New Twitter “Tweet Button”
For those of you who have been dreaming of an easier way for your readers to share your posts on Twitter, that day has come. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added an official Tweet Button as an option for all WordPress.com blogs.
How it works: When one of your readers hits the Tweet Button, they will be shown a popup that includes a shortened link to your post. Readers can add in a quick message, and then hit “Tweet” to send the post to their Twitter feed as a tweet — all without leaving your blog.
Additionally, each time a reader tweets your post, you’ll know it: The tool keeps a live tally of tweets, so you’re never in the dark about how your blog posts are performing in the Twittersphere.
To enable the button on your blog please visit the “Appearance > Extras” menu and select the “Show a Twitter Tweet Button on my posts” option.
Update:
We have moved the Twitter Tweet button into Settings > Sharing. You can read more about this move here.
- August 12, 2010
- Features
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this is great! thanks
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Where is my Twitter button? I am using Greyzed theme and I activated it on 12 Aug 10…..I love the idea but I need my button…..
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Right at the bottom of this post: http://lobotero.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/a-sad-indictment/
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Andy et al, as WordPress.com seems to be introducing more and more social media buttons (“Watch This Space!), it would be awesome that where they appear in our chosen theme would be taken into consideration as well. Having one button “up there” and another one “over there” stresses out my design sensibilities.
Just some spicy BBQ wings for thought. 🙂
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Thanks for this. I’m looking forward to what comes for those of us with self installed wordpress.org software on our sites.
Seems something’s coming soon ( https://wordpress.com/blog/2010/08/12/new-tweet-button/#comment-101227 ).
The other thing I was wondering about was the ability to tweet comments? I know that if I was to post on a blog, there could be instances where I want to specifically share my comment on the post. Not sure if something like that could ever be created though w/ the way hashtags are used for a specific comment (I’m assuming shortening it might ignore it?)
Also:
1) Looking forward to it for pages ( https://wordpress.com/blog/2010/08/12/new-tweet-button/#comment-101217 )
2) Thanks for the info for publicize ( https://wordpress.com/blog/2010/08/12/new-tweet-button/#comment-101212 ) , but seems I can’t use this if I have a self-installed wordpress.org blog?
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You could try WordTwit if you’d like something similar to Publicize on your WordPress.org blog.
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great idea!)
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Cheers, thanks!
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Awesome new feature! I’m vigoriously waiting for the Facebook Like button with stats!
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Thank God, you did this! Thanks WordPress team!
That was much needed feature. Now waiting for facebook button! 😛
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Love it, been waiting for a tweet button a long time. Thank you 🙂
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very beautiful, liked this feature, thanks a lot for a wonderful addition
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Please and thank you. Love this.
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à quand le bouton facebook ? 😛
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Yabbadabbadooo!
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Great idea! This will certainly come in handy!
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very useful thanks
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I updated my apperances with a tweet button and I still do not see one on my blog?
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Excellent job!
Thank you.
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This is great! I was hoping you’d add this soon :3 Thanks for your hard work, as always, WordPress!
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Hey Andy,
I’m unable to see the button on my blog http://www.blogstar.com.mx
I’ve changed the language to English since I couldn’t see the Extra menu in Appearance on the Dashboard in Spanish.
Is there anything else I need to do?
Cheers,
Luis
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Please contact support with more details and we’ll get it sorted for you.
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Thanks for this button…. Now waiting for Facebook button. 🙂
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That’s very nice! Thank you! Is there a way to see who tweets an article?
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Hit the count bubble.
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I kinda dislike that the Tweet button is over the categories/tags and the Like button underneath. That looks really ugly in my eyes!
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Looks good, but I would need that for pages, not just posts!
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I too like Maria Clara Paulino cannot see the symbol on any of my posts even though I have the box ticked
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Thank you WordPress! This is a great feature.
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I activated this button in my blog, but it appearing three message boxes. In this post this is happening too.
Can you fix it?
Thanks
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Please contact support and we’ll see what we can do.
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Just enabled the option on my blog. Thanks WordPress!
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Great extra, hopefully all of the other major social buttons are coming soon as well. Keep it up guys/gals.
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Love the Twitter button. Quick question: is there any way to see or track, who tweets your blog? I would love to be able to tell who is reading and then RT’ing for me. Thanks.
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Yes, just hit the count bubble.
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That’s pretty good guys!
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It’s nice for people that use twitter, i see twitter to be quite pointless.
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Loved the new button, but today it went a bit buggy … started showing weird pop-ups so I had to delete it from our posts today. 😦
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Twitter may be having some teething issues, they should clear up.
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Great, but I have to go to each of my pages to see if they got tweeted. Any chance of adding the Tweet stats to the Stats page?
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That might be possible in a future update.
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Ah, good. This WILL come in most handy 🙂
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Yay!!!! 😀 Thank you so much!
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The box is checked, but I don’t see a tweet button. What am I doing wrong? I’m brand new, so I’m sure there’s something I’m not understanding.
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Hurray!
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Sorry, it’s there now.
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Yay! I just did research on how to do such a thing last week and wrote a blog post about the “TweetMeme” shortcode that could be placed within individual posts. But this is even better and easier. Thank you, WordPress!
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Merci beaucoup
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I just started WordPress and want to display ads through adsense. Would you help me?
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I’m probably the last person on Earth who haven’t used twitter yet…but it’s nice to have that option, thanks.
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Excellent, just a few more social media buttons and we’ll be there!
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Excellent feature!
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New button works great!
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This is fantastic! I need to build my twitter and blog reader base and this should help.
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Not sure if this question has been asked (I haven’t scrolled through the previous 224 comments)…
The Tweet button is only visible when someone clicks a particular post on my blog. However, when they simply arrive on my blog via my home page [http://jcrylequotes.com/], the Tweet button is NOT visible. Is this how it is SUPPOSED to be?
Also…please, I beg you, provide us with a Facebook share button. THAT would be THE BIGGEST cause of celebration in WordPress history. 😉
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Hi,
I have had tweets on various posts on my blog, however, when I click on these , no search results appear. Could you please help out with this?
Thank you.
Abbas
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That’s an issue on the Twitter end, you’ll need to contact them if you think it’s incorrect.
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thenks
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That’s amazing, ty.
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I really liked it. It’s a good extra! =)
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Fantastico!!
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Did I thank you yet? 😉
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You are doing a huge favor to all of the wordpress tweethearts!!!! LOVE IT!
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Great ! Now I’ll just wait for Official Facebook ‘Like’ Button and Official ‘Share on Facebook’ Button… 😉
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Great that Tweetmeme’s pioneering re-tweet button is being officially recognised by Twitter – well done Nick!
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This is great. Now we really need the Facebook “Like” button. Or at least allow the official Facebook version of the button.
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Oh yeah, & why is it not visible on the posts from the main page?
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Hi there!
Great feature indeed!
To me next step would be a kind of column in the Posts page counting how many Tweets your post has had so far. Well, just something similar to the columns counting Comments and Likes!
Thanks again,
Floriano.
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Thanks, I have friends reading my gardening blog from twitter, now I can get a count.
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This is Awesome! we need to be social
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Thanks for adding this feature 🙂
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i tried and tried and tried…but never got to put a satisfactory share button…but now at last thank you for the button. It a great thing for me!! and all, of course!! WordPress rocks!
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I am thrilled to see twitter button on my posts. Checked it, checked it again. And I am so happy 🙂
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Thanks for the twitter button. Keep them coming! I like the idea of having them appear on posts when viewing multiple posts at once.
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when I click on the number of tweets for one of my posts I end up on a twitter search page that turns up no results, even though the post show a number of tweets.
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Fantastic news. You guys must be mind readers, I was just thinking the other day how good it would be to have a ‘tweet’ button.
Thanks!
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So nice; thanks for this.
Though would have been much nicer and impacting if the button is placed at the beginning of the post so readers know right away that they can tweet it…
Just checked it out and loving it.
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Great addition…
But I have enabled it over the past 2 hours and it is still not showing… any reason for that?
Or is it going to take effect on new posts instead?
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By default, the buttons are shown on individual posts only. To show the them on your home page and archive pages, you need to change the setting at the end of Sharing options panel. Select “Posts and index pages” dropdown option next to “Show sharing buttons on”.
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Suggestion: I think it would be great if the tweet button showed up in the same place as the “like” button when both are turned on. It is kinda funky to have them in separate spots when both are on.
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This is an awesome way to connect and network with others!
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Suggestion: How about we add a column to the ‘posts’ page with the header ‘tweets.’ This way, we can see in the table on the posts page the number of tweets for each page comparatively (along with the # of likes, # of comments, etc.)
With Love and Gratitude,
The Intentional Sage
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Excellent.
You should evaluate adding some stats for the blog admin, to see the most «twitted» posts and so on, maybe with an optional widget.
Count my vote for a facebook and other social networks buttons too.
Thank you.
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Do you know if there’s any plan to include a Tweet count into the Blog Stats?
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Can I do this on wordpress.org?
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Sharedaddy plugin
is now available for WordPress.org users. This includes the Tweet button and other sharing options.
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Thanks!!! I have already spread the word! Made my day 😉
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Thanks a lot for this, a lot of my traffic comes through Twitter and Facebook so I appreciate these extras. How about the option to actually include a range of social bookmarklets, not just Facebook and Twitter? It would be cool if people could choose to allow the option to submit to Reddit, Digg etc along with StumbleUpon and email. AFAIK you can do this by manually inserting code into each post but that’s pretty cumbersome. I love my WP.com account so please make it happen! Thanks again 🙂
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Great idea. Unfortunately, a lot of times the tweet button says zero and i know it’s been tweeted many times. What’s up with that?
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This is a fantastic feature – it works so easily and lets me tweet blog updates with no hassle at all. I love it.
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I am one of the persons who were dreaming of an easier way for my readers to share my posts on Twitter for a long time.Thanks for your hard work. I like the new button very much.
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thanks! what about for those of us that post on our main page and people don’t need to click into the posts in order to read them? (see my blog for example : http://photothought.com/ )
in other words, my posts just hang out on the main page for everyone to read. Is it possible to add “tweet” and “facebook like” buttons on the main page at the side of each post?
that would be fantastic!
thanks!
roberto
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Well I turned on the Twitter Button under Appearance/Extras, but I’m not seeing it? Would also like to know how to turn on the “Like” button as well. I’ve managed to turn on the “Rate this” with the stars, but that’s about it. Advice would be welcome, thank you :o)
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The sharing buttons are showing up on your posts. Please change the Sharing option if you want to display them your home page (Show sharing buttons on -> Posts and index pages)
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Thanks for the new feature. I have enabled it.
Sorry if this is a newbie question, but I noticed the Tweet button doesn’t appear after articles displayed on my homepage. It only appears if I open the article itself. The “Rate This” buttons on the other hand appear in both places.
Is that the behavior I should be expecting on the Tweet button?
If not, could it be a problem with the theme I am using?
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Activation took no 10 seconds and a first tweet has been made by a reader an hour later. Great stuff . More like that ! 🙂
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Now people can tweet out my posts. Yay!
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This is so exciting!!!!!!!!!! I have just enabled it for my blog; I’m looking forward to using it more! Thanks, WordPress, you guys are the best!
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Hi!
How do I see the amount of people who clicked on the button?
Thanks
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You can access blogs share stats from Blog Stats page. Please visit the Sharing support page for more information.
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Nice…! thanks a lot.. 🙂
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My dream came TRUE!!!! Yeeeeeeeeeey 😀
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this is rock!!! my blogstat is raisin high since i use this!!! thank you WP, it’s awesome!!! 🙂
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This is a great feature. I enabled it and discovered I had some tweets on some of my posts. Awesome work Andy P. Thanks.
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Great.
i love this button and use it on my blog
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Thanks!…Now we need a stumbleupon button
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To WORDPRESS: Could you please add a FACEBOOK button. Over here, few people use TWEET, most are on FACEBOOK. Please add a Facebook button soon.
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Your wish is our command! https://wordpress.com/blog/2010/08/24/more-ways-to-share/
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I have added code in my text on the widgets that will share my page . . . try this code to have the toolbar seen on my page at http://www.drdianehamilton.wordpress.com on the right side that says “please share my page”:
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Yess! Great idea 😀
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