Twitter Mentions As Comments
by Ben Balter · Social
Twitter Mentions as Comments scours Twitter for people talking about your site & silently inserts their Tweets alongside your existing comments.
43 health vs 56 average across 686 Social plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4761 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
now · peak 102
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
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 “60+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-28 70+ → 60+ down after 221 days in band
- 2025-06-21 80+ → 70+ down after 45 days in band
- 2025-05-07 90+ → 80+ down after 67 days in band
- 2025-03-01 80+ → 90+ up after 50 days in band
- 2025-01-10 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-01-08 80+ → 90+ up after 8 days in band
- 2024-12-31 90+ → 80+ down after 85 days in band
- 2024-10-07 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in band
Competes with
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Seed Social 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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