April 1, 2011

Auto Feeding Twitter … With TwitterFeed

If you’ve ever wondered how to automatically add updates to Twitter without you having to lift a finger … for example, from new articles, blog posts, and so on … this post will show you how.

TwitterFeed allows you to do exactly that (in fact, you can also use it to update Facebook too).

It works by linking up RSS feeds with your Twitter account.

So when you add a new blog post to your blog for example, the RSS feed for your blog is also updated, TwitterFeed monitors that RSS feed and when new items appear on the feed, your Twitter account gets updated too.

Or if you add a new article to an article directory where you have an RSS feed associated with your own articles, you get the same result … your Twitter account automatically updated with a link to your latest content.

What’s more, you can also link it up with bit.ly to track click-throughs.

You get a lot of options to choose from so you can easily control what shows up on your feed, for example, by setting some prefix text for a new update – so you might use ‘Latest article:’ as the prefix text for an article update for example.

Here’s how I’m currently using it:

Supplement with your own more personal Tweets from time to time and Twitter interactions and you have a very active Twitter account with the large part automated.

Using it is surprisingly simple … just sign up to TwitterFeed.com for a free account and follow the instructions provided.

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