A Review Of Twiggit - Automatically Tweet Your Diggs

Jason from Twiggit dropped me an email a few days ago, asking if I’d like to review his site. He was polite and not spammy so, of course, I said yes.

What Is Twiggit?

Twiggit is a service that will automatically add your Digg submissions and votes to your Twitter stream. It is highly configurable, allowing you to choose to tweet just items you submit, or positive votes too. There are other options to change how often it checks Digg, pause operation or delete your account.

Like many Twitter applications, it requires your Twitter password to work - a limitation of the Twitter API. A lot of the Twitter community really want to see the long-promised adoption of OAuth to replace this, but there’s no sign just yet.

It doesn’t need your Digg password, thankfully, since the Digg data can be read publicly.

In Action

Twiggit produces nicely formatted tweets that use TinyURL to perform URL shortening. You can see an example of one of my twiggit tweets displayed in TwitterFox, below:

When I first signed up for the service, Twiggit picked up one of my Digg votes from the evening before, which was a bit alarming although there have been no other glitches. It seems to a be well-rounded and professional piece of software.

Who Will Benefit?

I think that Digg power-users that organise their networks via Twitter will be best served by this software. As we have seen from the latest MrBabyMan controversy, top users submit and vote on hundreds of stories every day and anything that can lighten their load will pay dividends in time savings.

For the record, I don’t think that MrBabyMan should be banned, and I don’t know if he organises his network via Twitter - or even if he has a network. I do think that Digg’s algorithm is too heavily biased in favour of existing power users but I really do not care about the rest of this spat.

You Could Make This With Yahoo Pipes And TwitterFeed

Yes you could, but why bother? Twiggit works very well and you can get it up and running in seconds. I have made good use of both Yahoo Pipes and Twitterfeed before, but Twiggit just works.

Will you be using Twiggit? Want one for Reddit? Leave a comment.

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