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Jeremy Turner here with a brief post about a few new WordPress plugins that I’m trying out on this here blog.

Twittar
Just like the rest of the Interwebz I am totally addicted to Twitter right now. This WordPress plugin inserts a blog commenter’s Twitter avatar to their comment. If no Twitter avatar is present, it pulls from Gravatar. I don’t know much about Gravatar, but it seems like cool enough idea. It’s a service that lets you use one picture for all of your social network identities. Sounds like a good idea to keep your branding consistent across platforms. Somebody let me know if they’ve had any experience with it, good, bad, or otherwise. If neither are found then you get the default avatar, currently Domokun. Twittar is not perfect however. What it is doing is matching your Twitter account email address with the email address you use to post a comment in order to pull your avatar, but I still think it’s a pretty neat way to link up with the social media platform of the moment.

TweetSuite
Just a few days ago this plugin was called TweetBacks and had only one main feature, but in the days it’s taken me to get around to writing this the plugin has been updated and spun off in to TweetSuite with a host of new features. This is another Twitter related plugin (told you I was addicted.) which “Show(s) tweets that mention your post as “tweetbacks” in your comments section. Basically it adds any “tweets” about your article as a comment on your blog, even accounting for the four major URL shortening services in the process. Highly recommended if you want to integrate your blog with Twitter. TweetSuite also adds a link at the bottom of your post to let people easily add a link to your post in Twitter.

Twitter Updater
Automatically updates your Twitter feed with a link to your blog, with options to tweet when you are tweaking a blog post, starting a new blog post, or just thinking about maybe writing a blog post sometime next Tuesday. Three of those things are actually true. This plugin can quickly turn your Twitter account in to a stream of spammy posts if you leave all of the options on, and/or if you are constantly updating your blog, so proceed with your own level of discretion.

AddThis
Pretty much the same functionality as the ShareThis plugin I was using, I just decided to change it up a bit for the aught-nine. In my opinion AddThis has more robust reporting capabilities than ShareThis—who doesn’t love charts and graphs?—and is also more universally recognizable, e.g. I see it more often than AddThis so everybody else must too because everybody’s life experience is just like mine which is why I don’t understand why you’re being such a dick about this, I mean don’t you get it? Anyhoo…

Now that you are completely amazed at how easy it is to integrate your WordPress blog with Twitter, please feel free to leave a comment about how all of this makes you feel. Thanks for stopping by!