I needed a warmup project and noted that the nytriver account on Twitter wasn't working, so I hooked the NYT river feed up to radioReallySimple, which is our local version of TwitterFeed, and linked up, and got it working.

Along the way, I added a menu command to radioReallySimple.root that, when you give it the url of a feed, sets it up so that it's subscribed to it, and switches you over to twitter.com to authorize it. So you should be logged in to Twitter before you run the command. It's in the Tools menu under radioReallySimple. Here's the howto.

Since we're running links from the NYT that aren't shortened, I also hooked up the URL shortener behind r2.ly to radioReallySimple (it's Joe Moreno's Adjix server) and set up prefs so it's by default off. But now you can configure the app to shorten URLs. Be careful not to shorten Radio2 urls because they are already shortened (so this should probably only be used in special cases like the Times river).

It was annoying me that podcasts that flow to Twitter weren't being shortened, so I hooked them up too. But you have to explicitly configure the shortener and turn it on to get shortened URLs.

BTW, here's the initial writeup from 2007 for this feature. It describes a twitter account called "nyt" which I clearly set up, and would love to use, but I haven't been able to log in to yet.