Dean J Robinson - deanjrobinson.com

A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a twitter account, and since then I have been trying to work out the best way that I could utilise it with my blog, and more specifically with Redoable.

Having just read Alex King’s plans for his own twitter plugin, there doesn’t seem to be much that his plugin won’t be able to do once it is released. There are also a few other plugins out there that interact with twitter in various ways.

Twitter Updater will update your twitter to reflect any changes you make to your blog when you make them. Twitter Update Status lets you update twitter from within your Wordpress admin area. And there are couple of different plugin that let you display your current twitter comment.

But as yet I haven’t found one to do what I want in a twitter plugin. So today I started work on combining features from a couple of exisiting plugins, and adding a bit of ajax to allow updating directly from your sidebar wehn you are logged into your blog.

This is something that Alex King has said he might include with his plugin, but instead of waiting I’m going to have a crack at it myself. I don’t need all the archiving, auto updating stuff, I just was to display my twitter and update it easily.

For those who have used Facebook, they should be able to understand the concept behind my thinking. In Facebook you can set your current ‘status’, sort of like your status in Jabber or MSN, and you can do it just by clicking a little edit button, typing your status and hitting enter. Done, easy as that. And thats what I want to bring to Wordpress with ‘Twitt-twoo’, my twitter plugin.