I’ve got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account.
This release is just the same as 1.5b2, but fixes the duplicate custom field issue for people running WordPress 2.6+.
Hopefully this will be ready for a full release shortly, with only minor changes (if any). I guess we’ll find out soon. 
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and e-mail me a link to the thread.
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John adds this Comment:
EXCELLENT! Thanks so much for your hard work!
September 6th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Alex Rodriguez adds this Comment:
Should WP alert us of these new versions and let it do the upgrade via the administration panel?
September 6th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
WordPress checks against the version that is marked as the stable version. I’ve not marked these betas as the stable version yet.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Ilka adds this Comment:
WOW! Nice Plugin!!! Thank you.
Illy
September 7th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Ryan Lineker adds this Comment:
Great plugin thanks
September 7th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Torley adds this Comment:
Ooh, looks handy! I wanna try this out. I’m a fan of some of your other work, Alex. =D
September 7th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Alasdair adds this Comment:
Hi,
Great plugin, thanks! I had trouble this evening due to the quirk below.
If you capitalise the twitter username differently in Twitter tools to the way that twitter has it stored (eg AlexKingOrg in Twitter, but Alexkingorg in twitter) then:
i) If you click the Test Login Info then there are no problems, you get the message
“Login succeeded, you’re good to go.”
ii) But you do not get any tweets because of the way the plugin validates them. I think the validation code that causes this is below the comment:
// make sure we haven’t downloaded someone else’s tweets – happens sometimes due to Twitter hiccups
Everything is working fine now, but I thought I’d post incase someone else makes the same mistake. Great plugin, keep up the good work!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Nice catch – I’ll adjust the code to be more forgiving.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
ocj adds this Comment:
Hi Alex
Is there a localized version of this tool available? In particular, I would like to translate the text which is used when advocating new blog posts on Twitter. Is there any localization/workaround for this?
Thanks for the great tool!
September 17th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Twitter Tools has always been internationalized.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Datapoohbah adds this Comment:
Alex, Any chance this can be extended to work with more than one twitter account? So if a blog is say a family blog that everyone’s twitters will be displayed and archived, etc.?
Thanks.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Alex adds this Comment:
It would take a bit of work. Probably 2-5 days with testing. I’d need someone to fund the project.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:46 am
ocj adds this Comment:
Hmmm. I am a little bit lost in finding the internationalized versions. Any hints?
September 18th, 2008 at 4:49 am
ocj adds this Comment:
Someone edited my comment above. I wrote (and saw it afterwards!) something completely different.
How could that be?
September 19th, 2008 at 5:30 am
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September 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
T adds this Comment:
I love this plugin however, I was wondering why is it that it is showing my old account with my new account name. I deleted the table in phpmyadmin then try again its not showing up, what am i doing wrong?
September 27th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Paradox adds this Comment:
@Alasdair: I noticed this problem too.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Alex adds this Comment:
That’s your browser “auto-filling” the username for you into the field.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Aouni adds this Comment:
Great plugin indeed.
One small buy am not sure if it is only hapenning with me. When I delete a tweet from my twitter account it still appears in my twitter-tools widget. Any idea why that is happening?
Thnx.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 am
b!X adds this Comment:
Quick question: Does the daily scheduled time use the WP install’s timezone, the server’s timezone (if different), or UTC?
I’ve got TT pulling tweets into the database, but it won’t publish, and I’m not yet sure why. Thought maybe there was a TZ discrepancy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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October 5th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Mike Benton adds this Comment:
I have the same question as B!x, when does Twitter Tools decide to post the aggregated post? I’m not seeing one.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
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October 9th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Marko adds this Comment:
b!X, Mike,
I was wondering the same thing, and I just noticed my first tweet blog post being generated as I read through this page.
it seems that the time you set is considered as UTC.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
David Cooley adds this Comment:
Is there any way to make a Weekly Twitter update post?
Every day is too much, but I would like to do an Update once a week, maybe strip out all replies, just get the last 15 actual Tweets to post once a week, or every few days etc…
October 16th, 2008 at 4:59 am
DJ Lein adds this Comment:
I’m having the same issue as b!X, Mike and Marko regarding the daily update blogs being scheduled, but never posting. Also, they populate with tweets that are from a different day because of the time zone discrepancy. I’d post this in the support forum at WordPress.org, but I’m unable to sign into the forums there.
I know you’re a busy guy, but I appreciate all the time you’ve put into this project. PS – I found out about it via Leo Laporte.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Jared Cash adds this Comment:
Any plans for the plug-in to embed the URL as a tinyurl.com or piurl.com URL so that the tweets look prettier on longer hostnames?
I’d be greatly appreciative, though I don’t know that it’s a high priority.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Sayuri adds this Comment:
Its great, but it shows every time: “No tweets available at the moment.”
i don´t install a secount plugin. Pls help me
November 12th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
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