Why bother with an intermediary when we can now have FeedBurner send our blog post to Twitter directly?
– I wrote in Startup Bloodbath in Social Media and I meant it. But for now, we’re switching back to TwitterFeed.
The new Feedburner service that pushes blog posts to Twitter directly isn’t quite ready. Let’s just say it’s a bit too trigger-happy: it pushes an update after every “save”, even minor updates to already published posts.
This is so crappy, we’re switching back to TwitterFeed – for now. Because it is crappy enough for Google to fix it soon – and then we’re back to the original formula: no need for intermediaries.
Zoli – we found the issue that is causing the multiple posts when feeds are updated. It was a special case in your type of feed when guid=permalink. This has been fixed, and is being pushed to our servers globally, which unfortunately is not a quick process. Expect it to be live in a couple days.
Steve,
That was fast, thanks – looking forward to trying it again in a few days 🙂
Steve,
Apparently it’s only partially fixed. Editing a previously published post no longer tweets, which is good, but the initial post still gets tweeted twice, tweeted twice…
Sorry for the confusion, Zoli — the fix in question wasn’t pushed out to our production servers until this evening. If you try one more time, you should find that your items will only get posted once.
A year on, and it’s still flaky over at feedburner. I tried to link an account with twitter and it failed. Then I read this:
http://groups.google.com/group/publicity-tools/browse_thread/thread/f6faeb8263533470?pli=1
And they still have the same problems:
http://feedburnerstatus.blogspot.com/2010/12/known-issue-problems-with-socialize.html
So thanks for the idea of Twitterfeed. It’s just what I needed!