Comments on: Want More Retweets? Use the Official Tweet Button

By: David R Davis, Jr

David R Davis, Jr — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:06:05 +0000

Thanks Leland for mentioning my little plugin here.

David

By: Matthew Guay

Matthew Guay — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:43:16 +0000

@Leland – Good point. I switched to the new Twitter button immediately, just because, but yes, if the Tweetmeme button works for you, hey, it still works!

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:41:28 +0000

I am staying away from it as well for now. I know a lot of big sites have been switching, but this script is only counting retweets since July (so I was told)…

So it really messes up the count on older posts.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:06:08 +0000

Hi Leland

For self coded I think in most situations, and certainly for anything that might appear in the RSS, it is better to use parameters decorating the URL rather than HTML5 data.
http://andybeard.eu/2907/better-twitter-tweet-button.html
There is a response there from the same Twitter developer.

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:48:39 +0000

Heh, that is true. Like I said in the conclusion of the post, don’t see any immediate need to switch. As of now the TweetMeme button works fine.

Basically, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

By: Matthew Guay

Matthew Guay — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:31:43 +0000

The only irony is that this post is still using the Tweetmeme button