Below are the most common publishing errors for Twitter/X:
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1. This account is temporarily locked
‼ Error message:
To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, this account is temporarily locked. Please log in to https://twitter.com to unlock your account.
📔 Explanation:
Twitter has noticed some malicious activity in your account and to keep you safe, they have blocked it.
✅ Solution:
Login to your Twitter account and follow the steps provided by Twitter to unblock your account.
2. Tweet needs to be a bit shorter
‼ Error message:
code: 186,
message: Tweet needs to be a bit shorter.
📔 Explanation:
Your tweet is too long.
Twitter maximum allowed tweet length is 280 characters.
✅ Solution:
Shorten your tweet to under 280 characters.
3. Your account is suspended and is not permitted to access this feature
‼ Error message:
code: 64,
message: Your account is suspended and is not permitted to access this feature.
📔 Explanation:
There are different reasons why Twitter would suspend your account.
Please refer to this article for more information.
✅ Solution:
Please follow the steps provided by Twitter.
4. Forbidden
‼ Error message:
detail: Forbidden,
status: 403,
title: Forbidden
📔 Explanation:
Our app does not have the needed permissions to publish on your behalf.
✅ Solution:
Please verify (& fix) your connection with Twitter.
5. Service Unavailable
‼ Error message:
detail: Service Unavailable,
status: 503,
title: Service Unavailable
📔 Explanation:
This is a server error, which means something has gone wrong on Twitter's API side.
✅ Solution:
The only thing you can do is try again later, once Twitter is up & running again.