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For a few weeks now, some users have been seeing a "secure connection failed" error.  A bunch of us Twitter client developers and the very kind folks at Twitter have been trying to track down the problem - so far with no success.

 

All we know is that it seems to affect all iPhone Twitter clients that connect to Twitter securely (via SSL).  Oddly enough, it seems to *only* affect clients running on iPhone.  (If you notice it happening on a desktop client or on Blackberry or Android, please let someone know - it would be very helpful). Update: Got reports of it happening on Mac and Pre as well.  If you notice a lot more complaints about it happening on Tweetie (and on iPhone), it's probably because Tweetie and Twitter on iPhone are more popular than using Twitter on any other platform (more people hitting the bug).

 

It happens on WiFi, EDGE, and 3G.  The OS version doesn't seem to matter.  And it's not easily reproducible, making it very hard to debug.  It *seems* to have started after the most recent DDOS against Twitter, but this may be coincidence.

 

While we're all pulling out our hair, I've heard from a few people that you can do a few things that help a little bit:

 

1. When you get the error, try refreshing a few times.  It might just go away.

2. Try logging in to Twitter via Safari (make sure you go to the HTTPS version: https://twitter.com).  Then try using Tweetie (or your other client of choice).

3. If you figure out some magic combination of network settings, account settings, standing on one leg, and proper incantation where you can reproduce the problem consistently - let me (contact@atebits.com).

 

Sorry about this - hopefully it will get sorted out soon.

 

Update:

More details: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=971

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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:29:00 -0700 Test filtering in Tweetie for Mac http://atebits.posterous.com/test-filtering-in-tweetie-for-mac http://atebits.posterous.com/test-filtering-in-tweetie-for-mac

Enough people have asked recently (more wacky hashtags than usual?), so I'm pushing out a quick change to Tweetie for Mac that supports filtering.  There's no UI (yet), so to use it you'll have to pop into the Terminal.

Download it here: http://d2fh6i8lncx8ya.cloudfront.net/tweetie_1.2.3.zip

In the Terminal, enter these commands (replacing the specific term you'd like to filter).

To add a term to be filtered out:

defaults write com.atebits.tweetie-mac filterTerms -array-add "#followfriday"

Or specify a whole list of things at once:

defaults write com.atebits.tweetie-mac filterTerms -array "#fb" "#followfriday"

To see your current filter terms:

defaults read com.atebits.tweetie-mac filterTerms

To delete all the terms:

defaults delete com.atebits.tweetie-mac filterTerms

You have to restart Tweetie after changing the list.  Right now it filters *every* status that it sees... in your timeline, mentions, searches, other users recent updates, favorites... everything.  Maybe it'd make more sense if it only filtered your timeline?  I did this in 5 minutes, so something is probably wrong - tweet @atebits or @tweetie with your thoughts (I try to read everything).  Once I get it "right" (and finish this other little project that I'm working on for the iPhone), I'll get an update out with a real UI.

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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:05:38 -0700 Twitter Profile Images http://atebits.posterous.com/twitter-profile-images http://atebits.posterous.com/twitter-profile-images Twitter has been having issues with profile images recently. It turns
out, if you've updated your profile image in the last week (and it was
a big image) it wouldn't be scaled down properly.

 When third party clients (like Tweetie) try to grab your profile
image, they get served the *original* massive image, rather than the
small thumbnail which is what they expect.

 Tweetie currently detects this case (and is particularly anal) because
if it didn't, some images are large enough to eat up all the memory on
the system, causing a crash. Many other twitter clients don't catch
this, and in fact some of them do crash depending on the size of the
image that they're trying to decode.

 You can track Twitter's progress on the problem here:
http://status.twitter.com/post/90378527/improperly-sized-images

 Until Twitter fixes it, what users will have to do is scale down their
profile image themselves (to something smaller than 200px x 200px) and
re-upload it to Twitter. Tweetie has a 72 hour cache of profile
images, it should automatically update after that amount of time. You
can always delete and re-install Tweetie to clear the caches manually
(you won't be charged a second time for downloading it).

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