I’ve been following the developer and it looks like that is his intent with an upcoming version of the plugin. I’ll cross my fingers though, because I really like this plugin.
I found this plugin on my own and what I have found it that it has dramatically increased the amount of traffic coming from twitter to my blog ands especially my older posts when I was still learning the ropes. My traffic from search engines is still small so most of my traffic comes from Twitter and other social media. Love this plugin, but wish i could have different tags for different categories.
I hope the author will update this plugin and also include more features. In the meantime, what I’d like to know is how can you manage old posts that are time sensitive? Example: you wouldn’t want to tweet a Christmas related post on April or a review of a product that’s sold out and is no longer available.
It enables bad Twitter usage. This may drive traffic in the short term, but it’s also a very quick way to lose Twitter followers–or never get them. It’s social media; not spam media. So share what you find and occasionally your own stuff. And definitely don’t just have headlines and links to your own posts in a formulaic manner in all of your tweets.
I don’t know, if someone wrote an article called “5 steps to financial independence using just your bank savings” and the information was as relevant today as it was 4 years ago, I think I’d find that pretty useful. On the other hand if it was “What I did on my holidays in 2007″ I think it is pretty useless.
Regardless, if you use it sensibly, it becomes a useful tool for your followers, use it badly and soon you won’t be bothering anyone with it.
This sounds like a good idea if used sparingly. I know if someone started posting once an hour I’d probably unfollow them, but a “flashback” link every couple of days might be interesting.
Also: J.C. Oan’s point about time-sensitive items is a good one. I tested this on one blog today and the first randomly-selected post was titled “Happy New Year.”
Interesting plug-in. I actually don’t need it as I’ve been having my assistant use HootSuite for weeks to do what this plug-in does. Thus, I’ve been tweeting regularly my old content and it’s dramatically increased my Twitter followers. She’s good at it and doesn’t charge me much. I like having control through a real human so I’m not tweeting out Happy New Year posts at random.
Souds like a great plug in to use for good content from the past, would be great if could somehow relate to that. I’ve got some old posts that don’t deserve a tweet. But it would be great to retweet the good ones for example the posts with a lot of comments, or with a lot of visitors during the first year of publication. Otherwise the chance of boring my followers with some boring old post om mine is simply to large.
Plugin does not work. Keeps asking for username and password when I put my login details in. Oh well. As someone else said… plugin creator will have to resort to using oAuth. Those who use Twitter Tools already, I am not sure if it might be necessary to apply for another or use the same API tokens and keys.
I used the plug-in for a while then uninstalled it after it had tweeted all my blog posts. One feature I would love to see the plug-in have, is the ability to specify the exact posts you want retweeted. Not every post in a category is a winner so that category thing ain’t so good.
I have using Tweet old post for some time and I really like this plugin as it helps me to drive traffic to my old posts…
Though we need to take care of few things like select categories carefully as there is no need to tweet outdated posts..
[…] Tools Collection recently spotlighted a WordPress plugin to automatically tweet old posts. It seems like a good way to bring attention to a site’s archives, as long as it’s used […]
Gilbert is a Microsoft MVP, a full-time blogger, and technology aficionado. When Gilbert is away from his bike and his iPad, he's busy writing technology how-to's from his home-office in Miami, Florida on the latest programs and gadgets he can get his hands on. He's locally known as "the computer guy" and has spent the last 12 years helping family, friends, and GilsMethod.com visitors with their computer questions and problems. He was awarded the 2009 MVP award from Microsoft for his contributions in forums and blogs and is enjoying the new addition to his family.
Nice plugin, hope the author updates it to use OAuth or it’ll be useless at the end of the month when Twitter turn off the old API.
I’ve been following the developer and it looks like that is his intent with an upcoming version of the plugin. I’ll cross my fingers though, because I really like this plugin.
Nathan beat me to it. Any Twitter plugin that wants your name and password will STOP working on September 1st! Upgrade immediately!
I found this plugin on my own and what I have found it that it has dramatically increased the amount of traffic coming from twitter to my blog ands especially my older posts when I was still learning the ropes. My traffic from search engines is still small so most of my traffic comes from Twitter and other social media. Love this plugin, but wish i could have different tags for different categories.
I hope the author will update this plugin and also include more features. In the meantime, what I’d like to know is how can you manage old posts that are time sensitive? Example: you wouldn’t want to tweet a Christmas related post on April or a review of a product that’s sold out and is no longer available.
This plugin is an enabler.
It enables bad Twitter usage. This may drive traffic in the short term, but it’s also a very quick way to lose Twitter followers–or never get them. It’s social media; not spam media. So share what you find and occasionally your own stuff. And definitely don’t just have headlines and links to your own posts in a formulaic manner in all of your tweets.
I don’t know, if someone wrote an article called “5 steps to financial independence using just your bank savings” and the information was as relevant today as it was 4 years ago, I think I’d find that pretty useful. On the other hand if it was “What I did on my holidays in 2007″ I think it is pretty useless.
Regardless, if you use it sensibly, it becomes a useful tool for your followers, use it badly and soon you won’t be bothering anyone with it.
I tried this plugin and atm it rox, need to learn litlle bit more, how to setup. Anyway your guide rox! Tnx for your time
This sounds like a good idea if used sparingly. I know if someone started posting once an hour I’d probably unfollow them, but a “flashback” link every couple of days might be interesting.
Also: J.C. Oan’s point about time-sensitive items is a good one. I tested this on one blog today and the first randomly-selected post was titled “Happy New Year.”
Interesting plug-in. I actually don’t need it as I’ve been having my assistant use HootSuite for weeks to do what this plug-in does. Thus, I’ve been tweeting regularly my old content and it’s dramatically increased my Twitter followers. She’s good at it and doesn’t charge me much. I like having control through a real human so I’m not tweeting out Happy New Year posts at random.
Souds like a great plug in to use for good content from the past, would be great if could somehow relate to that. I’ve got some old posts that don’t deserve a tweet. But it would be great to retweet the good ones for example the posts with a lot of comments, or with a lot of visitors during the first year of publication. Otherwise the chance of boring my followers with some boring old post om mine is simply to large.
But I do love the idea of the plugin
Plugin does not work. Keeps asking for username and password when I put my login details in. Oh well. As someone else said… plugin creator will have to resort to using oAuth. Those who use Twitter Tools already, I am not sure if it might be necessary to apply for another or use the same API tokens and keys.
I used the plug-in for a while then uninstalled it after it had tweeted all my blog posts. One feature I would love to see the plug-in have, is the ability to specify the exact posts you want retweeted. Not every post in a category is a winner so that category thing ain’t so good.
I have using Tweet old post for some time and I really like this plugin as it helps me to drive traffic to my old posts…
Though we need to take care of few things like select categories carefully as there is no need to tweet outdated posts..