Most blogging platforms have a way to insert the posts permanent URL. Maybe look into that?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Bjoern <bjoer...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I was interested to read about the way Tweetmeme sets up it's retweet > button: http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/ > > I also want to create a pure javascript Twitter service that people > could integrate into their web site. It also needs to know the URL of > the site it is sitting on, so that people can tweet through it, and it > can find the respective tweets. > > The problem is that for example with a typical Wordpress blog, an > article (containing the script) would appear on multiple sites, so URL > autodetection doesn't seem like a good option. Even specifying the URL > beforehand seems less than ideal, because blog writers won't > necessarily know the URL of an article before they submit it. So they > would have to submit the article and then go back and > > I suppose Tweetmeme gets around this by providing a Wordpress plugin, > but that would be overkill for me atm (though conceivable for the > future). > > Just wondering if there are any other ideas out there to approach the > problem? > > Björn >
