What if every reader at your blog Tweeted your articles ? Would be fun and loads of traffic right ? Although every single reader tweeting your articles seems like a too good to be true idea, it would definitely help even if a quarter of them did.

Tweeting articles has become extremely easy these days, after all you have your Twitter client / Browser plugin ready all the time right ? But how about genuine readers on your blog ? Do they always tweet your articles by taking the pain of copy pasting the title and url ? I doubt if all of them do.

Adding a “Tweet this” button looks like a better idea here. It gives people a one-click solution to show their love to you, and takes the pain of copy pasting urls, off their shoulders.

Traffic to DSB have increased significantly after I added the Tweetmeme buttons you see on the top right of the article.

And the good thing is that I can track those people on Twitter easily (Who re-tweets from DSB) as they all come as retweets to me. I make sure that I follow all those who re-tweet articles from DSB, its nice to see it pop up from different parts of the world.

So why should you add a Re-Tweet button on your blog ?

- Readers will find it easy to re-tweet your articles, simultaneously as they read it.

- Takes the pain off their shoulders to copy paste urls and titles.

- You get instant “alerts” on Twitter, when someone re-tweets an article.

- Its like a vote of appreciation from your readers, you’d love to see.

- Helps you track down your blog readers on Twitter, and befriend them.

- Need I say that more tweets helps in traffic boost ?

So if you’re thinking about adding Re-Tweet buttons to your blog, here are five WordPress – Twitter plugins that will help you to do the integration well.

1. Twitter It!

Adds a customizable, simple Twitter button to your posts.
Easy admin interface.
Can nofollow the Twitter link.
Custom style.

2. Twitter ReTweet

Twitter ReTweet provides a function that displays a ReTweet link which gives visitors the ability to ReTweet the current post; supports custom URLs (perfect for Google Analytics Campaign Tracking).

3. Simple Twitter Link

Simple Twitter Link displays a link allowing Twitter users to update their status with a link back to your post or page. (Tutorial on installing)

4. TweetMeme Button

The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter. (What you see on this blog)

5. Tweet This

Adds a "Tweet This Post" link to every post. Heavily customizable, with images and buttons that comes pre-loaded. A variety of url-shortening services included.

Now, that’s quite a lot of options. Have fun !