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The Twitter Nightmare Ends

Jun 27, 2013
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Hours later, I was still being blocked getting into my Twitter account.  So, I had a thought -- I generally use Firefox as my browser, so I launched Internet Explorer to see if I could get into my account there.  And I could.  So, that told me the problem was connected to Firefox in some way.  And when that's the case, there's usually one leading culprit.  Cookies are being blocked.



I checked my settings, and sure enough, Cookies for twitter.com were being blocked.  I changed the settings and...bingo!  I'm in! 



Now, I will definitely take blame for not thinking of Cookies first -- though I suspect a whole lot of people don't think of Cookies first.  But I should have.  But...how hard would it be for Twitter to put on a page that someone has clicked to get help about not being able to log in that say -- "Check to make sure your freaking Cookies aren't being blocked"??!!!!



Though I suspect they would use "freaking."



But the important thing.  Mission Accomplished!



The unimportant thing:  I can now tweet again.



But the cool thing is that I am all the way up to 7 people following me!  I like to consider them my minions.  We can have club meetings and everything.



For anyone else who wishes to join in, the



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