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Tweet Your Gaming Activity - Twitter Integration for Profiles

x3sphere

x3sphere

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We've added a new option to link your Exophase profile with a Twitter account. When linked, our app will periodically send out a tweet notifying followers of your last played game across PSN, Steam and Xbox Live. Down the line we may expand on this with ability to control the frequency of updates, but for now, it's locked at every 24 hours.

Taking advantage of this feature is easy: simply head on over to the My Profile page and click Edit Account.

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Seth

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Gummydrop

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I see it under Social, but there's just text that says "Link your Exophase account with Twitter and your recent game activity will be displayed to your followers once every 24 hours." but there's nothing to actually click on or go to, to actually link them.

There's nothing for Facebook either, only thing I was able to do was verify my Steam account on the Social page.
 
x3sphere

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Gummydrop said:
I see it under Social, but there's just text that says "Link your Exophase account with Twitter and your recent game activity will be displayed to your followers once every 24 hours." but there's nothing to actually click on or go to, to actually link them.

There's nothing for Facebook either, only thing I was able to do was verify my Steam account on the Social page.
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Strange, not sure what would be causing that to be honest. What browser? You may also want to try a force refresh (CTRL+F5)

This is how it should look:
 
Gummydrop

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I figured it out, I'm using Chrome but it was Adblock Plus blocking it for some reason. This site is great though, So I should have turned it off anyway, heh. All good now.
 
x3sphere

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Just a heads-up, we have for now removed the option to link a Twitter account. It seems Twitter without any warning has disabled our API access. It is my understanding they were launching some new paid plans, but as far as I'm aware it was never communicated to us to upgrade to those.

Furthermore, the cost of the paid plans are quite high. Unless Twitter is willing to work with us directly and cut some kind of deal, the amount of tweets we send each day would far exceed even our hosting costs. So with this mind, it's unlikely we'll able to support Twitter integration for all accounts even if we are able to move to one of the newer API plans. I'll see if it's possible to keep it running in some capacity for premium users, but no guarantees at this time.

In the meantime, we will look into supporting similar services that offer a free API. Suggestions are welcome.
 
x3sphere

x3sphere

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Access has been restored so we've re-enabled tweets for the time being.

I don't know how long it will keep working -- based on our usage they want us to pay $5K/month for the Pro plan under the newer v2 API, as v1.1 will be phased out eventually. But as long as they keep v1.1 around it should continue to work.
 
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