How To Link Your Twitter Account With Your Wordpress Blog

While Twitter is gaining in popularity all the time, it is a rather different beast to a blog, and neither really replaces the other. Twitter, as a micro-blogging service, is ideal for letting your contacts know about useful links, new blog posts and general life streaming comments. In contrast, your blog is the place for more lengthy posts and interactive elements.

For example, if I were using my blog and Twitter to keep my family updated while away travelling, it is likely my blog I would use for details posts on where I am and what I have been up to. It is likely here that I would upload the majority of my pictures too.

But I would use Twitter like email to fire off a quick message about a new blog post, or to let them know I had arrived in my next destination safely.

What this means is that there is a certain amount of crossover here. It might be useful to be able to add your tweets to your blog from time to time to keep readers up to date with your latest conversations. Or it might be beneficial to let your Twitter followers know that you have added a new post to your blog.

I recently struggled with this very problem and I’m pleased to say that I came up with a very pleasing (and free!) answer.

A new Wordpress plugin known as Twitter Tools will provide the very integration we have been talking about.

Having tested it out myself I’m really pleased with the results I’ve been seeing of “cross pollinating” my blogging and Twittering.