How to Promote a Blog With TwitterFeed
TwitterFeed is a web application that allows you to post links to your blog entries automatically on your Twitter updates page. TwitterFeed works by accessing the RSS feed of your blog and sending a recently published post to your Twitter account. It's a valuable tool when you don't want to manually promote the link to your blog entry every time you post to it, and you only need to set up TwitterFeed one time to make it work.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Sign in to TwitterFeed with your OpenID. You can enter your original OpenID username or select from the drop-down menu of accounts to enter your username.
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Confirm your identity. TwitterFeed will ask you for confirmation to allow access to your username. Select "Yes" to continue.
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Create a new TwitterFeed. Select the "Go to my twitter feeds (or create a new one)" option in the middle of the page. This will launch the TwitterFeed creation process.
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Add a new feed to your account. Select "Create new twitter feed" in the middle of the screen. This will be located next to a green circle with a plus sign inside of it.
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Authenticate your Twitter account. Enter your Twitter username and password in the first two fields and select "Test twitter authentication." This validates your existing Twitter page.
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Enter the RSS feed URL of your blog in the third field, to instruct TwitterFeed to pull posts from your blog. Select "Test RSS feed" next to this field to make sure it works correctly.
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Select the desired frequency of updates. You can select the number of posts you want to update each time, as well as the frequency of posts. Use the drop-down menus to make your final decisions.
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Decide how you want your tweets to appear. Note whether you want to include titles and descriptions or each post, or merely the individual title and description. You can also add a prefix to each tweet.
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Confirm your selections. Select "Create" to begin the process. This will take a few seconds, but your Twitter information will begin updating itself automatically within the hour.
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Tips & Warnings
TwitterFeed refreshes itself at regular intervals throughout the day, so your updates will be posted in near-real time
TwitterFeed is free to use
TwitterFeed will automatically generate a TinyURL for each link associated with your post
You may already have an OpenID account if you hae previously signed up with AOL, Blogger, Flickr, Technorati or WordPress
You can deactivate the TwitterFeed by unchecking the "Active" checkbox on the feed creation page.
Check the OpenID.net page to determine if you already have a username and password set up.
The prefix can contain a maximum of 20 characters
