Send Tweets Directly From Your WordPress Site

BraveNewCode is one of our favorite WordPress developers, and their WPtouch 2 Pro plugin it what powers the awesome mobile and iPad versions of Techinch. One of their other, less well-known plugins is the equally awesome WordTwit. This simple plugin lets you automatically publish your new posts on Twitter without setting up a third-party service. I've featured it before in an article about Moving Your Tumblr Blog to WordPress, since Tumblr automatically tweets new posts by default and WordTwit gives you that same feature.

WordTwit just got a bit more awesome today with the release of the new WordTwit 2.6. This new version lets you configure your site as a custom Twitter application! This means, when you publish a new post, it'll be tweeted immediately, listing your site as the app it was tweeted from. This is great for branding, and plus, for anyone who loves to tweak everything they touch, it's a fun way to customize your site's tweets.

[caption id="attachment_2956" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="And.... it works!"][/caption]To enable this, you'll need to register your site as a new Twitter application at http://dev.twitter.com/apps. Then, update WordTwit on your site, and enter your OAuth unique codes from Twitter. Finally, activate it with your account, and your site will now automatically tweet your new posts and let the world know they were sent from your site!

[caption id="attachment_2954" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Can Techinch access my personal Twitter account? Sure!"][/caption]For more info about the new features in WordTwit 2.6 and setting up the Twitter custom app feature, check out BraveNewCode's blog post about it from today. There's a new pro version of WordTwit that BraveNewCode will be releasing in the near future, so it's especially neat they went to the trouble to add the custom app feature to their free plugin. Thanks, BraveNewCode!

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