Octopress Twitter Plugin and the retired Twitter v1.0

Question

So I'm using Ocotopress 2 and love it. However, I think the twitter plugin may have been broken for a while before I noticed.

I suspect it's because it uses the now retired v1.0 twitter API.

I get

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 410 (Gone)

for the URL

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline...

Can anyone confirm that and suggest a fix? I can't/don't want to upgrade the Octopress 3 so I'm hoping there's an easy fix.

Answer 1

Yes, Twitter API v1.1 requires authentication so Octopress dropped it (see the issue on Github).

For a fix, I'm using a method described in this pull request which involves creating a Twitter timeline widget and adding the widget ID to _config.yml. Easy to setup and has worked quite well for my basic needs.