All of a sudden this afternoon, Safari (v5.0.5) stopped loading Twitter. I just loads a blank page. If I reset Safari, I get the Twitter log in page, but then when I log in, I just get a blank page. Like I said, it just happened suddenly. I was working fine all day and then it goes blank on me. I can't seem to fix it. Anyone else seen this problem?
It's not just Safari, it's not loading on iPhone Twitter apps either. I'm using Safari 5.0.5 / OSX 10.5.8 and get nothing and my Twitter app on my iPhone seems affected too....won't update and I can't post anything! I can only get on via Firefox.
Obviously, I am not alone with this, although, I am on Powerbook G4, 10.4.11, 2GB RAM, 10.4.11 all latest Updates, and Safari 4.1.3 unlike the author of the following post, Tim Kite, who did did great job in his post!!!
Tim, please Repost your post, that starts with
It's most certainly a PPC Safari issue at this point
on Twitter Support page http://j.mp/p7wU6W !!!!
As to you writing
It will be up to Twitter to fix their code, or some clever hacker to post a Safari extension that fixes the code en-route for PPC users.
I am not too optimistic... And I am not a Conspiracy Theorist either, but here is a thought:
Since Twitter is going to be deeply integrated into OS 10.7, Lion, which is days away from being released, it'd be fair to say that Twitter and Apple are in a pretty tight partnership! And Apple cutting off Rosetta, never mind PPC, G4 and G5, is trying to have all PPC Users Upgrade = BUY New Macs!!! Thus such "little things" as New Twitter not working on PPC Macs could be another • deliberate annoyance •, as opposed to accidental issue?! I hope that I am wrong... And a possibly related note, look here:
On this Maccast Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=106463513203 it says:
It is true. This is a screen grab from Apple's iPhone Battery page, http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
That Link Format http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html was CLICKABLE for YEARS, and lately it's not!!!
So... I wonder if there is a CONNECTION between JAVA + Safari, TWITTER, FACEBOOK affecting PPC Users, particularly 10.4.11 PPC users, as opposed to G5 and later Mac OS users???
I'd like others to test that Link: http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html on this Facebook Note
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=106463513203
Is it CLICKABLE?
SORRY if I am getting too Off Topic with that Facebook issue, it's just that I wonder if PPC Java & Safari are the COMMON DENOMINATOR???
Meanwhile, I hope that Twitter and Apple, at least, are reading this Thread! If they are, it'd be nice if they Confirmed that they do, without anyone getting fired for such frankness:) Otherwise, it seems like: Don't Call US, we won't Call You!!! But then - CALL is too 20th Century, where as these days those Tech Support Phone ## are way too UNLISTED!!! Thus it's Catch Me If You Can:)!
Hope whomever it is... does the right thing and FIXES this!!!
Thanks to EVERYONE posting on this Excellent Thread!!!
Yeah, it still has the same problem. I really think Twitter changed something on their end, the way it was working one minute and not the next. I did contact Twitter support. I bet it's a JavaScript issue, and they change something, and it's affecting PPC Safari. Well that's just my supposing, anyway.
Well, I have a PBookG4 running 10.5.8 / Safari 5.0.5. I can access Twitter fine.
Select the Security tab from Safari / Preferences then click: Show Cookies. Delete all Twitter cookies.
Then empty the Safari cache.
Quit then relaunch Safari. Try Twitter.
I already tried that. I should have listed everything I did in the first post. I did that. I cleared the cache, I reset Safari completely, I restarted several times. I reinstalled Safari. A lot of other people are complaining about the same problem over in the Twitter support area.
Were you using 'Old Twitter' before? (I still am as I hate the New Twitter view). I do know that Twitter has started migrating users on 'Old Twitter' to the New version, and there's a warning at the top of the Twitter page that it is going to happen "very very soon".
It may be that you have been 'migrated' and that this is the result. New Twitter is at least a year old, and it may be that it doesn't support the latest version of Safari.
(If you were already using New Twitter, then this is not relevant).
Got the same here, since yesterday. Safari 4.1.3 Mac OS 10.4.11. What has happened?
Also blankpages in iCab. Opera browser crashes!
Camino browser works well!
Using m.twitter.com works also!
Best regards, Arthur
I've been on the new Twitter for a long time now, so that's not it. Also, it does work for me just fine on the iPhone Twitter app. It's just Safari on my Mac that this started happening all of a sudden.
I'm using Safari 4.1.3 with Mac OS 10.4.11, never had this problem with Twitter until just over the past couple of days - something OBVIOUSLY changed over at Twitter's end. Firefox OK. Twitter must be playing around with its html calls & features or whatever; their images aren't displaying within frames etc. Just the usual header up top, the rest is a totally blank white page w/out any frames; Safari indicates that items aren't loading properly & that occasionally the connection to Twitter's server gets dropped.
I'll try to notify Twitter of the problem ASAP, and everyone else who 's experiencing this problem should too so they can figure out whatever it was that they did that screwed up its service for Apple/Mac users... it's happening on a variety of Mac OS and Safari versions. Maybe they screwed around with java or flash or whatever, who the heck knows.
And in case you guys haven't checked this out yet, here's the link to the Twitter help page where everybody's talking about the problem....
That doesn't work.
I downloaded Camino and I can access Twitter. Try Camino.
I have a Powerbook G4 with 10.5.8 PPC.
I couldn't get into twitter starting last night.
Nothing works.
Even deleted all the Flash stuff and cookies and emptied cache. Everything.
Nothing works on Safari.
Just a blank screen on Twitter.
Getting fed up with Apple products.
You don't get a link to it because it's in an email they sent me in response to my trouble ticket I opened with them.
They said:
Hi *******,
What you're experiencing was a known issue/bug on our site, but we recently fixed it.
If you are still encountering problems related to this issue today, please reply and let us know exactly the steps you're taking to arrive at the error.
Thanks!
Twitter Support
help.twitter.com
@support
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To which I replied:
It's not fixed as you think! The steps I'm taking to arrive at the error are simply trying to connect to Twitter using Safari 5.0.5 on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8 (PPC). The only thing I can get to is the Twitter log in page and that is ONLY if I make sure that all Twitter cookies are deleted first. Once I try to sign in, I can't even get back to the Twitter log in page, only blank pages. Twitter is still working in Firfox, however.
To which they replied:
Hi *******,
Thanks for the message. This issue has been logged and will be assigned to an engineer. Once we fix it, your account/the app should be affected automatically, so there's no need for you to check back.
While we are closing this ticket, we have not forgotten about your issue and hope to have a fix out as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
--
Twitter Support
support.twitter.com
@support
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Ya happy now? Geez...
This is a good excuse to just stay away from Twitter, at least for awhile. I mean, come on - when you *really* think about it, all Twitter is is an addiction-driven way to feed somebody else's wallet.
10.4.11, Safari 4.1.3, Powerbook G4 - Blank Twitter Page!!! Deleting Cache, All Twitter Cookies + Restart, or Shut Down + Power Off/On my Cable Modem, switching to Test User = same result = Blank Twitter both with or without Signing In!!! I can't view anyone's Twitter!!!
But... Twitter works with TweetDeck, and Firefox. I can Post from TwitDeck and Bit.ly, and those Twitts show up on my Facebook... Lately Twitter has been Loading slowly, and now it doesn't load at all!!
Others are having the same problem - on this Apple Support Community!!! http://j.mp/rlD2tg and on this Twitter Support page http://j.mp/p7wU6W
Clearly SOMETHING is wrong on Twitter end!!! Maybe it has something to do with the soon to arrive Lion, 10.7, release that has Twitter Integration? I am just guessing!!! But then, why are Twittdeck and Firefox work OK with Twitter?
Hope this is fixed soon!!!
Using the web inspector (also on Safari 5.0.5 on 10.5.8 PPC and having this problem), I see a JavaScript error on one of Twitter's scripts, indicating a badly formed regular expression:
SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: regular expression too large (in phoenix.bundle.js, line 194)
Page elements stop loading shortly after it hits that, and I would assume that script has something to do with displaying the active page contents.
Line 194 in phoenix.bundle.js is in fact an extremely long regular expression (too long to post here), and seems to be the only non-commented line in that script aside from the first. Blocking that script, however, still prevents the Twitter page from loading. I know more Perl than JavaScript, so I'm not exactly sure where they went wrong, or why this works in other browsers.
Safari loads a blank page when trying to load Twitter
