Integrating Twitter with Your Website

Twitter is a good method to provide a human face to your company by sharing thoughts, ideas and emotions. Joining Twitter is like joining a cocktail party- a good mix of fun with action. It is a way to show that you are current. Integrating your website with Twitter means that you and your company are transparent and legitimate. It is a maintenance free method to show an active image. The biggest and the obvious benefit is that it increases your target audience and also creates a good network of fans, followers and prospective clients.
Once you have decided to integrate Twitter with your website, you need to know the possible options for integration.
The most commonly used method is to put any of the forty Twitter buttons on your blog or website which might say “Follow me on Twitter” or “What am I doing?”
Another easy method is to add Twitter widget to the sidebar of your website or official blog. Your latest tweets will get displayed on the side bar.
Twitter tools is capable of creating a blog post from each of your tweets. It can also create a daily digest of tweet-posts and helps you post a tweet from your side bar. Whenever you post a blog, it creates a tweet which contains the link to your blog.
If you wish to keep a track of most popular Twitter links as frequently as every 5 minutes, Tweetmeme is the right tool for you.
If you wish to convert all those who like your website or blog-post into your fans and followers, TwitThis is the right promotional application for you. It is small button that appears on your website. Your fans and followers can click it to share with others what they are reading. Similar is the Wordpress plugin ‘Tweet This’. It easily allows you to configure the look and feel service and URL shortening service.
TweetSuite is the API which finds Tweets related to the current page of a blog post. It has features like posting of comments and retweets.
Chirrup does the same function as TweetSuite. The only difference is that Chirrup uses Javascript snippet for displaying the references from Twitter.
Twitterfeed is the tool which is used to insert tweets from any RSS feed into your Twitter stream. It also allows customization of the format of tweets.
IntenseDebate is an easy to install tool meant for threaded discussions and being able to notify Twitter when you have posted a comment. Aweber is known for its email marketing feature. It is popularly known as newsletter marketer.
The latest feature that has been added is Twitter @anywhere. It is actually a set of frameworks which facilitates in beginning an open discussion from any website. For starting the discussion, the website owner needs to drop a few lines of javascripts and the visitors can start the discussion. It has the ability to bring all Twitter functionalities on your website platform.