Twitter portlet uses incorrect base URL for retrieving tweets; tweets do not show up in activities stream

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.0.6 GA, 6.0.12 EE, 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.X EE, 6.1.X EE, 6.2.0 CE M4
• Component/s: Social Networking, Social Networking > Twitter, Tools > Plugins SDK > Portlets, Tools > Plugins SDK > Web
• Labels:
  • QA-PORTAL
• Environment: Tomcat 7 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 6d280617f28523c41bd9dae101c9b948eb6abaf0 ; Plugins 6.2.x GIT ID: 714c43fcb2f3adb9302fcca3076d288d19c231ee
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x, 6.0.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
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The twitter portlet uses this incorrect (deprecated, no longer supported) prefix:

	private static final String _URL =
		"http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/";

This causes tweets to not show up in the activities stream.

It needs to be udpated to use this:

        private static final String _URL =
                "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/";

[Christine Pince]

Reproduced on:
Tomcat 7 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: f20ae16c7c6cf047ce07fcaee8dd9e389b6301ec.
Plugins 6.2.x GIT ID: 6afa94b9c21a8f46bd8a955bd43afe6b8b93bf4b.

[Ryan Park]

The new Twitter API requires authentication.

{"errors":[{"message":"Bad Authentication data","code":215}]}

[Shinn Lok]

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting#rest

Unauthenticated calls are permitted 150 requests per hour. Unauthenticated calls are measured against the public facing IP of the server or device making the request.

OAuth calls are permitted 350 requests per hour and are measured against the oauth_token used in the request.

[Christine Pince]

PASSED Manual Testing with the following steps

1. Deploy Twitter portlet
2. Navigate to My Public Pages
3. Add Twitter portlet
4. Add Activities portlet
5. Configure Twitter portlet to twitter account
6. Wait 5 min
7. Assert tweets display on activities portlet

Fixed in:
Tomcat 6 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.0.x EE GIT ID: 3c92a27e3599bebb77d0f17210f1cd01eb27e425
Plugins 6.0.x EE GIT ID: b8c0efecc94e28f7d6dcc35d5d9b1fc5ec95342c.
Tomcat 7 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x EE GIT ID: d515bab505ad0648cb3dea13487f05a37574b575.
Plugins 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 95adfdfa0c1d1c193234b9d28b870cd87c5a6f08.
Tomcat 7 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 175087b478b7c044912f20fcd9772a73e1e733e0.
Plugins 6.2.x GIT ID: 60d88d1d703c2ea3b14a9c3ed41369f10cec29c5.