When it comes to desktop Twitter clients there aren’t many options. If you’re looking for a freebie there are even fewer choices. TweetDeck is far from perfect but it’s one of the better desktop clients available and it’s the one I’ve come to rely on when I’m not using my iPhone or iPad. Back in October I upgraded my pc’s to Windows 8. After reinstalling TweetDeck I was confronted with a fatal error; TweetDeck failed to login to my account and displayed the error message “Unable to connect. Please check your network.” Tweetdeck connection issues are not limited to Windows 8. I’ve seen similar issues on Windows 7 — but this was the first time the issue failed to work itself out. I tried reinstalling TweetDeck. I tried manually setting firewall rules for TweetDeck. I tried running TweetDeck as Administrator. Nothing resolved the error. Weeks after installing Windows 8 I was still without my precious TweetDeck. Since there wasn’t an update to address the issue I decided to investigate where the hangup was occurring. It turns out the problem is easy to resolve. Security changes to Windows 8 have left TweetDeck without the ability to validate ssl certificates associated with the Twitter API. All one has to do is use Microsoft Internet Explorer to validate the certificates. Then TweetDeck will function normally again!
1) Open Microsoft Internet Explorer (You HAVE to use IE. This will not work in another browser!!!)
2) Enter the following url in the address bar and wait for the page to load: https://api.tweetdeck.com
3) Within the same internet explorer windows & tab enter the following url in the address bar ad wait for the page to load: https://api.twitter.com
4) Close Microsoft Internet Explorer
5) Open TweetDeck, enter your credentials, and log in.
That’s it! TweetDeck should connect without any issues from now on.
Jan 3rd, 2013 at 3:57 am
Wooow! I have no clue why this worked out, but it did! Didn’t work with Firefox, but on the first try with IE.
Thank you very much :)
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Chris Schiffner Reply:
January 3rd, 2013 at 10:20 am
Yes, it has to be done in IE. Glad it worked for you.
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Jan 6th, 2013 at 6:40 pm
Awesome!!
Thank you so much!
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Jan 7th, 2013 at 5:01 pm
hey, thanks, is working now. :)
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Jan 9th, 2013 at 10:00 am
Ooh, it works if I skip step 3!
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Jan 12th, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Damn! AWESOME!! THANKS MAN!
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Jan 13th, 2013 at 11:13 am
you are it!!! finally got it to work
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Jan 23rd, 2013 at 11:23 am
Oh wow! Thank you!!!!
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Jan 26th, 2013 at 7:03 am
its not working :C
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Jan 28th, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Finally , thank you so much !!!
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Feb 16th, 2013 at 3:51 am
wow. thanx a million
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Feb 19th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
If you don’t want to use IE, you can use an IE emulator (like IE Tab) for your Firefox or Chrome browser. Just did that and it worked fine.
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Chris Schiffner Reply:
February 19th, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Add-ons like IE Tab aren’t emulators — they simply load an IE instance inside a tabbed window in Firefox — however yes, you can perform the steps above using IE Tab rather than IE.
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Feb 21st, 2013 at 11:02 am
wow…thanks….worked like charm
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Feb 21st, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Wow, thanks!
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Mar 1st, 2013 at 8:52 am
WOW! Fantastic! …THANK YOU!!
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Mar 7th, 2013 at 2:14 am
Thanks a lot. I had tried everything possible and had lost my faith in using Tweetdeck with Windows 8. You have saved my life.
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Mar 11th, 2013 at 6:54 am
Nice work! , thank u very much :)
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Mar 20th, 2013 at 11:55 am
Fingers were crossed but this didn’t work for me. The tweedeck api link seemed to work ok, but the Twitter api one just shows “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”
It may still just be my work network that is the issue, but I decided to hunt for fixes, and yours was the first. Sounds great, and i’m glad its work for so many others.
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Mar 21st, 2013 at 3:59 am
@Zenrhe..same here, the tweetdeck api url works fine but the Twitter api one gives an error…sigh;
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Mar 22nd, 2013 at 11:12 pm
Yep, this worked perfectly, thank-you
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Mar 31st, 2013 at 3:56 am
Thanks alot… been trying to solve this for months! Stumbled upon your site. This actually worked!
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Apr 16th, 2013 at 8:28 am
Thank’s for that solution. Now my TweetDeck normally functioned..
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