A Twitter Feed For This Blog
Brian Kelly,
Dec 14, 2009
Brian Kelly describes how his blog Twitter feed evolved, along with my own. Recounting the conversation we had after his Can Your Blog Survive Without Twitter post, he writes that he has "used the Twitterfeed.com service so that new posts on this blog are automatically announced via the Twitter account. He also added a feed describing his upcoming events. We both separate the blog Twitter feed from our personal feeds. But there are two major differences between Kelly's Twitterfeed service, and my own, which was hand-rolled. First, his restates the title of the piece as the Twitter message. I wanted a more conversational style, and so select the first 100 or so characters of my post itself. Second, he uses the bit.ly URL-shortening service. I use the slightly longer downes.ca URLs in order to preserve the integrity of the link. I think these small changes result in a very different flavour of Twitter feed - though of course that is for the reader to decide.
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