The custom twitter templates works great for the http://twitter.com/home links, but for the tweet button (the one with the counter) link, it uses the http://twitter.com/share method and always has the via @addThis. It seems the addthis button will force the via @addthis for that particular button unless you override it using the html attribute tw:via="{YOUR TWITTER USERNAME}" in the link. I fixed temporarily by adding this to the addthis.module file:

/**
 * Implements hook_addthis_toolbox_services().
 */
function addthis_addthis_toolbox_services() {
  .......
    'tweet' => array(
      'class' => 'addthis_button_tweet',
      'attributes' => 'tw:via="{TWITTER USER NAME}"', // Added this
    ),
  );
  return $services;
}

It might be nice to have a setting somewhere in the module where you can specify a twitter username to override the 'via' for the '/share' method.

Just a though.

Thanks!

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les lim’s picture

les lim
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Status: Active » Fixed

There's already an interface for this - go to the "Customize services" tab on the administration page.

drclaw’s picture

drclaw commented

Man, I can't believe I missed that! Sorry! Thanks!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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girishmuraly commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I can't get this to work.

* I am using tweet
* At 'Customize services' page (settings/addthis/custom), I set:
Service code: tweet
HTML classes: addthis_button_tweet
HTML attributes: tw:via="{myname}"
Title:

However, when I click on the 'tweet' link, it still has "..... via @addthis".

The url of the link however has:
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?status=This is my tweet text!%3A+http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fhome%23.TfXutHX9ASA%3Btwitter+via+%40addthis
&url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fhome%23.TfXutHX9ASA%3Btwitter
&via={myname}
&text=This is my tweet text!&count=horizontal

However, the content of my tweet seems to take what is in the 'status' var, and what I end up tweeting is:

This is my tweet text!: http://localhost/home#.TfXutHX9ASA;twitter via @addthis

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najyk commented

This started happening a couple days ago. It was working fine before, and now it's forcing the @addthis and that weird text to the URL.

???

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WouterL commented

I have the same problem! Is there a solution?

Or is it solved when the website is online?

Thx

les lim’s picture

les lim
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commented

Appears to be an issue with the AddThis service, not the module:

problem with "via" settings:
http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32111&sid=d13a03b361f27...

problem with gibberish in tweet text:
http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31612&sid=d13a03b361f27...

girishmuraly’s picture

girishmuraly commented

Thanks @Les Lim.

I was able to fix the gibberish error by what they suggested, in a hook_update_N() function:

function mymodule_update_6001() {
  $ret = array();

  if (module_exists('addthis')) {
    $addthis_config = variable_get('addthis_config', array());
    $addthis_config['ui_cobrand'] = 'My Site';
    $addthis_config['data_track_clickback'] = false;
    variable_set('addthis_config', $addthis_config);
    $ret[] = array('success' => TRUE, 'query' => "Set ui_cobrand and value of data_track_callback to false, in Addthis module");
  }

  return $ret;
}
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najyk commented

Thanks Les Lim and girishmuraly -- but could you tell me where you added this code? Many thanks in advance

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girishmuraly commented

@najyk, what I did was I created an update hook in my custom module's .install file.

See http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--hooks--install.php/function/... for hook_update_N

If you have a custom module (otherwise create one), in its .insall file, add the code pasted above (replace 'mymodule' with the name of your custom module and 'My Site' with whatever you want really) and run update.php as an admin on your site.

Then, flush all caches and test the tweet button. Hopefuly gibberish that appeared after the url should now be gone.

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LostReaper commented
Category: feature » bug

same here, via @addthis issue.

www.esguide.org

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koppie commented

What will it take to patch this module and get it into the stable version?

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gisle
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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

This bug report is nearly 5 years old and is about an outdated version of the module. I have not seen this problem when using the latest version (7.x-4.x).

I assume it has been resolved by now.

Feel free to reopen if you can tell us how to reproduce this with a clean install of AddThis 7.x-4.x.