Twitter API + OAuth: Can't send status updates, getting 401

Question

I\'m trying to use Twitter\'s API and OAuth to send status updates (new Tweets). I am using Shannon Whitley .NET code example http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=681 (as reco

Answer 1

If you authorized your application to access your Twitter account when the application was set in "read only access" mode and you get the "Read-only application cannot POST" error after changing the application settings to be "read and write access" then you have to revoke access to the application on https://twitter.com/settings/connections and then reauthorize it. The "read only" access_token tends to be sticky until you revoke it.