Agreed on feedflare on and off - I've noticed this on the rss on my (and other) sites as well. Feedburner has been turned into (sadly) a big disappointment since Google took over. Immediately on the acquisition I said it would be bad and unfortunately I was right.
agawley
· 11 months ago
Strange that you have to log in to Twit This. I would have thought they could do this with simple redirects to Twitter. I hate giving out my Twitter password all the time :-(
It's particularly good for static pages, or situations where you want to put particular emphasis on tweeting. Some posts are more tweetable than others.
fredwilson
· 11 months ago
Thanks Rick
I¹m going to try the bit.ly feedflare right now
I¹d like to keep all my engagement links running through feedflare if I can
kortina
· 11 months ago
Fred,
A few weeks ago Andrew asked me about bit.ly and FeedFlare--this has been something we've had on our list for mission bit.ly ubiquity for quite awhile, but your post just reminded me that we still hadn't made our Feed Flare link.
Anyway, I just created a bit.ly Feed Flare called "Tweet and Track." This link will drop you into bit.ly, shorten the URL to the original post, and set you up to tweet directly from bit.ly. What's nice about tweeting a bit.ly link as is your can track how many people click links they send to your posts.
i am going to swith right away. twit this was cool, but bit.ly integration carries the day. thanks for the tip.
kortina
· 11 months ago
Glad you enjoy! Ping me if you have any suggestions. I was also thinking of doing a "bit.ly Info" feedflare that displays traffic data for a post--will have to marinate on that a bit more, though.
fredwilson
· 11 months ago
It could be a dynamic flare like the delicious flare.
Technorati used to be dynamic but they couldn¹t make it work. Too flakey
Johnborthwick
· 11 months ago
Fred Glad this worked -- thank you K
OurielOhayon
· 11 months ago
Fred, I installed this flare a bout a year ago. i found the usage was very low and that most of people keep taking the URL and paste it directly in twitter. In general i find that people have a hard time adopting things that save them time for one simple reason: it is hard to change your behaviour on something that is not really a pain.
vincentvw
· 11 months ago
I agree with Ouriel. While plenty of sites offer the delicious this, friendfeed this, and tweet this link in their footer, I'm so used to just using the bookmarklets that many of these services provide. If you're geek enough to use these services, you're probably geek enough to understand bookmarklets too.
maverickny
· 11 months ago
"I have noticed that FeedFlare has been on and off on this blog recently."
Am glad you said that Fred, as it happens to me a lot too and I thought it was my incompetence. The ShareThis icon on posts comes and goes and both the TwitThis and Bit.ly links appeared (I tested them ok) and went again. Very frustrating as it makes me start wondering if I actually installed them properly or not.
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An example here: http://cabeasy.com/From-30-Newport-Pkwy-Jersey-...
Wherever it was, it's very useful to quickly share something with the community.
I like the 'tweets' better than 'twits'.
Also, Twitter doesn't let you use "twitter" in the username, so some have gone the 'twit' route to shorten 'twitter'.
It's particularly good for static pages, or situations where you want to put particular emphasis on tweeting. Some posts are more tweetable than others.
I¹m going to try the bit.ly feedflare right now
I¹d like to keep all my engagement links running through feedflare if I can
A few weeks ago Andrew asked me about bit.ly and FeedFlare--this has been something we've had on our list for mission bit.ly ubiquity for quite awhile, but your post just reminded me that we still hadn't made our Feed Flare link.
Anyway, I just created a bit.ly Feed Flare called "Tweet and Track." This link will drop you into bit.ly, shorten the URL to the original post, and set you up to tweet directly from bit.ly. What's nice about tweeting a bit.ly link as is your can track how many people click links they send to your posts.
Here is the xml file for our Feed Flare:
http://s.bit.ly/TweetAndTrack.xml
I added it to my Tumblr RSS if you want to check it out before installing:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/KortinaTumblog
doing a "bit.ly Info" feedflare that displays traffic data for a post--will
have to marinate on that a bit more, though.
Technorati used to be dynamic but they couldn¹t make it work. Too flakey
Am glad you said that Fred, as it happens to me a lot too and I thought it was my incompetence. The ShareThis icon on posts comes and goes and both the TwitThis and Bit.ly links appeared (I tested them ok) and went again. Very frustrating as it makes me start wondering if I actually installed them properly or not.