null posts in home_timeline

[David Novakovic]

Hey, seeing json like this:

....
"text": "I really need to work out a way to make myself read
more books...I've found three in the last 10 minutes."
},
null,
{
"coordinates": null,
.....


null objects being included in the list of tweets?

Only seems to have started today.

David

[Matt Harris]

Hi David,

Could you provide a couple of status IDs or a username so we can take
a look at this.

Thanks,
Matt

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Developer Advocate, Twitter
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[Kazuho Okui]

I'm having same issue. It looks like null tweets appear when your
follower deletes their tweets. You can easily reproduce this bug.

Many twitter applications stop working since this evening. (guess most
of apps can't handle null correctly.) I think this should be addressed
by twitter end.

Thanks,
Kazuho

[Thomas Woolway]

I'm seeing this in my home timeline - @tomwoolway. Matt, I've sent you the JSON output of my home timeline (seemed a bit big to spam the list with).

Tom

[Terence Eden]

Agreed - this is caused when a user deletes a tweet. Seen on my
timeline - @edent
Seeing a few complaints - but I'm guessing many clients may skip over
the null.

[Nik Fletcher]

Hi Guys

I'm also seeing this and forwarded on some markup for the
home_timeline to you, Matt.

It's easier to spot in XML, where Twitter are returning the following
between status objects:

<nil-classes type="array"/>

e.g. (objects hidden using code folding)

<status>
<status>
<nil-classes type="array"/>
<status>
<status>
<nil-classes type="array"/>
<status>
<status>

Cheers

-N

Type pattern

-N

On Aug 24, 10:07 am, Thomas Woolway <priv...@tswoolway.co.uk> wrote:

[Nik Fletcher]

Just a quick update to point any Twitter folks reading this thread to
issue #1823 on the bug tracker

http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1823

Cheers!

-N

[emmettoc]

Hello,

Many users of some client apps are still in trouble because of null
results in home_timeline.
You can check usernames in trouble by searching famous twitter app
names.

Did you change the api specific? Or do you have any plan to fix this?

Thanks,
emmettoc

[Nik Fletcher]

http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/22002256380

-N

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Nik Fletcher
@nikf

[Matt Harris]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for your patience and for sharing the erroneous responses.
We're working on this and will have a fix rolled out soon.

Best,
Matt

[Nik Fletcher]

Hey Matt,

Just a quick update. We're seeing a number of further reports of this
overnight. I'm trying to track it down with our users, but my own home
timeline is no longer showing the issue.

Cheers

-N
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Nik Fletcher
@nikf

[Caizer]

I read that it should be fixed from @twitterapi.

But I am still receiving the null in exactly same location.
Will it take some time to be applied to entire tweet response?


Caizer.

[Matt Harris]

Thanks for the information about this. We're aware nulls were showing
up again overnight and are looking into it now. I'll post an update
when I have more information.

Thanks for your patience everyone,
Matt

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