{"id":6965,"date":"2013-04-22T08:26:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T07:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2013-04-22T08:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T07:26:04","slug":"tweeting-your-links-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/tweeting-your-links-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting your links automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mkhmarketing\/8476805037\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8247\/8476805037_7c188afb08_m.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple Tweets Gradient\" width=\"240px\" class=\"size-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mkhmarketing\/8476805037\/\">Multiple Tweets Gradient<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mkhmarketing\/\">mkhmarketing<\/a> on Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>If you follow my political independence blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcofprosperity.org\/\">Arc of Prosperity<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arcofprosperity\">Twitter<\/a>, you will have noticed that I often tweet topical links, prefixed with the text &#8220;Seen elsewhere:&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This happens automatically when I bookmark a link so long as I add a certain label to it.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, I use two free websites, <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/\">del.icio.us<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitterfeed.com\/\">Twitterfeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Del.icio.us is simply a bookmarking site that allows me to save bookmarks and attach labels.  All links that I want to appear on Twitter get the label &#8220;aop&#8221;.  (You can see all my <i>aop<\/i> links <a href=\"http:\/\/previous.delicious.com\/viralbus\/aop\">here<\/a>.)  The most important del.icio.us feature from this point of view is that you can retrieve these bookmark lists in RSS format (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/previous.delicious.com\/v2\/rss\/viralbus\/aop\">this RSS feed for my <i>aop<\/i> links<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Twitterfeed posts RSS feeds to Twitter, so all you need to do is to tell it the address of your del.icio.us RSS feed and determine the posting frequency etc.<\/p>\n<p>Del.icio.us and Twitterfeed work really well together, and it&#8217;s my impression that many of my Twitter followers really appreciate the links I&#8217;m posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow my political independence blog, Arc of Prosperity on Twitter, you will have noticed that I often tweet topical links, prefixed with the text &#8220;Seen elsewhere:&#8221;. This happens automatically when I bookmark a link so long as I add a certain label to it. To do this, I use two free websites, del.icio.us and Twitterfeed. Del.icio.us is simply a bookmarking site that allows me to save bookmarks and attach labels. All links that I want to appear on Twitter get the label &#8220;aop&#8221;. (You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,159,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-en","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}