I love twittertools by Alexking. It’s a great plugin for sending your blog posts to Twitter.

Twittertools uses the standard tinyurl.com to send links to twitter, which works, and is nice.

Yesterday, I learned of a service called TweetBurner.com. Tweetburner, not only makes urls that are smaller than the ones created by Tinyurl, but Tweetburner also keeps stats of which links get the most hits.

If you’re link is popular it’ll even show up on the front page of Tweetburner.com

(Note on Size: Tinyurl.com vs Twurl.nl = 11 chars vs 8 chars.)

The only problem with Tweetburner, was the twittertools plugin didn’t have support for TweetBurner.com, and I couldn’t find the spot in the code where tinyurl was mentioned.

So, I sent out a message to everyone in my network asking if they knew of a plugin like twittertools, that uses tweetburner instead of twurl.

What I got was a beta version of Twittertools, rewrittern to post tweetburner links to twitter.

The blog was in Dutch, I believe, but the direct link for the plugin is here: Download plugin v0.3 (beta)