Recently I’ve added a Retweet button to our blog posts. It’s a service of Tweetmeme a website that tracks popular links on Twitter. It’s been a really good indicator for which posts are popular as well as making it easier for readers to share them on Twitter. All you do is click the button and it will compose a Twitter post with the title and link of the blog post (the link will be automatically shortened by bit.ly).
It’s super easy to add to your blog, just one line of JavaScript, no account sign-up needed.
Andrew Mager wrote about the Tweetmeme’s Retweet button last week on The Web Life and I agree with him that links shared on Twitter spread much quickly than they do on Digg, maybe Digg will implement something like this on their end.
UPDATE: Tweetmeme has removed the whitelist restriction from their Retweet button, so now you can customize it to display your Twitter @username.
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Perfect. I saw this on your blog this morning and immediately started searching for it. It works well.
This post was tweeted 8 times and the counter works well.
http://blog.adam-jackson.net/2009/04/15/i-stand-behind-magpie-twitter-advertisements/
seems useful, will watch it over the next few days, seems a bit like the early days of Digg.
though to a certain degree, I thought it was a faux pas to speak ill of Digg; but maybe Digg has gone the way of SlashDot? Still exists, but maybe not as useful as original?
How did you get your @laughingsquid into the retweet? By default it shows up as @tweetmeme and from reading their site, it looks like you may have to be whitelisted to have that happen? Is that the case for you or do you have a trick you can share?
You need to contact Tweetmeme directly in order to have them whitelist you.
Tweetmeme now has a stupid iframe bar that hijacks all your links just like the diggbar… lame.
Hi there,
Do you know what to do when my TweetMeme button RTs my tags, not my post titles? I can’t figure it out…
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