If this works, I did it!

I am attempting to set up a way to easily but not indiscriminately crosspost my Dreamwidth entries to my Twitter account. There will be times that I will want my entries to appear there without further intervention from me, and times that I really would not want that.


This is how you find the feed for your journal, or for a specific tag. I'm trying a specific tag, in my case 'crosspost', to indicate entries that I want to push offsite. (I can't use 'twitter' as my tag to crosspost to Twitter, because that's the tag that incoming entries collected from Twitter get, and that could become very quickly bizarre and/or obnoxious.)

Since Dreamwidth doesn't have a built-in push-entries-to-Twitter function (just LJ and some LJcode sites) I have to look elsewhere for something to glue these things together.

I have had good luck in general with If This, Then That in gluing pieces of internet together.

Right now, ifttt isn't recognizing the tag feed for my 'crosspost' tag as valid, because there are no entries in it. I'm about to fix that.

If all works well, ifttt will then start to watch for my 'crosspost' entries, and post them to my Twitter account. We shall see!

test

This is a test entry to see if my hypothesis is correct.

[Edit: it was. See http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/6699109.html -- I have set up selective crossposting to Twitter using ifttt.]

Entertainments

The Oh My God We Need Some Porn In Here Stat Porn Meme is still going on!

Winter is coming. Specifically, Yuletide. I'm playing this year, and OH MY GOD BEARS.

I'm coming up from the sick-and-miserable at the moment, but ugh. Sick and miserable. This probably would be the time to go stock up on soup and watch bad TV, but somehow that sounds like too much effort.

The Sims Social is fun and brainless, but it's in Flash, and it keeps making Chrome suck, which keeps bogging down the whole computer, which makes Firefox suck (not that Firefox needed much help), lagging the shit out of Trillian, and then that pings me out of IRC, which loads Trillian further with the need to reconnect. Ugh. :(

Hi, I'm cranky. It's Festivus, so I suppose I get to air my grievances?

*brandishes hairbrush* *aggrieves The Sims Social some more*

16 tweets for 2011-12-23

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Friday, 0154: Just as I was heading to bed, a dw_suggestions run!
• Friday, 0819: RT @dduane: This is so cool that I'm having trouble coping with it. :) http://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2011/12/23/up-against-the-wall-or-actually-on-it/ #quotes #library
• Friday, 0915: It looks like today is going to feature some really crappy internet. Bouncing like a basketball off IRC.
• Friday, 0927: DW entry: test http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/6699484.html
• Friday, 0929: @phoenixdreaming Hah, I was right. It doesn't pick up the first entry in a tag feed. Smart of it, but also head-pounding in this case.
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