# Twitter outbound

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-outbound/149615>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-outbound/149615 "2008-09-26T19:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![joe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@joe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-outbound/149615/1 "2008-09-26T19:18:00Z")

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how can we send message to twitter account from our application.I am  
using twitter4r gem there is one message method in which we can post  
but it’s showing me following error

@twitter.message(:post, ‘Are you coming over at 6pm for the BBQ  
tonight?’, ‘@christy24’)

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/twitter/client/  
base.rb:34:in `raise_rest_error': Forbidden (Twitter::RESTError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/ twitter/client/base.rb:39:in`handle\_rest\_response’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/  
twitter/client/base.rb:13:in `http_connect' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:547:in`start’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/  
twitter/client/base.rb:9:in `http_connect' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/ twitter/client/messaging.rb:73:in`message’  
from (irb):6:in `irb_binding' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in`irb\_binding’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52