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Well, since this issue has been going on for awhile, and no one can seem to find an answer, I’m giving TT the boot.

I’ve been using Twitter Digest (supposedly based on Twitter Tools — funny how IT works) in between attempts to fix TT. It suffers from a few hiccups, like occasionally posting the digest multiple times or not at all (the digest would be there, it just missed its scheduled posting time and has to be posted manually), and it means I will have to manually crosspost my blog links to Twitter but since I tweet more than I blog, this is a small price to pay IMHO.

I’m having a similar problem.

I had been running Twitter Tools on WP 2.8.4 for a couple of months now. Have been using 2.0 since it became available. Midway through September my daily digests stopped posting. However, if I told TT to repost each individual tweet on my blog, as a post, it would.

From what I’ve been reading elsewhere this is becoming a large scale issue.

I’ve been randomly getting multiple posts of the daily archives for awhile and scratching my head trying to figure out some pattern. Today I think I figured it out.

I am currently running WP 2.8.1 with TT 1.6, though this was occurring with WP 2.7.1, too. I’m not an active tweeter so usually I only have one tweet per day. The days that I do tweet more often are the days multiples of the daily archives are posted — one for each tweet I made that day.

This means I have to delete all the extra posts on my blog, as well as all the extras that were crossposted to Myspace, Facebook and Livejournal. *sigh*

I know this probably doesn’t help, but I figure I’d add my recent discoveries:

The problem began when WP changed how it handles ping/trackbacks. Unless there were security issues with the old way, I can’t see why it was changed. After all, don’t fix it if it ain’t broke.

Anyway pingback-ability (at least for me) depends on the blog that is being referenced. For example: I posted links to posts in two well established blogs I have. Neither received the pingback, nor did the blog that did the posting receive notification that the sites had been pinged. Manual trackbacks work, but they take more than 24 hours. Tweebacks take three days.

Meanwhile I posted links to both a brand spanking new blog of mine, as well as to a post on Weblog Tools Collection. Both immediately received the pingback and sent notification that they had been pinged.

So it appears it may an issue with old databases (as Urosino already pointed out) but is also something that affects only certain hosts. I’m guessing the geeks behind the upgrade didn’t consider that some hosts are rather anal about their security.

Of course, what irks me most is not only has no one of authority really addressed this issue beyond “upgrade to 2.7.1” (which, obviously, everyone has and is still experiencing the problem), but there doesn’t appear to be anything listed in the tickets or beta versions that indicates that the issue is even being looked at. 😛

A quick question:

What happens to the skins if the theme is upgraded?

I ask because I use another theme on one of my sites that supports the creation of additional stylesheets — supposedly to protect one’s modifications to the original theme from being overwritten. Yet when I updated the theme it deleted my stylesheet. Thankfully I kept a copy of it. 🙂