5 Popular Twitter Plugins which you can include in your blog
With twitter becoming popular day by day, it has now become a great way to attract readers from twitter for your blog and grow the community. There are many twitter plugins out there and thus I am listing here 5 Popular Twitter Plugins which you can install in your blog that could help in increasing the fun for your commentators, readers and twitter followers.
1. WP-Twittip ID
WP-Twittip ID plugin adds an extra field in the comments section of your blog so your readers can enter their twitter profile usernames. The plugin then shows the twitter username and links to his/her twitter profile. I installed this plugin in the recent update of making commenting on this blog better. Till now it has been a great thing for my readers.
2. Tweetmeme
TweetMeme Plugin enables your readers to tweet your article, if they like it, to their twitter profile. The plugin provides a shorten link and a Title of the article. With every unique tweet the counter goes up by 1 point. An alternative of this plugin is TwitThis which is also popular amongst many bloggers. This has proved a very good way to increase blog readership.
3. Twittar
This simple little plugin – Twittar from SmashingMagazine, adds the Twitter avatars in the comment section by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email address. Suppose if that user still doesn’t uses twitter then it will load a gravatar of that email ID and if he doesn’t have a gravatar also, then it will load a default image. Installing this plugin will have a better appearance in the comment section with all the commentators with their own image in his comments.
4. Tweetbacks
The Tweetbacks imports the tweets/conversation about an article on your blog and enters it in the comments section. You can display among other comments of the article or show them separately. So, when someone tweets with the URL of your blog or any of your items, it will automatically be included in the comments section of your blog.
5. Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools plugin integrates your twitter account with your wordpress blog. With this you can show weekly collection of your tweets and publish them automatically as a article on the blog. Plus you can also show latest tweets from your twitter account in the sidebar through the widget.
I hope these 5 plugins for Twitter will help you to incorporate Twitter into your blog. Doing this will make your blog more interactive and more attractive for other Twitter users and may result in more comments from users of Twitter and you could see an increase in the number of followers and readers.
So What are your favorite one amongst these? Also do tell me if you use any other popular twitter plugin on your blog.
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January 20, 2010
4:21 am
I love Twittar. I’ve seen it being implemented on more and more blogs these days. It’s very useful to put a face to the name.
I’ve never heard of Tweetbacks. I’ll have to look into it, because it sounds useful, just as another way to track down when people are talking about you or your site. Will it still work if someone uses a URL shortener, like Bit.ly or TinyURL.com ?
February 3, 2010
4:21 am
Tweetbacks is actually an interesting concept I’ve tried on my blog. If you’re in the right niche and your blog is getting tweeted it’s kind of cool to see.
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April 8, 2010
11:46 am
I couldn’t live without Tweetmeme on some of my blogs, it’s a great plugin and a must have for bloggers in certain niches.
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April 26, 2010
11:15 pm
I like Twitter Tools and the Tweetmeme button the best. The growth of people using Twitter is nothing short of amazing. I wish I had thought of it.
April 27, 2010
2:15 am
I love the number 5 tool where it collects all tweets and then transform them into a brand new article all by themselves. That saves a whole amount of precious time in writing a new post to your blog. But I hope you included a good twitter plugin for automatcially tweeting your posts. I know there maybe a handful of options, but can you recommend the best one for wordpress?
May 19, 2010
2:41 pm
@Typhoon – some handy Twitter tools there. Just had a look around your site and I was reading you post on “20+ Quick Ways To Build Backlinks” and there’s a great tool out there called Tweetglide. Basically, you get micro-blogging features on a sub domain with dofollow links – something we’re all after. Might be worth looking at this tool and letting your readers know what you think.
May 26, 2010
12:57 pm
I wish I knew about twitter sooner and how it can benefit my blogs. I currently use twitter tools to automatically tweet my blog posts and I plan to take advantage of twittar soon. This post as well as your blog has been a very useful resource for me. Thanks!
June 1, 2010
7:02 am
I do not like some plugin like Tweetmeme because I can create my own Twitter bookmarikng link on my site and don’t spen a waste connection for my reader
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June 9, 2010
12:06 pm
These are very interesting plugins for Twitter, thanks for sharing it. I consider tweetme as one of the best i like.
June 9, 2010
5:51 pm
Fantastic, thanks a lot. I’m already using the tweetmeme plugin, but I will definitely use some of those other tools too.
July 5, 2010
6:35 pm
Tweetmeme plugin is a very useful tool in ones social media marketing.
It really helps in making your brand more visible.
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