This weekend there were a couple bugs in Twitter posting that were discovered. I’ve made the changes, and things should be working now. If you spot any problems let me know!
Wouldn’t it be great if you could update your twitter feed when you update your RSS/XML feed?
We thought so too.
Now when you look at your feeds list you will see a link for “Twitter.” When you click that link you will be taken to the 3 step setup process to integrate into Twitter. Enter the Twitter username you want to post to, authorize, then finally select your update frequency. From there we will check your feed at the frequency your specify and post any changes to your twitter account.
For those worried about handing over your Twitter password to another web site, worry not, we are using the OAuth protocol to verify against Twitter so you don’t need to give us your Twitter password.
If you haven’t been to your user account control panel in a while you should stop by. I recently made some pretty significant changes.
1. A new look. The old look was getting cramped and needed an update.
2. Feed Stats. A lot of them. Some of the stats available allow you to see what browsers people are using, what search strings people are using to get to your feed, and then what links people are clicking to leave your page.
3. Twitter Integration. Another post will follow detailing this more.
I’m really hoping that these changes will greatly help our publishers promote their feeds. Give me some feedback and let me know what you think!
5/8/10 Update – A formal api has been released here
I haven’t made a formal feed posting API but many people have reverse engineered the Add Feed page to essentially create one. One thing that was missing doing it this way however was that you would not be able to assign ownership to your feed. I’ve made some changes to the Add Feed page to allow ownership and thought that while I was at it I would make a more formal post on how to add feeds via REST.
While this isn’t a formal API, mainly because it doesn’t return anything, it will at least serve the basic purpose at this point in time.
Basics
Send a POST request to: http://www.feedagg.com/add_feed.php
Variables
FeedURL (Required)
Tags (At least one required)
UserName (Optional)
Example
http://www.feedagg.com/add_feed.php?FeedURL=http://example.com/feed.xml&Tags=tag-1 tag2 tag3&UserName=example
Notes
At this time there isn’t a response from the server but that will be coming in the future.
Given the nature of this there will be limited support of this feature for the time being.
Today I’ve added some new features to your feed management pages:
Check it out here.