Forward Your Favourite Content to Twitter or Facebook With RSS.me
If you’re a blogger, you want to share every new article you write with your friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter, right? Maybe you’re the editor of a multi-author blog, and it’s not safe to provide Twitter passwords and Facebook admin roles to more than 5 or 10 people.
RSS.me is a free online tool that will periodically check your blogs’ feed and new articles will be automatically sent to your social profiles. Let’s check it out!
Really Simple… Setup?
To use RSS.me, first you’ll have to register. Once that is done, you can add your RSS feeds into the system. If you’re not sure what the URL to the feed is, don’t worry, simply enter the site URL and RSS.me will automatically find the RSS feed. You can now add short prefix or suffix to your messages, set up how often should your feed be checked and how much messages should be sent out per hour. You want to inform your followers, not spam them.
Once the sources are set up, it’s time to select targets – where your messages should be posted. Currently, RSS.me can publish your RSS content to Twitter, Identi.ca and Facebook walls, groups or pages. Everything goes.
Check out how RSS.me works in this short video:
Aggregate Your Feed
This simple tool, still in beta, comes from Blacknight Internet Solutions. We wrote about Blacknight earlier in our tutorials. When asked how long it took to develop RSS.me, Michele Neylon from Blacknight said:
We’ve been working on it on and off since the beginning of the year. When we started out we wanted to be able to take content in from blogs and other sources and cross-post them quickly to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Over time, we realized that there were other things we could do and based on people’s feedback we started adding in other “targets” for data as well as different ways to automatically select what was being posted. So now, for example, you can choose to have content from a particular source post only when certain keywords are present.
Michele (follow him on Twitter) is also one of the speakers at our WebFest conference in Budva, Montenegro, so if you want to chat with him, you can catch him there. Find out more about WebFest.
A Tool For “Web People”
According to Michele, RSS.me as a tool is great for bloggers, businesses, and social media advocates. There’s a lot of different types of uses you can put the service to, says Michele. Since we all get information through Twitter and Facebook more than through RSS, Michele thinks that RSS.me is a great way to combine the two; you still use RSS for content distribution, while your readers get the content in their preferred channels.
RSS.me might be useful to everyone that creates content and is always looking for a new and effective way to share it. Try it out free, and if you have any suggestions for the team, let them know on their Facebook or Twitter.
Not sure what is RSS? We have a nice explanation on what RSS is, check it out! Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS feed as well 😉
