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Some of you may have noticed that we’ve put in a new alert to notify you when you’ve exceeded the maximum requests threshold given to us by Twitter. This means we are allowed to make 70 api calls per hour, per user. So there are a couple ways you can solve this issue, easiest is to reduce your refresh frequency to 10 minutes instead of 3 (we’ll add a 5 minute and 7 minute intervals later today), the other way to solve it is to just leave twitbin open, as it reduces the calls to twitter (we close the session each time you close/open the window).

We’re going to work on reducing the number of requests, so you are less likely to run over the limit, but please bare with us for the time being.

Dear Twitbin users,
It came to our attention yesterday that we had made a mistake in the way we were writing the cookies to your computers. Turns out since we were trying to do it all via Javascript, we didn’t encrypt the cookies the way we should have. We have since rectified the issue and released a new version patching this and a couple other bugs we found along the way. Now your cookies will be encrypted so as to protect your username/passwords.

For those of you wondering, the old version left your cookies open to reading if someone ever managed to access your local computer’s cookie folder. Since we don’t store any of your personal data, it meant that your own computer would have to be compromised for this to affect your security. However, this is still no excuse for us having overlooked this before (we just didn’t think of it), and for that we apologize.

So to make sure you are using the latest version, please clear your cache and cookies and you should have your cookies replaced next time you log back in.

Thank you for your patience and using twitbin.
Brian Breslin
CEO infinimedia

So some of you may have noticed the new stats bar at the bottom of the app, for those of you who haven’t seen it (it will show you your followers, and how many you are following), just clear your cache.

So for those of you who have noticed twitbin going down a lot lately, we’ve figured out the reason. It seems that we have a 70 request per hour limit per user to the API, and with the new stats function we seem to be crossing that threshold. We’ll be posting a fix to this tomorrow morning.

Thank you for your patience folks.
Brian