Consider this status: http://twitter.com/primerano/status/1784283306
The JSON for this, as found at http://twitter.com/statuses/show/1784283306.json, is below (prettified by JSONLint - which, by the way, calls it valid). Both Crack and ActiveSupport::JSON refuse to parse it, returning the error "Invalid JSON string". Can anyone see why? My first thought was the emoticon in the status text, ":-\", but even with that removed the parsers fail. Console: >> json_string = <<EOS { "text": "loving that I turned my 22 inch monitor sideways. great for reading pdfs but the sta nd doesn't support this configuration.", "in_reply_to_status_id": null, "user": { "description": "web geek, accomplishment junkie, parent and System Architect at AOL", "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)", "utc_offset": -18000, "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "e0ff92", "following": 0, "favourites_count": 0, "profile_sidebar_border_color": "87bc44", "profile_background_tile": true, "followers_count": 146, "url": "http:\/\/tonycode.com\/", "name": "Tony Primerano", "protected": false, "friends_count": 112, "profile_background_color": "9ae4e8", "created_at": "Fri Jun 22 20:36:59 +0000 2007", "notifications": false, "statuses_count": 1973, "profile_background_image_url": "http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ twitter_production\/profile_bac kground_images\/1259422\/pattern2.JPG", "profile_text_color": "000000", "profile_image_url": "http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ twitter_production\/profile_images\/745684 29\/fire-1_normal.jpg", "location": "DC Area", "id": 7023582, "profile_link_color": "0000ff", "screen_name": "primerano" }, "in_reply_to_user_id": null, "favorited": false, "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, "created_at": "Wed May 13 13:33:03 +0000 2009", "id": 1784283306, "truncated": false, "source": "<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweetdeck.com\/\">TweetDeck<\/ a>" } EOS >> Crack::JSON.parse(json_string) Crack::ParseError: Invalid JSON string from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/crack-0.1.1/lib/crack/json.rb: 14:in `parse' from (irb):40 >> ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(json_string) ActiveSupport::JSON::ParseError: Invalid JSON string from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/ active_support/json/decoding.rb:14:in `decode' from (irb):41
