You got WordPress in my Twitter
I had a great lunch yesterday with my friend Frank. Well, the lunch was OK, but the conversation with Frank was great.
He’s been real active lately with Twitter. Additionally, much of our lunch discussion was about social media, RSS feeds, and how to take things to the next level and get a better handle on all of this information flowing in all directions.
So I agreed that I should finally get around to looking into this thing called Twitter.
I have head about it from quite some time, but never really got the feel for it. But after a few days, I am starting to see some of the potential.
Next step for me, of course, was to look for a way to integrate Twitter with WordPress. Seems that there are a vast number of ways to do this… here are a few:
- Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget a WordPress Widget plugin for your blog as an alternative to the badges provided by Twitter.
- Mobypicture – Mobypicture lets you share postings to your Twitter, WordPress, (and many many more…) from your mobile phone, email or from the web, including pictures, text.
- Tweetly Updater – a WordPress plugin that updates Twitter when you create or edit a blog entry, it uses the bit.ly service for short urls.
Additionally, there are any number of services out there that will pump any ol’ RSS feed into your Twitter account, which would also work well with WordPress, I imagine.
Lots of choices. Although I am new to Twitter, I have been using WordPress for a very long time, so it is a natural starting place for me to go with the plugin approach.
Starting with this post, I am using the Tweetly Updater plugin. Hope it works well!
Other resources:
- I also recommend you take a look at one of Frank’s recent postings on the topic of Twitter: Twitter – The Answer to 2 Big Questions.
- For a huge list of Twitter related apps of all kinds, visit this page: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps
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