How to Add a Twitter Account to Feedburner

You can now auto Tweet your blog updates right from Feedburner. Feedburner will also add Hashtags if you want and there is also the option to leave room for Retweets. This will help you save time and you do not have to be bothered with going to Twitter each time and copy paste your blog feed updates. Feedburner also has a link shortening service the famous goo.gl.


So your updates get automatically Tweeted and you make sure your RSS feeds are reaching the Social World. You might be wondering what the pros and cons are well the most obvious one is that if you life to customize your Tweets. In the sense you personalize your Tweets a lot then this option might feel a little vague. Because all the Tweets going out have a factory look and feel very professional.


Positively this really saves time and gives you a chance to get on with your content and not having to bother with updating your Twitter account as this gets updated automatically. Also since your links have the goo.gl tag which is trusted. Works with Blogger WordPress or any other blog service.


To Add Twitter to your Feedburner account


1. login to Feedburner
2. Click on 'Socialize'
3. Click on Add a Twitter Account
4. You will be taken to a Twitter application page telling you that Google would like to update your twitter account.
5. Click on Accept

6. Your Done.




Once this is done you also have a lot of formatting options as found in the screen shot below.

These options allow you to add additional text to each post, keyword filter if you want to only Tweet certain updates that have a selected keyword. 

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How to troubleshoot FeedBurner feeds not being updated

If you find that you feeds are not being updated in FeedBurner here are a few things you can do to troubleshoot and find out what the problem is.


You can ping FeedBurner with you website address, What this does is ping FeedBurner and get your feeds updated immediately and not their regular 30 minute intervals.


Click here to ping FeedBurner now. 


If this does not work you will need to login to your account 
1. Click on the feed that your having trouble with
2. Click on Troubleshootize
3. Click on Resync Now
Remember to click on Resync Now only if you feed has not been updated for over an hour after clicking on Ping.


If this does not work you would need to check your feed validity.


You can use www.FeedValidator.org to check you feeds validity. You can go to the original site but the better option is to use it right from your FeedBurner account.

1. Click on the feed that your having trouble with

2. Click on Troubleshootize

3. Beside the option "The Fix" there is the option for your to check your feeds originial validity and to check your FeedBurner feed validity.

If you are still having trouble you would need to check the size of your feed if it is more than 512k. FeedBurner will not be able to update it.

You can also run into trouble with wrong HTML. If you are copying things and pictures off the internet and randomly posting it your blog there could be trouble. If is also advised to compose your blog in the box WordPress or blogger provides rather than using word. Some word formatting can also be trouble.

Keep in mind that tagging is very important so if the Title of you post is repeated in your Tags it can also cause confusion.

In your FeedBurner do not forget to subscribe to FeedBurner FeedMedic Alerts

Please leave your comments suggestions and other valuable information.

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