10 Best Twitter Tools, Plugins, Widgets for Wordpress Blogs
April 11th, 2007
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[Regularly Updated] Twitter is buzzing and here is a collection of top 10 twitter tools, plugins, widgets and scripts to integrate with your wordpress blog. These Twitter tools are easy to implement and you can get them running in minutes in your wordpress blogs.
Wordpress Twitter Plugins, Tools, Widgets
- Wickett Twitter Widget – Display tweets from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog. As seen on WordPress.com. The easiest and best way to add Tweets to Wordpress.
- TweetSuite -� a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts and some widgets.
- Tweet This – A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
- TweetMeme button – easily allows your blog posts to be retweeted.
- Simple Twitter Link – simply returns a URL, which is a link to Twitter with your post/page URL within it.
- WP Twitip ID – Plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username
- Twitter Badge – Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter.
- The Twitter Updater – a wordpress plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
- TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
- Twitter Tools – This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
- Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget – Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.
- Twitter Feed – Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
- Twitt-Twoo – is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog�s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
- Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
I hope these Twitter tools will help you integrate Twitter in your wordpress blog and vice versa. Found a Twitter tool for this list? Post it in comments. This list is regularly updated. Photo by dbarefoot
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Too bad. It only works for php5
Hi
Thanks for all the tools. I hope to intergrate twitter on my blog as a tool where I can upload thoughts and ideas from my mobile.
Very good list!
I was looking for this. Thanks.
Another cool Twitter badge which works with WP and other websites (MySpace, blogger, etc.) is http://saytweet.com – you can make a badge using any picture you want!
How is it possible ? .. Twitme isnt even on the list :(
Nice info, but I ended up liking just the Twitter’s Javascript badge.
I have been looking for a plugin on wordpress for twitter. Glad I found this post!
Hey,
You guys are giving away some very useful information on this site.
Hats off for making this info available to everyone.
Happy New Year,
Sam England
The twitter updater sounds like a really good plugin – i’ll be trying that one out for sure, thanks :)
Thanks for the list! :)
Is this the site to post general comments …. my first time in here?
should all these be used at the same time???
thanks for these. useful list..
Great info!
Thanks for much for this information. I am planning to highlight these for a future “Intro to Twitter” blog post!
Ajax based twitter plugin, you can update your status, display friends, followers, public timeline, customize according to your theme, etc
http://www.kisaso.com/ajax-wordpress-twitter-plugin/
Really great list
Cool list! Thank you for posting this:)
I use Tweet This
Twitter really rocks when used correctly
You missed http://www.tweetmeme.com, basically twitter for digg.
That’s cool…I am just look for it!
I wanted it. Great list, thanks.
Great start!
How about this one:
http://www.AddTwitter.com – > follow me for blogs
Do these Twitter Tools work on WP.com?
Just wonderin’…
Continually providing content to make the rest of our lives easier…Thanks
Thanks for that great list, i will try Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget.
I didnt know there were twitter wp plugins. Thanks for pointing this out. This is a new discovery for me.
Thanks for description and listing of the top ten twitter plugins.
This is a great post that I’m sure to check back for updates.
Great list.
Just what I was looking for.
any aggregatot plugins for WP out there? and how about WP MU plugins? any clues?