Top Twitter Tools To Use With Your Wordpress Blog

Twitter is one of the premier micro-blogging sites. It allows you to build a community of people based around your regular 140 character posts. Likewise, Wordpress is one of the leading blogging platforms. It allows you to build a community of visitors around the topic of your site.

And thanks to the popularity of both platforms, there are now several high-quality tools that allow you to integrate your Twitter account with your Wordpress blog in order to combine the benefits of both communities.

So here are some of the best Twitter-Wordpress integration tools.

Twitter Tools

This powerful Wordpress plugin provides a range of options that allow you to link your Twitter account to your blog.

You can use it to display your Twitter posts on your blog. Alternatively, you can use it post a message to your Twitter account whenever you publish a new blog post.

Alternatively, The Twitter Updater does the same job, but allows you to specify the text that will be used in your Twitter updates when you publish a new blog post.

TweetMeme Button

This plugin adds a small icon to every post on your Wordpress blog that provides your visitors with a one click option to tweet about each post.

We use Tweetmem on the Twitter Power System blog (see the green icon at the top right of every post) and it has provided the site with a significant amount of traffic and visibility.

But that’s not all…as the plugin also displays the number of retweets that each post has received, it provides an element of social proof. In general, people are more inclined to retweet material that they know is popular. So the more retweets each post receives, the more it is likely to receive.

Alternatively, you can use the TwitThis plugin to achieve similar results.

Twitip ID

This plugin adds an extra field to the comment form on your blog so that people can enter their Twitter username. You can then choose to display these names next to the comments that appear on your blog.

This provides an additional element of community on your blog, as it allows the people who comment on your blog to find each other on Twitter.

Twitt-Twoo

Once you install this plugin it allows you to update your Twitter status from the sidebar of your blog. This Ajax powered script provides you with another quick and easy way to keep your Twitter account up to date.

Alternatively, you can use the Twitter Sharts to update your Twitter account from anywhere in your blog.

TweetSuite

The TweetSuite Wordpress plugin provides an entire suite of tools, such as retweet buttons, auto-tweeting of new blog posts, tweetbacks etc allowing you to achieve most of the features provided by the other tools featured in this post.

Twitter Badge

This short piece of javascript provided by Twitter allows you to display a badge that automatically shows the messages you post to your Twitter account.

Just login to your Twitter account, select one of the badge styles and paste the code into your blog.

These badges can be displayed on almost any webpage, not just a wordpress blog, but they fit nicely on the sidebar of most blogs.

Using a combination of these tools, it’s possible to bridge the gap between your Twitter community and the visitors to your blog.

What tools do you use to integrate your Wordpress blog with your Twitter account? Are there any Twitter-Wordpress integration tools not listed here that you highly recommend? Let us know using the comments section below.

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