Finally a use for Twitter!
There’s a neat little beta service out called TwitterFeed.com that allows you to Twitter your RSS feed (any number of feeds really) with your current Twitter account.
Setup was funky because you have to learn about OpenID if you’ve never done that before (I hadn’t and I have over 900 logins stored in my RoboForm!) but once you get logged in, it takes about a nanosecond to get setup with your blog feed going directly to your Twitter account.
Yes, Twitter uses “TinyURL” instead of direct URLS, but people are reporting direct traffic from this. Might be worth a look.
I set mine up for a 12 hour check, meaning it only bothers my feed once every 12 hours and posts up to 5 of the latest posts on the blog each time.
Some people might call this spam, but Twitter is spam anyway. Permission-based spam among friends to bore you to death with their every twitch throughout the day, so don’t feel bad! You will be “bugging” your friends with information that’s actually useful.
Make a completely useless tool useful! Post your RSS feed to Twitter!
Here’s my pathetic little Twitter account. According to TwitterFeed.com, it will soon be a treasure trove of information!
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Thanks for mentioning Twitterfeed. I joined a few days ago and my biggest problem now is to simply find articles for my blogs. Outside of that, Twitterfeed is automatically keeping my blogs well marketed automatically.
Still evaluating TwitterFeed but it is looking promising.
I think I am going to try this. Do you have to have a lot of people you follow or does it go out to the general population of twitters?
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@Jack-legalized spam it is. With a side of leechees (that is a tiny fruit, not the bugs who suck your blood…ick).
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