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Add a Twitter Widget to Your New Blog

by Dave Doolin on February 7, 2009 · 2 comments

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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.

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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:

  1. Set the default to post automatically, or
  2. 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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college sweatshirts January 20, 2010 at 5:55 pm

Oh! Twitter is really one of the most enjoyed internet “fad” nowadays. Its enormous popularity really help people in gaining success on their online careers. Although I still haven’t tried adding twitter widget to my blog, this post gives me the thought of applying this to my blog. Thanks very much for you helpful posts, as always!

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