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I created today two twitterfeed bots — dzone, which feeds on DZone frontpage and redditprog, which feeds on Reddit Programming. The reason for this, is while I want to be in the stream of news, I don’t want them to accumulate.

What does this mean? TwitterFeed will just check the feed every half an hour and repost it to twitter. However, I’m not subscribed to Twitter via RSS. The only way I get Twitter updates is through Google Talk IM. Which means, that I get updates only when I’m online and they never accumulate in Google Reader (I tend to just delete all entries in a category if it goes over 30).

Getting updates in realtime means that you can also sort through them immediately, which is usually much easier than delaying until later and doing all-at-once. This helps cope with the amount of information I go through every day. I just wish that every news site would provide a twitter bot by default…

P.S. You can follow downgrade via a twitterfeed bot as well.