The Twitpitch Plugin

Thanks to Leslie Poston at Profy, I’m alerted to a new Wordpress plugin that jumps on the TwitPitch bandwagon, allowing you to get PR pitches DM’d to you via your blog or web site. Nifty! If you missed the debut of the TwitPitch, it was an idea invented by Stowe Boyd, a business strategy and information technology consultant, when he was trying to figure out his schedule for this year’s Web 2.0 Expo. I posted about this concept further on ReadWriteWeb (“Twitpitch: The Elevator Pitch Hits Twitter”), however I think the idea got a bit lost since it came during the big brouhaha over how to pitch to bloggers, which then became that week’s bitchmeme.

Initially, the idea was to utilize the hashtag #twitpitch so everyone could access these micro-press releases, but, unfortunately, that concept hasn’t really seemed to have taken off. I’ve been watching a Summize RSS feed for the term “twitpitch” since that RWW post (and still do) and I’ve only found a handful of useful items there.

However, this new Twitpitch Wordpress plugin takes the elevator concept a little more loosely and allows for anyone to send you a pitch via a Twitter direct message. Unfortunately, being somewhat new to WP, I don’t know if I have the required PHP 5.2+…? But I do know that activating the plugin did this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/.tuffy/sarahintampa/sarahintampa.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-twitterpitch/wp-twitterpitch.php on line 26

Looks like a project for another day then.

Link: Author’s hompeage