I don’t mean the entire article content coz twitter only allows 140 chars max :) I just mean publishing your article title and link to twitter.

Here is an awesome wordpress plugin which lets you post your wordpress article to your twitter status automatically. It’s called WP to Twitter.

It has very good options to be selected. You can tweet whenever your post is published. Or, even when your post is being edited. You can also tweet whenever your wp pages are published or edited.

The prominent feature I like about this plugin is that it lets you post your wordpress article’s content as tweet by setting character limit. Moreover, it publishes your wp article tags as hashtags in twitter.

The URL Shortener is always there. You can do with Cli.gs, Bit.ly or use wordpress as url shortener.

This plugin is very beneficial and is a must if you are a twitter user or a twitter fan lik e me :)

Keep blogging and keep tweeting…

Cheers,

Step 1:
We will create a PHP file; lets say follower_count.php or whatever you’d like to name it. Then simply put following contents in that page.

<?php
$twitter_username	=	'designgala';	// please replace it with your twitter username
$tw	=	get_option("total_twitter_followers");
if ($tw['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() – 3600 ) ) { 	$xml	=	file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name='. $twitter_username); 	if (preg_match('/followers_count>(.*)

Explanation:
I used 2 PHP functions file_get_contents() and preg_match() here. file_get_contents fetches twitter xml file and stores in buffere while preg_match searches followers_count for a match in the buffer returned by earlier function.

Step 2:
Now you can include above file using PHP include like below in any template file.

<?php include("follower_count.php"); ?>

Thats it. It will show twitter follower count.

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You are browsing the web. You liked a url and wanted to share it, probably on twitter.

The old lengthy way:

You will open twitter.com, login with you username and password. Open url shortner like bit.ly and shorten the url you want to share. Then post your tweet with some text and shortened url.

The new and quick way:

You can do the same very easily and quickly. I hope you are using Firefox. So, there is a firefox addon Shorten url which will shorten the url and display the result in location bar. It supports more than 100 URL shorteners.

You can always remain logged in in twitter with the firefox addon Echofon. Echofon adds a tiny status bar icon that notifies you when your friends post tweets. You can also view updates in a timeline and post your own tweets.

So, it’s just simple. Shorten any url with Shorten url ff addon. And share it adding some text with Echofon ff addon.

Enjoy tweeting!

Twitterup is a very flexible wordpress plugin which lets you to tweet while you are blogging. You will be tweeting automatically while you are using your wp blog.

Twitterup will post tweet for you when you create a draft, edit draft, publish draft and publish post. You can customize these options as well for tweeting.

The link you provide for your tweet can be shorted by services like tinyurl.com, is.gd, bit.ly or snurl.com

This is a great plugin to connect your wordpress blog/site with your twitter account.

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For this, Twitter offers an API which you can use to pull information from twitter for your own uses. Even easier, they offer a little Javascript widget which automatically uses this API and returns simple HTML of your recent tweets.

Here are some simple steps for this.

First logon to your Twitter account and go to your homepage. Click the “Goodies” which is at the bottom of your twitter page like given below.

Then you will see the following page and click on the “Widgets”

After this you will see the following window. Click on the “My Website”. And then click on the “Profile Widget” to display your personal tweets.

After this you will see a window where you can Customize Your Profile Widget.You can add the username of the account which you want to show tweet in your webpage then set the preference ,appearance and dimension of the profile widget which will appear in page.

You can test the script by clicking the test settings.If you are fine with the testing result then click on the bottom ” Finish & Grab Code” and finally you will see the script,copy that script and paste it in the div of your page where you want to show your twitter updates .
Example:

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
<head>
	<title>Twitter Page</title>
 
</head>
 
<body>
< -- script copied from the twitter --->
<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'profile',
  rpp: 4,
  interval: 6000,
  width: 250,
  height: 300,
  theme: {
    shell: {
      background: '#333333',
      color: '#ffffff'
    },
    tweets: {
      background: '#000000',
      color: '#ffffff',
      links: '#4aed05'
    }
  },
  features: {
    scrollbar: false,
    loop: false,
    live: false,
    hashtags: true,
    timestamp: true,
    avatars: false,
    behavior: 'all'
  }
}).render().setUser('rabishrestha').start();
</script>
</body>
 
</html>

click here to try it yourself

Note: Make sure that your twitter account has public status. If you want to change your status on twitter account, click on the setting link and unchecked the bottom “protect my tweets”.