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Blogger Help: How to Get Photos in Your Twitter Feed with Rich Tweets

Not long ago Twitter announced the option to enhance your Twitter feed with photos or video previews! The next question for me was “How the heck can I do that?”  There’s not doubt that photos help interaction on our social channels.

I just received learned about a new social media sharing tool called dlvr.it. You can create new richer tweets with image preview!!  So my next question is “Hows the social reach?”  Off to try this new tool!!

First, I started off trying the free program.  I use hootsuite now but the reach is just ok.  I find that sometimes my reach is better if I use a bitly link instead.

The free program on dlvr.it gives you a limited number of social channels.  I think the amount is 3.  I couldn’t go back in and see exactly because I already upgraded my tool and now it doesn’t show the free features.

Before I switch over to the upgraded plan I did some testing on the free plan and I really liked the outcome.

I have found with the link shortener dlvr.it uses it does seem to get a better reach in Facebook.  I can’t tell if it’s because photos are auto displayed or the link itself isn’t faded out based on Facebook’s algorithm for this week 😀

Here’s a comparison of a post I did with dlvr.it and then the normal way using my bitly links.

Here’s the bitly view with it’s reach at 844:

 

Here’s the dlvr.it view with it’s reach at 2051:

I’m not sure if it’s the bigger photo that’s getting better reach or the link but I like it!

I am definitely noticing more retweets immediately in Twitter too!

But I think I am most excited about my auto preview of my photos in my twitter feed without me having to click a button!

Isn’t it pretty????  Man, I’m excited about this!!!

I did have to learn a bit about dlvr.it before I got the photos to display correctly though.  I upgraded to the $19.99 plan because I run 5 different websites and the unlimited plan is my best value.

Here are a few screen shots on how it works and how I got the photo to auto display in twitter.  This is the exact screen you will go to when you schedule content to your social media channels.

 

I learned to drop a photo and not let it pull the photo from your post to get it to auto display the photo in Twitter.  Look closely at the photo and you can see I scheduled this post to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

 

I thought this could help many bloggers!  I swear I should be a teacher rather than a blogger myself.  lol

Hope this information is useful to my blogging buddies!  Lord knows we could all use good reach numbers for all our hard work!

 

If you happen to need a little help with Pinterest, I wrote a little tutorial on it here:  Blogger Help:  Pinterest Tips for Business.

Jen

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UPDATE:

Whoa! There must be lots of bloggers that need help with reach because shortly after this post went live this post hit the Yahoo Burn News feed! Thanks to a friend (Tatanisha) who sent me a screenshot!!!