[Plugin: Reliable Twitter] Tweets not loading

Every once in a while Twitter can take a while to respond. Especially for the first sync. It’s really frustrating and because there’s the extra level of caching with Google, it’s extremely hard to troubleshoot.

Thanks. I’ll keep trying, but all I get are 3 little squares flashing.

Just a thought. Does JetPack interfere at all?

So this is pretty strange. I tested your ID on my site and I got the same thing. I’ll bet if you stick my ID in (11469962) it will work fine for you. Then I went to look at the two RSS files and they look the same:

https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16251797.rss
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/11469962.rss

But, when I tried to add your RSS feed in Google Reader I get an error that the fed could not be found. Did some research on this error and someone suggested using https:// in Google Reader and that worked. So I tried switching the protocol in the plugin and that worked on my site. Can you try going into the plugin, “reliable-twitter.js”, line 16 and change https://twitter.com/statuses to https://twitter.com/statuses

See if that does the trick. I think it will. If it does, I’ll release a patch to the plugin.

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Thanks, sir! See for yourself! https://www.jimbutt.com

Now even MORE reliable! Happy New Year!

Do you know how often the feed will update? Been 40 min since my last tweet. (Forgive me for not digging back through the forum.)

Google can take a little while to update. Usually it’s within an hour or two, but it’s not usually like “minutes”. They have their own algorithm to determine how often it should be updated.

I spent some time trying to get Google to cache these url’s https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/user_timeline with some mixed results. Seems Google treats different accounts for the same feed style very differently. For the next version, I’m releasing a “Custom RSS” option where you’ll have the option of entering your own custom feed. I’ve posted troubleshooting instructions here: https://www.soapboxdave.com/reliabletwitter/#troubleshooting

Additionally, I can’t put the https:// feature in the new version as Google inexplicably breaks on the feeds for some accounts when this is used. So…. when you upgrade, just stick this in the new custom RSS box: https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16251797.rss

I see that it updated, so that process is working. We’re clear. Thanks for all your help and good luck with improvements. I’ll incorporate this change as recommended. I think we’re resolved. All the best!