Receiving Error [twitter4j.TwitterException: 500:Something is broken ]

[Purnimachaturv]

Hi,

I am using Twitter4J library for displaying tweets of Channels(screen name).I used screenname (MastercardNews,InsideMastercrd) but getting error like

twitter4j.TwitterException: 500:Something is broken. Please post to the group (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/support) so the Twitter team can investigate.
Invalid Screen name

at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientImpl.request(HttpClientImpl.java:162)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientWrapper.request(HttpClientWrapper.java:61)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientWrapper.get(HttpClientWrapper.java:89)
at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1911)
at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.showUser(TwitterImpl.java:860)

Can you please look into it?
Please share solution for same.

[JBabichJapan]

The error is indicating “Invalid Screen name” so please confirm the exact request being made. I would recommend to attempt to call the API with twurl and switch to twitter4j after you are comfortable with what data you are retrieving.

I would also advise to implement retry logic in your code for handling temporary errors.

Thanks