We dig Twitter over here at WordPress.com (check us out at @wordpressdotcom). With the launch of our newest Publicize feature, we dig it even more since you can now tweet your WordPress.com posts automatically.
You can stick with the default, automatically generated tweet, or customize it to your heart’s content.
The feature can be enabled from your Dashboard → My Blogs admin page. Once you enable it, you’ll be directed through an authorization procedure to confirm that you want to connect your WordPress.com blog and your Twitter account.
Just like the Yahoo! Updates Publicize feature, these connections are per blog and per user, so those of you with several blogs can choose which ones to connect, and those of you with multiple authors on one blog can each hook up your Twitter accounts separately.
More details can be found on the Publicize support page.
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Wonderful idea!
This is hot
Wow! Another exciting feature, that I’d love to use. I love you guys in Automattic!
Thanks! thanks! thanks!
Fine, very nice!
Great feature! ; )
Thank you.
Finally it is live… Great now I have to do less work
Thanks 🙂
Ahhh, ❤ it 🙂
Wonderful & impresive
Cool addition! It would be great if you could add a “Tweet this!” link for blog readers as well. Smile! Gerrit
Awesome, love this feature
Nice 🙂 – I use a plugin for Windows Live Writer to do the same thing.
not bad, but it would be nice if tags automatically get the #
Awesomeness. Now I can happily disable my twitterfeed account 🙂
YAY!!! Have been waiting for this! Great job!
I can’t find where to enable it. Are there any screenshots?
Neeever mind. I see your link to the Publicize Support page.
This is really cool. I’ve been using bit.ly to post updates via Twitter, which is kind of acting somewhat like a feed nowadays. Thanks for the feature.
Also, what’s the yahoo update thing? Who gets updated if I link my yahoo to wordpress?
Enabling the Yahoo! Updates feature sends your posts to your Yahoo Profile and elsewhere in Yahoo. You can learn more about them on the Yahoo! Updates help page.
yahoo–love this feature! this will save me time!
It’s about time! But I can see why you took your time. The implementation looks just right! Thanks!
Is the customization of text, permanent? i.e, once I change what I wish the text to precede every tweet, it will remember so I don’t have to do it every time with every post?
No. Currently you have to customize each post.
i’ve always used twtr in my blog: http://hungrygoat.wordpress.com
Also, how fast is this service comparable to Twitterfeed? I currently use Twitterfeed and it is pretty fast in publishing to Twitter.
Try it out and see 🙂 It sends your tweet as soon as you publish your post. “Instantaneous” might be a stretch, but it’s close.
I used to use twitterfeed.com to do this for me but this looks like it’s worth trying. Thanks!
Thank you guys. WordPress is getting better and better. Cheers!
Finally 😉 I’ll try it
Not being able to remember the customized text is adding one more step in pushing a blog post. With Twitterfeed, I don’t have to worry about anything, though it is certainly assuring to have a short URL of the same company, something which I can only get if I enable this option at WP. Please consider making customized text stick to the settings.
Thanks so much, I was just trying to do this today!!
Great! I don’t have to use some external client now to post my posts to twitter!
Here’s a quick screencast showing how to set up this feature: http://wp.me/pDfG0-nc
I’ll give a try, thanks… Good work!
I love the “tweet this”/”retweet this” buttons on blog posts I’ve seen. Hope that gets implemented! Thanks for the current improvement. Wp.me, PicApp, and this in the same week!?!
that was supposed to be same month. 🙂
This is great news thanks for the new twitter feature.
A couple of points:
1. Great feature
2. the WP url shortener is not really short – would be better to allow users to choose from some top url shorteners
3. the “posted to WP.com” text is annoying and wastes 17 of 140 characters; would be more user friendly if it just put the post Title in there + shorter url & allowed editing
4. if you modify the Twitter post text, save your draft, then publish later – it seems to default back to the “posted to WP.com” text rather than whatever it was changed to
3 & 4 should be easy tweaks
2. Check out https://wordpress.com/blog/2009/08/14/shorten/ for why we think using a shortener not tied to the service you’re shortening is a bad idea.
4. I agree: imperfect behavior.
Thanks for the feedback!
4. Should be fixed now.
If you edit the custom message and save the post, WordPress.com should now remember that custom message.
Great! This will be easier to track twitter while doing WP!
I don’t use twitter but that seems interesting.
I think I am a Twitter adicct, so thank you guys, I really appreciate it
This I understand…thanks…cuts down on my work!
YOU DID IT AGAIN WORDPRESS! WHEN RU GOING TO LET US ADVERTISE?
cool… don’t use twitter but cool!
Perfect! Really helpful, thanks
perfect! this is why i love wordpress!
Thank you. It’s very useful. So I don’t need to tweet manauly after publish a post.
Is there a way to enable twitter publicize for only publishing posts and not updating posts?
This was a bug; it’s been fixed.
Twitter Publicize should no longer send out tweets for old posts that you’re just updating. If you want the tweet sent out, you can manually click the Publicize Edit link and click the Twitter checkbox.
The same goes for Yahoo! Updates.
Cool – so I can now get rid of twitterfeed?
Hmmm… I’ll stick with Twitterfeed until I can set a custom tweet prefix for each blog, I think! Or even a single custom prefix for all of them. “Posted to WP.com: ” eats a lot of my available characters.
thats awesome! im doing that right now.
Will it work with P2 theme?
Currently the Twitter Publicize and Yahoo! Updates Publicize features do not work for P2 posts unless the posts are published from the admin.
We’re working on getting it set up for “normal” P2 posting as well.
… And now it works for P2 posting.
This is cool! Thanks.
more imperfect behavior users should just be aware – if you go back and update a previously published post (pre-WP-twitter-capability) – it will send a tweet
it would be nice if the system alerted the user… or allow user to set a default of tweet or not tweet
ability to set a default prefix (like my blog name rather than ‘posted to wp.com:’) would be nice enhancements too
to compete with similar, more robust services that is
Keep up good works! Great to continue to see how responsive you guys are to feedback
ha! this is what the public love! thank you! i<3 WP! 😉
wow so cool. I’m gonna go set that up right now!
I’ve been using twitterfeed…till now. Thanks for this feature WP! 🙂
Switching from twitterfeed right now. Thanks WP! 😀
Forgot to say: Would prefer to save my customization as well though.
thx..god idea
Great feature!
Will it work with the ‘Post by Email’ feature as well? I guess not (same as if we use an external blog editor like Windows Live Writer)
It will work with Post By Email and XML-RPC (the technology behind things like Windows Live Writer).
It just doesn’t right now 🙂 We’re working on getting all the ducks in line.
Publicize now works with both Post by Email and XML-RPC clients.
you made my day!
this is a very good feature.
Ingenious Marketing/idea there! Will use indeed
Quite painless, really. Thank you for helping us plug in in to the rest of the WWW.(pun intended!)
Спасибо! Мне пришлось в своё время найти другой способ для автоматического постинга на twitter.
nice…
Awes. Great job! ^_^
Amazing! All these days I had to do it manually! This is such a a boon!
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Wow that’s quite awesome! Thanks!
Just tested this for the first time and it is absolutely real time and quick, works very well. Since the URL is already referring to wp.com domain, I request that you remove the preceding text from the box so we don’t have to follow one extra step in pushing the blog post out. Those who wish to add something personal to the tweet (besides their blog post itself) can always add an additional text.
This is a good addition. But it’s cumbersome to have to customize the message for each post. Would much prefer to be able to customize the default language.
Love the idea! will do
great!
Thanks!
I gave up Twitter many moths ago but with this feature I’ll come back to try it 😉
SWEET!!!!!
Great idea! Thanks!
makes this much easier now…bye bye twitterfeed!
Really good function.Thanks.
Nice to perform .
I was wondering how to do this for a while, but never figured it out. Thanks WordPress peeps.
Hell yeah!! Twitter is more useful than yahoo update! 🙂
hi!!
great idea, if only it worked well!
This is the message I get when I try to authorize twitter:
“This page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the token information you provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again … it was probably an honest mistake.”
have any suggestions for me?
Really good !
First images!! 🙂 Now twitter 🙂 Thank you!
luv it….
more automation, great work, love wordpress
Thanks again! I already have a Twitter Widget in my sidebar, but looks like you’ve given us something better now!! As always…
Linda
Its all great and calls for celebrations…and we are proud to be part of YOU!!!
Yay! Thank you!
I was just thinking ya’ll needed that and lo and behold! One of us is a mind reader………………..
Great feature! How do you use it if you host wordpress on your own domain, though? Will this be released via an update soon?
We will release plugins for WordPress.org blogs.
Thanks again! You all work so hard for these awesome application!
::) …thank’s…!!!
very nice 🙂
brilliant!
Very useful
awesome !!