This method requires a GET error

Yeah, tried on IE6 @ work, and Firefox 3.1 b3, IE7 @ home.

might just be a bug with twitter then, i'd try submitting a request to twitter support http://help.twitter.com/home

I'm having the same problem :(

I have the same prob. Tweeted a Twitter dev and he checked in on it....he said the prob is definately a Twitter fault. Nothing related to the code on our sites, and not related to browsers. But....Twitter doesn't seem to be doing anything about it.
This annoys me as I am runing a CMS portal with the Tweeter Java App on their pages. Aint no good if they cant use it.
A comonn misbelief...in your twitter app code & shows as & ; amp after you compile the code to your site.
It should be this way...this is a compile function and is approved by w3.org dont try adjusting it, it makes no difference to the Twitter app's performance.

I'm having the same problem! Please fix it Mr.Twitter!

just installed widget on our internet shopping site and nobody can follow us???! 'stone the crows' :-( i take it we'll need to report the very same problem.

Hi everybody. If you're at all comfortable with PHP this should be an easy fix... if you have access to the PHP for your widget - open it up and look for a line that looks like this:
curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

and change it to this:
curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_GET, 1);

Hope that helps.

hey there, I couldn't understand what you mean by changing the PHP. I am using a wordpress platform and have complete access to whatever I want. However, where is this code???
I just took the HTML twitter provides and created a new widget in WP and pasted it in. As far as I know there is no other inherent PHP code that was implanted elsewhere.
Any thoughts???
Thanks

Same problem as findigart. I copied code into a Text widget, it showed up perfectly in the sidebar, but then I tried to Login and got the "GET" error message.

Hey Guys, let me clarify a few things for you that might help.

When I said you need to edit the PHP -I should have just said edit your widgets backend code. With these widgets there are 2 things to really consider.

#1 - Front end technology - this is what's used to display information to the user - most often this is a combination of technologies, but for our purposes it's just HTML.

#2 - Backend Technology - this is what's used to actually communicate with twitter - and retrieve your tweets. In my case this was PHP... but it could be anything really - it just depends on your widget.

Unfortunately it sounds like the widgets you guys are using don't allow you access to the backend code (and for good reason).

What widgets are you using specifically? Are they the official twitter provided widgets? Have you tried updating them? What about a different plug-in or widget. Have you contacted your plug-ins author?

Hope this helps.

Dane
http://doesnotvalidate.com

I inserted the official Twitter "badge" code (the fancier one that requires Adobe Flash) into my Word Press "text" widget (which accepts miscellaneous codes). You can see and or try to use the result (not working) sitting in my website sidebar at the very bottom: http://www.writingsalons.com

Oh, and I then sent your PHP suggestion to my Word Press web guy, who replied by suggesting that I check out a Word Press forum about plug-ins for Twitter (widgets and not widgets). I tried to install one that I found that way, but I now have no idea how to configure the blanks that are within the widget. Duh. So... I'm stuck unless I can persuade my too-busy web guy to help me.

it amazes me that Twitter being a multi million dollar company can't even take the time to fix their issues with a flash plugin, I'm sure this is very quick fix, and they simply don't care :)

I feel the same way dogspit32. It annoys me when a garage company can reply to issues the same day and they only have 10 people working while million dollar company have an entire flow devoted to bugs and tech issues and make you wait weeks or months......by the way I have the same problem so I guess its still not fixed.

The garage company still needs you as a customer. Twitter though can allow themselves (or that's what They think, anyhow) to shit all over you. Like Microsoft...

Something that I think might be worth mentioning is, this above error only happens when *correct* credentials are supplied. When the wrong username/password is supplied, the returned error is: "Could not authenticate you."

Is this the same for everyone else? I too opened a ticket with this issue. I really hope they would get on with fixing this soon enough!

I love the way this widget appears on my site but alas, the GET problem is extremely frustrating.

So, now I have to deal with this issue for all my corporate blog clients where I've installed the Twitter widget. I've seen folks having this problem for over a month but find nothing from Twitter that they've acknowledged this issue with their widget nor that they are working on a fix.

I like Twitter but am frustrated by the lack of support access. I may need to pull Twitter integration if I'm going to have to support an unstable tool when there is no support from the publisher of the tool.

Well, for the record, they did reply to my ticket! Here's the reply:

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Hi,

This is a known issue that we're working on. We're very sorry about any inconvenience this is causing.

I've noted you're having this issue and will let you know when it's been resolved.

Thanks for your patience,

Luke

Twitter Support

May-26 2009 05:11 pm.

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Hey Islam,

How did you post your issue with Twitter? Are you using this widget in WordPress or somewhere else? The reason I ask is that I've heard of sporadic issues with the TwitterTools plugin not posting Tweets and was wondering if it is related.

Thanks for the update,

Jeff

@Jeff:

Twitter Support: http://help.twitter.com/portal

I'm using the flash widget in a client's community website, and unfortunately it's on the home page! The site is going live tomorrow, and I asked them in the ticket if they can provide a timeline for the fix so I would know whether I should keep the plugin or replace it with something else, but as you can see from the reply, they ignored the question and just asked me to "be patient".

The other issue you mentioned is very likely related. From what I understood, they changed something in their API specifications late last month, and since then most of the API libraries/wrappers and tools out there stopped working one way or the other! First on that list are the apps on the official Twitter Apps page, including of course the "Official" Twitter plugin in question.

I hope this helps clarify things a bit for you. I am really disappointed with how lousy they're supporting their own tool, when I'm sure it would only take a single developer an hour or two to fix it. If they really don't have the time to fix it, they could've just released the .fla file and let someone else fix it -- I gladly would have done so instead of spending hours trying to find a workaround for it...

Thanks. I nav'd that site and couldn't really find a way to contact them. They don't make it very easy, probably due to lack of resources. I believe there are only about 35 employees at Twitter.

I kind of figured the problems were due to the API changes I read about. They must have some other rather large issues they are dealing with to not have addressed this in over a month. On the surface it seems like it would be a rather simple fix but I'm wondering if there changes are too aggressive and is limiting their ability to easily address the problems.

A response with a time frame would be the right way to work with people promoting their product. Also, putting a message on the Widget's definition page and disabling it while they fix the problem wouldn't be a bad idea either. I know they are trying to keep people from abusing the system, which seems like a good thing based upon what I've seen, but they need to be upfront and keep their image sparkly.

Well, thanks for the info. It certainly helps and I'll pass it along to all the client's where I've installed these tools. Tweet Tweet

I'm having the same problem! Could you please let us all know when you receive an update from Twitter?

Twitter has acknowledged it as an identified issue: http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/...

On my social network site we ran a "Hey, Let's Start Twitter" and it went over well and members got the widget and now they are all screaming about the get error. I hate twitter at this moment. Grrrrrrrrr......

First time on twitter try to login to follow on third party site told I need GET - no good Twitter, sort it out - just glad I didnt put twitter it our other sites before I got this block - what is "GET" anyway?

Cant believe that this discussion has been going on for monthe and still twitter is not solving it....Im having the same problem as well here...another thing is that the widget appears in a few lines below the page, and I could not figure out of how to make it align with my Pre-Nav at the left hand side....

did you ever find an answer?

Nothing so far!

I think they're going for a world record...

You have to be kidding me. We installed the widget on our site a few days ago and found the same issue, then came here only to find that the bug is 5 months old and still no reolution. Come On Twitter, you can do better then that. Let us know when you get it fixed.