Autoposting to Twitter

[rasmusbang]

Hi all,

I have a Twitter account. I have some data i receive from a third party. When new data arrives (these are football lineups) I want to post this to my Twitter. The data arrives approximately 60-30 minutes before matches start. So if I use twitterfeed i can get the data checked each 30 minutes - but this can result in tweets with data for matches that already started.

How can i post my data automatically...and almost instantly upon reception?

Not sure if this issue is for the MOZ forum, but I am pretty certain that there are some good developers out there that could help me?

-Rasmus

[GPainter]

Hi Rasmus,It can be done with no problem but I thought you may want to know it could violate the twitter terms (its a bit slippery) - https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915-automation-rules-and-best-practices#

It's something you want want to consider prior.  I bet if you Google "twitter auto poster" you may find a result or two that could help!

Hope that helps

[CommT]

I don't think it does go against Twitter rules:

• Feeds for community benefit: You can create feeds for community benefit, or to provide information to a niche group of users, such as local weather feeds or transit information.

OK football line-ups are not local weather or transit info, but it is useful information for football fans, no?

Rasmus- I'd check with Twitter if what you propose would be ok.

[anthonydnelson]

You should be able to get this accomplished by creating a recipe on https://ifttt.com/

Create a RSS to Twitter recipe and it should work out just fine.

[StreamlineMetrics]

Yup, IFTTT is the way to go. I use it for several Twitter accounts.

(Also, I had written a more detailed reply but I got an error message from "incapsula" and then I lost my response, ugh. So maybe Moz should look into this...)

moz.com -

Access Denied

Error code 15

This request was blocked by the security rules

[StreamlineMetrics]

Yup, that's exactly what I do for my Twitter account that automatically posts questions from the Moz Q&A (https://twitter.com/seoqa).  I have to use a third party tool to create an RSS feed since Moz doesn't have one (that I'm aware of) and the tool's free plan can only post every few hours which can get pretty annoying when it blasts 8 tweets in a row... but if you already have an RSS feed, you can use IFTTT to check your feed for new items more frequently and post to Twitter immediately.

Edit - just realized my Twitter account stopped tweeting out Moz questions on April 27th, likely as a result of Moz changing the structure of their Q&A posts and/or something broke with my RSS tool but nothing should be wrong with IFTTT and/or auto-posting to Twitter...investigating now!

[KeriMorgret]

Did you get the incapsula error message when you tried to click Post Response in Q&A, or when doing something else?