For bloggers or site owners who have a solid following on twitter, you may want to notify your followers for any updates on your site, that is, when you have posted a new content. It's a great way of driving traffic to your site, as well as a great way of giving your twitter followers updates of what you have been doing lately.

If you have tried to promote your site using twitter, you may have already added services like Tweetmeme or Twitthis etc. which allows your site's visitors to publish to their twitter accounts your contents that they may be interested at, and they would like others to check out. In fact, you may have also used the same manual method to promote your newly added blog posts to twitter.

One disadvantage of manually twittering (submitting to twitter) your new blog posts is that you may left out some new ones especially if you have a lot of contributors to your site or when you simply felt lazy clicking that Share this to Twitter button.

So how do you automatically Post to Twitter your Blog Posts? Or simply, how do you automatically notify your twitter followers that you have published a new content in your blog or site?

Things that you need:

1. Your site's RSS feed or Website URL

2. Feedburner Account

3. Twitter Account

In order to automatically promote your posts in twitter, you need to burn your site's feed first in Feedburner. To do so, you can simply follow these steps: http://guidesonhowtodostuffs.blogspot.com/2010/02/burn-your-feed-with-feedburner.html

Publicize your Feedburner Feed and Activate the Socialize Service

1. Login to your Feedburner Account

2. In your feeds list, select the feed of the site you want to promote in Twitter.

3. Once you are in your feeds dashboard, select Publicize, then Click on Socialize.

4. Activate the Socialize service.

5. Click on Add a Twitter Account. You will be redirected to Twitter Login Page, simply enter your username and password. You will be taken back to Feedburner after a successful connection to the Twitter application.

 

6. By then you have activated your Socialize Service.

7. You're done.

Whenever you post a new content in your site or blog, the Title and link of the article will automatically be posted in your Twitter account. Great, isn't it? It's amazing how this interoperability of applications can save us precious time and effort.

That's it. I hope I was able to help you with this post. Feel free to hit the comments.