Here’s how it works.

After you publish a post, you can go enable the Publicize options (Settings » Sharing).

Next, you can choose which services you want to connect to your blog. Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! Updates, and MSN Messenger are the four options available today.

After that, you can enable other sharing options which will allow your visitors to share your post. These options include email, print, Reddit, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Press This (which will let you create a new blog post on WordPress.com based on the post you’re reading).

Lastly, a few misc. settings at the bottom, for those who like to really customize.

And when you’re back in the post editor, you’ll now have the option of which services you want to send your post to as well. This is great for people that really want to socialize their content, either to Twitter or Facebook – as those can be huge streams of traffic for people.

You can read more about it on WordPress.com.

We’d love to list everyone but we’d be here forever So here’s our top 15 list of WordPress people on Twitter you should be following. We placed them in alphabetical order based on Twitter handle.

Andy Peatling – @apeatling

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Andy is the lead developer of BuddyPress, a platform built to add social networking capabilities to WordPress.

Brian Gardner – @bgardner

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Brian has been an active member and contributor to the WordPress community since 2006 where he first started using it for his personal blog. Since then, he has created a very successful company named StudioPress.

Jane Wells – @janeforshort

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Jane is the ninja of all ninja’s! Interface and experience designer for WordPress, WordCamp traveler, cat lover, and much more. Catch up with Jane at jane.wordpress.com.

Lorelle VanFossen – @lorelleonwp

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Where to begin, Lorelle has become a staple resource in the WordPress community. She has been involved since the early days building out the Codex. Lorelle has spoken, written, and evangelized WordPress since the beginning. Go check out some amazing stuff over at Lorelle on WordPress.

Mark Jaquith – @markjaquith

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A Lead Developer for WordPress and a freelance WordPress consultant, Mark is arguably one of the tallest developers in the galaxy! He is a WordPress master and recently became a father. Congrats Mark!

Andrew Nacin – @nacin

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Andrew got involved with WordPress not too long ago, back in January 2008. His first exposure to WordPress was relaunching the blogs for his college newspaper using WordPress version 2.3.2. Andrew has turned into one of the premiere core developers and is one of the main developers of WordPress 3.0. I don’t think he sleeps anymore! You can read more from Andrew at andrewnacin.com.

Pete Mall – @petemall

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Pete is a WordPress ninja so he fits in well with us here at WPV He is the master of WordCamp’s and can PHP’ify anything! Most recently he put together a cool way to add a WordPress logo to your Twitter avatar, go check out TwitRbn. Read more from Pete at Developer’s Mind.

Matt Mullenweg – @photomatt

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We can’t forget the co-founding father of WordPress. Matt’s involvement started before WordPress even existed. He then helped launch a company called Automattic, around August 2005. Matt is still the outward “face” of WordPress and we love him for it. Check him out at Ma.tt.

Matt Martz – @sivel

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One of the smartest guys I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with! He is passionate about WordPress and helped me learn quite a bit over the years. Matt is a core contributor and IRC master! Matt is the mastermind behind Free Your Feed. You can read and learn about what Matt does over at Sivel.net.

Aaron Brazell – @technosailor

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Aaron is as passionate about his sports teams as he is WordPress. He recently authored the WordPress Bible, and is a core contributor. Make sure to follow up and read more from Aaron on Technosailor.com.

Alex Mills – @viper007bond

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If you’re here at WPV, you’re probably interacting with one of Alex’s plugins. He is a seasoned developer and has been a WordPress fanatic since somewhere around 2003. Alex works on WordPress.com for Automattic and has a great site of his own at Viper007Bond.com.

Fredrick Townes – @w3edge

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Ever heard of Mashable? Their CTO Fredrick started using WordPress almost four years ago. Fredrick is also the CEO of W3Edge. He created and contributed W3 Total Cache, which we consider to be the best WordPress caching plugin.

Brad Williams – @williamsba

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Brad kicked off his WordPress habit over three years ago and hasn’t looked back. Not only is he a regular contributor, he’s also the co-author of Professional WordPress. He is the CEO of WebDevStudios and a seasoned WordCamp speaker!

Jeff Chandler – @WPTavern

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Jeff stays pretty busy these days! He not only hosts and produces a live podcast – WordPress Weekly, he also has 17 different full time jobs and does an outstanding job running WPTavern, a great WordPress community.

Joost de Valk – @yoast

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Joost has created and or maintains some of the most popular WordPress plugins available today. He’s been creating WordPress everything since 2006, which is also when he started providing professional SEO services. You’ve probably been to Yoast.com in the past, go play around some more, you’re guaranteed to find new cool stuff!

Bonus Round

As I mentioned earlier, we could be here forever. Since we’ve made it this far, here’s a few more mentions we couldn’t leave out. Plus we couldn’t end the post without shamelessly plugging ourselves

Jonathan Dingman – @dingman

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Jonathan and I have been collaborating since 2004 after some great conversations in the WordPress IRC channel. He’s been involved with WordPress since 2003 and is the co-founder of WPV. Dingman organized the first ever WordCamp NY in 2008.

Dre Armeda – @dremeda

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Hey wait, that’s me I co-found WPV with Dingman which has been a great time! I’m a WordPress contributor and love spreading WordPress Vibe. I’ve been involved with WordPress since early 2004 and rarely blog on Armeda.com. I’m heading up WordCamp San Diego 2011 and most recently I founded CubicTwo LLC, a web services firm focused on content management solutions.

WPVibe – @wpvibe

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Last but not least….us! Make sure to connect, we love to help! Ask us WordPress questions anytime, we’ll make sure to help you out as soon as possible, that’s what it’s all about right?

And the list goes on…

Make sure to follow everyone on the list, you won’t regret it.

Who are some of your favorite WordPress people to follow? leave your thoughts in the comments!

Keep the vibe!

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. There are six WordCamp conferences set up between now and the end of the year. New ones pop up regularly and there is a good chance if there isnt one scheduled near you yet, there will be soon.

Here is a quick run down of the remaining events for this year:

WordCamp Phoenix

November 13, 2009 – $30 entrance fee which includes breakfast and lunch, will be held at the Arizona Grand Resort. Will feature great speakers like Matt Mullenweg, Dave Moyer, Merlin Mann, Brent Spore, John Hawkins. Free t-shirt too.

WordCamp Victoria

November 14th, 2009 – With a $40 entrance fee, you’ll have a jam packed day of speakers like Lorraine Murphy, Catherine Novak, Jeff Richards and Lloyd Budd from Automattic. There will be two tracks running, one for bloggers and the other for the technical folks all being held at Victoria Campus of University Canada West.

WordCamp Bangkok

November 15th, 2009 – Being held at Sripatum University with keynote Pol.Col. Yannaphol Yangyuen (Thai Webmaster’s Association President), this should be a fun filled event including music from the WordPress band at 1pm. Most learning sessions will be held in the afternoon.

WordCamp New York

November 15th-16th, 2009 – This is a huge venue and will be a wonderful WordCamp. The event will be held at Baruch College of the City University of New York. There will be over 50 speakers (not a typo) for this epic WordPress event including core developers like Matt Martz and Mark Jaquith. There will be a 2.9 Bug Hunt room for those interested helping with the upcoming release. There are various pricing options for you that will get you to all the sessions on both days.

WordCamp Peru

November 28th, 2009 – Put together by Javier Albarracín, this is the first ever WordCamp Peru, great job extending the event down to South America. Although no venue is posted, it will be held in Lima and the event will cover topics like WordPress personalization and security.

WordCamp Orlando

December 5, 2009 – The event will be held at Rollins College in Orlando and registration is still open at $15 per person. The keynote will be held by Matt Mullenweg, who will be accompanied on various other discussions throughout the day by core developers and more.

Want to attend one of these events? Are you interested in setting one up in your area?

What’s stopping you. I am starting some leg work on my end soon to bring a WordCamp to San Diego. If anyone interested please contact me.

For more information check out WordCamp as well as the WordPress Blog.

Let us know if you’ll be attending one of these great events. We’d also like to hear from you about these events in general, or other WordPress related events in your area.