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

Now it is easy to
- Make blog posts from any RSS feed
- Tweet those posts to Twitter

Step 1 - Make Blog Posts from any RSS Feed

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:

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

However, if you want a free way to automate your blog with content from RSS feeds, we suggest the word press Feed Word Press plugin. We currently use this plugin on a few of our websites to augment our regular posts.

Step 2 – Send Your Blog Posts To Twitter

Once you have a blog with your own RSS feed, you can then send that feed to your twitter profile with the free twitter feed service. Twitter feed is also a great way to populate your twitter profile with extra tweets from any RSS feed like google news and any other website with an RSS feed.

Another free word press plugin is the free twitter tools plugin. However, this plugin will only send manually written blog posts to twitter. It will not send the posts to twitter that were created in step 1 above. But you can use it for a number of other things like creating blog posts from twitter profile tweets on a per post basis on with daily of weekly recaps. You can also use it to tweet from your wordpress sidebar.

Using the above two simple steps you can now easily “Set up an auto blog and auto tweet system”.
Now, wasn’t that fun!

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!