This has happened to me since I began using Tweepy, and it’s a little bit irritating (not a huge deal) and I’d just like to understand why it’s happening and how I can fix it.
My Tweepy version is 3.9.0 if that helps.
Whenever I send a tweet with tweepy (using api.update_status), there seems to be no device or app name when you expand the details (e.g. where it says Twitter Web App, etc).
Here’s what I mean:
Let’s say my app’s name is TweetBot, and in the Twitter developer portal, it says my app’s name is TweetBot; why doesn’t this name come up in the actual tweet? Most other bots on Twitter seem to be able to get their app’s name to come up, so why can’t I?
It doesn’t seem to be an issue with Tweepy, because my own wrapper for the API also does this too.
Do I need to add an extra parameter or something?
I’ve seen this question asked before but have found no answer.
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I honestly cannot tell you the reason here (I know, I know, I work at Twitter, I should be able to explain - straightforward response - I do not know, and I don’t think anyone on my immediate team knows, either, we’ll ask around).
There’s a chance that something has been modified to only show app names with (for example, I don’t know yet / right now) a certain volume of users or for a particular period.
I agree that this is not an issue with Tweepy. App names should be populated from the developer dashboard. I am not sure why individual app names are not showing in the Tweet detail view.
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Oh ok - thanks for letting me know. This same thing has happened on two accounts of mine so it must be a limit or something, but I appreciate the honesty.
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