Simple Twitter Follow Me Button

by zackproser · Email & Marketing

This plugin is the easiest way to add an official Twitter follow button at the end of every post so your readers can follow you on Twitter.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

How scoring works →

45 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 76/100

Support 70/100

45 health vs 66 average across 657 Email & Marketing plugins

20+

Active installs

≈29 estimated

4.5K

Total downloads

since 2014

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

-59%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

Long abandoned. No update in 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 2/100

Rating quality 52/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4541 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-59% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 132

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Simple Twitter Follo · #26742 Social Media Widget · #1064 Autopost for X (form · #3133 Social Media Icons W · #6257

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

20–30 ≈29

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations

Ratings · 2 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0
Last updated: 12.4y ago
Added: 2014-01-25 · 12 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.0.1
Tested up to: 3.7.41
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

2025-01-04 30+ → 20+ down after 503 days in band
2023-08-20 40+ → 30+ down after 212 days in band
2023-01-20 50+ → 40+ down after 37 days in band
2022-12-14 40+ → 50+ up after 4 days in band
2022-12-10 50+ → 40+ down

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