Training updates via Twitter

marmadaddy - 2009-05-13 8:08 PM Odd one. My swims are updating. I'll take a look.

jonmetz - 2009-05-13 3:46 PM For the last few weeks my swim workouts are not being updated on Twitter. My bike and run workouts are updating fine.

Any thoughts?

jonmetz - 2009-05-14 11:43 AM Mike, typically I go to my planned blog and use the copy to actual link to populate my actual blog. However, today I entered the swim manually into the actual blog and it updated Twitter. So the problem seems to be when I copy from the planned blog to the actual blog.

marcag - 2010-01-15 9:54 AM Thanks Mike,

actually I found that if I type in a text that is too long for the swim, it won't post to twitter. I can do it pretty consistently.

I thought it was copy related, but it's just because I was copying a long text.

marmadaddy - 2010-01-21 11:52 AM Settings -> Training Log Settings -> Privacy Settings.

One caveat: If you use the "Copy To Actual" function to copy workouts from your Planned Training Log to your Actual Training Log, the workout data will not be tweeted.  You have to enter the data in your Actual Training Log. That's the reason for marcag's swims not updating.

marcag - 2010-01-21 3:16 PM

Hi Mike,

I was never using the copy to actual function. I was doing a copy/paste from another file.

very consistently I can copy a short workout and it will work. If it's a long workout description, it fails, very consistently
I saw it fail for the run and bike as well.

Work around is to put a small description, press save, put a full description and press save. Twitter will get the first save. Twitter would truncate to 140 characters anyways.

type this in twice and it won't work. type it in once it will (for me that is, very consistently, all 3 sports)
"this is a long description to test and see if it will get posted to twitter."

This may be related to twitter allowing max 140 character tweets