Recently active topics in Twitter tagged with twhirl

I'm not able to send a direct message to one of my followers. He is in my followers list, and I also follow him. When I visit his twitter page the "actions" section of the sidebar is completely missing, and when I try to send a message thru twhirl I get a dialog saying that the message failed and perhaps they aren't following me (but I already checked and they are).

Is this a temporary thing, or is there a setting that they may have enabled to prevent direct messages getting through?

Thanks.

I change my password, then I can't log on with it. so I use the forgot password link. I have to use it every time. and I can't use twhirl either because my password doesn't work.

Help!

I love Twitter and use it all the time, but I seem to have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle. Something is connecting to Twitter as me and using up all my API connections so that I'm not actually able to connect from any of the clients I regularly use (Twhirl, Twitterific). I can connect fine through the web at twitter.com or on hahlo.com from my iPhone.

There doesn't seem to be any way that I could find to get a list of which apps are authenticating as me and/or to block them. I'm not really sure how to resolve this since I can't figure out what's causing the problem. Hope you can help! I want my Twitter action back.

whenever I try to log in from twitterfox or twhirl both state that "authentication failed with user "username"?!?

I'm sorry, but 10 API requests per hour? I'm done with Twitter until this gets straightened out. 70 was reasonable; 30 was bearable. 10? 10 is unusable. I'm supposed to have conversations when I can only respond to people with a 6 minute delay? Perhaps Pownce is a better alternative.

I'm using a twitter account @thanr, recently I followed a new twitter user @noobrave, she wasn't protecting her updates at times. I could read her updates through the web and twhirl. However, @noobrave didn't follow me back, and later she protected her updates.

This is where the came in. I could read her new *protected* updates on Twhirl, I think I'm not suppose to be able to read them (her avatar has a little padlock icon on it). I checked whether she followed be back, but no, she didn't. I went to check on the website, I couldn't read her updates, supposedly, I see this instead "I'm only giving updates to friends. Add me.", and her updates are still readable on Twhirl.