I know I am a bit late with what I described as a cool Twitter trick so let me explain what I ahve done.
If you are familiar with the automated services for Power-Twitter users then you will understand what I have done.
Using sub-domains I have manged to create mini Wordpress blogs that can post tweets to Twitter in an automated fashion.
There are a couple of things that I do first. One of which is that I remove the Ping service that WP adds by default.
The next thing I would do is add a plugin that updates my Twitter account when a new post is made. There are a few of these but only one that I have seen does it accurately and reliably. And that’s “WP to Twitter”. You will also need an account at “Bit.ly” to form short URL strings.
The next important piece is to drip feed a bunch of posts. The neat thing here is that you only need the Title and just junk in the content area since no one will see that.
Finally, the “.htaccess” file needs to be altered so that your short URL strings can be re-directed to your target domain.
That is it in a nutshell.
What gave me fits were the plugin for updating Twitter and the “.htaccess” file. This two items drove me nuts. I know I could have used a simple redirect but then it was giving me 404 errors because I did not have a matching page. That is when I learned about matching within Htaccess. Very nice.
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