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Be cautious when adding your Twitter feed to your blog sidebar. While Twitter is much more stable than in its early days all the plugins I tried would prevent the blog from loading whenever Twitter went down.

I tried Twitter for WordPress to publish my most recent Twitter in my sidebar on my personal blog. It worked out well when Twitter was up but I ended up removing it when Twitter was having a difficult time.

If you want to feed your Twitter stream into posts the easiest way I’ve found to do this is with the Feed WordPress Plugin. It can grab any rss feed and turn it into blog posts.

There are several plugins for WordPress blogs and Twitter. I started using Twitter updater to post notices to my Twitter account when I have a new blog post, but it updated Twitter every single time a file saved, even if the post date was in the future and the post wasn’t completed.

There is also a Twitter Tools plugin which allows you to send notices of your posts and also add tweets to your sidebar. I tried using that to send tweets for new posts. I’ve found it updates Twitter when you update an existing published post, but not for pages.  So that was a bit of a pain.  It also posted a link back to the Twitter Tools plugin page on each and every tweet.