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twitter responds with HTTP 401 for missing profiles

Arne Hartherz
May 03, 2016Software engineer at makandra GmbH

When your application crawls twitter profiles for tweets, it might throw HTTP 401 (Unauthorized) errors.

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Those can happen for a number of reasons, one of them obviously being incorrect credentials.
However, 401 is also returned when crawling profiles that no longer exist.

True story.

Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2016-05-03 16:57)