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Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin

I am now using Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin. I’ll be using this to send my blog posts to my Twitter feed. There seem to be great back and forth integration with this plugin, but I think for now I’ll just be using it to send blog posts to Twitter and not Tweets to the blog. Would love to hear or see how other folks are using this or other things like it.

  • http://royalbacon.com Royal

    Curious about this phenomenon of twittering blog posts. I’m of the mind that twitter and blogging should be kept separate. Those that want to read your blog will subscribe to the RSS, and those that want to read your twitters will follow you, and those two markets will probably have a lot of overlap, so re-advertising your blog posts within twitter seems redundant.

    Would love to know your reasoning behind it (other than driving more traffic to your blog on a post-by-post basis.) Might have the opposite effect, as in people might stop following you via twitter, or might kill their RSS feed of your blog.

  • http://twitter.com/mindmaze MindMaze

    I’m new to the blogosphere – hell, I don’t know what RSS means and I sure don’t know how to manage or maximize tools like feedburner or stumble upon…I’m barely fluent in Tweets. Although my Twitter is hella thought provoking if I may say so myself;~) Anyone interested in taking me on as a pet project, I’m an apt pupil. Thanks for the info.

  • kendall

    @Royal – No real reason behind it. Actually was something that I thought of for a client, saw the plugin and installed it. More to check it out than locking in on it. At first I had it publishing my Tweets back to the blog and vice versa. I’ve already removed the Tweet daily log post. Don’t think it adds to the blog (for the reasons you mentioned).

    I think that Twitter is growing in adoption and I know that I watch Twitter more closely than my RSS feeds now. What about you? Which do you read first?

  • kendall

    @MindMaze – What makes your Twitter feed thought provoking? Thinking about what you want to Tweet yourself or what other people are Tweeting?

    As for getting up to speed on blogging and other services, I’ve always thought that reading other blogs is the best way to learn how to (or not to) write on my own blogs.

    I wrote about RSS a while back.

  • http://royalbacon.com Royal

    @k3ndall I do indeed read my twitter feed much more often than my RSS, but I also expect to only have 1-2 sentences to read each time, rather than a full blog post. When I dive into my RSS feed, I know I’m in for a longer read.

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