TXP Tweet: arc_twitter and arc_twitter_intents

geoff777 · 2012-10-13 08:01:40

Hi, I’ve been approached by clients to create a multi-author news portal.

All the contributors have established individual Twitter accounts, that they seem to live on and take very seriously.

They want an article to tweet to the author’s Twitter stream and another to the site’s Twitter stream.

Is this possible to achieve?

I suggested they retweeted the portal’s tweet but they want it to Tweet twice.

Destry · 2012-10-13 14:26:55

Andy – just curious. We we’re using one of Twitter’s embed stream scripts on the magazine, and it stopped working sometime in the last few days, at least that’s when I noticed. I then found the Twitter dev information was lo longer available for it, rather they have a new process now where you create a “widget” via the twitter account. That’s what’s currently in the mag homepage now. Did that have anything to do with your plugin stopping recently?

I don’t like the new Twitter timeline widget. It’s an ugly piece of code, and I can’t seem to target the selectors to tame it into something more presentable for the magazine, and it would be a hack anyway that wouldn’t work very well against the responsive ranges of the mag.

All I want is a very clean and flexible output of just two or three tweets; style it all up the way I want, etc. I can do that with arc_twitter?

monkeyninja · 2012-10-18 11:28:48

Sorry for the delayed responses. I’ve only just returned from my holidays.

geoff777 wrote:

Hi, I’ve been approached by clients to create a multi-author news portal.

All the contributors have established individual Twitter accounts, that they seem to live on and take very seriously.

They want an article to tweet to the author’s Twitter stream and another to the site’s Twitter stream.

Is this possible to achieve?

I suggested they retweeted the portal’s tweet but they want it to Tweet twice.

Simple answer is no. A similar request has been made in the past, but in order to achieve this would involve a lot of code changes. I basically don’t have the time to develop the code in this direction especially as it looks like Twitter’s API is going to be forcing development of the plugin in other directions. I’d also be concerned that it would make arc_twitter unnecessarily complicated to use for the majority.

Destry wrote:

Andy – just curious. We we’re using one of Twitter’s embed stream scripts on the magazine, and it stopped working sometime in the last few days, at least that’s when I noticed. I then found the Twitter dev information was lo longer available for it, rather they have a new process now where you create a “widget” via the twitter account. That’s what’s currently in the mag homepage now. Did that have anything to do with your plugin stopping recently?

I don’t like the new Twitter timeline widget. It’s an ugly piece of code, and I can’t seem to target the selectors to tame it into something more presentable for the magazine, and it would be a hack anyway that wouldn’t work very well against the responsive ranges of the mag.

All I want is a very clean and flexible output of just two or three tweets; style it all up the way I want, etc. I can do that with arc_twitter?

The basic arc_twitter tag should let you output a controlled number of tweets and style them as you like. However, Twitter are changing the API and the usage rules. They are going to attempt to force API users to display tweets in a particular format/layout much like the new widget. Basically they want the avatars and “reply”, “retweet”, “favourite” links showing for each tweet. I haven’t fully investigated this but fear it will mean the plugin will need to start doing this. It may have consequences for everyone using the plugin I’m afraid.

Destry · 2012-10-22 10:12:12

Thanks for the reply, Andy!

monkeyninja · 2012-10-23 19:35:26

arc_twitter v3.3.1 is now available. Mainly cosmetic tweaks. The UI for the Twitter tab and Options page have been tidied up for TXP 4.5+. Plus you can now easily navigate between the two.

Daragh · 2012-12-20 13:57:13

This plugin seems to be working fine except that the links posted to twitter are bad: everything has a permalink date in 1970, which results in a 404 when clicked through. Any ideas?

SuMu · 2012-12-20 14:05:22

Hi
it works! Thanks!

progre55 · 2013-01-31 17:47:03

Things were working well but all of a sudden I am now getting this message:

Warning: file_put_contents(/mnt/stor7-wc2-dfw1/528426/579799/www.xxxxx.com/web/content/textpattern/mnt/stor7-wc2-dfw1/528426/579799/www.xxxxx.com/web/content/textpattern/tmp/7d126f73dd1369592b74e2842c2e9919) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mnt/stor7-wc2-dfw1/528426/579799/www.xxxxx.com/web/content/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php(653) : eval()’d code on line 871

Any assistance on how I can address this would be appreciated.

Using TXP 4.4.1 for this site and an older version of arc 2.0.1 (which is working fine on another site I am using)

progre55

uli · 2013-01-31 20:35:41

Have you tried to do an in-topic search for “file_put_contents”? There are several ones, also answered by Andy.

progre55 · 2013-01-31 21:00:29

Uli:

Thanks. My problem had to do with the cache settings — making that modification did the trick. Thank you again.

progre55

kvnmcwebn · 2013-03-11 00:54:41

hi, is this freak out normal for version 3.2.1

Warning: Table ‘db34978_mcmonagle_new.arc_twitter’ doesn’t exist SELECT tweet_id,tweet FROM arc_twitter WHERE article_id=185; in /…/donegalimage.com/html/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php on line 89

Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /nfs/c01/….com/html/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php on line 295
Status

The plug in works fine, but the admin spits out warnings when I tweet from an article. To the point were I’m afraid it will do something bad to my install or database.

I can’t upgrade because I can’t upgrade this site to 4.5 because of other reasons.

amordecosmos · 2013-06-12 08:44:58

It looks like Twitter has retired API V1, which this plugin uses. Does anyone know a workaround?

carlahearne · 2013-06-12 09:40:47

I wondered why my Twitter feed on my website wasn’t showing up; hopefully this plugin will get updated as it’d be a real shame to lose the functionality of it.

etc · 2013-06-12 11:02:32

Since yesterday, Twitter uses OAuth authentication for feed export. You can no more ~~still~~ use http://www.twitter-rss.com/user_timeline.php?screen_name=your_name for OAuthless rss import, but I don’t know what must be changed in arc_twitter. You could also adapt the etc_query solution, but only for feed retrieval (not publishing).

Last edited by etc (2013-07-03 10:29:29)

aslsw66 · 2013-06-13 11:25:11

I thought it was weird how my Twitter feed had stopped showing newer tweets, and then when I modified one of the attributes everything changed. Time to hunt for another solution then.

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#211 2012-10-13 08:01:40

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