bishop replied on May 02, 2009 23:39 to the problem "Random 401 Unauthorised errors" in twitterfeed:

I thought you had disappeared for a nice break after your busy week playing with servers :) Ok yes noticed that was happening so thanks for the tweak, will try again reverting to username/password.

Wayne Bishop replied on May 02, 2009 16:25 to the problem "Random 401 Unauthorised errors" in twitterfeed:

Mario, I tried deactivating and creating new feeds for all the ones that were throwing up 401 errors.

I also authenticated the old way by entering the username and password on twitterfeed rather than via twitter OAuth.

After a short while all of these new feeds went 401.

I have now re-activated the original feeds and deleted the new ones.

So if this is a OAuth problem why did the new feeds, which were created without OAuth, go 401?

Wayne Bishop replied on May 02, 2009 13:39 to the problem "Random 401 Unauthorised errors" in twitterfeed:

Somehow last night I managed to reduce the 401 errors down to one problem feed, the one which is persistently 401. I checked again today and the 401 errors have returned to 5 out of the 13 feeds that are active. I'm not 100% sure if it is exactly the same feeds throwing up 401 errors but some are definitely the same.

Wayne Bishop replied on May 01, 2009 21:59 to the problem "Random 401 Unauthorised errors" in twitterfeed:

twitter.com/rutlandweather has 3 feeds going to it, 1 out of the 3 I cannot clear the 401. The other 2 are updating fine.

I just tried something else since I noticed if you log out of your twitter accunt the OAuth process is a little different because you have to enter your twitter account details.

Another method is to log into your twitter account before commencing OAuth and it picks up that you are logged in so you do not have to enter the details again, I know I have been authenticating this way as well on some of the feeds, but the former method seems more correct and proper to me and this may explain why some feeds are working and others are not.

I will let you know if it makes any difference.

Wayne Bishop reported a problem in twitterfeed on May 01, 2009 19:48:

Random 401 Unauthorised errors

I'm getting random 401 Unauthorised errors for a few feeds. One appears to be permanently 401, I even deleted the feed and created a new one but the problem has not gone away. Others seem to clear when I re-authorise the account. All of these feeds have worked for a few weeks now with no problem like this. The problem appeared to start after the servers were upgraded.

Its strange that some feeds continue to update a twitter account which is throwing up a 401 on another feed. I checked that all feeds have been authorised, tested the RSS, so I am running out of ideas on what to try next.

FYI I changed all the feeds to OAuth a week or two ago. I have a few feeds for a few twitter accounts. I check back many hours later and problem is still there, also I have verified that the feeds with 401 errors are not updating the twitter accounts affected.

Wayne Bishop replied on April 30, 2009 10:24 to the update "twitterfeed is currently down" in twitterfeed:

Take your time Mario best, no hurry, we can always twit manually =O, now there's a thought!, I could do with some exercise :)

Wayne Bishop asked a question in twitterfeed on April 19, 2009 23:31:

Twitterfeed stopped feeding earlier today

I noticed no feeds from early in the morning today to late tonight. I switched all feeds to OAuth and they are now working again. I noticed your announcement about servers and my account would be one of those possibly affected, but I just thought it was interesting that the OAuth seemed to trigger feeding soon after, perhaps it is just a coincidence.

Wayne Bishop replied on April 13, 2009 11:04 to the question "Re-posting changed feed content with the same link to URL" in twitterfeed:

Now working via Yahoo Pipes! Great tool thanks for the suggestion. :)

Wayne Bishop replied on April 07, 2009 19:02 to the question "Re-posting changed feed content with the same link to URL" in twitterfeed:

Thanks Mario, that explains it then and yes you can't be all things to everyone :) so I perfectly understand, thanks very much for the quick feedback.

Thanks also for the tip on Yahoo! Pipes I had heard of it but not had a chance to tinker with it yet, must make time to do that.

Wayne Bishop replied on April 07, 2009 17:56 to the question "Re-posting changed feed content with the same link to URL" in twitterfeed:

Yes it does thanks, however I have each Twitterfeed set to Pubdate not GUID so should it not ignore GUID and follow Pubdate instead or does GUID always over-ride if it has not changed regardless of whether pubdate is selected?

Also if the Pubdate changes throughout the day for the observations feed why does Twitterfeed only update once a day?

It seems to me that the Twitterfeed behaviour for the Pubdate setting is following the GUID tags instead for these two feeds.

Wayne Bishop replied on April 07, 2009 09:27 to the question "Re-posting changed feed content with the same link to URL" in twitterfeed:

Does it make a difference if the previous posts are removed form the feed? This is happening to both feeds, bit I do not understand why one of the feeds (observations) reliably Twitterfeeds once a day and the 3 day forecast feed only twitterfeeds once and then stops.

Here are the 2 feeds:
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/...
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/...

Wayne Bishop replied on April 06, 2009 00:15 to the question "Re-posting changed feed content with the same link to URL" in twitterfeed:

Here you go:
http://twitter.com/rutlandweather
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/...

Wayne Bishop replied on April 05, 2009 15:42 to the question "Removing space between "RT @" and "NAME"" in twitterfeed:

Thanks for the clarification, at least I know its not something I'm doing wrong. I noticed some users wanted to add hash tags as well, but I think you are right, a lot of people will get caught out if you blow a permanent change through on all existing feeds. Would it be feasible to add a tick box to the setting options such as "do you want to remove space after prefix"?

Wayne Bishop replied on April 05, 2009 15:28 to the question "Re-posting changed feed content with the same link to URL" in twitterfeed:

Yes I already tried without the link and it seems to be working set to pubdate, however Twitterfeed only appears to be taking notice of the date element and not the time element. The feed I am sending is for weather readings which are updated regularly through the day every 1 or 2 hours, therefore Twitterfeed is only sending again when the date changes and not when the time changes in the pubdate. At least I can send a reading once per day now :)

Wayne Bishop asked a question in twitterfeed on April 03, 2009 22:32:

Re-posting changed feed content with the same link to URL

Does twitterfeed only post if the URL is different, or put another way is it possible to re-post a URL if the date or content has changed? If so how? Some weather feeds use the same URL for hte regional page but provide ongoing forecasts in the feed content. Twitterfeed will only these once and never again. I tried all the settings: GUID, pubdate etc... but did not work.

Wayne Bishop asked a question in twitterfeed on April 03, 2009 21:50:

Removing space between "RT @" and "NAME"

When passing feeds from Twitter I would like to prefix with RT @ but a space is added somewhere along the way so it looks like this on twitter: RT @ NAME, can anything be done to remove this space? thx

Wayne Bishop asked a question in TwitPic on February 24, 2009 11:36:

Image size and storage limits on TwitPic

What are the limits for image upload to Twitpic, I seem to have exceeded my limit already with only 3 photo 1MB each over 3 days