Auto-tweeting is a great feature. If you have a large network of followers, this makes it really easy and simple to promote your blog, flickr or vimeo (anything with an RSS feed). By tweeting links to this content, you increase the likelihood that your followers will view it. By auto-tweeting it, you only have to worry about uploading or posting your content to its original source and TwitterFeed will take care of the rest! Beautiful!
To begin, go to www.twitterfeed.com and look for the link in the upper right hand corner that says "Login/Register." You are going to login with your Blogger webaddress. To do this, look for the drop down menu to the left of the Login button that looks like a graphic icon. Pull this down and select "Blogger." Then in the input box to the left of that drop down, replace the text with the URL to your blog. Click "Login."
Confirm that you want Twitterfeed to ALWAYS have access to your blog (I am already register with Twitterfeed so I can't see the exact wording in this step. If you are really confused on this step, I will create a bum blog just to recreate this step).
Create a new feed. Enter your Twitter login and password. In another tab, go to your blog and look for the icon or text at the bottom of your blog that says "Subscribe: Posts (Atom)" or "RSS Feed" or something along those lines. If you are having trouble finding your RSS feed, follow these steps to help you find it. Copy the address and paste it into the "RSS Feed URL" input box in the Twitterfeed tab.
You decide with what frequency it wants to check for blog posts. You don't post often so hourly should be fine. If you posted 10-15 times a day, your auto-tweets could get really really annoying if they showed up hourly in all your followers feeds. Make sure you shorten to a TinyUrl and include the link!
Please set up a prefix for your auto tweets. This lets your followers know what the URL may be before they go and click on it. This will increase the likelihood that they will actually click on it.
Consider doing this for your Flickr, Vimeo et cetera!
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I'm not sure what the last step means (set up pre-fix). Anyone figure this out and can provide an example? Thanks!
@Vibha, a prefix is what you want your Tweet to start with. For me, I linked my blog and my Flickr.
When twitterfeed tweets information about my blog it starts with "School Blog:" and then the title of the post. "School Blog:" is my prefix. For my Flickr account, my tweets start with "Flickr:"
Hope this helps!
@Vibha Log into twitterfeed.com using your blogger id.
In the upper right hand corner, click on "My Feeds".
A list of your feeds will come up, or if you only have the blog set up, just that one. click on the pencil icon to the right to edit the settings to that feed.
To edit your prefix, scroll down to the "Prefix each tweet with:" box. Just type something in that you'd like each tweet for that feed to begin with.
ex: If you type in "New Blog:", your auto tweet will read "New Blog: Vibha url and such".
Hope that helps?
@Sara R. Bah! beat me to it. ...just bearly. mwahaha! next time, inspector gadget.
I am having troble setting up the auto tweets
ok i got the auto set up any one need help?.....still??
Dear me Dovely, Chelsea Homan's blog won't let me link to Post a Comment.
I will try again at another time. It was like the third one down for me, (think). I don't know AI one bit. The circle at the bottom of the sub-text at the end got me.
Lottabean
hi y'all. Please may I know the schedule so I can print it out. I should have made it my highest potential to be Meg's personal secretary, at this point
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