Publicize: Twitter
We dig Twitter over here at WordPress.com (check us out at @wordpressdotcom). With the launch of our newest Publicize feature, we dig it even more since you can now tweet your WordPress.com posts automatically.
You can stick with the default, automatically generated tweet, or customize it to your heart’s content.
The feature can be enabled from your Dashboard → My Blogs admin page. Once you enable it, you’ll be directed through an authorization procedure to confirm that you want to connect your WordPress.com blog and your Twitter account.
Just like the Yahoo! Updates Publicize feature, these connections are per blog and per user, so those of you with several blogs can choose which ones to connect, and those of you with multiple authors on one blog can each hook up your Twitter accounts separately.
More details can be found on the Publicize support page.
October 11th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
neat! Will give that a try!
October 11th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
just awesome thanks
October 11th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Fantastic
October 11th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
This is fantastic…except that it doesn’t Tweet when you schedule a post. Can this be organised? I schedule most of my posts, so having this only work when you publish immediately totally ruins the usefulness of this feature. I’d make this comment on support…but support is down.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Awesome work WP. I just started my blog, and would like to get out there more, so this really will help me. Keep up the good work.
October 12th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Thank you !! You all are on top of it!
October 12th, 2009 at 6:10 am
best idea!!!
tr. ottima idea!!!
but it must be traslated in italian language!!!
tr. ma deve essere tradotto in lingua italiana!!!
October 12th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Thanks! Now it works with “normal posting” of P2.
October 12th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Great idea. I find it useful.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
thanks for saving me a few seconds everyday
October 12th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
What’s twitter?
October 12th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
wonderfull
October 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
It’s very useful. Thank you.
October 13th, 2009 at 4:41 am
It doesn’t appear to work for Scheduled Posts. I just made a scheduled post and the Tweet didn’t show up.
Also, any explanation on why that preceding text can’t be removed?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Any chance for this publicize feature to roll back into wordpress.org as well?
October 19th, 2009 at 1:28 am
We will be releasing WordPress.org plugins.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:16 am
i seem to be having some problems with scheduled posts – I usually schedule posts for the week ahead, but the twitter publicise feature doesn’t seem to work unless I go in and manually update post? Any advice?
October 19th, 2009 at 1:27 am
We have a bug with publicize and scheduled posts right now.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Awesome!
October 13th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Awesome!
October 13th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I knew there was a reason to luv you folks! Great addition… thanks!
October 13th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I’ve tried to post-date my post, so it will post to WP a few hours later and post to Twitter. WP doesn’t seem to send out the tweet unless I go back later and manually push it out. Should it tweet at the time of posting?
October 19th, 2009 at 1:19 am
There is currently a bug with publicize working for scheduled posts.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Good work! just trying now.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Excellent! Thanks for making the process easier!
October 13th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
cool.awesome and amazing
October 13th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
just tried it out. works great!
October 14th, 2009 at 6:09 am
That was a needed feature, thanks and greetings
October 14th, 2009 at 9:06 am
hai.thank you all
October 14th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I use it to tell everyone about my guitar lessons in nottingham uk
October 14th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
good feature…
October 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
fantastic – thats a great idea
October 14th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
tht would b very nice..
October 14th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Excellent. Now I just have to find something interesting to write so I can test it…
October 14th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
sweet feature, seconds count!
October 14th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Thanks! ;D
October 15th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Thanks a lot for this.
It works well on New Posts, it sends the tweet like it’s supposed to.
BUT..
it doesn’t send tweets when a scheduled post is published. It would be great if that’ll work too.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
We’re working on a fix for this issue. Thanks!
October 15th, 2009 at 2:45 am
will it be another titanic?
October 15th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Perfect! I was just wishing I could do this!
October 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
i’m coming
October 15th, 2009 at 10:27 am
this is a v.good feature – 2 things that would be useful as you work on it in future:
Fix the known issue about scheduled posts not working properly http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/no-tweets-on-scheduled-posts?replies=3#post-392076
Ability to set the default text that goes out with the tweet – at the moment it says “posted to WP.com” would be nicer if I could make that the base domain for my blog, especially as I use a client side app (MS LiveWriter) to post rather than the WP web UI
October 15th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
There appears to be a bug with using this feature with scheduled posts. My posts show up on my blog but the tweet doesn’t go out. When I edit the post, I find the checkbox blank. Once I check it (again), the tweet goes out.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Thanks, Vivian. This is a known issue. We’re working on it!
October 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I should look that site up again.
October 15th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
We want to have all posts by different authors tweet to the same twitter feed, but I’m pretty sure that does not work. I think twitter will only authorize one person at a time. Am I wrong? Did you guys test this?
October 15th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I think this feature has a lot of potential, but I agree with the wish that customizing the text could be saved.
I also wish that an option could be set to not tweet every post by default, but choose TO send the tweet. My main blog is for work (a church) and includes updates for every little ministry and program plus community announcements, but only want announcements with the broadest audience to be tweeted. I already accidentally sent one tweet I didn’t mean to… so have turned it off again for now.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
That’s great. I have been looking for this feature for a long time.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
I agree with Gernit above, this is nice but I would really love a “Tweet this post” function for readers to spread the love as well.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Very Nice man
October 16th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Nifty
October 16th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Wow, awesome! I like Twitter, and I’m glad I can combine it even more with WP! Keep up the good work, WP.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I lovelovelove this. Saves me a lot of trouble tweeting it all the time!
October 16th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Excellent! Great idea. I Fine, very nice!
Thanks! thanks! thanks!
October 16th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Cool!
October 16th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
You guys rock.
(Yeah, I know – I’m dating myself)
October 16th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Great work …just started to twit.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Great Idea!! this helps us connect to larger audience with least redundant postings (copy paste actually) and single interface to deal with two great things. Sure people will love this..
October 18th, 2009 at 1:51 am
So cool, must see if it applies to Blogger….hope that isn’t a bad word here.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I think it’s great, but does it work when posting an entry via Flock? I love that browser so much. It did update my Facebook, but it did not update my Twitter even if the publicize feature is on.
October 18th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Twitterconnection is down?
October 19th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Yes, Twitter was down earlier today. See http://status.twitter.com/
October 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Just tried it out and…..IT DOESN’T WORK!
October 19th, 2009 at 12:48 am
Twitter’s service was down for awhile earlier today. Try again now.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Love it! <3
October 18th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Great. I’ll follow.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
sweet
October 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Too tight.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Me like=D
October 20th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Good addition, I’m looking for it. thanks
October 20th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Thank you. This automation make me so happy to try it
October 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Great idea! thanks
i have tried it, but is not working in “scheduled” posts.
when the entry in not posted immediatly, no message are sended to twitter
thanks!
October 20th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Very nice and good. Thanks.
October 20th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
grazie!!!!!!!!!!!
October 20th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Word!
October 20th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
How does Publicize Twitter works in posts scheduled for the future?
Apparently it does not work.
Thank you very much
October 21st, 2009 at 6:53 am
good idea….
October 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Great feature! Thanks.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Thanks! This will be a great help to me.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Very useful and good job wordpress!!!
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:12 am
Nice!
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Binggo…..!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
yaaaaaaaaaay!
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
that’s great!