I wonder... Why is the script tag included in the example when the 3
lines below it don't actually use javascript? Does the widgets.js code
automatically transform the buttons? That would be a bad thing...
Besides that, I like it. I haven't checked yet, but is there a mobile
version ready as well?
Tom
On 3/30/11 11:04 PM, Brian Ellin wrote:
Developers, users, and journalists are finding more creative ways to
use Tweets on the web to leverage the power of the network to spread
news. In the past it’s been difficult to make these Tweets
interactive, requiring you to write an OAuth app simply to attach
Reply, Retweet, and Favorite actions to Tweets.
Today we’re releasing a simple new addition to the API called Web
Intents that makes it possible to make Tweets that you display on the
web interactive. Web Intents provide popup optimized flows for all
the ways you interact with Tweets and users on Twitter: Tweet, Reply,
Retweet, Favorite, and Follow. The new tool makes it possible for
users to interact with Twitter content in the context of your site,
without leaving the page or having to authorize a new app just for the
interaction. Web intents are mobile friendly and easy to implement.
For example, here’s how you add Reply, Retweet, and Favorite links to
a specific Tweet:
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";></script>
<p><a
href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=51113028241989632";>Reply</a></p>
<p><a
href="http://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=51113028241989632";>Retweet</a></p>
<p><a
href="http://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=51113028241989632";>Favorite</a></p>
Detailed documentation is available at
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents
To see Web Intents in action check out Wordpress.com’s great tool for
quoting Tweets in blog posts: Twitter Blackbird Pie
<http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter-blackbird-pie/>. Here's a
post that uses their tool to quote @jack's Tweets about our 5 year
anniversary <http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/13/twitters-beginning/>.
We’ve also added these standard Tweet actions to our timeline widgets
<https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets> that are used all over
the web.
We’ve also updated the display guidelines
<http://dev.twitter.com/pages/display_guidelines> with some
suggestions on how to make your Tweets actionable, and made the
standard Reply, Retweet and Favorite icons available for download
<https://dev.twitter.com/pages/image-resources>.
Cheers,
Brian Ellin
Product Manager, Platform
http://twitter.com/brianellin
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