Sometimes things break and we’ll lose part or all of our service. This page is here to update you on what’s broken and why. Note, if the service is down and there is no explanation here, it likely means we have run out of money for that month.
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions.
We are now permanently off line with no plans to resume service as of 6th July 2025.
27/04/2025, 1415: Current Service Status is: Full. We noticed today that services have been down since January 2025, this affected logs and posts to Facebook and Twitter (X). Everything is now back up-and-running.
15/12/2024, 2254: Current Service Status is: Full. We have resumed services after pausing for some time.
17/09/2024, 2319: Current Service Status is: Full – everything up-and-running! Please see below for all the updates. Note, we are still on a 2 hour sample frequency.
16/08/2024 1614: OK, we think this issue is now resolved although we are reducing sample frequency to two hours during testing. Keep your fingers crossed for us 😉
14/08/2022 1018: Twitter (X) is playing up again, some other reason now so we’ve disabled tweets there unit we resolve it. This never used to happen before Elon started messing around with it. Just sayin’. We’re still logging to spreadsheet and posting on Facebook.
14/08/2024 0201: Twitter (X) is down again, we noticed this yesterday. We had some advice from @BerkshireCar on Twitter (X) and we think we have this resolved.
12/08/2024 2340: After some testing and application of fixes, the bot is fully operational and posting to Twitter (X), Facebook and logging the data.
12/08/2024 1605: The bot has been down for an extended period, there are no logs, no posts to Twitter (X) or Facebook. We are working on a solution now. We also found out today that the Parish Council are no longer funding the bot. This has been discussed an reasons are valid from them due to the bot being down for an extended period. It is important that we point out that we still maintain an excellent relationship with the Parish Council and we are very grateful for their support of the campaign.
18/02/2024 1912: Our developer has made some fixes and is currently testing.
18/02/2024 1600: The bot has not been posting to Twitter, Facebook or updating spreadsheets since 2211 on 17/02/2024. We are investigating this now.
22/10/2023 2003: Our developer has fixed this. We’ve been testing all day and the bot appears to be working well. It seems it was something to do with the X (formerly Twitter) API again. Re authorising the API seems to have fixed things. We’ll keep an eye on the bot over the coming days.
22/10/2023 0900: The bot has not been posting to Twitter, Facebook or updating spreadsheets since the early hours of the morning on 11/10/2023. We are investigating this now.
28/09/2023 1344: Our developer has fixed this now. Turns out that Twitter shut off its API before rolling out new ones. Tweets are back up as of today at 1220.
20/06/2023 1949: OK, it looks like Twitter have suspended our API app – a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other (i.e. Make (where the bot lives), and Twitter (where the bot posts to). This means that Twitter is broken for now and there’s not too much we can do about that but appeal it, maybe.
We have made some progress in getting logs going to the Stanford Rivers Parish Council Speedwatch Page (which was also broken). In summary, we have logging back up and Facebook working, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the Twitter API suspension and whether or not we can resolve it.
20/06/2023 1541: It looks like we have logging and the Facebook posting back up-and- running. We’re still looking at the authentication issue with Twitter and will update as soon as we have more news.
20/06/2023 1431: Further investigation appears to suggest that the bot is posting to Facebook and to one of our spreadsheets, although the bot has not been tripped in many days. Authentication for Twitter is definitely broken though.
20/06/2023 13:49: The bot has stopped tweeting on Twitter and posting to Facebook, it looks like the service has been down since 14/06/2023, 0129. The bot has also stopped logging speeds, so this is being looked into urgently.
We will update when we find out more.
14/04/2023 1739: The recent loss of live speed tweets on Twitter has been resolved:
12/04/2023, 1430: Make has found an interim fix, so we will be applying this as soon as we can and will hopefully have Twitter back up and running with live speed tweets soon.
11/04/2023, 2106: The bot is not posting live speeds to Twitter at present. The service has been down since 03/04/2023, 1640. This is because Twitter have pulled their integration with Make (formerly Integromat), this is the platform that the bot is built upon.
In plain english, this means that the bot can still log speeds but it cannot post these to Twitter. Speeds will continue to be logged and posted to our Facebook page though. There was a short break in logging speeds between 03/04/23 and 09/04/23.
We will update as we find out more.