July 21, 2009
Your blog's not the only place you blog, right? If you need to link your Twitter feed and your Flickr photostream and your Facebook page and your StumbleUpon bookmarks, then you need some cute icons to link from your blog's sidebar. Here are some free ones (check the terms of use because they're not all free for commercial sites and some require backlinks). Square The most popular shape, and... Read more
June 10, 2009
The lovely Jane, aka eAuctionAnorak, aka my first blog sprog, aka Demon Bead Lady pointed out to me that TwitterButtons' images seem to have vanished. Shame, because they had some good ones, and auto-generating the "follow-me" code was useful. If you're now looking for a new way to link your Twitter account from your blog or website, here are some sources of lovely icons we've noticed:... Read more
June 3, 2009
Another quickie via Google searchers: how do you automatically publish your RSS feed to Twitter? Firstly, be sure that you want to. I've seen eBay sellers and other ecommerce merchants publishing their product listings to Twitter. If that's a couple of dozen items at a time, at one tweet each, it's a surefire way to lose a lot of followers. Think about what you'd like to read. Automation... Read more
May 20, 2009
We looked at plugins to link WordPress and Twitter before, but if all you want to do is add your Tweets to your blog's sidebar, there's an even easier way to do it: plug your Twitter account's RSS feed into an RSS widget, and you can have everything set up in about two clicks. You'll find the RSS feed for your Twitter account linked from your own Twitter page in the the sidebar: it's marked... Read more
April 29, 2009
Tools to hook up Twitter and WordPress - there are dozens of them, from tools to broadcast your blog posts to your Twitter followers, to - ah - tools to allow your blog readers to broadcast your blog posts to *their* Twitter followers. Here are a few of my favourite WordPress plugins for Twitter. Twitter Tools If you blog and Twitter, you need this. Twitter Tools can do a plethora of useful... Read more
April 15, 2009
Wednesday means it's post-about-Twitter day around here... except that this week, I'm a guest poster on the excellent Twitip.com. Many thanks to Darren, Lara and their amazing and thoughtful community for allowing me to share some thoughts.... Read more