Abraham, that's nice, though there may be one drawback when shortening the links. A call to bit.ly or other URL shorteners could take some time, thus slowing down your page if you do it server-side. Of course you could cache it or do it via javascript with a PHP tunnel (AJAX) but what's the point of shortening the link if there's a very little chance that people will actually tweet it. On the other hand, if you shorten only when somebody pressed "Retweet" then there's a greater chance of them actually tweeting, so it's worthed ;) Anywyas, if you're using a preset shortened link then it's good, and I like the way it looks ;) bravo!
Ed, it is easy with a few tricks, check out this one http://kovshenin.com/archives/setup-twitter-anywhere-for-wordpress-in-seconds/ called Setup Twitter @Anywhere for WordPress in Seconds. Anyways, the value of this plugin I'm thinking of is not actually the "embedding @Anywhere" part, but having the facebox style popup with a preset status and a shortened link to the post. On Apr 21, 7:09 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting. I took a slightly different approach of embedded the Tweet Box > on my blog and pre-filling it with the title and a shortened URL. > > http://the.hackerconundrum.com/ > > <http://the.hackerconundrum.com/>Abraham > > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:29, kovshenin <kovshe...@live.com> wrote: > > Hey all. I've been working on this little plugin for WordPress that's > > supposed to kind of act like Tweetmeme, but a little bit more branded > > and doesn't actually show the number of retweets, maybe that's a > > drawback, but hey, I wouldn't like to show 0 retweets ;) > > > Anyway, the snippet works with jQuery and Facebox, you can see it in > > action onhttp://kovshenin.comin each blog post. I used the original > > @Anywhere "Follow @.." button but wrote Retweet (is that against the > > law?). > > > I was just wondering what your thoughts are. Is this useful or is this > > yet another crappy parody on tweetmeme? I haven't released the plugin > > public yet, but you'll be able to tweak the url shortener, tweet > > format, etc. > > > Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks! > > > ~ K > > > -- > > Subscription settings: > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en > > -- > Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am > PoseurTech Labs | Projects |http://labs.poseurtech.com > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
