Feedburner | Counting Beans

Those of you who have a Feedburner feed for your blogs and have been relying on Twitterfeed or a similar site to post your blog updates to Twitter will be glad to know that Google has announced that Feedburner now has the ability to post directly to Twitter. Another tidbit of news is that Google also has its own URL shortening service, goog.gl that will be used by Google Toolbar to share web pages on social sites and by Feedburner when posting blog updates to Twitter.

I’ve been having hassles with Twitterfeed so I’m interested to see how Google’s servers deal with mass posting to Twitter. The one drawback is that it will only post to Twitter which means that if you make use of any other microblogging services such as Identi.ca or Facebook you’ll still have to rely on sites such as Twitterfeed to post to those sites.

If you’re interested in trying it out you can follow the instructions in the Feedburner blog post to set it up for your site. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Those of you who have a Feedburner feed for your blogs and have relied on Twitterfeed or a similar site to post your blog updates to Twitter will be glad to know that Google has announced that Feedburner now has the ability to post directly to Twitter. Another tidbit of news is that Google also has its own URL shortening service, goog.gl that will be used by Google Toolbar to share web pages on social sites and by Feedburner when posting blog updates to Twitter.

I’ve been having hassles with Twitterfeed so I’m interested to see how Google’s servers deal with mass posting to Twitter. There are some drawbacks in that it will only post to one Twitter account and the only service it currently supports is Twitter which means that if you make use of any other microblogging services such as Identi.ca or Facebook you’ll still have to rely on sites such as Twitterfeed to post to those sites.

If you’re interested in trying it out you can follow the instructions in the Feedburner blog post to set it up for your site. Give it a try and let me know what you think.