How To Integrate Your Blog With Twitter Video

One of the great things about Twitter is that it has many automated tools that help you leverage existing content by re-using it in a new channel.

Twitterfeed is an application that integrates RSS feeds with Twitter. Once you set up your RSS feeds, your twitter will automatically display and tweet updates that were posted on your blog. This is a great tool for twitter beginners since there is no need to create any new content just yet. You can use your articles, blog, youtube videos channel or any other content that you have with RSS feed.

1. Sign up for twitterfeed and login using your open ID account. If you don’t have an open ID, sign up for one. It may take a while to sign up for open ID but you only have to do it once. Be sure to check first, you might already have open ID if you are using the services in this link.

I used “my Vidoop” service. When you sign up for open ID, you will be requested to choose 3 images from categories (like - flowers, houses, trees). Those same categories will be used for identification every time you log into open ID while changing the specific images (small tree/large tree). So don’t worry about remembering the activation code, just remember the categories. When you sign in to open ID, you will be asked for a password. Type in the LETTERS that are correlated with your image categories.

2. Activation code - The first time you sign in to twitterfeed , the system will send you an email notification with a code to activate your browser . Plug in the code and continue.

3. We are IN!

4. Go to “my feeds” and create a new feed.

5. Fill in your user name and password. I found that it is easier to just use your twitter login details. Plug in your RSS address by copying and pasting. Remember – you’re RSS feed is not the same as the link to your blog.

6. To find your RSS feed – go to the right side of your internet address bar. Look for the RSS icon (Orange with rounded white stripes) and press it. Choose “automated RSS”. The internet address on your bar should be changed to the RSS feed. Copy and paste this to Twitterfeed.

7. Customize - The hard part is over. Now you just have to customize your RSS update interval time and set up any prefix to your posts. I find it helpful to add prefix like: “new blog post” or “new video” according to the RSS channel.

8. That’s it! You can add up to 5 RSS feeds to every account. Go test it.