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7 Twitter Tools For Bloggers
If you aren’t on Twitter yet then you are way behind. Twitter is one of the best tools for bloggers. You can drive so much traffic to your blog from Twitter and many of your followers are targeted traffic and will be repeat visitors. You can actually start relationships with people like you on Twitter and end up doing business with them.
Mashable recently posted about 100 tools for Twitterers and on their list are 6 tools specifically for bloggers. Here is Mashable’s list:
95. Add to Any: Get your posts shared on Twitter by using Add to Any on your WordPress blog.
96. TwitThis: Make use of this plugin to send Twitter messages about your blog post.
97. MyTwitter: Use the MyTwitter plugin to display your Twitter status on WordPress.
98. Twitpress: Twitpress will send out a Tweet every time you post a new blog entry.
99. TwitterCounter: With this plugin, you can display the number of followers you have on Twitter.
100. TwitterFeed: Announce your blog post on Twitter with a customized message using TwitterFeed.
I would add one more Twitter tool to this list. It’s called Twitter Tools, a WordPress plugin that allows you to tweet your blog posts and turn your blog posts into tweets. At the end of each day Twitter Tools will compile a mashup of your tweets and post them as one post on your blog. It’s a cool tool and I highly recommend it.
The Weakness Of Twitter Tools
We’ve talked about Twitter on this blog a couple of times in the last couple of weeks.
Friday we talked about a WordPress plugin called Twitter Tools. We recommend it despite some prejudice against automation where Twitter is concerned. But I do agree with Michael Martine’s analysis for the most part.
I like Twitter Tools because you can still develop relationships like Michael is talking about and still use Twitter Tools to automate your blog post Twitters. Since you will likely tweet your blog posts anyway, why not use a tool that does that for you? As long as you do not do it excessively then you aren’t really spamming, and as long as you are using Twitter the way it is meant to be used beyond your automated Twitter post, then I’d say Twitter Tools is a good thing.
But it does have one weakness (which is actually a strength). You can only automate three blogs under one account. Yes, there is a limit – and I’m not sure if it’s a Twitter Tools limit or a Twitter limit, but there is a three blog limit. Don’t try to automate all 50 blogs that you own. It won’t work.
So I recommend using Twitter the way you would normally use it, but add Twitter Tools to your WordPress plugin list and automate your blog posts. That way, you don’t forget to tweet them and they are Twittered every day. Plus, since you are interacting with others and being social in addition to the automation, and you aren’t automatically adding friends because you are doing it manually, it shouldn’t be an annoyance to other Twitterers. Uh, I mean Twits.
