I was using twitterfeed.com to post my blog posts on identi.ca and twitter, but since the service behaved sometimes strangely re-posting old posts and spamming my followers (maybe it was my rss fault anyway) I decided to find a proper wordpress plugin to do the job. Twitterupdater is a simple, nice plugin with clean source code but uses twitter service and not the FLOSS and better identi.ca. Fortunatelly identi.ca is API compaliant with twitter so here is a quick tip on how to change the service twitterupdater uses.

1. Download from twitterupdater.com
2. Open twitter_updater.php with your favorite text editor, or with wordpress edit plugin feature
3. Change line 64 from $host = 'twitter.com'; to $host = 'identi.ca';
4. Change line 96 from $twitterURI = "/statuses/update.xml?source=ingoalstwitterupdate"; to $twitterURI = "/api/statuses/update.xml?source=ingoalstwitterupdate";
5. Configure the plugin as usual
6. Enjoy!

Note that this blog post is a test to check if this is going to work

Update: and yes it works!

Extra Tip: You can find all the '@' symbols in twitter_updater.php file and add an extra space after them so identi.ca parses the shorten url as link.

Edit: Testing if the twitterupdater plugin still works with wordpress 2.9.2

Το εορτολόγιο στο twitter έχει φτάσει αισίως του 53 ακόλουθους και στο identi.ca τους 9. Έχω αλλάξει εδώ και καιρό την πηγή των γιορτών, αφού το εορτολόγιο από το GrBytes δεν ήταν ολοκληρωμένο. Ανταυτού, παίρνω πλέον την πληροφορία καθημερινά από το site του eshop.

Ο κώδικας του εορτολογίου

http://www.identi.ca/eortologio

http://www.twitter.com/eortologio