Twitter Blog

Monday, 24 August 2009

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Twitter Blog will not only tweet your blog post, but it will also check hourly for replies to that tweet and turn it into a comment on that blog post. It also uses the bit.ly API for URL shortening and adds link generated to your bit.ly account for tracking purposes.

This is in active development so there will be frequent updates. Sometimes multiple per day. If you find any bugs or have a suggestion: chris@twitterblogplugin.com

Current Features

  • Tweets about your blog post on posting
  • Creates a bit.ly link when your blog post is tweeted and adds it to your bit.ly link history
  • Checks for replies to the tweet hourly and converts them to comments
  • Direct Message is sent to the user notifying them their tweet has been added to your blog post
  • Comment will be moderated and administrator will be notified according to system settings.
  • Customizable Tweet format
  • Converts tweets with #blog hashtag to a blog post. (Hashtag is customizable)
  • Allows for Start and End parts of tweet to be customized.

Future Enhancements

  • Use the Twitter user’s image for the comment image
  • Add Twitter hashtags to tweets for individual posts

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4 Responses to “Twitter Blog”

  1. Freakenstein writes:
    No. 1 — September 10th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    Wordpress Plugin: Twitter Blog…

    Met BackType connect kunnen we alle tweets waarin de (shortened)url van een artikel staat importeren. Maar als iemand alleen maar replied, dan verdwijnen deze tweets.
    Met de behoorlijk nieuwe WordPress Plugin van Chris Mielke is het mogelijk om via Twi…

  2. Mike Macey writes:
    No. 2 — December 25th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    I enter all of my Twitter and bit.ly data and API key and cannot save the information. It continues to show it cannot validate my settings. How do I save the settings?

  3. Flavien writes:
    No. 3 — January 3rd, 2010 at 8:35 am

    Nice plugin !
    Good job !

    I just have to add this to work on my server :

    if (!function_exists(‘curl_setopt_array’)) {
    function curl_setopt_array(&$ch, $curl_options)
    {
    foreach ($curl_options as $option => $value) {
    if (!curl_setopt($ch, $option, $value)) {
    return false;
    }
    }
    return true;
    }
    }

  4. Danny writes:
    No. 4 — January 20th, 2010 at 9:16 am

    Hi Chris,

    Thanks for the awesome plugin. I have a question/suggestion.

    I’ve been trying to get your plugin to tweet[post title+author name+link], but without success.

    The scenario I have is that I have multiple authors (tweeting to one Twitter account) and I’m trying to get the tweet to include the author’s name (something like: a day in the sun (by James smith) bit.ly

    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    Many thanks,

    Danny.

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