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TweetMe – Another simple WordPress plugin that Twitters

[UPDATE] If you install my new revcanonical plugin, then TweetMe will use auto generated short urls from your own website, instead of going to a 3rd party site.

I’ve written a simple little WordPress Plugin to get me moving again. TweetMe posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post.

TweetMe

If you do a search on Google there are loads of similar plugins out there. The problem is after trying a few, none of them did what I wanted, and many of them seemed far to complex for the task in hand. I simply wanted this. Nothing more, nothing less:

  • I enter my Twitter credentials once and they get validated.
  • I decide how I want my tweet to look.
  • When I publish a new blog post, it gets sent to Twitter.
  • If I update that post, I don’t want it resent, unless I choose.
  • That’s it….

So that’s all TweetMe does.

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  1. Jason mentioned at 3:21 am on February 1st, 2009

    Have plugin installed and #title# in my tweetme settings, but it never seems to post the title??

  2. Duncan replied at 10:09 am on February 1st, 2009

    @jason, what version of wordpress do you use? Can I assume your settings look like this:

    New Blog Post at jasonhilimire.com: #title# #link#
  3. matt mentioned at 12:27 pm on April 10th, 2009

    Hi Duncan,

    Can Tweetme be updated to integrate with other ‘ long to short URL’ services?

    Matt

  4. Duncan replied at 10:30 am on April 11th, 2009

    @matt It could be yes, but I’m quite happy with the bit.ly service, so it would be for someone else to fork the source and add that functionality. Due to the rather messing link shortening problem, it would be nice if I never shortened the links and Twitter followed these rules.

  5. Matt mentioned at 3:19 pm on April 14th, 2009

    Hi Duncan

    I’ve just installed TweetMe (1.2), but it keeps throwing an error that I must provide my correct login (email address) and password. ny thoughts? And yes, I’ve double-checked the login details :)

    Cheers
    Matt

  6. Duncan replied at 4:34 pm on April 14th, 2009

    Thanks Matt, I’ll look into this. I just installed 1.0 and I get that error message too, so the problem may be twitter end. I’ll post back when I’ve figured it out.

  7. Duncan replied at 5:08 pm on April 14th, 2009

    I’ve just pushed out 1.2.1 which fixes this problem. It will be available when the servers all sync. Any problems let me know, it was done in a bit of a rush :)

  8. Steve Stelzner mentioned at 6:26 pm on April 14th, 2009

    Duncan,

    I’m glad i’m not the only one with the login problem. I changed servers 2 days ago and have
    been unable to reactivate your great plugin.

    I got the update and thought it would address this issue but it doesn’t.

    I get the message that the plugin was installed succcessfully and see it as being active on my WP plugin page but i can’t activate it even though the login info is correct.

    HELP………

    —steve

  9. Matt mentioned at 9:38 am on April 15th, 2009

    Thanks, Twitter details Successfully updated!

    Great! Workign nicely with TweetMe 1.2.1 on WP 2.7.1. Thanks very much for responding so quickly. I can now stop using TwitMe, which I found out sends a boatload of details to the author with every tweet (bad IMHO). Anyway, thanks again, now I just need to write some content…

    Cheers
    Matt

  10. Steve Stelzner mentioned at 11:14 pm on April 15th, 2009

    I wish i could say it’s working….i’m still getting;

    Error, You must provide your correct Twitter login and password!

  11. Steve Stelzner mentioned at 11:59 pm on April 15th, 2009

    Ok,

    it’s now working….am authorized but not seeing my posts show up on twitter.

    Any idea why not?

  12. Duncan replied at 12:11 pm on April 16th, 2009

    @steve, sorry you’re having problems. I’ll have a look. I don’t have any ideas just yet.

  13. Duncan replied at 11:54 am on April 23rd, 2009

    Ok, I think I sussed the not posting to twitter problem. It looks like twitter have changed something there end. 1.2.2 just released. Let me know if it cures your problems ;)

  14. Jeremy Payne mentioned at 11:25 am on April 24th, 2009

    I’m having the same ‘provide correct login and password’ instruction. What gives??

  15. Duncan replied at 12:37 pm on April 24th, 2009

    @Jeremy yeah, sorry, I fixed one bug and created another. I’ll have an update out by the end of the day that will fix this

  16. Duncan replied at 12:51 pm on April 24th, 2009

    1.2.3 Bug fix released, just need to wait for the WordPress servers. Once again, any problems let me know.

  17. Jeremy Payne mentioned at 1:13 pm on April 24th, 2009

    Thanks, will try again soon.

  18. Steve mentioned at 11:54 am on October 13th, 2009

    Duncan, if you have a moment to answer I am just wondering how easy it would be to post to ‘two’ twitter accounts at the same time?

    I will take a look at the code within tweetme.php and see if I can make the necessary amends – is there anything that I should be aware of?

    Cheers
    Steve

  19. Duncan replied at 1:14 pm on October 13th, 2009

    @steve, it’s possible, but you will have to make a whole bunch of changes to the plugin as it was never designed for this. Good luck.

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