Trying Something New: Tweet Blog Posts
March 2, 2008 by Kate Olson
I’m trying yet another of the Twitter Tools that are a perk of being an Edublogs Supporter. A post will be created daily with all of my tweets for the day. Now, at first I was hesitant of this for the same reason I haven’t yet done a daily del.icio.us blog post - it’s just a LOT of posts that some people might not be all that interested in. Here’s my rationale for trying this out: I use TwitThis to tweet many articles/resources that I’m reading (and think others will be interested in) and just don’t have the time to write another blog post everyday listing the articles/resources. I believe firmly in not duplicating work, so it makes sense to take advantage of the fact that I can easily make a blog post out of these tweets. The downside is that all my non-TwitThis/non-link tweets will be archived as well (and no, I can’t maintain 2 Twitter accounts, it would do me in!) and you’ll only see one side of conversations. The upside is that this opens up my resource sharing to my non-Twitter-using readers, which I think is a great thing. It’ll also make me use Twitter in a more community-friendly way. Less “me too” tweets! I’ll make sure to include the links when I’m thanking someone for sharing a resource.
For the non-Twittering readers out there, just know that now you’ll see a blog post each day with my twitter postings, which will include links to resources as well as some non-related bits.
I’d love feedback on this!
Note: I’m not sure when the first Twitter digest post will be posted, it’s automated, so probably tonight.
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I think it is a good idea. I tried to put your tweets in your 21st Century Teacher profile on my site … but you have your Twitter RSS locked as private. I guess you remembered to unlock it? If not, I suspect that your post tonight shall be empty