Tools for Twitter

Tools for Twitter integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:

• Connect multiple Twitter accounts (via Social)
• Archive the tweets from your Twitter accounts (downloaded every 10 minutes)
• Create a blog post from each of your tweets
• Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post (via Social)
• Browse your tweets locally by @mention, #hashtag or user account (optionally display these publicly)

Tools for Twitter leverages Social’s connection to Twitter so that you don’t have to create an app and copy keys around. It supports multiple accounts (must be authorized as “global” accounts in Social) with settings on a per-account basis.

Support Level: Product Support (we want to fix bugs and make the product great, but do not provide individual support).

Developers: Fork and contribute on GitHub.

Upgrading

If you have upgraded from an older version of Tools for Twitter, your data will need to be converted to the new Tools for Twitter format. On the Tools for Twitter Options page you will see a prompt to upgrade if appropriate. Follow the steps to convert your data.

Tools for Twitter now stores complete Twitter data along with your basic tweet content. Over time, Tools for Twitter will request this data for upgraded tweets. This process make take a few days, as only 10 tweets are requested per hour (to avoid egatively impacting your rate limit).

Connecting Accounts

Any Twitter accounts connected on the Social settings page are available for Tools for Twitter. You can enable them on a per-account account basis, as well as specifying per-account preferences for creating blog posts, etc. (on the Tools for Twitter options screen).

Managing your Tweets

You can view, edit and delete (or unpublish) the local copy of your Tweets right in your WordPress admin. Navigate the tweets from the “Tweets” menu item and manage them just as you would any other post type. Tools for Twitter does not know if you’ve deleted a tweet on Twitter, so you’ll need to also delete the copy of the tweet from the admin to remove it from your WordPress site.

Displaying your Tweets

Tools for Twitter include options to create URLs for your local tweets using the following scheme:

• single tweet: http://alexking.org/tweets/253580615113400321
• account archive: http://alexking.org/tweet-accounts/alexkingorg
• @mention archive: http://alexking.org/tweet-mentions/sogrady
• #hashtag archive: http://alexking.org/tweet-hashtags/monktoberfest

You can enable public URLs for your tweets in your Tools for Twitter settings. If you choose not to enable public URLs for your tweets, you can still vuew and manage them from within the admin screens.

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