5 Easy Twitter Styles To Promote Your Post

Posted by Ching Ya | Posted in Blogger Tips, Social Media Tool, Twitter | Posted on 10-04-2009

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As much we like to keep Twitter as socially prioritized and conversational as possible, it would be a little dishonest to say you’ve never thought of promoting your own ‘work’ via Twitter at all. Remember the Wild Thing Called ReTweet? Wouldn’t that be great to have our articles go viral and hopefully, receive numerous visits from people around the world?

REALLY???
.. this is no fairy tale so, NO, you may not get as much clicks instantly as those popular sites. However, chances are that some of your followers might pay your link a visit or even retweet it for the sake of liking it. If you’re lucky, some of them may even becoming your blog subscribers.

Ready for Some Shameless Self-Promos?

Similar to ‘Digg’ or ‘Stumble upon’, the main idea is to keep your post visibly and easily retweetable as possible, here are the 5 Easy Twitter Style To Promote Your Article:

1. Twitterfeed

Same concept as feedburner. Instead of email-notification, twitterfeed will send your latest published blog post to twitter. Here’s how:

a. Login to twitterfeed using your Open ID. (In case you don’t have one, kindly create it at myvidoop)

OpenID = an user identity created to gain access with sites that accept OpenID, no extra, new username/password needed. MyVidoop is the OpenID Identity Provider for Twitterfeed. Once registered, user can login to Twitterfeed via OpenID, Twitterfeed will then verify with myVidoop for its authenticity before granting access to user.

b. After successfully login, create new feed. Provide the RSS feed URL for your blog & setup the frequency for twitterfeed to detect & tweet your blog post for you.

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2. PleaseRT.me

People should hear your urgency quite loud and clear with the magic word ‘Please’. Get your RT message drafted, include the already-shorten url then paste it in the box.

Login with your username & password to send out the tweet. Those who are likely to RT, may click on the shorten pleaseRT url (in this case: http://pleaseRT.me/1qp).

3. TwitThis

A simple TwitThis button ready for some actions:

For Blogger Users:

(A method suggested by Cranial Soup )

a. Layout > Edit HTML> Expand Widget Templates,

b. Locate these 2 codings:

<div class=’post-footer’> &

<div class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′>

c. Embed below HTML codes between the above codings:

<!– TwitThis Button BEGIN –>

<!– TwitThis
Button END –>

This is how it’ll look like below your post: twithissample

For WP Users:
Download TwitThis plugin, unzip and upload to your plugin directory. Activate it to be added to each posting.

4. Tweetmeme RT button

Not only it counts the number of retweet this post have, but also provides an easy retweet button.

For Blogger Users:
a. Embed the codes below in your Template’s HTML:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
tweetmeme_url = ‘<data:post.url/>’;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script>

For this example, I put the codings right after <data:post.body/>

For WP Users:
A plugin is available for Download and activate it through your plugin.

5. Manually Configured ‘Twit This Post‘ Link:

Add ‘Twit This Post’ link right after your post. You could configure the content of tweets according to your likings. The basic structure of the coding is:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=title+of+your+post+http://pre-configured tiny url+@your
username“>Tweet This Post</a>

For Example:

On Twitter Page View:

Or, you could even replace the link with a cute Twitter icon, some choices are available here .

It’s Up To You Now…
All you need is the effort to do it. So, work on that catchy title, get enough followers within your niche using these 15 killer apps. This wild thing just might surprise you. Love to hear your RT experiences. If you have other great ways, do share in your comments.

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Comments (7)

Rajeev Edmonds said on 12-04-2009

Your twitter posts are always so wholesome and informative that I can’t afford to miss them at all. Once again in this post I’ve found some new ways to share content on twitter. Thanks for ‘Twit This Post’ link code.

Your twitter chart of earlier post was so informative that I have taken a printout of it and have distributed it to some of my friends.

BTW: If ‘Word Verification’ is not present, it helps.

Ching Ya said on 12-04-2009

Thank you so much Rajeev. It’s always a pleasure to have you around.

Glad that you enjoy the posts and the twitter clickable chart. It’s great to know others are benefiting from using the chart, thank you so much for spreading a little chart-love.

I’ll be coming up with more of those easy-to-understand while convenient illustrations soon. Hope you’ll enjoy it as much.

p/s: Thank you for the reminder about the word verification. I’ve removed it. ^^

Salute said on 14-04-2009
	These twitters post are very helpful to me, as I am still new with twitter. Reply

Ching Ya said on 14-04-2009
	Hi Salute, It’s always a pleasure to have you back. I hope these info could help you into promoting your well-written articles as well. They really deserved to be heard. ^^ Take care always. Thanks for your frequent visit. I truly am appreciated. Reply

Louise_J said on 30-05-2009
	Thanks for these resources, but do you know if they are available for TypePad users? I would appreciate any info. Thanks. – Louise, aka @ThoughtsHappen Reply

Ching Ya said on 31-05-2009

Hi Louise_J,
Thank you for dropping by and it’s a privilege to have a question about Typepad regarding twitter RT buttons.

After some digging on the web, I’ve came across these 2 solutions for Typepad users, will try to email you the details so I’m going to make it slightly brief here:

1. Adjusting the feedflare API in feedburner.(add in the plugin in your RSS)

2. Manually inserting the codes for EACH blog post.

For those who’re interested do email me and I’ll send you the details as well.