At the start of month, FriendFeed introduced publishing of FriendFeed entries to Twitter. While this is no amazing feat from a technical perspective, it is great to see this rolled up inside the FriendFeed package and not being handled by an outside web service. With this feature, unique content posted to FriendFeed (such as ‘comments’ and ‘likes’) or anything collected by FriendFeed can be easily shared with the Twitter community.
This feature can be found in the account page under Feed Publishing. Once enabled you will be prompted to enter your Twitter username and password and then a number of options are displayed including selecting the type of FriendFeed entries and posts from services to be published.
Setup is quick and provides the initial options I was looking for, however, I was surprised to find that Feed Publishing only includes promoting activity on Twitter. While I haven’t seen plans for the future of this functionality, I hope to see this built out for other microblogs and platforms, including my WordPress blog!
If you’re not on FriendFeed but are still looking to promote posts from other services to Twitter, you may want to check out http://www.twitterfeed.com.
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Very cool improvements for FriendFeed. Also saw that they are working on bringing track to FriendFeed as they are recipients of Twitter’s “firehose”. That with the combination of XMPP support will most likely make FriendFeed my preferred Twitter client.