Bring Twitter to Your Blog
Have you become addicted to telling the world what you’re up to in 140 characters or less? If so, we’ve launched a feature that you’ll love: a Twitter widget for your sidebar.
Now you can quickly and easily keep your readers connected to your updates on Twitter, and make your blog the home of even more of your content. We use it on the WordPress news blog to let you know what’s going on with our @wordpressdotcom account.
All the links that you post to Twitter remain clickable in the widget, and your @ replies link to user profiles, like when you say, “Hey @photomatt!”. Hashtags link to Twitter Search for that term, like #wordpress. Timestamps link to the individual update, and the heading of the widget links back to your profile.
To add the Twitter widget to your WordPress.com blog, just head to Appearance > Widgets in your dashboard. The brand new Twitter widget option is there waiting patiently for you.
Click “Add” to add it to your sidebar, and then click “Edit” to set your Twitter username and choose how many updates you’d like to display. No passwords needed.
Have more than one account on Twitter? No problem. You can add as many as you like! Just add another widget as you did before.
Update: We’ve released the Wickett Twitter Widget plugin for WordPress.org users.
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Hmmm, i think i will make a twitter account now..
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Glorious…thanks much!
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How do you exactly do this?
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I sont care about twitter. what about identi.ca and openmicroblogging?
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WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS THEME??? =o
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The theme used on our News blog isn’t available for general WordPress.com blogs.
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Excellent work 🙂
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Sweet :3
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Hoo-ray. I’ve been doing this via rss feed, but the twittersearch didn’t work properly as an RSS feed. Will install this right away!
Thanks!
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Thank you, WordPress! You rock! XD
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Do you plan on adding a PLURK widget in the future?
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https://wordpress.com/blog/2009/03/26/twitter-widget/#comment-62975
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Cutting edge.
Keep on catching up, guys. Yes, you can.
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Thank’s wp team
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So how do I twitter?
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Finally! This really helps! Thanks WordPress! =]
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Finally, thanks for adding the twitter feature. Any more micro-blogs widgets planned?
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Really nice 🙂
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wow, great!
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only for the p2 theme?
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The Twitter widget is available on all themes that support a sidebar.
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thanks a lot!
I totally need this!
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Thanks for the new feature! So much better than the RSS feed.
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very nice!
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I have been waiting for this, thx! This is really great.
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GOOD GOOD
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The innovative creative team at WordPress.Com is always on their toes to interwine and enhance the access of WordPress Platform on a global and faster scale. Wider access is the only mantra of sucess. Welcome Twitter! Thanks.
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The Bring Twitter service is very good , so i will really like to have a brench in our country Cameroon . we need Gospel tracks and religious such as bible and many other , thanks
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Not seeing it on my toolbar…is this the same problem that other people have been having with the 15 minutes thing or is it something else entirely? (And yes, I did add it to my widgets and saved ;))
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I see that you added the Twitter widget on one of your blogs, but you didn’t change the options to put in your username yet. See https://wordpress.com/support/widgets/twitter-widget/
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This is great news …
– except that it doesn´t work on by blog. Did exactly as described, but the widget keeps sayning “No response from Twitter”?
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You have your Twitter account set to protected updates, which will not work.
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i’m totally new to this, but when i go to my dashboard, click on appearances and then widgits, the twitter widgit isn’t in my list in the left hand column. am i looking in the wrong place?
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I don’t see any WordPress.com blogs associated with your account. Please contact support if you are having problems with a WordPress.com blog.
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In the theme “Digg 3 Column” all the headlines of the widgets are in green. Just the Twitter widget appears in blue – this seems to be an unintended error. Could you fix this?
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This is because the title is linked in this widget. The other widgets don’t have a link in the title.
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I love it – way better then the RSS feed I had.
This one is better formatted esp. with the links and ‘@’
thanks guys
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SUPER! Thank you!
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Wonderful! I’ve been using the Twitter RSS feed up till now.
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twitter so cool
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Wow, thanks for making the widget for the people that have Twitter WP team! 😀
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Simply Excellent!
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Wow! Thats a great idea.
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I’ve been waiting a long time for this widget. Thank you very much.
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Good
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Nice One
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I would find more benefit from what fredsarkari is aiming at: when I create a post on my blog a link to the post would automatically be posted to my twitter account so followers there would know about my new post….
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Thanks, much, for this feature. Terrific! Already see my name in neon lights! LOL
~Sharliebel’s Blog
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Thanks a lot!!!
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that’s already a very useful widget, but would be perfect if one could chose to ignore @replies. there’s no point to present chatter with other twitter users on my blog, i’d prefer to show just my regular updates.
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wowwee…!
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tnks ):
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Very interesting – thanks 😀
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we’ve been long awaiting this widget.
Thankssssssssss
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This is a very nice feature WordPress has provided for us people that do not always blog every moment, but however do microblog it, if you get my meaning.
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Thanks, I like this. Sometime late yesterday or today, the tweets on my blog were gone and replaced with, “twitter not responding.” I was able to restore the tweets but would like to know if the bug was a twitter malfunction or something with WordPress. I’m new to twitter and have more confidence in WordPress…to be honest!
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You’ll see this message when Twitter didn’t provide a response.
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Nice feature. Thank you!
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yaaawn….
Allegedly – face book and twitter = brainchild of C I A and other agencies that need a niffty way to collect info on us lot on the internet!
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Hi there,
I realise that if I were to view my blog (without logging in), the twitter updates doesn’t seems to show and it states there “no response from twitter”.
But then when I log in to my account and view my blog, I can see 5 updates (which I set in the widget settings) from twitter without any problem.
Hope I can get this fixed. 😛
Thanks!
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I’m able to see updates in the widget both logged in and logged out. Logged in and logged out users get different types of caching.
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This might actually make me go get a Twitter account! 😉 Thanks wordpress for always providing us with cool new things to play with!
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I added the widget about 6 to 8 hours ago and since them its been saying ‘No response from Twitter’..Yet when I click the widget header it takes me to my Profile Page on Twitter. SOS!
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Your Twitter updates are protected. The widget will not work unless you change your Twitter account.
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Much appreciated– and great that I don’t have to know css to do this…I know I know, i should get to know css. but really, this is why I’m on here..cuz it only has to look like I know css.
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oh, ive been waiting for this… your great guys
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Hey, thanks for making it clear on how to use this. I appreciate your time and effort.
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Many, many thanks!!
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As mentioned before…finally.
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its nice..
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Yo-hoo. Super. Thank’s
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my dream come true. thanks
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Thanks for providing this feature!
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That’s good news and very thank to you.
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Welldone 🙂
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WOW.. great! I’ve been waiting for this! 😀
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aw, thanks! really help.
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cool wordress
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Please work on UI ! it’s very bad! 🙂
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waiting for the .org version …
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finally…thank u so much….
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WoooooW
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I’ve been waiting for this forever! Since I’m not personally a coder I always went in and manually posted. This saves me so much time. Thank you! You made my day.
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nice 🙂
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Awesome! Thanks
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Does the Twitter widget work if your updates are “protected” on Twitter, i.e. not on the public timeline?
The reason I ask: it’s been 31 minutes since I changed by Twitter status but my blog’s new Twitter widget still reads “no response from Twitter.” Many thanks for this great addition! -Ilan
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No, protected updates will not work with the Twitter widget.
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Thank you very much for the Twitter widget!
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finally!! i’ve been waiting forever!! yay! 😀
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thanks 🙂
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when I go to appearances > widgets in my dashboard there are no widgets available there because it says that my them is not “widget-aware” and that the sidebars cannot be modified. When i changed the theme to one that was allegedly supposed to support widgets there were still no widgets available. All I want to do is add the twitter widget and it is seemingly impossible. so frustrated!
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Which themes were you using? Please contact support for help.
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cool!
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thank you
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thanks…
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great lets have it…
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thank you so much ^_^
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Gracias!!! Thnx!!, ahora puedo bloggear todo el time!! super!!! love twitter!!
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Fantastic, I’m checking it out!
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Exactly what I was looking for
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Yay! About time! 🙂
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WOW
Thankyou so much
finally we can put the twitter on wordpress.com …
thanks!
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THANKS!! =)
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Yes! Finally! I’ve been waiting for this!! Thanks WP!!
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it’s great news, thank you
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How do I get the widget download. I cant find any links to get that widget, Any help outh there?
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No need to download anything. The Twitter widget is already there for you under Appearance > Widgets in your dashboard on your WordPress.com blog.
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