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experimental support for GUIDs

June 6, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am just about to set live a change that supports using GUIDs instead of pubDates to determine if an item is new. This is useful for cases where a feed contains GUIDs but no publish dates, or where publish dates are erratic (as an example, many feeds created with tools like Yahoo! Pipes may have odd publish dates that cause problems with twitterfeed posting to them to twitter).

twitterfeed screen shot

A few (important) notes:

  • This functionality is experimental, I have only done very limited testing, so use at your own risk!
  • If GUIDs are used, the feed isn’t sorted by pubDate anymore, so it will just pick the first x items from the top
  • If you choose the GUIDs option but your feed doesn’t contain GUIDs on the items, then posting will fail. You’ll get a status message to that effect (when you hover over the icon on the left-hand side of your list of feeds)

    • Any problems, please report them at http://getsatisfaction.com/twitterfeed

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    1 response so far ↓

    • Ahmad // June 9, 2008 at 9:58 am | Reply

      well its really nice to use the service twitterfeed

      but here are the things i would like to mention for betterment..

      1- Time zone ..i dont which time zone you are following.. but it will be great if you mention local times for all countries
      or GMT so at that time the feeds are updated.

      2- as you added prefix why not to add SUFFIX too.

      3- and why not filter those words too( not to include) from feeds like ” sex ” etc when updating.

      Rest is best..

      Thanks

      Ahmad Malik
      Pakistan

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