After a few test blog/twitter posts and settings tweaks the custom WordTwit shortened url is now working. The key was to change the custom url from http redirect to frame redirect since the http redirect just wasn’t working. If you have problems getting WordTwit working check out the wordtwit support forums

We’re testing the WordTwit Wordpress plugin as well as our http://StirBuzz.com custom shortened url. If all goes well, this post will appear in our http://www.twitter.com/twitagency account with a stirbuzz.com shortened url instead of a tinyurl or bit.ly.

WordTwit Wordpress Plugin
WordTwit is a Wordpress plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Twitter account as a tweet. It allows all your Twitter contacts to keep up to date with your blog postings. One cool feature of WordTwit is that you can assign your own shortened url instead of using tinyurl.com or bit.ly or others. This way you get to build your own brand instead of someone else’s. In our case TwitterMarketingAgency.com is way too long of a domain to use, so instead …