Twitter::UnauthorizedError

Runtime error leaf class raised when user and/or client credentials are missing or invalid. HTTP code: 401 (aka Unauthorized).

To handle specifically you would do the following:

begin
  timeline = twitter.timeline_for(:friends, :since => tweet)
rescue UnauthorizedError => uae
  # do something to prompt for valid credentials to user here.
end

[Validate]

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