{"id":1525,"date":"2008-12-11T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T19:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2008-12-11T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T20:21:26","slug":"tool-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/12\/11\/tool-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool for the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1527\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2008\/12\/twitterfeeddelicious.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1527\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2008\/12\/twitterfeeddelicious.jpg\" alt=\"Twitterfeed tweeting a del.icio.us bookmark\" width=\"500\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitterfeed tweeting a del.icio.us bookmark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After becoming a more avid Twitter user, I&#8217;ve noticed that many people tweet things they&#8217;ve bookmarked or links to their blog entries.\u00c2\u00a0 I love to be able to follow this kind of thing, but to do it personally seems like a lot of work.\u00c2\u00a0 I like to share bookmarks and my friends are twitter (but not del.icio.us) users, but it seems like del.icio.us is so much better at saving and sharing bookmarks.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to tweet my blog posts and bookmarks, but don&#8217;t want to have to do it specifically.\u00c2\u00a0 I realized this when I started using Goodreads&#8217; twitter update functionality to tweet automatically when I tag a book as reading or to-read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitterfeed + tagging &#8211; a solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitterfeed.com\/\">Twitterfeed<\/a> service that converts an RSS feed to tweets and set it to read the RSS feed for my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n<p>But, I don&#8217;t want to bombard my twitter followers with tweets every time I bookmark something or write a blog entry.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, del.icio.us generates tag specific feeds and I&#8217;m sure I could get WordPress to do this without too many problems.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I&#8217;ll just point twitterfeed at a tag-specific feed and tag everything i want to be tweeted with that tag (e.g. tweetit)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The tag specific feed for a wordpress blog is \/wp-rss2.php?tag=your_tag or \/feed?tag=your_tag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After becoming a more avid Twitter user, I&#8217;ve noticed that many people tweet things they&#8217;ve bookmarked or links to their blog entries.\u00c2\u00a0 I love to be able to follow this kind of thing, but to do it personally seems like a lot of work.\u00c2\u00a0 I like to share bookmarks and my friends are twitter (but&hellip; 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