Using twitter effectively as a blog

by Nic Haralambous on 29/04/2009

SA Rocks is a blog that I own and run. And Twitter is a service that I absolutely love using and am fast becoming addicted to. It’s also a service that is replacing my addiction to blogging.

This is clearly evident in this blog. I tweet my rants now, I don’t blog them. That takes too long.

But with regards to SA Rocks I have been trying to figure out a way to make effective use of Twitter. I’ve struggled as many have been doing. I haven’t managed to integrate SA Rocks in to Twitter at all.

I don’t think that punting blog posts via twitterfeed.com is the right way to go. I really feel like that is just pushing content and gaining no return on investment whatsoever.

So I am trying more of a social feel attempt at integrating SA Rocks in to twitter. The pull of SA Rocks is that people want to feel good about South Africa. I know I do. Now what I am looking for is reasons for people to feel rocking in South Africa in 140 characters or less.

I will then take my favourite rocking @ifeelrocking replies and put them in a daily blog post and tweet that via @ifeelrocking.

Let’s do it.

nharalambous@gmail.com

There is 1 comment in this article:

  1. 3/05/2009Elan Lohmann says:

    Yes I agree. I also think that people can put in less effort using Twitter and command the same attention they used to through blogging.

    I predict a major drop-off in blog posts as a result of Twitter.

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