In this tutorial I’m going to go over how to set your blog/cms/web publication to automatically send out updates via twitter. The first question you’ll probably ask is “Why would I want to do that?” Well the biggest reason is just to give your readers another way of finding out about new content being posted to your site another reason would be to attract new readers.
Here is a possible scenario…
You post an article to your site about a recent arsonist that was arrested in say Faribault, MN. If that post also appeared as a ‘tweet’ on a twitter account someone searching twitter to see if anyone is talking about that arsonist that was arrested in Faribault would arrive on your ‘tweet’ and be referred to your full article on your site via a link thus driving more page views to your publication and possibly acquiring new frequent visitors.
It’s just one more way for you to get your content in front of more eyes and ears. So with that being said your physical resources may already be stretched, you might not have any room on any of your staff’s plates to add in maintaining a twitter account to their list of tasks. Luckily there’s an easy way to automate all of this and best of all it doesn’t cost you anything.