Hi,

I found some issues connected to my issue but no sollution: When a user with permission to use the global account saves a new node and chooses the "Send to Twitter.com" option the tweet will be just sent to his own Twitter account, not to the global account. Even if the users have not the possibility to define an own account and they choose this option there is a message seen "It has been successfully sent to Twitter" (or something like that) but no tweet appears in the global account. Just if User1 re-saves the node it is successfully sent to Twitter.

Using Twitter actions there is the problem that there seems not to be the opportunity to user tinyurls which makes it not very helpful I think.

Greez,
Tobias

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tobiberlin’s picture

tobiberlin
Primary language German
Location Berlin, Germany
commented

Any ideas??? Has no one else this problem?

coloryan’s picture

coloryan commented

I had this problem, but I used the Twitter actions and created a new insert. I still get the 401 error, but it posts through the new rule.

tobiberlin’s picture

tobiberlin
Primary language German
Location Berlin, Germany
commented

But can you use tinyurls with the rules? I cannot find a token for this with the rule so I want to avoid that a long URL will be cut by Twitter?!

coloryan’s picture

coloryan commented

That's my issue also... no tiny URLs. I've got a little time to work with it, but would like it before I launch.

tobiberlin’s picture

tobiberlin
Primary language German
Location Berlin, Germany
commented

I found a way - you can use http://drupal.org/project/shorten in connection with http://drupal.org/project/shorturl. This offers a token when you define the rule of sending a Tweet. The token includes a shorten URL as you have defined it in the Shorten URL settings. As you can use your own domain for this I am really happy with this modules.

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Kane commented

Well, anything new about this bug?

abraham’s picture

abraham commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Twitter will automatically shorten long URLs using bit.ly.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

coloryan’s picture

coloryan commented

@abraham: It's not shortening anything for me. Maybe I'm doing it wrong...

Using tobiberlin's method with success.