Promoting podcasts effectively with Twitter

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:46:59 +0000

As many of you know, I’m the cohost of GermanPod101, a podcast for learning German geared toward Americans. You’ll notice on our Twitter feed that I summarize the content of each episode, so our followers can quickly get a teaser for the material and really want to listen. If you look at the C|Net Loaded Twitter Feed, you can see how boring your feed can look to the general public and actually one reason why I stopped following @CNetLoaded. This really frustrates me, because I think Loaded is the most interesting podcast on the entire Internet.

So, if you’d like to quickly update your Twitter feed with interesting information about your podcast episodes, I’d recommend using Twhirl which should work on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with Adobe Air. In Twhirl, you can use the shorten URL feature to automatically make your URL really, really tiny to something like http://is.gd/cJa as you can see on the GermanPod101 feed which gives you more space to summarize the show description. I find that it takes me about 3 minutes each day to take our summary from our blog and make it a bit shorter for Twitter. So, this reminds me, I should write up the summary for today…

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Promoting podcasts effectively with Twitter