Prior to today we had a restriction on the TweetMeme Button that all tweets were re-tweeted as RT @tweetmeme with the exception of those on the whitelist where they could do RT @their_twitter_account which allowed the re-tweet to be from a specific twitter account/ user. We got lots of feedback from our users… especially those who weren’t on the whitelist via our Forums and listened to their shouts! I bet they thought we were ignoring them! (but no, we were working away to ensure that the updates worked perfectly.)
So now everyone is whitelisted and you can change it to RT @[your twitter name]. We have updated the instructions on the Button page and we have also updated the WordPress Plugin so that you change the twitter account easily. Once you have the plugin installed, go to Settings, TweetMeme and then set the Source to your twitter name. (e.g. talktweetmeme in my case) Don’t include the @ otherwise it’ll be @@talktweetmeme which wouldn’t really work.
We hope you like the update and the power it gives you as a user to see who is re-tweeting your stories and articles. It should also mean that you could create conversation around the stories online if you add those re-tweeting your stories as friends on twitter. I’m sure people will come up with all sorts of useful ways of using this new and very much requested feature!
Please do give us feedback and new feature requests on our Forum. We do read every request and we try to do those that are of value to many people as soon as we can!
Is your plugin available for other platforms?
Hey, pretty cool thanks. Have you included the fourth placement option in the most recent updated?
@Matches Malone: Yes indeed it is, take a look at http://help.tweetmeme.com/category/addons/plugin/ for all the systems that we have plugins for. Many of these are community created by some great developers.
@kovshenin: yes we have included the fourth placement option that has been talked about previously. Take a peak by upgrading your wordpress plugin. We hope you like it!
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I thought this was fixed but I’m seeing this again – when I tried enabling this a few days ago on my site and just now when I clicked retweet on yours, I got the same problem, i.e. the browser redirects a few times and ends up at http://twitter.com/782095583387871453 which doesn’t exist.
I do notice a quick NoScript popup about XSS from api.tweetmeme.com (I have scripts globally allowed though).
Is this a bug in your system or incompatibility with NoScript? I tried in IE and it worked OK.
Thanks.
I’ve been telling everyone that I know about this change.
Thanks
plug-in doesnt work when upgrading from version 1.0. why?
i tried editing the .php file and i tried installing it as normal. it gives errors.
This works but how do you change the text in the tweet from the blog name to the post name. I see many people have done it. Can someone point me to the place in the code to change this? I don’t see it in settings.
Thanks!
this link may help http://www.bloggodown.com/2009/04/how-to-add-retweet-button-to-blogger.html
or out button page found here: http://help.tweetmeme.com/category/addons/button/