Yesterday Place For Bloggers sent me an email mentioning that it was difficult to share my blog posts and that many people would not take the time (or know how) to easily share my content. I went and check out a couple of his posts as he had written about this recently on his 4 Simple Ways to Help Your Blog Posts Go Viral on Twitter.
While I’m still working on integrating the various features that make it easy to share my content via other sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and the other major social networking/bookmarking sites. I did want to make it easy to have my posts shared through Twitter. After looking around (and reading his post) I decided upon using the TweetMeme plugin. You will notice that this plugin has grown in popularity quite recently and it offers just about everything I was wanting in a Twitter sharing application.
Set up and installation
Installing and setting up the plugin is very simple and since I install my plugins through the WordPress admin area, setting it up only took a few minutes.
- When you’re logged into WordPress select “Add New” under the “Plugins” heading
- Search for “TweetMeme”
- Install and activate the plugin
- Once it’s installed you will want to go and adjust the settings, connect it to your Twitter account, and style it if necessary
Really, this only took me about five minutes to set up and I really like that visitors can now share this on Twitter easily. The other really cool thing about this plugin is that it tracks statistics for your post so you know which articles are being share and how often (it even includes graphs that display the information visually).
If you want to easily have the ability for others to Tweet the posts or pages on your site, I would highly recommend checking out the TweetMeme plugin.
