Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button
That brings up an interesting question. Can we access t.co analytics now, either (preferably) for free or by paying Twitter? If not, when, if ever, will we be able to access t.co analytics? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting Matt Harris : Hi Clint, The Tweet Button will wrap any URL sent to it as a t.co link so although you can use your own shortener we will still create a t.co link for it. We don't unwrap the short URL, so any analytics you have attached to your shortener can still happen. We also return the URL you sent us with our API responses so clients can display your URL whilst linked to t.co first. This is made possible by passing the flag include_entities=1 to any method that returns a status. You can learn more about t.co here: http://support.twitter.com/entries/109623 Hope that helps, Matt On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Clint Ecker wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris wrote: > Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users > to share your website with their followers. When they click on the > Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and > link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to > follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your > website, so the user never has to leave. Hi Matt, I'd really like to use this on Ars Technica, but it seems to force the t.co shortener on us. We have our own shorturl system (arst.ch) and I need to use that. Can you explain how I might go about doing that—I've scoured the docs and have seen no mention of custom Short URLs. Thanks! Clint -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button
Hi Clint, The Tweet Button will wrap any URL sent to it as a t.co link so although you can use your own shortener we will still create a t.co link for it. We don't unwrap the short URL, so any analytics you have attached to your shortener can still happen. We also return the URL you sent us with our API responses so clients can display your URL whilst linked to t.co first. This is made possible by passing the flag include_entities=1 to any method that returns a status. You can learn more about t.co here: http://support.twitter.com/entries/109623 Hope that helps, Matt On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Clint Ecker wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris > wrote: > > Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users > > to share your website with their followers. When they click on the > > Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and > > link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to > > follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your > > website, so the user never has to leave. > > Hi Matt, > > I'd really like to use this on Ars Technica, but it seems to force the > t.co shortener on us. We have our own shorturl system (arst.ch) and I > need to use that. Can you explain how I might go about doing > that—I've scoured the docs and have seen no mention of custom Short > URLs. > > Thanks! > Clint > -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button
Clint, Include a data-url attribute in the element. It will get wrapped in a t.co but the user will still hit the arst.ch domain. http://twitter.com/share"; class="twitter-share-button" data-url=" http://arst.ch/xyz"; data-count="vertical" data-via="abraham">Tweethttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";> Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:30, Clint Ecker wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris > wrote: > > Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users > > to share your website with their followers. When they click on the > > Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and > > link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to > > follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your > > website, so the user never has to leave. > > Hi Matt, > > I'd really like to use this on Ars Technica, but it seems to force the > t.co shortener on us. We have our own shorturl system (arst.ch) and I > need to use that. Can you explain how I might go about doing > that—I've scoured the docs and have seen no mention of custom Short > URLs. > > Thanks! > Clint >
Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris wrote: > Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users > to share your website with their followers. When they click on the > Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and > link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to > follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your > website, so the user never has to leave. Hi Matt, I'd really like to use this on Ars Technica, but it seems to force the t.co shortener on us. We have our own shorturl system (arst.ch) and I need to use that. Can you explain how I might go about doing that—I've scoured the docs and have seen no mention of custom Short URLs. Thanks! Clint
[twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button
Hey everyone, Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users to share your website with their followers. When they click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to follow accounts recommended by you. All of this happens on your website, so the user never has to leave. You have complete control over the suggested text of the Tweet Button, who the Tweet should be attributed to and recommendations of who to follow. All of this is possible through a line of javascript and a few URL parameters or data attributes of a link. To add this to your own site grab it from http://twitter.com/tweetbutton, or create your own using our developer documentation, http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button Read more about the Tweet Button on our blog, http://blog.twitter.com/2010/08/pushing-our-tweet-button.html Best Matt -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
