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A Tweet Button? Still Waiting For A Tweet Zipper…

Posted by on Aug 12, 2010 | 19 Comments

Twitter has rolled out another new feature, but this is one that is definitely going to go over in a big way. The new Tweet button is something that you can add to your own blog or Web site to help people link to your content much faster than ever before. Let’s say you’re reading an article over on CNN that you think your Twitter followers may enjoy. Simply click the Tweet button on the page, and a small window will open up for you.

The shortened link will already be in the window. Just add whatever text you want before or after the link, and hit the “send” button. Once you’ve done that, the box will actually show you a couple of suggested Twitter accounts you may wish to follow, such as the official account for the Web site you just linked to or the author who wrote the post. Once you are finished, close the window and continue reading on the same page you began on. No more having to copy and paste a link, no more having to find the “right” URL shortener to use. You don’t have to open up your Twitter client or click open a new browser tab to go to the main page. Just one click of the new button takes you where you need to go.

For those of you using WordPress who may be having trouble installing the button on your own site, joesgonesocial has created a small tutorial to help guide you.

Will you be adding this button to your site? Do you see yourself using this when you come across it on sites you frequently read?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ferraripower Andrew Benner

    PowerMac G5 (7,3) 2 GHZ Dual Core, 512MB DDR, 250GB HDD, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I’m actually typing this comment on it right now. My brother received it for free from a friend and has since left it for an i5 baseline Mac Mini, leaving me with a FREE MAC. though it doesn’t really have support for much of anything, i sure am not willing to spend money on a mac, so i gladly use it. As they say, you can’t beat free.

  • http://twitter.com/Paatskie Peter Leijenhorst

    PowerMac G4…catching dust on the attic

  • Anonymous

    A Tandy Coco 3 with all the attachments and 2, count ‘em 2 floppy drives! And boxes of software for it!

  • John Kauth

    A Timex Sinclair. This was one of the earliest home computers. Originally a kit it was later sold assembled. It had a 16K memory add on. Programs were typed in by hand and stored on a cassette tape recorder. A television was used as the monitor.There were magazines with programs to type in available at the time. Was still functioning the last time I demonstrated it a few years ago.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Kubichek/100002467741464 Robert Kubichek

    Timex Sinclair x3 with all the addons 8-)

  • Anonymous

    I have given away all my older computers, and many are still in use by my older relatives, but I am still using a 2001 (or 2002), Mac Powerbook on a regular basis, though it no longer my main machine. Its a capable machine despite its age. My Pb accompanies me everywhere I go except short shopping trips. Wi-Fi for browsing, email and Skype; acts like a library or information center, a business machine running an up to date version of MS office for mac, the display is kind to aging eyes and command/+ can enlarge any type to readable proportions on a full size page. I can even send faxes with the modem! Our kids and family are located all over the country so we’re on the road often. We make reservations with online discounts, check our e’s, research the repair “they” say we need on our vehicle, check customer ratings on the shop, and so forth.
    I know you can do this on a mobil phones these days, but we don’t want or need one in our new low budget lifestyle. My PB may not be the fastest machine on the road, and Apple no longer supports repairs on G4 machines or OS upgrades beyond Leopard (10.5.8), but it still meets every challenge I put to it, and it runs recent software like CS4. When we’re away from home, its easy enough to free up space for camera RAW by utilizing the optical drive for storage and back-up, installation disks for software I rarely use but need, and so forth.
    OSX Leopard runs all my software, including photoshop CS4, MS office for Mac, games, iTunes, and more.
    The machine has been upgraded to 2 GB of pc 2700 DDR ram, from the original max of 1G, and I put a new 7200 rpm IDE HD in there in June; a vast improvement over the pokey original 4200 it replaced. Its a great machine, boots faster today than it did when I bought it, and the cost of the upgrades was negligible. It has a great optical drive that we use in all its functions. In the camper its our media center. We watch DVDs, listen to recorded books, process photos of our day’s adventures and save them on recordable media. Great display, still looks “new”, and in my opinion was the best laptop on the market until the MacBooks came out. Can’t say enough about the powerbook. Its still my favorite out of all the machines I’ve owned or used, before or since.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s see. I did my first programming on a (approx) 12″ x 12″ board that I wired back in 1959. And I had my first PC (a RadioShack TRS-80) in 1980. But I’ve gotten rid of all of my older PCs by donating them to someone who couldn’t afford their own. Now, my oldest (of the 4 I currently own and use) is the 2008 Dell Vista machine which I upgraded to Win 7. In addition, I use a Dell XP machine (newly re-furbished) for my Charitable Foundation and when I pass away, they will get to keep and use it) and I have two newer (2010 and 2011) Acer laptops, both with Win 7 64-bit systems. However, on the Dell Vista (a 32-bit system), I currently still use Lotus Symphony, Lotus Agenda, Lotus Magellan, and XTreeGold (all DOS products) and just recently I added DOS-box to the 2 Acer 64-bit systems so that I could run the Lotus Agenda software and will probably add the other DOS software sometime in the near future.

  • Iroc8

    An Amstrad with TWO 5 1/4 inch drives and a 16 COLOR monitor.  It had 512 ram and an 8088 proc.  I bought an external Radio Shack 20 meg HD thinking I would never be able to fill it.  Of course it ran MSDos ’cause I couldn’t find a copy of PC Dos

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=681289821 Bob Snyder

    My first was an Atari 600XL followed rapidly by a 130XE (with a generous 128k of RAM!) My oldest functioning machine would be my Sony Vaio laptop which came with Vista but has since been upgraded to Windows 7. In between, I’ve had desktops from various manufacturers starting with a Packard Smell with Win95 up to my current system: A Gateway with Win7 (also upgraded from Vista).

  • http://www.facebook.com/scott.loddesol Scott Loddesol

    Have a 1990  white box amd 386 40 4mb memory 120 mb harddrive sitting in a closet gave away the the final upgrade in 2002 only thing original on it was the case

  • http://coffeejitters.net/blog Judy Schwartz Haley

    I recently cleaned out an old storage space and came across the 40 page programming guide for my old Vic-20. No longer have the computer, but just the book brought back some good memories. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UET2NODU4UXV3MJGSU3ZHH3XVA Jim G

    I still have documentation — and building instruction — for a Sinclair ZX81.  Don’t have the computer anymore.  That was the first computer I built and had in my house. As for one that still works I will have to go with this Celeron clone that runs Windows XP. I think it came with NT or millenium (no kidding I also had a laptop running ME).   I use it so my family can store files on it — they use up way too much space on their computer and then say “what does this low drive space mean — oh **** [sound of computer crash]“. 

  • Jim Girard

    64K C/PM system, purchased in 1980, dual 8-inch floppy drive and monitor (each had different brand name). Assembled by consultant, had special desk built, total cost $10,000. Programs: WordStar, BASIC, dBase II. Now in storage but would run like new if I reassembled it.  

  • Frantl2003

    Sharp PC-4500 Series (1987, laptop PC)

    Original Retail Price: $995 to $3,195

    Base Configuration: 7.16MHz 80188-compatible CPU, MS-DOS 2.11,
    two expansion slots, 256K RAM (640K max) and 32K ROM, 3.5-inch floppy
    disk drive, monochrome LCD, parallel port, lead-acid battery pack, AC
    adapter

    Video: 25-line x 80-character text

    Size/Weight: 12.12 x 3 x 13.75 inches, 10 lbs.

    Important Options: MS-DOS 3.2, second 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, external 5.25-inch floppy disk drive, 20MB hard disk drive, GW-BASIC 3.2

  • Hran

    My first computer was a Netronics Explorer 85. It had an intel 8085 cpu and a whopping 4k of on-board memory. It needed a separate serial terminal for access. Via the S-100 buss, you could add additional expansion cards.
    I built mine from a kit in 1978 – soldered EVERY component by hand. Even had to build the power supply from components!
    I added a HUGE 64kb memory card to the S-100 slot.
    There was no OS. It booted to a CLI with Basic available.
    I still have it in a closet with a bone from my first dinosaur kill, and some dirt from my first cave. Those were the days. . .

    • http://twitter.com/MacintoshOSXI Mark Hesser

      Nice! :)
      Thats OLD!
      Does it still work?

  • http://twitter.com/MacintoshOSXI Mark Hesser

    iMac G4 17inch, 1GHz Processor, 768mb RAM, 80GB HD, Super Drive, Pro Speakers, Keyboard and Mouse, running Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8)

  • Anonymous

    An old HP desktop that came with Windows ME pre-installed. It has 125mb of ram and below a 1gh processor.

  • Etoinshrdlu

    I actually still have a CoCo, Color Computer from Radio Shack. It recorded programs in basic to a tape recorder which I also still have.