STFU && RTFM

One of the big things of today is micro-blogging. If you don’t know what it is, think of Facebook, and then think of the status field in Facebook. Strip most of the other functionality away. That’s microblogging. In other words; microblogging is responding to the question “What are you doing right now?”
 
I’ve got an account at Twitter (my nick there is @razumny), and wanted the last two entries to be displayed in the sidebar of my personal blog. Here’s how I did it:
 
First, you’ll want to find the RSS-feed address for your twitter feed. If you go to your twitter feed page, you’ll see a link at the bottom of the sidebar on the right side, like so:
 

 

1. Log into your Blogspot account, and click the link for Layout for the blog you want to update
2. Click the “Add a gadget” link



3. In the pop-up, select to add a feed, then enter the address, and set the number of updates to display, and what to call the field
4. Place the feed where you want it in your blog
5. Save

3 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

1. 

   Gil Garcia
   April 8th, 2009 at 5:11 am #

   That really helped!

   do you happen to know how to do vice versa? link my blogger to my twitter? i wanna get my tweeps access to my podcast.

2. 

   Mark Lincoln
   April 17th, 2009 at 12:22 am #

   Why didn’t I think of this? lol I’ve been trying all sorts of Twitter gadgets and never thought to just use the RSS feed. Fail!

3. 

   Aleksander R. Rødner
   October 7th, 2009 at 10:18 am #

   @Gil: I have found out, and have already scheduled a post to tackle that very subject.

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