New Tweet This Hack but Still no Monkeys

By Colleen, on February 1st, 2009%

monkeyI just finished installing the latest version of the Tweet This WordPress Plugin. It renders my Tweet This Hack obsolete. As now you can configure the text that comes out. This is as it should be. I’m so honored! Richard Thripp, the author of Tweet This, even dropped by and made a comment on that post. Since my version is standard again, I feel another hack coming on. However I still have not sensed even one monkey trying to escape from my personal solid waste disposal port yet.

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When Monkeys Fly Out My A$$ OR My TweetThis Hack

By Colleen, on December 9th, 2008%

I was recently reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog post on how he uses Twitter.   I was thinking, sure, Twitterfeed is great because it tweets my blog posts as me, but it would be even nicer if my awesome readers had a button to tweet my blog post as them in one click, i.e.  without the brain cell killing mousage/keyboardage of 1) shrinking the URL, 2) going to twitter and 3) copy/pasting the title. That’s a good thing in three ways:

  • More cred for you if someone else besides you tweets your stuff,
  • more potential reach,
  • your friend who tweets for you appears magnanimous and with it to all his followers.

It sounded like something that would be easy to automate  and useful to a lot of people, so I thought, there has to be a WordPress plugin to do that. Sure enough there is – Tweet This by Richard X Thripp.
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