Blogging and twittering go well together. A huge percentage of Twitter users are blogging, and a huge percentage of bloggers are on Twitter.

There are dozens of ways to post automatic Twitter updates, and automate Twitter friend adding, and here I’ll talk about automatically updating Twitter with your latest blog posts.

THE OUTLINE

When you publish a blog post and want to promote the new post on Twitter, what do you do? Log in to twitter and write out the title and link? What if you forget? Or want to work less but achieve more? Simple. Make the update automatic.

THE SET UP

1. Join TwitterFeed.com.
2. Authenticate your Twitter account info on the Create Feed page.
3. Enter your blog RSS feed in
4. Select Title And Link Only
5. Save
6. Job done!

Now every time you publish a new post to your blog it will show up on your Twitter profile, all 100% automatic!

THE OTHER METHOD

If you have a self-hosted wordpress blog you can install the Twitter Tools plugin and set up much the same thing inside your blog admin. The plugin will auto post your blog to Twitter, with no need for any 3rd party website.

MY PREFERED METHOD

I prefer TwitterFeed though because authenticating your Twitter username and password means you don’t have to give it away to any site or plugin other than Twitter.com itself, and because in the one admin interface you can enter in dozens of feeds for dozens of Twitter accounts.

GETTING MORE TWITTER FRIENDS

If you want your blog posts to reach more people through Twitter you will need to get a larger list of Twitter followers.

The automated way is to use a Twitter Friend Adder. You can download a free demo version (by clicking here) that is good for a few hundred new friends before the demo runs out.

It’s definitely worth testing!

Lewis