How Can I Have Broadcasts Automatically Published to Twitter?

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How Can I Have Broadcasts Automatically Published to Twitter?

Beyond its use for personal purposes, social networking provides a way for online professionals to share information and network with a wider audience than the technology they're built on (the web) affords traditionally.

Twitter lets you publish very short blurbs quickly and have them syndicated to people following your profile. Seeing the value of using this technology as a way to expand the reach of email newsletters, we've developed a feature that allows AWeber users to automatically post a "tweet" linking to a web version of any broadcast message.

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Step by Step Instructions

Under the My Lists tab, select List Settings.
Scroll down on this page to the Social Media/Sharing section.

Here, click the Connect To A New Twitter Account button.
This will take you to a page on Twitter's site where you can enter your Twitter login and password to allow your AWeber account to tweet for you. Just enter your information and click the Allow button.

Note that if you are already logged into your Twitter account, you may see this instead:

Simply click Allow here.
This will take you back to your AWeber List Settings page. You can scroll down to the Social Media/Sharing section again, and you will see your Twitter account.

If you click the Make Default link, all broadcasts from this list will be tweeted by that Twitter account by default (you can disable this for an individual broadcast manually). Note that each list can have its own default account.

Clicking Connect To A New Twitter Account will allow you to add more Twitter accounts for you to use - these connected Twitter accounts can be used in any of your lists.
Now, when you are creating a broadcast message, you can scroll to the bottom of the page to the Social Media/Sharing options. Check the box here to enable your broadcast archive and allow you to tweet this broadcast (Note that if you made a Twitter account into a default, this will be checked for you).
In the Twitter area, you can select your Twitter account from the drop down menu. Your Tweet will appear below, and you can save and queue your message as normal.

Note that you can also choose to not tweet this message (useful if you set a Twitter account as your default), or even add a new Twitter account from this menu. Adding a new Twitter account works the same way here as it does on the List Settings page.