Auto Tweet New Posts Using Google Feedburner

Tired tweeting your new posts manually? Google’s twitter love is showing up once again to help you out. They have introduced a new service to let you automatically tweet your new posts or articles using through their Feedburner Socialize option.

It uses your RSS Feed to post updates in your twitter account mapped in your Feedburner Account. The updates are not real time like the other similar and much popular service called TweetFeed as they both uses the same technology, i.e using the RSS Feed to post and update your twitter account.

There are some options to customize the Tweets, which makes it better than TweetFeed. You can choose to show between “Title Only”, “Title and Body” and “Body Only” for tweet posts. You can also choose to include a Linkback to your post and enable room for retweets. There are option to filter the tweets using a Keyword Filter. There’s more, you have the option to add custom text in your tweets and also can add Hash Tags in the tweets.

Feedburner Autotweet Service

The service uses Google’s new URL Shortening Service, goo.gl. So, we may expect more features like tracking of clicks and visits in future in statistics.

To setup the feature, Login in your Google Feedburner account. Click on the Feed on which you want to enable tweet. Click on the “Publicize” tab and choose “Socialize” from the left sidebar. After adding a Twitter, you can customize the outgoing tweets and then click “Activate”.

Like I said, this is not something new, but it makes life easy to manage the RSS features from a single account.