The Twitter Book

Publish on Twitter

By now, you've probably gotten the sense that Twitter is pretty much a blank canvas, waiting for you to fill it with cool stuff. Thing is, that stuff need not be limited to your own bon mots and retweets. In fact, Twitter can serve very effectively as a publishing platform, letting you share regular posts on a theme. Just a few of our favorites:

@Genny_Spencer,

for a line a day from the 1937 diary of an Illinois farm girl, posted by her great-nephew

@LowFlyingRocks,

for announcements of every object that passes close to Earth

@ThomasJefferson,

for quotes from the author of the Declaration of Independence (for general quotes, try @IHeartQuotes)

@WordSpy and @emckean,

for new words and phrases

twitter tip

Although we generally discourage automated posts for personal and business posting on Twitter, accounts like these are one of the places they can work well. To preschedule messages, try TweetLater (http://tweetlater.com). To set up an RSS feed of updates, try TwitterFeed (http://twitterfeed.com).