Twitter chat keeps disconnecting after a few seconds.
When I open the chat tab for my Twitter account upon opening Thunderbird, it connects briefly, then disconnects after a few minutes. It will then try to connect again, but usually only manages it for a few seconds. After several attempts, it finally can't connect at all. When I try to check the "show chat status," I get an "Error: 429 - {"errors":[{"message":"Rate limit exceeded", "code", 88}]}". It just started doing this a week or two ago. I only use it one or two days a week so I'm not sure what day it suddenly started. It worked fine before that since I set it up a couple of months ago. When I try to check the "chat status" under tools, it is greyed out so that I can't click on it.
I think that's all the relevant data... Any ideas of what's wrong? Aside from Thunderbird chat is trying to connect to Twitter too much after the initial connection problems? Thanks.
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Hi I've located some info on this. It would seem Twitter has done this deliberately and disabled the user streaming API. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/api-reference/user-stream
People are trying to come up with a workaround. see bug reports:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486850
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445778
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Hi I've located some info on this. It would seem Twitter has done this deliberately and disabled the user streaming API. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/api-reference/user-stream
People are trying to come up with a workaround. see bug reports:
Cheers. Bug reports match with my experience. It's a shame as I was really enjoying that feature. Hope the coding gods are able to come up with a work around.