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Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Wed 19 Dec 2012 6:44 pm
by William Grimsley
Hi Steve,

Can you customise the tweets that Cumulus submits to Twitter?

Thanks

Will

Re: Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Wed 19 Dec 2012 6:56 pm
by steve

Re: Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Wed 19 Dec 2012 7:43 pm
by William Grimsley
Hi Steve,

Thanks, that worked! :D

Will

Re: Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Thu 27 Dec 2012 7:10 am
by NoelGlass
Hi Steve

I have done what it says in the wiki help file but i still get the basic default twitter feed, can you explain in layman terms ie i am not sure if I put my twitter.txt file in the right place for starters !


Thanks

I just want to add sunshine hours to my feed.

Re: Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Thu 27 Dec 2012 10:40 am
by steve
As it says in the wiki, you put it in the Cumulus program folder, i.e. in the same place as cumulus.exe. Have you definitely called it twitter.txt?

Re: Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Thu 27 Dec 2012 1:12 pm
by mcrossley
And do you have the option enabled in Windows Explorer to 'show file extensions'? Otherwise you may have a file called twitter.txt.txt

Re: Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Thu 27 Dec 2012 4:28 pm
by NoelGlass
Hi

Thanks it was once again down to me !
mcrossley wrote:And do you have the option enabled in Windows Explorer to 'show file extensions'? Otherwise you may have a file called twitter.txt.txt
I had done exactly that.

I realized non of my files have .exe .txt. after them so mine would have been twitter.txt.txt


Thanks

Re: Customise Twitter Output?

Posted: Thu 27 Dec 2012 4:33 pm
by steve
NoelGlass wrote:I had done exactly that.
It's a common mistake (hence my question about the file name). I am not a Microsoft basher like some, but why they thought that was a sensible default defies explanation.