Using Twitter in combination with your WordPress powered blog?
There are tons of tools and plugins you can take advantage of to make that mix of micro-blogging, and regular blogging mix into a presentation anybody (and I am sure everybody) will enjoy.
To help you get started, here are the 25 highest rated Twitter related plugins you can install into WordPress.
- WordTwit – WordTwit is a plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Twitter account as a tweet.
- Add Twitter – Displays your public Twitter messages or someone else’s for everyone to read on your blog.
- Tweet Chopper – A very simple and basic widget that shows tweets for multiple authors and trends.
- Advanced Twitter Widget – Widget that will enable visitors to give you/the site a virtual beer by clicking on the widget.
- Tweelow Plugin – Simple plugin that displays count of your twitter followers.
- Bird Feeder – Tweets about your posts when they are published.
- WordPress Dashboard Twitter – The most creative name, WordPress Dashboard Twitter, in fact represents a Dashboard Widget for WordPress, that turns your Dashboard into a Twitter client.
- Tweetable – Integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog. Automatically tweet new posts, display your latest tweet in your sidebar, etc.
- Related Tweets – Using your blog as the seed, find quality content from the Blog Traffic Exchange and tweet it automatically.
- sm00sh URL shrink – A plugin that converts all URLs in a post or comment into shorten URLs using a link shortening service.
- wpCommentTwit – Use Twitter to receive notices of comments when they are left on your WordPress site.
- Zipli-Retweet – Adds a re-tweet button to all WordPress posts in your blog and update your twitter account with post from your blog.
- Lifestream – Streams your activity from over 50 different sources to your blog.
- WP Quote Tweets – Allows authors to quote Twitter updates in posts or pages using a simple short-code.
- Thread Twitter – Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.
- Twitter Publisher – Share a new blog post on Twitter using awe.sm or bit.ly url shorteners.
- dB Twtpoll – This plugins adds a short-code for embedding polls from Twtpoll really easy.
- Twitter News Feed – Collects Tweets based on specific Twitter usernames and hash-tags and then adds them as posts.
- WP-TwitterSearch – Displays the latest results based on a twitter search. Options include setting multiple search terms and limiting tweets shown.
- Twitter Tools – Google Analytics Tagger – Tag all your URL’s posted to twitter with Google Analytics tags using Twitter Tools.
- WP to Twitter – Posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll.
- Twitter Bubble – A sidebar widget showing the latest twitter update in a nice talk bubble, suitable for wide sidebars.
- Feed2tweet – Feed2tweet plugins allows you to publish your new posts to your twitter account.
- Commentwitter – Gives commenters the option of Tweeting their comment with a link to your post.
- Tweefind – Displays tweets related to your posts, ordered by rank. Admin Options -> Tweefind.
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