This is a very known issue and there are threads about it in this group once every 18 or so hours.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 09:38, Francis Shanahan <francisshana...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I'm calling :http://twitter.com/users/show.xml > > My request works fine, it's signed correctly with a valid token etc. > > Every so often I get this response: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ > TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd<http://www.w3.org/%0ATR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd>"> > <!-- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC > "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> -- > > <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1"> <META HTTP- > EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" > CONTENT="-1"> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY><P></BODY> </HTML> > > No error is thrown and no reason code or anything comes back. > > Is this a bug on the Twitter side? Is this a known issue? > > -fs > http://tweetarun.com -- Internets. Serious business.