The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

Apparently, Twitter made some sort of weird change. All of the sudden, WordPress plugins couldn’t post things to twitter because they weren’t a “registered application.” This is made more ridiculous by the fact that the website itself needed to be registered as an application, not just the plugin, so the people making the plugins that did such things couldn’t actually fix the problem. It was fantastically annoying.

I mean, I kind of understand why Twitter is doing that. You don’t want a bunch of random gunk messing up the system, so you make it so anything that posts to twitter has to register, so you can shut it off quickly if it’s doing nothing but generating waves of spam. I get it. But that’s just a really annoying bit of hoop to have to jump through, as a little person who just enjoys writing a stupid blog, and who has been having success sharing said blogs on twitter. (Seriously, people asked me what was up when it stopped posting. People followed my blogs! It was scary!)

Anyway, I think I’ve got it fixed now, but I thought I’d just write about what was going on, seeing as when I Googled for information about this, I had a really hard time learning about the problem. This has to be a really wide-spread issue. I’m kind of surprised that more people haven’t been talking about it. Like, you’d think that blogs would pick up on the issues being caused. Then again, I guess, in the big scheme of things, this is really nothing at all. It’s not like I couldn’t still write my bloegs and whatnot. Still, people raise huge-fucking shitstorms over much less. I expected to find people complaining with attached solutions easily, and I didn’t.

But yeah, so that’s what was going on. Hopefully it’s working again now. I got registered and got a more robust plugin, so things should be rocking and rolling. I’ve continued to post to the blog every day, even when the plugin was down, so if you’ve missed and really want to see what I have to say for some reason, feel free to scroll down.

And thanks for reading anyway. That’s pretty neat of you.