Today 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, Yahoo Pipes, and a collection of the best RSS-able Singapore news. How it works:

1. I collected a bunch of RSS feeds from ChannelNews Asia, The Business Times, TODAY, Yahoo News Singapore, Tomorrow.sg, and Topix Singapore News.
2. To clean up duplicates (because sometimes Yahoo syndicates from CNA), I filter them through Yahoo Pipes to get rid of the repeats and form a single consolidated RSS feed.
3. I put this Piped feed into TwitterFeed which automatically and periodically updates http://twitter.com/sgnews with a nice clean stream of the most current news.
4. Users can Follow http://twitter.com/sgnews and get the most up-to-date news on Singapore from multiple sources.

I created this 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 your Twitter account. Also, if you believe there are other good feeds to add, do let me know in the comments below. Have fun and tell your friends! Update: I've re-jigged the system a little feeding all RSS feeds directly to TwitterFeed and parsing only the Yahoo and ChannelNews Asia ones with Yahoo Pipes because only those two have duplicate entries. This increases and flexibility and reliability of the syndication. Update 2: I've chosen to output only the headlines because in a 140 word Tweet, the body is so badly turncated to make space for the link it's actually more disruptive than helpful. The new is tidy and clear now.