CreatedAt string from Twitter is sometimes null

[steve-swanson]

TwitterUtils.ParseDateTime throws a null reference exception at times because of a null string from Twitter. I don't know if this is the same for the ParseDateTimeUtc when parsing the date/time string for tweets, but I would assume it could be an issue as well.

[abjerner]

I'll be happy to look into it, but I haven't seen this before, so do you have any examples on tweets where the date is NULL?

[steve-swanson]

Sorry I didn't provide more information when I created this issue. We were doing some processing on Twitter users and saw this error, but I didn't have the user information. Basically it was the CreatedAt on the TwitterUser that was returned as null from Twitter and then the ParseExact was failing. I tried to run through the users again this morning but didn't get the error. It was consistent on Friday, but maybe it was only a temporary issue.

Thanks again for all of the work on the other issues too!

[abjerner]

Seems like a temporary issue with Twitter. I can replicate this with the users/tweets that I have tested, and the API documentation doesn't mention that the creation date can be null. I will keep this in mind, but close the issue for now.