Title: [Plugin: Tweetbacks] Missing Tweetbacks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Tweetbacks] Missing Tweetbacks

 *  [rickybuchanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickybuchanan/)
 * (@rickybuchanan)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/)
 * I’ve been running this plugin since the first WP.com release and to the extent
   it’s working it’s fantastic! Unfortunately there are a lot of tweets that I’m
   noticing even just in my own twitter stream that are not being “found” by the
   plugin and imported as comments.
 * I have left the importer set to run every 15 minutes and I’m seeing no errors(
   where would I find them – is there a log?) and I am seeing _some_ tweets imported…
   but there’s tweets which I think should be imported which aren’t. These can be
   seen in the regular twitter search function so they aren’t hidden or otherwise
   protected.
 * The website is [http://atmac.org/](http://atmac.org/)
 * One example:
    [http://twitter.com/museumfreak/statuses/1122663735](http://twitter.com/museumfreak/statuses/1122663735)
   Currently 23 hours old, references the page [http://atmac.org/accessible-irc-clients/](http://atmac.org/accessible-irc-clients/)
   without any URL shortening service but the tweetback hasn’t been picked up.
 * Upon searching, I just realised that other examples mostly are of the form of
   shortened versions of [http://OriginalPostURL?more_stuff_here](http://OriginalPostURL?more_stuff_here).
   Is there any way I could set the plugin to look for these, given that the more_stuff_here
   is already known? It’s just the string “?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&
   utm_campaign=twitter” I use for Google Analytics tracking of twitter stuff.
 * Thanks for your help.

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 *  Thread Starter [rickybuchanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickybuchanan/)
 * (@rickybuchanan)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961350)
 * I notice somebody else posted that missing tweets were picked up eventually –
   mine definitely haven’t been. The one I listed up there is still missing. I posted
   almost the same tweet twice today on the atmacjournal account – first with an
   is.gd URL and then with a tinyurl URL. The is.gd was picked up very quickly but
   the tinyurl one still hasn’t been detected several hours later.
 * Neither of those tweets had google analytics markers on them, incidentally. I’d
   really like to get to the bottom of this – I’m happy to run debug code or anything
   else that might be helpful.
 * Ricky
 *  [Joost de Valk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joostdevalk/)
 * (@joostdevalk)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961352)
 * I’ll have a look at that first one, that should be picked up… If you could do
   a print here of the content of the “shorturls” custom field for that post, I’d
   much appreciate that!
 * As for the tagged links: those are hard… Probably not in any version soon.
 *  Thread Starter [rickybuchanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickybuchanan/)
 * (@rickybuchanan)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961353)
 * For the post:
    Post: [http://atmac.org/accessible-irc-clients/](http://atmac.org/accessible-irc-clients/)
   There is no “shorturls” custom field. There are these custom fields which look
   possibly relevant: tweetcount – 1 tweetbackscheck – 1232993285
 *  Thread Starter [rickybuchanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickybuchanan/)
 * (@rickybuchanan)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961354)
 *  [Joost de Valk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joostdevalk/)
 * (@joostdevalk)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961402)
 * there is NO shorturls field?? hmmpf…
 *  Thread Starter [rickybuchanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickybuchanan/)
 * (@rickybuchanan)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961403)
 * I just checked and there’s no posts where shorturls fields are visible as custom
   fields visible in the “edit post” screen. I checked for 3 different blogs, 2 
   of which run 2.7.1 and the other runs 2.6.5 – should I be looking somewhere else
   for them?
 *  [thefluffanutta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thefluffanutta/)
 * (@thefluffanutta)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961404)
 * I don’t know if this is relevant, but I found that on my blog the **yoast_schedule_tweetbacks()**
   function kept picking up the ID of the last entry in the ‘Related Posts’ widget,
   instead of the actual post being viewed. So, every time the plugin was looking
   for tweetbacks, it was looking for the wrong post.
 * Adding **wp_reset_query()** to the beginning of that function seems to fix it.
   Removing the sidebar widget would probably have the same effect, though it may
   depend on your theme too.
 *  Thread Starter [rickybuchanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickybuchanan/)
 * (@rickybuchanan)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961405)
 * I’m not using that widget, but thanks anyway.
 * I bit of sql poking reveals the shorturl fields do exist, they’re just not visible
   from the blog – perhaps because they’re arrays?
 * Anyway, according to mysql the shorturl field for that entry is
 * `a:18:{s:7:"tinyurl";s:25:"http://tinyurl.com/8s47je";s:4:"isgd";s:17:"http://
   is.gd/f5TW";s:5:"bitly";s:18:"http://bit.ly/VXxP";s:5:"snipr";s:22:"http://snipr.
   com/9px7n";s:5:"snurl";s:22:"http://snurl.com/9px7n";s:7:"snipurl";s:24:"http://
   snipurl.com/9px7n";s:5:"adjix";s:21:"http://adjix.com/26sh";s:4:"advu";s:17:"
   http://ad.vu/26sh";s:4:"zima";s:16:"http://zi.ma/385";s:9:"permalink";s:40:"http://
   atmac.org/accessible-irc-clients/";s:4:"trim";s:17:"http://tr.im/6cg2";s:6:"isgdga";
   s:17:"http://is.gd/itEN";s:7:"isgdrss";s:17:"http://is.gd/itEO";s:10:"tinyurlrss";
   s:25:"http://tinyurl.com/aqy2dw";s:8:"bitlyrss";s:18:"http://bit.ly/LrPh";s:8:"
   sniprrss";s:22:"http://snipr.com/bcrrf";s:8:"snurlrss";s:22:"http://snurl.com/
   bcrrf";s:10:"snipurlrss";s:24:"http://snipurl.com/bcrrf";}`
 * Please ignore the *rss and isgdga entries – they’re my hacks to pick up google
   tracking coded tweets as described in my post about it.
 *  [bcarter79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcarter79/)
 * (@bcarter79)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961409)
 * I’ve also been experiencing missing Tweetbacks. I’m ready to write this plug-
   in off… which is a shame since I love the concept. That said, does anyone know
   of a reliable alternative?
 *  [Aaron D. Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaroncampbell/)
 * (@aaroncampbell)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961421)
 * I’m missing a lot as well. I have NOT set it to ignore retweets, and all of them
   seem to be missing. If I have it set to ignore my username and my username is
   included in the retweets, could it be ignoring the tweet (for CONTAINING the 
   username not just coming FROM the username)? I haven’t had a chance to look at
   the code yet.
 *  [dgreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgreen/)
 * (@dgreen)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961433)
 * I have also noticed some missing tweetbacks when the tweet used one of the following
   URL shorteners:
    - ow.ly
    - srl.in
    - sn.im
 * Is it not possible to find tweetbacks when they use these URL shorteners?
 *  [meiky27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meiky27/)
 * (@meiky27)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961435)
 * I miss the Tweetbacks also. It does not funkitoniert simply. I use Tweet This
   for transmit the Tweets
    [http://www.meikys-podcast.de](http://www.meikys-podcast.de)
 *  [ihatemornings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ihatemornings/)
 * (@ihatemornings)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961436)
 * I don’t know if this is part of the same problem, but after poking around in 
   the code for a while I discovered that the same post permalink acn be shortened
   to a different URL from an API call from Joost’s function, an API call from TweetDeck
   and the web interface (I tried is.gd first, then bit.ly).
 * I’m pretty sure I’m not doing anything crazy here – the following 2 short URLs
   both resolve to exactly the same long URL:
 *     ```
       --16:09:40--  http://bit.ly/hPvDP
                  => 'hPvDP'
       Resolving bit.ly... 128.121.254.201, 128.121.254.205, 128.121.254.129, ...
       Connecting to bit.ly|128.121.254.201|:80... connected.
       HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved
       Location: http://secondhead.co.uk/poshcast/bob-hoskins-is-a-fraudster/ [following]
   
       --16:12:27--  http://bit.ly/13bGoO
                  => '13bGoO'
       Resolving bit.ly... 128.121.254.201, 128.121.254.205, 128.121.254.129, ...
       Connecting to bit.ly|128.121.254.201|:80... connected.
       HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved
       Location: http://secondhead.co.uk/poshcast/bob-hoskins-is-a-fraudster/ [following]
       ```
   
 * So when Tweetbacks searches for mentions of the short URL it’s searching for 
   the wrong thing. Sometimes. Maybe.
 * Have the URL shorteners started serving up different URLs to different user agents?
   Or is it something to do with the character encoding making them think it’s a
   different long URL entirely?
 *  [jhm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhm/)
 * (@jhm)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961437)
 * Yeah i have noticed the same Problem as ihatemornings – bit.ly seems to create
   multiple short urls for the same permalink 🙁
 *  [stevofc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevofc/)
 * (@stevofc)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-tweetbacks/#post-961438)
 * I guess I will just disable this plugin, because right now it does absolutely
   nothing.

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