Hey folks, I have created a twitter account and already have one person following … yay me or jeez I suck.
Couple of questions.
How do you get the “follow me on twitter” thing happening on your site, using php. Is there a standard code block or something to use?
In Invision forum software you can click a twitter icon and it will throw a “tweet” onto your twitter account for the post you have clicked the icon on. Anyone know how to get that happening on standard web pages?
As stated we are still mucking around with this stuff ergo are seeing the available resources etc.
(1) Thought it might be a nice resource for someone to use. We are developing our own graphic with a horror theme naturally and a simple a link seems to be about what we want, “twitter us in hell” or something similar.
(2) Surprised by the number of retweeting services out there really, guess we are talking the twitter market which seems to operate pretty much on the hand holding principle rather than going technical.
Sorry writing this while watching a review copy of “The Descent 2”, not released till 4th Aug here, hence very distracted. Juno is a senator’s daughter … wtf!!!
(1) you don’t like a middle man but you’re ready to use one to replace a simple html link?
(2) you don’t have to use a middle man, it’s just what most others do. you can create your own little tweet me button, just use some php magic to get the current URL in a link and then style that link, here’s how the link to twitter needs to look like: http://www.geoffmanning.com/twitter/url-encode-a-twitter-status-message/ (also pay attention to the link below the article “Share the love, Tweet this article!!” - you might want to incorporate a URL shortener like bit.ly: http://davidwalsh.name/bitly-php
