Disconnected Twitter Publicize and it's still auto-posting. Help.

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  donlbe · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 11:12 pm

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  I’ve disconnected the Publicize service for auto-posting to twitter and yet it’s still posting new entries as I blog.

  Has anyone else seen this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  airodyssey · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 1:06 am

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  Hi. The blog linked to your username is empty. Could you please confirm the address of the blog you are referring to?

  Or make sure you are in the right forum please :-)
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1

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  donlbe · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 3:03 am

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  Thanks. I do have a wordpress.com blog. it’s at fredherschfilm.com or fredherschfilm.wordpress.com.

  unfortunately, when i posted, it linked to my test blog. but, the blog i’m inquiring about is fredherschfilm.com

  thanks for your help btw

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:16 am

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  If you use Publicize to connect more than one WordPress.com blog to Twitter, and under different accounts it requires a bit of login gymnastics because of how Twitter (and other external services) handle authentication.

  Suppose you want to add Twitter to the Publicize options for a site, so you turn it on. We need to get authorization set up with Twitter so we have permission to post to your activity stream. By default, Twitter will always use the account you’re logged in as in order to set up this relationship.

  The same applies for the “advanced” Tweet button in the Sharing options. It will always use the account you’re logged in to.

  If you want to set up Twitter Publicize to different Twitter accounts for different blogs, here’s what you have to do:

  1. Log out of Twitter just to be sure.
  2. Go to Publicize and turn it on for one of your sites.
  3. You’ll be prompted to authenticate with Twitter. Log in to Twitter under the account you want to associated with the selected blog. Finish the authentication process.
  4. Repeat for other blogs, logging out of Twitter each time.

  Because we are using the “official” Twitter authentication, this is how it has to work; Twitter assumes that if you are logged in, that’s what you want to use when granting permission to various services.

  If you get an account linked to the wrong Twitter account, you can change the relationship by logging out of Twitter, turning off Publicize and then turning it back on to re-connect it to an account.

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  donlbe · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:56 am

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  Thanks for this. I definitely understand this. I was actually trying to turn Publicize OFF. I was able to for fredherschfilm.com, but for some reason it’s still posting to the twitter feed – twitter.com/fredherschfilm

  I tried connecting and the disconnecing, etc. but, it just continues to auto-post.

  Seems like a bug.

  Don

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 6:19 am

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  You do know that in the Publish module you can uncheck Twitter, etc., in the Publicize box before you hit “publish”? I realize this isn’t what you want to do, but it is an interim solution. And you should certainly contact Support directly with this bug http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  donlbe · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 6:26 am

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  Yeah, thanks…I know that, but we have multiple authors and I doubt they’ll remember to do that.

  I’ll report the bug. Thx!