I’ve updated my Twitter Tools plugin to version 2.3. This version has several security enhancements (thanks Mark Jaquith) as well as a change that may help some folks that have been seeing doubled digest posts. I recommend upgrading ASAP.
The Twitter Tools plugin creates a full integration between your WordPress site and your Twitter account. You can send your blog posts to Twitter, bring your tweets back into your blog (as posts, in the sidebar or in a digest) and post to Twitter right from your WordPress admin. Twitter Tools also works as a Twitter archiver, so you keep a copy of all your tweets in your WordPress database.
Twitter Tools has no known incompatibilities with WordPress 3.0 at this time and is working in our testing, however that could change between now and the time 3.0 is released. We won’t know for sure about compatibility until 3.0 is out there.
I also wanted to note that Twitter Tools will be supporting OAuth in a future release, before the current authentication is turned off.
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please contact the WordPress HelpCenter (303-395-1346) or you can try the WP Support Forums.
UPDATE: there is a bug in the recent tweet function that has been patched in the development version. I’m going to wait a day or two to see if any other issues arise before releasing the dot one update.
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Can you direct me to a blog which is using this plugin? I’d like to get a look at it in action. As special projects manager for LSB I’m looking at this for our blog.
Thanks,
RJ
This site, for one…
I just upgraded my twitter tools, and I got this error when using the templates tag:
Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/…. /twitter-tools/twitter-tools.php on line 850
Is it dangerous Doctor?
Ok i just overwrited the twitter-tools.php with the development version, and everything seems ok so far.
Roscoe,
We use it for “breaking news” it is fantastic!
We tweet a news event in our town, on our free community website, it goes to our followers on twitter and is put in the breaking news box at the top of our (wordpress) news site.
We write a story, and it goes to twitter (Story is the word we use to keep it from looping) but not to the breaking news site.
Our field reporters (authors) can use the “write tweet” option in the Posts section of the administration page.
We even have a student away at school, listen to the Police and Fire scanner (legal in our country) and post “Breaking News” from his dorm room.
On Sunday we do a “Breaking News for the week” with the digest option.
Great plugin, great author!
Thanks Alex
I look forward to getting only one digest post the next time round!
Should have said – the “change that may help some folks that have been seeing doubled digest posts” worked fine for me. Many thanks for the updated version.