Anna vs. Twitter: FIGHT
Dec. 1st, 2008 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperApparently my ability to use Twitter is at least tonight full of FAIL!
So I got set up on the web with this thing yesterday, right? Tonight there I am at Rite Aid waiting for them to fill a prescription, and they tell me it's going to be half an hour because apparently the entire population of Lake Forest Park is filling prescriptions tonight and they're all backed up. I therefore think, okay, fine, if I have to sit here being bored I'll play with Twitter and see if I can get my phone to talk to it.
So I fling it a test message, since I'd previously noted the proper number. And it sends me back a message telling me to reply with my name, by way of confirmation. I do that. But by "my name" what it really means is "my ID", so I wind up accidentally creating an extra account.
Argh, I think. So then I try to jump on Lake Forest Park Town Centre's public wireless to see if I can go to twitter.com and fix it. The wireless works okay, but not the part where I go to the actual Twitter homepage, because at that point it asks me if I want to download the file "login" to my Documents directory. "Da hell?" I think, but there seems to be nothing I can do about it. Apparently Twitter.com does not talk to my handheld's ancient version of Windows Mobile Internet Explorer.
So okay then, I think, I'll fix it when I get home. I get home. I find out how to activate the web access for a Twitter account and get it to ping the extra one I created.
The problem is, that's also the point where I think, okay fine, so I should set this thing up to talk to my actual desired Twitter account. It won't let me, because I've already associated my phone number with the extra account.
Again with the argh. So I go to my actual account's settings and tell it to delete my specified mobile device, and I try again to activate the web portion of the extra account JUST so I can then delete the stupid thing.
However, what I actually wind up doing then is creating a SECOND extra account.
Yet more argh. I learn from the Twitter TOS that you can delete an account by sending "delete me" from your device, and I do manage to pull that off. But I've still got the first extra account in limbo and I can't figure out how to kill it.
A support request has been sent. We'll see if the Twitter folks can drive a stake through it for me.
So I got set up on the web with this thing yesterday, right? Tonight there I am at Rite Aid waiting for them to fill a prescription, and they tell me it's going to be half an hour because apparently the entire population of Lake Forest Park is filling prescriptions tonight and they're all backed up. I therefore think, okay, fine, if I have to sit here being bored I'll play with Twitter and see if I can get my phone to talk to it.
So I fling it a test message, since I'd previously noted the proper number. And it sends me back a message telling me to reply with my name, by way of confirmation. I do that. But by "my name" what it really means is "my ID", so I wind up accidentally creating an extra account.
Argh, I think. So then I try to jump on Lake Forest Park Town Centre's public wireless to see if I can go to twitter.com and fix it. The wireless works okay, but not the part where I go to the actual Twitter homepage, because at that point it asks me if I want to download the file "login" to my Documents directory. "Da hell?" I think, but there seems to be nothing I can do about it. Apparently Twitter.com does not talk to my handheld's ancient version of Windows Mobile Internet Explorer.
So okay then, I think, I'll fix it when I get home. I get home. I find out how to activate the web access for a Twitter account and get it to ping the extra one I created.
The problem is, that's also the point where I think, okay fine, so I should set this thing up to talk to my actual desired Twitter account. It won't let me, because I've already associated my phone number with the extra account.
Again with the argh. So I go to my actual account's settings and tell it to delete my specified mobile device, and I try again to activate the web portion of the extra account JUST so I can then delete the stupid thing.
However, what I actually wind up doing then is creating a SECOND extra account.
Yet more argh. I learn from the Twitter TOS that you can delete an account by sending "delete me" from your device, and I do manage to pull that off. But I've still got the first extra account in limbo and I can't figure out how to kill it.
A support request has been sent. We'll see if the Twitter folks can drive a stake through it for me.