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As a follow up to my previous post here’s a screenshot of my Google Talk twitter feed:

Most likely it would be easier to have a service that just posts RSS updates to IM, but Twitter’s already there and with its great API there’s a lot of third-party services around it.

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.

Although TinyURL is mostly useful it also has one very annoying minus. Indexing services like Google or Technocrati cannot resolve links through it, therefore all those links go unaccounted (or at least you can’t find them anyhow). Add to this that popular services like Twitter will automatically route the links through TinyURL and it’s a right nuisance. Can’t such services come up with a way for Google to track them?

Twitter in Plain English — I’ve been using Twitter for some time and I think it’s great. But it’s a bit hard to explain its worth, which this (creative!) video did wonderfully! Follow me at http://twitter.com/ekabanov.