TypeError: descriptor 'decode' of 'unicode' object needs an argumen

[Charles McLaughlin]

We have a site that uses Dogslow and it timed today out because of dependency on the Twitter API, which has been flapping. I ran the Django run server and noticed this traceback on Dogslow:

{{{ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/python/domains/status.bitbucket.org/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dogslow/init.py", line 132, in peek unicode.decode() TypeError: descriptor 'decode' of 'unicode' object needs an argument }}}