Wednesday, May 9th, 2007...2:37 pm
Wordpress Plugin: Twitter Tools
Alex King has created a plugin for Wordpress called Twitter Tools, which comprehensively integrates your blog with your Twitter account.
Here are some of the features:
- Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a daily digest post of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
- Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)
The feature which appeals to me the most is the ability to automatically create a tweet whenever I complete a new post on my blog. Most of the time I either forget or I’m too busy to jump on to Twitter and write about a new post so this function will do all the work for. I’m lazy, I know.
Download: Twitter Tools
5 Comments
May 10th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Oh I must have overlooked the Dashboard news as I did not find this yet.
Thanks for sharing the news here, I am going to install and check this plugin out this weekend.
May 13th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I had to disable mine because it would tweet that I had a new blog post every time I saved a draft. Maybe I was doing something wrong? I’d love to enable it again
June 28th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Hi Gabrielle. I think you can disable it on the Twitter Tools options. Look for it on the dashboard. It’s there.
October 5th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Alex,
This tool is awesome. What a great promotional vehicle. It’s going to help tremendously with getting additional exposure for my blog.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
This tool has been awesome and makes it so easy to post to twitter from my blog. I have about 141 twitter followers now, and each time I post to my blog it announces the post on twitter and visitors start showing up. There was a problem for a few days after a twitter api update, but they were able to work it out and has been working great since.
Kevin
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