Twitter gives you an easy, mobile way to post news updates
At it’s simplest, Twitter is a great way to create and post short news updates / quick bites of info to your website or blog. On a blog site like this, you create a Twitter account and put those details into a ‘widget’ in your navigation bar (see ‘quick news’ in the right column).
The widget reads the RSS feed from Twitter and updates your latest news item in the way you see here.
What’s nice about that is that if you’re at a PC, you can write a news update quickly (without going into your blog control panel) and it will update on your site. Better still, you can just text it in via your phone and it will appear on your site immediately.
Twitter is already (and going to become) far more than just a quick news feed. It’s a ‘social media’ space and used imaginatively promises to be able to increase traffic to your site, answer questions and enhance your marketing.
But hey. I only just signed up this morning. Take all these things in small bites, I say – and put them to work in the most straightforward way possible to start with.
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