I'm Just Sharing

For about eleven months, I’ve been using a plugin called Tweet My Blog. I signed up with it back when I’d written a post about the J-V Network. What I wanted was a program that would post my newest blog posts to Twitter without my having to go to Twitter and do it myself.

It’s done its job for the most part, but I have three problems with it. One, when people come to my blog after seeing my post, they get this thing at the top that says Tweet My Blog, which is confusing to visitors. Two, the reason they get that is because it’s supposed to encourage people to click on it to take them to their squeeze page, which, if others sign up for it, I’m supposed to be getting something for it, and I never have. This was one of my gripes with them and with Clickbank, which I dropped in April. I know people signed up for it based on my recommendation because they told me so, but the site never showed me as having any clicks; that’s one reason I have problems trusting some of these things.

The third is my biggest issue. Tweet My Blog doesn’t work with posts that are pre-written, and I pre-write a lot of my posts. That means when I do that, I have to remember at some point to go and post those articles to Twitter. That defeats the purpose for using it, and since I have three blogs, it’s also time wasting I don’t need.

This evening, I decided to look for something different. There’s a lot of people using other WP plugins, so I figured there had to be at least one out there that would get the job done. I hope I’ve found one; it’s called Twitter Tools.

When you load it, you get four choices of plugins to activate. I only activated one, that being the main Twitter Tools plugin. The others are Twitter Tools, Twitter Tools – Exclude Category, and Twitter Tools – Hashtags. I figure I don’t need those, but others might and at least you have your choice. After loading the plugin, you get to go in and set things up the way you want to see them. For me, I just want the thing to post my new articles to Twitter, whether it’s live or posted ahead. I’ll be testing this one, once I’m ready, by setting it to post 5 minutes from whenever I’m done, to see if it works. I do know it will post live because I tested it with my business blog first.

I guess we’ll both know in a little bit whether it works or not. At the least, I do know that it will post live, just like Tweet My Blog, without the advertisement. That may be enough for me to keep it anyway.