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Getting Your Blog Post on Twitter?

by EndGame
7 replies
Hello,

I don't know if this is the right place to post it, but given that it is a reasonably technical question, I wondered if anyone might have an answer to it here?

I would like my Twitter account to automatically post an announcement every time I make a blog post on my wordpress self-hosted blog. I thought I could do this with Twitpress, but upon installing and activating it, I have discovered that its not working for me.

Does anyone know of an alternative way of doing this? Or does anyone know why this might not be working?

Cheers
#blog #post #twitter
  • Profile picture of the author phpbbxpert
    Sure, you don't have to install anything.

    Sign up for FeedBurner, its free.
    In feedburner add your blogs feed and then there is an option in the settings to have feedburner tweet it to your account.
    It'll even use your tags and/or categories as twitter hash tags.

    Once set, every time you make a post FeedBurner will post a tweet.
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    • Profile picture of the author mrmagos
      The Twitter Tools plugin works nicely as well, but you'll have to set up an API key on Twitter for it to work.
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      • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
        Originally Posted by mrmagos View Post

        The Twitter Tools plugin works nicely as well, but you'll have to set up an API key on Twitter for it to work.
        this is what I use, it's an excellent WordPress plugin
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    I use TwitterFeed, which posts to both Twitter and Facebook (and a couple of others that I don't use). It just uses your RSS feed, takes the first 140 characters including a link back to your article and does its stuff.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author EndGame
    Hi Guys,

    Thank you for all the input help and direction.

    I found the best solution that made sense for me and the project was to use the feedburner technique, which worked like an absolute charm.

    Thanks again for all the responses. Every time a new post appears on my blog, it automatically gets tweeted on my Twitter profile, which is perfect and just what I was looking for. I am also going to experiment with using the rss feed for the comments on the site as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author eagle1984
    Feed burner move your posts to twitter and Facebook accounts.
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