The trouble with the Twitter API

14Apr09

As some of you might have noticed over the weekend, we had some problems updating your location and sending out messages on Twitter.

On thursday Twitter deployed a change on their API that rendered the library I used for EagleTweet useless. After a long weekend they decided that, since at least one PHP library seems to have no problems, it must be a client error and therefore did nothing about it. So I changed the library to the one that is working and – surprisingly enough – it works. The only exception – and that is a known error – are locations/tweets with symbols that are not pure ASCII. You’d think that this wouldn’t be a problem in 2009 anymore, but well… They promised to fix it until later today, so I hope as soon as that is done, everything will work fine again on our side.

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Tags: API, OAuth, Twitter