In the continued spirit of bringing you new trinkets and goodies to play with, we sat down for Feature Friday #2 last week and are glad to announce “Exclude Filters”.

As you may know, Twitterfeed allows you to filter your posts by keywords (click on Edit feed and then Advanced Settings at the bottom). What this means is that till today, you’ve been able to tell Twitterfeed to only post certain posts that contain particular keywords. 

Starting today, you can tell twitterfeed to not posts certain posts that contain a particular keyword. Confused? Let me explain with an example.

Let’s say you want to never post items that talk about Apple from your blog to Twitter or Facebook. All you have to do is:

1) Click on edit your feed

2) Click on advanced settings (towards the bottom)

3) Scroll all the way to the bottom to the “Keyword Filter” section

4) Check the box marked: Filter your posts (unless it is already checked, of course)

5) Add the word you want to use to exclude posts, prefixed by

--

(that’s two dashes). So, to exclude posts with the word Apple in them, add

--apple

6) Click Continue to step 2 and then All Done on the next page

That’s it!  Now every time you post an item with the word apple in the title or the body, Twitterfeed will ignore that post.

This is live and ready for you to use right now! So, we’d like to encourage you to take advantage of this feature and report back on what you think!

Along with our feature friday awesomeness, we’d also like to introduce our new support email address. We love the GetSatisfaction forums, but sometimes you need to send us more information that may not be relevant to everyone else, so you can now email: support@twitterfeed.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible!

And that concludes this post, adios muchachos!

Happy Monday Twitterfeeders!

Just wanted to give you a quick update on what we’ve been upto here for the past week. 

To start off, we’ve decided to take the next few Fridays off to implement things that we’d like to see and know would help the community. We’re calling it Feature Friday!

As a result of last Friday’s mad hacking we’ve just implemented an idea that’s been suggested by a number of people, called “Check now”. You should now be able to see it as a link on your dashboard called “options”, and clicking it will show you when your feed was last fetched, when it will be fetched again and it will allow you to tell Twitterfeed to fetch your feed immediately, as opposed to waiting for the next fetch cycle. Please check it out and let us know what you think in the comments below or in the support forum. 

Along with Feature Friday, we’re also introducing a new promotional partner, called Skimlinks. As a publisher, Skimlinks enables you to monetize your blog in multiple ways and you should now be able to sign up straight from your dashboard. More info about Skimlinks below and we hope you find this useful!

Skimlinks can help you earn money from your blog’s content effortlessly and transparently.

The innovative technology works in two ways, converting your normal links into affiliate links, and turning product references in your content into relevant, geo-targeted shopping links.

These links can make you money every time one of your readers clicks through and makes a purchase, with a seamless, automatic process behind-the-scenes.

You keep doing what you do best, and Skimlinks takes care of the rest, linking you up immediately with more than 12,000 international retailers, and unlocking all that cash that’s hiding in your content.

Apply for a Skimlinks account here. 

Hello Twitterfeeders!

It has been quite a busy summer for us here at Twitterfeed HQ and I just wanted to take give you guys a quick update on what we’ve been upto.

But first, let me introduce myself. I’m Aditya and I’ve just taken on the role of General Manager of Twitterfeed after having been consulting for the company for the past few months. I’m super excited to be here, and to work with Mario and Scott to help build Twitterfeed into an amazing tool for all our users. Also, many thanks to Tony for his help in taking care of Twitterfeed over the past year. We wish him and Chartbeat all the best!

We realize that we’ve faced some downtime and delivery problems over the past few months and I’d like to emphasize that our biggest goal in the coming months is to provide you with a much more reliable and stable service. Twitterfeed as a service has been growing like a weed and it has been hard to manage this growth. We are very thankful to all our users for sticking by us through these tough times.

We are confident that the worst is over and that we’re on our way to servicing all your feed publishing and social media needs in the best possible way. To that effect, we’ve just completed our move into a new data center on the West Coast. Along with acquiring new hardware and being closer to both Twitter and Facebook, we’ve also been busy at re-building our software infrastructure to be more stable and reliable, and you will begin to see these improvements in the next couple of weeks. 

What you will also see are features that you’ve all been asking for, which we will begin gradually rolling out to users in the coming weeks! If there’s anything specific that you’d like to see, please sound off in the comments or in the Ideas section of our GetSatisfaction forum.

Lastly, we’d like to work better with all of you to ensure that you’re happy with Twitterfeed and are receiving a good quality of service, please feel free to email me (aditya@twitterfeed.com) or tweet at us (@twfeed) or leave feedback in our support forum if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions. 

Happy publishin’!