[REQUEST] Auto Tweet with URL Stubs

Here's my idea for a quick and very useful twitter app for opencart:


Build a twitter module that will allow the administrator to tweet the product name and URL directly to their twitter account when creating and / or updating a product. Options could include ability to manually tweet a product or have it done automatically.


The above would be great on it's own but to make it the best twitter app for opencart ever made you would need to add a URL shortening function to the app. I'm not talking about linking to a 3rd party URL shortening service, but an internal service that would keep the domain name in the URL but use stubs instead of category names and long product names.


Why go through this trouble? It's simple really, keeping the domain name in the tweet is essential for branding purposes. I'm not interested in promoting another business on twitter and that's what happens when you use a 3rd party URL shortening service to promote your store.


Here's an example of what I have in mind. If it's built the first way, without URL shortening service then the tweet could look something like this:
Please note that I didn't count the characters above, but if you have a very long URL it limits your ability to post full links to your new product(s) as we all know twitter is famous for it's character limit.


However if we add the URL shortening service that automatically generates a shorter stub, our link gets even shorter! This would help those with very long domain names that won't fit in a tweet along with other information. Here's the example of what it could look like:
Now if you are going to go through the trouble of creating a URL shortening service that can tweet, you might as well add an option to each page in the cart that would allow shop owners to generate or manually enter a stub for that page as well. I guess it's like building SEO Part II, but instead of having a goal of creating pretty links for our shop, the URL shortening service would have URL shortening as a mission in life.


That's my idea in a nutshell. Of course I would be happy to hear about any suggestions you might have for improvement. Lastly, if you build it, I want to help test it, please and thank you!

Has anything like this been made already?

You can do this with the free service at twitterfeed.com and your stores rss feed. I do this to tweet out my new products and it works great. Twitterfeed can post to twitter and facebook both.