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zi.ma URL shortener now available

January 10, 2009 · 7 Comments

Just a quick note to say that zi.ma have now whitelisted twitterfeed, so I’ve added it to the list of URL shorteners available – as of now, it can be used in twitterfeed to shorten your links. If you provide your zi.ma username and password when editing or creating a feed in twitterfeed, this information is passed to the API, and any links shortened by twitterfeed will then be viewable (stats, etc.) when you log into your zi.ma account.

As usual, if you find problems, please report them at http://getsatisfaction.com/twitterfeed.

Categories: twitterfeed

7 responses so far ↓

  • tomh // January 11, 2009 at 11:20 am | Reply

    Here’s my problem.. I’d like to be able to trace specific search terms through Twitter, so that I can receive a Tweet whenever a certain “keyword” is mentioned in a tweet… So I searched for my keyword on http://www.search.twitter.com and it returns an atom feed of the form http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=keyword which I can plug into TwitterFeed. Except that this creates an endless feedback loop! So what to do? How best to be notified of keyword searches? Does twitter need a low-level version of a Tweet that isn’t searchable? Should Twitterfeed block feeds from search.twitter.com ? I’d be interested to hear your thoughts!

  • twitterfeed // January 11, 2009 at 11:49 am | Reply

    tomh – 2 things you could do:

    - make the twitter account you’re posting to private, so it won’t be included in any searches. I use this myself for tracking, and if it’s only yourself who should/needs to see this account this is the easiest way
    - if the account needs to be public, twitter search has advanced features to exclude certain twitter acounts, so you can exclude your account from the search results

    Either of these should fix the feedback loop issue.

  • Yunuz // February 26, 2009 at 7:37 am | Reply

    What about having the link included without shortening? I believe that’s an option I would use for one of the blogs I am about to import.

    So far I see only the options to include it via shortener or switch it off completely.

  • Andrew // September 12, 2009 at 6:43 pm | Reply

    zi.ma is down today.

  • Lionel Ulloa Jr. // October 11, 2009 at 3:08 am | Reply

    Very nice easy to use feeding RSS tool, I am feel very satisfied with this. Three Thumbs up…! LOL in deed I have two thumbs only, hahahaha.

  • diggma // October 18, 2009 at 12:05 pm | Reply

    Very nice easy to use feeding RSS tool
    Thanks for sharing

  • agel // October 23, 2009 at 4:43 am | Reply

    Good way. RSS is popular of the web master.

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