Integrating WordPress & Twitter

To keep your website really fresh and your readers/followers up to date, use the Twitter Tools Plugin to completely integrate your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Some of the best features of Twitter Tools are:

• New blog posts automatically tweeted on your twitter account
• Add your latest tweets to your website sidebar or a page of your choice
• Automatic weekly digest post of all your tweets
• Send tweets to your Twitter account from inside WordPress

Download the Twitter Tools Plugin…

My Latest Tweets

Create a Latest Tweets Page

Once twitter tools is activated and your Twitter account details are entered on the settings page,  show your latest 5 tweets on any page or post on your WordPress website (like mine above)  just add this code where you want the tweets to display. Just change the 5 to show a different number of tweets.

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Twitter Alert – Who’s Talking about Me?

Be pro-active and start using Twitter as part of your marketing strategy? Find out who’s tweeting about you or your topics of interest and join in the conversation with tweetbeep.

One of the most common questions people have when they first start using Twitter is how to actually find people interested in or tweeting about your topic of interest who might become followers and/or customers.

Twitter alerts email you hourly or daily to show you converstions involving your choosen words or phrases.TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter. You can click on anything to see more updates from the twitterer, reply or retweet. See sample email below. [Read more]

Encourage Readers to ReTweet Your Posts

One of the most popular uses of Twitter is to share links to great websites or blog posts you have read. By adding a ReTweet button to the top of each of your blog posts, you encourge your readers to share your post with other Twitter users.

See what happens when you click on the green ReTweet button at the top of this blog post (you have to have a twitter account). Basically a Twitter post appears automatically in your status update box with RT@nzwebwoman (I have used my username in this example), the title of your blog post and a link to the post This can be the actual url if it’s not too long or a shortened url from tinyurl etc. [Read more]

Blog Weekly – Twitter Daily

Have you started noticing a little bird popping up all over the internet?

Twitter is a website where you post quick and timely updates about what you’re doing. Publish well researched, interesting posts on your blog every week or fortnight but post (or text) short snippets of info on Twitter on a daily basis. Think of it as micro-blogging! Once your customers are following you on Twitter, you can let them know exactly what’s new and exciting, ask for feedback, get ideas – all in realtime.

See my latest 5 tweets on the sidebar to the right of this post.

Why Should I Twitter?
Twitter profiles are starting to appear very high in Google Searches. A New York Times article describes Twitter as “…a business tool, a teenage time-killer, a research assistant, a news source — whatever”. Business are just starting to get’ tweeting’. Read why in this great article about Understanding the Impact of Twitter…

What Should I Twitter about?

• New product updates
• Ask customers (‘followers’) for feedback
• Links to interesting articles/blog posts (Use tinyurl for links)
• One sentence summary of your blog posts with link (Use tinyurl)
• Dates, speakers etc for events

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