Best WordPress Twitter plugins is a list of useful plugins to integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog.  Social sites like Twitter are used widely to promote blog posts and for driving traffic to your website or blog. Social searches are increasingly represented at the top of search engine rankings. Whether you want to become a professional blogger or enhance your company’s brand profile on the internet, It is this important to ensure the content on your website is effectively syndicated on social channels like Twitter. The use of Twitter to promote your website or blog has become essential for achieving high search engine rankings. The more your content is tweeted or retweeted, higher its indexing power is likely to be.

The following list includes some of the best WordPress Twitter plugins and widgets that can add value to your blog and help you achieve better ranking on search engines like Google.

1) WP to Twitter

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WP-to-Twitter is a simple plugin that automatically posts an update on Twitter every time you write or update a post on your blog. URL shortening service such as Cli.gs or Bit.ly is used to create your link. This ensures that the tweet is within the 140 character limit of Twitter. It will save you time as you will not have to post manually Twitter every time you publish a new post.

2) Twitter Tools

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If automatic status updates on Twiiter when you update your blog is not sufficient for your needs and you are looking for a more advanced integration between your blog and Twitter, then Twitter tools is the ideal wordpress plugin. In addition to automatically posting a tweet when you write new posts, it can also retrieve your tweets daily, weekly or monthly and create a new blog post of your tweets. A ‘Tweetmeme’ style ‘retweet this post’ button is also displayed on your posts. It has many features which can be customised. You can choose the level of integration required for your blog. URL shortening service for your tweets is also built-in.

3) Tweet This

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As the name suggests, this is a plugin that adds a ‘Tweet this’ link at the top of every post and page on your blog. Links to your posts are shortened automatically, thereby making it easy for customers to share your posts on Twitter. If you provide your Twitter credentials in admin then you also have the option to post status updates on Twitter each time you publish or update your blog. Twee this also supports other social sites such as Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace and StumbleUpon.

4) Twitter Widget Pro

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Twitter Widget Pro  adds a sidebar widget on your blog to display Twitter updates. It has many advanced features to handle twitter feeds. You can display tweets of a particular user or specify keywords. You can also choose to display profiles images, time and date of a tweet or how long ago it was posted (e.g. 6 hours ago).

5) Twitter  Friends Widget

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Twitter Friends is another sidebar widget for WordPress that allows you to display your Twitter friends and followers in your blog’s sidebar. The information displayed is similar to what is displayed on your Twitter homepage.

6) TwitterCounter Widget

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Twittercounbter.com provides detailed statistics on your Twitter profile including followers, predictions and trends. The TwitterCounter Widget allows you to display a variety of information via Twittercounter.com. You can also add Twitter Remote to your blog, which shows which twitter users visited your blog recently.

7) TweetBacks for WordPress

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Tweet Backs for WordPress is a plug-in that adds more interactivity to your posts. It retrieves tweets about your post from Twitter and displays them in the comment section of your blog post. You can choose to display them mixed with your comments or separately.

8) Tweet Stats

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Tweet Stats is another way to display popular posts on your blog. As a result of installing this plugin, two widgets are added to your website, “Most Tweeted Posts” and “Recently Tweeted Posts”. You need to have the ‘Tweetbacks plugin by Yoast’ installed on your blog in order for this to work as this plugin uses data generate by the Tweetbacks plugin.