I’ve decided to twitter my posts. I’m currently testing Tweetsuite a plugin that does a lot of nifty Twitter – related things. Currently,that plugin is:
- Posting my three most recent “tweets” in my sidebar.
- Supposedly, sending a tweet announcing my posts to twitter. (This post will test that functionality.)
- Letting my readers click buttons in various places to permit them to tweet my posts to twitter. (In theory, this is supposed to help my posts go viral. Somehow, I think that’s entirely theoretical.)
- I’m not sure what else.
Over time, I’ll be testing other twitter tools. (Then, I’ll get into the one I pick and fix any icky-formatting. But maybe one of the authors will make that easier.)
Meanwhile, if you are a twitter fan, feel free to re-tweet or do whatever the heck is done on twitter.
Update
Well…. this did get posted to my twitter page , but the tweet isn’t displaying in my sidebar. I guess I need to check why.
The plugin seems to have a bug. When you create setting the first time, it goes to twitter and fills a database. After that, it seems to work fine.
But if you change settings, it throws an error trying to re-initialize already existing entries in the database. So, something needs to be adjusted when writing to the database. Hmmm.. (If my notion is correct, this is something the developer could fix.)
TwitterDoodle
In my attempt to learn ‘all things twitter’, I’ve loaded up “Twitter Doodle” and I’m testing that. TwitterDoodle lets me create searches on twitter and automatically creates post based on those searches and then posts them.
Due to some blog-breaking formatting issues, I’m robo-creating blog posts, looking at the format and deleting. (The difficulty is how Twitter Doodle formatting interacts with a plugin I use to display only the first paragraph on the front page.)
If there are Twitter searches you’re curious about, mention them. I’ll test.