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1. ivanjunge
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #
   

   I installed the plugin. It says "have data = false" in the widget

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-twitter-sidebar-widget/

2. scuderiadank
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Same here...

3. mtothatgirlagain
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   I am getting the same thing.

   However, I am using it for multiple sidebars within the same website. Some of the Twitter usernames have no problem. Then the other half have the error.

   Help please!
   Thanks!

4. Corey Salzano
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   • Are you sure your server's PHP installation has json and curl or wget installed?
   • Are your tweets public?
   • Do you know how many websites are running on the same server as yours that are accessing the twitter API?

   Twitter limits the amount of times you can request their data, and once that limit is reached they stop fulfilling requests for as long as they want. If there are 100 other websites on your server all fetching twitter data, there's not much my plugin can do for you.

5. msenate
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Having the same issue as of today "have data = false". I made the plugin's API request manually in my browser and it worked fine. Further, this plugin has been running for a while and only bugged out today. It's back and working now, but this seems to imply the necessity of a deeper caching component.

6. Corey Salzano
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Thanks for your feedback, and thank you for trying my plugin. Is your website hosted on your computer? When you make the request from your browser, that makes you client number one to hit the twitter API from your computer's IP address unless you host websites that do so on your machine.

   It's your web server that might have lots of other clients hitting twitter all day that could prevent you from getting data. Each time I update the plugin, I examine the caching logic that saves a backup of tweets it is able to retrieve, and I will continue to do so. Thanks again.

7. freshlinx
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   My host forced an upgrade to 3.5 and now my site is broken. Latest Twitter Sidebar Widget now displays have data = false. Do you have a workaround?

8. Corey Salzano
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

   WP updates shouldn't break your site. This page already explains why you may not see data. I have no other explanation to give. If you are on a shared host with hundreds of other websites, you don't have a lot of options. You could install JetPack and use its twitter widget instead.

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