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This plugin is a modified version of the Twitter-tools plugin, written by Alex King. Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. One of those features is tweeting you’re blogposts to Twitter. The URL’s of your blog posts are translated to TinyURL’s by Twitter, to stay within 140 characters. This modified plugin uses Tweetburner.com to shorten the URL’s.

Tweetburner.com?

Tweetburner.com lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter, and shortens it on the way too. For example http://trebel.nl/blog/2008/03/28/wordpress-plugin-voor-tweetburnercom/is translated into http://twurl.nl/ybetg8 and they offer personal statistics for tracking the clicks and shares of your ‘twurls’.

Further features Twitter-tools

Besides tweeting your blog post, Twitter Tools also offers:

• Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
• 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
• Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
• Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)

Installation

1. Download the plugin archive and expand it.
2. Put the file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click ‘Activate’ for Twitter Tools.
4. Go to the Twitter Tools Options page (Options > Twitter Tools) to set your Twitter account information and preferences.

For more information about installing and configuring the Twitter Tools plugin, please visit their site

Download plugin v0.3 (beta)

New features

In a short while, I will be developing my own version of a ‘Tweeting to Twitter by using Tweetburner’ plugin. A couple of intended features are:

• A Twitter account per author, instead of one twitter account for your installation
• En-/Disable tweeting per category
• Importing Tweetburner statistic’s (Tweetburner is thinking of integrating this into their API)