Twitter exile
April 2, 2010 at 7:36 PM by Dr. Drang
My recent messing around with HTTP Basic Authentication (here and here) got me thinking about how lame my Twitter password was. So I cleared out the old twitter.com entry in 1Password and generated a new, longer, more secure password. And there was much rejoicing.
Until this evening, when I tried to see new tweets in Tweetie on my iPhone. After several failures I finally realized that it was still using the old password. I went hunting around for a way to change the password, and after five minutes of running up and down its various screens, I decided to just delete my old account (in Tweetie, not Twitter itself) and start a new one.
Your username and password could not be verified. Double check that you entered them correctly and try again.
OK, I’ll try again.
Your username and password could not be verified. Double check that you entered them correctly and try again.
Godammit! I know I entered the password right that time! Off to the laptop, to log into twitter.com and see what’s wrong.
Ah, I have been (temporarily) excommunicated from the Church of Twitter. All those stupid attempts with the old password raised a red flag and got my account suspended. And the attempts to set up a new Tweetie account pushed my return to the fold even further into the future.
(It would be nice if Tweetie could distinguish between an incorrect username/password pair and Twitter exile; its error message was distinctly unhelpful. I’d send an angry tweet about this to @atebits, but…)
So here I am with no Twitter access, cut off from humanity. Guess I’ll have to go talk to my family.
