Making a Living Online

Twitter was once a breading ground for 3rd party applications and add-ons but this year it seems Twitter is going through some changes that may kick popular services like TweetMeme to the curb in favor of it’s own features. Twitter recently announced on it’s blog, a retweet button of it’s own. This retweet button can be added to websites and blogs the same way TweetMeme’s retweet button can the, only issue now.. It doesn’t seem to recognize urls of posts, only the actual page it’s displayed on. This creates an issue to many bloggers on Wordpress and other platforms as posts are displayed on the homepage and category pages.

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You may have stumbled upon this site sometime in the past. The aim is to offer Twitter users the ability to have their tweets retweeted. All someone needs to do is retweet 2 tweets listed on reTweet.it and they have earned 1 retweet for themselves. reTweet.it’s business model however allows users to pay an upfront fee(via paypal) and have a set amount of retweets at their disposal. Paid retweets basically.

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I knew i wanted a compact tweetmeme button for my tumblr post but wasn’t sure if it could be done. Long story short, I took my issue to a Google search query and quickly found the solution I was looking for.

monsieurledan:

I’ve added a Tweetmeme button to this Tumblr. It didn’t take me long to figure out where it should go in my theme, Tweetmeme have a good system so installing it is quite simple. Tweetmeme didn’t seem to pick up on individual post URLs which is why you need to remember to include the line

tweetmeme_url = ‘{Permalink}’;

Here’s how I did it…

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..and rightfully so, what were they thinking? Trying to take #followfriday away from us!

“We’re getting a ton of extremely useful feedback about yesterday’s update to Settings. The engineering team reminded me that there were serious technical reasons why that setting had to go or be entirely rebuilt—it wouldn’t have lasted long even if we thought it was the best thing ever. Nevertheless, it’s amazing to wake up and see all the tweets about this change.

We’re hearing your feedback and reading through it all. One of the strongest signals is that folks were using this setting to discover and follow new and interesting accounts—this is something we absolutely want to support. Our product, design, user experience, and technical teams have started brainstorming a way to surface a new, scalable way to address this need.

Please stay tuned and thank you again for all the feedback.”

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