Written by Trung Dam | 14 December 2010

You want to introduce the products but tired of going to Twitter to tweet every single article on your Twitter account.

And here what you need for help: Q Auto Twitter version 1.5.0 - our plugin for Joomla 1.5 is now released! (Purchase Q Auto Twitter product here) This plugin allows you automatically tweet new article title, article link and custom message to your Twitter account as well.

As an admin, you don't need go to Twitter website to update that news, all thing you need to do is just create articles on your site then as you decided it will be tweet. Advertising products become so easy with help of the plugin and more

Q Auto Twitter how to use:

When you installed this plugin successfully, please go to configuration it to enable and function it (see images below).

Image 1: Q Auto Twitter parameters in Joomla control panel

Click to "Create API Twitter Uses for plugin" link, login with your twitter account and then click to the "Register a new application".

When you created your new application successfully, please follow the images below to get the information to fill into the Q Auto Twitter plugin configuration:

Image 2: Q Auto Twitter Consumer Key and Consumer Secret information

When you had the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, please click into the "My Access Token" link to get the Token information continue

Image 3: Twitter My Access Token link

After it will show you the information like that:

Image 4: Q Auto Twitter Access Token and Access Token Secret information

Please fill it in to the Q Auto Twitter plugin configuration.

One thing more, please notice if you want to use the bit.ly to general your link, you must have fill your bit.ly account information to the Q Auto Tweet plugin configuration too.

To find your "bit.ly API Key" you must logged into bit.ly and then go to your account setting, scroll down to find the API, it like the image below:

Image 5: Q Auto Twitter bit.ly API Key

In Image 1: Q Auto Twitter parameters in Joomla control panel, please notice at note "Allow edited articles" ("No" for default), and choose "Yes" to allow the articles edit can be tweet to your twitter.

Now if you create or edit an article, you will see the Q Auto Twitter option like this image (please notice at the red mark):

Image 6: Q Auto Twitter options when create or edit an article

After you completed all the instructions above (Remember to tick on the "Post to Twitter" option and You can add a short text in "Aticle Message" textbox), please click "Apply" or "Save". Now you can go to your Twitter to see, it will be like that:

Image 7: Q Auto Twitter in Twitter message update

If you have any questions or need help, please contact with us in the Forum.

 

Regards,

Netq Team.