Oh, ok, that makes sense. I use Tumblr (http://tumblr.com) to post those sorts of links b/c I think it keeps my twitter noise low. Of course, the downside is that while a lot more ppl I know have some knowledge of twitter, they haven’t heard of Tumblr. which makes my followers low but it’s a great alternative to delicious since it isn’t just bookmarking because you can embed materials and style it like a blog.

If you decide not to tumbl along, maybe you could add some sort of endorsement to your article linking. @timoreilly does things that way and I think it’s a good method. I tend to look at most twits I follow at a glance and when I see “{Article Title} {link shortener link}”, I just automatically go, “oh, self promotion spam on their blog”. That’s why I thought those links were spam-like.

If you decide to tumbl along, you can follow my tumblr at http://chance.garciawebapps.com

Now that I know what those links were about, I don’t think you’re spamming to Twitter at all, you’re just as addicted to interest sharing via twitter as I am to interest sharing via tumblr. =)

I do post my new blog updates from BrownPHP to Twitter, but I don’t see how I could be spamming being that I rarely publish more that 2 articles a week on this site.

I post news articles from some of my favorite Tech and PHP sites that I find interesting, but they are never from my site.

I agree that it isn’t a good idea to spam twitter at all, as that could have harmful affects. I don’t think spamming anything is every a good idea.

But please do let me know if you ever feel like I’m spamming on Twitter. I’d have to admit that I am a bit addicted…

Your twitter timeline almost makes you look like a self-promoting spammer. A few hours ago, you had a flurry of tinyurl twits that I’m guessing were site update twits. If I hadn’t talked to you over twitter before seeing those, I would’ve thought your twitter feed was like @techcrunch or @lifehacker where twitter seems to be just another RSS feed outlet. I stopped following them because I already subscribe to the feed and have no love for redundancy.

It seems that whenever someone uses the promotional power of twitter, they have to maintain a proper insight/lifestream to promotion ratio so that they don’t lose followers.

Other than that rant, neat button!

The “Post to Twitter” button should help attract visitors to your articles via Twitter now and since Twitter has been getting a lot of press, I thought I should add this functionality to the site.