Twitter Tools not triggering scheduled event (15 minute tweet download)

Anyone having this issue can assist us in debugging by installing/activating this plugin we’ve written to get some relevant information regarding your environment and the state of the social lock.

https://gist.github.com/4127490

Place this file in your plugins directory and activate it. Once it is active you simply log into the admin and then add social_debug=true as a query string parameter.

Example

https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/index.php?social_debug=true

Copy and Paste the resulting text here.

I am having the exact same issue as macharborguy, but the site using the plug-in is part of a networked wordpress set up (multiple sites on one installation). Will your debug file work in a network set-up?

Although I don’t know is this cause in other cases, I’ve found a bug that is preventing fetching of tweets in my case.

Problem is that Twitter Tools doesn’t have it’s own cron job, and is instead relying on Social’s cron job, which in turn doesn’t run always but only when option to automatically fetch new comments is selected in Social. (see Social::check_system_cron() and Social_Controller_Settings::action_index())

This means that if you have choose not to fetch comments (like I did, since I use Social only for Twitter Tools), tweets will never be automatically fetched.

Solution is to have built in cron job for Twitter Tools that will run always when plugin is active.

Hmm, I think the solution is to decouple Social’s comment fetching from it’s CRON system. The thread-safe CRON system is decidedly non-trivial so I don’t want to include it in two places if I don’t need to. Thanks for looking into this.

Since we have comments disabled, and we aren’t using social to broadcast blog posts, I just enabled social’s auto fetching of new comments so that the tweets would update. Hopefully this will get fixed in a future update of Social!

I have the same issue, it only works when I manually download tweets. And only a few, I tried today and it only fetched last 24.

# Social Debug

Current Time: 2012-12-20 21:25:27

## Software Versions

MySQL: 5.1.65-cll
WordPress: 3.5
PHP: 5.3.19
Social: 2.6
WebServer: LiteSpeed

## Social options

social_locked: 1
social_unlocked: Doesn’t Exist
social_last_lock_time: 2012-12-20 21:15:54
social_semaphore: 1

What can I do to make it run automatically, like it used to work before it turned into a part of Social?

thank you

Try the latest version of Social, make sure that CRON is enabled in Social.