Monday, 27 April 2009

Social Networking Madness!

A couple days ago I heard a news story about how Ashton Kutcher was aiming to be a Twitter millionaire.

So, I thought to myself that it might be worth setting up a Twitter account. My common sense told me that I should experiment with a different blog first. So, by following my common sense, I set up a Twitter account for Rifted Universe, a game that I help design. I then set about using twitterfeed.com to link Blogger and Twitter. This should mean that whenever a Development post is made on the RU blog, it will update the Twitter status. Then, by using twitsig.com it's possible to create a dynamic image that shows your latest Twitter update. You can then put this image anywhere you like.

In addition to this it is possible to show your Twitter updates on your blog (See right). After achieving this uber linkage I decided to do that all for my own blog and then to link it to Facebook too. That means that whenever I do a Status update on Twitter, it will show up on this Blog, on the forums I visit and on Facebook. And whenever I do a new blog post it will show up on the forums, Twitter and on Facebook.

It's stupidly confusing, but hopefully it will pay off somewhere down the line.

Final Thought Byte : If you are thinking about starting a blog you may want to consider creating a Social Networking Web too. It's pretty confusing, but it increases the chance of people stumbling across your blog. Be careful with giving access to your boss though. What you say on the internet certainly affects your future job prospects.

Tags : Ashton Kutcher, Twitter, twitterfeed.com, twitsig.com, dynamic forum signature, Facebook, Social Networking Web, Blogger

No comments: