Last week Microblink featured a killer new plugin from Dan Zarrella called TweetBacks that essentially created a stream of tweets linking back (re-tweeting) below your blog post (like commnets). Jeremiah Owyang also posted “How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets” – which sparked some thought and discussion as well.
I’ve been looking for a way to integrate this blog with Twitter – without the standard tweet: “new blog post on GANB – TweetSuite Rocks”. First off, that’s a one way blast. If you wanted that – you could just subscribe to our RSS feed. Secondly, I wanted deeper, two way integration – where I could bring the discussion back to the blog.
Apparently Dan was reading my (and many others) thoughts and launched TweetSuite – a fully functional WordPress plugin that helps to create a two way, discussion focused integration between Twitter and WordPress. I’ve tried several Twitter plugins with WordPress and this is by far the best implementation of them all.
Features Include:
- Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
- ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
- A digg-like Tweet-This Button
- Automatic Tweeting of new posts
- A Most-Tweeted Widget
- A Recently-Tweeted Widget
- A My-Last-Tweets Widget
- A My-Favorited-Tweets Widget
Here is a screenshot of the TweetSuite Admin Interface (with the settings being used on this blog)
Oh, and don’t forget to Re-Tweet this post :)
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I’m glad you are liking TwitterSuite and thanks for posting the screenshot. I am very impressed with how cleanly it fits into the site. I’m not sure if I’m a fan of the digg like tweet button but it does make it easy for readers to tweet your post.
@Rob I am loving it so far … unfortunately I don’t think it’s working that well on this post.. Wondering if it’s a configuration issue…
It’s working perfectly here -> http://managingtheedge.com/episodes/what-is-the-edge-episode-001
Do NOT use TweetSuite, it will slow down your blog!
It is written improperly. It attempts to use the tr.im bookmarklet to shorten the URL (indeed the author didn’t even have the courtesy to use the tr.im API). API like traffic for tr.im must use the API, that is what it is there for. Additionally it wouldn’t work even if he had written it improperly because he doesn’t understand how some URL shorteners such as tr.im work.
The author has refused to fix his wordpress plugin and remove tr.im. It has generated an enormous amount of traffic to a free service that we pay for out of our pocket. As a result tr.im is banning any traffic coming from a blog using this plugin. This will slow down your pageloads for several seconds before it times out on its connection to tr.im.
Do NOT use TweetSuite, it will slow down your blog!
It is written improperly. It attempts to use the tr.im bookmarklet to shorten the URL (indeed the author didn’t even have the courtesy to use the tr.im API). API like traffic for tr.im must use the API, that is what it is there for. Additionally it wouldn’t work even if he had written it improperly because he doesn’t understand how some URL shorteners such as tr.im work.
The author has refused to fix his wordpress plugin and remove tr.im. It has generated an enormous amount of traffic to a free service that we pay for out of our pocket. As a result tr.im is banning any traffic coming from a blog using this plugin. This will slow down your pageloads for several seconds before it times out on its connection to tr.im.
Gersham’s last blog post..http://tr.im/mig
I’ve not seen any performance issues… Can you elaborate?