Yup. I’m going.

And for $20 who wouldn’t? That’s a steal. For 12 speakers in one day. Oh hell yes. And I think I get a t-shirt out of it.

So I have a twitter addiction. That’s right I like tweeting. I recently surpassed my 2000th tweet and my 100th follower (that wasn’t a spam bot). In fueling this addiction I’ve created 2 twitter bots: Acropoll and SandCTweet. Last night I put the finishing touches on a plug in for Wordpress that I started a long while ago. This morning I submitted it to Wordpress.org.

The point of Bird Feeder is simple. Nearly all the twitter plug ins I’ve tried do more then I’ve needed. So Bird Feeder does the one thing I wanted: tweet about a new blog post. That’s it nothing else. It probably won’t ever do anything else. Though I’m sure I’ll keep it updated with bug fixes or better ways of doing things when I get the time.

Speaking of bugs, one of the first users found something I over looked: It tweeted every time a post was updated. Even if it was already published. It was a simple mistake that has now been remedied.

Jeremy Sanchez, owner of Metaicon also runs a URL shortening service called shortna.me. He set up a API for me to call when tweeting so that it doesn’t use the full URL in the tweet. Of course this is to help keep the character count down.

So head over to Wordpress.org and check out Bird Feeder.