“Twitter Updates” On your Blog

Twitter is one of the most efficient site which is capable of driving lots of visitors to your blogs. I personally use Twitter to pull traffic. The short messages termed as Tweet is quite fascinating which lets the users share their ideas. It is one of the best way of micro-blogging. Tweetmeme is a service which lets you promote your blog by tweets. It guarantees that its a mechanism which lets you get 1000’s of new followers on twitter

I would like to share a simple way to integrate “Twitter Updates” on your blog. Its very simple to execute and quite efficient as it lets your blog reader follow you on twitter and get your latest updates too

Now how to integrate

Follow the steps:

Steps:

Go to:

Layout > Page Elements. Click on Add a Gadget. Select HTML/JavaScript from the list. Copy/paste the code given below and Save.

<div id="twitter_div">
<h2 style="display: none;" class="sidebar-title">Twitter Updates</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a id="twitter-link" style="display: block; text-align: right;" href="http://twitter.com/anand_chauhan">follow me on Twitter</a>
</div>
<script src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/anand_chauhan.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=5" type="text/javascript"></script>

Just replace the red letter line in the snippet by your Twitter username.

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Add Tweet Button In Your Post

Twitter is one the most famous social networking site where people meet and share their thoughts. People get to know each other and interact online. It is nowadays one of the most efficient media where one can use its networking power to pull traffic to their respective sites, blogs or splash pages. In twitter.com one is just required to follow people who bear like mindedness and get followed by similar people. Personally I prefer twitter.com more than any social networking sites.

To pull traffic from twitter I have utility to explore. Its called "tweet button". It facilitates the visitors to share a certain post or article on your blog by just a single click. The button comes in two format: compact and full.

visit the site Tweetme for detailed specification.

To add the tweet me button in blogger blogs I have illustrated the process in best way I could have.

Before following the illustration download the full template as precautionary major

Process:

login to your blogger account and follow the following path

Layout>> edit HTML

Mark the "expand widget" box.

Find for the snippet <data:post.body>

paste the below code just above this code

For FULL MODE

<div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'> <script type='text/javascript'> tweetmeme_url = &#39;<data:post.url/>&#39;; </script> <script src='http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js' type='text/javascript'/> </div>

For COMPACT MODE

<div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'> <script type="text/javascript"> tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> </div>

Preview the template, if there is no error then save the template and Tweet crazily....

If you are really helped by this post then tweet me please.

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