Of crossposts and twittering too loud
Oct. 11th, 2009 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterSo, over the last few days, those of you on LJ (and Facebook, which feeds from LJ) may have noticed my daily Twitter feeds have popping up twice a day over the last few days.
Back when Dreamwidth first started, I tested to see if just posting to Dreamwidth would result in the post being echoed across to LJ. It did not. Apparently the only posts that were cross-posted were the ones I made manually via Dreamwidth's posting client. Other posts had to be crossposted manually—including the ones I made with the LJ client Semagic, which I am using now. I actually had to go to "journal -> post to multiple journals" rather than just clicking "post entry" at the bottom. Just posting something to DW wouldn't automatically mirror it to LJ.
So I set up two separate Loudtwitter feeds—one for Dreamwidth, one for LJ—and let them run.
But in the last few days, I've started getting two daily Loudtwitter feeds on my LiveJournal—one of them with the Dreamwidth feed's subject line on it.
So I'm guessing that the Dreamwidth people have changed the way crossposting works. (Edit: And a quick look at their weekly code tour reveals they have indeed.) With that in mind, I've disabled the LJ posting of my Loudtwitters, and I guess the double posts will stop.
And now I'm going to post this to Dreamwidth only and see if it shows up on LJ too. (Edit: And…it did!) Thanks tomasonk for the suggestion.
Back when Dreamwidth first started, I tested to see if just posting to Dreamwidth would result in the post being echoed across to LJ. It did not. Apparently the only posts that were cross-posted were the ones I made manually via Dreamwidth's posting client. Other posts had to be crossposted manually—including the ones I made with the LJ client Semagic, which I am using now. I actually had to go to "journal -> post to multiple journals" rather than just clicking "post entry" at the bottom. Just posting something to DW wouldn't automatically mirror it to LJ.
So I set up two separate Loudtwitter feeds—one for Dreamwidth, one for LJ—and let them run.
But in the last few days, I've started getting two daily Loudtwitter feeds on my LiveJournal—one of them with the Dreamwidth feed's subject line on it.
So I'm guessing that the Dreamwidth people have changed the way crossposting works. (Edit: And a quick look at their weekly code tour reveals they have indeed.) With that in mind, I've disabled the LJ posting of my Loudtwitters, and I guess the double posts will stop.
And now I'm going to post this to Dreamwidth only and see if it shows up on LJ too. (Edit: And…it did!) Thanks to
masonk for the suggestion.