Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Display Tweets for Blog posts in Twitter using Twitterfeed

Twitter has become the new tool for inviting traffic to websites and blogs. But manually posting all updates along with the url to twitter is not always possible. Some websites such as Twitterfeed provide automatic creation of twitter updates from blog posts. Twitterfeed also provides direct linking to your blog by shortening of urls along with several advance options.

Learn How to create automatic twitter updates whenever you post in your blog via Twitterfeed.

Steps
1. Create a Twitterfeed account (It supports Open ID)
2. Create a New feed by connecting to a Twitter account
3. Enter feed name and your rss feed url
Rss feed url of a blogger blog: http://sitename/feeds/posts/default
(If you have directed your feeds using thirdparty websites such as feedburner you can use it too)
4. Modify advanced setting options
a. Update frequency - you can tell twitter feed to crawl your blog from 30 minutes to 24 hour time span and display updates of 1-5 in numbers.
b. Post content - You can post your post title only, title and description or description only
c. If you want to link your updates with specific posts select 'Post Link' and choose the service to shorten your links.
d. You can prefix or suffix each tweet with your custom text of 20 characters each if necessary.
e. If you want to filter your tweets for a particular keyword, choose keyword filter with auto-approve new posts.
5. Create feed
Done

You can also create twitter updates for your post comments by using the rss feed url
http://sitename/feeds/comments/default

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