Sending Tweet with video (Error creating status.)

Question

I am trying to send a tweet with video but getting following error in the "await twitterCtx.TweetWithMediaAsync" line

Error creating status.

        if (Request.Params["VideoId"] != "")
        {
            AspNetAuthorizer auth = (AspNetAuthorizer)Session["TW"];

            var twitterCtx = new TwitterContext(auth);

            string status = "Testing TweetWithMedia #Linq2Twitter £ " + DateTime.Now.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
            const bool PossiblySensitive = false;
            const decimal Latitude = TwitterContext.NoCoordinate;
            const decimal Longitude = TwitterContext.NoCoordinate;
            const bool DisplayCoordinates = false;
            const string PlaceID = null;
            string ReplaceThisWithYourImageLocation = @"c:\foo\foo\" + Request.Params["VideoId"] + ".mp4";

            byte[] imageBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(ReplaceThisWithYourImageLocation);

            Status tweet = await twitterCtx.TweetWithMediaAsync(
                status, PossiblySensitive, Latitude, Longitude,
                PlaceID, DisplayCoordinates, imageBytes);

        }

video size ~3MB

Does it work without video? – Denise Skidmore Dec 15 '14 at 21:14 — Denise Skidmore, Dec 15 '14 at 21:14

Joe Mayo · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-08T15:45:06.630

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The Twitter API only supports uploading images. Also, TweetWithMediaAsync (=Twitter API statuses\update_with_media endpoint) is deprecated and replaced with UploadMediaAsync (=Twitter API media\upload endpoint).

You can download LINQ to Twitter source code for a demo and read my blog post, Uploading Multiple Images in Parallel with Async and LINQ to Twitter, for more info.

Update

Please see @Jagadeesh Govindaraj answer as Video uploads are a new capability that is now available.

edited Mar 08 '16 at 15:45

answered Dec 15 '14 at 21:51

Joe Mayo

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so there is no way I upload videos programmatically? – Mert Dec 15 '14 at 21:55
@Mert No, there never has been. – Joe Mayo Dec 16 '14 at 00:05

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '16 at 10:29

Is now posible to upload Videos in Twitter

priavte async Task UploadVideoAsync(TwitterContext twitterCtx)
{
                var additionalOwners = new List<ulong> { 3265644348, 15411837 };
                string status =
                    "Testing video upload tweet #Linq2Twitter £ " +
                    DateTime.Now.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

                var media = await twitterCtx.UploadMediaAsync(
                    File.ReadAllBytes(@"..\..\images\SampleVideo.mp4"), "video/mp4");

                Status tweet = await twitterCtx.TweetAsync(status, new ulong[] { media.MediaID });

                if (tweet != null)
                    Console.WriteLine("Tweet sent: " + tweet.Text);
}

**Note :**Code from orginal Samples in LinqtoTwitter

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 06 '15 at 09:06

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It is supporting now. But i can not success with UploadMediaAsync :) The second param is not mime type, it is cancellation token, so twitter can not recognize my mp4 file ;)

answered Nov 06 '15 at 09:06

rbostan

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Sending Tweet with video (Error creating status.)

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