UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Auto-tweet new postings?

The 7.5.6 'tweet me' feature has opened up a can-o-worms with a couple of the tech-savy users on my forums.

They were wondering whether it was possible to set up a facility to auto tweet to a designated twitter account when a new posting, or a reply, was made to specific forums.

I'm not sure where i would start with this. I have a twitter account that i use for my board, which i normally use to announce downtime etc, especially if we get unexpected outages etc.

Any thoughts?

Regards

Barry

Do a google search for 'php twitter' and you will find some info including on the twitter api. This seems inline with what you are wanting to do.

http://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/04/05/post-to-twitter-from-a-php-script/

Just remember you will want to sanitize the output, and to post to individual accounts per forum would require a bit more work retrieving the forum number and a switch statement.

Good luck!

www.twitterfeed.com parses your RSS feeds and can post to Twitter, FaceBook, etc

I'll have a play with the twitterfeed thing first.

Thanks both for the links

Regards

Cheers Gizmo for the tip.

This works like a charm, and none of that faffing around with Twitters OAuth API business

NP; I use it to feed news from my forums to twitter/fb