How to Tweet In World of Warcraft

By Wowhead Updated: 2018/02/03

Blue Tweet TrackerWhat you can do with in-game Twitter?

Tweet regular tweets

Tweet screenshots

Tweet achievements

Tweet about recently looted items

How to use Twitter from in-game

To get started, you must have RealID enabled:

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That's probably the cause if the Twitter options are just not there in-game for you, and our apologies as it was a fairly late change so not many people internally were aware of how it was implemented. Right now Twitter functionality is tied to Real ID being enabled, as it allows us to ensure parental controls can disable access to Twitter. We really wanted parental controls to be able to block Twitter access if a parent wants to do that, and to get that done and get it into the patch the best option was to attach it to the Real ID setting. We're looking into separating them into their own options in the future.

Press Escape and then select Interface button, and then select Social from the menu on the left. From here check off Enable Twitter Functionality. After checking that box, click on the sign in button below.

Clicking on Sign In brings up the menu pictured below where you can enter your Twitter handle and password. You will get the message "You are now connected to twitter!" You can now start tweeting from WoW!

Typing /share will bring up the plain twitter pane, with options to add a screenshot, achievement, or item.

How to Tweet out Screenshots, Achievements, and Items:Tweeting a Screenshot:

When you take a screenshot, you will get a clickable system message letting you know you took a screenshot that has a share button that will let you tweet that screenshot.

You can click this and it will bring up the tweet pane with the screenshot attached:

You can remove the screenshot by clicking the remove screenshot button.

Tweeting an Achievement:

When you earn an achievement, they will also display the clickable share button in their system message:

Clicking on this will bring up the tweet pane with an image of the Achievement attached:

Tweeting an Item:

When you loot an item of rare quality or higher, you can tweet about it from the clickable button in the system message:

This will compose the tweet about the item directly into the Twitter pane:

You can also add recently looted item links to any of your tweets:

You can delete all the screenshots/achievements/items from your tweet and just send a regular tweet from Warcraft as well.

If you want to link to Wowhead instead of the armory in your tweets, you can use the Disarmament Add-on written by Wowhead user Corveroth! Disarmament replaces the Blizzard links in the new Twitter function with Wowhead links, and adds links for achievements.

After sending any tweet, you'll get a system message letting you know it was posted!

Comments

Comment by SquireKel

Thank you for this! It'll save me a lot of fumbling around come patch day, as I'm sure to use the in-game tweeting!

Comment by DeadlyRamon

I don't make a habit of using Twitter, but I do use Facebook often, and would like to see the game integrate Facebook like it is about to start doing with Twitter. Spamming my Facebook timeline with all of my epic WoW achievements I'm sure will bring great joy to all of my friends.

Comment by 173126

DeadlyRamon, you can have your Twitter account post to FB. It's really easy. Then you can make this work.

Comment by Frailgraphics

Seems the clickable button is not working yet ):

Comment by Rayyn

Twitter setup video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLJaSiJwtfE

Comment by BMHunterMain

It ought to be noted that if you've disabled Real ID, there will be no "Enable Twitter Functionality" option in your Social menu, and you will not be able to tweet from your account. This was never really communicated in any of the announcements, so many people that turned off Real ID for one reason or another were left scratching their heads as to why they didn't have this functionality when WoD released. This is not considered a bug and will never be fixed as Blizzard doesn't want to dedicate the kinds of resources it'd take to differentiate between children with parental controls enabled and adults that want twitter functionality but don't want Real ID on...

Comment by 1560066

Anytime i try to login to twitter in game, the window where you put your account information remains in gray and cannot log... Anyone else have this problem or knows how to solve it?

Comment by Gwez

As of 8.0.1, this feature has been completely removed.

How to Tweet In World of Warcraft

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