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Hey All

I’ve been running the Twitter_Timeline plugin on my site over at http://mathewkeller.com for a couple of months now and all of a sudden a few weeks ago it stopped working and ground my entire site to a halt.

Now, i’d not touched a thing, had no updates that i know of to my web server, been using both twitter and my blog absolutely fine before and since, so what’s going on?

The code on my homepage is pretty basic and looks like this:

<h3 class="sidetitle">Latest Tweets</h3>
{exp:twitter_timeline type="user" limit="2" user="****" password="*****"}
{if count == 1}
                    {profile_image_url}<h5><a href="http://twitter.com/matkeller" title="http://twitter.com/matkeller">twitter.com/_matkeller</a></h5>
<p>                    <div class="clearboth"> </div><br />
{/if}<br />
                    "{text}"<br />
<span class="label">{created_at format="%D %j%S %M @ %G:%i%a"}</span><br />
{/exp:twitter_timeline}<br />
                    <a href="http://{path=twitter}">View More ></a>

I also have a stand alone page at http://www.mathewkeller.com/twitter and this just refuses to load.

I had been running twitter_timeline 1.1 so i’ve tried updating the 1.2 with no luck. Interestingly i also installed the twit-ee module just to see if the problem was confined to the plugin, however that doesn’t work either.

Can anyone help me out?

Have you turned on debugging to see what is output?

Also, have your tried reducing the template until it works?

Hi Erin

Yeah, using the standalone page (http://www.mathewkeller.com/twitter) I’ve played around with the template, stripping it down to the bare components, but it’s as simple as with the {exp:twitter_timeline}{/exp:twitter_timeline} code in, it won’t load, without it in it loads fine.

The other thing about debugging is of course because the page never fully loads with the twitter_timeline code in so I never see the debug code!  :long:
All I get is a “The server could not complete your request.” error.

That’s bizarre that it won’t load anything from the get-go. Maybe try an official widget to see if it’s some sort of DNS problem. Have you checked your server’s error log from the times you tried to load it?

I’ve now tried to use the official html widget from Twitter and that works fine (as you can see here: http://www.mathewkeller.com/temp/).

Server’s error log shows absolutely nothing wrong.

I just installed this modified version of the Twitter Timeline plug-in. Everything is working nicely. You might give it a try.