TwitterFeed, in case you haven’t seen it before, is an interesting service that can automatically publish your RSS feed(s) into your Twitter account. This helps because the moment you write something new on your blog, a “tweet” is posted on your behalf informing all your Twitter followers about the new content.
For instance, whenever I publish a new article here on Digital Inspiration, a tweet goes out to @labnol_BLOG courtesy the free and very reliable twitterfeed service.
But now I am planning to make a switch from TwitterFeed to Google.
Google today introduced a new Socialize feature inside FeedBurner that would allow blog publishers like you and me to quickly and automatically push updates on to Twitter without using a third service.
All you have to do is log into your FeedBurner account and select the feed that you want to push to Twitter. Associate your Twitter account with this feed (it uses oAuth), add some prefix (like I use “on @labnol“) and activate the service.
A FeedBurner feed may only post to one Twitter account at a time but if you need to publish the same feed to multiple Twitter accounts, just create a copy of that feed inside FeedDemon itself and repeat the process. Here’s a sample Tweet from FeedBurner that uses Google Short URLs:
Currently, you can only integrate FeedBurner feeds with Twitter accounts but going forward, am sure Google will include other social services into the loop as well particularly Facebook (and maybe Orkut).
Google already provides a free URL shortening service to Google Apps users – it’s called Google Short Links – but now they could be preparing a public launch with goo.gl. Cute name!
Find this article at: http://labnol.org/?p=11694
Reader Comments
I have been using twitterfeed initially. Its nice feedburner is now capable to publish your tweets , as they sometimes skipped some of the posts and they were not instant …
Written by sharma on 12.14.09
Google is progressing good and I am its big fan … Anything that happens on WWW is associated with Google in some way or the other these days …
Written by Nitin Kumar Jain on 12.14.09
TwitterFeed works well for me so I was wondering if there is any real reason for me to switch to Feedburner. Don’t see any real tangible improvements over TwitterFeed.
If I were starting out, then I’d surely get the Feedburner thing though.
Written by Manshu on 12.14.09
I too was using twitter feed, very good service ofcourse, just got to know that feedburner started this service too. Anyway need to try with feedburner..thanks for the post…
Written by Unni Krishnan on 12.14.09
Will Shift to Google soon :)
Written by Aditya on 12.15.09
This is great competition for twitterfeed, well done google for another excellent feature to add to feedbuurner.
Written by Node Tech Blog on 12.15.09
It’s really good step taken by Google to add shorten url integration on Feedburner feed,Even Facebook has also created shorten URL service.
So goodbye to Bit.ly
Written by Surender Sharma on 12.15.09
hi amit , do you think because we are using feedburner option of tweeting our link and also goo.gl service , while good indexing the twitter feeds it will matter and may consider those first.
Written by ganesh on 12.15.09
Yes, I too just noticed this service when i checked my feedburner yesterday.
I think google has to initiate social networking in google talk also.
Written by phani on 12.15.09
I didn’t catch the feedburner/twitter link, good one. Looking forward to the url shortener Google’s come up with. Not that we need another but we’ll see what features evolve out of it. Bit.ly sure is reliable and offers great stats.
Written by Bill Bolmeier on 12.15.09
I prefer FriendFeed to feed stuff on to my Twitter account. That way I get the URLs of my Blogs & multiple Tumblogs [6 on last count & increasing] published on to 2 services for greater visibility.
Written by Karmayogi on 12.16.09
I am also using twitter feed for my printing site. Althoough twitter feed is not a bad product but I will also check feed burner for this.
Written by Tony greg on 12.16.09
Yes, I too checked this yesterday when i opened my feedburner for integrating twitter with it.
Google has to come up more social network features with google talk aswell.
Written by phani on 12.16.09
well i did exactly this…i quit using twitterfeed yesterday..and feedburner posts to twitter almost instantaneously…twitterfeed was slow with its half hour updates…
Written by Dr.Ravichandra on 12.17.09
I can’t turn off my twitterfeeds, any recommendations?!
Written by craig on 12.18.09