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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20131021114809/https://dev.twitter.com/issues/15

Issue #15: Many 500-series errors do not respect requested response format

When the Twitter service is over capacity, it will serve a HTML-formatted error response regardless of whether the application requested JSON or XML response formats.

If a developer is asking for JSON or XML content and an error occurs, the error should be in the format requested.