Today, I want to look at three Twitter related plugins for Wordpress. Although there are many plugins available for Wordpress-Twitter integration, I want to talk about the three that I use most often. Perhaps in a later post I shall look at others.
i. WP to Twitter. WP to Twitter is a one-way plugin that posts blog updates as tweets. It uses the cli.gs or bit.ly url shortening service to include a link back to the blog post. Once installed, you can fine tune the format of the posts made to Twitter and the plugin goes about its work seemlessly.
ii. Twitter Tools. Twitter Tools offers two way posting. It posts updates from WP to Twitter very much like WP to Twitter. It can also post tweets back as blog posts. A further nice feature is the widget that allows manual posting to Twitter directly from the blog page.
iii. Twitter Widget Pro. The third Twitter related plugin I found useful on some blogs is Twitter Widget Pro. This is essentially a Twitter feed parser that posts Twitter updates from your Twitter account directly in to a sidebar widget on your blog.
