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jackdack
msg:4151803 | 10:53 pm on Jun 12, 2010 (gmt 0) |
hi
On a new site we wish to display Facebook and Twitter icons on some pages so that members of those services can click the link & publish on that service, so promoting our site. Facebook Share functionality seems perfect for the requirement, is there a Twitter equivalent?
We have our own URL shortening service and a short URL for each page (& therefore must use our own service, not another service).
I see one news publisher using a standard link format as follows
[twitter.com...]
this seems basic, and can obviously be expanded slightly with additional text - are there any disadvantages of using such a method?
Some large sites display a green 'retweet' button (with # of times retweeted to the left of the button) but I believe this service forces use of a public URL shortening service (which we don't want). Also, just a general twitter question, why do they term this a 'Retweet', i thought retweeting & RT was reserved for when retweeting another tweet, not a web page?
Many thanks for your comments
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rogerd
msg:4154352 | 6:18 pm on Jun 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Jackdack, are you using a CMS of some kind, or are the pages individual HTML pages? There are plugins for Wordpress and similar that do what you want.
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jackdack
msg:4154545 | 3:48 am on Jun 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
hi rogerd, it's a custom CMS... Thanks
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