[twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-12 Thread themattharris
Hey everyone, Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users to share your website with their followers. When they click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and link chosen by you. Once they have sent a Tweet they can choose to follow

Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-12 Thread Clint Ecker
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Today we’re launching the Tweet Button to make it easy for your users to share your website with their followers. When they click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear pre-populated with a message and link

Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-12 Thread Abraham Williams
Clint, Include a data-url attribute in the a element. It will get wrapped in a t.co but the user will still hit the arst.ch domain. a href=http://twitter.com/share; class=twitter-share-button data-url= http://arst.ch/xyz; data-count=vertical data-via=abrahamTweet/ascript type=text/javascript

Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-12 Thread Matt Harris
Hi Clint, The Tweet Button will wrap any URL sent to it as a t.co link so although you can use your own shortener we will still create a t.co link for it. We don't unwrap the short URL, so any analytics you have attached to your shortener can still happen. We also return the URL you sent us with

Re: [twitter-dev] Introducing the Tweet Button

2010-08-12 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
That brings up an interesting question. Can we access t.co analytics now, either (preferably) for free or by paying Twitter? If not, when, if ever, will we be able to access t.co analytics? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a