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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I don’t see it in my widgets for some reason. Help!
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You should see it listed in the left column of your WordPress.com widgets page.
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u.u
Thanks!!!!
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Wow, thanks sooo much!
Much easier now!
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Thanks for this. It’s appreciated. 🙂
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hooray! thanks so much guys! you rock 🙂
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thanx for another great feature. way to go!! great job!!!
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great!!!! Thanks guys…
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Looks like fun. I’m gonna try it out. Thanks for this lovely inclusion. Much appreciated. 🙂
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Actually what I am waiting for………………..thanks a lot. Now I am waiting for the facebook widget…………………
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Great – I’ve been wanting this. Thanks!
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Thank you! I hardly use twitter but it is a welcome feature; will surely try it because I like experimenting with new/existing features.
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yeah , finally . .
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Exactly what i’m waiting for.
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good!
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Thanxs, but it’ll be good if you add a “t” icon (the t in the twitter icon) before the title of the widget – so people can easily recognize that’s a twitter space.
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excellent. love wordpress always … thanks
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love it 😉
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I’m so excited that you’ve finally added this functionality to WordPress. I think it adds an element to my blog (and others out there) that will really add value to both the Twitter and Blog Community. THANK YOU!
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I will as soon as I can figure out what the point of Twitter is. Thanks though.
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Awesome addition. Keep up the good work!
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Just another “thanks so much comment” for you guys! 😉
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awesome! thanks for this 🙂
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Could be EVEN BETTER to have the interactive flash twitter badge as a whole separate page or a way to add it to the ABOUT section.
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Interesting… 🙂
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thx it’s good to have it now 😀
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This is wonderful!
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Thanks for your information
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*stands up and applauds loudly* Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Now I won’t have to complain anymore over on the forums about the lack of a WordPress Twitter widget. 😀
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You have just made me a very happy man: thank you. Farewell to that RSS twitter feed: bring on the widget!
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Yeah, I’ve been waiting for this!!
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Awesome…now I can report live from the field more often!
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Did i did something wrong?? my twitter cannot display?? or it has to be in public timeline?? someone help me please??
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Yes, your Twitter account needs to be public. Only your approved Twitter followers can access a private account’s updates.
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awesome! no more fiddling with html 🙂 thanks a bunch!
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Great!! 🙂
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I see the work done here, but I’ve yet to appreciate the whole Twitter thing.
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wow totally great! thanks WP! 😀
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wow..Keep up the good work..!!
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THIS IS GREAT……………….
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THIS IS GREAT……………….THANKS……
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yahooooooooooooooo 😀 =D
Its just what i wanted! =D thank you!
~Ehtie~
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Not under “Ambiru” it’s not. No sidebars are allowed. Any help?
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Ambiru is a single column theme that is not setup to use widgets. Not all themes have the option to add widgets.
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I love the idea, but it doesn’t get refreshed! Mine are stuck, one at 18 hours ago and another at 12hours ago…
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I see an update from 48 minutes ago on your blog. Cleared the cache on the blog as well. Should take care of it.
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My twitter tweets are not updating every 15 mins the
widget is still displying tweets from 10hrs ago.
the only way i can get the twitter widget to update is when
go to the widget page and click save.
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Cleared your cache as well.
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Finally!!! Was making do with an RSS feed!Love u guys!
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Keren banget, terimakasih atas kerja keras kalian.
Semangat…!!!
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Now this was a really well-timed release – just when I was getting frustrated that I’d have to use the RSS feed route. Well done guys! One little suggestion: could you consider extending the widget with an option to display the Twitter account’s picture besides each tweet?
Glad to see that you’ve cleared up the caching bug quickly too.
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Finally!
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This is exactly what I’ve ben looking for
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good
but how to put this or other widget like delicious to sticky post???
thanks
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Go to the WordPress.com widgets help page to learn how to add other widgets.
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sweet:):):):) xD
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This is great and I have implemented it in to my right hand toolbar, however when I did my links dissapeared and I can’t seem to get the back on the blog?
Help!!! Please!
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If you hadn’t customized widgets yet, you just need to add the Links widget or any other that you want to display. When you haven’t added any widgets, the theme displays a default set of widgets.
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Oh wow, thanks so much! I was hoping that one day we will get this. I can still enjoy a while b4 I can migrate to wordpress.org. Salut to wordpress : ) !!!!
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thank you so0 much… I’ll use that for sure… you guys are the best… grear work =)
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YAY. Like about time. 😛
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Very timely..figured you couldn’t hold out much longer without this, though the RSS widget was a functional workaround.
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awesome! thx!
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Oh, that’s cool, but… Some blogger (as me) want a Plurk widget too. 🙂
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very very cool 😀 😀 😀
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doing
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Thank you! Love this feature!
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Nice. Is is possible to update the interface so there is some space between the twitter updates displayed? Everything is scrunched together, making it a bit messy. 🙂
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I’ve added a little extra space for tweets in the Rounded theme.
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What a shame it looks rubbish compared to twitters own widget.
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THANK YOU! Timely, appreciated.
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Any chance of being able to publish only your own tweets and not your @replies?
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Not currently.
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Nice, Thanks.
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It seems it’s updating on http://blogginginparis.com, but not at my other blog http://vieuxcestmieux.com
But thanks for clearing the cache, Nick 😀
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Cleared that one for you as well.
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Nick, you rock!
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Thanks!
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Great! Is there a way to get it to update a bit faster, though? At the moment it’s thirteen hours behind my latest post.
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I see an update showing up from 17 minutes ago on your blog.
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Thank you! will definitely try it out
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Mine looks sloppy – is it because of the theme I use?
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I’ve added some spacing between tweets for Adreas09 so that it looks better.
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10x! I love you.
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Sweet. much better than using html code in the text widget!
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How about one for Facebook?
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No Facebook widget at this point.
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I re-saved after the supposed bug fix over an hour ago and tweets are still not showing up…I have tweeted several times since both the initial widget addition and the update.
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You had put @ in front of your username in the widget settings. I fixed it for you and updates are showing up.
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Nevermind on my last comment. I uninstalled and reinstalled the widget and it seems to be working now.
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 I have been waiting for this! I’m almost up to 1,000 tweeters as friends. whoohoo!
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I see the widget but it’s not appearing on my page? How do you connect it to your user name on twitter?
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I looked at your blog, and I can see the Twitter widget at the bottom of the right sidebar. Try refreshing the page and check again.
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great
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It doesn’t seem to be working for me. I added the widget yesterday and it didn’t show any of my updates. So I waited, came back today, removed the widget and added it back, saved it, and it still isn’t showing anything.
What can I do?
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Updates are showing now on your blog.
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Fantastic, simply awsome.
Great advice Sheri, that is exactly where it is.
Erik, I hope you see it?
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Yay! I’ve changed from an RSS feed to this one. Thank you! 🙂
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See this is my problem: I’m not a huge fan of Twitter. Call me old-fashioned; I’m just not a huge fan of a social network like Twitter. However, I do want more traffic. Maybe I could find some kind of alternative? Or could somebody please convince me that I could be responsible with a Twitter account?
I love WordPress and its creative creators. Keep it up!
rirwindow
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NIce one… THNx a ton…
But i’m still waiting for the facility for adding ads in our blog…
When will this facility be available??????
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Proof of how technology persuades people: I just created a Twitter account. Thank you WordPress.
🙂
And that took all of… two minutes?
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I put this on my blog this morning, and now it won’t show the items! Is the system crashing since it’s so popular? my blog is cmclref.wordpress.com. I see the headline, but no items (it looked fine at 8:45 am PDT).
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Able to see updates listed. Please contact support if you are still having problems.
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That is so cool to Have now. I am so happy to Have twitter on my blog
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Hmm. Mine doesn’t want to show any actual tweets. It’s set up properly, but just links to my twitter page.
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I’m able to see tweets listed on the sidebar of your blog from the widget.
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cool!
but i wish if you add a shoutbox widget in the future 🙂
thanks
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My tweets seem to show up fine but each line is prefaced by a “o” (a lower-case o). I’m not sure what that’s all about. It almost looks like a fat bullet point.
Thanks for the widget, though.
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That’s the bullet style for the theme you are using.
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Oooh, nice widget addition. 🙂
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That’s great! Thank you!
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I don’t see the Twitter widget in my left column either. I’m using Thesis theme. Any thoughts?
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I don’t see a blog associated with your email address. Please contact support.
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Thanks a lot guys!
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Wow. You guys are planning great features due to WordPress.
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Wierd. The tweets appeared, but now they disappeared again. If you look at http://www.digdeeper.us, you will see what I mean. Does the widget not function if run through a different url?
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I am able to see updates listed. Please contact support if you are still having problems.
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