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.
Twitter Feed and Tweetmeme, is all I need for my Twitter account. The other tools might be a bit much for my simple Twitter needs. 🙂
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WP-Twittip ID in this blog is so great, no wonder why many people like to comment here. I think this is best strategy to attract people to come.
Anyway there is also twitter tool to help you make a contest, no need to be installed, it’s from twitthis dot com.
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Ah super nice collection of Twitter tools for blogging, I haven’t really been staying on top of my Twitter tools and resources all though I have a huge list coming out so these will be a nice addition.
Thank you.
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Nice plugins Typhoon. I only use Tweetmeme.
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nice info my friend . i use all of them and enjoy the result
Great list and there are 2 tools that I have not heard of before. My favorite is still Twittley. I have 3 posts on the front poge right now and get a decent amount of traffic from Twittley. I am going to feature this post in my “Sunday’s Best” series tomorrow as I think other bloggers could really benefit from this post.
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Adding twitter plugin to my site was a good thing as now more and more people are commenting on my site.
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Google Trends shows that twitter is more and more popular day by day. That’s why it is good use twitter plugin for some extra traffic.
This is a nice post .. I recently started a blog about twitter tips, and it will be nice of I add these plugins to that blog ..
Thank you for sharing!
Hi Typhoon,
from where you got all this wonderful information.Most of us people still wonder about how to work on twitter and just look here you have given a treasure to all.I am going to take a look at them right away,bye 🙂