Published by marco on
I use Instapaper quite heavily for managing the content I read. After I’ve read something, I usually archive it so that I can search it later and I “like” it if I found it interesting.
You can see my archive and likes as RSS feeds, but I was looking for something a little pushier.
I have a Twitter account that I don’t use very much. It currently tweets blog posts from earthli News almost exclusively.
I figured it it might be kind of useful if I could have Instapaper automatically post articles that I’ve liked to Twitter. Instapaper has a connector that you can use, so I checked that out. It requires the following permissions,
Let’s take a closer look at those, shall we?[1] My comments are highlighted.
Luckily I remembered that I’d already authorized another application to update Twitter for me. It’s called Twitterfeed and can update Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…but not Google+[2]. This is the tool that I use to cross-post content from my earthli News feed to Twitter. I’m a little afraid to see which permissions I granted to this thing over a year ago…but it’s already got them, so adding another feed can’t make it worse.
Instead of granting Instapaper permission to follow new people and update my profile for me, I added the feed to my likes to TwitterFeed instead. It seems to be working.