Twitter action stream not updating

By Jack Lail on May 12, 2010 at 5:06 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Has anybody else noticed the Twitter action stream not updating becaues of Tweets from Google?

My activity log shows this error:

Error updating events for jack lail's twitter_statuses stream (type twitter ident jacklail):
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 136, column 73, byte 7964:
</author>
<twitter:source>
<a href="http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164577" rel="nofollow">Google</a> </twitter:source>
========================================================================^
<twitter:place/>
</entry>
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux/XML/Parser.pm line 187

Any fix for this?

when I click on the RSS icon on my Twitter page, the RSS link is

The error seems to only be generated when the source of the Tweet is from Google.

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164577

Reported on Movable Type 5

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Mike T | May 12, 2010 6:24 AM | Reply

There's really no fix for that other than to fix the incoming XML. The XML parser has to be strict with this behavior in order to keep from causing extremely weird errors all over the place caused by parsing badly form XML.