Hey @xfrocks I am looking at your Social Share plugin for my forum. Just some questions: Can I use this to post my site announcements to twitter automatically? Can I put in my bit.ly account API information to have the links automatically shortened? Can I have it repost on twitter whenever I edit my OP? Thank you!
To answers your questions: Yes. Sorry no, bit.ly is not currently supported. Links in tweet will be shorten automatically by Twitter shortener. No, repost upon edit is not supported. But you can use staff share feature and allow forum staff publish to the site Twitter when needed.
John @xfrocks Not a problem, bitly is more important for me. I would like to track the clicks so that's key
John @xfrocks Thanks! So I have the addon and I'm trying to configure it. How do I set it up so it's tied to my twitter account and set it to post to Twitter after I create a new thread in specific forums?
You want to tweet your threads only or everyone's threads in the forum? If you want for yours, just go to the forum, create a new thread, check the Twitter check box and it will remember. If you want for everyone's, go to AdminCP > edit the forum, choose auto sharing for threads.
John @xfrocks Seems to work, problem is I don't like the format. It should be customizable in the options. For instance {thread.title} {thread.url} #hashtag1 @user2 This way it follows this for all the automated tweets. Just a suggestion, needs to be a little more flexible.
Actually you can customize the tweet by editing XenForo template like "bdsocialshare_title_thread_auto".
John @xfrocks Interesting, so I can add the hashtag I want into the title and that's what is used when it's sent to my Twitter account to post? I just didn't want it to post: John created new thread XYZ {link}