Twitter Tools – StatusNet

This plugin works with Alex King’s Twitter Tools 2.0 or later, and provides the functionality to also post tweets to a StatusNet instance like Identi.ca.

Once installed and configured, anything you post to Twitter (regardless of what mechanism you use to post it: SMS, web interface, desktop client, API, script) will also get cross-posted to the StatusNet instance you identify.

You can configure the API endpoint, so in addition to Identi.ca the plugin could be used to also cross-post tweets to The Twit Army or any other site running the StatusNet software (formerly known as Laconica).

What this means is that you MUST disable any other cross posting from StatusNet to Twitter. If you leave automated bridging to Twitter enabled and use this plugin, you will create a loop which will duplicate posts and fill your account.

Let me say that again, louder:

If you leave automated cross posting enabled on your StatusNet instance, or use some other automated method to cross-post from StatusNet to Twitter, you will create a loop, bouncing posts back and forth between the two.

You post to StatusNet, which cross posts to Twitter, which (using Twitter Tools) cross posts to StatusNet, which cross posts to Twitter, and so on. It doesn’t even matter where the posts originate – just that you can’t have automated StatusNet -> Twitter and Twitter -> StatusNet enabled at the same time.

Maybe that seems obvious but in the first version it caught me by surprise as I hadn’t realized that Twitter Tools would pick up and cross post all my tweets, not just those posted via TwitterTools itself.

Download and put this folder in your plugins directory, and activate. Settings are found within the Twitter Tools settings page:

Twitter Tools StatusNet Plugin