Feedtwister is a new services which allows users to select a list RSS feeds of their choice and mix them into a single ‘combo’ output.
How it Works
After registering with Feedtwister, members can begin adding their favorite RSS feeds. You can create as many lists as you like, and each list is a combination of the RSS feeds you selected. Each list can hold 50 RSS feeds which are randomized and displayed together. To help keep things separate, each feed can be assigned an image, and posts can be ordered by date or title.
After adding some of your favorite RSS feeds to your list, you can begin customization of the output. All of the real fundamental stuff like title, language and the image are easy to change. Additionally, you can use their template system to customize the output so that it fits your website better.
Opinion
I really like the template system they have set up at Feedtwister. Generally, this seems like a great option for avid RSS readers and researchers looking for another ‘river of news’ alternative — webmasters and bloggers who want to mix their RSS feeds and display them on their site could use it as well.
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Thank you very much for the review and your kind words. I’m really glad you liked the app
Best wishes.
It seems to me that Feedtwister does not work in IE 7! Everytime I tried to create a list, clicking the create button nothing would happen. I had to use Firefox instead to create my list.
Also, it doesn’t look like you can get your data as an XML feed, instead all you can get you data by using a snippet of php or javascript code. Not too Web 2.0-ish…
All-in-all a good concept with a few drawbacks.
1. As mentioned above no XML … though you can do a lot with CSS and the javascript they give you, it would be nice to have some filtering or at least conditional commands in there.
2. Slow to update. Not their fault, they’d probably go nuts trying to capture the stuff in real-time, but there is a lag of a few hours between when you post and when feedburner catches it.
3. Never been too fond of having my content served by a third party … particularly free ones who have no compelling reason to maintain a standard of performance. Their frequent slow-downs, time-outs, and outages have often left my site completely content-less. Granted I can’t complain, since it’s a free service.
I love the app — it was easy to configure and get up and working, but I am wondering if they offer any customer support at all? I’ve got a sudden problem with dates (it says it’s Wed. Dec 31 1969!) and I can’t find anyone to help. I thought maybe it was a random fluke but it’s been showing these dates for almost 24 hours now, despite the feed itself showing the correct dates. I guess what do I expect for free?