Twitter is causing quite a buzz in the blogosphere. Everyone is talking about it and wondering why it is so popular. Anyway since it is popular, and maybe you are already addicted to it, here is a collection of top 10 twitter tools to integrate with your wordpress blog.

• Twitter Badge - Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter.
• The Twitter Updater - a wordpress plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
• TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
• Twitter Tools - This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
• Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget - Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.
• Twitter Feed - Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
• Twitt-Twoo - is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
• SimpleTwitter - is a plug-in for WordPress which enables WordPress blog owners to easily add Twitter messages to their templates.
• Twitter Sharts - ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
• RSS to Twitter - is a PHP script to feed RSS to Twitter.

I hope these Twitter tools will help you integrate Twitter in your wordpress blog and vice versa. Found a Twitter tool for this list? Post it in comments.

Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin)

The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.

Eg, when you edit a post, your Twitter gets updated with:

Fiddling with my blog post: Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin) ( http://blog.victoriac.net/?… )

Instructions

1. Download and unzip the Twitter Updater folder
2. Upload and copy the twitter updater folder to your WordPress plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/)
3. Now you have to tell WordPress to activate the new plugin. You do this by going to your admin panel > Plugins. And click on ‘Activate’ next to ‘Twitter Updated’. If you don’t see Twitter Updater there, you may have copied the Twitter Updater folder to the wrong directory.
4. Go to your WordPress admin panel, select ‘Manage’ at the top menu, then select ‘Twitter Updater’.
5. Enter your preference and your Twitter account details.
6. Test by creating a new post!

Let me know if you find any bugs with it! It’s my first WordPress plugin, so it may not be perfect.

Full Name:Cool Weather
Plugin Version: 1.8
For WP:2.1.+
Copyright: GPL
Introduction:this plugin allow you add the custom weather reports into your blog.
Author：Andot
Author Location:China
Plugin Page：Go to
Download：CoolWeather(zip)and coolweather_rpc.zip(if you want your OWN RPC Service)
Language：english, more or add your languages.
How To:

1. Download “coolweather” and unzip it.
2. Upload “coolweather” to the plugins folder of your WordPress installation.
3. Activate the plugin in your administration panel.
4. edit your template file,add the codes below to where you want to show the Weather infomatiion.
1. <?php class_exists('CoolWeather') ? CoolWeather::show(): ''; ?>
5. If you want your own RPC Service,please download the coolweather_rpc.zip，unzip it and upload it to the plugins folder of your WordPress installation.then edit the URL in “coolweather.js” of “coolweather” folder.