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Tweeting just got a whole lot easier with the new RSS to Blog feature from social oomph.

Now it is easy to
1 – Make Blog Posts from any RSS Feed
2 – Tweet those posts to Twitter

All of this is done automatically with the professional paid version of social oomph.

“you can now grab one or more (in fact as many as you like) RSS feeds and automatically create blog post entries from the RSS feed entries.”

“it is now possible to populate your blog with hand-crafted scheduled blog posts, combined with posts that are created from external RSS feeds”

“One Blog Feed can feed as many blogs and social networking accounts as you want, and you can feed as many Blog Feeds into one blog and/or social networking account as you want.”

“You access it by:

1. Adding your blog to your SocialOomph account.
2. Adding a Blog Feed account, and selecting your blog (and other accounts) as the target for the Blog Feed.”

This is a great way to set up an auto blog and auto tweet system.

Hootsuite and ping.fm are my duo secret weapon number 3.

I actually found pingfm first. As I was busy adding all my social network accounts to pingfm I saw their Hootsuite link. I was literally thrilled to found this combination. Not only did I marvel at the cabability of ping, I was positively awed by the possibilities of using them together.

First of all - with a single post in pingfm, the post will simultaneously be sent to major social networks like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Digg, Classmates.com, Friendster, hi5, Stumble Upon, OkCupid, Match.com, 43 Things, Bebo, Plaxo myYearbook, wayn.com, Yahoo Personals, Orkut, Tagged.com, Reunion.com, Plurk, Ning, Pogo.com, Shelfari, fubar, Adult Friend Finder, Plenty of Fish.com, Xanga, Plaxo Pulse, PalTalk, Friends Reunited, Multiply.com, tumblr.com, Ping.fm, Fitness Singles.com, Pix.ie, mycountryspace, BlackPlanet, mylife.com, ZooLoo, craftynation, Essembly, Chatterbox, schülervz, www.youjustgetme.com, beglobal, MiGente, who remembers me and small worlds.

If that was all there was to pingfm I would be thoroughly thrilled. But here is the second killer feature. You can send your post to pingfm from Hootsuite.

Why is that a big deal you ask? Hootsuite will list all of your twitter profiles and allow you to easily make a tweet simultaneously from one or all of profiles. You can also schedule those tweets for anytime. Plus, you get other screens that show retweets made from any of your profiles tweet – allowing you to retweets or direct message those other people from one or all of profiles.

Hootsuite also contains much more like an auto RSS feed from your blog  (or dare we say it, all of your blogs or anyones blog or RSS feed)!

Using Hootsuite

Using Ping.fm

Once again, they are both 100% free. Mega way COOL!

Wordpress is my favored blog website system. It’s what I’m using now. The advantages of creating and running a Wordpress based blog are many. The availability of free worpres plugins is the best reason for choosing it.

The Twitter Tools plugin is an excellent example of the free tools that webmasters can get for their blog.All you have to do is copy these plugins to your plugins directory and activate them. The Twitter Tools plugin is best used in the side bar.

After you activate the plugin you can tell it how you want it to run.  I personally use it on some of my blogs to send an automatic tweet to my twitter profile. Everytime I make a blog post, Twitter Tools sends a tweet to the twitter profile I’ve setup for it.

If your blog posts come from RSS feeds to your site, those also go as tweets to your twitter profile. That can cause thousands of tweets to be made in a relatively short time. It also adds onto the tweet spam pile.

Use common sense with this tool! It’s free and it works!