Not Posting to Twitter?

  • Not sure if it’s a change at Twitters end or something I’m doing, but it doesn’t seem that the Sociable Twitter link posts to Twitter any more.

    Clicking on the link sends me to Twitter but I get the tweet post commands sitting in the browser URL bar.

    Site is here: https://cmx.org.uk

    Have tried it under Firefox, Chrome and Safari with no luck.

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  • Twitter disabled support for its “status” query strings. More info here:

    https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/05/18/twitter-disables-status-query-strings-old-twitter-website-buttons-begin-to-break/

    I’m not the Sociable developer, but I’ve actually just implemented a fix that I’ll share here.

    Around line 540 in sociable.php, change this line:

    'url' => 'https://twitter.com/home?status=TITLE%20-%20PERMALINK',

    to this:

    'url' => 'https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=TITLE%20-%20PERMALINK',

    …and your Twitter links should work again.

    Thread Starter pmj

    (@pmj)

    That’s great… many thanks.

    (Also just to mention that if you’re on Sociable 3.0 the line that needs editing is hidden in services.php)

    Hope next plugin update will fix that! Thanks!!!

    Unfortunately Sociable hasn’t been updated since 2009 and I don’t know if it ever will be again! If the developer ever stops by here it would be great to find out if they have any plans to update, or would be interested in having someone else take it over.

    Hi Guys,
    I am a freelance developer and a lot of my clients have run into trouble with this plugin. Especially when it comes to custom post types.

    I have attempted to contact the author, but no action on the plugin, twitter since ’09 and no response to email, I have taken it into my own hands.

    I have ( around 90% ) rewritten this plugin ( not modified, completely rewritten ), and will hopefully be re-releasing it in the next week or two.

    I am looking for feedback, broken stuff and feature requests in the current plugin the above mentioned twitter fix has been implemented and works fine.

    I have removed awe.sm as it is now a premium service, and URL shortening is not necessary, not even for twitter. They handle all that now.

    I am also debating to have the “iframe-popup” functionality , i don’t like it but if pple want it ill include it.

    The new version fully, and automatically supports custom post types and taxonomies, and also comes with the option to disable automatic mode, and has a template tag and a shortcode to boot.

    Let me know what you want this plugin to do and ill try to make it happen.

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