We’re tweeting with joy - you can now get the latest updates from GizBuzz, along with the other two Oratos blogs (YouMakeMedia and FOSSwire) on Twitter, the new nano-blogging tool taking the tech world by storm (see our review).
Even if you’ve decided Twitter isn’t something you want to get involved with in the orthodox sense, our Twitter feed is still valuable for you - you can get GizBuzz content, as soon as it is written, delivered to your Google Talk account or by SMS text.
The Oratos Twitter page is here.
A big shout out to Peter for putting this together. As I understand it, he’s created a plugin for our blog software (WordPress) which pings a script. This script then checks the blog’s RSS feed for new items, and adds any items it finds to Twitter, via its API. This means that there doesn’t need to be a cron script, which would add load to the server by checking the feed every 2 minutes even if there wasn’t a new post. It also means that you get our posts instantly, rather than when such a script decides to check for them.
