Unable to add GMail contacts - requires a POST too.

Not yet, but thanks for trying:

Me too.

Still there

Fwiw, the Invite contacts from Gmail process worked fine for me when I tried importing contacts from a Gmail account with a small address book (less than 5 contacts).

But I also encounter the "this method requires a post" error when I have Twitter connect to a Gmail account that has over 1000 "suggested contacts".

The expected behavior:
After Twitter finishes importing my contacts list, it should show me a page that lists all the Twitter users it found amongst my contacts. On that page, I can select the users that I want to follow and submit my choice.

The actual behavior:
Twitter imports my Gmail contact list. Then (either after the import or perhaps because the import failed), I get taken to a page with the URL https://twitter.com/invitations/invit...

And instead of showing me the list of Twitter users it found, I see a page with the error message: "This method requires a POST" (as depicted in briantw's screenshot above).

Didn't work for me either.

I'm not at all keen to give out email passwords in the first place.
Even more worrying when your software doesn't fill me with confidence after I have done so.

You have to earn my trust. You aren't there yet, despite me 'taking a risk'.

I just signed up.... when I try to look for friends on my gmail account, I just get a "webpage can not be found"

I still get this response:

https://twitter.com/invitations/invit...

The same thing happens when I try to add hotmail contacts.

I'm still getting this error when importing my gmail accounts.

Yep, still have this problem

Still having this problem - I've been a member of Twitter for about a week and I've tried to import my contacts about 5 times and I keep getting this error. Still not fixed, despite what the rep is saying.

not fixed, I'm having problems too

Having this problem too. With gmail and yahoo.

Yeah I'm having this problem too.

Also having this problem....

the same for me

Well it is good (NOT) to see that I am not the only person with this problem. The difference is that I have tried numerous times with my MSN account so obviously the twitter import utility is broken.

me too. With gmail and yahoo.

I see where twitter is supposed to be monitoring these posts, you'd think they would fix this. Actually I really don't want my entire address book posted I don't think sears.com would appreciate it so they should give us the capability of selectively adding names.

I too have tried to import my Gmail contacts that might have twitter to no success :( It goes to the pages which says 'This method requires a POST'

It worked for me when I created my Twitter account an hour ago. Now I get the POST message too when I try to add more friends.

Same problem :/

same problem: =[

='''(

I'm also having the exact same problem.

Don't work for me either.
No luck with my Gmail Contacts.
Please fix this bug

None of them work. I get a post error for all of them.

Ditto here with Yahoo! mail

having this problem with gmail and hotmail for the past few days too.

It doesn't work for any of them.....what's going on?

Still not fixed.

Fix this crap, I'm a impatient american 20something and I'm bored at work.........

Me too. It's 99 contacts so nothing that should overload the system.

Just signed up, getting POST error with both hotmail and gmail.

Have the same POST error problem with gmail and hotmail.

It's been 5 days, do you think he is coming back? :/

It's still not working here either...

C'mon Twitter!! What's the update on this? The problem is still going on!!!

1.) I click on "Find & Follow" in the top tool bar.
2.) I enter my email, select "@ gmail", and enter my password.
3.) Click "continue >>"
4.) I am then taken to "https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch_contacts" where it has the loading circle and says "We're loading your contacts.
(It might take a bit longer if you're popular.) "
5.) Then the page reloads to "https://twitter.com/invitations/invite_contacts?skipped_to=1" with a blank white page that says "This method requires a POST."

That's it.

I am running Kubuntu Linux and using Firefox 3.0.1, though I have the same issue in Konqueror 3.5.9. The only difference is Konqueror gives me an error message right before the above Step 5.

"The page you are trying to view is the result of posted form data. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as search or online purchase) will be repeated."

Like I said before there is a total of 99 contacts in my Gmail address book.

Thanks for your help.

It's still broken.

1) go to the find& follow page 2) enter myusername, select Gmail, and type password 3) It says "we're loading your contacts..." 4) After a few seconds in Firefox I get this message "This method requires a POST." If I use IE I get a blank IE message "This page cannot be found"

Clicked Find and Follow, entered the first part of my GMail account (before the @gmail.com), selected GMail from the drop down. Entered password. Clicked Find.

Running Mac OS X 10.5.4, Safari 4 Devoloper's Preview.

Exactly the same for me as for Katie, but I have Windows XP, I have tried from different browsers. Firefox, Opers, safari, But the same outcome:
"This method requires a POST."

I am running Windows XP, and Firefox browser.
From my Twitter homepage, I click on "Find and Follow"
Enter my gmail user name and password.
The screen says that it's loading, and it may take longer if I'm popular.
Next, I get a page with this URL - https://twitter.com/invitations/invit...
And it says This method requires a POST.

Same as Katie above. Running Mac OS X 10.5.4 and Firefox 3.0.1

I have Windows XP, and I'm running FireFox 3.0.1

I'm going through the same process as Paula. I can't get it to work with Gmail or AOL, but it will work on Yahoo.

My screen name is stacy1977

My hotmail and gmail account are having the same issue, same order as the others above.

My screen name is barefootdancer. I use Mac OSX and Firefox.

Signed up for twitter a few months ago
Tried to import my gmail contacts today (aug 11) at https://twitter.com/invitations
It took me to https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch... for a few seconds, then "This method requires POST"!
twitter username matt_hughes
using Firefox 3.0.1, winxp

EDIT: tried again at 6:15pm eastern and it says "Hmm... you don't have any email contacts. No big deal, you can search for people later. "
(I have 249 gmail contacts)

I'm having the same issue - I'm on Vista, I've tried in Firefox 3 and IE 7 - same deal. I fill out my login details, select "gmail" from the drop down... get the loading page, then get redirected to https://twitter.com/invitations/invit... which displays "This method requires a POST".

I can provide a HTTP dump of the requests if this would help.

My username is "JamesCrowley"

I also tried this in IE7 and it gave me a HTTP 400 error on https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch...
I have tried this with my hotmail, gmail, and yahoo mail accounts with the same results.

Followed the same steps as outlined by pretty much everyone else here. I have tried using various OS and browsers (see list below) and all display the exact same behaviour.

Twitter ID: bawdo
RHEL3 - FF 2 & FF3
RHEL5 - FF 2 & FF5
Gentoo - Opera 9.5, FF 2 & FF3
Mac OS X 10.5.4 - FF 3

The final page I'm redirected to is:

https://twitter.com/invitations/invit...

The entire source code for this page is as follwos:

This method requires a POST.

Regards, Bawdo

And yet Twitter is unable to replicate the problem.

It still did not work. I have not been able to get it to work in Firefox, Konqueror, Epiphany or any other browser on any operating system.

However the image below shows an error message that Konqueror gave me, I did not get this message in any other browser but it suggests that for some reason some script you are running is resubmitting a "GET" CGI request to a CGI program that was expecting the "POST" method to be used

**EDIT** I forgot to mention that my username is "grandslacker" and For what its worth I'm a user of "google apps" not gmail proper, thus I enter jzw@vistua.com, (no spam please), and select "gmail", previously this worked but it doesn't seem to be working now. Is anyone else here using Google Apps?

As for Twitters inability to duplicate the problem might I suggest that, possibly, just possiblty the bug only occurs if accessed from the public internet, I.E. not from within the twitter lan/vpn. I'd be a bit surprised if that is how you are set up but it seems like its' worth a shot. I had a similar problem where I configured a web-app to look up a private IP number instead of a hostname which resolved to the private IP within my network and to the public IP outside the network (via NAT) it took me forever to trace the problem and figure out what the terse "host not found" message that resulted from trying to login from say an Internet Cafe indicated
**END EDITS**

I go through the exact same process and get the same results as Katie. I am using Windows XP, firefox 3.0.1 and my username is bettafish00. It may be interesting to note that this problem showed up after I set up a mobile device. Could be a coincidence.

1.) I click on "Find & Follow" in the top tool bar.
2.) I enter my email (only the name portion, not the @gmail.com portion), select "@ gmail", and enter my password.
3.) Click "continue >>"
4.) I am then taken to "https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch_contacts" where it has the loading circle and says "We're loading your contacts.
(It might take a bit longer if you're popular.) "
5.) Then the page reloads to "https://twitter.com/invitations/invite_contacts?skipped_to=1" with a blank white page that says "This method requires a POST."

I tried this in Firefox. (Sorry, I'm not as software lingo savvy as most of you) I don't know which version it is. But, as I read through this, it seemed everyone who was on FF was having problems. So, I tried it on IE. It went through some of the same mess, but when I would load the page that wanted you to put in your e-mail name, it said this page has some secure and non-secure portions. Do you still want to download it? I said yes. Then, after step 4 above, it takes me to a 404 Error page. It suggests I typed in the address incorrectly or that I should reload the page. If I try to reload, I just get the same error message.

It doesn't work on either, but I'm getting 2 different errors.

Would appreciate your help.

Thanks.

Im on Firefox 3.0.1.( PC. AMD processor. )
I try to import my gmail contacts. I login and it goes on to say fetching contacts and then it writes "This method requires a POST."
the adress is changed to
"https://twitter.com/invitations/invite_contacts?skipped_to=1"

I also tried in IE 7
IE 7 says:
HTTP 400 BAD REQUEST

I have two Twitter accounts: I can import from Gmail in one but not the other. (Each Twitter account is associated with a separate Gmail account).

The first account was set up some time ago (as was its Gmail account) and imports from Gmail fine (user: Citizensheep).

The other was set up five days ago and won't import from Gmail (tried in Firefox and Safari, MacOSX 10.4) (user: citizenship).

Could the problem be to do with how and when a user's Twitter account was set up? Or maybe when the Gmail account was activated?

I have tried to import from gmail and my aol mail but I have not been able. I was at the import page and I got the infamous "https://twitter.com/invitations/invite_contacts?skipped_to=1" "this requires a POST" page.

Both Yahoo and Gmail are giving this message on importing contacts: This method requires a POST.

On MAC Leopard using Firefox 3.01

I am also having this issue. I have been trying to add my gmail contacts since I signed up two weeks ago.

The same error shows up on Safari.

1.) I click on "Find & Follow" in the top tool bar.
2.) I enter my email (only the name portion, not the @gmail.com portion), select "@ gmail", and enter my password.
3.) Click "continue >>"
4.) I am then taken to "https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch_contacts" where it has the loading circle and says "We're loading your contacts.
(It might take a bit longer if you're popular.) "
5.) Then the page reloads to "https://twitter.com/invitations/invite_contacts?skipped_to=1" with a blank white page that says "This method requires a POST."

Have tried this with Firefox 3.01 and Opera 9.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 as well as with Opera 9.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Firefox 3.01 on WIndows XP SP3.

My new twitter account is lonewolf72@gmail.com

I am also having this issue. my user name is rbp1987

I did manage to get my gmail contact list once on the page but when I tried to access the same page again, it gave me the "POST" error message.

I would like to bring to the Twitter Support's notice that could it be possible that some kind of Firewall at our end be causing this problem. As I am accessing the net from my company office and they do have a firewall which does have restrictions like no downloading allowed, can not access orkut etc. So could some type of Firewall be affecting the problem and throwing the POST error message?

Also, I will try accessing this same page from home and will update if this problem does not occur, then there is a good chance that it would mean that the POST error message does have something to do with the Firewall at the office.

Hi have the same problem too since 1 week (perhaps more?)

Go on twitter.com
Find and Follow tab, try with my 2 gmail accounts
And got the same as above.

Username twitter : spyou

Cheers

I've made a video that describes the problem with both gmail and msn.
Hope that you'll resovle this issue soon.
Thank you...
Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ijqG...
If you want any debugger running then I can reproduce the video for you...

same as Real Estate Diva -

1.) I click on "Find & Follow" in the top tool bar.
2.) I enter my email (only the name portion, not the @gmail.com portion), select "@ gmail", and enter my password.
3.) Click "continue >>"
4.) I am then taken to "https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch_contacts" where it has the loading circle and says "We're loading your contacts.
(It might take a bit longer if you're popular.) "
5.) Then the page reloads to "https://twitter.com/invitations/invite_contacts?skipped_to=1" with a blank white page that says "This method requires a POST."

In Opera, IE7 and FF3

missing out on lots of new twitters guys. Anyone know a system like this that's more reliable than twitter - I need one urgently!

yeah this is no good guys.. i set my account up last friday. 8/8/08

surely you can run a script to see which users joined within a particular bracket of time, and see how many contacts they have associated with their accounts? may point you to which users are affected or something like that..
though it may be a red herring. and im sure you guys probly tried that already anyway..and are working hard to resolve this

i am in new zealand and my name on there is gavindamage

Having this problem since I became a member a week ago

1- click find and follow
2 - enter in Gmail account info
3- Click find contacts - searches
4 - Loads to blank screen which sayin - "This requires a POST"

Using Windows XP on firefox
Username: stu_myideaguy

Just joined last night and have tried to connect dozens of times with the same
"This method requires and POST" notice. It's very frustrating.

1.) I click on "Find & Follow" in the top tool bar.
2.) I enter my email (only the name portion, not the @gmail.com portion), select "@ gmail", and enter my password.
3.) Click "continue >>"
4.) I am then taken to "https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch_contacts" where it has the loading circle and says "We're loading your contacts.
(It might take a bit longer if you're popular.) "
5.) Then the page reloads to "https://twitter.com/invitations/invite_contacts?skipped_to=1" with a blank white page that says "This method requires a POST."

On Mac OSX 10.5 with Firefox, Camino, Safari and Opera.

FF3 on Ubuntu Hardy x86. I couldn't describe this issue better than sanktjohanser already has: the exact same happens here. Username: wzzrd.

yep same here for gavindamage. that exact behaiour as described by sanktjohanser

hi, just joined and can not load contacts.
The steps i take to get to the error has been repeatedly detailed in the posts above as well as the browser, operating system, email account, number of contacts etc. I was excited to give it a try when i read about twitter but I will not invest any of my time in it until this is solved. Hope you get it soon.
username icory

Exactly the same issues and going through the exact same procedure as sanktjohanser. Using Firefox and have experienced this problem since I joined Twitter over a week ago. Username: chani_f

The error that we have all been seeing is now replaced with a nicely formated page with a heading stating "Something is technically wrong."

The URL of this new page has also changed to what we have become used to:

https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch...

So it would at least apper they have finally found where the error is kicking from. Maybe a fix is on our horizon...

Regards, Bawdo

It's still not fixed (but you know that). I've had the problem for the week or more, and kept trying every few days.

When I was persuaded to try Twitter again, I think I signed up without adding friends. Later in that initial session I added friends from gmail. The system only found a couple which wasn't surprising because gmail is just for backup and I don't use it much.

A couple of days later I imported one of my address books into gmail, adding a few hundred mail addresses at least. Then I tried to get Twitter to rifle through the gmail address book again, and this time I got the post error.

Other stuff I did: changed my username.

To get the post error, I go to https://twitter.com/invitations. My twitter email address and password are already filled in. They don't match the Google name and pass. I change the name and pass to my gmail ones and change the dropdown to gmail. Click Continue.

I'm sent to https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch.... The page shows "We're loading your contacts.
(It might take a bit longer if you're popular.)".

After about 5 to 10 seconds I'm forwarded to https://twitter.com/invitations/invit... and the dreaded 'This method requires a POST.' shows up.

Well, that's what was happening the day before yesterday. Now I get Twitter 'Something is technically wrong' page.

Same thing happens if I use a wrong gmail address and password.

Firefox3 on Ubuntu 8.04.

Signed up, nothing special, username schmoo2x if you want to check logs or anything - during the signup it asked me to provide email info to get the addressbook, so I entered my username (without the @gmail part) and selected "@gmail.com" in the dropdown, entered in my password and hit submit. It sent me to the "requires a POST" page after thinking for a bit.
I tried again today, and it sends me to a page that says "something is technically wrong." i'm assuming that you've now logged this. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions, i'm glad to help resolve this issue.

Ubuntu 8.04, most recent Kernel
Firefox 3.0.1

Also, the twitter status lies:

http://status.twitter.com/

person search --> all systems ok

False.

I've kind of lost interest in this now. Twitter here in the UK, and in a few other countries, have withdrawn their free SMS service which makes it about a 582 (a rough guess) times less useful than it was before. Can't say I'm surprised they've done this - I was wondering how the free SMS model worked. The answer is that it didn't.

My guess is that Twitter now have a major problem with cash flow and sorting out this little nasty is the least of their concerns.

Hey ho.

I am new to Twitter. I am on my third day of membership so I am still trying to complete the initial import of my gmail address book so it will be useful to my colleagues and I.

I am running: Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Firefox 3.0.1, with ABP and GreaseMonkey disabled for Twitter. I have alternately tried importing with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.

Steps taken:
1. From http://twitter.com/home I choose the link "Find some friends and follow what they’re doing ".
2. It leads to http://twitter.com/invitations/
3. I fill in the "Your Email" box, the Email Password box, and choose the appropriate service. I have tried both my e-mail username and my e-mail address, i.e. naturalhazard and naturalhazard@gmail.com.
4. I hit continue.
5. The message "We're loading your contacts. (It might take a bit longer if you're popular.)" comes up for about five to ten seconds.
6. The error message "
Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon." comes up on the screen and nothing has been imported.

I can't fathom that you can't get this to replicate when it has happened so consistently for all of us on so many operating systems with various browsers. I really do hope this step-by-step helps because right now, I really can't see why any of my colleagues see any value in Twitter. I'm really hoping you will fix this so that will change.

All the best,
naturalhazards

I am running Windows XP Professional with service pack 2, Firefox 2.0.0.16.

It plays out exactly as for naturalhazards above for me too. I'm also using gmail. Once though, I got the "You've got no contacts" instead of "Something is technically wrong." ...and I do have contacts.

Crossing fingers and feet so that you might be able to fix this!

This sucks! I'm wondering why I should bother with Twitter now.

Same thing here. Mac OS10.4.11, Firefox 3.0.1 and GMail
Steps taken:
1. From http://twitter.com/home I choose the link "Find some friends and follow what they’re doing ".
2. It leads to http://twitter.com/invitations/
3. I fill in the "Your Email" box, the Email Password box, and choose the appropriate service. I have tried both my e-mail username and my e-mail address, i.e. naturalhazard and naturalhazard@gmail.com.
4. I hit continue.
5. The message "We're loading your contacts. (It might take a bit longer if you're popular.)" comes up for about five to ten seconds.
6. The error message "
Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon." comes up on the screen and nothing has been imported.

same problem here and it's very frustrating XP SP2 FF 3.01

Same problem - not sure what the deal is but they won't load. I also got "you have no contacts" once in the midst of many "there's a problem" pages. Firefox 3.0.1, running Vista, trying to import gmail.

bit of a showstopper eh..

yep.... I'm getting tired of trying to import my gmail contacts and getting the same ol' error message. For 2 weeks now and if you trawl through this "help" site, it's been an on-off error for months!

Twitter are "working" on it... care for an update. Frankly, I'm with everyone else - what's the point in being here? The only thing Twitter does is duplicate the status update on Facebook and FB is not only WAY more useful, it actually works! Cya later Twitter. You guys suck.

Seriously, how hard could it be to fix this bug? It's not like Twitter is all that complicated.

Also, what company just lets a bug like this persist for weeks? Way to go on impressing your new users, myself included.

The steps described above are the same for me.

1. Find & Follow - https://twitter.com/invitations
2. Enter my email username, and password. Select Gmail.
3a. Loader with the text,
"We're loading your contacts.
(It might take a bit longer if you're popular.) "
3b. Sometimes Text indicating that I have no contacts.
4. Twitter / Error. Landing here https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch.... "Something is technically wrong.
Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

Some sort of timeline? Maybe hide the feature until it's fixed?

Thanks for your help.

1. "Find & Follow"
2. email "@ gmail", and enter my password.
3. continue
4. Loading
5. https://twitter.com/invitations/fetch...
"Something is Technically Wrong"

Windows XP and Firefox

Same as Jennifer. I am using Mac OS X 10.4.11 and on Safari 3.1.2

Hope that helps :)

No joy here. Keep getting the one armed robot.

Think twitter is failing.

Honestly folks with modern debuggers, loggers and the like it takes a developer between 15-45 mins to find a problem like this. Then depending on their skill it can take another 1min to 2 hours to come up with an elegant fix. Then depending on the rigidness of their release process (obviously not that rigid or this bug would have shown up in testing). They run automated testing 1-24 hours depending on depth of testing. Dump into a pre-prod test bed 1-24 hours. Test away, Have a go-no-go meeting 1 hour. Release the fix. Honestly guys it's a half day to 3 day job depending on the complexity of your release process. Get it sorted. You're flagging here and as a new user I agree with most comments posted here. You're not instilling people with confidence in your product.

You should either have the feature present and working or not have it at all and only add it again once you've fixed the problem. It's a serious show stopper. If you can't figure it out work around it and add another feature like find friends from an exported address book file (csv, vCard, abbu and other common address book formats)

Hoping you guys will resolve this sometime soon, since I'm just getting started on twitter and trying to spread the word.

Worked for me!!!

Thanks Jason, and the team.

I just tried both gmail and yahoo and I have the same old outcome. The nice technical problem page is gone and "This method requires a POST." is back.

Mac OS 10.4.11 Firefox 3.0.1

"this method requires a post" yeah its is back, im starting to rethink twitter. anyone up for jaiku? its almost the same thing lol!

I use iTunes and Plaxo to keep more or less the same address book info across accounts in Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail, all mapping back to my Mac.

NONE of the addressbook importing methods work in Twitter. I either get the cute graphic saying something is wrong or "This method requires POST" or somesuch.

I just signed up and I'm gettting the "This method requires POST" error when trying to import hotmail contacts.

Using XP Pro + Firefox 3.0.1 (with NoScripts addon)

exactly like what paul just described:

"just signed up and I'm gettting the "This method requires POST" error when trying to import hotmail contacts.

Using XP Pro + Firefox 3.0.1"

Find + Follow, entered email addy, chose GMail from drop down, typed in password, loading on /fetch_contacts, "This method requires a POST" on http://twitter.com/invitations/invite...

Using Safari 3.1.2 on OS 10.5.4

The error has changed. Now, instead of the "POST" error, I get a screen which *ought* to be the list of contacts extracted from my outside mail account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail etc). Except, the list is empty, with one tickbox for "select all" but thers are no items in the list! Is this progress? Perhaps.

No longer getting the error screen, good old "This method requires a POST." is back.. (Using gmail)

same as nathan, I get a supposed screen that 'should' be a list of contact but... with no contacts to select except one "select all" box.

Have to say I'm pretty fed up. I'll be deleting my account as it really serves no purpose to me in this state. Not to mention the discontinuation of phone updates in the UK.

I'm having the same problem as everyone else. My email is rndmideas@gmail.com and my twitter name is Tristansmith. it happens with both gmail and yahoo. I've tried it on mobile safari, safari, internet explorer and firefox 2 and 3. same results. I'd be More that happy to provide any additional information if needed.
I'm not a computer expret, but any chance this problem is IP related? maybe a bad connection in the routing table? maybe that's why the folks at twitter cant replicate the problem.

I get the message not only for my Gmail but also Hotmail account.
This happens in Firefox. Tried switching to IE, gives me "page cannot be found" where "This method requires a POST" used to be.