How To Automate Your Blog Posts to Post on Twitter

This is another simple and effective method to receive an extra 100 visitors to your site I do not use this method for this blog, but have found it works great with some of my other content sites.  Especially blogs which are being updated 5-10 times a day.  If you dont know what types of blogs these are you need to look into these asap.

There are 2 methods to automate posting to twitter.

The first method is quite simple, alls you have to do is download the Twitter updater Plugin. Once you have downloaded and uploaded the plugin to your plugins folder alls you need to do is enter your twitter user name and password and than everytime you update your blog it will be posted to your.

Benefits: It will post your blog post to twitter automatically as soon as your blog is updated using tinyurl.

Drawback: It uses tinyurl and instead of posting to the actual blog title it just says: Wrote a new blog post: tinyurl link.  This is no good as no one knows what you have posted, it will lead to some people clicking out of pure curiosty but you want people to actually be interested in your blog.

The second method to automatically update twitter with your blog posts is to use a service called TwitterFeed . It is a free external service that does not require you to make any changes to your blog or download any plugins.  You have to use a openID to use the service but it should take you only 2 minutes to sign up for that.

Benefits: Unlike the Twitter Updater plugin you do not need to worry about the blog post not being in the actual twitter post.  This is great as the people that actually click on your link will be coming to your site because they were interested in something that they read in your twitter feed.  Rather than clicking blindly on a link.

Drawbacks:

• OpenID, I was really annoyed with signing up with this service as you have to do some crazy image verification everytime you sign in.  Who the hell can take the time to remember 3 images.
• It does not post as you post.  Unlike Twitter Update which posts automatically, with Twitterfeed you have to specify at what intervals you want it to such as every 3 hrs, 2 hrs, or 30 mins.  And you can only limit the amount to 5 posts at a time.  Not the greatest if you have an autoblog.

I am personally using Twitterfeed for one of my other blogs.

* I know you can use twitthis to post to twitter but it is NOT AUTOMATED.  And Im all about the automation.