mb-purple unable to authenticate to twitter via oauth as of approx 10-Oct-2012

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. have twitgin (aka pidgin-microblog-0.3.0 ) installed in Pidgin
  config'd to use OAuth over TLS/SSL 

2. works fine for ~2 years until approx 10-Oct-2012. I did not touch my working 
twitgin config -- it just started failing

3. consistent authn failures since then

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
pidgin-microblog-0.3.0

ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Jeff.Hod...@KingsMountain.com on 12 Oct 2012 at 2:38

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Deleted my previous comment.

Comparing the Win32/64  vs  Ubuntu  login shows that my Windows instance 
created the account as   user@api.twitter.com,  whereas my  ubuntu  showed  
user@twitter.com.

Debug showed that the problem was "page not found"  when trying to 
register/log-in, so I changed the account username  to  user@api.twitter.com  
under ubuntu, and it worked fine.

So, the issue appears that twitter held on to an outdated method until last 
week, but has cleaned it up.

tl;dr:   change your twitter account username to    user@api.twitter.com

Original comment by ak.hep...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2012 at 6:01

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for what it's worth...

> change your twitter account username to    user@api.twitter.com

.. I did indeed try that back then in Oct-2012 and it didn't work for me.  I've 
just been using the  www.twitter.com webapp since then :-/

Original comment by Jeff.Hod...@KingsMountain.com on 12 Jun 2013 at 6:26