Links to tool pages in Tweets

**scorch** · Apr 24, 2015, 09:45 PM

It would be great to have a link to the tool's page included along with the picture in the individual tool tweets.

I know you are fighting a character limit. Dare I suggest replacing the hashtag in the tweets with a link to the tool library page?!

**Jon** · Apr 25, 2015, 08:30 AM

Good call. We currently link to listings in our BikeBuilds.net tweets: https://twitter.com/bikebuildsnet . I don't recall if we were previously adding links in the HomemadeTools.net tweets, and removed them, or if we never did. I've entered this issue in our code repository so that we can make the adjustment.

**scorch** · May 10, 2015, 08:53 PM

I see the links in the tweets started today.

Thanks so much!

**Jon** · May 11, 2015, 05:27 PM

Thank you! Twitter traffic increased instantly as soon as we implemented your suggestion.

**DIYer** · May 11, 2015, 08:06 PM

That was a great suggestion, scorch!

**Christophe Mineau** · May 12, 2015, 02:16 AM

I must admit I discovered twitter yesterday with this post.
Maybe Jon I'm one of these traffic contributors.

Actually, I've not yet understood the benefit of twitter (for me), compared to the rss feed I've also been using intensively since a few weeks.

**Jon** · May 12, 2015, 10:41 AM

If you're technically savvy enough to use RSS feeds, then that's probably the best way to consume content from this site and many others.

**scorch** · Dec 21, 2015, 07:17 PM

The twitter links seem to be broken...

They look like this

HomemadeTools ‏@homemadetools 11m11 minutes ago
Homemade bottle jack pad constructed from channel and tubing. http:///bottle-jack-pad #homemadetools

We need a little more

www . homemadetools . net

in there somewhere.

**Jon** · Dec 21, 2015, 09:15 PM

Good catch. I just added this as a bug to our code repository issue list.

I recently went through the backlog of all described links, and set them to be automatically scheduled. My guess is it has something to do with that.