Does anyone else feel bad for the Retweet button?
by AayushGreat news, Twitter announced their very own tweet button today which is nothing more than the forever offered retweet button by TweetMeme, only native. This button once tweeted will also show follow suggestions based on what you just tweeted.
As soon as I heard about this button, my first reaction, even before writing about it was to implement it on geekfill, which I did. I have to agree Twitter native button is better looking and has the better implementation method then that of TweetMeme’s green retweet button which makes Twitter button easier to style.
With all said and agreed in praise for Twitter’s new button, I still felt bad removing those script tags providing me with the good old green retweet button. TweetMeme came up with the idea first and offered it in a great way that everyone loved. so for the old button: So long my little green friend.
TweetMeme is itself in partnership with Twitter to promote their new button in turn for which twitter is providing them with fuller access to their complete data sets which they are using to develop their new product DataSift which is a new kind of search API . Still in it’s pre-alpha stages I haven’t yet researched what it exactly is.
You can find out more about it in this video interview of Nick Halstead CEO of TweetMeme:
oh don’t forget to use out newly implemented Tweet buttons. Go watch & tweet.
Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!