31 Useful Twitter Plugins For WordPress To Choose From
Dainis Graveris
Since Twitter launch in Year 2006, it has grown to create network what most people would call a social media revolution and it became one of the most popular social media networks, which if you’re serious about blogging, you can’t ignore.
Twitter has their own tools for displaying Twitter status on website, but they are pretty slow and not too varied or maybe you just need don’t know about such plugins, that’s why I chose to take research and create comprehensive list with Twitter related WordPress plugins and tools that will help you unite Twitter with your blog.
Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:
- Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
- Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
- Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook).
TwitterDash
TwitterDash is a WordPress plugin that adds your friends timeline from twitter into your dashboard.
Thread Twitter
Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.
Elegant Twitter Widget
A WordPress widget that displays twitter updates in yummy valid semantic XHTML code. The code is heavily commented and the output is in template functions so everything is fully customizable.
Twitt-Twoo
Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. AJAX takes cares of the hard work, and means that your page doens’t even have to reload, allowing for quick and easy status updates.
Twitter Retweet
Twitter ReTweet provides a function that displays a ReTweet link which gives visitors the ability to ReTweet the current post; supports custom URLs (perfect for Google Analytics Campaign Tracking
Tweet Tweet
Tweet Tweet is a plugin for WordPress that polls Twitter and archives your tweets and the tweets of those you follow so those insightful conversations you have at 1am are never lost.
Twitter Widget
Adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates (uses the Javascript Twitter ‘badge’)
Twitter Widget Pro
A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc). Requires PHP5.
Tweet Rooster
Add the code from this website and you can enable users to tweet directly from your website or blog.
WP-Twitip-ID Plugin
Add a twitter field to your comment form (easily).
Top Twitter Links by Twitturls
Widget that displays currently popular links that have been tweeted.
TwitterFountain
Have you ever wanted to see what was happening at that one event you could not go to? Did the plain text-backchannels somehow left you feeling disappointed?
Twitterfountain comes to your aid mashing up tweets and Flickr-images that share the same tags into a spectacular visual. Below is a sample, that you can copy and embed in your own site.
TweetSuite
The first version of TweetSuite, a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes the following features:
- Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
- ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
- A digg-like Tweet-This Button
- Automatic Tweeting of new posts
- A Most-Tweeted Widget
- A Recently-Tweeted Widget
- My-Last-Tweets Widget
- A My-Favorited-Tweets Widget
TweetBacks
People are talking about your posts, and not only in the comments to your post. A lot of that conversation is happening on Twitter, and now, you can take that conversation right back to your blog! This plugin imports those tweets about your posts as comments. You can display them in between the other comments on your blog, or display them separately.
Tweet Stats
This plugin adds two widgets to your site: “Most Tweeted Posts” and “Recently Tweeted Posts”. It depends on the Tweetbacks plugin by Yoast, so make sure you have that plugin installed.
Twitter Remote (beta)
This widget shows which twitter users recently visited your blog or website.
Tweet This
Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post and page. Shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us, eating up only 19 of 140 characters. Also included: Plurk, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Ping.fm, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Includes the post’s title after the link (can be customized). If your titles are really long, they get cut off at 136 characters with “…”. Customize under Settings > Tweet This. Includes your choice of six buttons.
ComenTwitter
Ultimately plugin’s goal is to give the commenter the option of sending their comment to twitter and allowing people to follow that blogs comments both in the blog and in twitter. The main reason for this is to generate a buzz and encourage commenting on peoples blogs. It will also improve the quality and value of people’s tweets revolving around blog posts.
TweetRoll
This widget shows your friends avatars on your blog/website and encourages more people to follow you. Colour customization and localization options available.
Twitme
This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website. This is good because for example the iPod and iPhone for example have a large amount of twitter clients to pick from. Your blog posts will arrive to people while they are walking the streets.
Twitter Poster
The Twitter Poster is a plugin which allows wordpress publishers to automatically post their new posts to their Twitter account. The Twitter Poster will take the title of a new post and will subit it to the Twitter account specified in the options. It will also add the link back to the post, allowing your twitter followers to access the post details
Twitter Friends Widget
Twitter Friends is a WordPress plugin that displays your Twitter friends/ followers in your sidebar in the same way that they appear on your Twitter homepage.
Tweetable Twitter Plugin
Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can tweet your blog posts as they are published, shortening the URLs with either Tr.im or Is.gd and optionally including Google Analytics campaign tags. You can display your latest tweet(s) in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget, which can even display your follower count.
Twitter Feed
The application will display the latest tweet from all of the active accounts and then displays those latest tweets in date order. So the newest tweet across all of the accounts will always be shown first. It is also possible to switch between allowing/disallowing PM (Private Message) tweets to be included in the display.
Add Twitter RSS
Add Twitter RSS is a simple plugin that adds your Twitter RSS link to the header of your blog. It allows your readers to easily find your Twitter feed.
TwitterCounter
Allows you to integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog. Additionally, you can add the Twitter Remote to your blog, which shows which twitter users recently visited your blog or website. Manually add where you would like to display the badge / remote or use the WordPress sidebar widgets instead.
@ Reply
This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments. When clicked, those links insert the author name and a link to the comment you are replying to in the textarea.
Bird Feeder
Bird Feeder is a WordPress plug-in that simply tweets when you publish a post. It doesn’t do anything else, nor will it ever.
Twitter Updater
This plugin will let you automatically update your Twitter.com status with your most recent blog post. There are a few options to how the display will look when it updates.
TweetMeMe
At last I found this beautiful website which tracks the hottest links on Twitter, interesting analysis.
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Fashion Trends USA
Posted 385 days ago 27Wow, fantastic !! I like your post !! nice plugin … :D
Yougapi
Posted 411 days ago 26We have just released a Twitter plugin enabling users to connect and/or create a WordPress user using their Twitter account. It also provides a way to display Twitter widgets or buttons using WP shortcodes and other features. You can try the demo on this page: http://yougapi.com/products/wp/twitter_wpress/
Brij
Posted 457 days ago 25I would like to add one more plugin ‘TweetsByPost’. You can show post related tweets using this plugin.
Alex Moss
Posted 554 days ago 24I have developed a new plugin. Try the new Twitter Feed for WordPress. Loads of stuff to configure, easy to install, and the chance to have as many feeds as you like!
http://pleer.co.uk/wordpress/plugins/wp-twitter-feed
Steven Milanese
Posted 587 days ago 22The WordPress Twitter Forums Plugin places a unique floating Twitter Forums button on the right edge of your WordPress Blog that expands with a animated slide-in effect to reveal a Retweet.@ Twitter powered forum. Retweet.@ is a free service developed and provided by SumtnSumtn UG (haftungsbeschrŠnkt). This plugin takes advantage of this powerful social media resource and incorporates it into your WordPress website in a unique way that allows you to create an ongoing conversation users, engaging them interactively with your website’s content.
Official WordPress Plugin Repository Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-twitter-forums-plugin/
Steven Milanese
Posted 581 days ago 23Just wanted to post an update. I’ve just release v2.0 of the WordPress Twitter Forums plugin. The new version features improved graphics for the retweet.@ buttons as well as the option to embed an additional button into your posts and pages.
xhanch
Posted 606 days ago 21Try this cool plugin,
Xhanch – My Twitter
http://xhanch.com/wp-plugin-my-twitter/
xinexo
Posted 700 days ago 20If you want to put twitter widget into your website in a much easier way (without coding, javascript knowledge) you might want to check out
http://www.twitblend.com/widget
this service allows you to create dialogue or conversation from selected tweets then you can share and put it into your website/blog with their widget
Craig
Posted 708 days ago 19This is an extensive list of plugins. I use several plugins for my wordpress blog but I had know idea there were this many. Great post
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ingilizce çeviri
Posted 762 days ago 18The availability of Twitter and other social networking websites, as well as the popularity of text messaging, have made short-form communication an usual reality. But to express declaratively in short messages containing 140-character max requires effective writing skill.
Diane Davis
Posted 795 days ago 17What an amazing list! Thank you so much for taking the time to create and share it with us…espescially non-techie people like me! :-)
Michael -Make Paper Easy
Posted 848 days ago 16What a great list..it’s amazing how fast new tools and gadgets are being developed for WordPress and Twitter.
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dermatitis
Posted 899 days ago 15Usually I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this blog really forced me to do so! Thanks, really nice post.
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acaros
Posted 904 days ago 14excellent post, thank you for sharing
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alergia
Posted 921 days ago 13incredible Twitter plugins for my wordpress, i was looking for something like this. i´ll try it.
thanks
Commander Selvam
Posted 992 days ago 12Nice post, Thanks for posting here about the important of twitter tools which can be used as a inter mediator between word press and Twitter.
Arun Basil Lal
Posted 1056 days ago 11Hey guys, its not WordPress, but its WordPress. The P should be in caps, its a name we all love, right?
Good job here!
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Rusli Zainal
Posted 1059 days ago 10too many great plugins for twitter, made me confuse to chose which one I will use, thanks great review.
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Mitesh
Posted 1059 days ago 9Thank you for highlighting some of those developers. We have a variety to pick from now :)
David
Posted 1059 days ago 8Amazing – It’s really good to see how creative these developers are. All these ideas just around one service!
I’ll be trying out some of these plugins to see how they perform.
Thanks – Dave
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Michael Zehrer
Posted 1060 days ago 7I wrote the wordpress plugin Tweetly Updater that updates Twitter when you create or edit a blog entry. It uses the bit.ly service for short urls. The plugin uses bit.ly with the history option, so you can track the clicks on the urls inside your twitter posts on your bit.ly homepage. Fore more info seethe Tweetly Updater page at http://bit.ly/8Rj.
Luis Lopez
Posted 1061 days ago 6TwitterCounter is the only plugin I use, before I used to had twitter remote but i wasn’t satisfied. I also use twitter feed as a tool since two weeks and i like it because in not really a plugin for wordpress.
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365icon.com
Posted 1062 days ago 4great setup i love the tweetmeme plugin
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 1061 days ago 5@365icon that’s pretty popular plugin in the latest time :) I like it too, thanks!
@theCount I appreciate your words, tried my best to give all the information I could find there.
theCount
Posted 1062 days ago 3Great list of resources especially when you add these to the related links as well…
off to pimp my tweet blog now, Thanks for the feed which i´m gonna grab right away…
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 1063 days ago 2@Sketch of the Day – yeah, I definitely agree, but also Twitter is great social network we shouldn’t avoid :)
Sketch of the Day
Posted 1063 days ago 1Sometimes twitter makes my head spin, but all these tools remind me that I should tweet more often.
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