For those of using the TweetMeme plugin for WordPress, they just updated it. For those of you that have never used the plugin, it allows Twitter users to tweet your post by simply clicking the button. Mine is at the bottom of this post on the left.
The new update includes two new features where you can control the number of blank spaces to leave at the end of the tweet, and the ability to include hashtags. This could be a great improvement.
By leaving the extra blank spaces at the end, say 20 for example, leaves just enough room for others to retweet yet again. The ability to include hashtags is also a welcomed extra. If you select this option the tweet will automatically include hashtags with the tags you used for the post. I know from personal experience that the use of hashtags is a great way to get more retweets, if not by real users, then by tweet bots.
The hashtag feature also allows for you to specifically suggest a particular tag by either using the plugin settings or by adding them in a posts custom field under: tm_hashtags.
Still hoping the TweetMeme button will work for me, but we will have to wait and see. Here is a my last post about TweetMeme: TweetMeme Button Two Months Later.
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Thanks for the heads-up. I’m up to 14 total visits from tweetmeme since the blog went live in January. It’s not a huge traffic stream (Google have sent 2,104), but they all add up.
I don’t understand about adding spaces at the end of a tweet. Can’t people retweet if they want to, regardless of extra spaces? The hashtags are a great idea though!
Guy.
I believe the extra space reasoning is that it leaves room for someone whom receives the tweet to retweet or add a comment.
And of course there is another update today. Apparently the button was not displaying correctly when used in a feed. Now it is.
This plugin is really cool. I’m using it on one my site. Your article can be easily spread to the crowd with the help of this useful web application.
nothing forthcoming.. real shame
This a article is great, but i still never find what am looking.
I want to add my button manually to any position that i chose but calling their manual out function tweetmeme(). But from my wp admin page, when i setting to manual and call the function from my theme, the button never get displayed.
Please any help is appreciated.
thanks.
My apologies for the lack of content over the last few weeks. I’ve been hard at work on my first wordpress plug.
Anyone care explain the difference between tweetmeme and the official twitter thing ? … seems like they do the same thing to me