[tags]twitter, tumblr, tumblelog, yahoo, pipes, rss[/tags]

I didn’t really like how my Twitter RSS feed looked, so I threw together a new one using Yahoo Pipes. This version is designed to be imported as an unattributed regular post without titles, but I’m working on another version that sets the title to be an approximation of the post date (which is working fine actually, as long as you’re on UTC). And on top of that, David and I are collaborating on adding the “in reply to” functionality from the site into the feed as well using the recently released Twitter API. Yahoo pipes don’t support authentication to get your friends’ updates, so you have to take care of that with some code on your own server. The pipe for that is done, I just gotta get Dave to tell me how he’s generating his XML file and coax him to liberate his code so I’m not annotating my feed with his updates. ^_^

Ach, I’m getting so far ahead of myself! Here’s a before and after of the version I’ve got published so far:

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Lisa: Processing etech pics from last night. Wondering if anyone else has used the tag chickenchickenchicken on flickr (via Twitter / Lisa)

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[Twitter] @viss: I’m fond of jUploadr. It isn’t cmdline, but you can drag and drop. BTW, with a free account, 200 images is all you get at one time.

Subtle difference, but the piped feed makes a bit more sense, imo. Anyway, here’s the link: Twitter for Tumblr

If anyone has any ideas of what else to do with the Twitter feed, by all means send them my way and I’ll try to make them happen. Also, if anyone wants help with Pipes (which is SERIOUSLY fun once you get the hang of it), I can help with that, too.