Most if not all of my readers are familiar with and use Twitter. The great thing about Twitter is not so much Twitter itself, but all the really neat apps built around Twitter.

One app I use myself is www.twitterfeed.com. With Twitter feed configured, anytime I make a new post to my blog, a status update is posted to my Twitter account that notifies all of my followers of the newest post and links to it.

So head on over to Twitterfeed.com and get started.

Getting started

Here’s how to get your blog (or any other RSS or Atom feed) twittering:

1. Create a new twitter user at twitter.com (or use your existing one)

   this twitter user is going to be the one posting your blog entries - twitterfeed needs to know your chosen twitter username and password so it can post your blog updates to your twitter account

2. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID

   OpenID is a standard for providing single sign on between web sites
   You can register your own OpenID for free, or may even be able to use your existing blog ID [more]

3. Provide us with the URL for your blog’s RSS feed, and how often we should post to twitter

   Our server will check your blog’s feed at the specified interval and post any new items to your twitter account. You just sit back and relax!

[ Both RSS and Atom feeds are supported. Posts need to contain publish dates in order for our server to know what's new. Feeds requiring authentication will fail. ]