Moms Online Business Coach

Twitter is one of my favorite online tools. I’ve made valuable (both personal and financial) relationships on Twitter. I tweet from my desktop, my laptop, my phone and it is one of the #1 traffic sources to my blog.

But let’s face it.. those 140 characters can be distracting and time consuming. There are great tools, like TweetDeck, or Hootsuite to help you manage your tweets but you have to enter those 140 characters and push send.

Here is a little tool that I found to help me manage my tweets while I’ve been neck deep in work… so that my Twitter stream doesn’t dribble away without me

It’s a free wordpress plugin called Related Tweets by the Blog Traffic Exchange. I love it!

You install the plugin as you would any of your other WordPress plugins. Related Tweets plugin uses the powerful Blog Traffic Exchange search engine to find content and lets the user choose what to publish it on his Twitter account.

Once you activate your plugin, set your options in the control panel, choose what blog categories you do not want to include and add your Twitter account. You select how often you want to post related tweets then continue to tweet as you normally do while the Blog Trafic Exchange publishes content on topics related to your blog.

I confess, I am a strong believer in non-automated social networking tools, but this one is different. It’s providing quality content, related to my topic, not spammy affiliate links, AND my followers enjoy it! That’s the most important point here- I will jump on Twitter and find that five or 10 people of Re-Tweeted a post that was made by plugin.

This means, my overall exposure on Twitter has grown as well and I have personally Tweeted far less then I ever have due to my focus on work projects.

Go ahead, check it out- see if fits your style and helps you grow your exposure both on Twitter and in your blog.