App no longer allowed to perform write operations

Resolved Zumatra
(@zumatra)

9 years, 10 months ago

I have been using WP to Twitter for four months on my site without any problems from Twitter. I make on average ten posts on my site per day which WP to Twitter converts to Tweets.

This morning, shortly after I made my second post, I received an e-mail from Twitter saying that the application created to use with WP to Twitter is no longer allowed to perform write operations.

There was no explanation and I cannot think of any reason relating to the content of my posts which could explain why this might have happened so I was wondering if there is a possible technical explanation.

My posts now get the following error even though they are not either the same as another Tweet or too long and I don’t think I can be considered to b over-Tweeting with about 40 per day.:

Last Tweet: » 403 Forbidden: The request is understood, but has been refused by Twitter. Possible reasons: too many Tweets, same Tweet submitted twice, Tweet longer than 140 characters.

I have already tried to contact Twitter about this but whilst I wait for a reply, I was wondering if anybody could shed any light on this from this perspective?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-twitter/

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Plugin Author Joe Dolson
(@joedolson)

9 years, 10 months ago

You can log into your Twitter developer account (https://apps.twitter.com) and alter the application settings to restore read/write permissions.

If they’ve changed things such that you can’t alter the read/write permissions, then you may need to create a new application and attach the new application to WP to Twitter in place of the old one.

Twitter works in mysterious ways; they rarely provide an explanation, so there isn’t much to be said for that.

Thread Starter Zumatra
(@zumatra)

9 years, 10 months ago

Thanks for the reply. As I hadn’t a clue what I could have done wrong, I thought it may be a bug in the plug-in or something – I had no experience of WP or Twitter until this year.

The e-mail said:

‘While this restriction is still in place, please do not attempt to register a new API key for your application without authorization from Twitter. Such an action is a violation of our API Terms of Service and may result in the permanent suspension of your application (as well as any associated developer accounts).’

So, I guess the best thing to do would be create a new application.

Plugin Author Joe Dolson
(@joedolson)

9 years, 10 months ago

I’ve never received a message like that, so I don’t really know what that might be.

Definitely sounds like you can’t change the permissions.

Thread Starter Zumatra
(@zumatra)

9 years, 10 months ago

I created a new application which works fine then got this from Twitter:

Twitter has automated systems that find and disable abusive API keys in bulk. Unfortunately, it looks like your application got caught up in one of these spam groups by mistake. We have reactivated the API key and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Not really sure how that happens – it’s not like I was hanging around a bank when it got robbed and got misidentified as one of the robbers.

Zebaba
(@zebaba)

9 years, 10 months ago

I had exactly the same yesterday, which was odd as the only writing to Twitter I do is via Facebook a few times a week. When I went to (https://apps.twitter.com) there was a red restriction notice on it. But I noticed that a Facebook post this morning had been tweeted so I checked at (https://apps.twitter.com) again and the restriction notice had gone. So maybe just a glitch at Twitter’s end?

Plugin Author Joe Dolson
(@joedolson)

9 years, 10 months ago

It could be that there was an abusive application coming from the same shared server or IP address, so your apps got caught up in the purge. But it’s hard to say exactly what characteristics caused this.

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