Choose a twitter plugin for wordpress

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There is quite a selection of plugins for wordpress regarding twitter and choosing one and all its options could be difficult, fortunately however, that is not the case.

When you decide to add a twitter plugin to wordpress its a matter of  choosing one that does most of what you want and then, if possible, another one that can fill in the gaps, so rather than choosing one single twitter plugin you should consider two (sometimes, not all the time).

Choose a twitter plugin for wordpress

Choose a twitter plugin for your wordpress blog.

Just to make the life a little easier I have short listed a range of plugins (some I highly recommend) to make twitter and your wordpress blog work together.

  • TweetSuite

    A widget enabled plguin for twitter that has some pretty cool features. *Recommended.

  • TweetBacks for WordPress

    This wordpress plugin imports those tweets about your posts as comments. You can display them in between the other comments on your blog, or display them separately. *Recommended.

  • WP Twitip ID

    Plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username.*Recommended.

  • Tweet This

    Add a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries via Twitter with a simple click of a button.

  • The Twitter Updater

    Automatically send a Twitter status update to via this wordpress plugin to twit your followers when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. I wouldn’t recommend this to be honest, as people wont find it interesting that you just changed an A for a Z or added a full stop in.

  • TwitThis

    This wordpress plugin sends Twitter messages about your blog post or website via TinyURL.

  • Twitter Tools

    This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

  • Twitter Badge

    Display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter via this neat wordpress plugin .

  • Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget

    Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.

  • Twitt-Twoo

    A simple but useful wordpress plugin that allows you to tweet directly from your blog.

  • Twitter Feed

    Posts your blog updates to your twitter account via OpenID.

Well thats about as full a list and breakdown of different twitter plugins for your blog.  Hope they come in useful, they should do!

Youtube.co.uk remove Music Videos

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Youtube UK in Deadlock with Performing Rights Society for Music

Youtube.co.uk remove Music VideosYoutube seem to have hit a deadlock with the Performing Rights Society for Music in the United Kingdom with the result that they are being forced to remove videos for artists covered under the Society.

“We value the creativity of musicians and song writers and have worked hard with rights-holders to generate significant online revenue for them and to respect copyright,” said parent company Google in a statement.

“But PRS is now asking us to pay many, many times more for our license than before. The costs are simply prohibitive for us – under PRS’s proposed terms we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback.”

This means that groups such as EMI, Universal, Warner and Sony BMG will all have artists assigned to them removed for UK viewers.

Guess why?

Yep.  Money.

What they say

According to the report in the Guardian Newspaper :

Patrick Walker, YouTube’s director of video partnerships, said he couldn’t give a figure for the proportion of site traffic generated by music videos, but that music videos are some of the most popular content on the site and generate a lot of activity including remixes and on music blogs.

“This is about long-term viability,” he said. “If the next Arctic Monkeys is going to surface we need to get this to work. It’s in the interest of the music industry – we’re not just doing this for us. The record industry needs a new business models so it’s kind of a shame that this has happened. But sometimes you have to step back to step forwards.”

even though this has been rebutted by Steve Porter of the PRS:

“We were shocked and disappointed to receive a call late this afternoon informing us of Google’s drastic action,” said PRS chief executive Steve Porter. “… which we believe only punishes British consumers and the songwriters whose interests we protect and represent.”

Clearly pre-empting the fury of YouTube users, PRS emphasised that it did not ask YouTube to remove the videos and “urges them to reconsider their decision as a matter of urgency”.

But even if PRS is completely squeaky clean in this episode, it comes soon after the closing days of the Pirate Bay trial and for web-savvy consumers it will confirm the gulf between the traditional music industry and the technology they love.

It also follows some bad press for PRS over licence chasing; PRS has allegedly been pestering small businesses demanding licences if, for example, they have more than two staff and listen to the radio.

So where does that leave the artists and the UK viewer YouTube user. Up the creek it seems. It amazes me the short sightedness of some groups who fail to realise the significance of technology in their industries today and the potential resulting backlash from the public and artists alike.

If this isnt rectified quickly it could mean serious implications for Youtube UK and artisits as other mediums are imployed to view their preferred content.

Watching with interest… (or not watching with interest if it happens to be a music video :P)

Canonical URL Plugin for WordPress

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Canonical URL Plugin for WordpressI think  bloggers will be very interested to read about the new canonical tag and the plugin developed by Joost de Valk now available to download and installable ahead of time!

As per usual Joost has been on the ball and ahead of the game in explaining the reasons for and the solution to canonical issues and again provides us with this cool little plugin so instead of waffling on about it I will pass you over to him so you can read and download his new Canonical Plugin for Woordpress.

Also by doing this it means I can get back to installing it…stop reading this and go get it. (And while your there make sure and leave him a nice comment, he gets all giddy over things like that.)