I've added a "re-tweet" link to my blog posts to encourage twitter users to share my posts with their followers. When you click the link next to a post below, it should take you to the web-based interface to twitter and pre-populate your tweet with "RT @daveatkins Am I Tweet-Worthy http://bit.ly/xbc6" or whatever the post title is. Read further down the page to see the individual posts and possibly re-tweet them.

The purpose of this is two-fold. One is to virally publicize my blog by making it easy to re-tweet. I do not blast twitter with every blog post I do and really, I don't know if some of these are truly "tweet-worthy." But if they are, I'd like to make it easy for followers to help publicize my site.

Secondly, I want people to follow me. When you retweet the post, it may encourage others to follow me for all the great content I have planned in the future :)

Now, to make this post itself valuable and not just the self-promotion vehicle it is, here is how I did this so you, fellow blogger, can do the same--if you think it will help your blog.

• I followed Tom Karlo's instructions but hard-coded it in php instead of javascript because I could.
• created a category called "tweet-worthy" in my blog
• went back and tagged/categorized all the posts I though were interesting as "tweet-worthy"
• wrote this post and categorized it as tweet-worthy
• composed a tweet linking to my category page for tweet-worthy

This allows me to send a link out to my "best of" content, with each post containing that retweet link. If people retweet the original tweet--that's great. Then, maybe people tweet the individual posts. We'll see. Or, maybe I'm just not tweet-worthy after all. :(

If you find this offensive...just ignore it. Or consider it is less obtrusive than auto-dm messages or auto-tweeting every single blog post several times a day like some folks do...