08.27.08

The “Blog and Tweet” strategy

Posted in Business at 9:17 am by adrianhall

After years as a social media doubting Thomas, I’m starting to get the fun of them. I’ve had a delicious account (http://delicious.com/elguiri) and a LinkedIn account (http://www.linkedin.com/in/AKHall) for a while, but I’ve done little with them. Aren’t these things for kiddies?

Recently I’ve become a convert to one of the most infantile - twitter (http://twitter.com/elguiri) and find myself playing on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683955730) for more time than I’d care to admit. Most of all, I like the interaction between twitter, facebook and blogs.
Today I noticed how someone who’s living depends on being read and recognised - Danny Sullivan - moves new pieces of research on his blog, by posting it on twitter.

Danny has an impressive 4,500 followers on twitter. As many of those people may not follow his blog every day or take an RSS feeds, Danny can push his bigger stories this way and generate buzz, especially when retweets ripple through the blogging and tweeting community.

There used to exist a method of getting web pages spidered more efficiently called “blog and ping”. I think “blog and tweet” will have a longer shelf life.

And there’s even a plug in to combine the two: Twitter Tools

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