twitter tools 1.5.1a won’t authenticate at twitter

Discovered in the ‘Connections’ tab in Twitter (using web access https://www.twitter.com/username) there was an application blocking ‘spam’ etc.

I revoked access and it solved the problem.

Twitter Tools is attempting to login from our WP admin panel however, was being blocked by this application.

Just revoke the access in your Twitter.

Login>Settings>Connections

“You’ve allowed the following applications to access your account”

Revoke any spam blocking apps.

Good luck!

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I changed my Twitter password, and now Twitter Tools doesn’t work for me, either. None of the recommendations posted thus far have worked for me. Running WP 2.8.6, and TT 2.0.

I changed my Twitter password, and now Twitter Tools doesn’t work for me, either.

Here’s another sample point for that. Help?

Twitter Tools was working fine for me a few weeks ago, and then stopped today. I’m getting the “Twitter requires authentication” message as well. I’m running WP 2.9 (just upgraded) and TT 2.0

This plugin doesn’t work. It’s going on 3 hrs now. I tried every suggestion in this forum, even created a new twitter account and fresh installation of wordpress. It continues to give this error:

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

Furthermore, to quote the The HollywoodSouth Blog about the “Connections Tab”, there is nowhere in any of my twitter account to access such a tab. Login>Settings>Connections does not exist. Yes, I can login and goto Settings, but there is nothing about “Connections”.

@dorianj, can’t help you get the plugin working (I’m still having problems with it too), but I can direct you to the connections tab:

Login to Twitter, click settings, and you’ll see these options on the nav bar–Connections is the last one:

* Account
* Password
* Mobile
* Notices
* Picture
* Design
* Connections

I checked there but couldn’t find anything filtering spam, so that seemed to be a deadend.

My updating of tweets stopped, after changing my Twitter password. So I changed in Twitter Tools my password accordingly. However, I did’t got it to work again.

I’m on WP 2.9 and TT 2.0

So I changed my Twitter password (which was long > 10 characters) to something shorter and everything worked again.

Safe (?) to conclude: TT can’t handle longer passwords.

Time for some OAuth implementation for TT?

@danbutcher
Twitter must be displaying different options for different accounts or different browsers. “Connections” is omitted from the nav bar on my screen. I tried with Mac FF and Safari and it does not display. The other six options are there; connections is not.

@joeldebruijn
I reduced my password to exactly six alphabetic characters and it worked. I then changed it to 7,8,9 and more characters and that error message returned. Furthermore, it would give the error if there was a single special character (!@#$…) or a number in the password! Even if the password was again reduced to six characters. Definitely a bug that needs to be worked out with TT.

So to recap, the solution that allowed me to use Twitter Tools was to use a 6-letter lowercase alphabetic password.

Any chance Alex King might chime in here? I’ve completely lost all of my Twitter integration and nothing I’ve tried is bringing it back…

• deactivate/delete/activate, enter username/password
• use a completely insecure 6 letters or less alpha-only password
• deactivate/delete/activate akismet

Is there anyone who TRULY knows a fix for this? I’ve had this every time I have used Twitter Tools, on all twitter accounts. Had it months ago… it’s working on some, not on others, but no idea why.

Help!!

Thanks,

Chucklehead

Fyi I’m TT 2.0 and WP 2.9. I tried to deactivate/delete, and then delete the entries from the wp-options DB table using SQL ‘delete from wp_options where option_name like ‘aktt%’;’ (which worked), but even after entering a fresh username and password after logging out of WP, reactivating the plugin (installed via ftp into the wp-content/plugins dir instead of “Add New”), TT still gives the same error. Hate to say it, but I’m going to have to let go of TT. This has happened too many times, and I know it’s hard to maintain software for free, so I don’t fault the developer, but I’ve got to move on. Thanks for the tips tho! Wish they had worked for me. I will watch this space tho, and I would be thrilled to return to TT (it’s truly an awesome plugin), and I’d love to hear if anyone has finally gotten to the solution to this issue.

See this blog post here for an excellent breakdown on TT and some good comment back and forth: https://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/wordpress/a-perfect-integration-of-wordpress-and-twitter/

Thx!

Chucklehead

I’ve never been able to reproduce this, and the fact that the same code works on some installs and not on others makes me think it may be a server config/environmental issue.

I’ve documented all of the known issues and workarounds I’m aware of here:

https://wphelpcenter.com/plugins/twitter-tools/

Hope this helps.

The problem is with the Twitter accounts. I have one account that gets this error, even when I change password, name, and username. I create a new account with the previously used (and changed) password, name and username and I am able to authenticate. Something is wrong on the Twitter account side of things throwing the error. If someone could sniff the network traffic to get an idea what is going wrong, that would be nice.