#oldtwitter’s cookie

Tonight a twitter cookie of mine expired and I was shunted again into #newtwitter.

Twitter offers a link to switch back to #oldtwitter, but it’s been broken for months now.

I did some digging and found the expired cookie entry in ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist:

<dict>
    <key>Created</key>
    <real>322609921.51493198</real>
    <key>Domain</key>
    <string>.twitter.com</string>
    <key>Expires</key>
    <date>2012-03-30T21:52:01Z</date>
    <key>Name</key>
    <string>k</string>
    <key>Path</key>
    <string>/</string>
    <key>Value</key>
    <string>[REDACTED]</string>
</dict>

I quit Safari, moved its expiration date forward a year and was able to login into #oldtwitter again.

Update: Or not, I’ve been bounced into #newtwitter again the next day. I’ll now try enabling Feather.

twitter Mar 29 2011