Magic Moment: Tweet old posts automatically

Posted on Thursday 4 August 2011 by Alice • 2 Comments
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This is an exciting new plugin (only available to WordPress.org users, sorry) I found while following my friends on Twitter. It randomly and automatically publishes old posts at specified intervals on Twitter, which will help promote your posts to a wider audience by giving them the extra exposure they deserve!

Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/, search for ‘Tweet Old Post’ and it will be the first on offer:

Download it onto your computer and upload it into your FTP browser such as FileZilla. Alternatively go to your plugin page and request ‘Tweet Old Post’ and upload it to your plugins.

Once it’s installed, don’t forget to activate it…

…and click on ‘Settings’:

Fill in the fields to set up what you would like to happen, and don’t forget to confirm by clicking on the buttons at the bottom, to save your settings and to send a ‘practise’ tweet:

Here it is shown in TweetDeck – isn’t it exciting? Now your old posts will get a better chance of being read by a larger amount of people in different time zones throughout the Twittersphere!

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Alice Elliott is passionate about blogging and helping others to blog. She created the Fairy Blog Mother brand to train, explain and create awareness of blogs using ordinary, everyday language in a highly visual format, especially developed for non-technical would-be bloggers.
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2 Responses to Magic Moment: Tweet old posts automatically

  1. CharlotteNo Gravatar says:
    Thursday 4 August 2011 at 1:13 pm

    Help please. I do not seem to have an add new plugin button on my blog and I dont know what a FTP means let alone know if I have one!I have downloaded the programme on to my computer and there it sits!
    Can you help me?

  2. AliceNo Gravatar says:
    Thursday 4 August 2011 at 2:23 pm

    That’s because your blog isn’t using WordPress, Charlotte, therefore this plugin will be meaningless. I’m afraid you can do nothing with it!

    FTP stands for file transfer protocol, which means how files are transferred from one platform to another within the internet. FileZilla is a viewing platform that allows FTP to take place, where you can see how to put files into the correct place to make your blog or website work. Plugins are applications that provide the necessary information to make fantastic things happen on blogs.

    Hope this helps! Alice

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