[SRU] Oops, an authentication error occured!

[DrKay]

SRU Details:
[Impact]

Twitter has shut down their old API on June 11th 2013 [1]. The current version Hotot in Ubuntu 13.04 (and older) uses this old API and hence logging in to Twitter from Hotot fails. Consequently, the whole application is unusable. Ubuntu 13.10 has already a working version of Hotot as part of bug 1191293.

[Test Case]

1. Open Hotot.
2. Notice that the automatic login fails to load the tweets and displays "Oops, an authentication error occured" as an error message. Manually clicking on the right arrow does not complete the log in either.
3. Upgrade to upstream release v. 0.9.8.14 and notice that login to Twitter works.

[Regression Potential]
Minimal, as the current version in the repositories no longer works. The new upstream release v. 0.9.8.14 is needed to switch to the new Twitter API.

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates

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Workaround: Use the Hotot PPA at ppa:hotot-team/ppa, though it's not as up to date than Saucy's version of Hotot. Please see https://github.com/lyricat/Hotot/issues/553 for more information.
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Original report:
I cannot authenticate with Hotot (cannot access Twitter).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bryan Moore (moore-bryan)]

Any word on getting this working?

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Did you have this issue before June 11th?
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[DrKay (dr-jameskay)]

* Did you have this issue before June 11th? NO

* Is this reproducible? YES-- I have two different Ubuntu 12.04 machines with the exact same issue.

* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Try logging into your Twitter account with Hotot. You may get this error.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for your reply. This issue appears to be caused by Twitter's change in its API on June 11th. The status of Hotot's PPA (ppa:hotot-team/ppa )is a bit unclear but it should solve this issue. I can confirm that the v. 0.9.8.14 in the PPA solves the issue. Ubuntu 13.10 also has v. 0.9.8.14 in the repositories, so I'm updating the bug's description for a SRU. Thanks.