new blog posts random propogate as tweets

[netllama]

I recently switched from Chris Mielke's version of this plugin to this new one, in the hopes that it would fix a long standing bug. Sadly, it hasn't. What I see if that whenever I create a new blog post, its a completely random crapshoot on whether the post will generate a tweet (via the plugin). Just a few minutes ago, I created 4 new blog posts, and two of them generated tweets, the other two seemingly ended up lost to /dev/null.

The fact that this works some times, yet not others suggests that I must have the plugin setup correctly, or it wouldn't ever work. I'm not at all sure how to debug this, but I'm willing to try whatever is suggested.

thanks!

[phil-lavin]

Hummm - the original had many bugs but this isn't one I saw. I can only think it's conflicting with another plugin. You could try disabling all other plugins and see if you can replicate the issue. If you can't, then try selectively disabling plugins until you find the offending one.

[netllama]

Unfortunately, your plugin is the only one that I have active, so unless disabled plugins can cause this, its not due to them.

Is there some way to enable extra debugging to determine what's going wrong when it fails?

[phil-lavin]

Might be that you're exceeding Twitter API limits. Do you use the oAuth token anywhere else?

[netllama]

Yes, I do use the token in other places, although I haven't noticed any issues with it elsewhere. Is there some way for me to instrument the plugin to determine if I am really exceeding the API quotas?

[phil-lavin]

Best bet would be to log inside the twitteroauth.php. Just above line 231 (return $response;) put the following code:

$handle = fopen('/path/to/writable/file', 'a');
fwrite($handle, "--".date('r')."--\n".$response."\n\n\n");
fclose($handle);

Naturally, change /path/to/writable/file to the path of a file that has write permissions on it. This file will collect the logs.

Following this, submit a few posts until it fails to Tweet and put the log here. I'd check the log after each submission (successful or otherwise) to ensure data has gone into it. If it's the case that when it fails to Tweet, nothing goes into the log (assuming you've gotten the code writing to the log on success), it's likely it's failing before Twitter; Perhaps on the bitly call.

[phil-lavin]

Sorry, there were a few typoes in the code. Corrected above - make sure you use this rather than the one github would have e-mailed as it'd be c/w typos.

[netllama]

I made the changes you noted two comments up, but the log that I'm writing to remains empty after creating new posts. So this likely means that the failure is happening earlier in the process?

[phil-lavin]

Have you gotten it writing to the log properly on success?

[netllama]

Unfortunately, even after 10 new posts, none of them made it to twitter, so the success rate seems to be rather low. I guess I could keep creating dummy posts until something hits twitter, but this seems like an inefficient way to debug this.

[phil-lavin]

Under line 208 of twitter-blog.php... the one that starts $status = (strlen($status)

Put this:

die($status);

Then post here what is displayed on screen when you post.

[netllama]

This is quite bizarre. Nothing is displayed. Its as if the plugin isn't being invoked at all, even though I'm certain that its enabled & fully configured.

[netllama]

I just noticed that the log does have content in it, although I can't quite figure out how any of this is related to what I was posting in the blog:

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[netllama]

No other suggestions?