Simple steps to feed Twitter your blog posts

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You can increase the size of your network efficiently if you connect Twitter and your blog posts. If you do not know anything about Twitter yet, read the following summary from Wikipedia article.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Feeding Twitter

So you are wondering what I’m talking about when I say you can post your blog on Twitter like RSS. Yeah, you can only send 140 characters, so how can you post your long blog article? Well, not by posting your whole blog straight, but by posting title + description + link like the following.

You can just post article on your blog and the feeder will automatically updates it on your twitter. So let’s see how you can do this.

1. Get Twitter account, if you do not have one yet.

2. You will need to activate RSS feature for your blog. If you haven’t done so already, get an account from FeedBurner and configure it for your blog.

3. Get an OpenID. You can use your WordPress OpenID as well (not your blog account, your official WordPress account which you can obtain from their website.

4. Log in to TwitterFeed using the OpenID you created above.

5. Add your FeedBurner URL on TwitterFeed as directed.

6. DONE! Check your Twitter after an hour or so (depending on how frequently you want feeder to receive your blog post data).