Twitter Tips: Including Your Tweets on Your TypePad Blog

If you’re a TypePad customer, you can let your blog visitors know about your Twitter shenanigans by adding a Twitter widget to your blog sidebar. Best of all, Twitter offers a widget that’s not only configured for TypePad, but it will also add the widget for you automatically. 

Adding the Twitter widget automatically

Here are the steps to follow to add a Twitter widget to your TypePad blog:

1.  Sign in to your Twitter account.

2.  Send your Web browser to http://twitter.com/badges to open the Get a Widget for Your Site page.

3.  Click the TypePad logo.

4.  Click Continue.  The Add Twitter to your TypePad weblog page appears, as shown in figure 7.14, and you see a preview of the widget on the right side of the page.

5.  Use the Number of updates list to select the size of the tweet list.

6.  Use the Title text box to change the title to something other than the default (“Twitter Updates”).  If you’d prefer to go without a title, select the No Title check box.

7.  Click Install Widget on TypePad. If you’re signed in to your Type Pad account, the Add a Sidebar Widget page appears, so skip to step 9; if you’re not signed in, the Type Pad login page appears.

8.  Type your TypePad account e-mail address (or username) and password, and then click Sign In.  The Add a Sidebar Widget page appears.

9.  In the Configure section, select the check box beside each blog where you want the widget to appear.

10.  Edit the title, if you feel like it.

11.  Click Add Widget.  TypePad prompts you to change where the widget appears in your sidebar. By default, the widget appears at the bottom of the sidebar, so you might want to move it higher.

12.  If you want to configure where the widget appears, click Change Content Ordering, click and drag the Twitter widget to the new position, and then click Save Changes.

You can now click View weblog to see your blog with its brand-new Twitter widget (figure 7.15 shows an example).

"Twitter Tips: Including Your Tweets on Your TypePad Blog "

Reference : wiley.com