Twitter

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Description

Let your village twit! Village tweets make it possible to check the status and events of your village even when out of Wurm, using the popular http://twitter.com social networking and microblogging service.

Setting Up

You need to be allowed to manage the village settings in order to set up the village twitter.

Configure Twitter.com Account

Note that this account probably should not be your personal twitter account.

Account registration

1. Click the big yellow Sign Up button.
2. Create an account.
3. Skip the 3 friends, sources of interest and search steps.

Application registration

1. Look down to the bottom right of the page. A small link says "developers". Click it. If you are not logged in, you will be asked to do so.
2. Click the "Create an app" link.
3. Name your application something like "MyVillage Chat"
4. Description: Chat for MyVillage
5. Fill in an url; you can use http://www.wurmonline.com but feel free to use your own.
6. Leave Callback blank. Complete the Captcha to continue.
7. Go to the settings Tab:
8. Use any organization name you want.
9. Select Read and Write.
10. Select a logo image, solve the Captcha and click Done.

Retrieving the application keys

1. Go to the Details Tab:
2. Now look for "Consumer key" on the middle of the page. It will be used later.
3. Now look for "Consumer secret" on the middle of the page. It will be used later.
4. Create your Access token.
5. Go to the OAuth tool Tab:
6. Note the "Access Token (oauth_token)" key. It will be used later.
7. Note the "Access Token Secret (oauth_token_secret)" key. It will be used later.

Configure Wurm

• Go to your token and select Settlement > Twitter settings
• Fill in:

1. Consumer key
2. Consumer secret
3. Application key (oauth token)
4. Application secret (oauth token secret)

• Twit all village chat checkbox allows all village chat to go to twitter, if checked.

Unless you have done it already, confirm the twitter account in the email they send you.

The /tweet chat command sends your twit to the village twitter if enabled.

Server Twitter Feeds

• Independence: https://twitter.com/freeserv1
• Deliverance: https://twitter.com/freedom0002
• Exodus: https://twitter.com/freedom003
• Golden Valley: https://twitter.com/goldenvalley1
• Wild: https://twitter.com/wildserv1
• Elevation: https://twitter.com/epicserv1
• Affliction: https://twitter.com/epicserv2
• Desertion: https://twitter.com/epicserv3
• Serenity: https://twitter.com/epicserv4

Normal chat will not appear on the server twitter feeds, only server-wide events like disbanding, appointment of offices - things that go in the Area History.