This problem caused me much angst and it’s partly Twitter’s fault (just ask me). I’m using the great Titanium library for Twitter called Birdhouse. It does a great job requesting authorization, storing it, and gives you an API to post tweets. So I was using this code to post tweets using Birdhouse. this.tweet = function(message) { Ti.API.info('Im about to post to twitter:'); Ti.API.info(escape(message)); BH.api('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json', 'POST', 'status=' + escape(message), function(resp) { Ti.