Blogging and Twitter – How Do You Interact?
by Kevin on December 31, 2009
I have been wondering for some time how you all manage your Twitter account(s) and how you use them with your blog. I realize that I have been pretty straight forward with how I have presented tips for using the service in the past, bringing together several variations of each method. However, I would like to get a better picture of what you are doing to promote yourself using the service.
Questions
Pelase respond to this post within the comments area. You can promote your Twitter profile(s) and your blogs, so my readers can get a better idea of your techniques.
- How many accounts you have.
- Do you post all updates (including personal) to your main blog account, or just blog updates (new posts/links), and if you do just post links, do you use a feed to Twitter service for automatic submissions?
- When did you join Twitter/do you find it effective?
Conclusion
Personally, I have several Twitter accounts for each separate blog, and I generally keep personal updates off of these accounts. I’ve been using Twitter for well over a year, but have known about it since it launched.
One comment
1. I have one “professional” account (@Jonamerica) that it’s my public face. I have a second account that I use for testing different strategies of interaction, tweeting before applying them to my real account. I have two other accounts for other web projects that I’m involved in, then there are 3 accounts that I created for different reasons (games, contests, etc) that are mostly dormant.
2. I don’t post personal stuff for two reasons: 1, because I keep my private life private; and 2, because nobody wants to know what I had for lunch, not even my mom.
I mostly tweet about things that interest me. I’ve tested different auto-tweeting methods, but find you become a part of the twitter background noise. In my above mentioned “test” account I used a service to feed a bundle of RSS feeds to twitter, posting every 13 minutes. I lost some followers, but more importantly, I lost some relationships. You can easily get more followers, alienating your relationships with other tweeple is not worth it.
3. March 2008. I find it very effective for sharing information and driving traffic.
You and your readers can learn more about my Twitter setup and strategies on my post, Getting the most out of Twitter.
Thanks
Jonathan
by Jonathan Eggers on March 12, 2010 at 2:36 pm. #