My blog gets twitterized
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Twitter is a very handy tool to send short messages a.k.a alerts to a group of people who is interested to know your current activities. The best part of this system is that a person can recieve alerts by three modes like Instant Messengers, email and via SMS. You don’t have to worry about target medium. All is required by you to publish your current status or message and it will be sent to medium which was preferred by your twitter feed’s subscriber.
Frankly speaking I am not much into such Web 2.0 toys and I admit that despite of trying various systems, I never thought to use them seriously. Infact I am not so crazy of any social networking stuff like Orkut or Facebook etc. The reason I liked twitter is that it’s API provides you freedom to use this alert system according to your Interest. I made a brief note on my technical blog about using the API in PHP language which is obviously interesting for developers only.
Last night I integrated my blog with my twitter account. I found two different plug-ins and Twitter gadget which were quite useful. One is wordtwit which sends alerts to all my Twitter followers about new and updated posts. The other is Twistter This! which is like digg this thingie. One can now send Title of my blog post on his/her twitter account which then will intimate subscribed users of that particular person. Very Interesting stuff. Other thing which I added is Twitter badge which will let my blog readers to know about the updated status which I can set from my Facebook Account or by going to twitter site, otherwise they wil see the alert message of my new blog post. Something like this is on main page of my blog on right panel:
As you can see the text on bottom of badge, follow kadnan at http://twitter.com ,It will send you to my twitter profile where you can click follow link on top left and start recieving updates about my blog/[any other message which I set].
If you are a blogger and wants to reach to more and more people, twitter is for you. If you are a programmer like me, you can use Twitter API to utilize this free service with your web site for sending different alerts.
Happy twittering!
Technorati Tags: Blog , Web 2.0 , twitter
Categories: Announcement
on November 13th, 2007 at 2:08 AM
i think you just caught a tweeeeter fever, bro! it is fun and all but….
anyways have you tried pownce, jaiku or quick blogging thing tumblr yet?
one more thought that i like to share is that I prefer tinyurl snipet instead of abbrr thing because it doesnt let me preview url before visiting.
tc.
on November 13th, 2007 at 6:08 AM
I don’t have Web 2.0 fever. I even don’t like much social networking. the reason I liked twitter that it’s free tool to send alerts by using their APIs.
on November 13th, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Adnan, why cant you start something like this http://www.tutorvista.com/ :).You seem to have ablity, network and passion for I.T.Just a thought.
Dee
on November 14th, 2007 at 11:14 AM
Its good to see you twittering.
on November 15th, 2007 at 4:13 AM
I also want to twitter… Its nice to read abt it. Well I have something political but interesting to share. Please have this link:
http://www.chowrangi.com/silverlining-by-pml-q.html