Tweeter & WordPress Plugin

Posted: November 12th, 2008 | Author: Pablo Esquivel | Filed under: Tech Tips | Tags: posting, Twitter, Twitter Plugin, Twitter tools, Twitterfeed, WordPress | No Comments »

I use a self hosted WordPress for this website and I wanted it interacting with my Twitter page so I wouldn’t have to post the same thing twice.

First I met the Twitter Tools Plugin for WordPress.
It works fine, but includes a minor bug , time is not easily adjusted when using diferent time zones, so posts I made one day could be appear on twitter other day.
The good side of Twitter Tools is that you can configure it to update your WordPress posts on Twitter, update Twitter posts on WordPress or the even the both options together.

The bad side is that it requires some basic knowledge handling FTP and configuring WordPress.

Today I started following a Twitter user called Twitter assuming this user is the twitter webmaster or similar.

They use they us a system called “twitterfeed“  and I suppose they know what they are doing so I decided to take a closer look at Twitter Feed.

Both systems are completely free and easy to use.

Twitter Feed is easier to use since it’s not a plug-in, it’s a web service you subscribe and use for free.

Another cool thing is that probably you won’t have to create an account for it, since It accepts Open Id account (and even you don’t know you may have one already ).

Once inside, http://twitterfeed.com/you will have to inform your blog’s or site’s RSS feed (for example: http://www.pablosilvioesquivel.com/feed/ ) , your twitter account name and twitter password.

Then inform how often you want Twitter Feed to check your blog’s RSS.

And that ll there is to it !

If you want too see how my word-press posts are appearing on twitter come visit Pablo Esquivel’s Twitter Page.

Happy posting and twitting!

See you on next post.

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