We’re opening up a number of our supported APIs to the public and are starting with Twitter. You can now post through Pixelpipe from popular Twitter clients that allow you to set the service including Mauku, Spaz & Tweetie 2 by simply setting the endpoint URL to http://api.pixelpipe.com/services/twitter/ & logging in with your Twitter credentials.
The big advantage of posting through Pixelpipe is that you can now post to over 25 services at the same time you update your Twitter status. For example you could setup your Facebook, MySpace & Yahoo! Meme accounts with Pixelpipe & update all when you post to Twitter. You can even update your blog from your Twitter client (see tips).
Setup is similar for each app however here are the specifics to get Mauku on the Nokia N900 setup and plugged-in.
1. Open Mauku select the blue arrow on the top menu & choose “Publishers”
2. Select “New” & then “Advanced”
3. Set Pixelpipe as the name and Twiiter as the provider & then “OK”
4. Set the URL to http://api.pixelpipe.com/services/twitter/ and the Password & Login to your Twitter credentials
5. Now click on the blurry area on top to return to the Mauku, if you set things up you’ll see your Twitter feed in the Overview.
Now everytime you post we’ll route the post through Pixelpipe enabling you to post to multiple services at the same time.
Tips:
- We’ll create a Pixelpipe if you don’t have one with these credentials, you can log-in and add services or change your settings at pixelpipe.com or m.pixelpipe.com for mobile users.
- You can use Routing Tags to override your default services and post to specific services or groups. For example including @facebook,@plurk,@jaiku in the body would send the post to the three mentioned services however not to Twitter (we’ll strip out the tags). More on Routing Tags can be found on our blog.
- By default a blog service wouldn’t accept a status update however you can override the behavior by including the routing tag for the service eg. @wordpress,@blogger,@twitter would send the post to both blogs & Twitter.
- You can create groups by giving the same Routing Tag to multiple services and force routing with just one tag
