The Twitticisms tie many things together at once and the way that works may be useful for your own devious networking purposes.
Problems to solve:
1) Google+ can't see Twitter traffic. The basis for it is puerile and provincial (i.e. Google+ doesn't provide any facility for linking the content) but we don't care, it's simply a problem to solve.
- Facebook can't ordinarily see Twitter traffic but it provides a mechanism to enable that traffic and is significantly better than Google+ in that regard. However, this compounds No. 3.
2) Indexing content on the blog is difficult and various of the sections on the sidebar are different ways of finding specific articles. Those are fine but that is only partially useful for the most recent articles.
3) Finding anything on Facebook is almost impossible. If you put more than a few updates out in a day, there's a good chance no-one will see them because it's a hassle for someone else to scroll through everything you have done for the day to find something that person likes.
4) Once Facebook gets tired of your Tweets, it stops receiving them (doesn't take much).
In process, my Twitter Tweeter Finder will gather up the last twenty or so Tweets. Those will include:
a) random bursts of pithy punditry
b) announcement of a new blog article here
c) announcement of a new video I have released to YouTube
d) announcement of a new song I have released to the podcast
e) links to items of interest and / or comedy about the net
Collecting those items into an article with all twenty at once accomplishes the following:
1) Send all those Tweets to Google+ in one shot. Check No. 1.
2) All or most of recent blog postings (i.e. for that day or part of it) will be in one place. Check No. 2.
3) Most of the updates I make on Facebook come either from the blog or Twitter ... but ... they are difficult to find on Facebook and therefore are not likely to be read. The Twittercisms thus serve much the same function for Facebook as with Google+ and Facebook gets access to Tweets which Facebook had previously thrown out. Check No. 4.
It's not that I think my Tweets are so vital, important or clever but rather I'm really, really lazy. If I learned anything from systems programming it's that life is much better when the machine does the work. The above looks like a lot of work but I hardly did any of it. Between posting the Tweet and later running my Twitter Tweeter Finder is hardly an onerous burden.
None of the above is difficult, it's much more a hassle than a mindmelt. If you want your own Twitter Tweeter Finder, you're welcome to it. There's no charge and there should not be one. Much of the code is public domain and I modified it to my purposes.
To put all that together, every so often, I run the Twitter Tweeter Finder and it will post the results back to a new browser window. From that, my next move is CTRL-C to copy all the Tweets, then open a new Blogger article, and then CTRL-V to paste them into it. Make a title for it and post. All done.
Like I said ... lazy, really lazy.
Problems to solve:
1) Google+ can't see Twitter traffic. The basis for it is puerile and provincial (i.e. Google+ doesn't provide any facility for linking the content) but we don't care, it's simply a problem to solve.
- Facebook can't ordinarily see Twitter traffic but it provides a mechanism to enable that traffic and is significantly better than Google+ in that regard. However, this compounds No. 3.
2) Indexing content on the blog is difficult and various of the sections on the sidebar are different ways of finding specific articles. Those are fine but that is only partially useful for the most recent articles.
3) Finding anything on Facebook is almost impossible. If you put more than a few updates out in a day, there's a good chance no-one will see them because it's a hassle for someone else to scroll through everything you have done for the day to find something that person likes.
4) Once Facebook gets tired of your Tweets, it stops receiving them (doesn't take much).
In process, my Twitter Tweeter Finder will gather up the last twenty or so Tweets. Those will include:
a) random bursts of pithy punditry
b) announcement of a new blog article here
c) announcement of a new video I have released to YouTube
d) announcement of a new song I have released to the podcast
e) links to items of interest and / or comedy about the net
Collecting those items into an article with all twenty at once accomplishes the following:
1) Send all those Tweets to Google+ in one shot. Check No. 1.
2) All or most of recent blog postings (i.e. for that day or part of it) will be in one place. Check No. 2.
3) Most of the updates I make on Facebook come either from the blog or Twitter ... but ... they are difficult to find on Facebook and therefore are not likely to be read. The Twittercisms thus serve much the same function for Facebook as with Google+ and Facebook gets access to Tweets which Facebook had previously thrown out. Check No. 4.
It's not that I think my Tweets are so vital, important or clever but rather I'm really, really lazy. If I learned anything from systems programming it's that life is much better when the machine does the work. The above looks like a lot of work but I hardly did any of it. Between posting the Tweet and later running my Twitter Tweeter Finder is hardly an onerous burden.
None of the above is difficult, it's much more a hassle than a mindmelt. If you want your own Twitter Tweeter Finder, you're welcome to it. There's no charge and there should not be one. Much of the code is public domain and I modified it to my purposes.
To put all that together, every so often, I run the Twitter Tweeter Finder and it will post the results back to a new browser window. From that, my next move is CTRL-C to copy all the Tweets, then open a new Blogger article, and then CTRL-V to paste them into it. Make a title for it and post. All done.
Like I said ... lazy, really lazy.
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