Gtalk not registering with twitter.

Message delivery to twitter@twitter.com failed: (Code 404)

I to have been having this problem, for the past several days.

Hi. Unfortunately, Twitter IM has been offline since May 23, so any attempts to verify your IM right now will fail.

There's no announced estimate as to when it will be back online, but we've been asked to follow this related thread and/or check the Twitter status blog for updates.

GTalk will not acknowledge twitter. Any ideas?

Yes. IM is still offline, so attempts to verify IM right now will not work.

You can find out the status of any Twitter service at http://status.twitter.com

Dear Twitter-people, please please put a note that it's offline on the IM-setup page! Probably hundreds of people are frustrated by trying to set it up!

This is pretty poor. Twitter is being promoted to work with other applications, and gTalk is the link. It impacts more than Gtalk. A few hours or a few days is one thing, but this has been going on a long time and they're still promoting the capability. Sheesh...

really m disappointed..

Twitter is a complete JOKE! How many weeks (months?) has IM functionality been broken, yet these clowns cannot even get it fixed!?! I've seen some pretty poor websites and enterprises that are run badly, but Twitter takes the cake on idiocy and lack of caring! I urge everyone to delete their twitter account and stop wasting time with this utter nonsense run by total imbeciles who cannot even manage to make it work properly!

I totally agree.

My Gtalk was already registered, but that's not really the problem. The problem is, Twitter will IM me with updates, but I can't update through IM. It also continues to IM while I am offline, and I get mails with all of the stored-up tweets when I check my mail again. I've started turning IM updates off when I know I will be offline, but it's a hassle to go back and forth to do that, and it's also annoying to have to go back to the Twitter site (or whip out my cell phone and send a txt) to reply to someone whose update has come to me through an IM system that I can't actually use myself.

Hope you guys fix your scaling issues soon.

some influential people are talking about jumping ship

ooshiny, are you by any chance using the Gtalk that comes with Gmail? I'm in the same situation as you (IM is verified, can receive tweets via IM, but cannot send).

Anyway, let me share with you the various things I've tried as work-arounds; perhaps one of them will work for you.

Here's what I've tried / done so far (in no particular order):

1. I set the chat with Twitter to be "off-the-record" (it's an option under Gchat in Gmail), so I don't have Gchat histories stored in my Gmail. When I log back in, I don't see the tweets that were sent while I was offline.

2. I've installed various Firefox add-ons that let me post tweets from within my browser. In particular, I've tried TwitBin and TwitterFox. They're very different, but they both work well.

Twitbin creates a sidebar on the left side of your browser window, while Twitterfox gives you a pop-up window that appears on the lower right corner of the browser.

I prefer to use TwitBin because it's more conservative in making API calls (so I'm less likely to hit the API limit). Both let me post tweets from my PC's browser (which is open practically all day), so no need to use the phone or login to the Twitter website.

3. Today, I signed up for a ping.fm account (it's in private beta, but any existing user can give you an invite code to register. Just let me know if you'd like to give it a try and I'll be happy to send you the code via dm or email.

Anyway, Ping.fm lets you post your updates into a lot of different services (including Twitter) from a single site. I added my Gchat account to ping.fm so I'm now able to post new tweets via the ping.fm Gchat bot. The ping.fm Gchat bot receives the tweet and uses the Twitter API to post the tweet into Twitter.

If none of the above sound interesting, there's also a long list of third-party Twitter Apps on the Twitter Fan Wiki. Perhaps one of them will be useful to you as a way of posting new tweets.