[Plugin: Twitter Tools] Twitter update from post didn’t include link!

Yep, also found a trailing space on the API key. Once removed it all worked fine.

I think it is bit.ly. Sometimes when I log on to bit.ly directly it is down.

I had the same problem with bit.ly. Trailing space.

But I have another question: I’m posting time-relevant information and I like post-dating posts to the day that it’s relevant for. But if the “published” date isn’t immediately, it doesn’t tweet the post. Any ideas on how to work around this?

Ha … happened to me as well but in my case I was stupid enough to actually put in a API Key from a different service.

Yeah, I had a trailing space after my API key but that didn’t solve the problem.

I am running WP 8.5 and TT 2.0. Until a couple weeks ago, everything worked fine. Then, no links on twitter, not long-form and not bit.ly shortened.

Figured it was a twitter issue.

Today I tried it again to see if I could get it to work. Deleted and reinstalled plug-in. No luck.

Then, I deactivated the bit.ly twitter tools plug-in. Voila, suddenly my blog posts were being shortened and were showing up on twitter, automatically.

Makes no sense? Yeah.

Am I happy, nonetheless? Yeah.

So, my tip to you is, deactivate or delete twitter tools, re-install, reactivate, then enter your bit.ly ID and API key, again.

Then, try to post.

If it doesn’t create a shortened address, deactivate the three twitter tools plug-ins, one at a time – bit.ly urls creation, #hashtag creation, and exclude category, starting by deactivating bit.ly urls. If that doesn’t work, deactivate all three.

Trial and error will get you what you want!

@johnakeith – go and read this post on Alex’s blog.

There might be a patch for your problems with Twitter Tools. For my part it is working fine on all of my sites.