I would love to see more WordPress bloggers add a Twitter ID field in the comments of their blogs. It is fast and easy to install using the WP-TwitIp-ID Plugin created by Andy Bailey who also created the CommentLuv plugin we recommended for making your blog more interactive.
Why would you want Twitter IDs in your comments? Here are the benefits:
- Save time searching for Twitter accounts
- Makes it easy to find out if you are following your readers
- Follow up on comments or let readers know you have replied or updated a post they were particularly interested in
- Easily find and follow interesting commentators
- Another way to reward your commentators – lets your readers find and follow them at Twitter
This plugin “auto-magically” adds your commentators Twitter IDs to all of their previous comments, providing them with far more visibility in posts that are already indexed in the search engines. Anyone serious about adding readers and followers could visit existing posts, make intelligent comments, create a dofollow link with their choice of anchor text and thereby use this blog to drive traffic to their own blogs and businesses.
Something spammers don’t understand is that only quality comments relevant to the post where they appear work for generating real people to visit!
What some don’t realize about power Social Networking users is we automatically pay it forward by sharing whatever benefits others. When someone else takes up our causes we seek out worthy causes they support and share them with our users. Have you ever wondered what gets shared online and why? Now you know!
THIS is how the few can improve the world. You can join us by simply sharing what helps others. When you take action for them, we will take action for you.
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Thanks for info about how to add a twitter field to the comment area. However, I barely use Wordpress. By the way, I saw Wordpress all over the place. It seems Wordpress is a monopoly in the blogging world.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello again Manop,
The WordPress CMS (Content Management System) has the most base features and far more plugins and third party services like Zemanta to make it more effective.
Surveys usually show that WordPress is most used; however, they are far from having a monopoly. I suspect though that the percentage of serious bloggers using WordPress will continue to grow. Here are a couple of those surveys:
ProBlogger Poll on What Blog Platform Do You Use the Most?
Pingdom Poll of Blog Platforms of Choice Among the Top 100 Bloggers
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hey, nice to see that someone else agrees with me on this one! I know one thing – since I have started using the plugin, number of comments and my personal twitter followers have grown.
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Hi Alex,
I know there are others who are already using it and suspect that many more would if they came across the plugin – hence, this post. I sent Tweets to specific larger bloggers whose commentators I would like to follow asking them to add it. One responded favorably and if I recall who it is I will mention them by name.
Thank you for confirming for others that adding it does indeed help them grow their blogs and Twitter accounts. I hope that encourages many to go ahead and take action sooner than later.
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Letting readers know that you replied them/change the post they were interested in might be the biggest advantage of twitter field. At least you’re not spamming their email account – just letting them know on twitter.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Odchudzanie,
Cute puppies. People are funny; some object to emails while others get upset if you don’t email them. All we can do is be friendly and use whatever ethical tools are available to reach out to them.
Twitter can be a very effective way to chat briefly with people so famous or busy that you could rarely contact them in any other manner. I highly recommend that everyone at least consider opening an account there. It is an excellent way to find brilliant people to collaborate with and also to raise awareness for your projects.
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Great idea! I am going to roll this out across our blogs!
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Nerds,
Great idea. We’ve done the same. I would love it if every blog I frequent had a Twitter ID field! The more the merrier.
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This is a great idea! I’m setting up a word press site next for the business and I will definitely include the Twitter tag plugin and keywordluv.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello Vancouver,
I would also recommend the posts about How to Start a Successful Blog Based Business and Blogging Best Practices: Enabling Your Readers to Subscribe to Comments.
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Twitter: @SpotCoolStuff
This is the first blog on which I’ve seen this plugin be used. It is a SUPERB idea (for all the reasons you outlined). It would be great if there were an option to automatically follow people who leave comments.
Thanks for the info!
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello Spot,
Yes, autofollow would be great; however, Twitter has been eliminating some autofollow options and I haven’t seen that option for this or any similar plugin.
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Gosh, from a plugin to improving the world. A rather large jump, and a test on my blog will see whether it’s justifiable.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Simon,
Your comment gave me a laugh. Decisions we make, what we recommend, how we spend our money – all of these can improve the world. No small business has the deep pockets of multi-national Corporations and few have the ear of the major media.
The solution is for each individual to make a difference. Some of us spend much of our time sharing quality content and sending potential business to small companies as I just did by sharing your blog on Twitter, FriendFeed and cliKball. You might look for some extra traffic from those sources today.
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I’ve seen the Twitter ID field growing more popular everyday. Give it a few years and it might even be default on most content management systems. Good post.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Max,
Thank you. The Twitter ID field moves across niches. Each blog that adds it can contribute to others doing the same. A post I could share in Social Networking sites and on Twitter could speed up the process.
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Twitter: @ChugginMcCoffee
this twitter ID is a great way to add social media marketing to your blog, and why shouldn’t they go together? You should definitely be following your readers if they are loyal to you, and you are active on twitter.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Mark,
Making it easy for me to follow my readers was one of my major motivations for having it added here. Having the ID there makes it easy to pop in, check over their latest posts and RT the best one. That is part of my usual strategy and I just did it for you.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..TwtPoll: Where Should Tweet Links Go? =-.
Reading your article about Twitter IDs was pretty fun, but is Twitter traffic worth the effort? I know people with tens of thousands followers, still a lot of traffic yet no action. Furthermore the activity on their websites is zero.
So is it worth it?
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I think that twiiter traffic isn’t really worth the effort. I mean, the risk for me is that you can invest all this time in getting lots of followers, and then twitter could become unfashionable and you’d've wasted all your time.
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Twitter: @GrowMap
Watch for a new post about how traffic is a numbers game and all traffic is not the same. Simon is correct that you want to control what you invest the most time in (that would be your own blog) and use Social Networking to send traffic to your own site.
Twitter is not likely to become unfashionable any time soon. While it would be a bad thing to have the plug pulled on one of your accounts what happens is that relationships you participate in don’t exist only on that site. Most influential users of Social Media are active on multiple sites.
Remember that Social Networking is primarily about Networking. Relationships may start at Twitter or on another site but continue on all the other sites you frequent and on your own too. It is something like branding. When one site starts losing popularity you should already be active and pull followers from it over to where you moving.
You can not usually sell directly using Social Networking sites and you must expect traffic from them to only convert as well as content – not search.
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Wordpress is good!
But I prefer Joomla. Sure they’ll have it too.
thanks for sharing this easy step including Tweeter on wordpress.
thanks again
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Hi umblidee,
I suspect that if you can use Joomla perhaps you can add the same functionality. We use WordPress because it offers the most features and plugins and we don’t have to write them ourselves.
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I can just prove that adding Twitter is a powerful resource for quality traffic and I am already thinking of presenting my visitors with a chat room so that they could have some beneficial communication.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Abbey,
Twitter does drive traffic and you can use it to find niche or geo-specific interested people. There is more about that in the post How to Geo-Target Twitter.
I would be interested in hearing about whether installing a chat room increases visits and especially sales. If your potential buyers like to chat while they shop that could be a great idea. I am surprised I haven’t read any studies about it. I’ll keep my eyes open.
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That is nice plugin. I just know that wp have plugin integrated with twitter but is it make load paging more slow or not?
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Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello,
While any plugin can cause issues we have been running this one for a while now with no problems. We did recently remove TwitThis because it was slowing down page loads.
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sharing is really good.
This plugin is a blessing!
thanks for sharing.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Alberta,
You’re very welcome. You make the second Joomla fan I’ve replied to today. Are you also using WordPress or can you use WP plugins in Joomla sites?
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..TwtPoll: Where Should Tweet Links Go? =-.
WOW, great thank you for this information, i will do this on my blogsite.
Twitter: @mutuelle_sante
Wordpress is the king of blog’s platforms ! All the plugins with interactivity are the best ways to increase trafic from blog.
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