Top 5 Twitter Plugins for WordPress

wordpress to twitter

wordpress to twitter

Here are the Top 5 Twitter Plugins for WordPress~! When it comes to blogging and the internet WordPress is the platform of choice. When it comes to social media updates, twitter is the platform of choice (well that and facebook). It’s important to find or have some plugins / addons that will effectively marry the 2 mediums togetther.

So here is our list of the Best twitter plugins for wordpress.

  1. Twitter Tools – Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
  2. Twitter for WordPress – Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.Features* Simply* Customizable* Widget support* No options page (yes, its a feature)* Uses WordPress resources (no extra files needed)* Detects URLs, e-mail address and @username replies
  3. Twitter Widget –Adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates (using the JavascriptTwitter ‘badge’)
  4. Twitter Friends –Widget that allows you to give love to the people that follow you on Twitter. You can choose different display styles of either picture only or picture, username, and most recent tweet. Due to Twitter limit on API hits, I cache the friend list and only hit Twitter every 5 minutes to avoid getting “Over the limit errors”
  5. WP to Twitter –The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your WordPress blog using either the Cli.gs or Bit.ly URL shortening services to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.For both services you can provide your information to maintain a list of your shortened URLs with your URL shortening service for statistics and your own records.

Hope that helps you WordPress gurus out, thanks for reading!