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10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:51:00 +0000

Web developers with social media savvy are in hot demand. Imagine what it would be like to promise your clients a web presence that is fully integrated with their Twitter strategy and makes it easier for their content to go viral on Twitter. Would be nice, no? Well — why imagine? The tools for web developers to add a touch of Twitter to any site are out there and easy to use. Trust us — your clients will love you for it!

There’s no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. Here are 10 of the most useful ways to start turning your site readers (or your client’s customer base) into Twitter followers, and vice versa.

1. Twitter Widgets

If you’re just getting started with wanting to integrate Twitter into your site, than simply adding the traditional Twitter widget to your site’s sidebar is a great start. It’s not sexy, but it’s a great way to show your latest tweets on your website. It’s an effective way to get readers involved into your Twitter updates, without taking up too much screen real estate.

Twitter widgets can be used with virtually any site or blog, including HTMl-only pages. While they may not require the most exciting development hack to incorporate Twitter into a website (copy + paste), simplicity is not a bad thing.

2. Twitter Buttons

Twitter Buttons is a nifty little service that helps you quickly create a badge to promote your Twitter account. You can choose from over 40 different well-designed Twitter buttons, spanning different shapes and sizes. The service also allows you to automatically create the HTML needed to build the badge without any programming knowledge, not even a teensy bit. Easy peasy.

3. Twitter Tools

Thanks to WordPress’ dominance in the blog software world, many blog owners are using Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools to integrate Twitter into their blogs. Twitter tools is a Twitter Swiss Army knife for WordPress, adding almost limitless functionality to an otherwise Twitter-less blog. The nifty plugin allows you to:

Create a blog post from each of your tweets

Create a daily digest post of your tweets

Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post

Post a tweet from your sidebar

Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)

… and much more.

4. TwitThis

Twitter is a powerful promotional tool. Many influential Twitterers have thousands of followers, and an endorsement from one of the “Twitterati” could send a wave of traffic to your site. If you factor in that those followers might tweet to their followers, than you have a very viral social marketing tool.
TwitThis is a little button that you can place in your HTML or in your blog template to allow your readers to quickly and easily share what they’re reading with their Twitter followers. Aside from an HTML button, users can also “tweet” their findings via a bookmarklet, and WordPress users have a nifty plugin they can install as well.

5. TweetSuite

TweetSuite is one of the most compelling uses of the Twitter API in a blog plugin. TweetSuite is a WordPress plugin that furrows among the Twitter API and finds the tweets that reference the current page. It adds another aspect to commenting, showing more of the total conversation around the blog post. Aside from that, TweetSuite boasts some impressive functionality like a Retweet button and a “Tweet this” button (like the famed “Digg this” button).

6. Chirrup

TweetSuite is currently offered only for WordPress blogs, but there is another solution for pulling Twitter comments across any platform: Chirrup. Chirrup allows you to display all of the references from Twitter on a given webpage (much like TweetSuite), except it does this by only adding a Javascript snippet. Chirrup is a PHP/Javascript program that has to be hosted locally, but only requires a tiny Javascript include to work on any page. This means that any static HTML page can now have a Twitter-based commenting system.

That’s a lot of marketing potential for sites wanting to tap into Twitter.

7. Tweet This

Tweet This is a WordPress plugin that has much of the same functionality as TwitThis, with a few more bells and whistles. Tweet This automatically shortens your website or blog post URL with a URL shortening service, and also allows you to easily configure the look and feel of the service, without having to dig around in the template code too much. It’s a simple drop-in solution for WordPress blogs, but a powerful way to help spread your content among readers on Twitter.

8. IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate is one of the best 3rd-party commenting systems on the web. The service is famous for its threaded comments, user system and rating, excellent design and ease of installation. Yet one of the most progressive features in IntenseDebate’s deep feature set is the ability to notify Twitter when you’ve made a comment. Not only does this feature help the commenter showcase what he’s yakking about online, it also gives the originating site some more attention on Twitter.

9. Aweber

Prized for it’s stellar email marketing features, Aweber has an excellent feature for any newsletter marketer: The ability to tweet the newsletter. The newsletter delivery service has actually created a way to convert RSS to Email to Tweet (if you can wrap your head around that).

There are many site owners who run incredibly successful email newsletters, so this feature is very useful for those wanting to bring that extra bit of awareness to a newsletter.

10. Twitterfeed

Last, but certainly not least, is a pioneer of website and Twitter integration: Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed allows you to automatically insert tweets into your Twitter stream from any RSS feed. Many blogs utilize this functionality to let their Twitter followers know when new content is available. You can tailor the format of the generated tweets, and it’s a great way to keep your Twitter followers engaged on your blog.

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A Social Media Sunset - The Steve Rubel Stream

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Would love to know your thoughts on this! Has this cake baked? I think not! Not by a long shot. We haven't begun to think the thoughts that are coming around the bend. Twenty years ago could we have envisioned things like Facebbook, Twitter and Amplify? Emerging media AS WE KNOW IT might be baked, but it's going to evolve....for a very long time. http://amplify.com/u/70m6

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Facebook vs. Open: The Fight For the Soul of the Web — GigaOM Pro

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I'd like to think the collective "we" (not wheeeeeeee - referencing my earlier post today about the full-speed all electric car and being a big silly) own the web. Our souls make one big one. Right? Your thoughts? http://amplify.com/u/5rzv

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Wheego Eyes $5M on Home Stretch to Full-Speed Electric Car

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Got a love a car (named the "Whip"?) by a company named Wheeeeeeeeee-go! http://amplify.com/u/5rzo

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Goodmorningternoonving to my Amplify family! Love being a part of this community and don't get to respond and "visit" with you all nearly enough! Just know this. I heart you! http://amplify.com/u/5mun

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Love Jacob Morgan. Love, love, love his blog! http://amplify.com/u/43nn

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Social Gaming Roundup: Fundings, iPad Games, Truth, and More

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New world to me, but I'm learning! Move over Farmville!! http://amplify.com/u/43kd

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It Must Be Spring: New 2010 Ben & Jerry's Flavors Are Here | Serious Eats

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I don't think they can get any better than Phish Food. http://amplify.com/u/3x57

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15 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

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Love posts like this....especially good info for the social media junkies....like me! :=0 http://amplify.com/u/3rg9

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MoxieWorks : No Magic Wand

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The Science of Building Trust With Social Media

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Excellent article....please take a look! http://amplify.com/u/3ret

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7 signs you're taking yourself too seriously on the web - Holy Kaw!

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Er, ah, we don't do any of these things, right? (Seriously, social media clothes?!) http://amplify.com/u/3re2

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Twitter is Self Cleansing

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This is an excellent article and nails it....at least it nails the way I think about Twitter. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and "one man's babble is another man's..." (read the article to finish the quote :=) http://amplify.com/u/3m89

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On being thankful...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:28:00 +0000

Here's a sappy, happy little blog about springtime thanksgiving. This has been an unusually hard year for my family and me. Health problems have plagued my mom and my son. Very serious, life-threatening, life-changing health problems that left us all reeling and having to change our routines. Life, as we knew it, stopped. We took our lumps and pulled even closer as a family when we all thought we couldn't get any closer. We have shared money, resources, time, and sweat-equity...doing all we could do to make it work. Funny thing about this year, it has been one of our best. Even with the huge financial setbacks that came about, too, during our very personal health care crises, we have survived and come out the other side stronger, but more curious than that, happier. We have learned to do more with less. Really. We enjoy time with each other to the point of savoring the moments of laughter and the little things that make this family our family. Our savoring of the moments is palpable and we make note of it in some way. Without fail, one of us will say "I love you" or "we are so lucky" every time we share a laugh, a meal, or discussion of the world as we know it. Spring is not a traditional time of thanksgiving but for us, we can't help but rejoice that we are here and we are strong. It's the little things, the robin pulling the worm from the warming ground, the tender new leaves of grass, jonquils and forsythia budding out...all that is good has been given to us again and again. Here we are still enjoying the warmth of the new sun. Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Happy Thanksgiving. http://amplify.com/u/3f58

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Writing “The WordPress Bible” | Technosailor.com

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Maybe with the help of The WordPress Bible I can get up the nerve to take the plunge...maybe. http://amplify.com/u/3erz

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Sears, Kmart parent posts more than 7,000 jobs on Twitter - chicagotribune.com

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How to Rock the Follow Up : Lifestyle :: American Express OPEN Forum

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...and Amplify the heck out of 'em! :=) http://amplify.com/u/3e3e

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The Current State of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Digg: The Future of Social News?

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Glad to see Digg getting a more social media orientation. To date, they haven't listed social media as a category for posting articles. Finally, they are jumping on the bandwagon! http://amplify.com/u/3dyl

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Sweet Tweets

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The Hello Wall: Twitter Controlled Public Art - PSFK

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How creative! http://amplify.com/u/3cjf

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patgermelman

10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

1. Twitter Widgets

2. Twitter Buttons

3. Twitter Tools

4. TwitThis

5. TweetSuite

6. Chirrup

7. Tweet This

8. IntenseDebate

9. Aweber

10. Twitterfeed

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How to Rock the Follow Up : Lifestyle :: American Express OPEN Forum

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Digg: The Future of Social News?

Sweet Tweets

The Hello Wall: Twitter Controlled Public Art - PSFK

It Must Be Spring: New 2010 Ben & Jerry's Flavors Are Here | Serious Eats