[Plugin: Twitter for WordPress] No public Twitter messages

Sorry, I’m using a fresh install of WP 2.8.2, and getting the same intermittent “No Public Twitter” messages on my web site.

For what it’s worth, the plugin has never failed when viewing the same page on localhost.

Problems with 2.8.3 again….

Hello,

I am with 2.8.4. and 1.9.6 plugin and have the “no public message” error…

Thank you for your help, I’m lost and can’t find any other good replacement (I need to display multiple accounts with the same plugin).

Same here: 2.8.4 and latest plugin, downloaded today. “No public Twitter messages.”

hi guys, I get the same error every other refresh… emailed the plugin author about it… will let you know if he writes back!

yeahhhhh so he never wrote back and I am literally getting “no public twitter messages” 3 out of every 4 refreshes…. has anyone found a fix????

Same issue on WP 2.8.4. Hopefully we hear something soon.

It appears that Twitter’s API has rate limit and returns an error 400 :
Respone codes : https://apiwiki.twitter.com/HTTP-Response-Codes-and-Errors
Rate limiting : https://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

This limit is IP based.
On mutualized hosting, default rate limit is easily reached in few minutes.

On mutualized hosting, ideal cache duration is 3600 seconds…

update: with new plugin update everything is fine on my end, no more issues!

I have just updated to the most recent version of this plugin and am STILL getting the “no public Twitter messages”……

I’m on WP version 2.8.4

I’ve also tried a couple of the suggestions above that seemed to work for some, but they did not work for me, so I’m still seeking a solution.

I think I found the solution.

1. go to your Twitter Page https://twitter.com/YOURNAME
2. hover over “RSS feed of YOURNAME’s tweets”
3. write down the number in “https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/THENUMBER.rss”

now open twitter-for-wordpress/twitter.php and edit (line 36)

$messages = fetch_rss('https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.rss');

to

$messages = fetch_rss('https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/THE_NUMBER_YOU_WROTE_DOWN.rss');

I had the same problem, now I am using this solution with javascript.

Works great and no plugin.

@ Don Salva – I tried your solution but it does not work for me – even with using the rss feed number instead of the name, I still get “no public twitter messages”…

@hhalvor unfortunately I can’t use the js provided by twitter because I’m making a modification of the variable used by the twitter for wordpress plugin ($username) so that this works for a multi-author site, showing the twitter messages for the author currently being viewed.

I can get the variable to work correctly and use the current author’s twitter name just fine, but it doesn’t matter which author’s name is used, they all come back with “no public messages”…….so I think that there must be a basic flaw in the plugin…..

Still looking for a solution….

Okay so actually it DOES seem to work if I use the NUMBER instead of the name as Don Salva suggests above…..however……

I need to be able to use this for a mulit-author blog, and if I use a variable to use the author’s metadata instead of hard-coding the rss # into the plugin, it only ever displays MY twitter feed, not the feed of the author who’s page is currently being viewed……

I really need some help with this one….it looks like if I put the variable in the page template, the plugin ignores it and says “RSS not configured”, but if I try to put the variable into the plugin code itself, it bombs because it doesn’t know the WP core functions…….

SO how do I tell it to include the path to the WP core functions so it will recognize something basic like get_author_meta() ??

I managed to get this plugin to work by manually puting my username into the twitter.php file. Just fill out the empty space where it reads $username = ” (line 49)

// Display Twitter messages
function twitter_messages($username = '', $num = 1, $list = false, $update = true, $linked  = '#', $hyperlinks = true, $twitter_users = true, $encode_utf8 = false) {

It should look like this:

// Display Twitter messages
function twitter_messages($username = 'YOUR_USERNAME_HERE', $num = 1, $list = false, $update = true, $linked  = '#', $hyperlinks = true, $twitter_users = true, $encode_utf8 = false) {