I have had this problem before, but then I was playing with a hand-rolled client, so I put it down to me being a numptie. On this occasion, though, I only had TweetDeck as an interface between me and Twitter...

...when "Not authorised". Hmm odd. So I tried to log in via the Twitter web site. "Sorry we have blocked your account because of too many failed log in attempts" (or words to that effect).

...Wait a while... and try again. Still blocked, so wait again... aaaand finally, still blocked.

Go to raise a ticket, only to find out you have to be logged in, so ever the optimist, tried logging in there instead. Success!

But TweetDeck still a no go.

OK, so from previous experience I changed my password and tried again. Still no joy.

When I got the Tweet below from @TraciKnoppe, I thought I may as well try the same thing again - and this time, it worked.

I guess something in Tweetdeck got screwed up, but I can't really imagine what - and I would be surprised if it ke