I started using Twitter Tools a few weeks ago to aggregate my tweets in a daily blog post. Last weekend, I had an idea where I could also aggregate tweets in my friends timeline. I thought that it would be cool to show the links that my friends are sharing with the Twitterverse.
I started with Twitter Tools as a base, and after reading and understanding the code, it was relatively straightforward to add a seperate call to the friends timeline. Once I had the desired tweets, scraping, storing and posting the ones containing links were easy and routine.
Now that it’s all said and done, I’m enjoying sharing novel links from Twitter on my blog. However, the daily digest posts are now very lengthy due to the amount of links my Twitter friends post. It’s kind of good and bad at the same time.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the “Links” section of the Twitter digest? How to make it more relevant or compact, or perhaps display it in a different way?
Twitter Tools by Alex King [alexking.org]
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