Version 1.1.1
Strictly TweetBot is a Wordpress plugin that is designed to post automatic twitter messages to one or more accounts whenever an article is added to your site.
This plugin is ideal for people who regularly import content into their sites and want to make sure that one or more twitter accounts have their statuses updated with details of the account.
Why is this different from the other Twitter plugins
Yes there are many other plugins out there and they maybe perfect for your needs. However I wrote this plugin because I wanted to be able to send multiple tweets to multiple accounts without lots of configuration. I also wanted to format the messages differently per account as well as being able to choose whether or not to post a Tweet depending on the content of the article.
- Post to multiple accounts OR post multiple messages to the same account
- Easy to authenticate using the new OAuth method. No need to register your plugin as a consumer application
- Format your messages with easy to use placeholders e.g %title% %url% %hashtags%
- Use the bit.ly and j.mp API to shrink your URL's
- Append Google tracker codes or other parameters to the URL before shortening it
- Use the Tweet Shrink API to shorten your message text OR use my own custom Text Shrink function to convert words into text speak OR use both!
- Use your categories or post tags as the source for your hash tags or setup default hash tags to be used all the time or only when others are unavailable
- Use the Content Analysis option to always Tweet, only Tweet if the article contain certain words or don't Tweet if the article contains certain words.
- Ignore certain words, categories or post tags when creating your hash tags
- Dashboard report keeps you informed of latest status updates or failures
- Easy test configuration button which will test all your accounts, all 3rd party API access and tweet shortening methods on your last post.
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Download the plugin.
- Unzip the strictly-tweetbot.zip file.
- Upload the directory strictly-tweetbot to the /wp-content/plugins directory on your WordPress blog.
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
- Configure the plugin in the admin section of Wordpress.
- Use the Add Twitter Account button to setup a new Twitter account, set the parameters for the account and hit the Save Settings button.
- When the page refreshes any new accounts will request that you click a link that takes you to Twitter and gives you a PIN code to enter into the provided box to link the plugin to your account. Re-Save your settings and the account will be activated and linked to your Twitter account ready for posting.
- If you want to setup multiple Tweet filters per account you will only need to link the filtering account to Twitter once.
- After setting up your accounts use the Test Configuration button to test everything is set up correctly.
- Once you have found out how brilliant this plugin is use the donate button to donate me some money!
Most people who use this plugin also download the Twitter Hash Tag Hunter Application to find relevant #hashtags and @acounts to follow related to their sites content. This easy to use desktop application allows you to scan Twitter for multiple search terms and find out the @accounts that are using them, the number of followers they have and the most used #hashtags related to those terms. If you like any account just click the result and the Twitter page in question will open up in your browser so that you can choose to follow them.
Download Strictly TweetBot
The plugin is hosted on the Wordpress Subversion repository and if you are looking for the most up to date version you should check there first to access the individual files in the trunk.
If you want the most up to date stable version all zipped up then you should use the Wordpress download link.
If for whatever reason the Wordpress server is unavailble then you can download a version from my own server here: Strictly Tweetbot version 1.0.1
Donations Appreciated
Your donations help keep my work freely available. Please consider a small donation of any amount to show your appreciation if you like this plugin.
