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IP.Board 3.1.0 Dev News: Twitter Integration

Posted by Matt, in 3.1.0, Beta 22 January 2010 · 534 views

I had previously blogged about the status update improvements coming in IP.Board 3.1.0. This blog runs through some exciting new integration features with Twitter.

As IP.Board already has Facebook integration, it makes sense to also integrate Twitter. This further lowers the bar when registering a new account on your forum. If your visitors have have a Twitter account, they can use this to register a new forum account or to "connect" their existing account with their Twitter account.

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Integrating your Twitter account allows you to use your Twitter profile picture and description on the board.

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You can also import your latest Twitter status onto the board, or post your board status to Twitter. If your forum status is longer than 140 characters, it will cut the status off and automatically add a Bit.ly URL pointing to your forum status update.

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You may note that each status update on the forum has a little icon showing where the status originated.

These improvements should increase registrations on your board and generate more traffic to it.

Carl - IPS Fan
Jan 22 2010 12:39 PM

Matt's been working on his Ricky Martin pose :lol:

DarkGizmo
Jan 22 2010 12:55 PM

AWESOME!!!

Brett B
Jan 22 2010 01:22 PM

Phillyman, on 22 January 2010 - 10:19 AM, said:

Ohhh soo close to what I want! I would love if I could make a System account on my forums, and that account would then push out Tweets to Twitter. Every time a member submitted a file to IP Downloads, or a member made a new Blog post, a corresponding Tweet would announce it on Twitter. Can it be done?

Idea's for auto tweets.....

Top Replied Topic of the Day
New Files submitted to IP Downloads
New Blog posts submitted to IP Blog
Random Gallery Image of the Day
Random IP Download of the day

Everytime I post something to Twitter, I get at least 20-30 members that arrive at my site......If I could have it set up to automatically do it for me, I could get 3000 more members a month that see my website.

That's a really neat idea -- connect a twitter account with the board to tweet out configurable items. Maybe something for the future.

TheMac
Jan 22 2010 01:31 PM

Very good!

KW802
Jan 22 2010 01:32 PM

great news!!

Gaffney
Jan 22 2010 02:02 PM

damit, thought you's had made a mistake, I checked the twitter and clicked the link but either the site is secure or you put in a invalid link

For one second I thought I was going to find the IPB development board, actually you's probably have it hosted on a server connected to every pc via Lan.

I would delete the tweets though if you don't want the ip address spread around.

I am Freddy G
Jan 22 2010 03:09 PM

Awesome! Can't wait

Mo7sin
Jan 22 2010 04:29 PM

wooow

Nuclear General
Jan 22 2010 07:12 PM

Sounds good, but there is question I have, when will the Windows Live sign-in method get improved upon? It's been out awhile and have yet to get improved or fixed.

Glumbo
Jan 22 2010 07:50 PM

Very cool

BryanH
Jan 22 2010 07:54 PM

This is awesome! Excellent job, thank you!

battletoad
Jan 22 2010 09:27 PM

friggin sweet

Camoo
Jan 23 2010 01:48 AM

very nice

Black Prowler
Jan 23 2010 02:00 AM

this is very cool! :thumbsup:

I've begun using twitter to get the word out about my forums. This nice addition will help out a lot.

Pintac
Jan 23 2010 02:19 AM

Looks great! I just started using twitter myself as well,

Booth
Jan 23 2010 06:52 AM

Would be great if you could allow status updates from both, latest one is brought into IPB. Although I'll probably just sync my Facebook with Twitter so that all status updates appear on all sites.

Tanax
Jan 23 2010 03:33 PM

Booth, on 23 January 2010 - 12:52 PM, said:

Would be great if you could allow status updates from both, latest one is brought into IPB. Although I'll probably just sync my Facebook with Twitter so that all status updates appear on all sites.

Exactly my thought. It would be great to be able to get status updates from both facebook and twitter. So if I change my status on facebook I would recieve the same status on the forums. Then if I change my status on twitter I would get that status on the forums instead. Also, it would be great to be able to "revert" back to older statuses. Say I updated my status on facebook, then updated my status on twitter. I would then have the twitter status on my forum status, but I want my facebook status that time on the forums. I would then just press like "history" or something and be able to revert back.

It would also be great to make it possible to set a status on twitter and then be able to get the same status on facebook by just pressing a button on the forums(since the forum status will become the same as the twitter status when I change the status on twitter). Obviously that would be optional and also be possible to do the other way aswell(changing status on facebook, then press button on forums to tweet the status on to twitter aswell).

Also if I manually write a status on the forums, it would be great if it was possible to both "tweet" and "facebook" that status.