Twitter Feed

How to connect your blog and RSS feeded Twitter posts.

So.. What is Twitter Feed? I suppose you’ve heard of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) by now. What Twitter Feed does is connecting your blog’s RSS feed (mine is http://skarh.wordpress.com/feed) and your Twitter account. This service is nice for, in my opinion many reasons, basically two reasons – you save time as you don’t have to manually tweet about your newly added blog post, in fact you don’t even have to think about tweeting your new blog post as Twitter Feed does that for you.

You also get your blog some publicity, which, depending on the content, is a good thing. Twitter is a huge network, your followers might like what you post and they’ll retweet that message so it reaches out to their followers and so on, this means it can reach a very large amount of people in matter of seconds.

Sounds awesome, how do I hook up?

1. You visit Twitter Feed’s webpage and sign up for an account
2. Tell Twitter Feed which social media you want to promote (obviously, for Twitter you choose Twitter)
3. Then you need to validate your Twitter account with your username and password from Twitter
4. Choose a name for your feed, this is basically to keep track of your feeds if you choose to create several
5. Next step in the process is finding your blog’s RSS feed, the RSS feed to my blog is http://skarh.wordpress.com/feed for example, yours is probably similar
6. Check the advanced settings if you wish to change how often the feed should check for updates on your blog, what it should include, which link-shortage service it should use, how it should check updates from your feed, and if you wish to include a prefix and suffix (prefix content suffix)
7. Create feed

There, that’s it! Check if your feed works by pushing out some content on your blog.