15 Plugins to Twitterize Your WordPress Blog

Everyone loves Twitter and Twitter is the latest fad in social networking. If you have a WordPress Blog, the 15 plugins below give you the ability to fully integrate your blog with Twitter.

What I like most about Twitter is the flexibility it provides with the various applications, tools and plugins available. I’ve recently added a “Retweet” Button to the end of my posts, utilizing TweetMeTweetMe Button. Another tool I’ve been using is TwitMe to automatically publish my new posts to Twitter. Take a few of the plugins below for a spin and you’ll be hooked.

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Add Tweet Functionality (Buttons) to Your Blog
1. Twitter Retweet WP 2.7 (5 Stars, 427 Downloads)
Displays a ReTweet link givings visitors the ability to ReTweet your current post.
2. Twitter It! WP 2.7.1 (5 Stars, 1054 Downloads)
Gives readers the ability to tweet articles on your site. Easy to install, highly customizable & caching of short-urls included.
3. TweetMeTweetMe Button WP 2.7.1 (5 Stars, 2973 Downloads)
Adds a button for your blog to be retweeted. Also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout Twitter.

Display Tweets
4. Twitter for WordPress WP 2.7 (5 Stars, 65,332 Downloads)
Use a widget or just the code to display your latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
5. Twitter Widget Pro WP 2.8 (4.5 Stars, 15,128 Downloads)
Widget that displays twitter feeds, including @username and link parsing. Supports displaying profiles images & lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened. Requires PHP5.
6. Thread Twitter (5 Stars, 1372 Downloads)
Fetches your tweets and display them in thread style.
7. TweetBacks WP 2.7 (4.5 Stars, 9450 Downloads)
Imports tweets about your posts as comments. Display them in between other comments on your blog or separately.
8. Twitter Digest WP 2.7.1 (5 Stars, 411 Downloads)
Publishes a daily post of Tweets from the previous day.

Twitterize Your Comments
9. Twitter Style Links WP 2.7.1 (4 Stars, 232 Downloads)
If you write  a comment like “@brian, how are you?” this plugin will search for @brian’s url in the comment list of the current post and convert the name to a link.
10. Add Twitter Link to Comments WP 2.7 (5 Stars, 360 Downloads)
Adds a Twitter link to comments if comment author uses an email connected to a Twitter account.

Automated Posts from Blog to Twitter
11. Twitter Post WP 2.7 (5 Stars, 233 Downloads)
Enables automatic messages from your blog to Twitter, when you publish a new post.
12. TwitMe WP 2.7.1 (4 Stars, 15825 Downloads)
Automatically posts your new posts to Twitter.

Update Your Status
13. WP to Twitter WP 2.7.1 (5 Stars, 8981 Downloads)
Posts a Twitter status update from your blog using the Cli.gs URL shortening service to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.

More Fun
14. Twitter to Wire WP 2.7 (5 Stars, 417 Downloads)
Allows your twitter posts to show up in your buddypress wire.
15. Top Twitter Links by Twitturls WP 2.7 (5 Stars, 233 Downloads)
Widget that displays currently popular links that have been tweeted.

Are there any Twitter WordPress Plugins you’d like to recommend? The plugins above were selected based on their ratings, number of downloads and their cool factor. I also selected only the plugins that were compatible of up to atleast 2.7. As always, I’d love to hear from you.