Get Your Content onto Twitter

Twitter is growing fast and whether you like it or not it is a medium that you should ultimately be using to reach another untapped audience for your content or services. Here are two tools that will help you gain exposure on one of the fastest growing social sites on the Web.

The first tool, called TwitThis, is a social bookmarking button not unlike the ones for Digg, Netscape, Reddit, and so on. You basically embed a piece of javascript code into your site and with the click of a button, anyone can post a link to one of your posts onto Twitter. TwitThis is a bit more complex than the standard social bookmarking buttons in that it gives you the option to choose what is called a notice and edit the name of the page you are submitting.

The predefined notices that are currently available are things like: Reading: [site/link], Looking at: [site/link], Lauging at: [site/link], and basically help indicate the nature of the post or give your tweet (your post on Twitter) a more personality than just a URL.

The TwitThis button is also smart enough to convert your URL into a TinyURL, which is the standard format used by Twitter for the URLs you submit, and is sure to fit on Twitter.

TwitThis also has a bookmarklet and a WordPress plugin available on their site to simplify the submission process.

The second tool which was requested by a lot of people and was only recently released, is Twitterfeed. You may have seen or subscribed to different profiles on Twitter like CNN or the New York Times and wondered how you can use Twitter to do automatic posts from your site. Twitterfeed does exactly that; you login to the site, put in the URL for your site's feed, enter your Twitter account information and you now have a service that will post any new articles that it comes across in your feed onto Twitter.

You can even set the frequency at which Twitterfeed will check your feed for new posts, this way if you write a lot but don't want to post to Twitter multiple times a day you can set it to say 24 hours and it will post only once a day.

**Disclaimer: TwitThis is a product of Chuug which ACS partly owns.

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Tanner Godarzi, April 1, 2007

I love TwitTThis, I have the bookmark and use it share my new Blog posts but using Twitterfeed seems more efficient and I will check it out,. Thanks for the post.

drew olanoff, April 1, 2007

another good way is for podcasters to let their listeners know that they can post to twitter what podcasts they're listening to on http://www.pluggd.com now.

engtech, April 1, 2007