Twitter button causng torrent download
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Hi there
I noticed last night that when I clicked around on my blog it was causing a torrent download to start, this file: widgets-tweet_button.html.torrent
I went into Sharing and disconnected/reconnected my Twitter account but this morning a client of mine said that the same thing had happened to her while browsing our site. A Google search found this on the WordPress.org forums so I’m wondering if wordpress.com is having the same issue? http://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-oficial-button-has-problems
Any idea what’s causing this and how to stop it?
Thanks in advance!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Are you referring to this free hosted WordPress.com blog?
http://piteiraphotography.com/
http://kerrymurrayphotography.wordpress.com/If you are then type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff attention.
If you are referring to a wordpress.org install then have you looked for an answer to your question here? http://jetpack.me/support/
Also note that the Jetpack forum is at WordPress.org http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.org, click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post there.
If you can’t find help at either one then you can file a jetpack support ticket here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service
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I get the same file downloaded too when accessing my blog (theartofchart.wordpress.com) through
chrome
ipad safari
FirefoxFile name: widgets-tweet_button.html
Type: BitTorrent file
Size: 301 bytes
from: http://platform.twitter.comPls advise
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I’m experiencing the same problem on my blog: http://cosahoimparatooggi.wordpress.com/
Please help!
Thanks,
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Thanks for flagging this, Timethief. After a bit more investigation I´m almost completely certain that this is a problem with Twitter and not with wordpress.com… during my time on the internet today I encountered several other blogs with the same problem, some of them WordPress self hosted, some of them Blogger, some of them I couldn´t even tell what their platform was.
WhatI did on my blog, that seemed to work, is I changed the sharing buttons (Settings > Sharing) from the “official buttons” to “Icon + text” and the torrent thing stopped happening. Not really a solution, but it works while Twitter sorts themselves out.
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Same problem here.
I do not experience it, but some of my readers do.
And now I’m trying with Timethiefs’s (thank you!) button workaround. -
Ooops… I thanked the wrong person! :(
(I’m getting too old for all this) – thanks, Kerry. -
You´re welcome. :) A bit more investigation and I found this: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commentcamarche.net%2Fnews%2F5863187-twitter-victime-d-un-bug-widgets-tweet-button-html-torrent
Translated from French to English, but it seems this is definitely a Twitter problem that until now they haven´t acknowledged or done anything about. It´s very annoying though, because even though I´ve stopped it from happening on my blog, more than half of the blogs I visit have the same problem so I have a constant stream of downloads starting.
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I am having the same problem. Kind of weird since I don’t have a Twit account. When I go to the pages on my own blog, most of the text and photos do not load. I hope this gets resolved. Thanks
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me too on my:
http://www.ict360.it/just about 2 days having this problem
There’s many threed in main wordpress forum, but no solution for now
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It is definitely something on Twitter’s side. There are at least two posts on their dev forum reporting the issue:
https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/21520
https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/21504The issue was first reported during the weekend, but Twitter haven’t yet issued an official statement.
Site TorrentFreak has an interesting analysis . And Business Inside has also a recent article about the issue.
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-weird-twitter-bug-is-screwing-up-the-internet-2013-9
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I started with our common problem this weekend, I disconnected and reconnected my Twitter account and it seemed to be ok but this morning the problem is back.
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The workaround doesn’t do it for me, though — I didn’t have the official buttons to begin with, Icon + text only. I’ve tried removing the sharing button entirely, but not even that will do the trick.
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ETA: Have managed to fix it now, by removing the sharing option on a poll that I had on the first page.
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