I just read an article where the author recommended “not feeding your blog entries into Twitter because they are “typically too long,” according to the article.
Actually, you can feed your blog posts into Twitter, you should do it with some catchy phrase if the blog post is useful to your Twitter followers, and you can do this from your WordPress platform easily!
Here’s the link for the plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/ .
By using TwitterTools you can add the option to send the feed from your blog to Twitter. Twitter actually uses tinyurl.com to reduce the link so of course it’s not posting your whole blog post (which would be too long) it’s just posting a blurb and link to the full blog post. Why would you not want to do this? (That is a rhetorical question.:>)
Here’s a sampling of recent blog posts I’ve also shared on Twitter and what they look like: (Notice, on the ones directly from my blog it says “New blog post…”)
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buzzwords that need to be retired – love this list – http://tinyurl.com/73arv2
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New blog post: MarketingSherpa best enewsletters http://tinyurl.com/9m5rd4
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New blog post: If you pitch the press… http://tinyurl.com/ax5exj
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My recommendation is that if you have a cool insight on your blog that will help other folks (and is not an “all about me” post) that you should definitely tweet it so your followers can have the opportunity to go read it on your blog in full!
A good thing always to keep in mind as well is that even though there are a giant amount of Web 2.0 tools, only use the ones that will really be of value to you and make certain you’re not setting yourself up to be in front of the computer 24/7 just managing social media tools!
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Good pointers. tiny urls are definitely a must, and the Wordpress plugin is useful if you’re main blog is on the Wordpress platform. Otherwise, there are several other services that let you feed your blog to Twitter.
Need more tools? Check out the book I co-authored, called the Twitter Survival Guide.
http://multisocialmedia.com/?page_id=48
Twitter is the newest craze today. i tweet at least 5 times a day on my friends just to keep them informed about my whereabouts. I still keep my personal blog though.