# The Discuss on Twitter WordPress Plugin

By [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman) · 2020-01-10

projects-portfolio, twitter, wordpress

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[Discuss on Twitter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/discuss-on-twitter/) is a WordPress plugin that uses Twitter as the commenting system for your blog.

I've been developing it over the past few weeks along with [Fred Wilson](http://twitter.com/fredwilson) and [Kirk Love](http://twitter.com/kirklove) as part of the launch of [AVC 3.0](https://avc.com/2020/01/avc-3-0/) which went up yesterday. It's currently live on this blog, as well as [AVC](http://avc.com) and also [USV.com](http://usv.com/writing).

The idea is pretty simple: whenever you publish a new post, the post is auto-tweeted to your account. Then, you get a "Discuss on Twitter" button on your post, which will prompt a reply to the auto-tweet, as well as a "View Discussions" button which will link to the Twitter thread.

Twitter is a natural place to discuss long-form content on the web, and moving blog commenting to Twitter can both engage people in a natural way and help expand distribution and reach.

I should pause here and note that the core WP/Twitter functionality is provided by the amazing [WP to Twitter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-twitter/) plugin created by [Joe Dolson](http://www.joedolson.com/). Joe's plugin does all the heavy lifting of authenticating with twitter and teeing up the tweets. It's really configurable and nice. Thank you Joe.

This is alpha software ([Version 0.3](https://wordpress.org/plugins/discuss-on-twitter/#developers) to be precise), so we are still testing and tuning. Totally open to feedback, so please send any ideas [on github](https://github.com/nickgrossman/discuss-on-twitter-wordpress-plugin) or in the comments.... er, on Twitter

Enjoy!

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*Originally published on [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman/the-discuss-on-twitter-wordpress-plugin)*