In the space of a few hours with a combination of WordPress, RSS and a couple of WordPress plugins any business can create a twitter stream that collects information from several different RSS feeds and provides an automatic twitter update. The functionality is similar to Yahoo pipes or twitterfeed but crucially for the Enterprise this functionality can be provided behind the firewall rather than rely on third party services.
This solution could be used to aggregate multiple content stream generated within the Enterprise and streamed to twitter. PR releases, news items, product updates, service updates.
What I haven’t looked at yet is streaming content to an internal twitter service. If achievable this solution moves from a simple automatic twitter tool to a company wide Enterprise work flow system.
To prove the concept I have taken three NFL streams (NFL Network, National Football Post and ESPN NFL) and aggregated them into a single twitter stream at nflfreeagency. The WordPress output can be found here.
Here’s a quick overview of how the solution works:
Stage One: the basics
- download and install wordpress 2.7 onto your web server
Stage Two: managing the multiple RSS streams
- three plugins are required that will allow you to manage RSS feeds and display on your WordPress blog: SimplePie Core, SimplePie for WP and WP-o-Matic
- when the three plugins are installed browse to WP-o-Matic in settings and enter the feeds you wish to manage
- once entered WP-o-Matic will create a new blog post for every new RSS entry
Stage Three: getting your blog posts from WordPress into twitter
- download Alex King’s TwitterTools plugin and install within WordPress, make sure you check the options to create a new tweet for every new blog entry
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