We never rest on our laurels here at TweetMeme HQ and have been beavering away on a range of improvements. I wanted to give you a sneak peak at a few new buttons launching next week.
Firstly one big change we have already made is to remove the (via @tweetmeme) from the end of any retweets. This will give a little more room at the end of tweets to be retweeted again.
Image Button
The current retweet button is a clever little thing – it can redirect you to Twitter to retweet but also if your logged into TweetMeme (via OAuth) it sends the tweet behind the scenes and leaves you on the site you were currently browsing, this we call ‘one-click retweeting’. The downside is that Javascript can only live in certain places on the web, i.e. in a web browser.
We think there are lots of other places you may want to get retweeted from so we have come up with ‘image buttons’. These look identical to the current retweet button (an example is on the right) with the same live-retweet count, the big difference is that it is rendered as a image which means you can put it anywhere that you can put a normal image. Here are some ideas we had for using it,
- RSS Feeds – JavaScript does not work inside RSS (most RSS readers strip it out because of XSS security issues) so the button is perfect to allow your users to read your article and then retweet it.
- Emails – You can embed it into an HTML email to promote any link you like.
- WordPress.com – Some sites like wordpress.com do not allow you to embed Javascript, but you can use this button instead.
Domain Count
We wanted a way that sites could show off how much they are getting retweeted beyond just the individual story retweet counts. So we came up with the ‘Weekly Retweet’ chicklet, it shows the weekly total number of retweets for your whole website. The counter re-calculates every 24 hours and the colour can be customized (examples on the right).
Analytics
Lastly we will be soon launching a much more detailed analytics package for website owners. You can already use TweetMeme to track the trend of a particular story (example here) and get the list of people who retweeted the story.
Websites can already track their weekly trends of retweets using TweetMeme (Example here) this is useful, but we wanted to give much more detail. The new package is aimed at fully understanding how your story spread and how you may adapt future story releases to take best advantage of Twitter and its amazing viral nature.
Looking forward to all the new features!
Great widget we love it! I know you guys deserve all the credit for this button but I’m really glad you guys got rid of the “via @tweetmeme” tag on the back of each tweet a very modest thing to do. I read some bloggers didn’t use the Tweetmeme button because of this, same reason you mentioned above that it cuts off the generated character limit.
Thanks again!
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retweet button very useful for blogs
but there one problem with it , the retweet button do not support Arabic language
can you fix these problem?
[...] is another fast growing Twitter analytics services that tracks sharing on the service. With another chunk of new features just added today, the service is looking a whole lot like “Feedburner for Twitter” but with even more [...]
[...] is another fast growing Twitter analytics services that tracks sharing on the service. With another chunk of new features just added today, the service is looking a whole lot like “Feedburner for Twitter” but with even more [...]
[...] is another fast growing Twitter analytics service that tracks sharing on the service. With another chunk of new features just added today, the service is looking a whole lot like “Feedburner for Twitter” but with even more [...]
[...] is another fast growing Twitter analytics service that tracks sharing on the service. With another chunk of new features just added today, the service is looking a whole lot like “Feedburner for Twitter” but with even more [...]
Cool stuff guys, the ‘Weekly Retweet’ chicklet sounds tasty and Analytics will definatelly help me to manage my clients twitter accounts…cheers
This is great news for people like me who use WordPress.com. Really looking forward to adding my button to my blog posts. Yay! Thank you.
That weekly retweets button is going to be *very* popular.
Looking forward to the new introductions, of course. I can see the stats button living next to FeedBurner (for as long as Feedburner lives, that is).
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Some nice features here Nick, and great to see you are continuing to get good press.
cheers,
nic
Wow, cant wait for the new features!
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