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Follow feeds on twitter

// July 10th, 2008 // Internet, Microblogging, Social Networking

In our fast-moving lives, it sometimes becomes tough to keep following feed-readers all the time.

Here is a quick and easy way to stay connected to RSS feeds you are interested in following, while you are twittering.

Here is a step by step guide to help you start following feeds on twitter.

We are going to achieve this by using a RSS Aggregator/RSS Mashup Tool called xFruits and the twitterfeed service.

So, lets get started.

1. Log on to http://www.xfruits.com/
2. Click on the SIGN IN button on the top right and two forms will open up for you. One to register and the other to sign in.
3. Register yourself.
4. Click on the Aggregator RSS button
   
5. Customize the aggregator and add feeds you want to follow and click “Aggregate my feeds”.
   You may add links to OPML files as well.
   
6. Bingo! Your feeds have been aggregated.
   
7. The title of your feed(marked above in red) links to the aggregated feed.
8. The URL I got for my feed was http://xfruits.com/miteshashar/?id=some_number
9. You may want to go to the Edit page(by clicking the link marked above with blue) to add/remove feeds and to change your feed’s link to http://xfruits.com/miteshashar/myfeed/
   
10. So, you’re now done with setting up your aggregated feed.
11. Now, you need to log into http://twitterfeed.com using a OpenID. I used my Yahoo! OpenID
12. Click on the link marked in red below to create a new twitterfeed
    
13. Enter your twitter username & password. (You may want to make a new twitter account for your feeds)
    Enter your aggregated feed’s URL(http://xfruits.com/miteshashar/myfeed/) as the RSS feed URL.
    Feed in the other settings for twitterfeed and click Create to create the twitterfeed.
    
14. So, there you go. You’ve completed setting up twitterfeeds with an aggregation of feeds you’d like to follow.
15. It shall take some time for the feed to be approved. It was done in 90 minutes for my feed.
16. Once that is done, the feeds will be tweeted onto the specified account. You can follow the new twitter user you’ve created to follow your feeds.
    

If you have any ideas built over this concept or any suggestions to make, please post the same as comments.

So, happy tweeting & happy feed-following!!

nJoi