So I’m playing with Alex King’s latest Twitter Tools plug-in for WordPress, and darned if it doesn’t look like it does about anything you’d want to do …
- List recent Tweets in your sidebar.
- Let you send a Tweet from your sidebar.
- Let you set a Tweet (optionally) when you post to your blog, with a mini-URL back to it. (If that’s working, and is the default, this post should generate a Tweet).
- Let you turn each Tweet into a blog post (hopefully that doesn’t recurse with the previous item), or combine them into Daily or Weekly compendium posts.
And probably more stuff I don’t understand because I’m a Twitter Tyro.
Let’s see if it works.
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And it did indeed generate a Tweet! Cool!
Let’s try it the other way around.
No worries (assuming the functionality works) about endlessly recursive Tweet-Blog cycles:
Interestingly enough, when you say, “Yes, turn my Twitters into blog entries,” it goes back as far as it can go in your Twitter history and does that for you. Which, if you already had that from a previous blogcarnation, means you have a bunch of duplicate entries. Which is easy to cleanup if you chose a unique category for your Tweets, but is still a bit odd.
For the record, Twitter Tools uses a substring of the Tweet for the post title, which is much better than MT-Twitters’ fixed title.
Darned if I could get the tinyurl part to work using tweed_post_blog_url … any suggestions/code alterations? its submitting full length addresses to my tweets.
Phill.
No, I haven’t noticed the problem (or that there is a problem). Hmmm. Post tweets come out with an elipsed full blog post name. But I don’t comment in those, so I don’t mind. Haven’t done any direct posting via TT, so I’m not aware of problems from that. (I’m terribly retro and use the actual Twitter web page to tweet from.)