In response to popular demand, I’ve added three additional URL shorteners to twitterfeed (these are in addition to the existing ones – TinyURL, Tweetburner and SnipURL):
Enjoy, and as ever, please report any issues/problems you find at http://getsatisfaction/twitterfeed.
12 responses so far ↓
Lee // August 16, 2008 at 5:05 am |
Ok, I’m really angry. You guys were supposed to turn off Twitterfeed for my blog over a month ago. I’ve been going around and around with your support forum for months now. Waiting for reponses and no results. Finally, I thought you did it, but just now, it fed my blogpost to Twitter again. Your customer support and your forum leaves much to be desired. I’m telling you this and I’m normally extremely patient. Please turn it off, I’ve already given you my twitter information and my blog information. Now, you have my email information. Please send me an email and tell me the status immediately. I want your piece of crap service turned off once and for all. Please!
Matt // August 23, 2008 at 10:13 pm |
Lee, chill out for a second okay? I’m not sure what happened to your account, I’m assuming your OpenID provider pulled the plug and you can’t login, but regardless you should know that Twitterfeed, like a many of small services like this, are “provided on an as-is-and-as-available basis”. He’ll do his best to help with the problems you have but no one can always help 100% of the people exactly how they want immediately. And according to a post of his on GetSatisfaction he is on vacation recently so that’s probably what’s delaying it.
In the meantime you should simply change your Twitter password, that will stop all Twitterfeed postings from working until he can remove your account.
Steve Heideman // August 26, 2008 at 5:45 pm |
Guys,
LOVE twitterfeed! It is so helpful to tweet my blog posts effortlessly! I chirped about it this morning! Keep up the good work!
http://www.twitter.com/sheideman
Roy // September 15, 2008 at 4:53 pm |
Why require shortening at all? I have three blogs and I’d like people to see the blog name in the URL. To run into the 140-character limit of tweets, I’d have to have a blog post subject of 48 characters or more. I’ve never come close to that.
Roy // September 15, 2008 at 5:03 pm |
Just to clarify … my comment really only applies in the title-only case. Obviously, if you start putting part of the description in, you’ll run into the limit pretty quickly.
I would recommend allowing non-shortening of the URL in the title-only case and then truncating the title if necessary to fit and maybe having a fallback of shortening anyway if the URL exceeds some length, like 80 chars. For me, most of my URLs are under 40 chars and none are over 60.
twitterfeed // September 15, 2008 at 5:11 pm |
Hi Roy, at the moment, twitterfeed does URL shortening if the URLs are longer than 25 characters, and leaves them alone if shorter.
One thing to bear in mind is that twitter do their own URL shortening, so if twitterfeed posts a link that’s 40-60 characters long, even if it fit’s into the overall 140 characters, there’s a big chance that twitter will shorten it themselves (they have some custom algorithm for deciding what to shorten and what to leave alone, I don’t have the exact details)
IJG // September 15, 2008 at 8:50 pm |
Your link for support at the top of this message is wrong.
http://getsatisfaction/twitterfeed.
you forgot the .com
Great Service.. thanks so much. Using it extensively now. If you introduce a premium version can you allow updates more often than 30 minutes?
Thanks.
Ig.
IntegrityLance // September 19, 2008 at 1:18 am |
Looking great guys, great service
Ron08 // September 25, 2008 at 5:52 am |
What is going on with my twitter posts or messages? They’re all saying from the desk of Ron. And it’s not giving me any posts at all. All have tinyurl.com links…please help! Thank you.
twitterfeed // September 25, 2008 at 8:36 am |
Rono8 – could you post your problem at http://getsatisfaction.com/twitterfeed please, making sure you include details like the twitter id you’re posting to, and the feed URL you are posting.
jiGGafellz // February 19, 2009 at 4:05 am |
Did support for is.gd get removed?
jiGGafellz // February 19, 2009 at 4:07 am |
Ahh, nevermind. I just saw the link in the sidebar.