Twitter is one more way in which you can promote your blog, and if you use Wordpress as your blogging platform, then one very useful plugin is one that automatically publishes your latest posts to your Twitter account.

There are actually quite a few Twitter WP plugins available now, and we’ve been testing out some of them. If you do a Google search for “Wordpress Twitter plugin“, you will get in excess of 800,000 results. [BTW, some of the results include some useful pages that summarize and recommend some of the other Twitter-related WP plugins.]

But let’s get back to what we were looking for: basically a plugin that publishes to Twitter whenever a new post is published to your blog without any intervention. We tested 3 until we found one that works. First up was Alex King’s Twitter Tools. Normally, Alex makes fantastic WP plugins, and we even use some. However, we found that Twitter Tools, while having a host of features did not perform the function we wanted it to.

Next up was Twitter Updater. We found multiple variants on this one as the original author stopped updating it. However, it had a bug that caused it double-tweet. Show-stopper in our books.

Third time’s a charm. We found WordTwit which so far (knock on wood) has been working as claimed. It’s also the simplest so far: Twitter username/pw and the format you want the tweet in. Perfect.

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