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Asked: 2026-05-21T07:31:58+00:00

I’m trying the following sample code, and failing (the uid and password I’m using

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I’m trying the following sample code, and failing (the uid and password I’m using are valid). Is there something I’m missing, or a simpler example I can try?

testing.rb:

require('rubygems')
gem('twitter4r','>=0.2.0')
require('twitter')

client = Twitter::Client.new(:login => 'uid', :password => 'password')

ARGV.each do |a|
    @message = "#{a}"
end

status = client.status(:post, @message)

prompt> ruby testing.rb “test”

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.6.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:120:in
`raise_rest_error': Unauthorized
(Twitter::UnauthorizedError)    from
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.6.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:125:in
`handle_rest_response'  from
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.6.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:23:in `rest_oauth_connect'   from
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.6.0/lib/twitter/client/status.rb:42:in `status'     from testing.rb:11
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  1. Editorial Team

    @blueberryfields you will need to use the OAuth API that Twitter4R v0.5.0+ supports. This is due to Twitter.com mandating OAuth authentication as of August 2010. Supplying the login and password of your username is no longer supported either via Twitter4R, twitter.com or any other Twitter API client.

    There is a fantastic tutorial on using OAuth with Twitter4R at this blog:
    http://blog.monnet-usa.com/?p=342

    HTH,

    @SusanPotter — Author of Twitter4R

    PS Also check out @t4ruby for updates to Twitter4R

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