Today are launching the really useful TweetMeme Twitter Follow Button, this feature will help you and your readers to find and follow one another on Twitter! The button has been designed for simplicity and comes in three styles as shown below. The Follow button does not redirect the user to Twitter it instead uses the Twitter OAuth access just like our ReTweet button.
The Follow Button also has a live counter so that you can see visually if the user is worth following just based upon the count and matches the style and ability of the TweetMeme ReTweet button. The Follow button also knows who you are already following and shows the + sign to remind you to add the new users that you discover through the Follow Button. After all it is also a comfort to know yes, I am already following them, or how did I forget to follow this user! I must add them!
Compact: 
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Square: 
Once clicked on the follow button provides you with the following features:
- Twitter Profile Picture
- Real Name
- Twitter Username
- Twitter profile description
- Following / Follower Count
- Recent Links that have been retweeted
The button also integrates with three of the most popular Twitter user profiling systems to provide you with some great additional user analysis tools to help you decide whether you want to follow people.
Twitter Counter
Twitter Counter is a great way to visually understand how a Twitter user is gaining extra followers.
Twitalyzer
Twitalyzer lets you at a glance see how a Twitter user interacts, giving simple metrics on Engagement, Impact and Influence.
Twitter Grader
Twitter Grader takes a Twitter and compares you with every other Twitter user based upon power and reach and gives you a overall grade.
Alongside the new button which is currently available as Javascript for you to embed into your site, we have also created a WordPress Plugin and anticipate other plugins will follow. The WordPress plugin is designed to dramatically increase the scope of the follow button by improving the take up by the ‘long tail’.
The plugin is an easy opportunity for users to use the button. The plugin provides 3 useful features, the biggest of which is the ability to replace the standard comment avatar with a follow button. We also add in a WordPress sidebar widget and the ability to add the follow button to posts on a per-author basis.
Sidebar Widget
Settings
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Nice stuff! Do you think it’s worth lobbying with the oAuth folk about ditching the popup, and working with iframe’s ( will avoid popup blockers, leaving the page,etc).
We’d also like to see if we can work to put together a bunch of tweetmeme hoverlets.
~B
I might give this a try on some of my blogs. I had a password problem with Twitter Grader recently though, but I guess that is all cleared up now. Thanks for adding new features.
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How come it’s not available through the install plugins menu in the wordpress dashboard?
-Kyle
[...] So what does the new TweetMeme button do, exactly? Well, according to the folks at TweetMeme: Today are launching the really useful TweetMeme Follow Button, this feature will help you and your readers to find and follow one another on Twitter! The button has been designed for simplicity and comes in three styles as shown below. The Follow button does not redirect the user to Twitter it instead uses the Twitter OAuth access just like our ReTweet button. [...]
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Good work.
Expecting more customizable widgets in the future
Did you fix the badge loading speed issue yet?
I’m actually using that as an example for people interested in evaluating how fast their blog pages load.
Just to be clear, love your product.
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[...] So what does the new TweetMeme button do, exactly? Well, according to the folks at TweetMeme: Today are launching the really useful TweetMeme Follow Button, this feature will help you and your readers to find and follow one another on Twitter! The button has been designed for simplicity and comes in three styles as shown below. The Follow button does not redirect the user to Twitter it instead uses the Twitter OAuth access just like our ReTweet button. [...]
Can we remove the mini profile thumbnail in compact version? I already am displaying the profile image and just need the follow button.
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Did anybody realize that the background color of “Standard Follow Button” become white on internet explorer. On firefox, its nice and transparent but on internet explorer, its white. This white background damage my webpage design. Pls, fix this bug. I want to see transparent background on IE for standard follow button…
Same trouble with ALL IE6-8-8.
Help us!!!
I’ll have to give this a look.
-David
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I have the same question as Quy:
“Can we remove the mini profile thumbnail in compact version?”
Perhaps as edit to WordPress plugin code?
Thanks.