Following on from Karen’s great post about 5 Things That Put People Off Leaving Blog Comments, I thought i’d offer a quick guide to sending blog posts to Twitter (and if you want, Facebook) automatically.
What is the importance of this? Most people have given up using RSS readers just as they did with floppy drives! Influential people online, like Robert Scoble, use Twitter Favourites as a way to save the best links of each day, he amassed over 17,000 in one year, what’s more, they are there for all his 130k+ followers to see (Scobleizer’s Favorites). This is pretty powerful and an important part of your outreach.
This is a five minute task, and requires little skill.
Step 1 – Go to Twitterfeed (any other recommendations, please leave them as a comment)
Step 2 – Sign up for an account, pretty simple, email address and password (or even use OpenID)
Step 3 – Select where the blog feed is to go to, Twitter and/or Facebook.
Step 4 – Authenticate your Twitterfeed account with your Twitter account and/or Facebook account.
Step 5 – Type in the name of your blog
Step 6 – Type in the URL of your feed (don’t know how to, we wrote some info on what are feeds on this blog a while ago)
Step 7 – Click update feed, all done.
I personally recommend that you add a description in front of your automatic twitter posts such as “from my blog”, this can be set up simply along with update frequency (tells Twitterfeed when to check for updates) and what URL shortening service to use. Have a play.
This post may be teaching Granny to suck eggs, if so, how many of us are automatically sending blog posts to Twitter and Facebook?
I send my to Twitter through Feedburner (I’m on blogger) and to Facebook, and to just about anywhere else I can think of that will accept it and I know people will might want to read it.
I’m looking for something that will post old blog posts to Twitter though… any ideas?
Mine was sending to Twitter but I’m not so sure any more lol. I was a little reluctant with Facebook because it was already being imported as a Note.
Thanks for the mention, I’ve been doing this for a while with facebook, twitter etc, it is a great way to increase followers and also bring information in from other sites that your followers/readers may find interesting
@PippaD: Until the Web3.0 patch goes live most bloggers repost their golden oldies.
@Kevin: Are those raw or soft boiled eggs the grannies are suckin’? Wouldn’t wanna waste a moment of educational opportunity.
@JohnC: hard boiled duck eggs!
It’s all getting way too big and diluted …… Signed an RSS Reader Luddite ……. have I mentioned I’m very allergic to duck eggs? ……..
I wish everyone would stop eating ducks (and geese!!). Geez… like the world isn’t dangerous enough for me without having to worry about that now, too.
I posted my blog through Twitterfeed to go to Facebook and Twitter – via Facebook I got 3 likes and 3 comments (+3 that were my replies) how exciting!