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Introduction

tweet site RSS service creates announcements from your RSS or Atom and posts them automatically. Hereinafter we'll use the term RSS and mean RSS or Atom.

Signing in

It's the first thing you need to do to start your activity. You don't need any registration in our system. If you have an account in one of shown networks, and we're sure that you have at least one of them already, you click on Sign in and the system authenticates you against your account in chosen social network.

User profile

After signing in first time, the system will offer you to edit your newly created profile. You can do it later too, by clicking on your name in top of the page near the profile picture.

There's an important e-mail field in your profile. We strongly recommend you to fill this field. We use it to send emergency emails in case of service disruption, or if somethink is going wrong with your account.

Adding new job/Editing job

After signing in, click on Add new job and fill the form. You need to set url of your RSS or Atom, choose frequency and posts count per session from drop-down boxes. You can also set some optional parameters, depending on social network.

The system creates one job per RSS.

To edit job click on edit (edit) icon of job in Manage your jobs section

After making changes you can click on Save or Discard buttons to save or discard the changes correspondingly. If everything is OK, you'll get the meassage "The job was successfully saved." To check your job, click on Save&Test. In case of success you'll get an additional message "Test was succeed. Now check your page". If all feeds from RSS was already sent you'll get the message "There are no more items to broadcast". In case of failure you'll get the same message. So if you are sure, that there's a feed on your RSS, click on edit and revise your URL and page params again.

Managing your jobs

To edit or delete your jobs click on Manage your jobs and you'll see the table of your jobs. Beside of each job you'll see two icons to edit (edit) and delete (delete) the job.

Reporting

Report section gives you a total quantity of sent posts per job up to now, and the summary of all posts. To get all posts of one job, click on the job name.

Signing out

To sign out of your social network account click on Sign out

Recommendations

  • We handle only RSS and Atom feeds. So don't submit an html page.
  • It's strongly recommended to set the title field of RSS feeds. Moreover, these titles have to be as unique as possible. After sending the post, the service saves the title of sent post to not send it twice. Therefore, if all your feeds have the same title only one feed will be sent and all remainings will be ignored.
  • Depending on average quantity of feeds in your RSS, and update frequency of RSS news, choose quantity of posts per session and session frequency. Choose so, that our engine can finish posting of all your feeds by the time of the next update of RSS, and you don't have very frequent posts in the beginning and a big idle time until the next update of RSS. The good tuning of time and quantity gives your posts a realistic view, like they are sent by human.

    Example: If you have nearly 12 feeds in RSS and your RSS is updating every three days, you can set the following parameters for your job:

  • Session frequency = Two times a day
    Post(s) per session = Two messages

    Now you'll have four posts per day and all your posts will be sent until the updating time of RSS. You can set more than two posts, of course. Then your RSS feeds will be sent earlier.

Features

Facebook

For facebook our service sends the title, body, link and image of feed, if there is any.

If you configured your facebook to automatically publish your posts in your twitter account, it will work for your real posts only. Facebook API does not allow to send automatically generated posts to twitter. For Twitter we recommend you to create another job under your twitter account.

For facebook you can optionally set page name, to send post into the specified page, instead of your wall. For example, If the page name is ebooks.jsoft, then write this name in the Page field. If your page does not have name you can set its facebook unique identifier. For example, the identifier of facebook page of this service is 278151748908395. Write identifier or name without leading and trailing slashes.

Note, that thare are some drawbacks with page parameter:
If you set page field, then service will send posts to your page on behalf of you. Facebook has per day limitation on quantity of publishing posts in other wall.
And one more thing. In order to see your posts on facebook page by other people enter to Manage Permissions section of your page and set Wall Tab Shows parameter to All Posts.

Twitter

For twitter our service sends only titles of feeds and link.

Because of character counts restriction of Twitter, we shorten your feeds' title, if it's necessary. We put three dots (...) instead of cut part. We also shorten the links' url before sending tweet, with bit.ly service.

For twitter you can set an optional keywords and the service will add these keywords before the title of every feed.
Example: Say you have a bookstore and want to announce the feeds about new arrivals. Then you can add the word book before each feed. I add #ebook prefix before my ebook announcements to give hashtag service to index my tweets with ebook keyword.

LinkedIn

For LinkedIn our service sends the title, body, link and image of feed, if there is any.

Moreover you can send feeds to your twitter account throught LinkedIn. For this purpose check Send to twitter box in the form of job. In this case the service writes the title of feed in two places, in place of title and in place of comment, because LinkedIn sends to Twitter only this part of status.

Myspace

For Myspace our service sends titles, body of feeds and link.

Delicious

For Delicious global bookmarking service our service sends titles, body of feeds, link and an optional tags. Tags must be saparated by comma. Tags classify bookmarks and makes easy to find them later.