Well i should be more specific, the bots are setup as users - what i mean is you know how you set a username from which XML feeds are posted as on vb sites. Well i have different usernames for the 3 feeds, so when a new thread is posted it is the same as posting as a normal user such as myself. I have made a test account as a normal registered user however this also does not appear to be working when i create a thread.

Could this be because I have made a custom user group aside from the "regular users" default group.

Any users in the regular users group are subject to Spam-O-Matic filtering, users who are trusted are placed in a custom user group with less restrictive spam filtering.... I completely understand not having RSS bots being able to post direct to twitter, as i don't want automatic rss feeds pouring into my forum either, hence the reason i filter the feeds and only validate interesting posts that are of interest to my users.

I think it has to do with the way vb4 handles the posts. I know the Event Forums mod also fails to tweet new posts. When a live user clicks "Post" it goes a different direction than when a mod/bot does it.

Cant get ito to work at all :( It shortens links to bit.ly but no tweets at all. Don't know what else to do. I have all steps completed in above instructions. It only shares my bit links if i log in to bit.ly and share them manually. Any help here?

How long until it shows up on Twitter? Immediately? If not it's not working I guess? Anyway to see errors? I'm not seeing any errors.

Yeah, I don't think it's working and I'm not getting errors. Twitter never asked me to verify the forum. Any advice?

I solved the problem by deleting the Twitter application and adding a new one because originally I used "read" instead of read+write. Bug with twitter I suppose.

I don't recall being asked to verify anything either. But when I posted a new thread to a twitter enabled forum, and logged into my forum's Twitter account, there was the message waiting to be tweeted. I did so manually. All subsequent twits have gone out automatically.

I don't think there's a lot of delay twitting, but I bet most readers are set to only retrieve tweets every x minutes. In fact, I think Twitter puts a hard limit on updates of something like 150/hr.

Really sucks it does not pick up the rss feeds!
That would be GOLD!

Not for the person whose feeds you're passing through to Twitter. If they want to twit their material they probably already are.

Unless, like us, you have a Joomla/other CMS front end and want to firstly notify the forums of a new article, and then tweet the notification via twitter.