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I last posted about twiggit, an automated system to inform the world of your diggs via twitter. In the comments, ecreeds asked whether a similar service for Sphinn existed. I don’t think one does, but here are instructions on using TwitterFeed to do something similar.

It’s Easy

1. Sign up for twitterfeed, if you don’t already have an account. If you need an OpenID, you can set one up on any Yahoo account - everybody has a Yahoo account don’t they?
2. Head over to your Sphinn profile page and choose whether to tweet just your Sphinn submissions, or every vote. Choose either the submits or the sphinns tab.
3. Notice the RSS icon next to the tab bar? That gives you a useful feed of each of your submissions or votes. Right-click and copy the link location.
4. Head over to your twitterfeed accout and add a new feed like this: You’ll need to change the twitter username and paste in the URL of your Sphinn feed.

That’s all there is to it. When your feed is processed, you should see a tweet from your account like this:

Most social networking sites provide feeds of your interactions so you could use TwitterFeed to do something similar for del.icio.us, stumbleupon, youtube, flickr and more but beware that if you automate too much, people will unsubscribe from you because your signal to noise ratio is too low. FriendFeed is much better place to stream all your web 2.0 feeds.

Hopefully that answers ecreed’s question, if you have any similar queries or want help with anything to do with the web or social media, leave a comment.