An Easy Way to Twitter and Facebook Post
Do you have your own website, a blog, or a site with a band page you’ve set up that includes an RSS feed? If you do, you can have the feed automatically sent to your Twitter account or post on your Facebook page using twitterfeed.com. It is really easy to do.
Do you have an RSS feed?
You might have an RSS feed, even if you don’t know it. For example, if you have a band page on MySpace, you have an RSS feed. Most blogs include one. If you have a WordPress based site, you have one. You can tell if there’s an RSS feed icon showing on somewhere on your web page, or if the RSS icon shows up in the address bar at the top of your browser.They should look like this 
or this: 
. If you see an RSS icon, click on it. If you then see a page that has activity relating to you, then you have a feed!
Auto post your feed to Twitter, Facebook and others
Keeping a fairly active Twitter stream, or current posts on your band’s Facebook page helps you alive to your fans who follow your Twitter account, or are your fans on Facebook. The website twitterfeed.com makes it very simple to automatically post your RSS feeds.
First, create a list of what all RSS feeds you have. Then, create a twitterfeed account. It is uses your e-mail address, and you can create multiple feeds (both different RSS sources, and different auto-post destinations) using the single e-mail account. The process is fairly simple – twitterfeed does a very nice job of stepping you through the process, so I won’t repeat all that info here.
Once your twitterfeed acount is active, it will check your feeds on an hourly basis, and update your Twitter, Facebook, or other account. You should be sure the feeds you setup give different information – it won’t look good if all your tweets are the same thing. The tweets usually consist of the feed item title and an automatically generated short link to the full article. Facebook includes part of the article text, again with a link back to the original.
What about my WordPress twitter plugin?
There is an excellent plugin for WordPress called “WP->Twitter” that has some advantages over twitterfeed. First, the WP plugin sends the tweet immediately – not at a scheduled time (every 30 minutes to 24 hours). That usually won’t matter. But the plugin also gives you several options for specifying just what goes into the tweet that are a little more flexible than the options offered by twitterfeed. It looks a little nicer. But the reality is that the twitterfeed service is just plain easier, and it includes Facebook, Laconica, hellotxt, and ping.fm services as well.
