Twitter widget fails to retrieve feed
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Jetpack Twitter widget continuously fails to retrieve user feed displaying message: “Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.”
This problem is occurring simultaneously across all websites using the Twitter widget.
I’ve also posted an accompanying forum thread at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-widget-fails-to-retrieve-feed?replies=1Thanks for looking into this.
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Unfortunately, this issue is happening on Twitter’s end. They basically shut off access to the feeds when their services come under heavy loads. There’s nothing that we can do about it.
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Since adding the widget to my new site three days ago, the widget has not functioned once- even during off-peak hours. In light of that observation, it’s somewhat disingenuous of Twitter to claim it only shuts off feed access during heavy load periods.
Have the developers thought about providing an option to scrape user feeds directly via HTML to workaround the problem?
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That would add some significant load to your server, which probably wouldn’t make your host too happy.
There are other Twitter widgets which cache results for times when the feed is unavailable, we just haven’t worked that into Jetpack yet.
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Okay, thanks.
I have been checking it throughout the last day and it worked once but it only pulled one tweet and I have it set to show my last 5 tweets, not including retweets. The only other time I saw it work, it showed 3 retweets. Is there a certain timeframe it grabs from?
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