Sup
I'm trying to send a Tweet from Squiz Matrix to Twitter that has an attachment(image/video).
I have all the authentication and stuff set up and also have an account on twitpic.com. Regular text based Tweets are not an issue.
Any ideas?
Do you see any error when sending Tweet? Check Log manager, error logs.
Can you paste us the error if there is any? Can you describe replication step?
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Do you see any error when sending Tweet? Check Log manager, error logs.
Can you paste us the error if there is any? Can you describe replication step?
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There are no errors. I'm at the start - still trying to figure out how to set it all up.
I was trying to use a Trigger that would send an email with metadata value (the image) to Twitpic when the new asset was made Live. eg create comment asset, add image to metadata field, add text to tweet, make Live, Trigger sends email.
Only problem is that the image is sent via email as a linked image, not an embedded attachment and Twitpic doesn't work with that.
I've tried creating a custom form so that the user can upload an image and it is sent to Twitpic upon submission, but this doesn't cover the business need and creates duplication of work. Plus if I do it that way, I may as well just go to the Twitpic website and go from there.
Is there a reason why you want the image at Twitpic?
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Is there a reason why you want the image at Twitpic?
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No reason. I'm just not aware of any other fee-free options to get images attached to Tweets, but I'm always open to suggestions.
Do you not want to host the images on your Matrix server? Might be a bit easier or am I missing the point?
Do you not want to host the images on your Matrix server? Might be a bit easier or am I missing the point?
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Do you not want to host the images on your Matrix server? Might be a bit easier or am I missing the point?
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I'd like the images to be hosted within Matrix but I don't know how I could get those images to be Tweeted. I can Tweet a URL that would be a link to the image, but I'm trying to have the image as an attachment to the Tweet.
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I'd like the images to be hosted within Matrix but I don't know how I could get those images to be Tweeted. I can Tweet a URL that would be a link to the image, but I'm trying to have the image as an attachment to the Tweet.
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You can't actually attach images to a tweet. Since tweets are only text are you sure you are not meaning just using a short URL? That is really all a Twitter Client apps do is upload it to twit pic then provide you the URL in your tweet.
Hi
Can you set the image as the thumbnail that is firing the trigger and then use %asset_thumbnail_url% in the tweet
Dave
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You can't actually attach images to a tweet. Since tweets are only text are you sure you are not meaning just using a short URL? That is really all a Twitter Client apps do is upload it to twit pic then provide you the URL in your tweet.
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What I was trying to get happen was have the little icon next to the Tweet to indicate an image as well. Perhaps the word 'attachment' wasn't clearly showing what I was after - sorry about that.
So here is an image with two Tweets: http://bit.ly/qVOk7k
The top Tweet has the image 'attached' and the bottom Tweet just has a link to an image. When you click on the arrow for the Tweet with the 'attachment' you see the Tweet as: http://bit.ly/qVYo1s. Both Tweets do have a URL included in the text area.
The benefit here is that you click to view the Tweet and also see the image as opposed to viewing the Tweet and clicking off to see the image.
Maybe that little icon on the Tweet with the 'attached' image only comes from places such as Twitpic or other clients?
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Hi
Can you set the image as the thumbnail that is firing the trigger and then use %asset_thumbnail_url% in the tweet
Dave
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From memory that works for showing a URL but I don't get that little extra 'attachment' icon. I'm sounding a little picky here.
Also when Tweeting from Matrix I've found that any link included doesn't get automatically shortened as it does when Tweeting from Twitter itself, see - https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/109-tweets-messages/articles/78124-how-to-post-links-urls. That would be a nice feature to see in future upgrades.
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What I was trying to get happen was have the little icon next to the Tweet to indicate an image as well. Perhaps the word 'attachment' wasn't clearly showing what I was after - sorry about that.
So here is an image with two Tweets: http://bit.ly/qVOk7k
The top Tweet has the image 'attached' and the bottom Tweet just has a link to an image. When you click on the arrow for the Tweet with the 'attachment' you see the Tweet as: http://bit.ly/qVYo1s. Both Tweets do have a URL included in the text area.
The benefit here is that you click to view the Tweet and also see the image as opposed to viewing the Tweet and clicking off to see the image.
Maybe that little icon on the Tweet with the 'attached' image only comes from places such as Twitpic or other clients?
From memory that works for showing a URL but I don't get that little extra 'attachment' icon. I'm sounding a little picky here.
Also when Tweeting from Matrix I've found that any link included doesn't get automatically shortened as it does when Tweeting from Twitter itself, see - https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/109-tweets-messages/articles/78124-how-to-post-links-urls. That would be a nice feature to see in future upgrades.
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I think that that all of these questions might need to be directed to Twitter, because I think there are some unknowns here that have nothing to do with Matrix. 