Twitterfeed.com

A few years ago, I set-up a Twitter account for the library to disseminate information about our programs to interested patrons. I enjoyed trying to devise a little announcement within the 140 character allotment, but finding the time to publicize our numerous programs was becoming more and more difficult. Recently, I came across a website called, Twitterfeed that makes this process a whole lot easier.

Twitterfeed can take any RSS feed and send it out to those following you on Twitter. Our online events calendar has an RSS feed, so I was able to send out any event that was loaded on that page as a tweet. I did the same with this blog and some of the other library blogs. If I want to add any more of my personal tweets, I can still do that, but Twitterfeed takes the pressure off. In addition, Twitterfeed allows users to determine the frequency of their tweets. I have set ours to update every hour.