So Where’s Your Post on DIY configuration of Twitterfeed with my URI from Yahoo Pipes? Hmmm?

Okay, okay…I’ve procrastinated long enough.

So, in my last installment I stepped through the process of creating a very simple Yahoo! Pipe to search using the keyword “bullying”. We now have an RSS feed that returns the results of that keyword search, but how do we pump that RSS feed over to say, our Twitter account?

Your perseverance is about to be rewarded, O Patient One.

The next step in our process is to scurry on over to Twitterfeed: http://twitterfeed.com/


If you don’t have an account yet, the registration process is a cinch: enter an email address and password (confirming the password) and click the “Create Account” button to create your new Twitterfeed account.


You’ll next be presented with a screen to define your first Twitterfeed. Hopefully, you’ve still got the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that you copied from Yahoo Pipes in your clipboard; you’ll need to enter a name for your new feed and paste the URI in the “RSS Feed URL” field.


To test and ensure that the connection between Yahoo Pipes and Twitterfeed is working, click the “test rss feed” button. You should get a screen similar to the one below:


Click on the “Advanced Settings” link and we’ll do a little more configuration: select a value for Update Frequency and number of posts. If you received the message “Feed parsed OK, but due to missing pubDates make sure you select ‘Post new items baed on GUID’ in Advanced Settings below” in the previous screen, select “GUID” in Post Sorting. Finish by clicking on “Continue to Step 2”.


The next screen lets you select a feed publishing destination. Since we’re pushing the results of the Yahoo Search to Twitter, let’s select Twitter. We’re going to connect this Twitterfeed to our Twitter account, but we’ll need to give Twitterfeed permission to post updates to our account. Click on the “Twitter” link.


The screen updates to allow you to select a Twitter account. Of course, since Twitter’s switched over to oAuth (Open Authentication) security, we’ll need to take a little side trip to authenticate. Click the “Authenticate Twitter Using oAuth” button.

You’ll be asked to allow a third-party application, in this case Twitterfeed, to have access to your Twitter account. Since there’s nothing nefarious involved here, let’s go ahead and click the “Allow” button.


You’ll be returned to the Twitterfeed page, secure in the knowledge that Twitterfeed and Twitter are now the best of friends! In fact, Twitterfeed likes your Twitter account so much that it now displays the name of your account as the “Authenticated Twitter Account”, as seen below. Click on the “Create Service” button.


Click on the “All Done!” button.

Happy, happy, joy joy! You’ve created your feed!