How To Share Simultaneously On Twitter & Google Reader Using Friendfeed

Although Twitter (check my profile here) was primarily meant to share status updates and about what’s going on in your life, lately I find it has become an important sharing tool where people don’t hesitate to share links and pictures, just like they would do in any other prominent social media platform.

It’s a good thing I’d say if you can cope with the information overload. I have no problems with that. I love to randomly check out twitter streams of people to find new content. I too love to share nice stuff as and when I find them on the web.

My main source of information has always been Google Reader (since it was introduced of course). I subscribe to a huge number of blogs and also love to make use of its share feature.

Sometime back, it struck my mind if it is possible to share my Google Reader shared items on Twitter in real-time. I did some research and found it could be done with Twitterfeed. However, it wasn’t as real-time as I’d want it to be (though they have made some changes lately). So I went for the next option, which was doing it through Friendfeed.

Assuming you have a Friendfeed account, here are the steps to use it for getting your shared feed items on Twitter.

1. First make sure you add both Twitter & Google Reader to your Friendfeed services list.

2. Go to Friendfeed Tools and click on Post to Twitter.

3. Select the options as you see in the screenshot below. If you want people to come to the Friendfeed page and start a discussion then you might consider unchecking the “Link to source site..” box.

4. Save changes and you are done. Next time you share something on Google Reader, it gets posted automatically on your Twitter account instantly.

Do you any other interesting ways to integrate Google Reader, or any other service for that matter with Twitter ? Lets hear them in the comments.

Image credit: Byrion

P. S. I know I am back after a long time. Well, there are many reasons behind my prolonged absence on the blog, but I thought it’s better to start posting useful stuff instead of a long rant of excuses.