Changing up my Tumblog with SlimTwitter
As of today, I’m no longer importing all of my Twitter activity to my Tumblog. I made the change after realizing that, through a haphazard spaghetti of crisscrossing RSS feeds, I had configured my Tumblr and Twitter content to match almost 1:1. While I liked the visually appealing, life-stream effect it created on Tumblr, I realized that my tweets were dominating my Tumblog despite the setup making me a very reluctant and infrequent Twitterer. I’d like to change that.
Yet, it was a tough call. I spent a good deal of time integrating Twitter into Tumblr just so, specifically removing duplicate posts from sites I fed into both services (mainly my blog and flickr account). I did this through a Yahoo! Pipe I created and call SlimTwitter. Today, I reworked SlimTwitter to only pass music tweets that come from The Hype Machine and We Are Hunted and those that I mark with an asterik (*), which SlimTwitter rightly removes en route. It ain’t perfect, but it’ll work for now.
I think it will make for a cleaner Tumblog and, maybe, make a more active Twitterer.