Comment 54 for bug 595265

According to bug 569543, the cause is because gwibber tries to parse user data which is only sent to gwibber the first time the gwibber application is authorized for a given facebook account. Is there anyone affected by this bug who is a first-time user of gwibber?

Workaround that works for me:
- Sign into Facebook using a web browser
- Click Account, then Application settings
- in the Show drop-down, select Authorized
- Scroll to the Desktop Applications section at the bottom of the page
- click the X to delete Gwibber
- re-add your facebook account to gwibber as usual

(Note that my FB accounts have a username from facebook.com/username; I do not know if this is a factor, but previous documentation indicates that this is also required by gwibber.)

This bug is still a problem because the root cause hasn't been resolved -- it's not possible to e.g. add the account to multiple gwibber instances because the data is only available to the first computer where you add the facebook account to gwibber. (IIRC, removing the app from Facebook /should/ cancel previous authorizations for other instances of gwibber.) It appears that the SRU in intended to prevent someone from adding an invalid account entry to gwibber, but it also makes the original bug more obvious because you suddenly can't add accounts that you thought you could add before.