Twitter::NotAcceptableError

Runtime error leaf class raised when the format specified in the request is not understood by the Twitter.com API. HTTP code: 406 (aka Not Acceptable).

To handle specifically you would do the following:

begin
  timeline = twitter.timeline_for(:friends, :since => tweet)
rescue NotAcceptableError => nae
  # 
end

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