Sep 17, 2011 by
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We had a partial outage of the SuperTweet.net API service and a full outage of the main www.SuperTweet.net site (for logging in and setting up new accounts). The root cause of the outage was immediately resolved and the service restored as soon as we realized www.Supertweet.net was down.
Unfortunately, our notification systems failed, and so none of our (all volunteer) admins were notified of the outage for several hours. We are looking into why all of the notification systems failed and we have added two additional notification systems as backups to hopefully prevent another issue of this type in the future.
We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may have caused.
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Jul 13, 2011 by
SuperTweetNews
With the new Twitter API permission model, if you need access to your direct messages in your apps that use the SuperTweet.net API, for existing accounts, you need to re-authenticate to again have access to your DMs. Here is the procedure:
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Log out of SuperTweet.net: http://www.supertweet.net/logout
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On Twitter, revoke access to the MyAuthAPIProxy application: http://twitter.com/settings/applications
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Sign in to SuperTweet.net to re-authenticate: SuperTweet.net
Now, when you sign in, Twitter should inform you that the MyAuthAPIProxy app will have access to your direct messages.
Note: You only need to go through this procedure if (a) you signed up prior to today AND (b) you want to use the SuperTweet.net API to access your direct messages.
Prospectively, all new sign-ups automatically have RW+DM access.
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Jun 24, 2011 by
SuperTweetNews
Please be advised that we are not automatically approving accounts for use with Rainmeter. For more information, see When not to use SuperTweet.net MyAPI Proxy.
Rainmeter users have these options:
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Use the FREE stand-alone version of the SuperTweet proxy with Rainmeter on your own computer.
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Join the SuperTweet.net federation by hosting a SuperTweet.net slave server.
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Try one of the alternative services (not affiliated with SuperTweet.net) such as: http://twitter.alixsys.com/.
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Make a donation of $5.00 USD or more and indicate your Twitter ID to have your account activated (specify the Twitter ID associated with the donation in the Notes field of the Paypal donation).
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Wait for the next release of the Rainmeter Twitter plugin with native OAuth support (link from developers would go here, if they provide us with one).
The SuperTweet.net service is operated and funded entirely by volunteers. Unlike Twitter, SuperTweet.net is not a for-profit venture and has received no outside funding. Your donations keep the service running. If you use the SuperTweet.net service, please make a donation of $5.00 USD or more and indicate your Twitter ID to have your account reviewed immediately. Note: please specify the Twitter ID associated with the donation in the Notes field of the Paypal donation.
You can also install the stand-alone proxy on your computer to access the Twitter API directly without the SuperTweet.net service - It's a 100% free option and open-source, brought to you by the SuperTweet.net volunteers
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Jun 24, 2011 by
SuperTweetNews
Twitter is changing the permission model for Twitter Applications and it affects the SuperTweet.net MyAuthAPIProxy application. The changes specifically apply to Direct Messages.
The APIs affected are:
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/1/direct_messages.{format}
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/1/direct_messages/sent.{format}
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/1/direct_messages/destroy.{format}
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/1/direct_messages/show.{format}
The SuperTweet.net application permissions have been been updated so that any new users will have the permissions necessary to use these APIs, but the permission changes do not apply retroactively to existing users.
Existing SuperTweet.net users that need to access their Direct Messages using the SuperTweet.net API (those using any of the API urls above), will need to re-authorize to pick up the new permissions and have them applied to their SuperTweet.net account.
Again, this is not a problem for users that signed up within the past week or so. This applies after June 30th, 2011. We will have a mechanism to re-authorize in place soon. See Twitter FAQ on this issue.
UPDATE: See: Procedure for granting access to Direct Messages to SuperTweet.net apps for existing accounts
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Jun 3, 2011 by
SuperTweetNews
Rainmeter users have worked around some of the limits we had to impose before and are once again slamming the SuperTweet.net servers. The funny thing is, all they're doing by hacking like this is accelerating the day when SuperTweet.net will shut down and they won't have any service at all.
Too bad they won't put the same kind of energy into getting the Rainmeter developer to fix their code to use OAuth natively!
And where are the volunteers from this community to help support SuperTweet.net? They could donate resources, or host a server or help in other ways. But no. Instead they plot to subvert SuperTweet.net.
Rainmeter, Rainmeter, go away - and don't come back another day.
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