Big Changes at Twitterfeed; Real-Time Publishing Rolling Out Now
What does your blog have in common with CNN, the Wall St. Journal and the White House? You probably publish your updates to Twitter using Twitterfeed, just like those organizations do. Starting today if you publish on Blogger, Typepad or another publishing system that offers PubSubHubbub feeds Twitterfeed will subscribe and push your new posts to Twitter in a matter of moments.
That's not the only change going live, either. Publishing to Facebook? Check. An improved queue management system for greater reliability? Check. Integration with Google Analytics? Check!
Earlier this afternoon Twitterfeed launched a new version of the service used by nearly 350,000 publishers. We caught up with the company at today's ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit and got the low-down on the changes rolling out to all users over the next few days.
Twitterfeed believes it will now be the biggest subscriber to PubSubHubbub feeds and aims to test the system's latency performance. No more 20 to 30 minute delays in publishing to Twitter if you're on a Pubsubhubbub-enabled publishing system.
Publishing to Facebook will be a huge win for many of those publishers and integration with both Bit.ly and Google Analytics through the integration of UTM tags will allow publishers to compare audience response in Facebook and Twitter (among other things).
Real-time, cross-network publishing and analytics as a service? That's pretty hot. With almost 350,000 publishers, Twitterfeed is approaching the number of publishers that FeedBurner had (430,000) when it was acquired by Google for a rumored $100 million. Like FeedBurner for the real-time web? That and more is what Twitterfeed could become if these kinds of technical developements could succeed.
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Good move by tweetfeed. Half an hour delay they has wasnt great.
But the feedburner itself is not realtime yet. Instead of pinging, we should be able to push it to feedburner like we push it to any other hub?
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October 16, 2009 12:07 AM
Queue, not que.
I'm sure they are happy to hear this kind of feedback, but what do you want from them next?
We dropped Twitterfeed and have been using our own RSSCloud implementation since August.
Been working perfectly.
I used to use it a lot, but after they changed to the new interface, it becomes a lot more difficult to manage dozens of feeds :(
pings about my old blog posts (way old) suddenly appeared on my twitter feed yesterday. now i know why. did that happen to anyone else?
i immediately went to twitterfeed and unplugged my feed.
I enabled my feeds again at twitterfeed.com, but real-time haven't happened to me so far. I've shared new items in my google reader shared items, which, by the way, is pubsubhubbub enabled, but the magic real-time haven't showed up yet.
I think Friendfeed is the most powerfull tools with real time update.
Twitterfeed must wait 20mn or 30mn and it often bug to update or retrieve rss feed.