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Add a Tweet-stimonials widget to your Available Widgets and use your Twitter favorites for automatic sidebar testimonials.

Tweet-stimonials is a WordPress plugin written by Jeff Sarris (@jeffSARRIS) and inspired by Laura Roeder’s (@lkr) automatic Twitter testimonial concept.

The Concept

Be sure to watch Laura’s original video presentation regarding this concept, but the idea is as follows.

Twitter has a built-in function for flagging your favorite tweets; something that, from what I can tell, isn’t used by too many people. Well Laura Roeder presents the idea of using that same function to “favorite” all of those good things that your customers are already saying about you.

By marking these tweets as favorites, you are then able to automatically publish them to your site, making for one of the easiest and fastest ways to publish testimonials. As soon as you mark a new tweet as a favorite, it show up on your site. It’s that easy.

Laura provides excellent step-by-step instruction in her video for connecting this feed to your website, however I wanted a bit more flexibility in styling so I developed this CSS friendly plugin (with Twitter avatars) and called it Tweet-stimonials.