How To Create A Blog From Your Phone Using Twitter
Apr 7th, 2008 by Johan
Would you like to know how to blog from your phone using Twitter and other Twitter Tools? You can even create a blog by sending only SMS messages to your blog. Well it get’s better; you can use other tools to send messages linked to photos to your blog and you can send messages from your desktop. You can even use free Instant Messengers like Google Talk.
Why would you want to create a blog from your phone?
- You may be a geek and just want to do it because it can be done.
- You may want to create a blog using only 140 characters because you don’t want to get involved with writing long articles.
- You have a thought to share and you want to do it now.
What is possible with this idea?
- Obviously you can create a blog from your twitter chats - tweets.
- If you already have a blog you can include your tweets in your blog.
- You can send people to your blog to subscribe to it and build relationships.
- You can use your twitter account to social network with people on twitter.
How do you create a blog from your phone or desktop application?
- If you don’t have a blog then go and create a free one at iLocals.Info because all the tools and more are there for you.
- Go and create a Twitter account and remember your username and password.
- I have included a plugin called Twitter Tools for you on iLocals.Info. You need to go and activate it. (If you have wordpress blog then download and install Twitter Tools). Read this on how to set Twitter Tools up.
- If you have read how to set up Twitter Tools you’ll know if Twitter Tools could connect to your account. You can set the following:
- 1. Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes).
2. Create a blog post from each of your tweets. If you want to create a blog only using tweets then this is the option I recommend. If you have an existing set this option to No.
3. Create a daily digest post of your tweets. If you include the idea into your exciting then choose this option and not the one above. Set it as yes.
4. Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post. If you have an existing blog choose this option. Set it as yes. If you have a blog based only on tweets set this to No.
5. You need to create a category for your tweets. And then set your tweet category within your Tweet Tools setup. This will create the twitter blog post with the category you choose.
6. Add the twitter tools side bar widget if you want.
Now you can start tweeting by going to your twitter account or from your Twitter Tools side bar widget.
How do you activate your phone to send Tweets?
- Go to Fring and create an account. This process will show you if your phone can be used using Fring. Download the software on your phone and activate Fring.
- You’ll notice that Fring allows you to make free calls to Skype, Google Talk and other.
- Go back to your Twitter account and add your phone and/or the instant messenger (IM) you use (like Google Talk).
- Twitter will tell you what to do to activate your phone or instant messenger.
Now you’ll be able to blog from your phone but you’ll pay standard rates for the SMS. There’s a better way; if you have Google Talk or the other supported IM’s on Fring you can send your Tweets from your phone using Fring. Neat! You can also Twitter from this free Desktop Application called Twhirl.
I am using all these tools to add tweets to my blog and I have created a blog where I only use Twitter Tweets.
By The Way: I have not discussed how I use Asides to change the look and feel of blog tweets on my normal blog. I recommend that you use the technique if you have a normal blog.
Hope this helps.
Johan Horak
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