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Twitter to Plurk

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For some strange reason, Taiwanese love Plurk. So even though I don’t use it myself, I’d like to have my status updates posted there. The problem is that Plurk allows posting to Twitter, but not the other way around. After some research, I finally figured a work around. The trick is to use both Ping.fm and Twitterfeed

Here are the steps:

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    <span style="font-size: medium;">Set up a Ping.fm account.</span>
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    <span style="font-size: medium;">Add your Plurk account and turn posting on.</span>
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    <span style="font-size: medium;">Copy the RSS feed from your Twitter profile and add it to Twitterfeed.<br /><strong>UPDATE</strong>: This turns out to pull all your @replies as well. To avoid that, generate a feed from <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5n7SVdLz3BGmoCmVEpPZnA" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5n7SVdLz3BGmoCmVEpPZnA', 'this Yahoo Pipe instead']);" >this Yahoo Pipe instead</a>.</span>
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    <span style="font-size: medium;">Under &#8220;advanced&#8221; tell it to just use the description title, not both the title and the description. (In Twitter&#8217;s RSS feed they are both the same. So otherwise you will get the text of your twitter post duplicated in your Plurk update. <strong>UPDATE</strong>: Use the title, don&#8217;t use the description because it will duplicate your username.)</span>
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    <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Set Twitterfeed to post this feed to Ping.fm. (It will ask you for your application key here. You can get that from this page:&nbsp;</span><a href="http://ping.fm/key/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http://ping.fm/key/', 'http://ping.fm/key']);" ><span style="font-size: medium;">http://ping.fm/key</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;)</span></span>
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  <span style="font-size: medium;">That&#8217;s it. I hope this is helpful.</span>


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  <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is </span><a href="http://www.plurk.com/kerim" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http://www.plurk.com/kerim', 'my Plurk page']);" ><span style="font-size: medium;">my Plurk page</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span>


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