twitter tools 1.5.1a won’t authenticate at twitter

I’m having the same issue, getting the message about failure to authenticate. Sometimes, when I try to test the login, I *instead* get this message: Sorry, login failed. Error message from Twitter: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 100 requests per hour.

My Twitter feed hasn’t updated in a week on my blog.

mine is not authenticating either.

freshly upgraded to wordpress 2.7 and twitter tools 1.5.1a

I have tried everything to get TT to work. Every suggestion in the forums. The only thing I can think of is that Twitter is blocking addresses from outside of the US?

Why on earth Twitter doesn’t move to a paid service is beyond me? I would gladly pay 5$ a month, even fortnightly for the coolest little tool on the web.

Pure speculation based on nothing other than I have yet to see a site with TT working and all I see here is people not even being able to authenticate TT???????

Mr King any ideas?

Don’t think it’s that, I can log into twitter from China without a problem!

Try version 1.6b1 – hopefully it fixes this.

https://alexking.org/blog/2009/02/13/twitter-tools-16b1

Had the same problem a couple days ago. Though my twitter widget works just fine, the Admin test login fails. I have version 1.5.1a. Well the problem is, if you have a special character in your password, the test login will fail.

Here’s a quick and dirty solution (for v1.5.1a):

1. Edit your twitter-tools.php
2. Find the function aktt_login_test
3. Replace:
   

   $snoop->pass = $password;

   with

   $snoop->pass = str_replace(array("%26","%27","%3A","%2F","%40"), array("&","'",":","/","@"), $password);

4. Save!

…and that would fix it!

I haven’t yet tried version 1.6b1. But I hope that bug is already fixed.

Is this still needed with 1.6b2?

Tried version 1.6b2 and it worked perfectly! No need to hack or replace anything.

Great Plugin! Thanks Alex!

I have tried 1.6b2 twice, and still not working…

Hi

I’m running 1.6b2, whenever I hit ‘Test login info’ I get:

“Sorry, login failed. Error message from Twitter: This method requires authentication.”

My tweets appeared yesterday, but they are no longer being collected.

I tried the password hack further up this thread, no joy either.

Any suggestions anyone?

Thanks

CC

I was able to correct this problem with v1.6. Since I don’t know the exact fix, here is what I did:

Go to Twitter and change your password. In my case, the password was rather lengthy. I shortened it to nine characters and used only letters and numbers. Then logged out.

Went back to the plugin and entered the user and pwd. Test worked! Tweets updated.

I tried that either, changed the pass to a 6 letter word but didn’t work

*bump, I am still experiencing this problem on 2.7.1, I have tried all suggested fixes. Is it possible that something other than API is triggering this error? Maybe hosting environment?

I had the same problem with version 1.6. Resolved it by using a new password for my twitter account. Changing it on twitter did not work. I used the email option to rest my password! After that updated the option for twitter and hit the test button and it worked.

Mine worked for a day and now I get the auth failures.

WordPress 2.7.1 and latest version of Twitter Tools.