RSS To Twitter - The easiest way to send RSS feeds directly to Twitter

A New Look

coder — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:16:54 +0000

So for a while I have done very little with RSS to Twitter. It has grow and moved servers but the actual user interaction hasn’t changed. Than I looked and we are #2 on Google and getting quite a few hits.

So I started building a new layout. While the old layout was suffice the new layout is hot, just like the tool. The new layout is 100% CSS driven. As I do not have IE6 I have not been able to test the layout yet on the old browser. Please do let me know if it is looking the same.

Please do accept my apologies for the 5 day outage on the feeds. The server which runs the feeds had a complication and as I was focusing on the new layout I missed that it had lost it’s network connection.

Post to Twitter from your site using PHP

Dale — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:28:27 +0000

Recently I posted on whyitwas.Com a post about how to use PHP to post to Twitter. The script is a fairly easy script and worth checking out. Below is a screenshot of the script. A copy/paste friendly, version is in the post. This script is very similar to the one used for RSS to Twitter. The difference is &source=rsstotwittercom To become a source just send a request to Twitter.

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$message&source=rsstotwittercom");

Enjoy.

RSS to Twitter Imporvements

Dale — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:25:59 +0000

So there has been a lot of little tweaks to RSS to Twitter. Some have been small and some have been a lot more noticeable.

The main changes have been:

TinyURL has been introduced
Link has been moved to the end of the post
Yahoo! Pipes! get the feeds to limit the load
5 Tweets is the maximum number of Tweets in one go
5 Tweets on the first feed
RSS to Here auto follows you
New layout
Followers list on the Manage Feeds page
Ability to add feeds from the Manage Feeds page
RSS to Twitter is now an official Twitter App

Please feel free to provide suggestions to more improvements.

How big is your Twick?

Dale — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:48:20 +0000

You can see how big your Twick is compared to someone else. So what is a Twick? A Twick is a Twitter Dick. So I guess they have some sort of algorithm based on posts and followers which puts you into percentiles. Check it out http://www.twicksize.com/

Fun little tool, could add some extra features to it, like the ability to send a post to your Twitter with your Twick size, able to see how your followers and the ones you follow sizes.

So for a bit undo you twly, and whip out your Twick and measure up.

TwitterVision

Dale — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:19:36 +0000

I came across this great tool the other day called TwitterVision. I prefer the 3D version which displays the spinning world. Basically it displays the Tweets of it’s followers with the speech bubble pointing to the location of the sender on a spinning globe. It is a great Twitter tool. A big thumbs up!

TwitterVision 3D

Hello world! From RSS to Twitter

Dale — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:49:25 +0000

This is a quick first post. RSS to Twitter was an idea I had for a website a few days ago, last night I made it a reality. That said a lot of the backend came from the backend I built for JobFeedr.

So how does it all work? Simple I use the PEAR XML module to get the feeds and use the Twitter API to post them. There is a few other tricks along the way but all is fairly simple.

So please provide all the feedback you can.

Dale