WordPress Twitter Integration

I’m test­ing out two plu­g­ins for this Word­Press blog: Twit­ter Wid­get Pro and WP to Twit­ter. I haven’t used Twit­ter much to be hon­est. Part of me really won­ders why I would want to Twit­ter every bit of my work and life for the entire world to see. To some degree, I also think it comes off as a bit nar­cis­sis­tic. Unless you’re a celebrity or lead­ing the real jet-setting life of James Bond/007, does any­one really care? If I wanted to tell peo­ple what I’m up to and assum­ing they were remotely inter­ested (this is my self-deprecating humor here at play), it would either be with my fam­ily over the phone, or on Face­book where it’s a bit more inti­mate and pri­vate. If you want to fol­low my twit­ter account, I can be found at: http://twitter.com/lunarstudio/

But hey, I’m will­ing to give it a try. I think it’s impor­tant for peo­ple in cre­ative and technology-related fields to remain some­what “in-touch” with what is going on in the world around us. Espe­cially in this econ­omy, peo­ple should be learn­ing new things in order to keep viable and add value to our careers. Twit­ter hap­pens to be one of the more pop­u­lar ser­vices at the moment. Who’s to really say how long it will last — maybe Face­book or the recently released Google Buzz will wipe it out. Besides the rea­sons listed above, hav­ing more links going back and forth between sources (in this case my Twit­ter Account to Lunarstu­dio and Lunarlog) could only help Inter­net search rank­ings and vis­i­bil­ity if my the­ory holds cor­rect. In recent months, Google and a num­ber of other web­sites started to index what peo­ple were Tweet­ing in their search engines.

As for the plu­g­ins, Twit­ter Wid­get Pro takes infor­ma­tion from my Twit­ter Feed and posts it on the main side­bar of this web­site on the right here. In a sense, I’ll refer to it as “com­ing down.”

WP to Twit­ter should take what­ever I write here in this blog, and post a short­ened link of these arti­cles to my actual feed on Twit­ter, so it’s “going up.”

In an ideal world, there should only be one plu­gin that per­forms both func­tions. But you have to fig­ure that the won­der­ful authors of these sep­a­rate Word­Press plu­g­ins wrote them for free. What more can you ask for?