Oct 30, 2008
Publish blog posts to Twitter automatically (using FriendFeed)
Here’s a quick tip if you’ve ever wanted to publish your blog entries on Twitter automagically. There’s always been services like TwitterFeed but they are slow to update and requires that you share login credentials with yet another 3rd party site.
Enter FriendFeed. With the launch of their new feed publishing feature, you can post to Twitter any or all services that are linked to your account. Here are a few reasons why it’s better to do it this way:
- FriendFeed allows linking multiple blogs/services.
- FriendFeed enables your readers to leave comments.
- FriendFeed polls for updates more frequently than TwitterFeed.
Here’s how you can use FriendFeed to publish your blog feed to Twitter:
- Log in or create a new account on FriendFeed
- Add your blog as a new service on FriendFeed
- Enable Feed publishing to Twitter in the Account settings on FriendFeed
- Enter in your Twitter account info.
That’s all you need to get started.
PrasSarkar.com
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The only caveat being that any links generated by FriendFeed (ff.im links) point back to the relevant FriendFeed entry instead of the blog entry. Great if you don’t mind people seeing the conversation on the intermediate link, but slower than using, say, wordpress plugin that pings twitter directly.
Oct 31st, 2008
@Phil: Yes, that’s true. Hopefully that’s an intermediate step that FriendFeed will get rid of (I’m not holding my breath).
Ultimately though, it maximizes the readership (and feedback) of your posts since you have FriendFeed readers in addition to the ones on Twitter and your blog.
Oct 31st, 2008
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