25 Most Popular Twitter Plugins for WordPress

Using Twitter in combination with your WordPress powered blog?

There are tons of tools and plugins you can take advantage of to make that mix of micro-blogging, and regular blogging mix into a presentation anybody (and I am sure everybody) will enjoy.

To help you get started, here are the 25 highest rated Twitter related plugins you can install into WordPress.

1. WordTwit – WordTwit is a plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Twitter account as a tweet.
2. Add Twitter – Displays your public Twitter messages or someone else’s for everyone to read on your blog.
3. Tweet Chopper – A very simple and basic widget that shows tweets for multiple authors and trends.
4. Advanced Twitter Widget – Widget that will enable visitors to give you/the site a virtual beer by clicking on the widget.
5. Tweelow Plugin – Simple plugin that displays count of your twitter followers.
6. Bird Feeder – Tweets about your posts when they are published.
7. WordPress Dashboard Twitter – The most creative name, WordPress Dashboard Twitter, in fact represents a Dashboard Widget for WordPress, that turns your Dashboard into a Twitter client.
8. Tweetable – Integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog. Automatically tweet new posts, display your latest tweet in your sidebar, etc.
9. Related Tweets – Using your blog as the seed, find quality content from the Blog Traffic Exchange and tweet it automatically.
10. sm00sh URL shrink – A plugin that converts all URLs in a post or comment into shorten URLs using a link shortening service.
11. wpCommentTwit – Use Twitter to receive notices of comments when they are left on your WordPress site.
12. Zipli-Retweet – Adds a re-tweet button to all WordPress posts in your blog and update your twitter account with post from your blog.
13. Lifestream – Streams your activity from over 50 different sources to your blog.
14. WP Quote Tweets – Allows authors to quote Twitter updates in posts or pages using a simple short-code.
15. Thread Twitter – Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.
16. Twitter Publisher – Share a new blog post on Twitter using awe.sm or bit.ly url shorteners.
17. dB Twtpoll – This plugins adds a short-code for embedding polls from Twtpoll really easy.
18. Twitter News Feed – Collects Tweets based on specific Twitter usernames and hash-tags and then adds them as posts.
19. WP-TwitterSearch – Displays the latest results based on a twitter search. Options include setting multiple search terms and limiting tweets shown.
20. Twitter Tools – Google Analytics Tagger – Tag all your URL’s posted to twitter with Google Analytics tags using Twitter Tools.
21. WP to Twitter – Posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll.
22. Twitter Bubble – A sidebar widget showing the latest twitter update in a nice talk bubble, suitable for wide sidebars.
23. Feed2tweet – Feed2tweet plugins allows you to publish your new posts to your twitter account.
24. Commentwitter – Gives commenters the option of Tweeting their comment with a link to your post.
25. Tweefind – Displays tweets related to your posts, ordered by rank. Admin Options -> Tweefind.

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