I’ve recently started using the excellent service Twitterfeed to send my feeds to Twitter. Now posts on Laughing Squid will show up on Laughing Squid’s Twitter stream. I have also setup Twitter accounts for The Squid List and Squid.us, both of which will also receive blog updates via Twitterfeed.
Twitterfeed was created by Mario Menti and the latest info can be found on the Twitterfeed blog. Speaking of Twitterfeed, Jeff Sandquist figured out a way to use it to post his Facebook status to Twitter and EJ Fox uses Twitterfeed to post his mobile Flickr updates to Twitter. On a related note, the Twitter application for Facebook now has an option to update your Facebook status with your Twitter posts which I am now doing.
UPDATE: I’ve also set this up for our Quick Links link blog.
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I’ve enjoyed watching your twitter posts for a while, and I’ve been following your blog RSS feed for a year. But with Twitterfeed running, I get everything twice.
The RSS feed for the blog is a much richer experience, so the twitterfeed is redundant and offers less value for the extra bacn.
Might I suggest adding another twitter account for the feed to allow us followers to have a choice in the presentation of data?
My Laughing Squid Twitter profile both represents Laughing Squid and me personally. The same is true for my Flickr stream, Facebook and so on. The posts that are send to Twitter are usually at least a half hour apart, so as far as Twitter traffic goes, it’s pretty low volume. I wish I could say the same about some of the other people I follow.
Also, I don’t see Twitter as a replacement for RSS, they are two very different things.
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