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Add ability to append data to links
I would like to be able to add so static params to the end of all my post links before you shorten them.
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Inappropriate?Ideally I think this should be done elsewhere, e.g. by editing the feed itself before it's posted to twitterfeed (either because you have access to it, or via a tool like Yahoo! Pipes).
While it wouldn't be difficult to add this in principle, I'm not convinced twitterfeed is the right tool/place to do this, and am worried it would add to the general cluttered UI (although perhaps a re-design of the create/update feed pages may help.. but I'd have to find the time for this first...)
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I tend to agree with Mario... I'm doing this kind of thing with Yahoo! Pipes, which seems like a better solution, both because of flexibility and to keep Twitterfeed from getting too kludgey. -
Inappropriate?I'd like to be able to do this too. Or, more flexibly, alter the URL in a standard way (regular expressions?) before shortening. I like to put the Google Analytics stuff on the end of my URL so I can track where visitors come from, and tracking twitter users separately from RSS readers is a helpful ability.
I hadn't thought of using Yahoo Pipes but it seems it'd be easier to do it in Twitterfeed....
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Inappropriate?I disagree that Twitterfeed is not the place for this, here's why. The RSS feed gets used other places, and it not created for the sole purpose of TwitterFeed/Twitter. I would want the URLs coming out of TwitterFeed to be specially appended with UTM_ tags that identify it is Twitter traffic, but I would not want that to happen if the RSS feed was clicked from Google Reader et al.
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Inappropriate?I'd use this feature if it were added.
The kind of users who use Twitterfeed -- people who lack the skills to write their own script to post RSS items through the Twitter API and people who *could* write their own script but don't have time or care enough -- are the same people who don't know how to create a special version of their RSS feeds or don't have time to rig up an essentially duplicate RSS feed with Twitterfeed-specific tweaks. I'm thinking of users who want their blog posts to be tweeted but use something like Blogger or Wordpress.com where they have no control over the content of their RSS.
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Inappropriate?Agreed, and we are actively working on supporting UTM tags in an upcoming release.1 Comment Add a comment
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That's great to hear, Mario! Thank you :)
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