Comment 3 for bug 789851

Agreed. This should be a "high" priority at this point.

On Jun 30, 2011, at 14:50, James Gregory <email address hidden> wrote:

> This change has now come into effect, which means you cannot use Gwibber
> to view direct messages any more. I think the importance of this bug is
> higher than 'low', considering direct messages are a pretty crucial part
> to Twitter.
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> Title:
> Direct Messages view won't work in a few weeks
>
> Status in Gwibber:
> New
> Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> According to the Twitter API team, users will not be able to access
> Direct Messages by default after June 30th, 2011. For more on this,
> see [1] and [2].
>
> It should not require any change in the codebase, just a change in
> permissions level on dev.twitter.com [3]
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/e954fc0f8b5aa6ec?pli=1
> [2] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/7798d7f728170c5f#
> [3] http://dev.twitter.com
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