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Twitter Launches Tweet Button


New tool should help increase link-sharing

Small business owners who have come to believe in the marketing potential of Twitter may want to take advantage of a new feature known as the "Tweet Button."  Twitter unveiled it this morning for the sake of getting people to share more links.

Twitter LogoCarolyn Penner explained on the Twitter Blog, "[W]e're launching the Tweet Button to make sharing simple.  It lets you share links directly from the page you're on.  When you click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear - pre-populated with a shortened link that points to the item that you're sharing."

That's much better than having to copy a link's location, open something like Bit.ly in a separate window, shorten the URL, and then paste the finished product elsewhere.

Penner also noted, "Recreational bloggers to large media companies can quickly and easily add the Tweet Button to their sites.  It only takes a few lines of code.  The Tweet Button will help publishers grow traffic and increase their Twitter following."

And CNN, Hulu, the Onion, and YouTube (among many other noteworthy organizations) believe that to the point they've already put the Tweet Button on their sites.

So consider sticking a Tweet Button on your site if your customers are the sorts of people who use Twitter.  A lot of free exposure might be yours in return.

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News Tags: Twitter
About the author:
Doug Caverly is a staff writer for SmallBusinessNewz.

Comments

Tweet ButtonTool

I have used the tweetmeme button for some time, and plan to research this new button feature from twitter... Thanks for sharing!

twittering

Hi, thank you for the updated information.

About time

Good move by Twitter - and about time...

Re: Twitter Launches Tweet Button

Given the number of high level social bookmarking sites these days, i think things have gone beyond such individual attempts by individual social bookmarking sites when one can simply bookmark to a lot of bookmarking sites collectively and at the press of a button wiyhout the complexities itemized above, through services such as Onlywire and without the need for such 'tweet buttons"

I will also check it out on

I will also check it out on my websites. If it works for cnn it will work for me haha

Tweet Button

It has another neat trick, if there are any Twitter accounts listed on the page you are sharing, the Bookmarklet page you will be able to follow those accounts.

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