Nowadays successful blogging definitely depends on effective use of social media. Twitter is one of the most popular social networks and you must consider its benefits if you want to be a successful blogger. Since WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms for its possibility to extend it functions with tons of plugins, today we’d like to show you useful plugins related to Twitter. In this post you will find 15 useful Twitter plugins for your WordPress blog.
Useful Twitter Plugins for WordPress
Tweet Old Post
Tweet Old Posts randomly picks your older post based on the interval specified by you. The primary use of this plugin is to promote older blog posts by tweeting about them and getting more traffic.
TwitPic
This plugin displays your latest pictures from TwitPic in the sidebar of your blog.
WP to Twitter
The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your WordPress blog using your selected URL shortening service to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.
TwitterCounter
Using this plugin, you can integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog that show the number of followers you have on Twitter.
TwitterLink Comments
This plugin will add an extra field to your comment form so a user can add their Twitter username.
Twitter Feed for WordPres
The WordPress Twitter Feed Plugin lets you simply output any user’s tweets into your WordPress page, template or sidebar. You can customize the username, number of tweets, and style of output.
Tweetable
This twitter plugin can automatically tweet links to your blog posts as they are published. It can display your latest tweet in your sidebar and add a tweetmeme widget after your posts. You can even use it to share a Twitter account among a blog’s authors if you wish.
Topsy Retweet Button
Provides a Twitter retweet button for your posts that shows all tweets, enables retweeting, and adds tweets as comments.
Twitter Friendly Links
You can have Twitter friendly TinyURL within your own domain.
Tweet Blender
Provides several Twitter widgets: show your own tweets, show tweets relevant to post’s tags, show tweets for Twitter lists, show tweets for hash tags and more.
Twitter Fans
Twitter Fans lets you display your twitter followers in the sidebar as a widget just like Facebook’s fan widget in appearance.
Simple Twitter Connect
Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you’d like.
Twitter Comments – Twitoaster
This plugin automatically retrieve Twitter Replies and/or Twitter Retweets to your Blog’s Posts using WP built-in comment system.
TweetMeme Button
Easily allows your blog post or page to be retweeted. It offers a live count of how many times your post/page has been retweeted throughout Twitter.
Twitter Avatars In Comments WordPress Plugin
Twittar WordPress plugin main objective is to create a plug-in that uses Twitter to show avatars in comments in WordPress blogs.