27 Twitter Tools and Plugins Every Twitter Users Should Know
TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
Anyone and everyone who uses Twitter periodically sends out interesting links to their followers. These links are not pointing to your site, so other than creating goodwill among your followers, they offer no ‘return’ for your blog.
TweetDeck not only shows you the last 200 tweets made by your followers and followees, but also organizes @ replies directed to you, direct messages, search terms and the latest news in the Twitterverse all into manageable columns.
Twhirl works similarly to TweetDeck, except it lets you access multiple Twitter accounts directly through the software. With Twhirl, you can keep your business and personal accounts separate without losing track of either of them.
Get Twitter alerts whenever someone mentions any keyword you want to follow. Use it for your name, company name or to find potential clients (by getting an alert for the term “web development” for example). Tweetbeep works even if the original poster uses a URL shortening service like TinyURL.
While not exclusively a Twitter tool, Ping.fm lets you broadcast Twitter tweets to other popular social networks including MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, and dozens more. Using ping.fm keeps everyone up-to-date on your current projects and widens your “social net” to attract more customers to your networking base.
Shorten, send out and track links sent via Twitter. See how many clicks your latest blog or article has generated. A great way to gauge the popularity of your content. See the most-clicked Twitter links on the Tweetburner homepage. Also works with FriendFeed.
Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter.
TweetLater lets you schedule your tweets for a later date/time, saving you from being glued to Twitter. Also emails you keyword alerts, sends “thank you” notes to new followers and handles multiple Twitter accounts effortlessly.
Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
Perfect for when you only want certain messages to go out to a group of your followers, friends or family or for when you’re working on a web development project and need to send or receive client-confidential information. Registering is as simple as creating a group name and making its settings private in Twitter.
Integrate Twitter with your Google Calendar. By simply adding @gcal as a friend, you can tweet events, to-do’s and reminders directly to your Google Calendar and have it checked every minute.
Find out when you get un-followed by using Qwitter. Qwitter will not only alert you as to who is no longer following you, but they’ll show you the tweet you posted that (may or may not) have caused the person to unsubscribe.
Sure you advertise your RSS feed readers, but what about the 1000’s of Twitter followers that you have? Prominently displaying them will surely increase the importance of your blog. TwitterCounter for WordPress integrates the TwitterCounter badges in your WordPress blog.
The habit of Twitter has been carried to the blogs, and now when we reply to someone in our blog comments, we usually use @nickname to address the person. Twitter style links will search for @nickname’s URL in the comments list of the current post, and convert that @nickname to a clickable link. Of course, this has nothing to do with Twitter as such, but it does bring the two conceptually closer together.
TweetMeme button easily allows your blog posts to be retweeted.
Simple Twitter Link simply returns a URL, which is a link to Twitter with your post/page URL within it.
‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
WP Twitip ID is a plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username
TweetSuite is a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts and some widgets.
Gravatars are a great addition to any blog, giving the blog a much better visual appeal. However, non-technology blogs find it hard to implement them as most of the users are not techie enough to create a gravatar of their own. This results in a lot of ‘blank’ avatars in the comments field.
Tweet is a plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
The Twitter Updater is a wordpress plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget
Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.
Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog�s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
A simple plugin that will automatically link any @username in your post to the Twitter account. For instance, all I would need to do is insert @makeuseof and it will link that to twitter.com/makeuseof without any user interaction.
