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.
I use Digg Digg plugin to share my post in twitter. i like to use WP-Twittip ID as to reward my commentator to add their twitter link.
Thanks for sharing these tools. I have used quite a few twitter plugins and most of them didn’t work well. I then resorted to twitterfeed which will automatically post from my rss feed. Works perfectly.
Hi, would like to add a bit in to this as there are twitter API or twitter based website themes which automatically integrate the twitter to there theme . Tweetmeme is one of the most popular pattern which i have too used personally.
Thanks for Twitter Plugins informative post. I am using Twitter tools. It’s works very good for my blog. Now as per your post I am going to use WP-Twittip I Do plugin for my blogs.
Great to know that Unme. Do let me know your opinions on WP Twittip also once you have tried it.
wow.
Loved these plugins. They actually integrate twitter to your blog.
They even get the profile pic from twitter and get it to the blog. Cool!
Nice share Sushant. I was looking for some best twitter plugins and here I found this. I feel twittar plugin can be quite useful and many commenters still don’t have a gravatar profile, so it will be cool if their twitter profile pic is shown next to their comment.
Just after visitiing your blog I notices some good synchronization with Social Media profiles…looks excellent…
i use digg digg and it works well 🙂
I’m using DiggDigg sharing plugin which includes TweetMeMe tool and standard Tweet button.
I like the plugin wp tweet id but there are so many plugins active that i cannot put more load on it 🙁
i use to use Digg digg but it started to create errors
So i made custom sharing buttons, have put into my single.php
i recommend it.