The point of having a Twitter account was to be able to post short notes that will never reach full entry lengths. But the maximum number of characters allowed and the reliance on TinyURL is getting a bit depressing. Am trying the SidePosts plugin.
The most attractive feature: Posts do not show on index, archives or feeds, and have its own feed.
With this widget you select the category you want, and all entries with this category, will be shown on the sidebar instead the main blog. You will have then a small blog on the sidebar for those special entries. For each entry, you have the link to the post page. [WP Plugin Directory]
Working, so far. Below is a screenshot of my RSS feed and this entry — the latest — does not appear in it.
The downside is that the plugin author, Jordi Canals, has stopped development of the plugin.
Another downside is, we couldn’t see it unless we subscribe to your specific feed, and we need to leave our twitter clients for that.
You know, Twitter was an experiment for me. It was never meant to be something independent of the blog but a study on whether it could provide an added value to the blog. Truth is, Twitter is a community all its own and those who follow my tweets do not really follow through to my blog. In short, Twitter doesn’t really serve my purpose. Well, unless I keep posting TinyURLs pointing to my own blog entries and that’s really tedious.
Honestly, I don’t think this replaces Twitter at all. Twitter is a two way conversation with an online community. This is just the micro-posting side of it, unless I’m missing something (maybe there are comments?). Either way, it doesn’t have any of the social components. It is cool, though. Thanks for sharing!
Kelby, you are commenting on a SidePost. LOL