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Gwibber and the new Twitter API

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I noticed Gwibber, my social networking app for Ubuntu, stopped updating my Twitter status after the API was updated. Basically, it was broken.

And as of yet, it’s not been patched.

Here’s a fix I used to get Ubuntu updating my Twitter account again.

[sourcecode]pkill gwibber
sudo gedit "/usr/share/gwibber/plugins/twitter/__init__.py"[/sourcecode]

Then search and replace “api.twitter.com/1” to “api.twitter.com/1.1”

Tada!

For the sake of honesty, I’ll admit I didn’t find this fix myself, I found it here.

Make a “Share on Twitter” link with URL and Hashtags

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This is a little coding trick I get asked about quite a bit.

The link you have to make to share something to Twitter is quite simple:

http://twitter.com/share?text=text goes here

But getting a URL and hastag in there is a different matter. To be honest most developers do know how to include the URL, but hashtags have proved more elusive!

http://twitter.com/share?text=text goes here&url=http://url goes here&hashtags=hashtag1,hashtag2,hashtag3

Here’s an example to try out:

http://twitter.com/share?text=Here’s an awesome tip!&url=https://peter.mahoneywebmarketing.com/make-a-share-on-twitter-link-with-url-and-hashtags/&hashtags=peter,is,awesome

And that’s it!

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