Twitter Meets Social Bookmarking With TwitThis

The Twitter mania meets with social bookmarking with TwitThis. It is similar to other social bookmarking icons which you see at the bottom of blog posts across thousands of blogs. Clicking on the TwitThis button lets you share the URL with your Twitter contacts on-the-fly.

TwitThis compress the word count of the link by crunching it through TinyURL, so that they fit within Twitter’s 140 character limit. They provide code for bloggers and webmasters to add TwitThis button on their site. For WordPress users, they have a plugin which helps integrate TwitThis on your blog. Additional, you can also use their bookmarklet in your browser.

Smart implementation, this should really add up and promote Twitter like a flame. However, I’m not a big fan of social bookmarking buttons below blog posts, but it’s a necessity, that is exactly why I have installed Share This plugin from Alex King here.

This post was published by on March 29, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://avirtualexit.com Gili

    I like Twitter, although it can be sometime a productivity killer :)

  • http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/ Brown Baron

    Since Twitter is quite popular I’m sure we’ll be seeing this on a lot of blogs soon. It won’t be on mine though. I’m using Sociable by Peter Harkins.

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  • http://www.dbachrach.com/blog Dustin Bachrach

    I love twitter, but i’m wondering how overrun it will become if people start doing serious social bookmarking in it. I think that’s why we have del.icio.us and the others. I’m all for mashing, but this seems like it’s prone to get out of control.

  • http://www.pdaexpertos.com JJ

    If you are looking for a Treo / Palm OS application to post to Twitter, you can take a look to our new freeware, TreoTwit:

    http://www.mitreo.com/treotwit_twitter_palm_os/
    http://www.pdaexpertos.com/foros/viewtopic.php?t=55687

  • http://www.widecircles.com albert

    REASONS FOR MY LOVE WITH TWITTER

    FOR BUSINESS
    1.Gain exposure for my blogs… and gain potential readers
    2.Build my network with transparency and trust
    3.Market my work, products, services, etc.
    4.Answer questions/ ask questions
    5.Learn new things from other industry professionals
    6.Share tech tips & resources (baby blog post) & teach stuff
    7.Meet and talk with others (some business/some pleasure)
    8.Conference connecter (stay connected, share info, get social)
    9.Seek out industry colleagues for assistance w/ special projects
    10.Safety- Tweet unfamiliar meeting locations & while traveling
    11.Better understand social media
    FOR (MY) PLEASURE

    1.See a new side of your friends
    2.View/Share fitness tips and favorite motivational songs
    3.View/Share fun pictures (of self and others, or random stuff)
    4.View/Share fun links (great sites and other fun blogs)
    5.View/Share local news and events
    6.Exchange great recipes
    7.Tweet the wacky: (ex: running the Bay to Breakers)
    8.Tweet while traveling: (ex: a 24 hour Vegas trip)
    9.Makes you think about your life (What am I doing?)
    10.It’s just plain fun.
    11.It’s free!
    BEST ADVICE

    1.Be yourself.
    2.Don’t tweet your bathroom trips unless something remarkable is happening in there. Or the wallpaper totally rocks!
    3.Interact with twits you relate to, enjoy, can benefit you in some way (like with their amazing knowledge of the real estate industry), or those that are just fun to YOU.
    4.Follow the twits that follow you…unless they are spammers.
    5.Don’t over-tweet. It’s annoying. Seriously. I could name names, but you know who you are.
    6.Don’t share too much. (TMI) EX: When you’re having the mole on your ass removed.
    7.Provide resources or items of value.
    8.Be creative and have fun with it!
    9.Take advantage of apps for streamlining your tweets. (Check out Friendfeed, Twhirl, TwitterBerry)
    10.Add a Twitter widget or bling to your blog for easy access to your tweets and to gain new twits
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    albert