You may have discovered our website on Twitter and wonder how we managed to link our website automatically to our Twitter page.
The answer is fairly simple.
Step 1: Register an account with Twitter if you do not have one.
Step 2: Download a Twitter API plugin from the JED. We recommend that you use AutoTweet from the "International Guild of 1-st Movers."
Step 3: Assuming you already have articles you would like to share, enable the settings in the plugin that will update your Twitter account when you edit an existing article.
Step 4: Enter the username and password for the Twitter account in the plugin and activate the plugin.
Step 5: Open an existing article and save it (you do not need to edit it). The system will connect with Twitter and your link to an existing article is in a Tweet.
Step 6: Once you have opened and closed all existing articles you want to share with Twitter, we recommend you disable the option that edited articles are linked to Twitter. This will avoid duplicate Tweets.
Please note from the AutoTweet developers: If you do not publish an article at the same time when you save the article, this article will not posted to twitter when it is published later from the backend.
Below is a list of all tweets we have posted using AutoTweet. We use the TweetXT module to display the tweets below. TweetXT is available from the JED:
Monday, 07 September 2009 from web