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Many sites and blogs have incorporated buttons on their site that allows the user to share the content on their Twitter profile. This makes the exchange of knowledge more easy and dynamic as well as it makes the entire web experience more social: you share what you read and like with your contacts.
Now Twitter has launched their own official button. On the Twitter blog, it says that a quarter of all tweets include a link in them, so the decision to develop their own button seems bulletproof.
Besides having the actual function of sharing, the sharing buttons also count the number of times an article or blog post has been retweeted which gives the user (or the owner of the website) an indication of what content is more popular.
For a long time, TweetMeme has been the dominating Twitter sharing service and will now meet serious competition. According to Twitter, they have been working closely with the people at TweetMeme to develop their own sharing button.
You can check out the features of the official Twitter button here:
Install the button on your site
The Tweet button is available in different sizes and you can grab and customize a code from Twitter/Tweetbutton to implement on your site.
If you run a WordPress blog like we do, you can also install the Twitter Button WordPress Plugin developed by Blogsessive, that automatically places the button to your site.
We have already installed the Twitter button to our site – try and hit the Tweet Button :-)
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