One tip is that sometimes Twitter will have issue with an account that only ever posts links. I have had this up and running for a few years now. It will just show up in the feed of your main account anytime there is a new article posted to the RSS feed: Once setup, it runs without much interaction. The reason I choose to watch one RSS feed per zap is because I preface it with the site, then I put the title, then I put the non-shortened URL:įrom there you can run the test and confirm it was successful. Next you can put whatever you want as the message. Once the trigger is done, you’ll move to the Action.Ĭhoose Twitter and “Create Tweet” as the action event:Ĭhoose your personal rss twitter account: (You can also choose to watch numerous feeds, but I choose just one per zap which I’ll explain why later.) Once Zapier has access, you’ll create the Zap.įor the trigger, choose RSS by Zapier and New Item in Feed. This will allow the service to follow an RSS feed and when there is a new article it will tweet it to your RSS account. Just open up “My Apps” and search for Twitter:Īfter that, it will be connected. Once your Zapier account is setup, connect it your new RSS-specific twitter account. The free plan works fine for me because I use just 4 zaps. I went with My main account is the only allowed follower: Here’s how I did it.įirst, create a new private twitter account that only you will follow. I found what I wanted by sending their RSS feed to twitter specifically for me and it’s worked out very well. I had to find a middle ground between an RSS app and a fully open twitter feed. With the occasional new article, the feeds also have promotional tweets from their other projects, retweets of employees and reporters, the same article linked a dozen times, and so many other things mixed in. Official twitter accounts for sites like Axios and The Las Vegas Review-Journal are overwhelming. The issue I ran into was that following these sites on Twitter is so busy that new articles they post get lost in the noise. Instead, I thought I would use Twitter to watch for new posts. There are a few news sites that I want to keep up with throughout the day so they don’t work so well in my dedicated RSS app. It doesn’t require constant checking during the day.
I keep such a curated and intentional list of sites that the articles are pretty limited in number. However, I only open up NetNewsWire once or twice a day. The best app to use is NetNewsWire on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. It allows you to keep up with your favorite sites. The best way to get your news online is by using RSS feeds.
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