Hi there!
unfake.it
has become a new and standalone plugin for WordPress!
Alex King (thanks for that!) just added filter hooks to his famous Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress, which allows everyone to push URLs for a new posting to a filter. In this case, the unfake.it
URL shortener for Twitter Tools takes the URL, shortens it and gives it back to Twitter Tools before notifying Twitter about the new post.
Usage is quite simple, no configuration is needed. This plugin just depends on Twitter Tools version 1.6 (or above). If you install unfake.it
URL shortener without having Twitter Tools installed, simply nothing will happen. Your WordPress blog won’t be affected in any way.
Plugin URL, download and documentation here: http://unfake.it/help.php#twitter-tools
New project for the WordPress plugin directory is pending and assumed to be online soon.
So, all of you using Twitter Tools and already my patch for it: you should upgrade to Twitter Tools version 1.6 and also install the new unfake.it
URL shortener plugin in addition to Twitter Tools.
Please let me know whether you experience any problems.
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