Over the last few months many of you following me on Twitter, @BlazingMinds, will have noticed I’ve been ReTweeting several blogs via TwitterFeed and some of the blogs that I have been guest posting on or have guest posted on have been doing the same, I have been asked why I do this!

Putting it simply, I’ve been tweeting these blogs via TwitterFeed as I know and trust them, they have a brilliant reputation in their style of blogging and also the quality of the blog posts that they produce and I personally think that they bring a lot of worthwhile information to my Twitter timeline, though some may disagree, but there’s always one isn’t there

So after loading my HootSuite interface for my Twitter feeds today I was confronted with an option to go Pro or keep with what I’m using at the moment, but at what price?

For starters, those of us that have used the marvellous HootSuite for free will have a reduced amount of social networks, RSS feeds and no Social insights.

Now while most of you may be saying but I only have one Twitter account and nothing else then maybe that is ok, but today people have not just a Twitter account but also FaceBook, FourSquare, MySpace, Linkedin and even Facbook pages, now that’s more that the allotted 5 Social Networks!

And you are only allowed 2 RSS feeds, looks like I’ll be going back to TwitterFeed for that then!

So what is it going to cost you to have what you now have with your HootSuite, well it’s going to cost you $5.99 (£3.77) a month, ok, it doesn’t sound much, but is you total up other costs that you may be spending over other things you may have such as your web hosting, then it soon total ups.

I’m not saying I’m a miser, ok I am really, but for me, I’ll be removing HootSuite from my computer and even from my BlackBerry and I’ll be using other Twitter apps over this one

Related articles

• HootSuite launches Pro plan and scales back on some Basic features (techvibes.com)
• It’s time to choose your HootSuite: Pro or Basic (thenextweb.com)

I was getting a bit tired of manually updating my Twitter with what I was listening to on iTunes or my iPod and scrobbling to last.fm via TwittyTunes, so I wondered if there was some way around this!

After quite a while searching the net for some kind of plugin, I couldn’t really find anything, so I decided to utilise Twitterfeed to take the automation side of Twitting my recently plays!

So after logging into Twitterfeed with my OpenID I was off, first thing was to create a new feed and then fill in all the required info such as Twitter name etc and then to enter the rss feed I wanted to Twit.

Now it was a case of finding the feed I wanted to use, so I opened another browser tab to last.fm and found the feed for my recent played tracks and copied the URL, then entered it into the option on Twitterfeed, I opted for an hourly update and for five updates each time.

Once you have clicked Update you will be taken to your feeds page, it will take a little while before your feed is checked and goes live, but if everything is ok, you should see your scrobbles appearing on your Twitter, you can see what they look like on my Twitter.

In theory you should be able to do this with other last.fm feeds such as your recently loved tracks for example