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TweetBacks | Integrate Your Blog with Twitter
Posted on 28. May, 2009 by WPnerd.
Twitter and blogging go hand-in-hand. Twitter is a great way to promote your blog, articles, tutorials and freebies. There are an incredible nuber of plugins available to integrate your Twitter feed with your blog.
TweetBacks by Joost de Valk works a little differently than most. Rather than displaying your own tweets, it scans Twitter for mentions of you blog posts. With some easy setup it will post any tweets linking back to your post in your comment block or in a special TweetBack section if you prefer.
Using TweetBacks gives you a way to keep track of who is tweeting about your blog. Now you know who to thank, which makes for loyal readers and supporters.
This video by Bwana.tv gives a nice overview of the plugin and how he uses it on his own site:
As mentioned in the video SmashingMagazine posted a tutorial for customizing TweetBacks for your blog – view the post here. He also suggests Tweet Stats, which is an excellent plugin to use if you’d like to create Most Tweeted or Recently Tweeted sections on your blog.
