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Re: Turning Twitter into my friend-feed (Scripting News)

Randy Aldrich — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:41:00 -0000

I like the idea, but can't you already do this with http://twitterfeed.com/ ?

Re: Turning Twitter into my friend-feed (Scripting News)

Ali — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:53:45 -0000

I have recently begun using Twitter and have found that it can be kind of addictive - so much so that I just put a Twitter App on my iPhone Ain't technology grand?

Re: Turning Twitter into my friend-feed (Scripting News)

Joe Lazarus — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:28:50 -0000

Twitterfeed.com offers something similar to this. You can import any RSS feed into a Twitter account from Twitterfeed. You can also submit multiple feeds to the same Twitter account. I used to use it for something similar to what you've set up here, but decided I didn't want it mixed in with Twitter afterall... just a personal preference.

Re: Turning Twitter into my friend-feed (Scripting News)

Julian Bond — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:25:17 -0000

Interesting. It would be possible to do an RSS reader that reduced every feed in an opml list to a title link and 140 chars of body text. Or as in this case, a link + 140 chars of title+body. This would probably make it easier to fast scan a large river of news from more sources. Thinking more, this is just a UI tweak. You could have alternate displays of 1) Just the title, 2) 140 character title +body, 3) title plus full body with successive clicks. Perhaps with an outliner approach as you use on your main blog display. In fact this might work well in that situation as well.

Of course feeding this into a dummy Twitter account means other people can easily subscribe to your news river but I think the UI option is worth exploring in its own right.