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Wordpress Activates Updates from Twitter

Today is the day when blogging and micro-blogging overlap… The gap is closed, and the biggest blogging network was the one to do it. Sure, you can tweet a status update when you make a new post on Tumblr and other sites, but now you can actually post on your Wordpress blog, from the Twitter API.

Now, this doesn’t mean that you can update your blog straight from Wordpress.com — No, it’s a third-party kind of thing. If a third-party application supports the addition of a custom API URL will now allow you to set up and post to your Wordpress-run blog.

The one application that I know of at the moment is Tweetie 2. Tweetie 2 is my mobile client of choice, and its functionality just grew a good bit…

By setting your own custom API URL (which basically just entails you entering your Wordpress.com username and password, then setting the API Root to “https://twitter-api.wordpress.com/”), you can post directly to your blog from the popular Twitter client (and possibly a few others — I’m not quite sure). You can also read new posts from blogs that you are subscribed to… All right within the mobile Twitter client.

It seems the good folks over at Wordpress are trying to extend their userbase by expanding the ways that you can access the service, while at the same time show that the micro-blogging service Twitter is not an enemy of the popular blogging platform. At least, that’s my take on it.

As an avid Twitter user, and a long-time Wordpress publisher, it’s nice to see these two services coming together, even if just a bit.
I’m hoping to see Wordpress attempt to expand their connections in the future and try to make it even easier to access their service on the go, and even right in your seat, from other popular services.
Expansion is good. Get the content everywhere.

For now, though, this is definitely a nice feature, and a pretty good look at what’s to come.

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