Here’s the thing I hate most about blogging – it’s all about the now. Doesn’t matter how much time you invested or how much thought you put into that post or series birthed by your creative genius – your precious content is forgotten and buried faster than Superman tweeting on speed!
Enter Tweet Old Post.
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I stumbled upon this brilliant wordpress plugin recently that resurrects that old content and brings it into the land of the living.
You select an interval (I’ve chosen twice a day), and BOOM – your old content, selected at random based on the criteria you choose, is tweeted. It even comes packaged with the ability to choose a link shortening service.
One downside – as I have figured out since beginning to use this plugin. If your readers/followers don’t pay attention, they will think that you’re posting new content and ask you if you’re alright after your car wreck (that happened 4 years ago!).
So, my fellow bloggers, hop on over to here and tell Ajay thanks for writing a plugin that helps us repopulate the interwebs with the precious fruit of our labors.
Alex said...
1When I started my new blog I didn't originally set it up as a "JOURNAL" or "BLOG". This gave me the freedom to list each post separately and I thought I was achieving this same concept of erasing NEW from OLD. I was wrong of course and was limited in other elements that are crucial in any Blog format…so I reluctantly changed the format.
This should be really helpful with my original hesitancy to start a blog again. That is of course if I can figure out how to configure it with my publisher.
Thanks JR and Ajay.
02/24/10 3:29 PM | Comment Link
@geoffholsclaw said...
2interesting. i'll have to check it out. but I somewhat struggle with the vanity of it, yet still…interesting…
02/24/10 6:11 PM | Comment Link
Ajay said...
3Hey JR just came across this post. The feature that you mentioned can be accomplished by the option "Categories to Omit from tweets:" hope that helps if you still think there should be some modification please let me know it will be great to extend the plugins functionality
03/15/10 12:58 PM | Comment Link
jrrozko said...
4Thanks Ajay, I think you've done a great job! The issue is more with people who don't pay close attention to that they're reading, not the plugin itself.
03/15/10 1:32 PM | Comment Link