I was inspired by the use of Twitter by news agencies such as CNN, BBC, and even our local ChannelNews Asia and wanted to take this innovative usage to the next level by adding multiple sources of Singapore news in a single Twitter stream.
Since there wasn’t a consolidated Twitter stream of Singapore news, I decided to create http://twitter.com/sgnews with the help of TwitterFeed and a collection of the best RSS-able Singapore news sources.
How it works:
- I collected a good bunch of RSS feeds from The Straits Times, ChannelNews Asia, The Business Times, TODAY, Tomorrow.sg, and Topix.
- I put this pump these RSS feeds into TwitterFeed which automatically and periodically updates http://twitter.com/sgnews with a nice clean stream of the most current news.
- Each news story's webpage is shortened and tracked with SnipURL.
- Users can follow http://twitter.com/sgnews to get the most up-to-date news on Singapore from the best local sources.
I created SGnews as a personal tool to get the news I wanted, but if you like it and find it helpful too, feel free to Follow SGnews on Twitter. Also, if you believe there are other good feeds to add, do let me know in the comments.
Have fun and tell your friends!
(This is a repost of my original, but since I've moved blog, I thought I'd recreate it here so users of SGnews can have an understanding of this project)
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