New TweetBack This Button

Jan 9th 2009 View Comments

Just another quick post to let everyone know about the new button I’ve released for TweetBacks, you can see it on an older post, as well as on this one.

This buttons was graciously designed by Jeff at GoMedia who also did the bigger TweetBacks logo.

To use the number-of-TweetBacks feature you’ll need to turn on the TweetStats feature of TweetBacks, otherwise it’ll just say “Tweet”.

To use just copy and paste the code below like you would with a Digg button.

<script src="http://danzarrella.com/rtjs.php?from=danzarrella&title=New+TweetBack+This+Button"></script>

You can also optionally provide your Twitter username after ‘from=’ and the text you’d like the TweetBacks to contain after ‘title=’. If you don’t include these parameters, the TweetBack will just include a shortened link to your post and your readers can provide their own descriptions.

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http://www.livecrunch.com Livecrunch

I like it!
When I get time i’ll post something @Livecrunch about it.

Keep it coming Dan!
http://twitter.com/jfredson John Fredrickson

Awesome work Dan. The image isn’t loading correctly though as the src doesn’t include the full url to your domain (it is only “rt-0.png” when it should be “http://danzarrella.com/rt-0.png”).

For people looking to integrate this into WordPress, you can just add the following code to your theme on the page that displays posts.

Just below , add:

<script src=”http://danzarrella.com/rtjs.php?from=username&title=”>

Then just change “username” text and you are good to go.
http://twitter.com/jfredson John Fredrickson

Meh, html in previous post got bonked. Let me try like this:

<script src=”http://danzarrella.com/rtjs.php?from=username&title=”>
http://twitter.com/jfredson John Fredrickson

Maybe like this:

<div style="float:left;padding-right:10px;">
<script src="http://danzarrella.com/rtjs.php?from=username&title=<?php the_title(); ?>"></script>
</div>
http://twitter.com/jfredson John Fredrickson

By the way, what’s the delay between a tweet and the tweetback engine picking it up?
http://twitter.com/jfredson John Fredrickson

Another thought… It would be awesome if we could specify a url parameter for the script in case you want to display tweetbacks on the home page of your blog for individual blog posts. Currently (as you can see on your own home page), including the script in each blog entry on the home page will only check tweetbacks for the home page, not the individual entries that the tweetbacks are displayed in.

Digg does this with a simple js parameter.
http://coldacid.net Chris Charabaruk

Now I’ll need to figure how to add this to my Drupal module for Tweetbacks. Keep up the great work, Dan!
http://www.twitter.com/qutequte kelly

Good one! Would love to know how I can integrate this into WordPress blog! Anyone has info please feel free to twit me!
http://billbolmeier.com Bill Bolmeier

Very nice tool and Digg-like effect with the logo. I don’t have the “Tweet this post” and the No Tweet Yet shows up on my first blog post only on my home page. Plus I don’t have the retweet this image. So I’ll keep reading here and playing a bit but might wait until I have more control over what’s going on.