I have added a new feature to twitterfeed.com: when you create a new twitterfeed, or edit an existing one, there is now a link that lets you check if the twitter username/password you entered is actually working.
A few people have asked for this, I hope it’s useful!
Screenshot:
7 responses so far ↓
test001only // April 26, 2007 at 6:12 pm |
Hi,
I too have fed(just now) the Google news into my twitter and have set updates to every one hour.
When will I start getting the updates? Only after one hour ?
Thanks.
twitterfeed // April 26, 2007 at 6:15 pm |
Yes, every hour, roughly on the hour (plus minus 10 minutes or so, due to the large number of feeds it processes).
test001only // April 26, 2007 at 7:13 pm |
THanks a lot. It worked….nice feature.
Lakshmi Narayanan // April 27, 2007 at 6:44 am |
Its good.
I have a request for another feature.Cant you provide a service in which feeds are updated to the twitter as soon as the site or blog is updated. Or cant u add another updation frequency of 30 minutes
twitterfeed // April 27, 2007 at 6:10 pm |
Hi Lakshmi, thanks for the feedback. A 30 minute update should be possible, I’ll bear this in mind. If you wanted to immediately update twitter, I think there are some WordPress plug-ins that do that kind of thing, not sure about other blogging platforms.
Aimee // June 9, 2007 at 11:51 pm |
That’s a very useful feature. What Twitter API method did you call to validate it? I’m just curious because i’m thinking of doing a similar thing on another site.
Mario // June 10, 2007 at 11:49 pm |
Aimee, I’m calling the API method “‘/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=1′” with the authentication info provided by the user, and am simply checking for the HTTP status response. If it’s a HTTP 200 (OK) then the authentication must have worked, if it returns some other status it’s almost certainly because authentication failed..
Hope this helps… Mario.