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Paul over at the Make and Meaning group blog asked me to let the contributors know how to set up Twitterfeed to automatically tweet on their personal Twitter account when they write a new post on the blog, and I figured that since I already wrote it in an email I might as well post it here, too.
Twitterfeed is a free service that automatically posts a tweet to your Twitter stream when an RSS feed of your choice is updated. I use it to auto-tweet when I write a new post on my blog or on Tumblr, and I recently set it up to post when I put up a new article on Make & Meaning. Using the service saves me the step of writing a new tweet when I blog, which is especially handy if I schedule a post to go up at a time when I might not be sitting at my computer geared up to promote the hell out of it.
The kicker of features is that you can set Twitterfeed to always prepend (or postpend, if that’s even a word) your tweets, so you can make the tweets meaningful to your followers. For example, for my personal blog posts, I have it set to always put “Blogged:” before the title of the post, and then to put “#fb” at the end so the tweet gets pulled into Facebook automatically, too. (That’s a separate topic, and one I’ll happily walk you through if you’re interested.)
And that’s it. Remember that you should balance out automatically generated tweets with actual human-generated tweets, and that the real fun of Twitter happens with @replies. Just sayin’.
I thought I didn't want this, but now I'm going to try it out anyway! It's a good thing for bloggers who schedule their blog posts and are not by the computer when they are posted sometime… :-)
I thought I didn't want this, but now I'm going to try it out anyway! It's a good thing for bloggers who schedule their blog posts and are not by the computer when they are posted sometime… :-)
I thought I didn't want this, but now I'm going to try it out anyway! It's a good thing for bloggers who schedule their blog posts and are not by the computer when they are posted sometime… :-)
I’ve found that twitterfeed isn’t working on my scheduled blog posts. Only on ones I do “in real time.” Do you have a solution to this? I’m having them go to a Facebook Fan page, not to my Twitter account. Is that the issue? Should I send them to Twitter and from THERE to Facebook?
Thanks for this!!