How to Share Articles in Google Reader on Twitter
Can you share your best articles from Google reader on Twitter? If you love connecting and sharing with friends and want to share all your favorite blog posts and other articles with your friends on Twitter, here is a cool trick for you.
I hope that Google Reader is your default feedreader. Open your shared items page from the left navigation section.
Now focus on the URL of this page in the address bar. Look for your Google profile ID here (skip the %2F). Google Profile ID is the unique number corresponding to you. Note down this number.
Now, log in to Twitterfeed.com and enter your Twitter account details. In the RSS section, Enter the URL:
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2FYOUR-GOOGLE-ID%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fbroadcast
Fill in the other relevant fields.
And, you are done!
Now, whatever you share in Google Reader will be automatically posted in your Twitter Updates, and hence, your friends can follow this stuff. I will suggest you use Note in Reader Bookmarklet, which will make sharing webpages easier. Cheers :)
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Yeah, I definitely miss this :(
It’s a shame they got rid of this :( It was pretty helpful
Good tip! I’ve been looking for something like this. Does this still work?
Google reader is closed now. So it cannot be used
Hi Arpit, just tried this and it works for me. Thanks for the tip!
Twitterfeed is rather useless if you share more than a few posts a day. I’d rather see a service that collects all new shared items every half an hour instead of just a few. To me it’s too slow and too limited.
handy tool, Dave. Like others, it took me a bit because I was giving it an unparsable feed, but it worked itself out and now I’m feed.
Thank you for the tutorial. This was really useful. Actually, the public page for your shared items now has a link to the atom feed. This simplify your tutorial a tiny bit.
Again, thank you!
This is cool. You could combine it with “Grittr = Google Reader + Twitter” script https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49958
I’m looking for something like Twuffer that schedules future tweets (say one tweet per hour) but gets the tweets from Google Reader and shortens the URL to the actual article.
Twitter only picks up one share item at a time, even if you set twitterfeed to 5. Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?
anyone know of a way to remove or change the text that greader adds to your shared items as well as the text that twitterfeed adds? just seem to me that each app adds unneeded information. all i want is to share+note a item in greader that twitterfeed will post to twitter
Just adding my point to make this process easier..On your google reader page, click shared items.
On the right side you can see a link – See your shared items page in a new window. Click that.
You will see a page with all your shared items like a blog almost. On the right side you can see the ATOM link. You can right click and copy paste it.
I found this easier to do and less confusing than the above copy paste method.
@KateC : Hoping that you have got the solution now!
@Mike : Thanks for clarifications :)
Nice tip :)
Very useful, I never would have figured that out on my own!
@KateC – did you add anything to your shared items yet? If not, thats why it’s not working (from what I can tell) I added one item, and it is now working properly.
I get the same error as KateC when I try this.
Works geat at my end, after having items under the shared ones, thanks!
I tried to do this, created my google account, I have lots of design blogs that I keep up to date with and thought it would be worth sharing them with my friends and it says “We couldn’t parse this feed. Please check that you entered the correct feed URL” under the url for my google feed the url is from the share items page – Am i doing something wrong?
What browser were you doing the sharing attempt with?
Perhaps use firefox or something other than IE?