Tweetable

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Twitter is big. Too big to ignore if you’re a blogger. It’s a great way to connect with your readers, and promote your blog a bit. Tweetable is intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can automatically tweet links to your blog posts as they are published. It can display your lastest tweet in your sidebar and add a tweetmeme widget after your posts. You can even use it to share a Twitter account among a blog’s author’s if you wish. Automatically tweet your blog posts when they are published. Optionally add Google Analytics campaign tags to the shortened URLs. You also have your pick of URL shorteners. Tweet from within WordPress. The plugin adds a dedicated Twitter page where you can browse your friends timeline and post updates. An optional quick-tweet Dashboard widget is available as well. Display your latest tweets in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget. Includes support to display follower count. Set the minimum user level to access the Twitter page in the WordPress backend. Automatically add a full-size or compact Tweetmeme widget to your posts. Track tweets based on keywords of your choice via the Twitter API. Embed tweets in your posts with oEmbed. Note: Please ensure that your server is running PHP 5 or higher before installing. Upgrading Generally, all you should have to do is click the Update button on the Plugins page when a new update becomes available. Template Tags There are a few template tags available in Tweetable. <?php tweetable_latest_tweets(); ?> – Outputs your lastest tweets. You can optionally pass a number to it to controll how many it prints. E.g. <?php tweetable_latest_tweets(5); ?>. <?php tweetable_follower_count(); ?> – Prints the number of people following you on Twitter in plain text. You can also call it in the form of <?php $var = tweetable_follower_count(FALSE); ?> if you need to have the number returned instead of output to the screen. <?php tweetable_tweetmeme_button(); ?> – Displays a Tweetmeme (Tweetmeme.com) button. Call <?php tweetable_tweetmeme_button('compact'); ?> for the compact version. Hooks You can extend Tweetable by tying your theme or plugin functions into the included hooks. Filter: tweetable_autotweet_permalink Runs when a post is tweeted, before the URL is shortened. Parameters: $permalink. Filter: tweetable_autotweet_title Runs after the post title is retrieved, but before it is merged into the string to be tweeted. Parameters: $title. Filter: tweetable_autotweet_tweet Runs immediately before the auto-tweet is sent, after the title and link are combined and (if necessary) shortened. Parameters: $tweet.