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Till date i have been using Twitterfeed to publish RSS feed to my Twitter and Facebook profile and i must say,i quite like Twitterfeed. Starting today, Feedburner has launched Feedburner Socialize which will distribute selected feed to a Twitter account.

To get started, go to the Socialize service on FeedBurner’s Publicize tab and add the Twitter account to which you would like to post items from your feed. You can take the default settings and click [Save] to start socializing immediately, or use the options we offer to customize exactly which feed items are sent to Twitter and how exactly you would like them to look. The next time you post a new item to your feed it will be sent to Twitter (as always, make sure to ping FeedBurner whenever you update your feed so this process happens as near real-time as possible).

As of now, TwitterFeed also publishes to Facebook and gives real-time publishing as it supports Pubsubhubbub. This is something even FeedBurner Socialize will do.(TwitterFeed Now Supports Facebook)

Feedburner Socialize makes use of Google’s URL Shortening service goo.gl.

While the service is promising, i might still hold on before i start using it for 2 simple reasons

1.) Even though you can add multiple Twitter accounts to your Google profile, currently, Feedburner Socialize can only post to one Twitter account at a time. If for some reason you need the same feed to post to multiple Twitter accounts, you may create a copy of your feed and have that version post to a separate Twitter account. ( well, thats too much of work for me).

2.) I would be interested in publishing my feed to Facebook as well. This is currently not supported by Feedburner Socialize. ( and i don’t want to maintain separate accounts for publishing feed to Twitter and Facebook).

Overall, In my opinion, TwitterFeed has serious competition building up.

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