Some people dislike sifting through the Twitter feed, but they still need a social media presence. The good news is you can still use Twitter, just as an offshoot of blogging. And it hardly takes any time.

First you’ll need a Twitter account if you don’t already have one. I tell you how here: Getting Started on Twitter.

Once that hurdle is passed, building a Twitter presence is easy, as long as you aren’t in a hurry. If you blog, you probably already know you need to reciprocate visits. When you read a blog post, after pressing the like button, press the little tweet button or bird icon at the bottom of the post, and a dialogue box will pop up.

The one for Google Chrome reads: Share a link with your followers, and then it gives you a tweet already composed, links and all. All you have to…