I do prefer to tweet manually though. People can tell if tweets are automatic. I like to keep them personal and try to generate discussion on twitter. If I see automatic tweeting I tend to ignore them.

I think you can get the ‘Notify posts by email’ by using feedburner. If you sign up to have your feeds sent via feedburner (I do) then there is an option in there to subscribe by email. Hope this helps.

I’ve been trying to find one for the “Notify me of posts by email” check box that sits with the comments one – many of my WP friends have it but there doesn’t seem to be a plugin for it. Do you know anything about this one? I found a few forum discussions where other people were looking for it and saying that wordpress.org doesn’t have it – I didn’t somehow download wordpress.org instead of wordpress.com did I? How can I tell? (sorry I know it sounds like a stupid question but I’m new to WP and this has been bugging me – and you’re so knowledgeable!)