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Why Should This Headline Be My Status Update?

20 October

I want a different way to post updates about my blog to the social web directly from WordPress.

The universally accepted “send an update to Twitter using the headline via the one allowed account tied to my blog when I hit publish” option just ain’t cutting it for me anymore.

Can we be smarter about this? A headline is not always the best status update message. I may want to hit publish and send a message out to Twitter or Facebook at a later time or to each one at different times. I may want to make sure a second or third update gets sent out later in the day or the following week. I might want those to highlight the post from a different angle.

And I’d like to do all of those things at the same time that I’m writing the post, so I don’t have to think about it or remember to do it later. Let me choose from several different Twitter accounts. Let me publish to those different Twitter accounts at different times, with different messages, suited for their specific audiences. Is this too much to ask?

One more thing… add this same functionality to the Press This bookmarklet. This would make me happy. For now.

If you know of a plug-in that will make this happen right now, let me know.

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