As a TypePad user, I discovered today that any new posts I made on this blog or Disruptive Telephony were NOT being shared on Twitter after I published them. It turns out to be that the connection to my Twitter account needed to be fixed… presumably related to Twitter’s OAuth authentication change. I’m guessing that I set up the linkage to my Twitter account back when TypePad first provided the capability – and undoubtedly provided my Twitter account name and password. That kind of authentication to Twitter was no longer allowed as of August 31st.
If you find yourself in this same situation, here’s what you need to do. First, go into your overall TypePad account settings and go to the “Other Accounts” page. If you have a problem, you’ll see some text in red that says something like “Action Required” (unfortunately I didn’t take a screenshot of it) in the area shown in this screenshot next to your Twitter account name:
If you do not see any red text, and just see green checkmarks like are in the screenshot, you are all set – your Twitter sharing should be working perfectly fine.
If you do see the red text, it’s a click-able link that will take you to the Twitter OAuth authentication page where you can approve TypePad’s access to your Twitter account.
Next, you need to go to EACH of your blogs where you want to share your posts out to Twitter and check the box next to your Twitter account again. It seems that when your Twitter account is disconnected, the connection is removed from each of your blogs.
To get to the Sharing screen shown in the screenshot below, you need to go into the Dashboard for each blog, click on the “Settings” tab on the top and then the “Sharing” tab on the left side. Then you can check off that you want to share posts on Twitter:
Unfortunately I found you do have to do it for every blog that you have on TypePad. Not a huge deal for me, since only 4 of my blogs are on TypePad, but it could be more of a pain for others. In the end, though, all my blogs are now once again sharing blog posts out to Twitter.
Hope this helps some of you…
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