For bloggers, Twitter is a great place to find and share information, test ideas and ask questions. It’s also a great place to promote your blog and new posts.
There are a number of tools that let you connect your blog’s RSS feed into Twitter. Here are a few of the highly-regarded services.
1. TwitterFeed: After creating a Twitter account, you provide Twitterfeed with the URL for blog’s RSS feed, and then configure how often you want to post to Twitter. After that, every time you publish a post on your blog, it creates a post on Twitter announcing its availability. If you have multiple blogs, you can a single Twitterfeed account to promote all of them.
The only downside to Twitterfeed is its insistence you use OpenID to create an account and login. It’s not a big deal but if you don’t have an OpenID account, you have to get one before you can use Twitterfeed. That said, Twitterfeed is a service I would pay to use if it wasn’t free.
2. Twitter Updater is a WordPress plug-in that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit a WordPress post. I’ve never used Twitter Updater but know people who do. It may be a useful service but the notice that appears in your Twitter feed is annoying: Fiddling with my blog post: Twitter Updater
3. Twitter Tools: The creation of WordPress plug-in domo Alex King, Twitter Tools lets you post Tweets on your blog as posts, and have blog posts sent to Twitter. It sounds confusing but King ensures that it will not “cause the world to end in a spinning fireball of death”.
4. JigTweets: Rather than just letting you publishing a blog’s RSS feed into Twitter, JigTweets also lets you Web sites, video, photos and your location. To use JigTweet, you visit the Web site, enter your Twitter username and password, and then select the type of content you want to post into Twitter. You can also use JigTweets to publish things on Ping and Friendfeed.
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That's too funny
I have been using Twitterfeed until recently. It is an interesting service to notify your twitter followers about new posts in your blog, however I have left it in favour of Friendfeed service, which is able to agglutinate a wider range of information than posts.
I see Friendfeed as a more interesting tool and hope more people join soon to their use.
Regards.
Hello,
I found your blog while searching for ideas to promote my blog. I have heard quite a bit about Twitter and was going to create an account as well. I am a newbie to creating blogs, web pages, etc. Still learning but I am ready to star promoting my blog. I will try Twitter ! Thank you for the information. Please visit my travel blog and feel to subscribe and tell me your thoughts on the content. Remember I am a newbie but have been learning fairly fast and I think it is starting to look pretty good.
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