TwitterTools is a really cool tool that I am not quite ready for yet. My Twitter usage is still very sporadic. I was just starting to get used to Twitter and then I installed TwitterTools, a cool new tool that sends a tweet every time you post on your blog and copies all of your tweets from the day into a blog post.
The problem I had is that sometimes all I would tweet was a few replies. The daily digest posts would be rather boring and without the tweets I was replying to they usually did not make sense. The worst thing is that my email subscribers were getting these short meaningless posts every day as email. Btw, Hi to all my email subscribers! Thanks for reading. Sorry for filling your inbox with meaningless words and abbreviations. Oh wait, that is what all the other emails are too, huh.
To try to solve this problem, I stopped replying as much which caused me to start forgetting Twitter was there. So all the funny things the kids said and all the funny/interesting things that were happening have gone unrecorded.
Fortunately, I have come up with an alternate solution. I shut off the automatic daily digest and instead I am starring the ones I want to post and putting them in a weekly summary. This lets me include tweets from other people to give context to replies and also include any other tweets I find funny, useful, etc. So I can tweet as much as I want and my readers only have to put up with one post a week.
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Great idea with the weekly digest!
I wish Twittertools had a bit more flexibility as to when & how your tweets were posted to the blog.
I would like to be able to have some conditionals like ‘if tweets less than x, don’t post’ and also control the time that the dump from twitter happens.
I look at my twitter-to-blog dumping as more of a personal collection for me than anything else.