Hi,
I am looking at the possibility to post a weblink to twitter and it seems that the natural way of doing this doesn't work with weblinks after further investigation.

I think it has to do with exactly the same as feedapi architecture: http://drupal.org/node/379748

Is it true that like feedapi, weblinks build nodes through node_object_prepare() and node_save(), rather than drupal_execute(), so the twitter "Post to twitter.com" code never gets fired.
Is this correct analyses?

Greetings, Martijn

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summit commented

Add on may be using twitter, as described on http://drupal.org/node/379748

/**       
* Implementation of hook_nodeapi().
*/
function Custommodulename_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'insert': 
      if ($node->type == 'weblinks') {
        module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
        $twitter_accounts = drupal_map_assoc(array_keys(twitter_get_user_accounts($node->uid, TRUE)));
        $node->twitter['post'] = TRUE;
        $node->twitter['status'] = 'RT @!title';
        $node->twitter['account'] = array_pop(array_keys($twitter_accounts));
      }
      break;
  } 
}
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To be more precise, we don't build the node at all -- the node module does it. I don't understand why the Twitter module can't intercept standard Drupal actions. I've posted in that issue for more information.

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summit commented

Hi Nancy, made a specific bugreport about this: http://drupal.org/node/509184 Greetings, Martijn

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Thanks

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

Please reopen this when that other issue gets resolved.