feed your blog to twitter

VirtualHosting has written a post listing “50 twitter guides, hacks and scripts”, twitterfeed being one of them: The Twitter Toolset
Useful info there for twitterers, even if there are some omissions (Snitter being the most obvious one).

Guy Kawasaki gives us this interesting piece of information in his post “How twitter made my website better”:

Twitter continues to increase traffic. Now I use Twitterfeed to automatically post the “Science” and “Odd” truemors to Twitter every six hours. Michelle Wolverton, who I met via Laura Fitton, has helped me as a virtual assistant on the project. On any given day, Twitter is the third best source of click throughs—trailing only Google and Popurls.

A couple of users have sent me their how-to guides to post certain info to twitter using twitterfeed, which could be helpful to others.

Jeff Sandquist’s excellent post describes how to post your facebook status updates to twitter, while EJ Fox writes in with details of how he posts his mobile flickr posts to twitter:

I use Flickr’s mobile upload feature, where I email a photo to flickr using my private email address and it automatically adds it to my photostream. Usually these things are relevant to my recent Twitter updates (For example the other day I saw a car fire on a highway, I wrote a quick twitter update about it and then uploaded a photo).

Flickr allows you to add certain tags to photos updated via their mobile address, so I simply took the RSS feed of my photos with the ‘mobile’ tag, and used twitterfeed to automatically post them.

Basically the URL is:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?
id=[USER_ID]&tags=mobile&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

You can change the ID to your own (you can find out your own ID by logging into flickr and going to this page which shows your ID on the right).

A full screenshot of my settings can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pseudoplacebo/1214679016/

Thanks to both of you!

This just in from Rich at Indymedia UK:

I’m currently using it for two projects, lolnptech with the feed from http://lolnptech.blogspot.com/ and more importantly for Indymedia uk as imcuk.

With Indymedia we’re pushing out the promoted newswire stories that users have posted and moderators have decided are worthy of promotion, as well as the main features we’re writing.

You may have heard about the camp for climate action happening at Heathrow this week, and we’re now also using some custom code to generate a timeline of what’s happening and related rss feeds and then pushing it out through twitterfeed and onto twitter. [...] For those willing to trust it it’s a really good way of getting information out on what’s really happening on site rather than what the mainstream press are saying.

Now that people are increasingly using twitterfeed not only for posting blogs to twitter, but also for linking facebook and pownce status updates, a couple of new features have been requested repeatedly. As of today, twitterfeed contains these 2 new options:

a) it’s now possible to send the description only. This means you have the option to post title & description, title only, or description only.

b) it’s now possible to stop posting the item link (the tinyurl link that gets added to posts). This is particularly useful for status updates where no additional information is available through the link. Note that twitterfeed uses the item link as a way to check for duplicate posts, so if you choose to suppress the link, twitterfeed will not check for duplicate posts (e.g. if the publish date of an existing item changes due to the post being edited, it may be posted to twitter again).

Hope this is useful - as ever, feedback welcome!

I’ve received a heads-up that twitterfeed will be getting plugged on this week’s TWiT Net@Nite (#2 . One to watch out for…

for any pownce and twitter users out there: jetpacked.com have a nice post with instructions for using twitterfeed to post your pownce updates to twitter

Tim Shey from nextnewnetworks writes:

We’ve set up a Twitter account with our little robot mascot (the n-bot who is at the end of all of our online videos) and he automatically tweets every time we post a new blog post or when any of our networks has a new episode for people to watch.

http://twitter.com/nextnewnetworks

I’ve done it by mashing a bunch of different twitterfeeds from our various RSS feeds, with a little tweaking here and there to identify where links are coming from.

Seems to work great - I subscribe to the Twitter account and use it all the time to know when we have something new to read or watch. I don’t even use an RSS reader to follow my company’s stuff anymore.

Charlie writes:

Using twitter.com/stml’s British politicans twitterfeeds as inspiration, I am taking feeds from W, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and (in the near future) other presidential candidates and smashing them together into one “In Their Own Words.” I’m combining useful feeds from each candidate using Yahoo Pipes and then running it through Twitterfeed. The output should be at twitter.com/USPOLS.

I’ve been working with Adam Crowe to create a twitter-based backchannel for the interesting2007 conference later this week, using twitterfeed.com.

Russell Davies has the details…