Article Twitter

I've upgraded to Articles 1.4.7 which included #6980 - Fix issue with fallback Twitter feed tpl

This is sort of working now but I'm having an issue with the URL which is probably due to my misunderstanding.

If I set the URL shortener

1. None -> twitter displays no link nor error
2. Tinyurl -> twitter displays 'Error'
3. Digg -> twitter displays the full link but the actual hyperlink is the shortened one (this could be correct and shows my ignorance of twitter)
4. Isgd -> twitter displays 'Error: Please specify a URL to shorten'

So at this stage I've concluded that the Articles notification functions are broken enough that you're better off with a two-step method. It's more reliable, gives you much greater flexibility and allows you to post to Facebook and LinkedIn as well. Its only downside is that you will need to do some work to display MODX tags as Twitter hastags. Here it is:

• Create an RSS feed using MODX. http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/getresources/getresources.examples/getresources.building-a-rss-feed.
• Publish the RSS feed as tweets, Facebook posts etc using a posting service like Twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com.

Update: Remember that Twitter also natively provides auto-posting of tweets to Facebook. [ed. note: shorewalker last edited this post 12 years, 11 months ago.]

If you are testing on a localhost install, most url-shortening services will choke because they don't consider 'localhost' a valid host.

The Notify extra has reliable url-shortening for both Tweets and email messages to users and supports a variety of shortening services. It works well with Articles.

AFAIK Publishing to Twitter is essentially broken. There are several critical bugs.

Quote from: dinocorn at Nov 03, 2013, 05:39 AM

AFAIK Publishing to Twitter is essentially broken. There are several critical bugs.

Will you be able to fix these or should we abandon it and use a David Walker approach (above) instead?

Quote from: sparkyhd at Nov 04, 2013, 03:59 AM

Quote from: dinocorn at Nov 03, 2013, 05:39 AM

AFAIK Publishing to Twitter is essentially broken. There are several critical bugs.

Will you be able to fix these or should we abandon it and use a David Walker approach (above) instead?

I'm not sure, it may be removed until it can be properly addressed so I wouldn't talk you out of using more reliable solutions.

I've been using the twitterfeed approach since my initial articles/twitter experience was poor and hurriedly needed to find a fix. Its been reliable fro day one. Just need to work out how to post an image to twitter like I can to Facebook from the rss feed and it will be perfect!

Very nice. Have you tried just including a direct image link in the tweet? Or maybe there is a way to add an image with the API

Quote from: JoeriVos at Jan 24, 2012, 11:57 AM

Hi, any success?

have the same issue, no matter what I put in the template container, I always get this on Twitter:

[[+pagetitle]] [[+link]] #tags

tags work...

same problem...