Twitter can help you to drive a good amount of visitors to your blog if you have numbers of genuine followers. Twitter Power users attract thousands of visits from their followers just from twitter.

You can share your articles manually to twitter’s home page or by installing a twitter share button in your blog posts. But in both the ways you are tweeting manually! How about making this twitter update, an automatic process so your blog updates are tweeted automatically to your twitter followers.

There are many third party tools to set up this automatic process. But here are top 4 ways to connect your blog RSS feeds to your twitter account, so whenever you update your blog, your post is tweeted automatically.

1. Feedburner.com

Feedburner is popularly known because of its RSS Feed installation and management. You can add your twitter account to it’s sharing options.

1. Sign in Feedburner

2. Go to Publicize tab, and from left column, choose “Socialize”.

3. On the right, Click Add Twitter Account, and let the OAuth connect to your twitter account, “Allow” the access when asked on twitter page.

4. When redirected back to feedburner page, Save the settings.

2. TwitterFeed

TwitterFeed.com connects your blog’s RSS Feeds with your twitter account, and automatically tweets your updates from your Feeds. To set up an account on twitterfeed, do these steps:

1. Sign up at TwitterFeed

2. Create a new feed, by entering your existing fee URL of your blog.

3. On the next step, authenticate your twitter account, using oAuth (you do not have to tell twitter username & password to twitterfeed)

4. Done! From then on your new feeds updates will automatically be tweeted within seconds to your twitter profile.

3. RSS2Twitter.com

RSS2twitter works almost like twitterfeed but here you can use one RSS feed with multiple twitter accounts as well. You can use custom title and prefix to you twitter updates.

Just sign up and add your RSS feed details. Twitter account will be connected through secure OAuth method.

UPDATE: Service has been discontinued!

4. FeedNest.com

FeedNest is good an rather simpler in sign up process, but beside your Feed URL you would also have to give both your twitter username and password. Removal of your account from FeedNest can be done from the home page easily.

UPDATE: Service has been discontinued!