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TweetBacks are great, but they’re just a single feature, the integration of Twitter and blogging can and should go much deeper than that.
And if you liked TweetBacks or TweetSuite, please vote for me in the Shorty Awards.
So today I’m releasing the first version of TweetSuite, a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes the following features:
- Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
- ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
- A digg-like Tweet-This Button
- Automatic Tweeting of new posts
- A Most-Tweeted Widget
- A Recently-Tweeted Widget
- A My-Last-Tweets Widget
- A My-Favorited-Tweets Widget
You can see a lot of the functionality contained in the plguin, just by looking around my blog. Remeber again, this is beta stuff, and upgrades will be made available through the automatic upgrade feature.
If you want to use the automatic Tweeting of new posts, you’ll need to enter your Twitter username and password on TweetSuite’s settings page, and if you’re currently using any TweetBack plugin, you’ll need to deactivate it. To use the widgets, go to Presentation>Widgets.
Click here to download the plugin.
This plugin does not contact my server, or use JS, and it will not fill your comments with spam like some users have reported with the TweetBacks plugin.
The graphics, including the Tweet-This and ReTweet-This buttons were designed by the freakin’ awesome Jeff at GoMedia.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Thanks so much for developing these, and sharing these. It’s just brilliant what you’re doing.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:30 am
That is awesome, is there anyway to make the twitter links no follow? I tried adding to the plugin code and it blew up. Any ideas?
January 12th, 2009 at 11:32 am
@josh I’ll add that as an option to the next version, thanks!
January 12th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Cool, sound sinteresting. I’ll try it out tonight.
Thanks
January 12th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I think this is now my favorite plugin, I would love to be able to nofollow, looking forward to the next version. Great work.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:40 am
the demons are comming aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaardh
January 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Looks great - are you planning a Blogger plugin as well?
January 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Thanks for this. Great plug in. One tech question. When there are no tweets, this text is displayed: “Be the first to Tweet this post” However, the link is back to the post itself. When there are tweets, “Tweet this post” appears instead and has the right link.
Is this me or a bug?
Thanks.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
This is getting better every day!
January 12th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Hey Dan, great job. Plugin looks great, and much easier to work with than the other tweetbacks from Joost and Smashing which requires placing code, etc. In fact Tweetbacks now integrated my comments and tweetbacks and caused a big mess
BUT, where can we go for support w/ Tweetsuite, have some issues with individual posts and it re arranging the sidebar.
Thx and keep it up!
January 12th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Very excited to try this. I am going to fully test this out tonight! I was looking for a great way to integrate content from Twitter about my site back onto my main page, and this is it!
January 12th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
trulky excellent and overdue idea. One issue though: Do not rely on TinyURL. It’s down far to often and there are many better services out there.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Tweetsuite is a great deal better than what I was using. I am still having trouble with style issues… moving my sidebar around. it made my blog post text invisible. on one post it shrank the first line. So I suppose it is mostly style conflicts? I am not sure who to ask how to fix it.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Excellent plug-in although still takes to much time to load, when it gets as fast or faster than the yoast one, this will be a killer must-have plug-in for WordPress.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Truly
January 12th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Loving it. Great job. I’ve tried several Twitter plugins for wordpress, but this one is the best I’ve seen so far!
January 12th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Absolutely brilliant! My only question is if it’s possible to move the post icon to the end of a post, as I often want to put images top right or top left?
But that’s a minor quibble!
January 12th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
TweetBacks are working on one of my posts but not working on the other… Meaning, it will show the TweetBacks on one of them but not the other… any idea why? http://www.shorelinestudio.com/blog/
January 12th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Nice plugin! I would like to add some text before the title and link to my post when I auto-tweet about new post. It would be great if that could be added to a future version of the plugin!
January 12th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Love the concept and it has promise.
One thing I’d request is the ability to change the name/title of the widget when it is displayed in the sidebar. I want mine to say something other than “My Tweets.” Unless I missed that somewhere, I didn’t see any way to do that. Thanks.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Thanks for this great plug in! I have one question. Is it possible to move the tweetbacks so they will show up before the comments? On my blog the Tweetbacks shows up before the related posts and then comes the comments.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Brilliant!! I can’t wait to try this out!! Thanks!
January 12th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
This looks really neat! Hopefully, you’ll be open to plug-in authors on other platforms contacting you for porting. I’d love to see this for Expression Engine.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I think this is great, Dan. I’d just like to be able to decide where the tweetbacks appear in the post (beneath Related Posts instead of above it). Also, would it be possible to add some padding around the Tweet This icon at the top of the post?
Thanks!
January 12th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I am installing this now! Can’t wait!
This is a perfect tool into bridge the blogging/microblogging gap
January 12th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Hi Dan,
from the look of the tweetbacks on this article, it’s already got momentum.
Can you build / suggest a Blogger alternative please?
January 12th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
For those of you looking for examples of how awesome this thing is…
TweetSuite in action -> http://managingtheedge.com/episodes/what-is-the-edge-episode-001
January 12th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I have this installed but seem to be having serious issues on this post http://www.booshonline.com/6-tips-to-using-twitter-to-increase-friends-and-traffic
It has been tweeted but the tweetback is completly wrong and leads to an invalid page.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I’m not too sure if I like the tweetbacks — they don’t seem to add value to the post itself. Perhaps as tweeting evolves there may be value added but for now it is just pointers to the post itself which doesn’t make much sense when you’re already reading the post.
The other parts of the plugin make sense though. You might want to look at adding a Twitter field to the comments section similar to what Jim Connolly has done at http://jimsmarketingblog.com/
Glad that I came across your blog — lots of interesting looking posts to catch up on here.
Shalom
LoneWolf
January 12th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Thanks for this. Great plug in. One tech question. When there are no tweets, this text is displayed: “Be the first to Tweet this post” and the link on the Tweet image doesn’t work either; the link is back to the post itself.
Is this me or a bug?
Thanks.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
And I’d really appreciate being able to put the Tweet image at the bottom of a post. It’s out of place at the top when we have images.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
While I like the plugin concept, I had trouble installing the plugin. The Tweet This button just linked back to the post itself. No matter if there were tweets or not. Not sure if it’s a dependency issue? I’ve got CURL installed.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Wonderful! I can’t wait to install it…I have to fix the damage a hack did this weekend…
I am guessing this would be used in addition to Tweetbacks or in replacement of? I guess you could really use both as one does it all in widgets while the other works in your comments.
Thanks again!
January 12th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Please contact me if you want Spanish translation, I lead esTwitter.com , a bit-known blog about Twitter in Spanish language.
There is a post about TweetSuite since right now there
.
Is that a bug?: http://estwitter.com/2009/01/10/%C2%BFsugerencias-para-estwitter/ It’s shows no text in my tweet, my tweet was this: http://twitter.com/javig/status/1114528632 .
Thanks and congratulations for a very good job anyway
.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Brilliant!
Would love to see number of tweets and tweet this on the home page (not just the individual post pages).
Would love to see @username’s be active links.
Would love to have the title of “my tweets” be “follow me on Twitter” and a link to my page.
How does the content to the widgets get refreshed? I’ve noticed that about an hour after installing, my tweets, recently tweeted and favorite tweets are all stale…
Thanks so much for such an awesome package!
January 12th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
great plugin! thank you. I was wondering if the tweet this button shows up on the home page? It’s not registering on mine, but it could also be the delay with Wordpress.
thanks again!
Adam
January 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Kool plugin. Thanks for making it out finally…
January 13th, 2009 at 12:55 am
It would be super if this were available as a component for Joomla 1.5… any chance of that?
Great work Dan!
January 13th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Dan
sweet looking ’suite’. Problem though on my blog built on Thesis. The sidebar widget is not translating into the default font size/spacing. Is there something I can do about this?
January 13th, 2009 at 2:44 am
Hello Dan. Would it be possible to add an ID to the digg-like Tweetback icon? It’d make it much easier to move it around. Thanks! And fantastic work Dan - it’s amazing
January 13th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Now I’ll need to get these features in my Tweetbacks module for Drupal. Well, time spent being busy is time I’m not causing trouble…
January 13th, 2009 at 2:50 am
love the new download and this should clear up the double name coverage with yoast. However I see that Tweetbacks only works with Tinyurl atm, I really do hope that Tweetbacks gathers the other url shrinkers especially bit.ly
January 13th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Dan -
I am eager to jump on the tweetsuite bandwagon. I had installed and partially implemented it’s predecessor tweetbacks. However when installing & activating tweetsuite, I get these errors trying to save settings:
Warning: mktime() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home/content/t/e/c/technopodge/html/wp-content/plugins/TweetSuite/TweetSuite.php on line 908
WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry 'http://twitter.com/KikiValdes/statuses/1115184100' for key 2]
insert into tpwp1_ts_favorites ( datetime, tweet, author, link, avatar) values (1231858340, ‘best way to make your first issue, 7 random facts about yourself! http://tinyurl.com/9kcyn7‘, ‘KikiValdes’, ‘http://twitter.com/KikiValdes/statuses/1115184100′, ‘http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60148010/ygpE9B6_normal.jpg’)
Any suggestion as to what could be wrong?
Thanks!
Radi
January 13th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Good stuff - if only I used wordpress!
January 13th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Nice one. Thank you. Unfortunately I still have some format probs. I can´t fix it until now.
Example page (german):http://www.werbeblogger.de/2009/01/09/wieviele-freunde-sind-dir-einen-whopper-wert/
January 13th, 2009 at 8:15 am
TweetSuite has been added to Twitdom - The Twitter Applications Database
January 13th, 2009 at 9:41 am
looks like we need to develop a digg clone using tweetback. This is such a cool concept
January 13th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I can’t get the graphics to show up. Is there something I need to fix?
Cool Plugin! Thanks!
January 13th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Installed the TweetSuite on the GoMediaZine - the TweetThis button gets jacked up and steals text from my first paragraph and the styles in my first paragraph get funky (line height changes for example).
http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/create-furious-pink-panther-poster/
Also, the tweetbacks are displaying like threaded comments and there are no avatars or ReTweet this buttons showing even though I have checked them off.
I don’t really get how some people get it perfect and others have issues (like me).
January 13th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Hi Dan, can a request a feature to add prefix before the post name appears in the twitter?
January 13th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Great job! Only thing I ask for the next version(s) is better control over the style/look of the sidebar widgets. Right now, it looks like they’re using plain li tags without a ul. Maybe you can offer a custom pre and post tag of each tweet?
January 13th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Also, template tags! You got me excited over here
If we could have template tags so we can control where to insert data, that would put it over the top. One that I want immediately is a tweet count tag (much like the comments count). So yeah, template tags please 
January 13th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Not working for me. TweetThis button is linked to the first hyperlink found on the post… no sense to me. Any help?
January 14th, 2009 at 1:25 am
I voted for you! But alas, I’m on Wordpress.COM, which is a whole different world.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:32 am
I noticed that if the post title have an ? at the end the tweeet link is not working.
eg:
January 14th, 2009 at 3:33 am
this is the image example: http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/495/tbugjf0.jpg
January 14th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Thanks for the plugin mate. We are going to it on http://blog.serialcooking.com.
Really nice.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Eh, the Tweetbacks below my posts don’t look that nice :-\ Not like here. The layout is a bit messed up.
Nice job with the plugin!
A lot of people (mainly those on twhirl) are using http://is.gd/ for URL shortening… Maybe you should include it.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:37 am
What is the current version? I’m testing .5 but I can’t leave it up and running because it messes up the display of my blog.
I can’t find the current version anywhere.
=C=
January 14th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Installed it to http://www.DanielCurran.com
Works great
2 Suggestions:
Open links in a new window. (Target=”top” or “_blank”)
Option to add Tweetback to the mainpage not just the article page - maybe a stripped down presentation?
Other than that - Thanks! And Ill vote for ya
January 14th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Great plugin, Dan
Only issue for me is date display being in US format; can format be picked up from WP general settings for us anglophiles?!
Thanks, and my vote’s on its way…
January 15th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I like TweetSuite so far. The only problem I have is that it doesn’t discriminate between a post that has just been edited and a post that is being published. As a result, when you go back and quick edit an old post by changing its tags, you end up tweeting that post. This needs to be fixed. Otherwise a great addition.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Is their a Drupal version?
January 15th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Great WP Plugin!
A couple of suggestions:
1). Add the ability to handle multiple Twitter accounts from Admin.
2). Provide an option to “Tweet or Not Tweet” a post.
3). Add a support page to track issues and provide feature requests for TweetSuite. Your comment section is not very efficient for maintaining issues/features, etc.
Thanks for writing this great plugin.
January 15th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Loving tweetsuite Dan, its no more slowing up the page load
January 15th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Hi Dan, I love it and review this plugin on BrightAffiliate.com website. Thanks…
January 15th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Thanks for the great suite Dan, one major issue: Spam/abusive tweets
You really need a way to remove tweetbacks - the show/don’t show tickbox is not working for my 2.7 WP install.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Could you add the option to also have the TweetBadge on the homepage as well as on the post pages?
January 15th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
I love this plugin btw.
January 16th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Hi Dan,
is it possible, that there is no line, where you asked about the avatar?
The option to hide the avatar doesn’t work, i checked the source and didn’t find something that would check the variable.
(sorry for my bad english ^^)
regards
January 16th, 2009 at 7:12 am
me - once again!
Do you need a german translation?! I could do it for you.
tweet me @derwebworker
or mail
or whatever
regards
Kai
January 16th, 2009 at 7:33 am
I’ll fixed it with the avatar!
you can deleted this comment in moderation!
January 16th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
It sounds very cool, I plan to take a look over the weekend.
January 17th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Warning: mktime() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /www/htdocs/w0098a5f/wp-content/plugins/TweetSuite/TweetSuite.php on line 908
January 17th, 2009 at 2:42 am
1.) ok i found out from where the error above comes from. I habe 2 Twitter accounts and I tried “cekay_de” the above error occurs when I use this underscore sign.
2.) char’s other then english are shown by a “?” only. see: http://www.cekay.de/2009-01-14-10-grnde-fr-twitter
3.) how can I change the sentences shown to my language (like total tweetbacks) and how can I influence, where the list is shown ?
January 17th, 2009 at 10:06 am
I’ve installed it on my blog and I’ll see how it works! It would be good to be able to move the tweetbacks list to a different part of the template.
January 17th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Einen Deutschen Beitrag dazu gibt es hier!
I postet in german about Tweetsuit, check it out. It works fabolous! Thank you
January 18th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Dan, I just installed it and get this text on the bottom of my articles.
No TweetBacks yet. (Be the first to Tweet this post)
How do I get the TweetSuite icon instead (even if the number is zero)?
Thanks,
Joe Hage
January 18th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Joe: you need to make the directoy of where you placed the tweetsuite write enable
January 18th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it don’t. It picks up the url sometimes, sometimes it doesn’t.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
template tags…?
January 18th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Cool plugin however I do not seem to be able to get the twitter image to show, any ideas?
January 18th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I don’t think so. It picks it up in one post but not the other. Still a little to fickle for me.
January 18th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Well done. Seems to choke on the ° character, though that may be a PHP issue since the other Twitter-related WP plugin dies as well.
I would like a relative date/time for recent tweets option, like “about 8 hours ago” instead of always displaying a fixed date/time. (Requires a bit of client side JavaScript to maintain page caching, but would be worth it.)
January 19th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Just installed tweetsuite on my blog, loving it! Hopefully it’s going to help me keep track of possible interview questions for @jkrums
If any of you guys want to ask the Flight 1549 twitter photographer a question you can do so here: http://thirdsectorlab.co.uk/?p=22
Alternatively fire a tweet at me: http://www.twitter.com/thirdsectorlab
Ross
January 19th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Hi,
CAn anyone help me with the fact that the tweetsuite icon is not appearing, everything else seems to be working 100%???
Regards,
Mike
January 19th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Thanks very much for the plugins. Like it.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Anyone have a fix for this:
Thanks for this. Great plug in. One tech question. When there are no tweets, this text is displayed: “Be the first to Tweet this post” and the link on the Tweet image doesn’t work either; the link is back to the post itself.
Is this me or a bug?
Sounds great, but doesn’t work….
WP2.7 issue?
January 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Thank you Dan for the great suite of Tweeter tools. This really helps the community a lot.
Would like to know: does your Tweetback system only follow one URL? I mean, if I tweet about this current page with another URL shortener, will you see my Tweet in your list?
I guess not, but interested to know more about it (would there be a way to read beyond the shortened URL to find the original one?).
Thanks again and keep up the great work.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Great plugin.
One issue I have is if I edit a post I have already published it shows me tweeting it twice.
I do have it set to auto tweet on publish, I could disable it for now, but wondering if anyone knew of a work around for this.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:18 am
Great plugin! I second many of the requests above and have a question: is there a way to add the phrase “new blog post:” before the title of the post in the Tweet? It will help distinguish it from regular tweets.
Thanks!
Bill
January 21st, 2009 at 11:30 pm
TweetSuite is on GetSatisfaction!
http://getsatisfaction.com/tweetsuite/products/...
Trying to get support via comments on a blog post is painful.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:24 am
Anyone have a fix for this:
Thanks for this. Great plug in. One tech question. When there are no tweets, this text is displayed: “Be the first to Tweet this post” and the link on the Tweet image doesn’t work either; the link is back to the post itself.
Is this me or a bug?
Sounds great, but doesn’t work….
WP2.7 issue?
+++++++++ SAME issue with my tweetsuite
please fix this
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
As many here, I have the same problem as others:
“When there are no tweets, this text is displayed: “Be the first to Tweet this post” and the link on the Tweet image doesn’t work either; the link is back to the post itself.”
Also, I know that there are tweetbacks on that particular post. Any fix?
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:07 am
Hm. Nice Plugin, but I get this error when posting a new article:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/TweetSuite/TweetSuite.php on line 1010
Known?
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
I really like this plugin, alot! Thanks!
However, I have an [x] images (or rather a grey little square that shows before the post has been twittered by someone else.
How can I prevent that from happening and is there a way to count my own auto-twitting of the post to the twitter count?
sample: http://www.wpviews.com/2nd-test-post-200.html currently it shows a grey box under the date.
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
I too am having this problem:
“When there are no tweets, this text is displayed: “Be the first to Tweet this post” and the link on the Tweet image doesn’t work either; the link is back to the post itself.”
Also, I know that there are tweetbacks on that particular post. Any fix?
January 24th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Hi
I’m getting the same as Radi
WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry ‘h……… etc
Any ideas on why this is happening? Every time I click save changes on the tweetsuite setting page in site admin.
January 24th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Looks like a great plugin!
Unfortunately, I’m getting this silly error as well:
Warning: mktime() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/retroheather.com/wp-content/plugins/TweetSuite/TweetSuite.php on line 1047
I know cekay said his error was due to an underscore in his Twitter ID, but there is not one in mine. It’s @retroheather. I’m using Wordpress 2.7. Anyone have a solution yet?
I’m going to turn off the plugin for now, as the “Be the first to Tweet this post” link is showing up, but just takes me back to the post itself.
January 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Beautiful PlugIn, but the Tweetbacks is not displayed in my blog. There is an adjustment, or can the Aksimet Spam filter the Tweetbacks stop
January 27th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
The link is just a link to the post, not to twitter. whatzupwidat?
January 28th, 2009 at 3:53 am
I have a slightly different problem. I have posts, but they don’t update unless I go to my TweetSuite admin and re-save. Also the times of post are several hours off, but both my blog and Twitter have the right time zone.
Little help?
January 28th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Hi,
I had the same problem like Miguel and some others, too: I wasn’t able to tweet a post when I published an article. After I had a look into my error logs it seemed that the update of the TweetSuite plugin didn’t worked and the ‘wp_shorturls’ table wasn’t updated as expected (instead of updating a new table ’shorturls’ was created). In the error logs you see errors when accessing the ‘accessed’ field of ‘wp_shorturls’. To fix that issue you can enter the following SQL command to update that table:
ALTER TABLE `wp_shorturls` ADD `accessed` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AFTER `count`;
After I did this I had to use ‘Clear TweetBacks DB’ in the options dialog of the TS plugin to fix the “duplicate entries” errors. Now it seems to work fine.
CU Octoate
January 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I love it, micro-blogging about your blog.
January 30th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I love this plugin!
Any way that in an update, you could provide the option of placing the button at the bottom of the post? Then it would be absolutely perfect.
February 1st, 2009 at 7:30 am
Well, it seems I have the same errors that are reported here:
Warning: mktime() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home8/xxx/public_html/socialevangelist/wp-content/plugins/TweetSuite/TweetSuite.php on line 908
Any ideas how to correct this?
February 1st, 2009 at 8:29 am
very cool and useful plugin. looking forward to more updates!
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 am
I’m getting this on posts
No TweetBacks yet. (SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Cat and the Dog or Why Cats Sleep Inside”, url: “http://www.obrienstore.com/seanchai/the-cat-and-the-dog-or-why-cats-sleep-inside/” });
As well as a broken somewhere as the sidebar is rendering beneath posts.
February 5th, 2009 at 12:05 am
I am so psyched to use this. Unfortunately, the tweety buttons aren’t showing up on my posts and I can’t quite wrap my head around it.
February 7th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Suggestion: Can you add a feature to enable us to NOT have the Tweetbacks show up on individual posts as desired?
February 8th, 2009 at 5:11 am
Great plugin, really exciting to see someone’s finally doing this. Here’s what I’d like to see next:
1) I’m having the same problem as many people: when activated the Tweet This button simply points back to the blog post itself - need a fix!
2) More formatting options. I’d like to manually put the tweetbacks elsewhere than at the bottom of my post
3) Anti-spam features: ability to delete select tweets and block certain user names. Of course, this has all the potential of being as big as comment spam
Question- does this plugin also catch tweets that were made in the past i.e. before the plugin was activated?
February 8th, 2009 at 8:06 am
great tool i will use it in my blog!
February 9th, 2009 at 4:44 am
I had to turn this off, perhaps it’s not compatible with WPMU 2.7. I was seeing this in my error logs:
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ ”,\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t’http://twitter.com/home?st’ at line 1 for query replace INTO wp_1_shorturls (postID, tinyurl, bitly, snipurl, trim, tweetthis, accessed) VALUES (, ”,\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\r
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[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t’http://twitter.com/home?status=++from:+@admin’\t,\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1234154604\r
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t) made by do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, tweetsuite_5mins, decodeshorturls
[Sun Feb 08 20:43:24 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1 for query select * from wp_1_shorturls where postID= made by do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, tweetsuite_5mins, decodeshorturls
Dan, email me if you’d like me test out a fix.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:07 am
I have to agree with Jacob. This plugin would be great if it gave you the ability to select where to place the TweetBacks (other than inside of the entry).
Looking forward to the next release. Thanks!
February 13th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Hi. I was checking out the widgets, and found out that there was a small bug in the code: the ul elements were missing. So I went ahead and changed them:
February 13th, 2009 at 11:33 am
This a fantastic plugin for your blog! Thanks!
February 13th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Hi Just installed tweetsuite and have a problem / the Tweet button refers back to main own domain ..see http://www.roytebbenham.com/news/monetize-google-adsense-and-other-ppc/
February 15th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Great Plugin, just installed it. Is there a way to say the frequency the sidebar widget updates? It seems to be picking up tweets from last night and none from today.
Thanks again for a great plugin,
Ed
February 17th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Not seeing the re-tweets in the blog post. Also, is there a way to have the tweet this and re-tweet functionality disply on the main page of the blog. At present its only accessible from the post detail page.
For instance - http://thetimkid.com/blog/ shows no re-tweet etc.
where as - http://thetimkid.com/blog/2009/02/17/chop-fear-top-gear-cast-nearly-crash/ does.
Most people don’t click thru to the second/detail page, so all the twitter interaction is lost.
February 18th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Great plugin - but I’ve got the same problem as ed above - but the ‘my tweets’ status is 18 days old. Any way to fix/force the twitter interface to pull again?
February 20th, 2009 at 3:50 am
I have the same problem as King Fisher…
What version of PHP do you require and what other dependencies are there? A little README would do you no harm I suppose.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
awesome plugin but I found that it doesn’t always submit my posts as tweets.. especially if I create the post first as private and then set it to public afterwards.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:05 am
I downloaded your latest version. According to code it is v0.6. However I did not get a notification that there is an update.
I am using v0.5
Thanks for the plugin.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Plugin install went fine, displays great. But it’s not catching any tweetbacks. I’ve done several tests, there certainly are tweets out there on the post, even some originating from the “Be the first to tweet this” link.
Seems quite a few people are having this same problem? Is there any resolution to this? I’m on 0.7.
Thanks
February 24th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Hello - Great plug-In!!!
Can someone from this great and way more talented than me group take a look at how my blog posts are coming out right now with the tweeet icon- Im obviously doing something wrong. Any help would be EXTREMELY appriciated!
Heres a sample:
http://blog.chicagomicro.com/?p=86
thanks ahead
February 26th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I cannot get it to work on my blog (version 2.7.1) it just links to the current page
is there anything else i need to do (apart from the settings page)?
February 27th, 2009 at 11:16 am
N00b question: how do i install this?
Great work, btw!
Regards, Tim
February 27th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I’m with Dave (#126) I’m using 2.7.1 and it’s just linking back to the current page. Not working at all!
February 28th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
how can i ad the twitter feed in my header ???
i have got the busy bee theme
March 1st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I’m with Dave 126 and Melinda 128. I too am using 2.7.1 and its linking back to the current page. Any help?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 am
Man, I love the idea of this, but I’m getting errors like others. When I update the plugin options, I get: Warning: mktime() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home/[path]/wp-content/plugins/TweetSuite/TweetSuite.php on line 1043. Then on my posts, there’s just a text link saying “Be the first to tweet this”, but it links back to same post.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 pm
I really like this plug in, very help and useful. I do however wish that I could post a tweet from the WordPress dashboard like you can with the Twitter Tools plug in. Any plans in the future to add that functionality?
Erik
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 pm
To everyone with the tweet back issue, I have the same issue, but I found that it’s some kind of bug for all post that were posted before the plug was installed. Every post I’ve posted after I install TweetSuite it works great.
Hopefully this is just a bug that will be addressed in a future update.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:52 am
I’m still unable to update the plugin’s options as per my previous post, but I wanted to unreport the “links to itself” “bug” — I had Redirect Remover running in FF. Duh. I’m not sure if there’s a way to mask the URL to evade RDR, but otherwise we just need to hope others will be smarter than I.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Would you please post the latest version number somewhere!
I have had major problems getting this plugin to work on my blog in the past and didn’t receive any help from Dan Zarellea, who certainly didn’t deserve my vote.
The “Tweet this” buttons would not appear in my blog posts. They would only appear when previewing posts! Also, my new posts would not be forwarded to Twitter! As my previous comments have been removed and I can’t see if a new version has been released since my latest troubles, I’d be most grateful if someone can tell me if they’re experiencing anything similar.
Thkx
March 10th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Just installed this and I’m really liking it so far.
One quibble — the “Tweet This” button should be more configurable. As it is, it often covers up part of my post whether I float it left or right. I’d like to put it at the bottom of a post page, if that’s possible.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Hopefully my post (http://www.geoffmanning.com/twitter/tweetsuite-errors-and-troubleshooting/) will hit on some of the issues above. Be patient, it’s a great plugin!
March 11th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I installed. But nothing seems to be changed. Do I have to set up something to know my Twitter account? Should something show up on each post. All I see is My Tweets in the sidebar (from using the widget).
March 12th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I just tested the new post Theory and it works. Only your new post will work with the “Be the first to tweet this post” I’m gonna try updating a few post to see if that will make it work for older post.
March 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Ok so I got the Tweet suite to link to Twitter by posting a new post( An error comes up when I publish but the post still goes up) but now when I tweet the post the number doesn’t go up? Can anyone help with this?
March 18th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Thanks for the free plugin, I’m going to use it on my blog.
March 18th, 2009 at 12:19 am
this bit of extra code in parseTweets should correct the mktime errors:
…
foreach($chunks as $chunk) {
$lines = split(”\n”, $chunk);
//new code goes here - makes sure $lines[4] is the date field:
while (($lines[4] != NULL) && (!strpos($lines[4],’:00′))) {
$lines[2] .= ‘ ‘.$lines[3]; //combine lines, usually an extra URL
unset($lines[3]);
$lines = array_values($lines);
}
…
March 20th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I would like to second the request for the ability to configure multiple accounts. Thanks for a great plugin!
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
love the plugin but like others have mentioned in the comment chain, the FAVORITES widget is stuck. When I installed tweetsuite it grabbed my favorites and posted them in the sidebar however since then Ive added new favorites however the tweetsuite plugin will not pull the new favorites and continues to show old ones…. even though the twitter page shows new ones as does the rss feed for that favorites page.
any help would be appreciated!
March 24th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Here’s a simple fix for the problem of the widgets not updating in real time:
http://www.fiddleandburn.com/me/tweetsuite-fix/
The quick version: Add the following line to TweetSuite.php at line 42:
add_action(’plugins_loaded’,’tweetsuite_hourly’);
This forces the tweets in the widgets to update each time the page is loaded. It may slow things down a bit, but it makes the tweets display in real time (except when Twitter is down
).
March 26th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I installed and activated. I can set my setting once and receive tweets. But if, after a tweet arrives, I try to reset my setting for widget display, unser name or password, I the plugin throws errors when it tries to write to the data based. The difficulty is it tries to insert a line that already exists.
So, the line that fills the database needs some sort of “if” statement to prevent the problem.
I could probably code around this, but I figure you’ll want to.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Oh… I should add that this may be related to the problem dan mentions above. After the settings page throws all the errors, my tweets also don’t refresh.
Otherwise, I have no difficulty refreshing my tweets.
March 31st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Here’s more fixes for TweetSuite. These are basically stop-gap measures until version 1.0 is out.
The following problems are addressed:
-Tweetback buttons appear on single pages, but not on posts on the blog home page.
-‘RetweetThis’ button doesn’t appear/creates a broken link
-Posts always say “Be the first to Tweet this post” and give a count of zero, even when posts have been ReTweeted
With these adjustments, I find Tweetsuite works great, even in its current beta version.
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
It would sure be lovely if there was a *single* explanatory comment in the code…
April 6th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I tried the fix (adding the hourly hook), but my tweets still dont show up in real time. I can only update them when I go into the settings, clear the tweet db, and save. (which defeats the purpose of having it automatically feed).
April 6th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
It would be cool if you could choose which categories of posts to send to twitter, otherwise I love tweet suite.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
How would I remove the
No TweetBacks yet. (Be the first to Tweet this post).
?
All i want is a plugin that will update my twitter with a post letting people know my blog as been updated.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
how can we get this developed for Drupal?
am willing to chip in to make it happen.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I’m new user of wordpress.com @ timramos.wordpress.com
do these plugin’s only work on wordpress.org?
I’d love to be able to use tweetsuite on timramos.wordpress.com but I don’t think I can.
???
Tim
April 12th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Hi there! Trying to install with Wordpress 2.2.3, but all I get is “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” Any idea y - and any solution for this?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I love this tool so much…!
April 13th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Very useful tool, thanks!
April 14th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
great plugin thanks a lot i am writing a post and this might be a part of it.
p.s. One thing flip my mind every time, developers offer free plugins everywhere thats making blogosphere better everyday but when we look at their blogs they ain’t using their own plugins. At least every body want to see what they are going to download and then unzip and then upload and then activate and then put code snipet into theme and then decide use this plugin or not to =S
April 17th, 2009 at 6:01 am
I’ve been trying to make TweetSuite work on our blog but I can’t see any tweet when posting/updating. We’re using WP 2.7.1 Any suggestions?
April 17th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
There seems to be a bug where it doesn’t tweet the full title of the post if it contains an &. It will cut it off.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Great plugin - thanks so much! Anyone mod it so you can change the “pre-tweet text” based on the blog Category - i.e. posts categorized as “General” would be preceded by #mytextgeneral POSTTITLE while something categorized as “Opinion” would be preceded by #mytextopinon POSTTILE
Thanks!
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:48 am
Nice Plug-in! But I’am new to Twitter, so I guess it takes some time to get to know this plug-in.
Kind Regards
Jones
April 25th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Great plugin!
One issue: the ‘Tweet’ button does not work; no tweet is generated.
I use a Thesis template; perhaps that might cause this problem?
Example:
http://www.jeroendemiranda.com/friendfeed-commentaar-weblog-post-toevoegen/
Any ideas are welcome! TIA!
Jeroen
April 29th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Nice twitter plugin tool. I will use it. Thanks you
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 am
Looks like everyone is getting into this. I will use it too. Thanks for recommending it.
May 11th, 2009 at 8:32 am
pretty nice plugin.. thanks..
May 11th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Any chance you can add a widget to show followed activity? I’d like to have my twitter for the site follow the authors and display their updates.
May 12th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Just out of curiosity, how many among you have managed to get it fully working at least for new posts?
I mean including the stats (most tweeted, recently tweeted, retweet button’s counter) and the tweetbacks displayed below the post?
Thanks
May 12th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Why do I need to update tweetSuite via my blog admin in order for new tweets to show in the My Tweets and favorites widgets?
@pattyb777
May 14th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Personally, I think a version where you can add the code wherever you want would be better because as it is now, I have no control over how and where it displays and it really looks bad on my site the way it is. Also, the Tweet-This link goes back to my post, so that doens’t help me much. Perhaps the plugin from Joost will do the trick for me.
Anyway, thanks for creating the plugin, it is after all a matter of preference. You fall in love with a plugin or you don’t.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Sounds great. I’ll definitely try this.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Even if I’m not 100% happy with the HTML output of addTweetBacks();, I’m diggin the direction and approach of this plugin. Keep it up. If you are lookign for someone to clean-up your inline styling, drop an email.
BTW: Like to place the TweetBack link in your single.php template? Try this one:
May 19th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
if(function_exists(’tweetsuite_tweetthis_button’)) {
echo addTweetBacks($content);
}
May 21st, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Superb tool thanks for share!!
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 am
Hey this plugin works great! but how do I get tweetsuite to display the actual time, it looks like its pulling straight UTC instead of UTC -8. Any suggestions?
May 25th, 2009 at 12:49 am
I too am having problems like many others.
1. The Tweet button links to my blog, not posting to my Twitter.
2. The Tweet button only shows up on individual entries, not the whole blog when you have more than one entry showing. Like when you go to the main blog page. @friendlyknoxguy
May 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Kate Foy Said:
January 13th, 2009 at 1:22 am
sweet looking ’suite’. Problem though on my blog built on Thesis. The sidebar widget is not translating into the default font size/spacing. Is there something I can do about this?
My blog is built on PrimePress 1.3.1 by Ravi Varma. Thanks for your help.
May 25th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
More specifically I am referring to My Tweets and how recent tweets display at a smaller font. Thanks again for your help. Great Plugin!
May 26th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Great plugin. Thanks!
May 27th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Hey I just installed TweetSuite on KettlebellWall.com and really dig it. One feature you may consider adding is putting the same Tweet This features you’ve put on posts on pages as an option.
Just a thought… Roy
May 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Pretty cool…
May 28th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Would it be possible to add an option for the “Send a Tweet when you publish a post” to turn off the use of TinyURL? I like the use of it by default, but it would be nice to be able to have my Twitter display my full URL if I want it to do so.
Thanks!
May 28th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Hi there,
Great plug-in and thank u very much.I have got some suggestions;
- I think we have to choose an option for “adding automatically” under posts. Cos I don’t want to use it under posts. I have special area for Twitter or social bookmarking service’s. So we can assign function on it.
- Pagination for TweetBacks with ajax.
- We should choose shour url service.
Thanks again.
May 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Hi this plug in is great, I would like to use it on a client’s site.
There is one issue I am seeing though and that bugs me, that it’s missing after the title (h6).
My widget code in functions.php file looks like this:
register_sidebar(array(
‘name’ => ‘right-bar’,
‘before_widget’ => ”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”,
));
And it generates this source codes:
Most Tweeted
Announcement on new product (0 Tweets)
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text… (0 Tweets)
The result is the same for the WordPress default theme.
I an using a tabbed widget for the tweetback pack, but whether using no tabbed widget, with the categotry, rss these default widgets, Wordpress generates a set of , but the does not get generated from tweetback widgets.
Is this something can be fixed easily?
Thanks
les
May 30th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Sorry,
Some html got omitted.
Bascially, tweetback does not generate ‘UL’ tag after the ‘after_title’ whereas WordPress default widget does, this resulting many validation errors
By the way, your site does not work well in Safari, it asks for Flex plugin and the comments are show up with black background and the texts graphic.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:39 am
I really like your plugin and plan to endorse in my upcoming book, but I’ve got a major error on my site and I’m forced to deactivate it. Here’s a link to the screenshots of the errors I’m getting:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherjoel/sets/72157619089390357/
Help???
June 6th, 2009 at 6:53 am
I had the same issue as a lot of people with the problem “Be the first to Tweet this post” where the link, links back to post itself. It doesn’t look like this has been changed so a quick fix I implemented was to change the main css file on the site template to #tweetbacks {display:none;}
Jamie
June 11th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Will try it out for sure - let’s see whether it Tweetsuite works with Wordpress 2.8 ?
Andreas
June 11th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
OK, checked it out on ostheimer.at and the tweet button did just link to the post itself - no tweet functionality.
Deactivated TweetSuite plugin for the time being…
BR, Andreas
June 13th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I was looking for a plugin for my fun stuff blog, and your plugin pop up. I hope it will fulfill my needs. Following you on twitter.
June 14th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Yes. Template tag please!
June 17th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
After upgrade to WP2.8, I’m receiving an SQL Syntax error in
do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, tweetsuite_5mins, decodeShortURLs that looks like the WPMU 2.7 error that Jacob sghare poseted on Feb 9th.
[Wed Jun 17 15:15:36 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ ”,\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t’http://twitter.com/home?status=+’ at line 1 for query replace INTO wp_26_david_shorturls (postID, tinyurl, bitly, snipurl, tweetthis, accessed) VALUES (, ”,\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t”,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t’http://twitter.com/home?status=++from:+@dmarshx’\t,\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1245269736\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t) made by do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, tweetsuite_5mins, decodeShortURLs
June 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I have upgraded to 2.8, then tried the plugin; all I get is the widget header and no Twitter feed.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Your contributions are simply fantastic. We have used some of them in our blog http://www.haselfre.com/blog/
The tweetsuite did not seems to work fully for wordpress 2.6. Probably the settings need some change which we have not properly understood. Thanks for the great effort.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I am trying!
June 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Getting this error when I update some settings:
Warning: mktime() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home/.miriam/jefftb/jeffbaynham.com/wp-content/plugins/TweetSuite/TweetSuite.php on line 1043
June 29th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Is there a reason this plugin is not listed on wordpress.org?