{"id":2037,"date":"2015-07-24T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2015-07-06T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:20:18","slug":"making-my-twitter-feed-richer-with-zapier-and-hnrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2037","title":{"rendered":"Making my Twitter feed richer with Zapier and hnrss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"twitter icon 9a by marek.sotak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/3275031724_8f367abd15_q_twitter.jpg\" alt=\"twitter photo\" width=\"150\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30032901@N04\/3275031724\" target=\"_blank\">marek.sotak<\/a> <a title=\"Attribution License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I read <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/\">Hacker News<\/a>, a site for startups and technologies, and occasionally <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/submitted?id=mooreds\">post as well<\/a>.\u00a0 A few months back, I realized that the items that I post to HN, I want to tweet as well.\u00a0 While I could have whipped something up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/edavis.github.io\/hnrss\/\">HN RSS feed<\/a> and the Twitter API (would probably be easier than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1993\">Twitversation<\/a>), I decided to try to use Zapier (which I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1658\">loved for a while<\/a>).\u00a0 It was dead simple to set up a Zap reading from my HN RSS feed and posting to my Twitter feed.\u00a0 Probably about 10 minutes of time, and now I doubled my posts to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this misses out on one of the huge benefits of Twitter&#8211;the conversational nature of the app.\u00a0 When my auto posts happen, I don&#8217;t have a chance to follow up, or to cc: the authors, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, the perfect is the enemy of the good, and I figured it was better to engage in Twitter haphazardly and imperfectly than not at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Hacker News, a site for startups and technologies, and occasionally post as well.\u00a0 A few months back, I realized that the items that I post to HN, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}