Help > Twitter
Integration
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No-limits
twittering, right from your email! |
How
do I get started?
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Sign-up or log-in to MessageDance.
From your
DanceFloor, click on the link for Social Profile. For Twitter
configuration, put in your Twitter username and password. Don't worry,
we use industry standard encryption to send and store your data. Choose
if you want to have your email subject or body show as your tweet. Pick
if you want all of the MessageDance messages you send to yourself go to
Twitter or just the ones you individually specify.
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What
will my tweet look like?
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| We take as many
characters
from your message as we can along with a URL link to your complete
message. What’s really cool is that you can send rambling
text, pictures, music, videos – and since we link back to
MessageDance.com, you have the reach of Twitter with the rich content
and conversation ability of MessageDance – and not worry
about going over 140 characters. Your message also goes to your widgets
on other sites and looks just like your usual MessageDance message.
Here’s a detailed
overview on how to best send pictures and videos.
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Tweet as part of MessageDance message
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Tweet as it's supposed to show on Twitter
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Your Tweets in widget
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What
does Tweet-Aware mean?
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| If you include text in your message
with
“@” in front of it, we’ll hyperlink it to
a Twitter profile. For example, you write “@messagedance
please add more features like this”, we’ll
hyperlink it to http://twitter.com/messagedance. |
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Can
I send a private message (Direct Message) to
Twitter?
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At the moment, if you send a Twitter
Direct
Message (D + username + update), which is meant to be a private
message, it WILL show up in your MessageDance widgets and the
MessageDance Public Timeline. Also remember that if you delete your
message on MessageDance.com, it has already gone to Twitter so we
can’t remove that.
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How
can I add pictures and videos to my Twitter post?
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For
pictures, you can just attach them to your email. Another
neat way is to copy the image (and any other text) from a
webpage by highlighting it with a cursor-drag (don't right-click and
same the image). Paste it into your email. This works great with Gmail
in "Rich Formatting" mode and won't work if you have a "text only"
email client. Give it a try as you can basically
copy a whole webpage and send it in email.
For videos,
you
can send the video directly from YouTube.com by clicking on the "Share"
link and putting in your MessageDance handle or "tweet @
messagedance.com". You can also copy
and paste the "embed" code from YouTube (or other service that
has embed code available) into your email or into a DanceFloor
message. Opposite of sending pictures, it actually works best if you
send it in "text" format from your email client (shows up in both your
messages list and the message detail). You should experiment with your
email client to see which mide works best as some email clients will
let you copy and paste the actual video from one page into the email
page. Safari will let you actually drag and drop the video from one web
page into the email page.
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