Title: Twitter API error [215] Bad Authentication data
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Twitter API error [215] Bad Authentication data

 *  Resolved [rknews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rknews/)
 * (@rknews)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-api-error-215-bad-authentication-data/)
 * Hi,
 * the widget stopped displaying tweets recently (some time after the WordPress 
   upgrade to 4.0.1) and I can’t figure out what’s wrong. I updated to version 2.5.11
   of the plugin, and regenerated/re-entered both pairs of tokens/secret keys. No
   luck; it just went from no text at all to “Unable to get tweets”. Below is my
   debug info.
 * Thank you in advance for any hints or help.
 * RSTW Debug info enabled
    RSTW Retrieving API rate limit RSTW Fetching 5 items
   from Twitter RSTW Invalid data: wait 5 minutes before trying again RSTW Twitter
   API error [215] Bad Authentication data RSTW Twitter username: ronankeating_de
   RSTW Twitter data is empty, retrieving Safe Cache
 * RSTW Debug info enabled
    RSTW “Erase cached data” and fetch from Twitter RSTW
   Twitter API error [215] Bad Authentication data RSTW Twitter username: ronankeating_de
 * [http://ronankeatingfans.de/](http://ronankeatingfans.de/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-twitter-feed-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-twitter-feed-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [whiletrue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiletrue/)
 * (@whiletrue)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-api-error-215-bad-authentication-data/#post-5554233)
 * Hi, please try again to generate and use new Twitter API credentials; be careful
   about copying and pasting them in the right fields.
 *  Thread Starter [rknews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rknews/)
 * (@rknews)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-api-error-215-bad-authentication-data/#post-5554452)
 * Thank you – I just installed the latest plugin update, and regenerated my credentials
   once again. It is now working. 🙂 Thanks again!

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 * Last reply from: [rknews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rknews/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-api-error-215-bad-authentication-data/#post-5554452)
 * Status: resolved