{"id":4240,"date":"2011-09-16T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/dear-twitter-there-was-an-error-updating-the-list\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:33:26","slug":"dear-twitter-there-was-an-error-updating-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/dear-twitter-there-was-an-error-updating-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Twitter, There was an Error Updating the List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, how Twitter made me lose faith in their service \u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n

I have been faithfully adding Port Elizabeth Twitter Fiends to the MyPEtwitterati list on Twitter for a while now and last week whenever I attempted to add someone to the list I kept on getting an error message thus; \u201cThere was an error updating the list\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trying to add a different user didn\u2019t help. Ctrl F5 didn\u2019t help. Restarting the browser didn\u2019t help. Restarting the router didn\u2019t help. Using a different bandwidth provider didn\u2019t help. Restarting the computer didn\u2019t help. A scheduled browser and Linux OS upgrade didn\u2019t sort it out. Using a laptop and different OS as well as browser didn\u2019t help. Waiting a couple of days didn\u2019t help. Asking Twitter didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

FINALLY searching Google, eventually helped.<\/p>\n

In the interim, MyPE had a plugin, Tweet Blender, hogging memory. Now Tweet Blender handled all the Tweets from the MyPEtwitterati list by feeding them to the RHS Sidebar \u2013 quite a nifty little app that many people used. SO, I thought to myself; \u201cIf I am having problems adding to the MyPEtwitterati list and Tweet Blender is being a memory pig it is no loss if I kick Tweet Blender to touch.\u201d So, like a digital Percy Montogomery I hoofed Tweet Blender to touch and cut my losses.<\/p>\n

Of course I can be quite pedantic so decided to give it one last whirl to see why I still kept on getting the \u2018There was an error updating the list\u2019 message.<\/p>\n

Lo and Behold, buried in the comments section on one of the many thousands of results for the search query \u2018There was an error updating the list\u2019 was my very own eureka moment where one commenter said; \u201cYou have probably exceeded the 500 member limitation on the Twitter list.\u201d<\/p>\n

I admit that Twitter probably made that clear right in the beginning that lists are limited to 500 members but surely a better error message such as \u201cYou have exceeded your 500 member limitation\u201d and NOT \u201cThere was an Error Updating the List\u201d would go a long way in retaining someone\u2019s (My?) loyalty?<\/p>\n

Go give some of the MyPE Followers some LOVE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twitter should TELL ME when I’ve reached the list limit of 500. Instead, it responds with “There was an error updating the list.” Sloppy.<\/span>11 September 2011 1:33 am<\/a> via web<\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nPE News – Dear Twitter, There was an Error Updating the List: Or, how Twitter made me lose faith in their service\u2026 http:\/\/t.co\/8VFLqjZn<\/a><\/span>about 21 hours ago<\/a> via Google<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\n@Support<\/a> “There was an error updating the list” can’t add accounts to list. Is it a browser issue?<\/span>13 September 2011 9:29 am<\/a> via web<\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\n@DABieberBreezy<\/a> “there was an error updating the list” o.O sorry but i don’t know what’s wrong, i’ll try list you later, i promise<\/span>11 September 2011 2:08 pm<\/a> via web<\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nThere was an error updating the list :O<\/span>10 September 2011 5:16 am<\/a> via web<\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or, how Twitter made me lose faith in their service \u2026\u2026\u2026.. I have been faithfully adding Port Elizabeth Twitter Fiends to the MyPEtwitterati list on Twitter for a while now and last week whenever I attempted to add someone to the list I kept on getting an error message thus; \u201cThere was an error updating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-4240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}