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Twitter is without a doubt one of, if not the fastest growing web application that we have seen. Not long time ago very few people were using or talking about it, and now it is all over the place, with mainstream celebrities joining it every day.

Here is a collection of top twitter tools, plugins, widgets and scripts to integrate with your Wordpress blog.

Twitter Tools

This powerful Wordpress plugin provides a range of options that allow you to link your Twitter account to your blog. You can use it to display your Twitter posts on your blog. Alternatively, you can use it post a message to your Twitter account whenever you publish a new blog post.

Alternatively, The Twitter Updater does the same job, but allows you to specify the text that will be used in your Twitter updates when you publish a new blog post.

TweetMeme Button

This plugin adds a small icon to every post on your Wordpress blog that provides your visitors with a one click option to tweet about each post. We use Tweetmeme on the Twitter Power System blog (see the green icon at the top right of every post) and it has provided the site with a significant amount of traffic and visibility. But that’s not all…as the plugin also displays the number of retweets that each post has received, it provides an element of social proof. In general, people are more inclined to retweet material that they know is popular. So the more retweets each post receives, the more it is likely to receive.

Alternatively, you can use the TwitThis plugin to achieve similar results.

Twitip ID

This plugin adds an extra field to the comment form on your blog so that people can enter their Twitter username. You can then choose to display these names next to the comments that appear on your blog. This provides an additional element of community on your blog, as it allows the people who comment on your blog to find each other on Twitter.

Twitt-Twoo

Once you install this plugin it allows you to update your Twitter status from the sidebar of your blog. This Ajax powered script provides you with another quick and easy way to keep your Twitter account up to date. Alternatively, you can use the Twitter Sharts to update your Twitter account from anywhere in your blog.

TweetSuite

The TweetSuite Wordpress plugin provides an entire suite of tools, such as retweet buttons, auto-tweeting of new blog posts, tweetbacks etc allowing you to achieve most of the features provided by the other tools featured in this post.

Twitter Badge

This short piece of javascript provided by Twitter allows you to display a badge that automatically shows the messages you post to your Twitter account. Just login to your Twitter account, select one of the badge styles and paste the code into your blog. These badges can be displayed on almost any webpage, not just a wordpress blog, but they fit nicely on the sidebar of most blogs.

Twitter Widget Pro

Twitter Widget Pro is a widget that handles Twitter feeds. It’s true that you could just point an RSS widget at one of the Twitter feeds, but you end up with the whole tweet as a link, @replies don’t function, etc. Twitter Widget Pro properly handles twitter feeds, including linking @username to the user on twitter, linking #hastags to twitter search, parsing urls and making them links, allowing you to display your twitter profile image, and even allowing you to specify a custom error message to display when Twitter is down.

Twitter is not a chat, and properly used can boost your contents up to the blogosphere!