Now I'm getting curious about the road map for @anywhere and all the
miscellaneous Twitter plugins, especially for WordPress. Last year,
when Twitter announced @anywhere, I tried a couple of plugins before
settling on one. What I got from that was hovercards, tweet boxes and
follow buttons.
A few months later, I discovered that the trips to Twitter servers
were slowing down my blog's page loads, so I stopped using @anywhere.
Since then, there have been some other JavaScript tools from Twitter,
and now this "Follow Button."
So I've put a follow button on my blog. So far it doesn't seem to be
slowing it down, but it's only been up a couple of hours. In any
event, is @anywhere "deprecated", in favor of the most popular single
functions from the collection, like follow buttons? Or are there
always going to be multiple "JavaScript / HTML widgets and gizmos"
coming from Twitter that users need to track?
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Quoting Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com>:
Hey developers,
Today we're launching the Follow Button! Similar to the Tweet Button,
it's a new widget that lets users easily follow a Twitter account from
any web page. The Follow Button has a single click follow experience,
simple implementation model, and is configurable to fit the needs of
your website.
Read our announcement on the Twitter blog, and use the resources below
to set up your own Follow Button:
- Create a Follow Button here:
http://twitter.com/about/resources/followbutton
- Detailed documentation: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/follow_button
We’ve also added a Javascript layer to our Buttons and Web Intents
that makes it possible for you to detect how users are interacting
with these tools, and to hook them up to your own web analytics. More
details on: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents-events
We're excited to see how you guys will implement the Follow Button.
Let us know what you think, or if you have any questions.
Arnaud / @rno
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