Feed Your Twitter Followers with New Blog Posts

Saturday, November 1, 2008, 15:45
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Do you put your new posts to Twitter? If not, you should do this!

Why? Because you can share your new experience on the web with your followers. Remember, they follow you - let them know what you do or did.

I want to show you an easier way how to put your new blog posts directly to Twitter.

Use TwitterFeed! It is a cool add on and will check your RSS feed for new blog posts. If it finds one - it sends a tweet to all your followers.

To join Twitterfeed you need to have your OpenID. Most of you may already have an OpenID but don’t know you have it. If you have an account at Wordpress, Blogger, Technorati or any other OpenID members, you can log in using any of those accounts.

I hadn’t OpenID, because I use my own hosted blog, so I used Verisign Labs Personal Identification Portal. You can use it too, it’s free. I recommend it, cause it is very known brand and I believe you will use your OpenID somewhere else.

Setting up the TwitterFeed took only a minute. You just provide Twitter account information, adjust how often TwitterFeed should check your feed and how many new updates it should post each time. I recommend including only title with item link (we use Twitter not IRC). Also, prefix each tweet with whatever you want. You can use 20 characters for prefix. I defined to use “New blog post”. You have greater idea how to name it? I guess, you not.

TwitterFeed is good when you’re away and had set timestamped posts. Once a post goes live, TwitterFeed will twitt your followers about it.

Fact: TwitterFeed checks your RSS for updates and you would wonder if your RSS counter would increase by the number of Twitter followers you have. Sadly, but the answer is no.

However, TwitterFeed will increase your RSS counter by one.

You can increase my RSS counter by one, too. Follow me if you haven’t yet.