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Add Retweet Counters to Your Website

Tyler Dockery used to cringe when he suggested that his new clients should consider the mantra “Eat Twittter, Sleep Twitter! and Now Blog and share now on Twitter”. Find those words lame? Do you know that several larger design firms and business networking sites have 40% 0r more of their traffic coming from Twitter alone! So what can you can do to get in on that action? Perhaps by using one of those impressive Twitter Retweet Counters, your readers and visitors can share your blog posts with ease. So here is a list of the best Twitter sharing widgets, retweet counters for your Blogs/Websites.

Tweetmeme Retweet counter

Can be arguably called the King Of Retweet counters. Yes, even Tyler Dockery of Dockery Design is currently running the very flexible Tweetmeme retweet counter widget in our blog. So its obviously one of the best of the pack.

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For Wordpress Plugin and how to add/tweak Tweetmeme Counter Visit their site.

<div style=’float:left; margin-right:10px;’>
<script type=’text/javascript’>
tweetmeme_source = &#39;dockery&#39;;
tweetmeme_service = &#39;su.pr&#39;;
tweetmeme_service_api = &#39;43271e92a4266c484bdaefbdcf465235&#39;;
</script>
<script src=’http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js’ type=’text/javascript’/>

TwittLink

A new member on the block, competing with tweetmeme and others. You can Read More About TwittLink Share counter for Blogs

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For Wordpress Plugin and how to add/tweak TwittLink Counter Visit their website above.

<script src=”http://www.twittlink.com/tools/button_b.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”http://www.twittlink.com/tools/button_s.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

Twittley

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A more powerful and sophisticated twitter sharing button which stands out from its other competitors.

BASIC

<script src=”http://twittley.com/button/button.js”></script>

ADVANCED
The Basic Twittley button code above pulls the URL, Title, Keywords, and Description automatically depending on the page it’s found on. If for some reason you would like to customize those parameters, use the code below. Be sure you customize the parameters.

<script>var twittleyurl = “YOUR_URL”; var twittleytitle = “YOUR_TITLE”; var twittleykeywords = “YOUR_TAGS”; var twittleydescription = “SHORT_DESCRIPTION”;</script><script src=”http://twittley.com/button/button.js”></script>

WordPress Download the plugin to your computer. Click here to visit the Wordpress.org Twittley plugin page now.

Retweet.com

The so called “Official Retweet button” for sharing articles on Twitter. This one is a serious competitor to the very popular Tweetmeme Script. And to some extent it stands up to the hype generated with its release.

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The scripts used (replace dockery with your login):

<script type=”text/javascript”><br />username = ‘dockery’;<br /></script> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.retweet.com/static/retweets.js”></script>

There is a compact version as well.

<script type=”text/javascript”><br />size = ’small’;<br /></script> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.retweet.com/static/retweets.js”></script>

BackType Retweet counter BackType has a impressive Retweet counter. If you wish to play with the colors of the widget so that it suits your blog design then BackType Retweet counter just allows you to do that. After Tweetmeme, this one is the most impressive one which provides a range of options to tweak the widget.

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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://widgets.backtype.com/tweetcount.js”></script


For Wordpress Plugin and how to add/tweak BackTweype Counter anc change colors etc, Visit their site using the graphic above.

Some Other Impressive Twitter Share Counters/ Widgets.

Create Your Own Retweet button ~ by Louisgray

The Best part of this Retweet button is that its simple, perfect and a better alternative to the third party scripts which you can host on your own site, and is powered by bit.ly, the officially “Twitter blessed” URL shortener, which tracks total clicks on your share, not how many individual people have sent it.

Wait! You shouldn’t trust me so easily! Why dont you test the buttons by sharing this post on Twitter
If You know of any other Twitter retweet button counters/scripts let me know!

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