I wanted to give an update here. The issue has been resolved and was due to my account going the over limit. i.e. I messed up...
Thanks for the speedy support Twitter/Chad On Aug 28, 6:51 pm, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you sending the news items to your users via DMs? > > If so, your service will be severely restricted by the 1,000 DMs per > day limit. > > Dewald > > On Aug 28, 10:37 pm, bosher <bhellm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > My Twitter service just launched today -http://tweetmenews.com/ > > > After having a surge in users joining the site, I'm now receiving the > > following error messages: > > > 403:The request is understood, but it has been refused. An > > accompanying error message will explain why. > > <request>/direct_messages/new.xml</request> > > <error>You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.</ > > error> > > > I manually checked that the users I'm getting this error for are in > > fact following following the service's Twitter > > Account:http://twitter.com/TweetMeNews > > > Can someone offer some ideas on why this is suddenly happening? This > > is obvious not ideal for day 1. > > > Thanks
