# Twitter Mentions as Comments WordPress Plugin

**TL;DR:** Twiter Mentions as Comments does exactly what it promises to do -- scours Twitter for people talking about your blog posts and silently inserts their Tweets alongside your existing comments.

Published 2010-11-29 · [View on Ben Balter's site](https://ben.balter.com/2010/11/29/twitter-mentions-as-comments/)

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Twitter Mentions as Comments does exactly what it promises to do – scours Twitter for people talking about your blog posts and silently inserts their Tweets alongside your existing comments. The plugin leverages the power of WordPress's built-in commenting system – notification, comment moderation, author white/black listing – making Twitter an extension of your blog.

## Features

- Searches for Tweets linking to your blog posts, regardless of the URL shortener used (using Twitter's Search API)
- Pushes Tweets into WordPress's existing comment workflow – notifications, comment moderation, and author allowlists/blocklists work just like any other comment
- Fetches user's real name and profile picture and links directly to the original Tweet
- Checks automatically – no need to do a thing
- Option to automatically exclude ReTweets
- Option to store tweets as trackbacks/B
- Option to specify which posts to check (for example, 10 most recent posts, all posts, front page only)
- Smart Caching of Tweets and user data – retrieves only what it needs to save on API calls and server load

## Planned Features

- Dynamic resizing of Twitter profile images to fit WordPress theme
- Prioritization of newer posts
- OAuth Authentication to raise API limit (currently unlimited Tweets, but limited to 150 *new* comment authors per hour)
- Smarter API throttling

The plugin is available in the [WordPress plugin repository](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-mentions-as-comments/), and you can see it in action below or on the [WP Resume plugin page](https://ben.balter.com/2010/09/12/wordpress-resume-plugin/#comment-168).

**Looking to filter out a particular user or keyword?** Because Tweets go through the normal comment filter, you can just [block them as described below](https://ben.balter.com/2010/11/29/twitter-mentions-as-comments/#comment-246).

**Update (7/8): Comments have been closed in favor of [expanded support and discussion options](https://github.com/benbalter/Twitter-Mentions-as-Comments/wiki/Where-to-get-Support-or-Report-an-Issue). Additional documentation about the project can now be found in the [Project Wiki](https://github.com/benbalter/Twitter-Mentions-as-Comments/wiki). If you are interested in joining the project at any level of technical expertise, please see [How to Contribute](https://github.com/benbalter/Twitter-Mentions-as-Comments/wiki/How-to-Contribute).**