Twitter notifications of new posts

[darkmagess]

Title:
Twitter notifications of new posts

Area:
Crossposting

Summary:
Allow me to link to my Twitter account and post the subject line and link when I post.

Description:
The one thing I really miss from LJ is Twitter posting. I don't think comments should be crosspostable or anything from a journal that you don't own. But when posting a new item to your journal (or maybe to a public community?) I would really like the option to send a Twitter notice. I have lots of friends who used to read journals and have stopped, but they will follow a link from Twitter and read if it's right in their face.

I'd post the subject line and a condensed link only.

Poll #9488 Twitter notifications of new posts

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56

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Should be implemented as-is.
17 (30.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (10.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (16.1%)

(I have no opinion)
24 (42.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[damalur]

FYI (and you may already know this!), but it's possible to post from Dreamwidth to Twitter using TwitterFeed. :)

[azurelunatic]

I am currently using a workaround that takes the journal RSS feed and pipes it through If This Then That and into Twitter. I have chosen to use a specific tag to crosspost to Twitter instead of all entries ever, but what I currently do would work just as well with all entries ever.

I would refine this suggestion in the following ways:

By default, send the full link -- Twitter now uses their own URL-shortener, but displays the link as sent. This would allow readers on Twitter to see that it's a Dreamwidth link, and Twitter readers on other clients to maybe see (depending on if their client shows the pretty link or the t.co link) as opposed to everybody seeing a bitl.y or j.mp link regardless of where they're reading.

Allow user-specified custom URL shortening if practical, as some people have either their own shortener set up, or have an account at an established service; using whatever service they have will allow them to view analytics for the link.

Allow preset customization of the text sent to Twitter. I personally prefix mine with "DW entry:" to distinguish it from all the other links I toss out there.

Allow on-the-spot changes from the default: if someone wants to send to Twitter when they don't usually, make that possible; if someone decides that this particular entry is best not sent to Twitter, also make that possible.

[darkmagess]

I like those suggestions :)

[nafs]

+1

[kaberett]

+1

[zeborah]

+1

[zarhooie]

I think this would mesh in nicely with the Pretty URLs bug: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3483

Which shows as "in progress" from Our Fearless Leader, Well, One Of Them Anyway.