In the time when every website and every marketer were talking about providing more; like more free stuffs to visitors, more free space, more control over how much one speaks, more features, more tools, etc., there was one company which was planning to curtail our freedom of expression.

No one ever dream (not even in the wildest dream) that this limiting tool will be accepted; forget about its being successful. Nevertheless, twitter came and changed the way we communicate just by asking, “What are you doing?” and expecting a reply in 140 characters.

I don’t think, anyone needs a lecture on the power of twitter here; hence, we should go directly to see the list of top 5 twitter plug-ins for WordPress.

TweetMeme Button

This is quite a simple plug-in, but do not get misled by its simplicity. TweetMeme button is one of the most widely used twitter plug-ins. It helps your visitors retweet your post effortlessly. This plug-in also provides retweet counts for the number of times your write-up got retweeted.

TweetBacks

This is another great twitter plug-in that every WordPress website should have. TweetBacks plug-in helps you search the conversation that happens around your blog posts on twitter and display it in the comment section. It is up to you whether you want to display the twitter conversation between the comments on your blog, or you want to display it separately. In either case, you will be listing the conversation happening around your blog on twitter.

WP to Twitter

WP to twitter provides an easy way to update your twitter followers about the changes in your blog. This plug-in uses Cli.gs URL shortening services to embed your blog-post’s URL in the message it automatically tweets through your blog. You will need Cli.gs account and its API for this plug-in to work wonder for you.

TweetSuite

You use TweetBacks, and you are very much satisfied by it, but there is something which you feel should be there. If the above written description talks about you then you are looking for TweetSuite that integrate WordPress and twitter.

This plug-in provides you server-side TweetBacks, Retweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts, Most-Tweeted Widget, Recently-Tweeted Widget, My-Last-Tweets Widget, My-Favorite-Tweets Widget, etc.

Twitter for WordPress

This plug-in quite simple, and does just one work. It takes your latest tweets and displays them in your WordPress blog. Twitter for WordPress offers many customization options. If you use widgets in your WordPress blog than just drag and drop this plug-in the sidebar, but if you are not widget-friendly then you will need to put the following code in the sidebar to display your public tweets:

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