You’ve heard by now: everyone and their grandmother is using Twitter, so you must too. Maybe you’ll get into it, like some people you may know who broadcast their lives effortlessly, voluminously, relentlessly.

For me, it’s still an effort. All of my social outposts are still a jumble. I can’t keep them straight. I’m still not sure whether I should keep up personal tweets @anachison, or dump everything into @wemedia. I’ve automated tweets @wemedia via Twitterfeed – which grabs posts from the We Media blog. Two other tools are also helpful.

Friendfeed is my new friend. I’ve had an account for a while but have only recently discovered I like it – for one thing in particular. It posts my feed to Twitter. That’s nifty, because my feed aggregates content from a variety of places, including public bookmarks I save in Diigo. Now, whenever I save a bookmark to Diigo – presto, whammo – I’ve also updated Twitter.

Ping.fm is helpful for updating multiple services at once. So I can simultaneously post a status update to Twitter AND to Facebook, LinkedIn and Friendfeed.