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Auto Tweeting Links to Pre-Existing Content in Drupal 7

Friday, May 15, 2015
This week at Will Hall Online we’ve been building a system on one of our sites which periodically tweets a link to an existing piece of content, along with some custom text, a description and hashtags. Possible solutions included: Writing a custom module Try to use the contributed twitter_queue module Construct something using the standard Twitter contrib module, views and rules. We went for the third option in the end, firstly because the working of the twitter_queue module were somewhat mysterious, and secondly because writing a custom module seemed like unnecessary extra effort when we could just use the enormously powerful views and rules modules to come up with something robust and flexible. ...