Check out Tweetfeed for Building Quick Twitter Accounts

I'm currently a big fan of Tweetfeed, a free online tool for aggregating RSS feeds from different sources and then pushing them out to different Twitter accounts you manage.

This is a useful exercise because if you want to use Twitter to attract new followers and website visitors, the best way to think of Twitter is like a mini search engine.


If you make sure your tweets have got plenty of keywords in them, and there are plenty of them, then Twitter users will find the tweets and then choose to follow your account.

If you get enough followers, then you can start to send some of them to the website and hopefully turn them into leads.

One way to boost the number of Tweets is to use news feeds from other places like trade magazines or news websites, then send their news out via your Twitter account. This also makes your twitter a bit like a central resource of useful news and information.

For example if you look at http://twitter.com/youressexnews which I set up for another client, most of the tweets come from third parties like the BBC and local media, and then we just add in the clients tweets in between them. It ‘s only been live a few weeks but the twitter account is now getting a couple of new followers each day - not much but there's no work needed.

I've also extended the same principle onto a new Twitter account for Oriel at http://twitter.com/orielnews, which takes the client's own news items (submitted from their Blogger blog) and mixes them up with industry news from trade magazines.

You can check out  Twitterfeed at http://twitterfeed.com.