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Twitter Tweet Buttons Launching This Week

by Amar Toor on August 11, 2010 at 08:05 AM

Twitter Buttons

Expect sharing links on Twitter to become a lot easier this week, with the launch of a new, "official" tweet button. The Twitter-approved button allows users to easily retweet articles, and also features a counter that keeps track of how many other users have tweeted a given URL. The button, which comes in three different versions (110×20, 55×20, 55×63), consists of a single line of code that can be embedded within any website. Mashable went ahead and successfully embedded the standard button, thought it looks as if only a handful of accounts are capable of actually using the feature to retweet articles.

At first glance, it would appear that Twitter's newest feature would pose a direct threat to Tweetmeme, which already produces most of the tweet buttons you see across the Web. But it's unlikely that Twitter would sucker punch Tweetmeme without discussing it beforehand. Mashable speculates that the site may have struck some sort of deal with the developer, although, at this point, the details of any potential deal remain unclear, and Twitter has yet to comment. [From: Mashable]

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