Twitter has exploded in popularity over the past year as many mainstream media sources have been using the service to communicate with their readers/viewers, but did you know that bloggers can now use Twitter to promote their content as well?

While searching for a WordPress plugin that could automatically publish my blog posts on Twitter, I was thrilled to discover the WordTwit WordPress plugin.    With this plugin, simply upload and activate, then enter the Twitter login information for the account you want the tweets to appear under.   Once done, all your WordPress posts will start to appear on your Twitter account (almost instantly from my experience).

[Download the WordTwit WordPress Plugin]

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Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick is the founder and primary author of WordPress Hacks. You can learn more about him at KyleEslick.com or you can follow his personal tweets here.

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  1. This sounds very cool will check it out thanks
    awesome site
    Stumbled thanks

  2. I’ve been using Twitter for some time now and also I blog. This plugin will be very helpful for us kind. Thank you for the share!

  3. Kurt says:

    The Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King allows for two way communication between your blog and Twitter. Posts to your blog are posted on Twitter and tweets can be displayed in your blog. Much better in my opinion.

  4. Hmmm, I wonder if it prevents from tweeting updated posts like if you catch an error and correct it.

    This seems like a good alternative to something I’ve been using for a while now: Tweetlater. It’s a good service and has grown in functionality, but I believe it only allows you to tweet blog posts from one blog. I may have over looked something, but it only posts for one of my blogs and sometimes it’s delayed.

  5. No DPad says:

    I’ve been using Twitter Tools as Kurt said and it’s great. Lots of options to get it running exactly as you want. See it in action: http://twitter.com/nodpad.

  6. This plugin is very helpful, but for me, Twitter is too time-expensive.

  7. kelly says:

    My biggest concern with these plugins is putting your username/password into it.

    If you’re site gets hacked, not only do they get your WP stuff, but they get your twitter ID.

  8. Ken the Tech says:

    Not bad, I’m using it too. But I’ll really enjoy if this plugin will make random tweets from my wordpress blog posts. Or maybe there is another with this function?

  9. Fraser Kelly says:

    Hi all.

    After using this plugin I was really impressed but I instantly recognised 2 flaws. Firstly, it is limited to Twitter and secondly it only seems to post articles that are published after the plugin has been activated.

    I decided to create my own plugin to solve these problems. It is called ‘Twitface’ and you can find it at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitface/

    It allows you to publish all of your past posts and also lets you publish to your Facebook status.

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