Twitter is cool.  I like it.  I don’t love it, but I like it.  And I like it enough to see how well it can connect and interact with blogs.  WordPress, especially.

Interested in knowing some of the great Twitter Plugins for WordPress that I’ve tried?  Here’s a pretty extensive list of some of the ones that I would commend if you’re interested in combining the two worlds:

Syndicate Your Blog Posts to Twitter

• Twitter Tools – Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account
• @ Reply – This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments. When clicked, those links insert the author name and a link to the comment you are replying to in the textarea.
• Twitme – This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website
• Twitpress – Echoes user definable notification of published blog entries to twitter
• Bird Feeder – Tweets your about your posts when they are published
• WP to Twitter – Posts a Twitter status update when you update your blog or post to your blogroll, using the Cligs URL shortening service
• Twitter updater w/ TinyURL – Updates Twitter when you create a new blog post utilizing TinyURL.com

Display Twitter Stats

• TwitterCounter – Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter

Displaying Tweets on Your WordPress Blog

• Twitter for Wordpress – Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog
• MyTwitter – MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitter updates (tweets) on their blog and update their status through the Options page
• SimpleTwitter – SimpleTwitter displays the most recent twitter post (tweet) for a given user. The tweet is cached on the webserver for a number of minutes
• Twitter Widget Pro – A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc)
• twitterDash – twitterDash adds twitter to your WordPress-dashboard
• Twitterdoodle – Allows a user to create posts and categories based on Twitter keyword searches. Each post would be a digest of twitter posts in that category
• Tweet You – Putting twitter on your website with tweet!, an unobtrusive javascript plugin for jquery

Sharing Tweets / Multi Teeets

• Tweet Tweet – This plugin archives your tweets, and the tweets of those you follow in your database. It also stores replies from other people, as well as direct messages
• Twitter Feed – The Twitter Feed plugin makes including and linking to tweets on multiple Twitter accounts simple and flexible
• Twitter Blaster – Twitter Blaster is a plugin that will allow your visitors to post to your Twitter account

Miscellaneous Twitter Plugins

• Tweet This – Adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease
• Top Twitter Links – Widget that displays currently popular links that have been tweeted
• WP Twitter Pitch – This plugin provides PR companies and users wanting to pitch, a means to give an “elevator” pitch in 140 characters or less
• Twitterfountain – Twitterfountain mashes up tweets and Flickr-images that share the same tags into a spectacular visual
• Tweet Rooster – A widget that allows people to twitter directly from your blog