Title: Twitter API now requires HTTPS
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Twitter API now requires HTTPS

 *  ResolvedPlugin Author [Joe Dolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joedolson/)
 * (@joedolson)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-api-now-requires-https/)
 * Hello!
 * To head off what will undoubtedly be some support requests, I wanted to let you
   know about a change in the Twitter API as of January 14th, 2014.
 * The Twitter API used to accept either HTTP or HTTPS connections for posting status
   updates and other interactions. Because some servers are not configured correctly
   to handle making HTTP queries, I’ve included a toggle so that you could switch
   WP to Twitter to make queries on HTTP instead of HTTPS.
 * As of January 14th, 2014, Twitter has shut off HTTP access to their API. 403 
   errors will now be returned when an HTTP query is made, and your status update
   will be rejected.
 * If you have been dependent on HTTP support, you’ll need to talk to your hosting
   company about fixing the problem. I’m afraid that there’s nothing I can do.
 * [https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/24239](https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/24239)
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-twitter/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-twitter/)

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 *  [timjal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjal/)
 * (@timjal)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-api-now-requires-https/page/2/#post-4504439)
 * Done: [WP to Twitter Error Message](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-to-twitter-error?replies=1).

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