By Dave Parker on Thursday, 16 July 2015
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Hi.
When I import a RSS feed item into EB5, and it Autoposts to Twitter, it generates a link of:
http://readournewhow-toblogentrytitleincategory.link/

This is happening on every imported feed. I cannot find where, or why it is doing this. It means I keep having to go into Twitter to delete these bad links so as people don't click on them (it looks terrible - already had 3 people unfollow @IT_Advice_Guru).

Could this be investigated.

Thanks
Dave
Hello Dave,

Is this only happen if imported from RSS feed? Have you tried with a normal post? To debug this, we need your twitter access so we can monitor the link.
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 10:49
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Hi.
It's only happening with RSS imports with Autoposting turned on. Can I ask why you need access to the twitter account? I don't see what you will gleam by being able to log into twitter as the account, as the only thing that you can see on the timeline is the odd, weird link - it gives no further information. Surely this needs debugging from the back-end?
Dave
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:18
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Hi.
After some digging around, I've found the cause of the error in the URL. In the table _easyblog_oauth the field "message" contained "readournewhow-toblogentrytitleincategory.link" as the data. This is obviously why it is being posted into Twitter as that. I have changed it to what it should be (in my case "{title}. {link}") and will see what happens. However, I have no idea how "readournewhow-toblogentrytitleincategory.link" made it into this field as I didn't set that.
We will see what happens when the next twitter autopost happens.
Dave
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:57
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Hello Dave,

Yes, we have found the issue. The issue is because when you save the blogger with Twitter integration, Easyblog has wrongly convert that to other input type and save to your database. Please replace the attached file in: ../administrator/components/com_easyblog/controllers/bloggers.php and re-save the author that integrate with twitter so that the correct message will re-add to your database. Please give it a try. I've revoked the access for IT Advice Admin. You need to re-authenticate it with Twitter.
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 17:30
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Hi Nik.
Okay will test this. Out of interest, did your test feed point to Tumblr with a load of pictures of cars etc on it?
I ask because my facebook page, facebook group and linkedin company page was littered with pictures of cars etc. I've had some negative feedback from contacts on LinkedIn asking me to stop posting junk into the stream.
Dave
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 17:50
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Hi Dave,

We apologize that due with our testing and causing this negative feedback from your user.

Yes, keep us updated then after you test.
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 18:25
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