I like the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress that sends a message about my new blog posts automatically to my Twitter Account. However, ever since the twitter searches became popular (i.e. TwitterFall), I thought such automatic messages should also include search tags.
Therefore, I wrote a very simple plugin to automatically add twitter search tags, based on the post tags, to the “New Blog Post” twitter status messages. Furthermore, since twitter limits the status message length to 140 characters I have also added my favorite URL shortener service to save more space for the search tags. Using this plugin the automated status message will have a format of
New Blog Post: [Post Title] [Post Url] #tag1 #tag2 #tag3
In this initial release, the twitter search tags are created automatically from the tags assigned to the post. If the plugin turns out to be popular I will add some sort of customization and options panels to the Dashboard in the future.
Download the Twitter Tools Search Tags plugin
David H Sundwall
Thank you! I have been looking for something like this for a while.
The ideal solution for me would be to set certain certain based on the post category I use as the tags may be too much or cumbersome for Twitter.
Thanks.
Kelly Brown
I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?
Axel
I got a problem, your plugin doesn’t seem to work, i am on wordpress 2.7.1. The URL shortening part work perfectly but no tags appear any idea?:p
Search Tags Extension für das Twitter Tools Wordpress Plugin
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Vivek
it seems nice going to use now