If you regularly post blog or news articles, and you have a Twitter account, you may tweet about each article once it's posted, but it would be much easier if a tweet was posted automatically once you post the article. Using the Twitter API with OAuth, and using shortened links using the bit.ly API, this can be achieved with PHP.

So I'm not actually going to write an article here, but instead link to two articles that a good friend of mine, @MrFoggEsq, has written over the last couple of months. I promised him I would re-post them on here once I got my website up and running.

They both make for very interesting reads, so I encourage you to give them a go.

The company I work for have numerous Twitter accounts for the various parts of the business, and wanted these feeds to show on the respective websites. I had done something similar to this in the past but had faced problems then with Twitter's request limit (which I believe is around 150 requests an hour). This caused the feed to disappear until the limit reset. I decided to look into writing a reliable solution for this.