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Author: Richard X. Thripp

Adds a "Tweet This Post" link to every post and page. Shortens URLs. Can automatically tweet new and scheduled blog posts. Customizable (check screenshots). Also included: Plurk, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Ping.fm, Reddit, and StumbleUpon support.

Version 1.6.1 is a bugfix release:
* Bugfix: Automatic tweeting now works on scheduled posts! In 1.6,
  it would only work on posts set to "publish immediately."
* Bugfix: Double quotes work in "Send to Twitter" box on Write Post screen.
* Bugfix: Single and double quotes now work in Twitter "Editable text box."

Normally, posting a link to Twitter takes up a lot of space. Though they shorten URLs with bit.ly, it doesn't happen till after you post your tweet, so the length of the original URL takes away from your 140 characters.

While your readers might go to bit.ly, copy and paste the blog post's permalink, shorten the URL, copy that new URL, go to Twitter, and paste it into the box, this plugin merges all that into one step.

This plugin fetches a shortened URL from a URL shortening service of your choice for each of your blog posts' permalinks server-side, then displays a link to Twitter for each post, with an optional icon (twelve choices). This is done automatically for each post as needed, but the each shortened URL is cached (as a custom field in the postmeta table) to keep load times fast. The cached records are updated or deleted as needed when you edit a post's permalink, delete a post, change your site's permalink structure, or change URL services.

You can pick Adjix.com, bit.ly, is.gd, Metamark.net, Snurl.com, Th8.us, TinyURL.com, Tweetburner.com, local URLs like http://yourblog.com/?p=1234, or a custom URL service.

This plugin can also tweet new blog posts automatically, if you provide your Twitter credentials in the options. Then a "Send to Twitter" checkbox appears when writing a new post, along with a text box so you can change the tweet text for that specific blog post. As of 1.6.1, auto-tweeting works for scheduled posts and the tweet will be delayed till the post is published.

Copyright 2008-2009 Richard X. Thripp ( email : richardxthripp@thripp.com ) Freely released under Version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, or, at your option, any later version.