dizzysoft softwareGive Me More Than Your TwitterFeed
On my Twitter account I have tried to follow everyone who follows me- as long as they remotely relate to SEO or they live in my area (okay, I make exceptions for Darth Vader and Wil Wheaton). The other day I started to follow a couple new people on Twitter when I suddenly noticed my entire timeline was filled with their updates. I don’t mind a person who talks a lot but then I realized all I was getting was junk from TwitterFeed.
TwitterFeed is a good tool- it sends your favorite information to your Twitter account, posting it as an update using RSS. TwitterFeed is an easy way to promote your blog, for instance. I don’t mind you if you use TwitterFeed for that purpose, but stop using the Twitter public updates as your own personal feed reader! I am following you in Twitter because I am interested in what you have to say. Part of what you have to say is in your personal feed, for sure, but I don’t want to know what your favorite feeds have to say- if I did, I would have already subscribed to them!
Don’t use TwitterFeed to post your favorite feeds into your updates. Instead use @FeedTwit. Rather than posting the contents of a feed to your Twitter timeline, FeedTwit sends the contents of your feed to Twitter by direct message- so only you see it.
This way you still get all the benefits of RSS while I still follow you on Twitter. That is how FeedTwit is better than TwitterFeed.
