AFTERWORD (is that a word?): After submitting this post I got a very helpful comment from Gedeon at the IconFactory who helped to explain why I was getting these errors and possible remedies.
As it turns out the cynical conclusion I came to about my computer preventing me from becoming too addicted to Twitter by forcing me not to use it as much… was ironically accurate! As it turns out Twitter itself has a limit to the number of accesses to their site you can make in a given period of time, and obviously with Twitterrific running on my Mac, TwitBin running on Firefox on FreeBSD and m.twitter.com on my phone I consistently overshoot my allowed number.
Twitterrific is a native Mac OS X application that displays tweets you and your friends have posted on Twitter, the microblogging site that I am hopelessly addicted to and post to almost every hour of every day.
Well I was having no end of trouble with the 2.x series of it on Mac OS X Leopard which is understandable considering it was written originally for Tiger, the latest version seems only to have added advertising and not fixed the endless stream of Twitter Errors
that seem to always sit as the first post:
ASIDE: That advertisement for Camino popped up just before I took the screenshot. As you might have already read, Camino is my favourite web browser on Mac… how ironic!
I’ve tried allowing the Twitterrific app in the new Leopard firewall settings panel and have checked all my other networking settings but it still shows these errors constantly. To get a version without advertisements you have to pay $20.00, but I want to know that what I pay for actually works :(.
Anyone else had problems running Twitterrific on Leopard? I tried running Snitter as an alternative, but uninstalled it because it was giving me even more problems. Does my beloved MacBook Pro think I’m wasting too much time on Twitter and is trying to stop me posting to it? Is it an intervention on my computer’s part? That’s probably the reason!
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Hey there,
I recommend turning off errors in Twitterrific’s preferences. It won’t help them come less frequently, but it will help you not to get annoyed by them so much.
One way to reduce the number of errors is to make sure you’re not running multiple copies of the app at any one time (home & work etc). You only have so many connections to your twitter account per hour, so if you are refreshing too often, or have multiple apps checking your twitter account, you’ll start to get 504 errors.
Hope this helps!
Ged
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