Six weeks or so ago, Betaworks and TAG invested in Twitterfeed and the service went from a side project to a company. Since then, we’ve been working flat out to make the service far more robust and create some new features that we hope you will love. So what does this mean?
Much greater reliability
We’ve almost completely rebuilt the back end over the last month and added a lot more capacity. We’re confident that this should largely solve the problems that have occasionally meant Twitterfeed hasn’t published a post on time. What’s more, this will give us a great basis for building an even stronger, faster Twitterfeed in the near future!
New ways to sign up/sign in
Twitterfeed has previously exclusively used OpenId for its login process. Now you’ll also be able to login with a traditional username/password system as well as your Google, Yahoo and AOL accounts. This will give you much greater flexibility on how you choose to sign up. We’ve also worked on the design of the site to make creating and tracking feeds much simpler and more intuitive.
Analytics!
We’ve built a feed dashboard that shows you analytics on all your posts. Thanks to bit.ly you’ll be able to see just how many people have clicked on your link through twitterfeed. What’s more, if you are also using feedburner for your traditional distribution and have enabled their awareness api, then you’ll be able to benchmark your social distribution through twitterfeed against more traditional distribution through RSS readers.
79 responses so far ↓
tuxsoul // June 17, 2009 at 10:13 pm |
Hi, great news, great job, congratulations.
Is possible with the new release change my account from openid to password using the new twitterfeed or this option don’t exist yet ?.
Greeting’s.
.
Sorry my english is bad
Parker // June 17, 2009 at 11:24 pm |
These improvements sound amazing!
Great work, Mario.
Tim // June 17, 2009 at 11:31 pm |
Wonderfully done! Great work! Thx for your continued services – first automation service I ever really used!
Matt // June 17, 2009 at 11:33 pm |
Congrats Mario and co. It looks great. Can’t wait to see what improvements you make later on.
Vernita // June 17, 2009 at 11:41 pm |
My old sign in won’t work. When I try to use my google sign in, I can’t get to my already set up feeds. So what do I do next? At this point I’m a little more than frustrated.
David Coallier // June 17, 2009 at 11:42 pm |
Very well done! Glad to see your service getting more leverage! Love it!
Anything you want us (short.ie) to do to help you or make your world easier?
blackheathbugle // June 17, 2009 at 11:45 pm |
Twitterfeed is great. Do you have any plans to offer a paid service with more frequent updates?
businessethos // June 18, 2009 at 12:13 am |
Great News! Just signed in and updated a few things. Well done…
@businessethos
Mr Xhark // June 18, 2009 at 12:51 am |
Nice ! Well done
Taufiq Hasan // June 18, 2009 at 1:24 am |
Nice work,.
Thank you..
Robin Majumdar // June 18, 2009 at 2:01 am |
Wow – looks great, but the UI is so drastically changed that I almost questioned whether I was on the right site!
I think it’s a big step forward (both in terms of UI and functionality) … it’ll take a bit of getting used to.
In particular, the dashboard is showing “unnamed feed” or something similar for all feeds managed… gotta go in there and give them new descriptive names.
Soundmaster // June 18, 2009 at 2:21 am |
Just been editing my feeds ‘new style’. Absolutely great improvement. Well done!!!
Belfast Gonzo // June 18, 2009 at 2:31 am |
Am I REALLY going to have to type in names for all these feeds I have. Please God NOOOOOOO!
What about using the old post prefix as a default? Surely that makes sense, then they can be changed, if that’s even necessary?
Right now I’m looking about over 100 unnamed feeds, and it is going to be a nightmare to name them all.
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Christian // June 18, 2009 at 6:18 am |
I have just one Question:
Where can i find the old version of TwitterFeed?
1st: The new version consumes too much computer power. I takes me min. 2 Minutes to log in.
2nd: Your Web2.o style is too large. The header fills the whole browser: Too much scrolling needed. Why did You blew up everything?
3rd: Now i can´t see, which feed is which one. “Unnamed Feeds” everywhere. That was definately better in the earlier (old) version. Should i really rename every Feed by hand? Bad. Very bad.
Do yourself a favor and bring back the old GUI. The new TwitterFeed will loose users very fast, when it stays like this.
Thanks for reading this and good luck,
Christian
BTW: Sorry for my bad english. I am no native english speaker.
yongfook // June 18, 2009 at 6:40 am |
seems you have a little bug (which might infuriate new users). steps to recreate:
1) Add your first feed and save.
2) Decide that actually, you aren’t ready to start auto-posting just yet, and delete the feed.
3) Watch as, hours later, twitterfeed updates your twitter account regardless – despite the fact that you deleted the feed :/
Not sure what’s happening now since I have no feeds in the system, but my twitter account was just updated. Hopefully it was just a rogue entry that was already queued up and there won’t be anymore – I hope there aren’t anymore since there is no way for me to delete something that’s already deleted!
Cheers
Daniel // June 18, 2009 at 11:20 am |
Much improved, but what does the “Keyword Filter” do in the “edit feed” section – only post entries with a specified keyword?
I’m guessing that’s what it does, but not mentioned in the help page: http://twitterfeed.com/help
Cheers
Andy Piper // June 18, 2009 at 12:10 pm |
This is superb work – nice one Mario!
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Franco // June 18, 2009 at 1:34 pm |
Thanks for the good work and the nice feature offered by your web site. However, currently I cannot login anymore using my Yahoo Open ID, that is going trough yahoo.com before coming back to twitterfeed…. ;o( Hope you will solve it soon… and give option to have a login/pwd independant of external openids
Cormac // June 18, 2009 at 3:43 pm |
Congratulations on the new design, funding, and new future.
The admin page for me isn’t usable though. I have about 20 unnamed feeds and it’s taking me about 5 minutes to even change the name. It’s taking quite some time to load the pages and whatnot.
I can’t easily tell what feeds are active and which ones are active either. I have a number of feeds for different profiles so having folders for my individual twitter profiles would be very handy.
I also keep hovering over the delete button rather than the save button when I’m editing my feed details too. I think the delete button is too prominent compared to the save one. Delete attracts my attention far more than Save. I have had a few close calls already!
I hope you see my comments as constructive criticisms. Thanks for providing such a valuable service.
Charel Blessed // June 18, 2009 at 4:21 pm |
i love love love the new layout, its great, keep up the good work!
Gerrit // June 18, 2009 at 6:15 pm |
hi Mario, i like the new site but do have a problem which might be a bug
i am used to go in the site with my Yahoo ID but when i do that and give continue i get an error message, somehow i do not get through and cannot reach my feeds anymore
please help me to solve this and get in again.
Gerrit // June 18, 2009 at 7:52 pm |
I meant to say that i used to identify with my yahoo open ID but i can not fill it in on the given yahoo screen and when i identify with yahoo user and password i don’t get through to the feeds, having a real problem to reach my feeds
Dave // June 18, 2009 at 8:03 pm |
Any update on the tinyURL situation? I’m in a rough spot:
1) If I post right now, I don’t know if the tinyURL will be posted incorrectly by twitterfeed
2) My login was OpenID…even if it still works (I haven’t tried), I’m not sure what that means for the future…can I switch to username/password?
3) If I can login and I switch to a different URL shortener, then my users lose the very easy-to-use preview.tinyurl.com features. (I think bit.ly requires a browser plugin for similar functionality?)
Some sort of current status or ETA would be nice to see on the blog.
Arkwulf // June 18, 2009 at 9:30 pm |
Ok, so everything seems awesome and new and all, but there’s a huge problem here…I was using myVidoop as my OpenID login, and now it’s not even an option…so how the heck do I log in to my old account?
bd36576 // June 19, 2009 at 5:43 pm |
I’m having the same problem!! I can’t get in to edit my account with myVidoop.
Help, Twitterfeed!
jeffsonderman // June 22, 2009 at 1:52 pm |
Entering your myvidoop login under the general “OpenID” login section works for me.. give that a try.
Robert Worstell // June 18, 2009 at 10:26 pm |
Nice look.
But I’ve tried three different browsers and can’t put a feed in anywhere. No typing, no copy/paste, nothing.
How can I find the old Twitterfeed?
1whirleddesign // June 19, 2009 at 1:24 am |
Hi, I can’t seem to sign in to twitterfeed with my google open ID. What can I do? The “help” page suggests reporting problems on the forum, but I presume I have to log in to access it. Ack, I really need twitterfeed.
b. murphy // June 19, 2009 at 2:50 am |
Ugh, this is crap. Can someone bring the whole twitterfeed back? Newer doesn’t always mean better.
MikeL // June 19, 2009 at 5:41 am |
How come Twitterfeed injects multiple   code into tweets that show up as lengthy white space when viewed on an iPhone via Tweetie. It’s really annoying, shoving other tweets off the page. Something you guys can fix?
RJ Pooch // June 19, 2009 at 3:24 pm |
I am having a tough time with twitterfeed and don’t know where else to turn.
There are 2 feeds updating my account. 1 I made in May sometime (and have no idea what the login is, stupid I know) and 2 I made yesterday thinking I was updating the first.
My blog notification is double posting and I cannot get it to stop. I want to use the one I made yesterday (2, it uses the “bit.ly” links) and get rid of the original one (1, it uses “tinyurl” links.
I have tried the ID reminder and transfer options from the help tab to no avail.
Please, if there is anything that can be done, let me know what I am to do.
Here’s what I’m talking about: http://bit.ly/axbyc I wen
@aviavia // June 19, 2009 at 6:07 pm |
RT tuxsoul : Hi, great news, great job, congratulations.
twitterfeed // June 19, 2009 at 6:29 pm |
Hi all – a few responses to some of the questions raised here:
- there is some slowness with Google logins that we’re still looking at. It doesn’t seem to affect everyone, but a number of people have reported it.
- if you use myvidoop as your OpenID provider, you can simply click on the “OpenID” badge in the popup window you see when you select “Sign In with OpenID”, which then gives you a textbox where you type in “[username].myvidoop.com”. The system should then remember this setting the next time you login.
Generally speaking, you’re better off reporting specific issues at http://getsatifaction.com/twitterfeed rather than on this blog, as it’s hard here to respond to individual comments.
DarkSynopsis // June 21, 2009 at 3:57 am |
Just signed up and had my feed added for like 3 hours now and nothing has been posted
I did have it set at every hour but changed to every 30mins.
Also the above link does not appear to work.
AliciaAs // June 21, 2009 at 5:39 am |
I’m using bit.ly for ALL my feeds, but 2 feeds are showing up as u.mavrev.com URLs (and I have no idea where that url shortening is coming from?). These are all definitely my feeds, and no matter what I do, I can’t get these 2 to use bit.ly. Can u help pls?
jeffsonderman // June 22, 2009 at 1:56 pm |
Hey TWfeed guys, a suggestion:
Can you add a control to let the feeds be checked at certain times of day, rather than just at regular intervals.
Example: Stuff goes live on my site at 4 a.m. and gets tweeted before 5 a.m. through Twitterfeed, but no one is awake at 5 a.m. I’d like to program Twitterfeed to check my feed at 8 a.m. every day, for example.
Can do?
twitter/sheffus // June 22, 2009 at 2:24 pm |
Love the new look, but the graphics are on the HUGE side… Maybe you could scale those down.
Like the ability to name feeds, disslike that all existing feeds are name “Untitled Feed’. That is just silly.
ALSO,
This still works well: http://twitterfeed.com/feed/list
Can you add it to the top menu?
This would help out lots of long time users…
twit_critic // June 23, 2009 at 12:03 pm |
You are doing TOO MUCH, and it ISN’T WORKING.
You’ve taken an easy-to-read, easy-to-use interface, and made it HARD TO READ and HARD TO USE. Get a real designer (not just somebody who likes pastel colors). It’s not pretty. It’s PRETTY AWFUL.
It used to be easy to read, all your info was on the same page. Now you must scroll up and down, and click away TO ANOTHER PAGE, just to make simple changes.
Now it is SLOW AS MOLASSES. Whatever you have done, speed has GROUND TO A CRAWL.
Worst part? You brag about all the “IMPROVEMENTS.” We don’t care about “improvements.” WE WANT IT TO WORK, AND WORK WELL. Like it used to.
RECOMMENDATION: PUT IT BACK!
toby kesterton // June 23, 2009 at 2:18 pm |
like the new look. graphics are a bit on the big size but the big problem is speed. Just too slow at the moment.
Voyagerfan5761 // June 24, 2009 at 12:44 am |
I have the same question as tuxsoul above. Other than the fact that OpenID login takes too many clicks now (because I’m used to just clicking “Sign in”, typing it, and going), the new version looks cool.
And put me down for not having the “Unnamed feed” issue others have reported.
implantingideas // June 24, 2009 at 8:51 am |
twitter has become a boon for marketers at the same time it is abused as well. The character limitation serves the purpose only to promote product urls rather than concrete information.
Kashif // June 24, 2009 at 3:04 pm |
All is well. Design is perfect. BUT i have to waste a lot of time to sign in. The site is not working properly, when i am gonna to log in. Taking a huge time and i think it is completely dump on IE 6.
Steph // June 24, 2009 at 9:40 pm |
Nice design although the site was down for a long time. I am also trying http://www.proxifeed.com and will see what service I prefer. The latter allows me to enter a set of keywords and automatically find the best content out there for me.
Luis // June 29, 2009 at 12:25 am |
Haha, no wonder it looks so different, looks much better! But how do I log in to my account? my email/pass don’t work and it said my account didn’t exist..
paul canning // June 29, 2009 at 4:51 pm |
I had a claimID, which isn’t there and username/password doesn’t work on other ID providers. OpenID said there ‘was an error’.
I tried Google/Blogger log ins but neither worked. Google froze and when tried Blogger Twitterfeed said ‘We couldn’t set up that account, sorry’
Plus, Twitterfeed won’t send me a password as it doesn’t recognise my email address.
Dave N // June 30, 2009 at 4:00 am |
Where’s the option to change your email address once signed up? :s
silvius // June 30, 2009 at 9:24 am |
I cannot find my old feeds/settings anymore.
I was logging in with an OpenID. Please provide support.
Ernie Varitimos // July 3, 2009 at 12:09 pm |
The new dashboard really sucks! You may have greater reliability and robustness, although I never saw a problem before, but management of several feeds is now EXTREMELY difficult.
You can’t see all your feeds at once, you have page through the get to 5 or more feeds, that’s crazy!
The analytics are nice, but they should be on a separate page, per feed. You need a page that allows you to see ALL your feeds at a glance like you had before. That was a far superior design to what you have now.
manoj // July 4, 2009 at 7:20 am |
ya… i am facing some problem in logging too..
am i missing something
Maurice // July 6, 2009 at 6:26 pm |
I also cannot find my old feeds/settings anymore.
I used OpenID to login.
dz46 // July 6, 2009 at 9:43 pm |
Hi, since the layout is running here, I can’t sign with my Google openID anymore. Once teh popup is opened, it just reloads, turn white and thats it. Can you please delete my account? So I can create a traditional one?
Thanks
Matthias
saud // July 7, 2009 at 7:55 am |
where is technorati openID?
Anish K.S // July 7, 2009 at 9:51 am |
Just created an account in Twitter Feed
Sham Hardy // July 8, 2009 at 3:01 am |
i <3 twitterfeed!
Linda Jo Martin // July 9, 2009 at 9:21 pm |
I need to get into my twitterfeed account but the logon I was using was through claimid and that’s no longer listed as a way to log in. Can I please either log in or delete that twitterfeed account?
Mariliis // July 10, 2009 at 10:23 am |
This twitterfeed works great, but i can’t see my clicks trough google analytics. It doesn’t show any clicks from twitter at all. Can anyone help me with this problem?
Wisco // July 11, 2009 at 12:50 am |
I’m sure it’s freakin’ awesome.
Now if I could just log in. The OpenID login is failing for me and there’s no plain HTML alternative. I’m literally locked out.
What’s the workaround here?
Bruce Buzz // July 12, 2009 at 6:13 am |
Your service has helped bring more traffic to my blog. Thank you!
Carezza Bona Jewelry // July 14, 2009 at 4:14 am |
Your site sounds awesome! I’m trying to get it to work on my computer, but this new version is confusing me, I thought all I needed to do was link up my twitter acct to get it to work? I tried posting my company site as a URL but it keeps failing
Thanks for the help!
Steve // July 14, 2009 at 9:54 am |
Your site is now totally stuffed. Not only doesn’t openid work any more in ANY browser but you can’t even sign up for a new account in Firefox because the page is just a jumbled mess.
Has someone hacked in and destroyed all the code that the site uses for signup/login?
Knox Animal // July 17, 2009 at 2:11 pm |
My old info for knoxanimal.blogspot.com is gone and now that I am knoxanimal.com, i am getting feeds for both. I tried deleting my account and reopening it, but i am still getting double feeds, so I somehow need to get rid of the original blogspot account.
@tripzilch // July 21, 2009 at 12:09 pm |
Hi, your new layout looks great!
When you try to add a new feed to a twitter account, you have already signed in with OAuth, but before you select any twitter account to use, the other fields in the form are disabled.
But you don’t see it (by graying out etc), the fields just won’t focus.
And the link to select a twitter account is kind of small compared to the fields, and most importantly doesn’t say “FIRST select a twitter account, THEN fill out these fields”.
I hope that you read this, a littlebit of advice from the usability perspective … I fell for this twice now, and thought the site was broken. I guess I won’t be the only one
I maybe access my Twitterfeeds to add a new feed every weeks or so, so that’s too long to remember any interface quirks.
This is meant as constructive criticism, thanks for this wonderful service! (somehow I prefer it over an RSS reader)
abcpoc // July 24, 2009 at 2:04 am |
hi, i can’t find no e-mail to contact you. please give me an email address so i can contact you.
sorry for my bad englisch, but englisch is not my default language.
Sipke Kloosterman // July 24, 2009 at 12:45 pm |
It takes hours before posts are loaded into Twitter
graziexoxo // July 24, 2009 at 3:58 pm |
love the new Twitter Feed. :>
SA // July 26, 2009 at 5:32 am |
NOTE: I click on the wrong post to comment. Please delete the comment on the other post. But…
You guy still sucks when you move to a new interface and leave no way to access the old freaking account!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean–wtf!!! I know there are a lot people are as frustrated as me who want to delete the old account but have no way to access it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, I mean wtf!!!!!! I/many people have site that gets update constantly on several occasion and by using old TWITTERFEED account (that I don’t have access to pause the twitterfeed), I’m running the BIG RISK of spamming twitter with too many tweets.
So, again wtf are you guy thinking not allowing your existing user to access the old account to do the change/deleting?
Well, at least have a BIG BUTTON in the new interface to DELETE the old account… or better yet transfer to the new one?
MikeR // July 26, 2009 at 5:59 am |
Hey, SA , just relax a minute old bean….enjoy the wonderful world of TwitterFeed….breathe through your nose….and now that you’re cool and calm again….apologise to your readers that your forgot the price you paid for the TF service.
Then give us the introspective wisdom of your positive feedback….. before you unleash that nasty critical dog of yours .
Okay, buddie
Cool, man.
MikeR
twitterfeed // July 26, 2009 at 6:08 pm |
SA – all old accounts should still be accessible, any OpenID providers we don’t explicitly support should be covered by the generic “OpenID” button in the OpenID login popup
If this doesn’t work for you, could you report it at http://getsatisfaction.com/twitterfeed, making sure you also mention the twitter account you’re posting to, and someone will take a closer look.
Frank // August 4, 2009 at 2:04 am |
This is an awesome thing. Just one question, my site has an rss feed for each of the 50 categories, is there a way to add several feeds?
thiesnm // August 12, 2009 at 5:56 am |
I can’t get my site to link up. It says it can’t parse my RSS link.
Megan // September 1, 2009 at 6:09 pm |
Um…not sure where the supposed “support forum” is found but for some reason my feeds are not being updated in a timely manner…it keeps missing them. What’s up? bucknellcareer is the twitter site: http://twitter.com/BucknellCareer
Screen Rant // September 2, 2009 at 11:00 pm |
I’ve been using WordTwit for a while after leaving Twitterfeed do to (lack of) reliability issues – WordTwit works sporadically as well and I was considering coming back, but it seems you guys still have issues with posting in a timely manner.
I really wish there was a reliable solution out there…
Vic
anecdote // September 11, 2009 at 10:17 am |
Do you have plans to make this a real time transaction?
dlcoryellceo // September 21, 2009 at 2:09 am |
Love Twitterfeed…I’m a first time user and created three new feeds and they were up and running on my Twitter account in just an hour or two.
The interface is very user friendly and easy to use. I will definitely be adding more for my other ad campaigns.
Congrats on the new Twitterfeed!!
Debbie
Dave // September 24, 2009 at 5:25 pm |
I’ve remove my account info and continue to receive feeds from twitterfeed. How do I stop this from happening… anyone?
Ana Magal // November 4, 2009 at 8:38 am |
Days I have been trying to get into my account. Was detected from several accounts that you have changed the system. I stayed with several different accounts and all are sending link without stopping, making my links see spam. How do I cancel everything and make an account?
I need helppppp!!!!! Pleaseeee
megan // November 4, 2009 at 7:55 pm |
so do i