How to Add 'retweet' Button To Your Blogger Blog
The Retweet button is for website and blog publishers that want to encourage their audience to retweet their content on twitter.
A Retweet is a type of message posted (or tweeted) on micro blogging sevice, Twitter, that repeats some information previously tweeted by another user. The person making the Retweet is a Retweeter or a Retweetist.
The Retweet has become a common way to spread information across overlapping social groups online. The principle is simple, my circle of contacts will often vary from your circle of contacts enough that the act of Retweeting what you say has extended value to a greater group of people. It also has the effect of highlighting an interesting piece of information when a third person is a contact of both the original tweeter and the retweetist. Repetition hammers home the point.
Twitter is being used by many bloggers to promote their blogs. This donesn't takes much of your time in contrast reaches all the tweeters who are following you and countless twitter users. This, for sure brings in more traffic to your blog.
Tweetmeme have made their button really smart, with one simple piece of JavaScript, which gives you up to date tweet counts and shorten your title and link for the retweets. Best of all it will work on any web page, anywhere!
Eventhough retweeting the blog post means the credit as the original tweeter goes to tweetmeme, this sure gets more visitors to your blog.
Tweetmeme gives you two types of buttons,Digg Like Bigger Button : Copy and paste the following code where you want the widget to be displayed.
The button is really smart and will automatically grab the URL of the page it is placed on. However if you want to place the button on more than one page or would like it in your feed, you will need to override the URL.
To use the retweet button in your blogger blog copy and paste the following code where you want the widget to be displayed.
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
Compact Button : This is compact version of the tweetmeme button, with the same options as the larger button. Copy and paste the code given below, where you want the retweet button to appear.
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_style = "compact";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
When broadcasting this message, you should give credit to the original poster. While retweeting sounds great for the original tweeter (since there is usually a link involved), retweeting can actually benefit you just as much if not more.
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why does the counter not work when it is retweeted? Its not passing through my analytics filters...also the override resets the bit.ly address sometimes. I have seen this problem brought up on other blogs and yet no one seems to have an answer..?