twitter blogging mashups

July 9th, 2009 Posted by Missie at 7:26 pm

From our twitter mashups post, we’ve discovered even more wonderful third party applications that mash twitter and their API’s, resulting in some great new applications for twitter fanatics. This time, it’s all about twittter blogging mashups.

Since  many blogs have a large audience and cult following, there are more people that read blogs than people who use Twitter. So what’s some of the apps you can use to increase your blogs presence on twitter? We’ve listed some of the best we could find. 

Twitter Social Button

We have Digg buttons, Stumble buttons, Delicious buttons etc etc and now we have a Twitter button. TwitThis makes it very easy for your blog visitors to publicize your blog post via their Twitter feed. 

Tweeterland loves: Tweetmeme - check it out in the top right of this post. It allows visitors to tweeterland to opportunity to tweet this post, spreading it to more people on the www. 

Wordpress Plugins

If you’re spent alot of time and effort on twitter following those in your blogs niche or building a solid followers base, you’ll be great to hear Wordpress has some great plugins that allow for more fluid integration between twitter and your blog.

• Anwanore’s Widget - Allows you to post several of your latest tweets into your blog and you can put it anywhere by calling a php function from within your template. The author is working on future enhancements such as an optional avatar display.
• TweetSuite - a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts and some widgets.
• Tweet This – A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
• TweetMeme button – easily allows your blog posts to be retweeted.
• Simple Twitter Link – simply returns a URL, which is a link to Twitter with your post/page URL within it.
• WP Twitip ID – Plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username
• Twitter Badge – Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter.
• The Twitter Updater – a wordpress plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
• TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
• Twitter Tools – This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
• Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget – Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.
• Twitter Feed – Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
• Twitt-Twoo – is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
• Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.

Have a blogging mashup to recommend, or know one we’ve missed? Let us know and post a comment below. While you’re at it, follow us on twitter - @tweeterland.

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