My Favorite Twitter Tools: Twitterfeed
I’m blogging about my favorite Twitter accessories this week. Hands down my favorite tool — one that I use all the time, but without ever thinking about it — is Twitterfeed.
Twitterfeed performs a very useful service — especially for bloggers like me. It can take almost any blog and feed it into a Twitter account. And it’s automated. Your blog entries appear automatically in Twitter with the following components:
* A prefix of up to 20 characters
* The title OR the title and description of your blog entry
* A link to the post truncated with a service such as TinyURL
Here are the steps for setting up Twitterfeed with your blog (from
1. First set up a Twitter account where you would like to broadcast your blog RSS feed.
2. Go to Twitterfeed and login using OpenID.
3. Set up your Twitterfeed account by entering your blog’s RSS feed.
4. One RSS feed is not limited to one Twitter account, so if you have multiple accounts you can send your RSS to all of them. And vice versa. If you have 10 blogs, you can consolidate all of your RSS feeds into one Twitter account.
5. Choose the frequency of the Twitterfeed. You can send posts every 30 minutes or once a day. If your Twitter account has lots of friends, you may not want to overwhelm them with posts every 30 minutes.
6. You can list the post titles or the descriptions in Twitterfeed.
7. You can also add a prefix to the blog posts. This way, if you have multiple blogs you can label them (e.g. “MissionsMinded.org:” and “CFCI-Nicaragua.org:”)
8. You can set the amounts of updates each time, so if you only want to send one you can, but you are allowed to send as many as five
That’s it! Your blog(s) are ready to sync with your Twitter account(s). Twitterfeed certainly makes my life a lot easier. So if you’re a blogger, sign up for Twitterfeed and start feeding your blog to Twitter!
