Tweet Addon Error – Could not tweet

[dwbone]

I see other similar problem but not sure the error message is appears to be different.

I get this error when attempting to tweet:

Could not tweet, please try again later: 401:{“request”:”/1.1/statuses/update.json”,”error”:”Read-only application cannot POST.”}

[wzp]

https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/response-codes

Authentication credentials were missing or incorrect.

Are your user name and password correct?

[dwbone]

which username are you referring to? me the “buyer / tweeter”

or username and password for the site owner’s twitter account?

I don’t see a place for owner’s twitter un and pw in the settings, just the consumer key and secret.

Ammend:

there is the user name input, and that appears to be correct

[dwbone]

RE: username and password, i am not sure to whom that refers, but as a “the customer” in my test, yes my UN and PW are correct.

I have also confirmed that the API codes are correct.

I can see in the twitter account “access level” in the Keys and Access Tokens tab permissions are set to “read-only”

[wzp]

I can see in the twitter account “access level” in the Keys and Access Tokens tab permissions are set to “read-only”

Log back into https://apps.twitter.com and change your API permissions to Read/Write; per the addon documentation:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-content/uploads/docs/doc_eStore_tweet_for_download.pdf

[dwbone]

awesome, that did it. glad i noticed that option at all.

that detail is not particularly highlighted in the wp tweet documentation, especially up against that well highlighted red circle just below.

always really appreciate it your help

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