So for the past couple of months twitter tools has just refused to work properly and even more frustrating is that it gives zero explanation to it’s sudden lack of cooperation. Twitter simply stopped receiving updates from my blogs when I made a new post and when I went to test the login credentials in the twitter tools settings page I just got the following message: Sorry, login failed. Error message from Twitter:
That’s it, it didn’t even bother to quote the actual error message from twitter, just left that part blank.
Hours and hours and days of googling turned up 100′s of other people encountering the same problem, with many variations, many different solutions but alas none of them worked. The problem just kept on persisting and finally, muchly overdue, I switched off Twitter Tools to ‘WP to Twitter‘ and guess what? First time around it actually worked perfectly.
The authors home page is: http://www.joedolson.com/ and if you have some spare change lying around send a couple bucks his way so we can ensure an actual working, worth while twitter plugin for wordpress in the years to come: http://www.joedolson.com/donate.php
EDIT: Other great reasons to switch to this plugin:
Google Analytics Settings options (On/Off/Campaign),
Quickpress and Remote publication options,
Hashtab and exerpt length options,
Custom before and after text options,
Default or optional APIs from Cli.gs, Bit.ly, YOURLS services.
tweet on post edit feature (checkmark to skip or default off).
