Could not authenticate

[Jared Kendall]

Hi there – I’ve never used Twitter’s API before, so I’m sure I’m just missing something fundamental and simple, but when I try to run the tool, I get this message:

returned code 401. Truncated server response: {“errors”:[{“message”:”Could not authenticate you”,”code”:32}]} (use muteHttpExceptions option to examine full response)

[mhawksey]

hi – which step do you get this message. Is it after you enter your twitter key/secret but before you are given a button to sign in with twitter?

[Jared Kendall]

It’s when I click on the button to update and run the search — in Twitter, the app is listed as authorized, and I’ve entered the key/secret key (assuming I did so correctly).

Again, I’m fairly confident I’ve missed something fundamental and simple… Just no idea what it is.

[mhawksey]

Usually in your twitter application setting the Callback URL (which is not a required field) as well as a webiste url catches people out but I thought the error message was different for this. Worth checking though

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