Getting a Twitter

This week, the whole class got a Twitter account.  Since there were a number of students opposed to the idea, it was rather chaotic.  Once Twitter had been created, we went onto ifttt.com to link our Twitter  to our blog.  If This Then That is a website that allows you to automate various web tasks.

The directions for linking Twitter to Blogspot is as follows:
-On iftt.com, click task
-click create task
-click "This"
-click "Feed"
-click "New Feed"
-Enter the blog's RSS address here
-click "Create Trigger"
-click "That"
-choose Twitter
-Post a new tweet
-click "Create Action"
-Finally, click "Create Task"

You find the blog's RSS address by either clicking on the RSS icon or by clicking Subscribe to Posts.

I can see how If This Then That would be a huge time-saver as a teacher letting their students know when something new has been posted on the class's blog.  That is, assuming that Twitter does not die out the same way that MySpace did.  It will be interesting to see which social networking sites stand the test of time!