tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post1427061918989304967..comments2024-03-06T03:58:39.540-06:00Comments on The Viral Garden: Want to give your readers a way to tweet your posts?Mack Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02723628321171539590noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-81768812203208624522009-01-11T17:06:00.000-06:002009-01-11T17:06:00.000-06:00Great idea, by posting and retweeting your post to...Great idea, by posting and retweeting your post to the Twitter world will definitely give you a boost and exposure!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-82661000195303695082009-01-09T22:34:00.000-06:002009-01-09T22:34:00.000-06:00Hey Mack (et al.) -- I went looking for a TweetThi...Hey Mack (et al.) -- I went looking for a TweetThis style plug-in a few weeks ago with frustrating results.<BR/><BR/>Yours is at least the third or fourth post of seen this week about building in the ability for readers to automatically Tweet a post.<BR/><BR/>I keep wondering, though -- doesn't the ShareThis plug-in have this feature built-in? Does that plug-in work on Blogger?<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your insights, as always, Mack.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-6205458605181814632009-01-09T10:42:00.000-06:002009-01-09T10:42:00.000-06:00@Paul Chaney: There are actually a lot of WP codes...@Paul Chaney: There are actually a lot of WP codes out there for other services, but I found this one among the few for Twitter:<BR/><BR/>http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/tweet-thisAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00010953181256940447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-27607375494743046142009-01-09T10:38:00.000-06:002009-01-09T10:38:00.000-06:00Great idea. Now if only you'd do this for me. All ...Great idea. Now if only you'd do this for me. All I can do is write. I suck at all things technical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-62227622587659529212009-01-09T10:29:00.000-06:002009-01-09T10:29:00.000-06:00Your code is indigenous to Blogger. Be nice if som...Your code is indigenous to Blogger. Be nice if someone could come up with similar for Wordpress. I would, but time is not available to do so at the moment. Is there a WP code ninja out there that could whip this together in short order?<BR/><BR/>Also, Hubspot has created a little app called Tweetit that does the same thing: http://twitter.grader.com/tweetitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-9392940158616523682009-01-09T03:42:00.000-06:002009-01-09T03:42:00.000-06:00waw nice one... i like it thank you.will be adding...waw nice one... i like it thank you.<BR/><BR/>will be adding it to my blog template!<BR/><BR/>cheers!<BR/>jean<BR/>http://www.jean.ghalo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-88608608964833014812009-01-09T01:27:00.000-06:002009-01-09T01:27:00.000-06:00Love the idea!I got it to work on wordpress.com by...Love the idea!<BR/><BR/>I got it to work on wordpress.com by toying around with it for a bit, and added an image of the twitter bird beside it. You can see how it looks on the post I just put up. (yes, I was up writing a blog post at 2:30 a.m.)<BR/><BR/>http://twurl.nl/4o3jvc <BR/><BR/>I just dropped the html into the actual post instead of messing with any template tonight, though that means I'd have to do it manually every time. But here's the code I used, personalized for my post and twitter handle, along with the image of the Twitter bird:<BR/><BR/>AMENDED: Well, I tried to share the html, but blogger wouldn't let me drop it in the comment. Will have to figure out another way to share it with you. Hmmm...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-40143298700425050102009-01-09T01:26:00.000-06:002009-01-09T01:26:00.000-06:00Mack, nice work. It would be great to shorten the ...Mack, nice work. It would be great to shorten the url somehow as it takes up most of the 140 characters. But that is way beyond my technical abilities.Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00330430037744070023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-74302258548898233802009-01-08T17:09:00.000-06:002009-01-08T17:09:00.000-06:00The only thing I can't get it to do is generate a ...The only thing I can't get it to do is generate a fully-formed tweet in addition to sending the URL to Twitter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00010953181256940447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-57503433787512680662009-01-08T16:32:00.000-06:002009-01-08T16:32:00.000-06:00Ok Kyle try this; see if you can find a Delicious ...Ok Kyle try this; see if you can find a Delicious or Digg bookmarker to add to the end of your posts. Add it, then examine the code it uses, and compare it to the code for the Twitter one. It might be that you need to change the BlogItemPermalinkURL, or something, it might be called something else in the new version of Blogger template.<BR/><BR/>If you can find a similar code that DOES work with your version of the Blogger template, you should be able to tweak my code to make it work on your blog.<BR/><BR/>And if you do make it work, blog it and I'll update this post to point to your post!Mack Collierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02723628321171539590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-70923246030258107842009-01-08T16:28:00.000-06:002009-01-08T16:28:00.000-06:00Yeah, it's the new one. My best guess for proper p...Yeah, it's the new one. My best guess for proper placement resulted in this when I hit Preview<BR/><BR/>Invalid variable declaration in page skin: Variable is used but not defined. Input: BlogItemPermalinkURLAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00010953181256940447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-27725254748098790862009-01-08T16:17:00.000-06:002009-01-08T16:17:00.000-06:00Kyle do you have the 'new' version of Blogger temp...Kyle do you have the 'new' version of Blogger template? I am still on the old one, I think that's why it doesn't look the same.<BR/><BR/>Try looking for an area that's for the post, then if you can find an area that says its the End of the post area, put it right before that and see what happens.Mack Collierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02723628321171539590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24784219.post-68999221816865082502009-01-08T16:12:00.000-06:002009-01-08T16:12:00.000-06:00I'm not seeing the same reference points in my Blo...I'm not seeing the same reference points in my Blogger template. Care to assist?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00010953181256940447noreply@blogger.com