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iOS 7 - Twitter notification issue
This has been getting me down, and I'm out of ideas. On my main twitter account, for one person I follow (@IndieGala), every single tweet is sent as a notification. After a quick bit of reading, I found two different methods to stop the tweets showing up, and I disabled it. A few hours later, they w...
This has been getting me down, and I'm out of ideas.
On my main twitter account, for one person I follow (@IndieGala), every single tweet is sent as a notification.
After a quick bit of reading, I found two different methods to stop the tweets showing up, and I disabled it. A few hours later, they were showing up again.
So I repeatedly disabled them for a couple of weeks, and it didn't ever stick.
I then uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and that seemed to fix it. For about 15 hours, then once again the tweets started showing up.
If I go into settings and tweet notifications, the account is there. I disable it in that menu, and it vanishes. When the notification inevitably shows, it's back in the list as If I had never removed it.
I don't want to disable notifications entirely, and there is an account who's tweets I do want pushed so I don't want to disable that entirely either.
Has anyone had something similar to this? It's literally driving me to the edge of insanity.
Thanks
Jademalo
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Sep 11, 2014, 11:51 PM
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How can I block the Twitter website on iPhone?
**Question:** How can I block the Twitter website on iPhone with Apple Configurator? I want to block Twitter in order to reduce my screen time. Configurator is an app for installing configuration profiles. Among other things, a profile can filter content. **Specific Websites Only:** I tried installi...
**Question:** How can I block the Twitter website on iPhone with Apple Configurator? I want to block Twitter in order to reduce my screen time. Configurator is an app for installing configuration profiles. Among other things, a profile can filter content.
**Specific Websites Only:** I tried installing a profile with a Content Filter payload for Specific Websites Only. I allowed only one website: http://example.com . Please see the following screenshot of the Specific Websites Only profile. This blocked other websites, but it did not block the Twitter website.
**Limit Adult Content:** I also tried installing a profile with a Content Filter payload to Limit Adult Content. I did not give any Allowed URLs, and I gave the following four Unallowed URLs: http://twitter.com , https://twitter.com , http://mobile.twitter.com , https://mobile.twitter.com . Please see the following screenshot of the Limit Adult Content profile. This also did not block the Twitter website.
**Screen Time:** I would rather not use Screen Time because it only supports a four-digit PIN –– not an arbitrary-length password. For more information, please see the question "Screen Time Passcode: Use Password rather than 4-digit PIN?" on Ask Different.
I tried Screen Time nevertheless. In the Never Allow section of Web Content settings, I added the the following two URLs: mobile.twitter.com and twitter.com. Please see the following screenshot of Web Content settings. This also did not block the Twitter website.
**Related:** Karel Bik asked the question "Screen Time doesn't work for Safari on Big Sur" on Ask Different. This question refers to Screen Time for Mac, and my question refers to Screen Time for iPhone.
Scott Hanselman tweeted, "Screen Time on iOS is a joke. It’s been a hot mess since iOS 14. It turns off randomly. Limits aren’t hard limits, Downtime turns off every few days. Super frustrating for parents."
**Tags:** The iPhone tag on Super User says, "iPhone-related questions must involve connecting the device to a computer." The iOS tag also says, "Questions about iOS devices are off-topic except insofar as they interact directly with computers." This question involves connecting the iPhone to Mac because Configurator only runs on Mac –– not on iPhone. Therefore this question is in scope for both of these tags.



Brian Schack
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Jan 29, 2023, 09:17 PM
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How do I sign out of a Twitter account on the iPhone?
When I use an app such as Safari, I can choose to "Tweet" a page and it uses my Twitter account. How do I sign out of that Twitter account so that if I give my device to someone else, they can no longer tweet things on my behalf?
When I use an app such as Safari, I can choose to "Tweet" a page and it uses my Twitter account. How do I sign out of that Twitter account so that if I give my device to someone else, they can no longer tweet things on my behalf?
Senseful
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Mar 21, 2012, 01:21 AM
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Where is the Twitter Library for images stored?
By this I mean: when I use Twitter or Fenix on iPadOS 16, and go to choose an image to go with my tweet, it displays a whole bunch of images, including a lot from my old iPad - this suggests that it is accessing iCloud, since my current iPad is only 4 days old! The problem is that I have a couple of...
By this I mean: when I use Twitter or Fenix on iPadOS 16, and go to choose an image to go with my tweet, it displays a whole bunch of images, including a lot from my old iPad - this suggests that it is accessing iCloud, since my current iPad is only 4 days old!
The problem is that I have a couple of images visible in the “On My iPad” option in the files app, but I cannot find anywhere in the “iCloud” option than has all of these old files. I would like to be able to choose these two “On My iPad” images for my tweet, but Twitter and Fenix appear to be looking elsewhere. I hope I’ve explained the problem clearly!
carlcaulkett
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How do I disable "swipe up for more" when watching videos on Twitter?
On the official Twitter iPhone app, a distracting bar saying "swipe up for more" will often repeatedly pop up on the bottom of the screen while I'm trying to watch a video. I've tried to dismiss the prompt by swiping to a new video a few times, but the bar keeps coming back when I try to watch a dif...
On the official Twitter iPhone app, a distracting bar saying "swipe up for more" will often repeatedly pop up on the bottom of the screen while I'm trying to watch a video. I've tried to dismiss the prompt by swiping to a new video a few times, but the bar keeps coming back when I try to watch a different video.
How can I permanently disable the "swipe up for more" bar that appears when watching videos on Twitter?

Stevoisiak
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Sep 12, 2022, 07:51 PM
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Twitter media sometimes stops loading both in Twitter.app and through Safari
This is a weird one. At first I thought it was just a problem with the Twitter app running in macOS sometimes just stops loading any media (pictures, gifs, videos). But then I noticed that twitter.com through Safari would exhibit the exact same problem, and loading the same tweet in Chrome worked pe...
This is a weird one. At first I thought it was just a problem with the Twitter app running in macOS sometimes just stops loading any media (pictures, gifs, videos). But then I noticed that twitter.com through Safari would exhibit the exact same problem, and loading the same tweet in Chrome worked perfectly. This happens sometimes, I think most notably the next morning. My computer doesn't go to sleep since I use it for some server purposes.
Screenshots below are of the same tweet around the same time, one in the Twitter app, one in Safari and one in Chrome just to illustrate the point.
I'm thinking this is some sort of issue with macOS' networking/cache layer? I'm running Little Snitch but tries disabling it but the problem persisted.
I don't know, anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help I can get on this!
**Twitter.app**
**Safari**
**Chrome**



Arno
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May 26, 2021, 07:45 PM
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Twitter images don't load on one device
Periodically on my Mac, images and videos from Twitter fail to load, consistently for a few hours or days at a time. I get this or something like it in Safari, Twitter's app, and third party Twitter apps. [![Twitter post with missing image][1]][1] Some relevant-seeming details: - Other devices on th...
Periodically on my Mac, images and videos from Twitter fail to load, consistently for a few hours or days at a time. I get this or something like it in Safari, Twitter's app, and third party Twitter apps.
Some relevant-seeming details:
- Other devices on the same wifi network don't have this problem, it's just the one Mac.
- Aside from this, networking seems fine on the Mac. Only Twitter images and videos are affected.
- The Mac doesn't have any of its own firewalls, proxy configs, or anything special about its network setup.
- I'm currently on macOS 12.3.1 but this isn't a new problem.
Where can I look to try and find what's causing this?

Tom Harrington
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Apr 11, 2022, 05:01 PM
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How do I clear cookies from the Twitter app internal browser on iPhone?
Just to clarify, I've tried cleaning the Safari cookies with no success.
Just to clarify, I've tried cleaning the Safari cookies with no success.
falmp
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May 2, 2014, 08:39 PM
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I think my Mac swallowed Facebook and Twitter - How to get them back?
I upgraded today from Sierra to Mojave and now my share menu seems to be broken. Previously I could share content directly to sites like Facebook and Twitter. For instance I could right-click on a photo and choose to share it to Twitter, Facebook and so on like so: [![enter image description here][1...
I upgraded today from Sierra to Mojave and now my share menu seems to be broken.
Previously I could share content directly to sites like Facebook and Twitter. For instance I could right-click on a photo and choose to share it to Twitter, Facebook and so on like so:
Now if I click on a photo and choose to share, I don’t get Twitter or Facebook as options anymore:
How can I enable these options?


user344193
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Sep 3, 2019, 10:19 AM
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On iOS how to view the tweets of a particular user in Twifferific and Tweetbot
Let's say I found in a bio the twitter handle `@BarackObama` (or even a less popular one) and I want to quickly look at the tweets of this user. I'm having a hard time finding an easy way to do this in [Twitterrific](https://twitterrific.com/ios). Is it possible? How do I do it? Plus I'm thinking of...
Let's say I found in a bio the twitter handle
@BarackObama
(or even a less popular one) and I want to quickly look at the tweets of this user.
I'm having a hard time finding an easy way to do this in [Twitterrific](https://twitterrific.com/ios) . Is it possible? How do I do it?
Plus I'm thinking of switching to [Tweetbot](https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/) - how do i do it in this app?
halloleo
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Mar 15, 2019, 11:22 AM
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Twitter iOS App: Can I Control Notifications on All Accounts I'm Logged Into?
With the recent changes in Twitter, you can not tweet to more than one account using third party apps such as HootSuite. I use Twitter to tweet from several accounts on my iPhone. I only want to receive notifications from my Twitter account. Can this be done without shutting off the notifications fo...
With the recent changes in Twitter, you can not tweet to more than one account using third party apps such as HootSuite. I use Twitter to tweet from several accounts on my iPhone. I only want to receive notifications from my Twitter account. Can this be done without shutting off the notifications for the other account owners?
Pamela Cook - LightBe Corp
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Feb 16, 2019, 09:55 PM
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Why is twitter unreachable from Chrome but not Safari?
I am using macOS 10.13.6. When I go to www.twitter.com in Google Chrome I get a ``` This site can't be reached. https://www.twitter.com/ is unreachable. ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE ``` On the same machine I can fire up Safari and I can get to the same url with no problem. On Chrome I tried using a guest...
I am using macOS 10.13.6. When I go to www.twitter.com in Google Chrome I get a
This site can't be reached.
https://www.twitter.com/ is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE
On the same machine I can fire up Safari and I can get to the same url with no problem. On Chrome I tried using a guest and incognito account with no luck. I also used the settings feature to restore settings to their original default. Nothing seems to help. I am not having this problem with any other site, just twitter.
Tod
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Jan 12, 2019, 07:33 PM
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How to revoke 3rd-party apps Twitter integration on iOS 11?
I used to have some iOS apps that were authorized to access my Twitter account through the legacy Twitter integration feature in old iOS version. This feature is no longer available in iOS 11. According to Twitter (https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/revoke-twitter-access-on-ios-app) : > Note:...
I used to have some iOS apps that were authorized to access my Twitter account through the legacy Twitter integration feature in old iOS version. This feature is no longer available in iOS 11.
According to Twitter (https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/revoke-twitter-access-on-ios-app) :
> Note: Though you will see other specific apps like Twitter for iPhone
> or Camera for iOS listed in your active connections, you cannot revoke
> access to these individual apps; you have to revoke access for the
> entire iOS integration.
How do I revoke those apps' access if all my devices are running iOS 11?
Yuhao Zhang
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May 4, 2018, 01:24 AM
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How to get to Tweet in native iOS Twitter app from another app's webview?
Often I'm in some iOS app (e.g. Facebook) and there's a link to some Tweet's URL. When I tap on it, it takes me to the web version of the Tweet inside a webview in whatever app I was in. Then if I want to like the Tweet, I have to login to Twitter again inside the webview even though I'm already log...
Often I'm in some iOS app (e.g. Facebook) and there's a link to some Tweet's URL. When I tap on it, it takes me to the web version of the Tweet inside a webview in whatever app I was in. Then if I want to like the Tweet, I have to login to Twitter again inside the webview even though I'm already logged in to Twitter in the native iOS Twitter app. Is there a quick way to get to the same Tweet in the native app?
Liron Yahdav
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Nov 20, 2017, 06:54 AM
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How can I get notifications on my iPhone of Twitter hashtag mentions?
I must be missing something simple here. I'm not a big Twitter user, but this seems like something that should be obvious and simple. I can get notifications on my iPhone (iOS 8) whenever certain people tweet. I want to get a notification when anyone ever tweets certain hashtags. Is this possible wi...
I must be missing something simple here. I'm not a big Twitter user, but this seems like something that should be obvious and simple.
I can get notifications on my iPhone (iOS 8) whenever certain people tweet. I want to get a notification when anyone ever tweets certain hashtags. Is this possible with the default Twitter app or perhaps some third-party offering?
Chuck
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Jun 23, 2015, 02:54 AM
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Is there a way to view history in the iOS twitter app?
I read an interesting article in the iOS twitter app about a week ago. I forgot to star or retweet it and now I have no idea how to find it. Is there some way to view a web history in the Twitter app? I posted a [related question][1] on programmers trying to find specific article, but it got closed...
I read an interesting article in the iOS twitter app about a week ago. I forgot to star or retweet it and now I have no idea how to find it. Is there some way to view a web history in the Twitter app?
I posted a related question on programmers trying to find specific article, but it got closed :/
cmcculloh
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Oct 31, 2012, 08:07 PM
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Cannot authenticate to twitter, facebook, linkedin in "Internet Accounts" MBP OSX 10.9.4
OSX Mavericks 10.9.4 on an MBP I cannot authenticate to any social network from the "Internet Accounts" in System Preferences, usually the response is: "Unable to verify account name or password" (I have checked these credentials at the websites for the appropriate networks) Here is an example resul...
OSX Mavericks 10.9.4 on an MBP
I cannot authenticate to any social network from the "Internet Accounts" in System Preferences, usually the response is: "Unable to verify account name or password"
(I have checked these credentials at the websites for the appropriate networks)
Here is an example result from the system.log:
Jul 17 14:48:15 apa com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice: *** accountTypeWithAccountTypeIdentifier:com.apple.facebook returned nil
Jul 17 14:48:15 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 17 14:48:15 apa com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice: -[IAAccount initWithProviderType:loginName:] -- *** Missing parameter. provider = com.apple.account.facebook; loginName = (null)
Jul 17 14:48:15 apa com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice: *** accountTypeWithAccountTypeIdentifier:com.apple.facebook returned nil
I have verified and tried facebook, twitter, linkedin, and flickr. I mostly just want to integrate these services into the notification center.
Has anyone seen this behavior (failure for all social networks)? Any fixes? Thanks for looking...
Scott Presnell
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Jul 17, 2014, 10:04 PM
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How to launch Twitter app from Tweet URL in Reminders in iOS 11
I am using 6th gen iPod touch. When I was using iOS 10.3, Tweet URLs in Reminders showed with Twitter icons, and I could open Twitter app from Reminders by tapping Tweet URLs. From when I updated to iOS 11, Tweet URLs in Reminders showed without icons, and I could not open neither Twitter app nor Sa...
I am using 6th gen iPod touch.
When I was using iOS 10.3, Tweet URLs in Reminders showed with Twitter icons, and I could open Twitter app from Reminders by tapping Tweet URLs.
From when I updated to iOS 11, Tweet URLs in Reminders showed without icons, and I could not open neither Twitter app nor Safari from Reminders by tapping Tweet URLs.
How can I launch Twitter app with tap Tweet URL in Reminders in iOS 11 ?
SATO Yusuke
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Oct 10, 2017, 03:27 PM
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Twitter app on iOS 9 doesn't connect through proxy
I'm connecting to a local proxy to access internet on my iPhone/iOS 9 but Twitter app seems not using the global proxy i've set for my wifi... Other apps like Chrome & Safari are working just fine!
I'm connecting to a local proxy to access internet on my iPhone/iOS 9 but Twitter app seems not using the global proxy i've set for my wifi...
Other apps like Chrome & Safari are working just fine!
Mehdi
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Nov 5, 2015, 10:07 AM
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Where did Twitter and Facebook accounts go in iOS 11?
so I did not realize I was lacking this until I couldn’t use Twitter or Facebook to login to certain other accounts. I can’t seem to locate the area in Settings where I once had Twitter and Facebook listed (separately from the rest of the apps) and could manage my accounts for those two services fro...
so I did not realize I was lacking this until I couldn’t use Twitter or Facebook to login to certain other accounts. I can’t seem to locate the area in Settings where I once had Twitter and Facebook listed (separately from the rest of the apps) and could manage my accounts for those two services from there. I’ve been prompted to “go to settings” and log in multiple times. Does anyone know where these are located now, whether they have been wholly removed, or wherever I need to do something to restore them? Thanks.
A.fm.
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Jul 12, 2017, 04:18 AM
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