If you haven’t heard of TweetAdder, it’s the best inexpensive way to automate your Twitter account to generate traffic and increase conversions. It’s also one of the rare Twitter software that runs on Mac AND Windows! You can automatically follow people on Twitter based on keywords, location, recency – and regularly tweeting links to your website is proven to increase your traffic. Find out more about TweetAdder if you haven’t seen it before.
So – the latest version of TweetAdder is great, but some older versions may generate an error in the Activity panel reading Error: Could not authenticate you.”,”request”:”\/1\/friendships\/create.json. This means that TweetAdder isn’t adding new people to your Twitter account because it can’t log in for some unexplained reason! The TweetAdder error was driving me nuts, but I worked out how to fix it. I couldn’t find this solution anywhere else on the net, so I figured I may as well post it here to help anyone else.
Here’s the Windows solution – scroll down for the Mac solution.
Windows:
Step 1: Quit TweetAdder, then follow these steps:
If you’re using Windows 7 / Vista:
Start button > My Computer > C: > Users > (double click your username) > AppData > Roaming > TweetAdder 3
If you can’t see the folders above, try this: Click Start button > Control Panel > Folder Options > Check Show Hidden Folders and Files > Click Apply. Then try accessing the folders above again.
If you’re using Windows XP:
Start button > My Computer > Documents and Settings > (double click your username) > Application Data > TweetAdder 3
C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\TweetAdder3
If you can’t see the folders above, try this: Click Start button > Control Panel > Folder Options > Check Show Hidden Folders and Files > Click Apply. Then try accessing the folders above again.
Step 2: Delete the file settings.ta3. Don’t worry, you won’t lose your TweetAdder search settings or lists of Twitter profiles you’ve already followed. They’re stored separately in other files in this folder. This file just contains your login details.
Step 3: Open TweetAdder again. If you have multiple licences on TweetAdder, you might find some of your accounts are missing at first. If so, check the Registration section of TweetAdder and re-enter your additional licence keys. You can probably find these in your email as receipts from when you purchased additional Tweet Adder licences. Once you’ve done this, TweetAdder will be back to normal.
Mac:
Step 1: Quit TweetAdder.
Step 2: Click the Finder icon in your dock. It looks like this:
Step 3: Click the Go menu in the toolbar at the top of your screen, then click Library. If you can’t see the Library option, hold down the Option key to make it appear.
Step 4: Open the Preferences folder, then the TweetAdder3 (or similar) folder.
Step 5: Delete the settings.ta3 file. Don’t worry, you won’t lose your TweetAdder search settings or lists of Twitter profiles you’ve already followed. They’re stored separately in other files in this folder. This file just contains your login details.
Step 6: Open TweetAdder again. If you have multiple licences on TweetAdder, you might find some of your accounts are missing at first. If so, check the Registration section of TweetAdder and re-enter your additional licence keys. You can probably find these in your email as receipts from when you purchased additional Tweet Adder licences. Once you’ve done this, TweetAdder will be back to normal.
If this doesn’t work out for you, leave a comment below and either I or someone else may be able to assist. In the meantime, check out TweetAdder if you haven’t already – it’s a really cool piece of software and the latest version works a treat, and no longer has this error!