You might also enjoy my free guide to integrating Twitter and WordPress which you can download here.
Twitter Badges
Twitter makes widgets (or badges) available from their own website to display your latest tweets on your blog. You can choose from a Flash-based widget with a set of preconfigured styles, or a text-based widget which you can style completely yourself to blend it in with your WordPress blog theme.
TwitterCounter
TwitterCounter gives you lots of useful stats about your Twitter followers and offers a TwitterCounter Badge to display on your blog as social proof.
TweetBacks (by Dan Zarrella)
Dan Zarrella (@danzarrella) has developed a Tweetbacks plugin to display Tweets about your blog posts alongside your trackbacks and comments.
TweetBacks (by Joost de Valk)
Joost de Valk (@jdevalk) also picked up on the Tweetbacks concept and wrote his own WordPress plugin that lets you import Tweets about your blog posts right in amongst your regular blog comments.
Tweet This
Tweet This lets you automatically insert a “Tweet This” link at the end of your blog posts to encourage readers to share your posts with their own followers.
Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin by Alex King that ntegrates your WordPress blog with Twitter by letting you pull your Tweets into your WordPress blog, and create new Tweets automatically from blog posts.
TwitterFeed
TwitterFeed lets you connect your blog’s RSS feed to your Twitter account and automatically Tweet new blog posts to your followers.
Update: and one more, adding the Twitter ID field to the comments form
The standard WordPress comments form takes the Name, Email address, and Website URL. When he launched Twitip.com Darren Rowse (@problogger) had the Twitter ID field added to his comments form, so not only can people promote their own website URL by leaving comments, they can attract other Twitter followers as well.
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Nice collection, Paul. Thanks! I’ve bookmarked this in Delicious as I have a major blog overhaul coming. ’twill be interesting to see how TweetBacks go. It’s a very nice idea; wonder if it’ll become useful?
Cheers, Glenn. (@divinewrite on Twitter)
Thanks Glenn. And I just added one more that I forgot about, adding the Twitter ID field to the comments form.
Excellent! That’s one I really want! Thanks.
Hi Paul,
I’ve been use twitter feed for a week or so now on our twithint site.
I highly recommended it to everyone, it’s a breeze to implement.,
Alex King’s plugins are fantastic.
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I’m off to check out your other articles now.
- Paul
I’m realizing that what I need to be reading now isn’t as much articles on incorporating Twitter, but articles on what the big deal about Twitter is. I still haven’t, for the life of me, figured it out. Best I can tell, it’s a quick way to tell what your friends ate for breakfast…
Hi Lisa, I think a lot of people have that problem at first, struggling to “get it” when it comes to Twitter. Yes you could just use it to update your friends with mundane items like “Just ate toast”, but when used properly it is a very exciting communications tool that can be used for useful conversations, promoting blogs, sharing news, crowd-sourcing, the list goes on.
Since you found this blog post you might also be interested in my free guide to integrating Twitter and WordPress which also goes into some brief explaination about what Twitter is and how to use it.
I’m thinking of writing my next free ebook in a lot more detail about what Twitter is and how to use it but I think Clare Lancaster from DotMarketing is about to release something like that so check out her blog in the next few days.
Another good resource is Twitip by Darren Rowse of Problogger.
In the meantime maybe sign up to Twitter (if you haven’t already) and follow some useful folks like @Problogger as a good example of effective use of Twitter.
You might be also interested in trying the new Tweet Import plugin. It imports lists, favorites, and user public feeds with the option to import to different categories and add multiple tags. It also supports #hashtag with multiple options.
I love this one TweetBacks (by Dan Zarrella) and i am using it in my blog. Thank you so much for sharing.