Automatically sending articles to Twitter feed

captzulu · Sep 8, 2009

Van Lingle Mungo said:

anonymousprick said:

I've yet to hear an adequate reason why we're wasting our time on Twitter.

I mean, if you're a major Web site with millions of hits daily, or even a newspaper whose Web site gets considerable traffic, don't you already have a built-in megaphone to broadcast your stuff? Why do you need to go on Twitter and tell a few dozen or hundred or however many people (who are llkely are already plugged in enough to get your RSS feed and have your page bookmarked if they're adding you on Twitter), when you're already on a site with millions of readers? Seems like the tail wagging the dog here.
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More and more people expect news to find them.

I hated Twitter at first, but after I got past the too-cutesy culture (all the tweet puns), I realized that even if Twitter isn't around to stay, the idea behind it will. It's a method of passing information around instantly, and into like-minded communities.

Whether Twitter becomes Facebook-like in ubiquity or something else usurps it, newspapers have to get in the habit of being on top of these channels, even if they don't seem like sure-fire bets at the time. Some will certainly grow too big to ignore at some point, so it's good to be open-minded.

As far as Twitterfeed is concerned, it's OK if it's supplemented by human interaction (like posts, replies and retweets). By itself, it doesn't help much.
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Agree with this completely. It's about going where your audience is instead of waiting for them to come to you. And personal engagement is absolutely key, even if you're auto-feeding articles to Twitter. People want to talk to a real person, not a faceless company.

mustangj17 · Sep 8, 2009

Del_B_Vista said:

This article on Poynter is about Facebook, but the idea of getting content to people in whatever way they find easiest applies across all platforms:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=169112

The tech news and information site CNET.com, for example, "wants it to be as easy as possible to engage with our content and other CNET readers" anywhere they are, says Rafe Needleman, editor of CNET Webware.com. "If the easiest way to do that is with a Facebook identity, then god bless, let them do it with Facebook."
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I mean, you can say F-U to Twitter, but let's say Twitter's not a flash in the pan and it's around for a few years. Want newspapers to keep their heads in the sand forever? It's worth the few seconds to post to Twitter to expand our audience, isn't it?
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I'm glad someone gets it.

Mediator · Sep 8, 2009

I don't like the autofeeds for blog posts because they usually just use the headline, and in 140 characters you can often give a few more details, specific names or news, just enough to make people want to click. If you're only doing a post or two a day it isn't really time consuming.

I like Twitter a lot, and you can count the number of clicks if you use a url shortener like tinyurl or bit.ly, which will also aggregate the number of clicks you get when people re-Tweet your post or amplify it through Facebook.

You can also post pictures (twitpic.com) or video (twiddeo.com or twitcam.com).

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