Recently active topics in Twitter tagged with jabber

It seems like I stopped getting emails a week or two ago. Plus Jabber/IM has been down forever. I have no idea what's going on in Twitter now, and I don't have time to visit the site regularly.

Here is the deal, I've entered my jabber id, gotten the code word to send to verify, added twitter@twitter.com as a buddy, but I'm getting a message that says twitter is not authorized yet. The name is greyed out in the buddy list. I've tried iChat and Psi with no joy.

I can't authorize it because I can't sent the code. I can't send the code because I'm not authorized. Catch 22!

Direct authorization link does not work, from Safari, or Firefox. I'm stuck.

I am trying to re-add my IM as a device using a locally managed jabber server. When I enter my ID (username@mydomain.edu) and select jabber as the protocol, it all appears to work on the Twitter end.

However, on my IM client end (Pidgin), it doesn't work. It tells me that I am "Not Authorized" to IM this account (twitter@twitter.com) and I have received no request to add a jabber buddy under this account.

Any suggestions?

Why is Twitter IM still down? It was, according to the most recent update, supposed to be up May 24. It is now June 8, 2 weeks overdue. I used Jabber to get updates, but I've been unable to do anything with this for quite a while now.

Any details on when it might be back up? Supposedly, Twitter was going to keep us updated on the blog post, but nothing's happened and there's been no mention of it anywhere.

First I always saw twitter@twitter.org offline in my IM client (meebo), although my messages I sent got through to twitter. I then decided to re-set the setting in twitter, but when I now add my jabber id (aaa.bbb-ccc@jabber.org) twitter tells me:
"Please enter a valid instant messenger address. is not a valid instant messenger address"

Comparing updates in Twitter.com and Twitterific, and those through IM using either GTalk or Jabber, a lot of tweets are missing in the IM updates.

All of a sudden since yesterday (november 27) I get all updates on my mobile phone, yet my account is configured to have em sent to my jabber account. This is quite annoying, as I get quite a few tweets.

Hey Twitter folks,

I was having trouble posting to Twitter via IM (probably associated with connecting to multiple jabber accounts subscribed to twitter@twitter.com). Following the "nuke and start over" advice as per http://twitter.com/twitter_status/sta..., I re-added my jabber account, and carefully made sure that the twitter bot was only present in that single account's buddy list.

The twitter bot showed as being online. I entered the verification code, and got back an error asking to enter my Twitter account's username. I did so, and all seemed right....until my friends started asking me "do you have a second twitter account?" What the?...

After a little investigation and comparing-of-timestamps, it looks like the attempt to authenticate my IM spawned the creepy stalker-like user "matro2" which then started friending all of the same people my normal account follows (my normal twitter handle is "matro").

Pages of note:
* http://twitter.com/matro
* http://twitter.com/matro2

Also note that the single post by "matro2" consists of the code that should have authenticated my IM account.

SO: Somehow, the act of sending that text string (and providing my username when prompted) spawned a second Twitter account, rather than authenticating an "IM device" to my existing Twitter account.

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Update (+8hrs): the original single post (containing the auth code) at http://twitter.com/matro2 has since disappeared. The account itself remains alive and following my friends, however.

If I send an update through the Google Talk interface built in to GoogleMail (on the left), Twitter receives it and posts it to my profile.

If I send an update through Trillian to Twitter, nothing happens.

Which sounds like, of course, that I've set Trillian up incorrectly. However, now it gets a little more strange.

Replies from Twitter show up both in the GTalk window in GMail - and through Trillian. If I type "HELP" in GTalk, I see the reply both in GTalk and Trillian. If I type "HELP" in Trillian, I get nothing.

I'm stumped. Is this down to a Twitter setting I need to change?