Social media tools

Launch of Twitterlive.net: automatically publish a blog feed to Twitter (including my first impressions)

Nearly all bloggers have a Twitter profile or, at least, they should have one.

It’s one of those sharing ideas that drives Twitter, ensuring that as a blogger you’re not writing in the total dark and hope for someone to stumble upon your blog.

It makes sense to launch a tool like the new social media startup, Twitterlive.net, that officially presented itself to the world via a press release today.

The tool makes sure that your blog posts are automatically fed into your Twitter account, especially useful if you have more than one blog to manage!

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New features for HootSuite Twitter client: WordPress integration, previews and more

Just read that the folks at HootSuite have added some new features to their Twitter client (or should I say Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Ping.fm client?).

What’s up? First of all HootSuite added support for WordPress blogs which enables bloggers, using WordPress of course, to schedule and cross-post content to their WordPress accounts (as HootSuite already enables you to with all the above mentioned social media and, yes, blogs are social media).

TypePad bloggers, including me, will have to be patient or not use HootSuite at all. After all, TypepAd enables to post to most social networks, right?

Back to HootSuite: on the blog the people behind the Twitter client say “WordPress is the first blog platform officially supported by HootSuite”. You know what that means.

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