TweetSuite and TweetBacks which is best?
While I was away it seems a few plugins have sprung up to integrate Twitter mentions of blog posts in the style of trackbacks and normal blog comments.
The options available seem to be TweetBacks from Joost and TweetSuite from Dan and I’ve tried both of them today finally settling on Dans implementation after struggling to get Joosts working with Thesis.
Check it out below.
Has anybody managed to do a really good implementation of one of these plugins using Thesis and WP 2.7?
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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Not sure about Thesis theme Patrick, but for other themes(As for Arthemia premium that i use), tweekbacks worked well for me.
since 2.7 i’ve taken to only installing plugins which dont require me messing about with code
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I’m waiting for one of them to use the hook to display without me having to edit comment code
Well, Twetbacks caused some huge problems after I installed it (lots of spam Tweets in my comments) so I just decided to deactivate it. Now i’ll try with Tweet Suite.
Yeah I got about 1000 Tweetbacks in the database as well. Not sure why.
Do NOT use TweetSuite, it will slow down your blog!
It is written improperly. It attempts to use the tr.im bookmarklet to shorten the URL (indeed the author didn’t even have the courtesy to use the tr.im API). API like traffic for tr.im must use the API, that is what it is there for. Additionally it wouldn’t work even if he had written it improperly because he doesn’t understand how some URL shorteners such as tr.im work.
The author has refused to fix his wordpress plugin and remove tr.im. It has generated an enormous amount of traffic to a free service that we pay for out of our pocket. As a result tr.im is banning any traffic coming from a blog using this plugin. This will slow down your pageloads for several seconds before it times out on its connection to tr.im.
I haven’t managed to get either to work properly on my blog with Thesis Theme and Intense Debate, however TweetSuite was literally killing the blog, especially when posting a new entry.
Tweetbacks instead doesn’t seem to affect the load on the blog, and it works fine for the widgets but in my case it doesn’t show the tweetbacks after the post, no doubt because of the combination Thesis+Intense Debate.
If someone has managed to make it work in a similar configuration, please help!