Twitter lib problems

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1

Hi,
I'm trying to get my Arduino+official Ethernetshield tweeting. I ended up (after a whole afternoon) with the twitter lib from the playground on arduino-0018 as 19 doesn't seem to work at all. I always get the Serial-message "failed : code 403". Here is my code:

#include <Ethernet.h>
#include <EthernetDHCP.h>
#include <EthernetDNS.h>
#include <Twitter.h>

byte mac[] = { 0xFE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED };

// Your Token to Tweet (get it from http://arduino-tweet.appspot.com/)
Twitter twitter("5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxe");

// Message to post
char msg[] = "starting...";


void setup()
{
  delay(1000);
  EthernetDHCP.begin(mac);
  Serial.begin(9600);
  
  Serial.println("connecting ...");
  if (twitter.post(msg)) {
    int status = twitter.wait();
    if (status == 200) {
      Serial.println("OK.");
    } else {
      Serial.print("failed : code ");
      Serial.println(status);
    }
  } else {
    Serial.println("connection failed.");
  }
}

void loop()
{
   twitter.post("regular tweet test");
   Serial.println("tweet to check regularity posted!");
   delay(10000);

  
  
  EthernetDHCP.maintain();
}

When I power up the board, it tweets "starting..." and only once "regular tweet test", but it prints Serial regularly the "tweet to check regularity posted!" message.

Hope you can help me. I originally wanted to tweet the temperature outdoors regularly. Twitter is therefor nice as I get the data with the time and date easily like that.

2

403 is authentication required. Maybe the hash of your password is wrong?

3

Have you:

  • Checked that your arduino can get on the internet? Run the ethernet sample sketch that grabs data from a website to test it.
  • Gone to http://arduino-tweet.appspot.com/ and got yourself a token, and used that in your code (I'm presuming you have, you seem to have obscured it in your post)
  • Checked that the messages aren't being posted on twitter
4

I had already checked all this. Found out that 403 means forbidden at twitter, too. But why is it forbidden?

5

This library does not work under 0021

6

Hi,

I'm having this same problem, was it ever solved?

Thanks,

Ian

7

oh, i have same prob too. i don't know what should i do.
please any idea for that?

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