Feed Your Twitter Without a Second Thought

Earlier this week I mentioned the value in scheduling your time well as a blogger, and being efficient when managing your Twitter account so you don’t become too drained. One way in which to do so is to automate some of your Twitter activity, either through RSS feed import or a third party service that lets you create tweets and have them update at a scheduled time. Feed My Twitter is a relatively new service that lets you do both of these options from one centralized location.

After logging in with your Twitter credentials, you’ll see a page with all the options for automated tweets. For RSS feed import, you just add the link for the feed you’d like to run through your Twitter updates. Unfortunately it looks like you can only add one feed for this particular function, but you can add several custom tweets as another option. Create the message you’d like to send to your Twitter followers and you can save this message as well as add more.

Another option Feed My Twitter provides is the ability to allow the service to run random tweets through your profile. These random tweets are based on a category of your choice, such as business or entertainment. The good thing about this is option is that you don’t have to do much work–you don’t have to find the RSS feed URL or even think of custom scheduled tweets to go out. Just choose a topic of interest that would be relevant for your Twitter stream and let Feed My Twitter do the rest.

The schedule options for your tweets go in increments of several minutes apart to hourly or daily. Each option for your scheduled tweets also lets you select the priority on a scale from low to high. This is especially helpful if you’ve chosen to utilize a combo of th different scheduled tweet options on Feed My Twitter.

If you’ve used another service like Sendible for scheduled tweets, you’ll notice a major difference with Feed My Twitter–all the postings are random. While you select the time interval for the schedule, the actual tweets that go out are selected by Feed My Twitter at random, and your only interjection for this is he setting of your priorities for each of the scheduled tweet options you’ve selected.

One benefit of random selection, especially for a combination of these services, is that your custom tweets won’t be predictable. The less predictable they are, the less likely your followers are going to be able to figure out that you’re using a third party service for scheduled tweets. If you do choose to take advantage of automated tweets, try a few different services out for about a week or so per service in order to see which one works best for you.

Written by Kristen Nicole from Kristen Nicole
Posted on May 13th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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