As Twitter is becoming more popular and your blog’s target audience is increasingly found there, it is a good time for you to join and incorporate Twitter into your blog. I have already looked at how to brand your blog on Twitter and how to increase the number of your Twitter followers. This article will show you the top 5 Twitter plugins to incorporate into your WordPress blog.
Add Twitter username field into your blog comments section
- WP Twitip ID plugin adds an extra field to the comment form of your blog so your reader can enter his/her Twitter username. The plugin then displays the Twitter ID in the comment and links it to the Twitter profile of the commenter. See this plugin in action in HowToMakeMyBlog comments section below.
Show reader’s Twitter avatars in comments section
- Twittar plugin lets you show Twitter avatars of your blog commentators by matching the email address in the comment to the user’s Twitter email. If the user doesn’t have a Twitter account, it loads user’s Gravatar image. By installing this plugin you will have a much better looking comments section, with commentators all having an image by their comment. Something similar can be seen in HowToMakeMyBlog comments.
Get tweets about your blog posted as comments
- Tweetbacks plugin imports tweets about your blog posts into your blog comments. You can display them in between the other comments on your blog, or display them separately. So when somebody writes a tweet with your blog URL or any of your article URL’s in it, it will automatically get posted in your blog comments as well.
Let your users tweet your URL’s for more exposure
- TweetThis lets your visitors send tweets about your blog posts. When the reader clicks on the TwitThis button, the plugin takes the URL of your blog article and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then your reader can tweet this shortened URL and a description of your blog article to all their followers on Twitter.
Integrate your tweets into your blog posts and sidebar
- Twitter Tools plugin integrates your Twitter account with your WordPress blog. You can for example create weekly digest of your tweets and get them automatically published on your blog as a new blog post. You can also show your latest tweets in your blog sidebar as a widget.
Hopefully these 5 Twitter plugins will help you on the way to incorporating your Twitter into your blog. Doing this will hopefully make your blog more interactive and more attractive to other Twitter users and should result in more comments from Twitter users, more tweets about your blog and increased number of followers and readers.
Twitter Marketing E-Book
For much more information on Twitter, check out my “Twitter Marketing E-book: How to go viral on Twitter“. The e-book includes all the tips on how I use Twitter to build my authority, drive traffic to my blog and get customers. Enjoy twittering!
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I like the TweetThis plugin
Does anyone else hate the digg toolbar?
Does anybody know of some kind of widget or something that I could embed in a website and have more than one feed at a time.
It would be just like the twitter widget on Wordpress, except in a website and have the ability to follow more than one twitter account.
Very Cool!
I’m going to get this stuff on my blog!
Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
These are very useful Twitter tools, I’m currently using Twitter Tools, I will try the other 4 quite soon, they are really cool!
Thanks for these useful information!
Cool list of Twitter plugins! I like the WP Twitip ID and thinking about implementing that on my blog. Thanks for putting this together.
Tom
Hi, How did you integrate Twittar avatars on to the Thesis theme?. Thanks.
@Vinod – I didn’t. It still uses Gravatar images. I did integrate Twitter into comments area of Thesis though, see this post for details.
Thanks Marko!. That link was very useful. Tweeted.
I really like the TweetThis plugin. Great way for bloggers to get some extra exposure on posts their readers enjoy.
Great list of Twitter Plugins
. TweetMeme retweet button is also a good plugin http://tweetmeme.com/
I’ve got most of them, but I can’t seem to get the Twitter Tools working for whatever reason. It just doesn’t update my Twitter account.
This is a great list, Twitter is a great way to promote your product and of course your bloG, Thanks for the list..
Is there a plugin or tool that allows a user to create and pre-approve a list of comments for twitter, then to have the tweets submitted at a scheduled interval? For instance:
1. Today its sunny (8 am)
2. Best day ever (4 PM)
3. Looking forward to the day (8 am)
4. another wonderful day (4 PM)
5. etc, etc.
Please don’t hold these examples against me…they’re all I could think of off the top of my head!