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I love wordpress and I love twitter, so a natural step for me was to start making wordpress-plugins that integrates these two. Also because I think integration will be the dominating social media trend in 2009.

So I made this wordpress-plugin CommentTweets that helps blog readers keep track of their online conversations through twitter. As a blogger I just hate it when I get a really interesting question or comment, spend a long time writing a reply and then… nothing more. The blog reader never returns to read the follow-up on their comment and continue the conversation. It’s a wasted opportunity to really connect and have interesting conversations.

My plugin reminds the blog reader of their comment when a follow-up comment is created. It sends an @reply to the blog reader with at link to the relevant blog post through your own twitter account or an account created for this purpose (to avoid clutter on your main twitter account).

You can set up the plugin to use your twitter account through the admin page. This can be found by navigating to setting->CommentTweets:

The admin page look likes this:

When you have set up the account to use, you can now see how your blog readers are notified throught twitter @replies:

There are several improvements planned:

• Customizations of the notification message
• Modifying the comment form to make this an opt in and not mandatory
• statistics on the link in the notification message
• subscribing without commenting

If you have more improvement ideas, I would love to hear about them.

The plugin is so far only tested with Wordpress 2.7, so I would love to hear from you if you have tested this on other versions of wordpress. Also if you have problems getting the plugin to work, tell me and I will try to fix it or if I cannot, I will write the information in the readme-file, so other users will know.

Download here.

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