New Twitter rules knocked Stoker out?


 
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Stan

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I'm trying to get my Stoker to twitter updates, as I've used since buying it, but it does not seem to be working today. I got an email from Twitter this morning about client apps not being able to do some things, but honestly, I didn't really understand a lot of it (somewhat tech challenged).

Has anyone else had this issue?
 
See my Twiter entery. I can't get tweets to my account on the web or cell phone either. As I like to tell people I may be able to see the Microsoft complex accros the lake but that's as close as I get to being a computer expert.
 
Got this email this morning:

"Over the coming weeks, we will be making two important updates that will impact how you interact with Twitter applications. We are sending this notice to all Twitter users to make sure you are aware of these changes.

What are applications?

There are over 250,000 applications built using the Twitter API. To use most applications, you first authorize the application to access your Twitter account, after which you can use it to read and post Tweets, discover new users and more. Applications come in many varieties, including desktop applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic, or EchoFon, websites such as TweetMeme, fflick, or Topsy, or mobile applications such as Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Blackberry, or Foursquare.

Update 1: New authorization rules for applications

Starting August 31, all applications will be required to use “OAuth” to access your Twitter account.

What's OAuth?

OAuth is a technology that enables applications to access Twitter on your behalf with your approval without asking you directly for your password.
Desktop and mobile applications may still ask for your password once, but after that request, they are required to use OAuth in order to access your timeline or allow you to tweet.
What does this mean for me?

Applications are no longer allowed to store your password.
If you change your password, the applications will continue to work.
Some applications you have been using may require you to reauthorize them or may stop functioning at the time of this change.
All applications you have authorized will be listed at http://twitter.com/settings/connections.
You can revoke access to any application at any time from the list.
Update 2: t.co URL wrapping

In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. Wrapped links are displayed in a way that is easier to read, with the actual domain and part of the URL showing, so that you know what you are clicking on. When you click on a wrapped link, your request will pass through the Twitter service to check if the destination site is known to contain malware, and we then will forward you on to the destination URL. All of that should happen in an instant.

You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service; we expect to roll this out to all users by the end of the year. When this happens, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL.

What does this mean for me?

A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Deliveri...urpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users as amazon.com/Delivering- or as the whole URL or page title.
You will start seeing links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened links and lets you know where each link will take you.
When you click on these links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will log that click. We hope to use this data to provide better and more relevant content to you over time.
Thanks for reading this important update. Come and check what's new at http://twitter.com.

Thanks,
The Twitter Team"
 
I followed the link to the authorization website at Twitter, but couldn't make sense of it.
 
I read the same and like you I have no idea what all this means. Hopefully Amir see this and will give us a few answers. I'm somking two butts and I would like to have tweets sent to me so I could leave. Oh well I'll stay and monitor.
 
OK. I just purchased my stoker and it came loaded with firmware version 2.6.0.254 On the twitter page on the web server it has a spot for OAuth Proxy and that box is pre-filled with api.supertweet.net. I registered for supertweet and it was accepted by twitter about 24 hours later. I finally got my twitter to work, but I had to add http:// in front of the api.supertweet.net to get it to work. I received my test message and one update almost simultaneously. I am waiting to see my next update come through.
 
Wow I feel old. I don't understand most all of that. Sorry. Can the version of my Stoker be updated to do this?
 
Okay, so I went to super tweet.net and poked around, and it appears that's someplace I can route my tweets through? If so, I guess i need the Stoker firmware update that has the, whatever it was OAthingy you mentioned, already filled in. Then I'll need to modify with http:// in front of API.super tweet.net

So, I'm left with wondering how to, mid overnight cook, update my Stoker's firmware.
 
Pretty good explanation (similar to what dann g said, but with detail) on what needs to be done. My only problem is I'm a Mac user so I'm going to need to borrow a PC to do this update to the Stoker.

Hope this helps:

http://www.kaytat.com/
 
Looks like the answer is already given. Twitter changed how an application like stokerlog or the one in stoker send it messages. And in the process broke all those application.

I did not know they had done this until a week or two ago when someone post a message here. I have looked into the new authorization scheme and it is a lot more convoluted than the old. I should be able to figure it out soon though and make the change.

Stoker as explained, has a bigger problem in that it doesn't have the space to include code for the new functionality. So it uses a "proxy" site which talks to Twitter using the interface, but presents a simple one to talk to it. That is what stoker is doing now with updated firmware.
 
Is updating it that hard? After reading the read me.txt it sounds like I log bit a pc and the stoker onto a single network (enough to be able to see the ip address for the stoker) then run the .bat file and input the ip address of the stoker as the target, right?

Took me 3-4 reads of the directions for all these things, but I got past the intimidation of e lingo.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Stan:
Pretty good explanation (similar to what dann g said, but with detail) on what needs to be done. My only problem is I'm a Mac user so I'm going to need to borrow a PC to do this update to the Stoker.

Hope this helps:

http://www.kaytat.com/ </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I was able to update mine using Windows running under Parallels. I expect Fusion would work too, if you have either of those programs.

joe
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ian B (scoobyQ):
From reading this my take is that the stokerlog will not currently work with twitter updates? Is this correct? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ian, you are correct. Amir would need to update Stokerlog to use the new twitter security.
 
I tried to update the firmware today (from a PC on the same network as the Stoker - I could ping the Stoker) and it runs a few of the "Record: addr: ....... and State: addr ......" lines, then says

"Requesting upgrade application boot on Stoker Failed to connect."

Then I press any key as directed, and it closes the run window and exits the .bat file.

Anyone?
 
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