{"id":4653,"date":"2017-07-03T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T02:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2017-07-02T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T14:15:38","slug":"tweeting-your-new-blog-post-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/tweeting-your-new-blog-post-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting your new blog post automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I mentioned that\u00a0I have used RSS feed readers to keep up with #blogjune in the past, \u00a0first Google Reader<\/a>, then on its demise<\/a>\u00a0I used feedly<\/a> . In the last couple of years, though, I just added a column to my Tweetdeck app<\/a> and displayed any post for the #blogjune<\/a> hashtag.<\/p>\n

The “slurp ’em up via Twitter” method, of course, presumes that everyone who was blogging for #blogjune was tweeting out a link to the post, with the right hashtag.<\/p>\n

For the Blogging each Monday activity, I think we are going with\u00a0#glamblogweekly.<\/p>\n

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Most #blogjune people were auto-tweeting their post URL and the hashtag , but just in case you are unsure how to do this, here are a few ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. If you are weird and retro old-skool like me, you use something really, really old. From day one I set up my RSS feed through Feedburner (back when it was its own company, not just a small outpost of Google). The logic was that if I want to change the platform for my blog then everyone would still be subscribed using the same RSS feed. Was very useful when I moved from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress<\/a> . \u00a0Anyhow, Feedburner<\/a> has an option to “publicise” and I have this set up to auto-post to Twitter and to add whatever category I have assigned the post. Interestingly, when I went in search of more information to provide links, it revealed that the service shutdown on 3 December 2012<\/a>, so I seem to be using some beyond-the-grave functionality to connect to Twitter… Spooky<\/li>\n
  2. Self-hosted WordPress has an inbuilt “Share” function under the “Settings” menu (which I think is related to the Jetpack plugin being activated<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  3. If using a hosted blog at WordPress.com there is a Publicize<\/a> function to allow you to automatically share your posts and add a hashtag on Twitter.<\/li>\n
  4. Y0u could use dlvr.it\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. You could use If This Then That\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The image used in this post shows the first few IFTTT applets for WordPress.com<\/a>. There are hundreds and hundreds. My “to do” list for the last 3?? years has included “play more with IFTTT”, so I am hoping to do this in the next few months and maybe share what I find as a Monday post.<\/p>\n

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    In my last post, I mentioned that\u00a0I have used RSS feed readers to keep up with #blogjune in the past, \u00a0first Google Reader, then on its demise\u00a0I used feedly . In the last couple of years, though, I just added a column to my Tweetdeck app and displayed any post for the #blogjune hashtag. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glamblogweekly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-1d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}