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Twitter is an enormously popular social media application. It’s a microblogging application application where each post is limited to 140 characters.
Website-In-A-Weekend is using the Twitter Tools plugin, which runs in a widget in the upper right sidebar of the website.
You can get the plugin through WordPress.org, or using the plugin interface in your dashboard.
Here’s the Twitter Tools home page.
Setting up Twitter Tools is very easy. Once you have your twitter.com account, find “Settings > Twitter Tools” in the dashboard, fill in the blanks, you’re all set.
Note: Twitter Tools can be set to automatically post a tweet when a blog post is published. There are two ways to do this:
- Set the default to post automatically, or
- enable a option to check when editing each post.
Warning: if you set both of these options to “Yes” you will get a duplicate tweet, which looks silly. I found this out the hard way!
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