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:

• Latest articles appearing in my RSS feed for the SubmitYourArticle.com article directory
• Latest blog posts for my Creative Article Marketing blog
• Latest SubmitYOURArticle.com podcast
• Latest blog posts on this blog
• Latest video in my submityourarticle video channel on YouTube (see info on How To Get Your Own RSS Feed On YouTube)
• Latest blog post on MeetSteveShaw.com
• … and more

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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An example screen capture using Techsmith's SnagIt software

The SnagIt software from Techsmith is something I use on a regular weekly – often in fact, daily – basis, and I’m a big fan, so it seemed only appropriate to do a review (and not I should note for any commercial gain … there is no affiliate program – I just like it!).

You’ll be able to see below how I use it myself, and consider if it’s something you could use yourself.

First off, it’s probably best to see how I used to manage without this software. For any screen capture I wanted to do, it was a case of hitting Alt & Prt Sc on my PC, and then pasting into something like PaintShop Pro and manipulating the image as necessary to suit my purposes. It all took extra effort, but most importantly, you just can’t do a lot of stuff that you can do using SnagIt.

For example, say I was setting up some instructions on how to use something, let’s say how to use the Twitter feature on Google’s toolbar (via their new Share feature), it took all of 10 seconds to take the screen capture image on the right.

More on SnagIt Review – a Review of SnagIt Screen Capture Software from Techsmith

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