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Force feed refresh or ping service
Polling feeds works very well most of the time, but there's probably a lot of bandwidth being wasted. Why not combine polling with a ping service where twitterfeed is notified of updates?
And how about a "force refesh" or "manual ping" button? That could be useful too.
And how about a "force refesh" or "manual ping" button? That could be useful too.
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Inappropriate?That's an interesting idea. I would think such a feature would be most useful outside twitterfeed though (i.e. you wouldn't really want to log in to the twitterfeed site to click this button), so more like a bookmarklet in the browser, or similar..
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Inappropriate?I see the manual ping button as a feature that's nice to have, but it's also an extreme measure that wouldn't be used very often, so logging into twitterfeed to use it wouldn't be a problem.
The automatic pinging feature (pinging as described here http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom) would be automatically managed by many publishing clients and blog engines so no need for logging. And you could reset timers at every ping, so you don't have to poll feeds that often.
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Inappropriate?The manual ping button would be extremely useful in two situations.
1) Where you're initially establishing / checking or later updating your twitterfeed feeds
2) When twitterfeed returns a 500 error (which incidentally just happened - on my first use of twitterfeed - and with no manual update, I've been sitting waiting for time to pass to see if it will rectify!)
Also it would be nice to add some feed processing options.
Eg: I'm using twitterfeed to forward MMS'd tumblr posts to twitter (and hense to a group wordpress blog). But tumblr appends their url, and doubles up the title and text in it its rss feed. This means if it text. 'Hello from phone', the ultimate tweet is 'Hello from phone: Hello from phone http://tinyurl.com/XXX'. I could run the feed through yahoo pipes or something similar, but that would be quite involved to set up, and add another dependency in the posting chain.
Thanks a million for a great service in any case!
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Inappropriate?dbspin: point taken on the manual ping, I'll see what I can do..
Re. the feed processing options, I believe this already exists. If your title and description are essentially duplicates, you have the options to only post the title or description. You can see this option when you create/edit a twitter feed, under "my twitter feeds".
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Inappropriate?Mario,
Thanks so much, I should have looked more carefully. Fantastic site might I add once again.
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