Creating Short URLs For Twitter

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 19:56

Using three contributed modules (Shorten, Short URL and Tweet) I show you how to create short urls for your Drupal site that are easily shared on Twitter.

Note: Click the 'full screen' icon (to the left of the volume control) in order to watch online at full 1280x720 resolution.

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Submitted by dddave (not verified) on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 06:28.

Sound problems

Hi Rob,

thanks for the hint about using my own site as shortening service. Never occured to me. You might want to check out your vid because it seems to be out of sinc. The sound is about 20 secs behind the picture.

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 22:15.

Video Sound Issues

You're right! Something must've occurred during the conversion to flash. Luckily the downloadble QuickTime version works fine. I'm going to replace with the YouTube version until I can get a better copy encoded to flash.

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 01:30.

Sound Fixed

The sound sync issues with the embed should be all fixed now.

Submitted by Filip Mattheeuws (not verified) on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 23:00.

Thank you

Interesting, again!
I described your video on my site (http://www.filip.be/book/27/twitter-controlled-short-urls), with a link to your video (of course).
By the way... I started using Drupal just 2 weeks ago, actually after stumbeling over your work. It has been an incredible help.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 16:14.

how i can add name/email/url fields after subject field for anon

how i can add name/email/url fields after subject field for anonymous user comment sending ?

it means when an anonymous user want send a comment, should fill name/email/url fields after subject field !

and then this information will show in comment information !

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 12:13.

Anonymous User Information

You do this by editing the content type. Go to the "Comment Settings" in the Anonymous Commenting section and check Anonymous posters must leave their contact information.

Submitted by arnaudfischer (not verified) on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 16:28.

Tweet BLOCK for panels

Hello Rob, thank you for this video and all others as well. Awesome resources.

Is there a way to create a "Tweet" block and not a node link? I have looked around and cannot find anything. Thank you for any help.

-arnaud

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 22:02.

Tweet Block

What I have done on http://awakenedvoice.com is import my tweets using the Feeds module (http://drupal.org/project/feeds)and the public RSS feed for my Twitter account. Then I use views to create a block.

Submitted by talalus (not verified) on Sat, 04/03/2010 - 15:36.

awesome tutorial !!

are there away to print the short url for each node in the node itself ?

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 19:15.

Short URLs

Good question. You could probably do it with a snippet of php. You're probably better off asking this in the issue queue for either the Shorten or Short URL module.

Submitted by talalus (not verified) on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 00:08.

Re: Short URLs

THANKS for all your videos, you're great man.

Submitted by ryan on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 14:37.

Re: Creating Short URLs For Twitter

Not able to select This Site as it is not an option. Do you know if any updates changed this or if I am missing a common setting?

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 16:10.

Re: Creating Short URLs For Twitter

Do you have Short URL (http://drupal.org/project/shorturl) installed? That's the module that makes short URLs for your own site possible. Also in your Shorten settings (/admin/settings/shorten/general) the "service" should be set to Drupal ShortURL module.