Tools for Twitter
Tools for Twitter is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
3.3(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Tools for Twitter is a WordPress post plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.3/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.2M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 9% this week. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
3.3/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
1.2M+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
Tools for Twitter integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:
- Connect multiple Twitter accounts (via Social)
- Archive the tweets from your Twitter accounts (downloaded every 10 minutes)
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post (via Social)
- Browse your tweets locally by @mention, #hashtag or user account (optionally display these publicly)
Tools for Twitter leverages Social’s connection to Twitter so that you don’t have to create an app and copy keys around. It supports multiple accounts (must be authorized as “global” accounts in Social) with settings on a per-account basis.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Awesome and unique plugin
by biofsoares·10 years ago
I have been using this phased out plugin with no substitute in the horizon. Unfortunately ‘social’ is also phasing out and I don’t know how else I will convert my tweets into wp posts as perfect as this plugin use to. Wish someone would take over from where Alex King left off. He probably would too.
Great plugin!
by Doug McKown·11 years ago
It does everything I need – archive my tweets and provide links for hashtags and @mentions. However, I have two issues:
- a tweet with a photo displays http://t.co/ but is not a link. I’ like to be able to hide the t.co text.
a tweet with a photo shows two photos – the featured image and the thumbnail image (within the post)
Some issue with pulling in tweets
by benmschaefer·12 years ago
Awesome plugin, but I am experiencing an issue with automatically pulling in tweets as new blog posts.
Currently, they do not seem to get pulled in automatically, but only when I post a new blog post.
I hope this will be fixed, because otherwise I really do like this.
Best, Ben
Improved
by Ryan Hellyer·13 years ago·1 reply
EDIT: Since I wrote this review, the plugin has stabilised somewhat and stopped breaking sites, so I’m bumping my rating up from 1 to 4.
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Dangnabbit! I used to like this plugin apart from some annoying debug errors. Now it seems to have become reliant on another plugin just to function.
Twitter Tools Social = ?
by MisterR·13 years ago·1 reply
Why do I have to use additional plugin which provides useless options?
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 3.8.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.2
50.5%
v3.1
36.3%
Other
6.8%
v3.0
6.5%
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Changelog
3.2.1
- Update plugin naming on misc files
Contributors
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