Our good friend Matt Freedman has been keeping pretty busy lately. It was just last week that we told you about his Comment Approval Notification WordPress plugin and this week, he’s got another great offering that will keep you in touch with the rest of Internet.

Twitter is a great networking and microblogging platform. Just as you may want to another blog from time to time, you may also want to link to a friend’s Twitter profile. Instead of typing out the URL by hand, you can simply make use of Matt’s Twitter Links WordPress plugin. In a nutshell, this replaces any instance of a Twitter username in your posts with a link to that person’s Twitter Profile.

Naturally, it would not be a good idea for the plugin to scan your entire post, replacing every second word with a hyperlink. That’s why Matt has it setup that it will only scan through terms that are prefaced with the @ symbol. For example, if I were to write @bluefur or @mattfreedman in a blog post, those would link to twitter.com/bluefur and twitter.com/mattfreedman, respectively.

You can find more information about Twitter Links on Matt’s blog and you can download it here.

CORRECTION: As per Matt’s comment below, the plugin is meant to work only with comments at this time and not within the blog posts themselves. He may change this with future revisions, however.