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Tweet Your Gaming Activity - Twitter Integration for Profiles

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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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Update: We are removing the ability to link X/Twitter accounts on November 18, 2024. See this post for more details.
 
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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.
 
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:
 
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.
 
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.
 
Access has been restored so we've re-enabled tweets for the time being.
 
Another update on Twitter support -- they completely retired the v1.1 API today, which means we had to move to v2.0.

If you linked your account prior to today's changes, you'll have to re-authenticate with Twitter as all the legacy access tokens used to post tweets are expired. Unlinking/Relinking the account will accomplish the same thing. You can do this from the Social tab of your account page here: https://www.exophase.com/account/
 
Just a heads-up that we plan on ending support for X (formerly Twitter) posting on the 18th. In addition, you will no longer be able to link your X account to the site after this date.

We would have liked to continue support, especially considering we were an early adopter of the Twitter API (this announcement thread is ten years old!), however following the site's change in leadership they have placed an increased focus on monetizing the API developers use. Initially, this was something we were okay with at first -- charging for API use is understandable to an extent, but they have as of last month doubled the base API costs without much warning.

It's beginning to make more sense why large companies like Nintendo and Sony have phased out X support.

For now, we're considering to add support for Threads - its API is free but there are more restrictions. Already have moved the trophy/achievements feed there, you can follow the account here. We're not approved yet to post on behalf of other users which is the only holdup there. I don't know if Meta will allow the auto posting functionality in which case it would have to be manual only, we'll see.

If X reconsider their pricing then support will be evaluated again. Or if there is enough user interest in a separate subscription plan for X posting, we will consider that. There would have to be a decent amount of interest - at least hundreds of users, to make that path viable though.
 
Not a big user of this functionality myself, but I'd like to throw in a suggestion/vote for Bluesky support. I believe their API is entirely open, not sure if the rate limits would work well with Exophase though.
 
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