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Integrating Twitter with your WordPress Blog

If you are a Twitter addict like myself, you’ll probably want to make sure all of your followers get notified when you have a new blog post but want to save the hassle from tweeting it yourself every time. You may also want to gain some new followers by putting the recent tweets in your blog sidebar.

Automatically notifying Twitter when you publish a post

This is really simple thanks to a neat little plugin available. Using Twitter Tools you can set it up to automatically post a tweet saying that you have a new blog post. It’s really that simple and it works with scheduled posts as well, notifying Twitter and posting the tweet only when it is getting published. Twitter Tools can also post a full digest post, based on all of your tweets, at specific intervals that you set up.

Displaying tweets in your sidebar

This is a functionality that you also get with Twitter Tools. When you install and activate the plugin, you can go and activate a Twitter Tools widget that displays your latest tweets in the sidebar and comes with an array of different options.

Tweetbacks – Trackbacks but from Twitter

If there is an integration invention that I consider super cool, this would be it. When you promote your blog over at Twitter, a lot of the conversation about the post happens there. With the help of the Tweetbacks plugin for WordPress you can either display those Twitter comments in the regular comments list or in a separate tweetbacks area. Talk about exciting integration. I’ve got this enabled here on the blog since a couple of days ago and it is really good!

Twitter is a great platform for both promoting yourself and having great conversations. Being able to bring it to your blog and your blog to it, you can get much more out of the platform and make new connections.