Recently, I decided to hook up my Twitter account to another blog I write to see whether it would bring in any additional readership or traffic.
There are several WordPress to Twitter plugins, but I narrowed my choice down to two: Twitter Tools (by Alex King)and WP to Twitter (by Joseph Dolson).
Twitter tools is a more comprehensive package allowing two way posting. Links to blog posts are posted to Twitter as a tinyurl link, Twitter tweets can be posted back to WordPress as indivisual posts or as a digest and it includes a sidebar widget form that allows you to post Twitter tweets directly from your blog, which is a particularly nice addition.
WP to Twitter simply posts links to recent WordPress posts to Twitter. It does this using the cli.gs url rewriting site. In addition to a Twitter account, you’ll need to sign up for a free cli.gs API key.
My initial findings are that it does generate readers. Randomly walking through varoius Twitter profiles and following people with simlar interests can soon lead to quite a number of followers. And since Twitter has yet to fall fowl of bots and automated account spamming, many if not all of your followers will be real people.
If you’re a blogger and do not have a Twitter account then now is the time to sign up and get started with one of these helpful Twitter posting plugins.
