Top Twitter Plugins For Wordpress

As I work with customers more and more everyday I get asked more and more, can you set my site up to work with Twitter, can you have my new content or products automatically go to Twitter and so on.

Usually if more than one person asks me the same question it turns into a blog post, below I outline several of the top Twitter plugins for Wordpress and some other tools that you can use to integrate Twitter with your website or blog.

Twitter Tools - The Twitter Tools plugin is probably one of the most widely used plugins for Twitter and Wordpress integration, until recently this is the plugin I used and still do on a few of my sites. It provides a very high level of configuration and allows for digests of your Tweets to be sent out or blog posts to be created from your tweets. It also allows for very simple ways to show your Tweets in your sidebar.

Twitter Tools Bit.ly URLs - We are all choosing our favorite URL shorteners as we use Twitter more and more to promote our content or sites, Bit.ly is extremely popular and this plugin allows Twitter Tools to use Bit.ly as the link shortener when posting links to Twitter.

Twitter Tools HashTags - This allows you to set the # hashtags in the Tweets you send from Twitter Tools to allow for easy searching for your Tweets on Twitter.

Tweetmeme Retweet Button - It used to be that everyone showed their Digg count, now more and more showing your ReTweet count is important, this tool also allows for you to easily have users ReTweet your content straight from your site. It uses the very popular service Tweetmeme.com.

My Twitpics - This allows your to show your pictures you have posted through the Twitpic service that allows easy posting of photos to twitter in your sidebar. I use this on BruceMarler.com

Twitter Style Links -This one is pretty cool, if you post a message to someone on your blog using the standard Twitter @NAME it will search their comments and then add a link to their name, in other words @NAME will be automatically linked.

Twitter Widget - Very simple plugin, simply adds a sidebar widget to show your Tweets.

Twitter Tracker - This allows you to show a Twitter sidebar based on  a search term, it can be used to track certain topics, such as domain names, social media, etc.

And one that is not a plugin but still very useful, this is something I have used for quite sometime with very great success on some of my automated news aggregators, it is Twitterfeed.com , this allows your to schedule a set time to have an RSS feed sent to your Twitter account, this could also be used to post news that is not from your blog but instead from another source that your followers may find of interest.

Post your favorites in the comments section, there are pages and pages, the above are a few I have a tried with success or have heard of other people using, I am sure you have many more.