Why a forum instead of a blog?

[Kurt]

MYBB has a couple of plugins that allow people to log into your forum using their Twitter and FB accounts. I have the FB one installed here and just applied for an app at Twitter.

As a marketer, think about the possibilities MY Twitter Connect and MYBB have. I've bolded a few to highlight them:

https://www.mybboost.com/thread-release-...onnect-3-0

At the moment, MyTwitter Connect comes with the following features:

• Connect any user to your MyBB installation with Twitter
  
  
• One-click login/registration: if Fast Registration setting is set to off, it will ask the user to choose an username from scratch and to decide what informations to import from Twitter
  
  
• Automatically synchronizes Twitter account data with MyBB account, including avatar, biography and location
  
  
• 3 dedicated settings that users can manage and change to whatever they like, controlling what data to sync with their Twitter accounts
  
  
• Existing users can link their Twitter accounts to their accounts on your board within their User Control Panel and with the click of a button, without necessarily create a new account from scratch (or ask admins to merge their accounts)
  
  
• 2 registration modes you can choose to use within your Admin Control Panel: One Click Registration (Fast) and Two Step Registration (More slowly, but fast anyway )
  
  
• Ability to send a PM containing a randomly generated password to every Twitter-registered user
  
  
• Ability to post to the user's timeline upon registering/associating his account
  
  
• Redirects logged in/registered users to the same page they came from
  
  
• You can choose what usergroup to insert Twitter-registered users
  
  
• You can tweet something on the user's timeline upon registration/linking
  
  
• Works for all MyBB 1.6 installations and web servers thanks to the TwitterOAuth library provided in the package
  
  
• Who's Online List support
  
  
• It works
  
  
• It's free
  

The tweet on the user's timeline is repeated...and it needs to be used carefully. But it's also a great opportunity to expand your reach.

1. Someone starts a new thread on your forum which also creates a tweet on your account with a link back to your forum. Someone on Twitter sees your tweet and checks out your forum thread and wants to reply.
   
   
2. So that person is automatically registered to your forum using just one click (or more if you want) and can easily engage in your forum.
   
   
3. And when they register, your forum automatically automatically posts a message on THEIR Twitter timeline, spreading the word about your forum, so the potential for this cycle to continue.
   

Again, you can automate WP using IFTTT too. The question is, which format is better for encouraging people to register and participate, which starts the cycle?

A blog or a forum?