How to Follow Twitter Users in Statusnet or Identi.ca

Statusnet is a great place to follow people from different social networks. I posted how to do it for Google Buzz, Posterous, and Tumblr. But for those who want to follow Twitter users, below is the easiest way I know how

Testing Out Twitter Embedding

OMG! My post on #statusnet was included in @rejon 's post here! http://bit.ly/90e6FPSat May 01 16:30:14 via status.netRobert Sanchez Jr.
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IT WORKS!

More info on how to do this here

Social Network Niche Sharing

After reading Kurt Starne's article on Going Native In The Age Of Aggregation, I knew there were people like I who are tired of jumping hoops, making social network services connect with each other, and seeing duplicates in the same sites. I used to do a one click sharing to the SNS world, but doing that just made my sites feel like soup with too much water in it.

In response, I'm thinking of approaching these sites like how I would write for blogs: niche sharing. Niche sites cater to a community that has particular needs and interests (example, MMORPG.com is for MMO gamers, TechCrunch is for techies and gadget lovers, etc.). Looking at my main SNS (Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Plurk), I see a trend in my audience's interests and shares that will be the basis of what I'm going to share with them.

One Click Google Reader Sharing to FB, Twitter, and Plurk

A few days ago, I wrote about how I push my blog's feeds to the SNS universe, now I'll be showing how I push my Google Reader Shares to it as well. Although Google Reader has just provided support to it's sharing features by adding a "Send To" link to almost any site you want, it still requires you to click on each SNS site, go that site's page, and manually click on sending it; I want things simpler: ONE CLICK and send my Google Reader shared items to everywhere I want.

Here's how I do it:

How I push my posts to the SNS universe

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For most bloggers who want to easily reach out to the Tweeterverse, the news from Blogger would be a heavensent:

Tweeting your new blog posts is a great way to engage your readers, and something that many on the team have taken advantage of for our own blogs. An easy way to do this is through Twitterfeed, which automatically updates Twitter with each new blog post.