My issues have also been caused by the way I was using Witter and had it configured. I have set the time line to refresh every 5 mins (I did mean mins but typed secs) and Mention every 10, I also did an uninstall and reinstall. Running from the terminal as requested: After about 25 mins one Retweet and three other tweets appeared on Twitter.com none on timeline after doing a refresh, the timer was still spinning around. I closed twitter.com to reduce the api hit. After further 5 mins with the timer spinning I closed Witter Xterminal did not capture it all but this is what I got: <snip> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 486, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 446, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/home/user/src/witter/fremantle/src/opt/witter/witter/refresh_thread.py", line 69, in _refresh File "/opt/witter/witter.py", line 700, in getTweetsWrapper self.activeAccount.getTweets(auto=autoval, older=get_older, get_count=more) File "/home/user/src/witter/fremantle/src/opt/witter/account/account.py", line 215, in getTweets File "/home/user/src/witter/fremantle/src/opt/witter/account/account.py", line 857, in set_pic_for_id File "/home/user/src/witter/fremantle/src/opt/witter/account/account.py", line 884, in set_pix GError: Image file '/home/user/.witterPics/Twitter/20635230.jpg' contains no data <snip> GError: Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '/home/user/.witterPics/Twitter/122994639.jpg'