Just yesterday we introduced Twitter Avatars In Comments plugin for Wordpress that enables bloggers to have both Twitter and Gravatar avatars in blog comments. We are certainly not going to turn Smashing Magazine into a repository of Twitter plugins for Wordpress, but we are confident that it does make sense to introduce another plugin that enables another kind of Twitter integration in blogs.
This is why this post releases the Twittbacks WordPress Plugin that was developed and released especially for Smashing Magazine — this plugin imports tweets about your posts as comments. You can display them in between the other comments on your blog, or display them separately.
Advantages of our implementation
This implementation is inspired by Dan Zarrella’s great work on TweetBacks. Although his implementation does what it promises, we felt that it could be done in another way and offer users an alternative to display tweets in a more convenient way.
Dan’s solution uses JavaScript, which will work on more platforms, but we felt that it would be useful to actually store t
