Customizing your message for Tweet

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  kimberlyheskett · Member · Oct 17, 2020 at 7:39 pm

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  I’ve tried to customize what the tweet says when it shares the post on Twitter but the the actual tweet only says the title of the post. How do I fix this?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Oct 19, 2020 at 10:47 am

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  Hi there,

  If this using Publicize, i.e. the feature that automatically posts a tweet when you publish a new post?

  Can you give a link to a recent post on your site that didn’t share the custom Publicize message when you published it, and also a link to the resulting tweet?

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  kimberlyheskett · Member · Oct 19, 2020 at 10:14 pm

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  I tried to make the part that says to Customize your message say “Here’s my review of the movie Clouds #CloudsMovie @disneyplus” but all the tweet ends up saying is the title of the post.
  https://kimberlyheskett.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/clouds-review/

  Clouds review https://t.co/2wu1hCtG2V

  — Nerd Thoughts (@nerdthoughtblog) October 19, 2020

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Oct 19, 2020 at 10:51 pm

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  Hi there,

  Next time you publish a blog post, can you try going through these steps before sharing?

  1. Write the post.
  2. Write the custom message for Twitter.
  3. Hit the “Save draft” and wait for a confirmation message that the draft has been saved.
  4. Hit the “Publish” button only after seeing confirmation that the draft is saved

  If you do this, is your custom message shared? We have our engineers looking into the issue but in the meantime other site owners have reported success with this workaround and I am hoping it will work for you too.

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  kimberlyheskett · Member · Oct 21, 2020 at 6:54 pm

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  That worked! Thank you for your help!