Posts tagged tumblr

Situation:

• Sometimes, at my discretion, I want to send a Tumblr post to Twitter. Maybe for about 25% of posts.
• Therefore in the Services menu I’ve connected my Twitter account, but with NOT posting to Twitter as the default:
  
• When I create a post in Tumblr, everything behaves itself. I get this set of options, and by default nothing goes to Twitter:
  
• If however I use the “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet, which I’ve saved to my Opera personal bar
  
  then whether posting to Twitter is turned on or off under Services, the post still gets sent to Twitter.
• When posting from the bookmarklet I’m given these options, which don’t include any setting about posting to Twitter:
  

So far the only way I’ve found to avoid this is to save the post as a draft rather than posting straight away, then go to my Tumblr dashboard to edit the post and untick Send to Twitter. The bookmarklet appears to ignore the Services setting whatever I do.

I’ve tried all the following, with no success:

• switching posting to Twitter on under Services, then posting with the bookmarklet, then switching itoff again, in case the setting wasn’t properly stored and needed redoing
• deleting all tumblr.com cookies from my browser
• logging out from Twitter under Services, then posting with the bookmarklet, then logging in again.

In all cases—except while actually logged out of Twitter—posts get sent to Twitter. Is there any way to get the bookmarklet to respect the setting?

Update

According to Tumblr support, the bookmarklet Advanced tab should include a checkbox for posting to Twitter, rather than appearing as it does above, so they’ve passed the bug on to their development team. Some further information if needed:

• Reinstalling the bookmarklet in Opera 10.63 made no difference.
• The appearance in Firefox 3.6.12 is the same.

Further update

23-4-11

Since I updated to Opera 11.10, the checkbox now appears:

My Twitter favourites were all created in the past, so to preserve the dates I need to.

And the answer appears to be: yes I can, and they get sorted correctly for public display, but on the dashboard they appear in the order created.

Edit (April 8th 2011):

This post is getting a lot of views via Google, from people who’ve searched for things like “backdate posts tumblr”. So here’s how to do it:

When creating or editing the post, simply enter a post date which is in the past. The post then gets sorted on your Tumblr page as though it had been created then.

What I haven’t tested (yet; maybe I will) is whether there’s a limit to how far back the date can go.

Further edit (Jan 24th 2012)

It seems backdating is now no longer possible: see the discussion below, which includes Tumblr’s reply about the change.