Windows Live Writer: Bit.ly Tweeter

imageThere’s a new plug-in for Windows Live Writer; which is nice because it’s something I believe should’ve been offered natively with Windows Live Writer, but that’s why you've guys writing plug-ins.

This one is another Twitter plug-in for Windows Live Writer, but it does you a favor by shortening the URL’s as they’re posted, using Bit.ly.

This plug-in is very small at 28k and seems to work as intended.

MyBitlyTweeter.dll is the DLL… just drop it in the Windows Live Writer plug-ins folder to install it, or you can run the default installer and wait 5 minutes.

Options for the plug-in can be found with the other plug-in options, under the MENU.

Choose options » plug-ins…

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You’ll notice the standard interface…

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Just choose the button for options.

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The plug-in requires your Bit.ly account and API; if you've one just punch it right in there. Once you get your API key or if you need to find your API key with bit.ly it should be here

Link:
     http://bit.ly/a/your_api_key/

The post can be customized at bit…

The thing I don’t like about this, and I don’t see an option for it, is to specify which blog accounts to use it on… This is more of an issue with Windows Live Writer than with the plug-in I believe. You've the same issue with the auto-linking XML [all or nothing].

I believe this is a good option for Windows Live Writer, and should thank the author for doing a good job on it.

 

Bitly Tweeter 
DOWNLOAD IT

I hope this helps…

Thank you,
Larry Henry Jr.
LEHSYS.com 

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