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Put Your Blog Posts on Twitter with Twitterfeed

written by John Chow on June 27, 2008

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Twitterfeed is a cool little add on for Twitter that will check your RSS feed for new blog posts. If it finds one, it will send out a tweet to all your followers. It’s a neat way to add your blog RSS to Twitter.

Twitterfeed has options to to let you adjust how often it should check your feed and how many new updates to post each time. There’s also an option to adjust how the tweets are displayed. You can prefix each tweet with whatever you want, as long as it’s not longer than 20 characters. I use “New blog post.”

Requires OpenID, Which You May Already Have

To use Twitterfeed, you will need an OpenID. The cool thing about that is you may already have an OpenID and not know it. If you have an account at AOL, Blogger, Technorati or any other OpenID members, you can log in using any of those accounts.

Setting up the Twitterfeed takes only a minute. All you need to do is enter the URL to your RSS feed and set the options. The rest is automatic. Twitterfeed is ideal for timestamped posts or when you’re away from the computer. Once a post goes live, Twitterfeed will tell your followers about it.

Because Twitterfeed checks your RSS for updates, I was wondering if my RSS counter would increase by the number of Twitter followers I have. I have over 1,300 followers (follow me if you haven’t yet). The answer is no. However, Twitterfeed will increase your RSS counter by one.

Don’t Be A Twitter Whore

I’ve stated many times that Twitter can be a great marketing tool or it can be a great time waster. In reality, it’s both. I use Twitter as a research and marketing tool. I don’t use it like the Twitter Whore in this video.

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Jamie Harrop June 27, 2008 at 12:18 pm

You could have warned us about that video, John! heh. I got half way through and couldn’t bare to watch any more. I think I might just go and Tweet about the video I just watched…

I always prefer to manually post links to my latest blog posts. I often have something extra to say about the post. Keep things personal and all that. :)

Knighty Night's Talk June 27, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Haha. Yup this is one of those torture videos. Can you watching that that video over and over again? I think I’ll go insane. Tie you friend up on a chair and play that video with reply ENABLED!

Nicholas James July 3, 2008 at 7:08 am

I saw it before John posted…it’s been flaunted around Twitter alot.

Joe June 27, 2008 at 12:54 pm

That video made me want to hurt myself.

Mark Cole June 27, 2008 at 1:02 pm

“JohnChowDotCom New blog post – Put Your Blog Posts on Twitter with Twitterfeed http://tinyurl.com/5t4no7 8 minutes ago from twitterfeed ”

Ironic I found this post via twitter?

OCGolfCourse June 27, 2008 at 7:15 pm

I guess Twitter does work when you have enough followers!

Jonathan June 27, 2008 at 1:17 pm

I did hurt myself. I am now deaf. Don’t ask how.

Ronald Su June 27, 2008 at 1:22 pm

That lady in the video is scary,,,, :???:

TrishaLyn June 27, 2008 at 1:27 pm

I’ve found that if you’re running WordPress, the free plugin called TwitterTools is an even better and way more reliable tool to post blog posts to twitter. I know I got it from the WP add-ins library so I’m sure a Google search would find it.

OCGolfCourse June 27, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Hmm I should check it out… Thanks for the head sup.

Michael Kwan June 27, 2008 at 1:37 pm

As I said last night, I use WordTwit and it effectively does the same thing. The advantage (or disadvantage, depending on your point of view) of WordTwit is that it sends a tweet the moment your post goes live. With Twitterfeed, you have to wait for your RSS feed to update before the tweet goes out.

big jason June 27, 2008 at 2:12 pm

hahahah. that video is awesome. i’ve seen it blogged quite a few places. all the haters wish they could do a video like that

Affiliate Confession June 27, 2008 at 3:01 pm

OMG! That’s a funny video. There are tweeters just like her…

Jennifer Lynn June 27, 2008 at 3:31 pm

lol what the hell was that? All these twitter and tweets (and twats? :???: ) are making my head hurt.

shanker Bakshi June 27, 2008 at 10:28 pm

its all going hey-wire

Joan Adams June 27, 2008 at 3:44 pm

Good grief! Makes me tired just to listen to her. I could not bear to watch her! I would remove her from my follow list, for sure! I enjoy twitter and my twitter friends! Thankful for their quality!

broalex dot info June 27, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Another great way to have your feed live. I have to set it up right away. I`ve heard about the WP plug-in “twittertools” but never used it before. I have to follow up some strategies to gain more followers thou.

Does anybody want to follow me?
http://www.twitter.com/broalex

I am already following you John since I joined twitter. :lol:

TrishaLyn June 27, 2008 at 3:53 pm

I use TwitterTools and really like it. I highly recommend it. :grin:

Abdul June 27, 2008 at 10:28 pm

Yea, there are loads of them!

broalex dot info June 27, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Jennifer Lynn is a tool that lets you tweet like a birdie :lol:

Check it out here http://www.twitter.com

Thiago Prado June 27, 2008 at 4:14 pm

I don’t like twitter because it’s a waste of time and most of the time I try to access it’s down :mad:

Jennifer Lynn June 27, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Thanks Alex, I’ll have a look. Between MySpace, Facebook and now Tweeter (err Twitter?), I can’t keep it all straight!

OCGolfCourse June 27, 2008 at 7:20 pm

I don’t think anyone can to be honest.

Nicholas James July 3, 2008 at 7:09 am

Thats why stuff like friendfeed helps!

Start Blogging June 27, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Haha. I’ve heard about TwitterFeed for a while, it’s pretty nifty.

shanker Bakshi June 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm

It will be a better idea to have live Feeds of followers placed on side bar of Twitter home page.

Mike Saf June 27, 2008 at 5:17 pm

Wow, she’s all twittered :shock: out.

OCGolfCourse June 27, 2008 at 7:14 pm

Great service but I wonder if it will be too generic for people to bother looking at it like Google Ads…

Abdul June 27, 2008 at 8:51 pm

The video is so irritating, wtf is up with the girl?

Nicholas James July 3, 2008 at 7:11 am

Linkbait :wink:

Earnblogger June 27, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Nice tool for twitter users. Well, the video has a funny message! :wink:

www.health-insurance-forever.com June 27, 2008 at 10:23 pm

great infor on twitter , the video could hv been much better…. :shock:

www.health-insurance-forever.com June 27, 2008 at 10:25 pm

great info about twitter..the video cld hv been better

zk June 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm

great info on twitter…the video cld hv been better

Noobpreneur June 27, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Twit me… add me.. twit.. twit.. OMG OMG OMG :shock:

That one crazy twitter!

Horsebanger June 28, 2008 at 12:09 am

I’d f*ck her…..

Martin June 28, 2008 at 12:30 am

it’s cool, i love it and it’s totally easy :mrgreen: but the video is better as the tool :lol:

Geiger June 28, 2008 at 7:45 am

It’s neat, but how do you monetize it? ;)

Trisha Lyn Fawver June 30, 2008 at 11:05 am

PLEASE don’t try to monetize it. Think of twitter more as an announcement channel if you MUST utilize it only for business uses. It’s a networking tool.

Philip June 28, 2008 at 8:49 am

So what’s the deal with twitter? is it worth it?

ideasr June 28, 2008 at 10:22 am

twitter is growing ! :neutral: Hope to see new features soon

Mr. Rajawang June 28, 2008 at 5:27 pm

a twitter whore who can touch type? that is unique.. :grin:

Nicholas Finnegan June 29, 2008 at 4:09 am

Thanks i think im going to try this, i think im also going to update my blog big time!! My blog looks crap compared to yours!! blogger sucks!! i need to find out how ton create a blog like this?? what did you use??? cheers :)

fas June 29, 2008 at 10:38 am

I think twitter is worth it but that video was not tolerable.

jatt June 29, 2008 at 7:42 pm

I used twitter among my friends..maybe should try this one..one single RSS feed might be helpful :mrgreen: huhu

Binary Ant July 1, 2008 at 2:10 am

Yes, this is a cool tool, I’m using it since a couple of months perhaps, and one of the best things, from my point of view, is that it doesn’t need to install any plugin in your blog. It works nice without any access to our own servers, only with our feeds :)

Cole July 1, 2008 at 7:43 am

I just discovered twitterfeed. Very cool. I also have it so that when I update Twitter, it updates my facebook status. Updates from any 1 of my sites now appear on Facebook, too.

Utah SEO Pro July 6, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Wow, that video is amazingly obnoxious. I do hate when people tweet every damn little thing.

chetan July 8, 2008 at 1:34 am

Ya people are using twitter for such stupid things.

Wade July 8, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Adding your blog posts to twitter would be retarded. It just gives people more of a reason to not visit your site. Instead, create crafty posts for twitter for marketing your site or affiliate links.

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