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Twitterfeed – Tweets made easy

Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by Senthil Ramesh in Internet & Web Design, Tutorial

It has been more than three years Twitter has come into existence and it dominates the industry. It makes any new news available in few seconds of it is announced to its users. This made many of the users stick to it, apps and services developed around it. This made it more interesting and emerge as one of the dominating social networks.

When coming to Twitter apps I tried many of them but one feature in one app is not available over the other. But I found Echofon as the best addon for Firefox as it consumes less resources, easier to use and provides you updates instantly. Regarding the web related services there are many services available where you can tweet, schedule your tweet or update to various social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn , FriendFeed etc..,
But the service I like the most is Twitterfeed, where you can tweet automatically and no need of manual scheduling. There are people like me who would like to tweet on various topics so that people will be aware of most recent updates in many fields. And Twitterfeed helps here to solve such things.

What is Twitterfeed?

So what does this all mean. It describes itself. Feed your blog to twitter. Thats it. You have to feed the blogs you like, to twitter and other services that use (of course Ping.fm and HelloTxt are available), make some little configuration(if you wish), sit back and relax. It will tweet for you automatically. Not sure how to do it still. Continue reading.

So the above page shows the Home Page of TwitterFeed. As it describes, you can feed your blog to twitter for it to tweet.

Lets get started

As any other service, go register in TwitterFeed and finish the usual confirmations etc.., and return to it and login into TwitterFeed. But there is an option of Logging in with OpenID. If you have a OpenID account, you can just log in with that.

Thats it. Now you have to create a feed that tweets automatically as you schedule and you don’t need to care about it. Click on the “Create Feed” button.

As I have said you can use other services besides twitter to make your updates automatically. Now if you would like to tweet to twitter alone, then select twitter and click “Connect your feed to your Twitter Account”(obviously this post deals with only making tweets from Twitterfeed and learn yourselves for the other services as it has the similar steps). The only thing I don’t like about TwitterFeed is I have to connect my Twitter account for each time I create a feed.

There you will be asked for the username and password for your twitter account. Provide it and you will be redirected again to TwitterFeed.

You are now connected with your Twitter account. Now go for creating the feeds. Give your Feed a title. It does nothing other than identifying the feed. Then fill in the feed URL.

For people who don’t know how to get the feed URL of any blog here are the steps.
1.Go to a blog
2.Click on the Subscribe To RSS link in the blog or through the feed symbol displaying in your navigation bas of Browsers.
3.Copy the link where you are taken.

Don’t forget to test the rss feed.

This is enough for tweeting your feeds but you can still customise using ‘Advanced Settings’ Option. In Advanced settings, you can set the frequency of your tweets, number of tweets at a time, URL shortener to use in default etc.., After you have done this, click on create feed and thats it, you are done.

You can see the tweet created and the frequency of the tweets, in the dashboard.

Happy Tweeting.
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