I’m pleased to announce another new feature requested by users: you’re now able to (optionally) filter a feed using keywords, so only posts that contain the keyword(s) will be sent to twitter.
As an example (see below screenshot) you could take the techmeme feed, and filter it by “microsoft apple”. This means that only techmeme posts that contain either the terms “microsoft” OR “apple” will be posted to your twitter account.
As usual, any feedback welcome, and let me know if you find any problems with this new functionality!
12 responses so far ↓
Rupert // April 27, 2007 at 1:55 pm |
Hi Mario,
This is great. Keywords will be useful. I’m a big fan of twitterfeed. I thought I’d compare with RSS2Twitter, see what the response times etc were, and they dropped posts and don’t have such a good interface.
My twitter vlogs are being posted… one thing that I’d like to be able to do is tell it just to send the Subject and the link, and not the body of the post. At the moment, I get my post title, which is usually fairly short and all I want, but then it gives the first few words of the post text, which are cut off to fit the link in at the end. If at some point you could provide that as an on/off option maybe, that’d be brilliant.
twitterfeed // April 27, 2007 at 6:08 pm |
Thanks Rupert, your suggestion shouldn’t be hard to implement. I’ll put it on my to-do list…
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Frans Charming // April 29, 2007 at 9:36 am |
Hey Mario,
Thank you for making twitterfeed. cool stuff.
I suggestion i have, i want to preface the auto twitter with a word. Like my blog posts, with Blog:.
People seem to get confused sometimes, and that would make it more clear, i hope that it is automatic twit.
vaspers the grate // April 30, 2007 at 10:13 pm |
I just don’t get why you’d want to have a feed into your Twitter account. Is that using Twitter as just a conduit? Why not use Jaiku for that?
help me understand…thanks
Paul Palinkas // May 30, 2007 at 7:54 pm |
Any chance we can have NOT filters?
I’ve set up a twitter feed to show me everything posted to Craigslist’s free stuff list that is in my neighborhood.
http://www.twitter.com/freestuff98107
Unfortunately, almost every day someone posts that they’re “free dirt” and I’d love to filter those out. Any easy way to do that?
twitterfeed // May 31, 2007 at 7:40 pm |
Hi Paul,
thanks for the suggestions, I’ll bear this in mind when next doing upgrades etc… whenever the dayjob allows
Unfortunately I can’t see a way of doing this with the current functionality.
Maria Langer // July 2, 2007 at 8:10 pm |
I can’t see the filter feature. Has it been disabled?
As for why feed blog posts into Twitter: it’s a great way to share what you’re writing about with Twitter friends without having to manually post a tweet with the link.
My question to Vaspers is: Why use Jaiku at all? I’ve tried it out and Twitter seems better. There are certainly more user tools for it. Am I missing something?
Maria Langer // July 2, 2007 at 8:20 pm |
Never mind about the filter feature. I found it. (Duh-uh.)
Chris M // October 29, 2008 at 6:12 pm |
Is there a way to do “AND” keyword filter? I want to only include items from a multi-word category, but none of the words in the category name are unique enough to keep extra stuff out.
twitterfeed // October 30, 2008 at 11:27 pm |
Chris – yes, that’s somewhere on my list, alongside a general improvement of the currently rather basic keyword functionality. As twitterfeed is a side-project I can’t promise any dates, but if I find ways to improve this, without impacting performance too much, I’ll do so in a future update.
Jay // May 12, 2009 at 2:49 pm |
I would also like a way to filter out certain keywords. For instance, I want SCUBA related feeds but would like to prevent deaths from being posted. Something like !death. An exclusion filter sould be a great addition.