Web 2.0 Mar­ket­ing Tip #34: Twit­ter Feeds on Your Homepage

If you want your site fol­low­ers to stick longer and keep com­ing back, then you have to em­ploy var­i­ous strate­gies that will make your web­site more dy­namic. There are a lot of strate­gies you can em­ploy, but one of the most ap­peal­ing choices will be to cre­ate a scrolling Twit­ter feed.

Adding Scrolling Twit­ter Feeds

Adding scrolling Twit­ter feeds is ac­tu­ally quite easy. Ba­si­cally, you will just add a script that cy­cles through all of your tweets, dis­play­ing them in se­quen­tial or­der in a nice-look­ing frame.

This is al­ways a nice touch to add to your site. Not only will it make your site look more ap­peal­ing and dy­namic, but it will also en­cour­age your vis­i­tors to join Twit­ter and fol­low you. This way, you will gain ad­di­tional point for your site and you will get ad­di­tional cus­tomer for your Twit­ter mar­ket­ing cam­paign as well.

To cre­ate such a feed, all you have to do is use a wid­get like this: Scrolling Twit­ter feed wid­get. This wid­get will let you gen­er­ate code which you can sim­ply copy-and-paste into your site ed­i­tor and voila! You al­ready have scrolling Twit­ter feeds on your website!