Retweets Are Go
I wrote a little while back that we would be soon launching some new variants of our popular retweet button. We have had the new versions in test since then and can today announce their public availability.
RSS & Email
The current Retweet Button is designed to be embedded in web pages and uses Javascript to make it do a few clever things (such as logged-in retweeting). The problem with Javascript is that it cannot be used within RSS or Emails as most RSS & email clients strip Javascript for security reasons. So we came up with the idea of rendering our button as an image which would allow you to embed it anywhere that would accept an image. We hope this new variant of the button will help you get even more retweets.
You can read how to implement the RSS button, and how to the implement the Email Button.
Plugin
To make life easier we have added support for the RSS button to our WordPress plug-in – if you already have the plugin installed you will see a whole load of new options including the new RSS functionality, you can turn it on/off and also position it separately within the RSS.
Shortening Services
We also previewed last week that we were adding support for choosing your own short url service. This has also now gone live and you can read the full instructions. We already support 11 services (listed below) plus 3 services in which you can also supply an API key so that the data is private to yourself. If you run one of these services which is not supported please get in touch.
- bit.ly – (API support coming soon.)
- awe.sm – (API supported)
- cli.gs – (API support coming soon.)
- digg.com (API supported)
- is.gd
- TinyURL.com
- tr.im
- su.pr – (API supported)
- ow.ly – (API support coming soon.)
- lopurls.us
- twurl.nl
Plugin
If you are using the WordPress Plug-in already you will find settings to specify the shortener.
Wordpress Statistics
Lastly you will notice that we have added a whole new page within our WordPress plug-in that gives statistics about retweeting for your last 5 posts. This gives you the 24 hour retweet trend graph for each story and a list of twitter users who have tweeted the story (useful in getting back in touch with those users who like your content.)
Success
We would like to thank everyone who has so far installed our button, we are currently serving over 50 million button impressions per day and it continues to grow daily. If you have any feedback on the new features please drop us a comment or head over to our discussion forum.
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Hey i’ve added the tutorial to add the additional features of the retweet buttn at http://www.bloggodown.com/2009/04/how-to-add-retweet-button-to-blogger.html but can’t figure out how to add it on feedburner. pls help @virtuosoblogger
Ken the Tech on July 23rd, 2009
Hi, is there any way to random auto tweet / re-tweet my blog posts? The post’s titles could be take from RSS.
Sarah Blow on July 23rd, 2009
Sure, you could use something like twitterfeed.
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