Fri 25 Mar 2011
I use Twitterfeed to spread another blog around the internet via Twitter and Facebook
This normally works very well, but sometimes Twitterfeed seems to miss a series of posts. To understand why, we must look at the raw RSS feed. Each item in Blogger’s RSS feed has the following parameters:
- <item>
- <guid> (unique identifier)
- <pubDate> (timestamp)
- <atom:updated> (timestamp)
- <category> (one per tag)
- <title>(of article)
- <description> (text of article)
- <link> (to article)
- <author>
- <thr:total> (number of comments)
- </item>
The problem is that Blogger feeds its posts sorted by Update time (<atom:updated>), while Twitterfeed expects the feed to be sorted by pubDate.
In order for your posts to appear, you need to change some of the Advanced settings. Change the ‘Post Sorting’ parameters so that new items are posted based on GUID and clear the checkbox ‘Feed is sorted’

