Automating the Social Network Chain
This is a test. In the beginning I just blogged (since 1998, before there WAS blogging). Then I signed up for Facebook, then Twine, then Twitter in that order.
I could care less but it seems to be the done thing to link to your blog posts from Twitter. A few minutes ago I found “Twitter Tools” for WordPress which claims to post a Tweet every time you blog. This’ll be the inaugural test of that plugin.
Twitter is setup to update Facebook also so we’ll see what happens there.
I’m also curious as to whether Twitter will automatically shorten the link to this post with http://is.gd or http://bacn.me or some such.
If all goes well this post will start in my blog, be shortened down to a tinyurl, then Tweeted, then end up as my Facebook status. It’d be nice if I could Twine it also. Oh well, can’t have everything.









You need twitterfeed.com instead. Pulls from your RSS feed to create blog links with shortened URLs
Twitter Tools is an excellent plugin. I’d be surprised if you needed anything else.