Thought it would be cool to test the the wordpress plugin TwitterTools. Twitter Tools is a plugin that integrates your wordpress blog and your Twitter account. Version 1.51a, just released today, is compatible with my current version of wordpress and includes the following functionality:
* Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
* Create a blog post from each of your tweets
* Create a daily digest post of your tweets
* Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
* Post a tweet from your sidebar
* Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
* Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)
So naturally I figured it was a great move to add the plugin. Afterall, I have a new post (not this one) that I want to autotweet. And that was the primary reason for installing this plugin. I wanted a simple and automated way of letting my tweeples in the twitterverse know that I posted something new.
Simple? No.
After installing, I tested my Twitter.com login within the Twitter Tools plugin. Oops, got an error message. After reconfirming my login credentials 5 times (as if the second time wasn’t proof enough), I decided to ignore the message and test other capabilities. I know that makes absolutely no sense. Afterall, how could the tool access my tweets from Twitter.com when the login failed?
10 minutes on the Wordpress Forum and the Twitter wiki proved fruitless. So I proceeded with my irrational decision to test widget capability.
Eureka!
I placed the Twitter Tools widget on the side bar and there were my current tweets! Hmm, not sure why that worked…
Perhaps the plugin will actually create a new tweet of a new blog post despite the error message? That’s why I downloaded this tool in the first place…
So here I am ready to test this functionally. I was going to just post “Test” to my blog and see what happens. Instead, I decided to capture the experience as part of the process. Thanks for humoring me. Time for the experiment.
Let’s see what happens next.
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