Script to publish my SO Q's and A's on my twitter?

Question

I realized that I'd like to publish my StackOverflow questions and answers on my twitter feed, but I don't want to do it manually.

• Where would I begin for this?
• What techniques/technologies/etc are available that would enable this?
• Perhaps someone has done this, or something similar (posting to blogs, etc?)

Ulf's suggestion about my user RSS feed is one option that's worth looking into - I can manipulate that in a variety of ways...

Any other options?

Answer 1

Maybe you could make use of the RSS feed?
Note, this isn't really my cup of tea, so I could be way off here....

Answer 2

You could write a small program thath every X minutes checks your rss feed and post the new items to Twitter via the Twitter APIs.

A task like this can probably be done easily and fast with Python.

Answer 3

Hey there ! :)
Take a look on my page,I managed to get together a bot who was taking messages from your email
and putting them on twitter.
If you inspect the api here you will see that you can automate twitter however you may wish.
I think you'll be most interested in the update method.
About the rss I didn't have the occasion to play with it from perl but you can check this
or you can check the rest of cpan that has modules like this.
Good luck and have some funz!

Answer 4

I heard of a few services like this.

http://twitterfeed.com/

This will take an RSS feed and send it out through your twitter account. Use this with your user feed and your pretty much there. Also Yahoo Pipes may enable you to manipulate, aggregate your feeds. ( have not used Yahoo Pipes yet )