Why I use 2 WordPress plugins for Retweet Button on my blog
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Twitter is fast becoming the center for Businesses promotion and Targeting the users. Marketers are not leaving any stone unturned to do solid publicity about their Product on Twitter. In this age, it is most important to market your Blog properly on twitter and get the most out of it. It is very essential for the proper growth of your blog on the Social Media Scene.
You can use various Twitter ReTweet plugins on your WordPress blog to help your visitors share your articles on Twitter. You may have observed that I use Two ReTweet buttons on my blog. Do you know why?
I recently faced a problem with the Tweetmeme plugin as it was not updating my Twitter Status even when I was retweeting a lot of posts on various blogs using this plugin. So, I started using the Topsy plugin too along with the old Tweetmeme one. The reason why I dint remove the Tweetmeme plugin was, It is the most used Twitter Retweet plugin. Most people are very comfortable using it. So, I am still keeping the Topsy plugin if in-case that Tweetmeme stops working anytime.
Note: Tweetmeme Button was not working for sometime on All the blogs because there was some maintenance work going on as a small bug was being corrected.
Now I am listing for wordpress plugins which basically help your readers to ReTweet the posts on your blog. Most of them give you and option for Selection between different button sizes and Tweet using your username i.e. An @ reply will also be send to the Twitter account you specify in the settings.
TweetMeme Button
The most used WordPress Plugin for Twitter ReTweet function.
Topsy Retweet Button
The second most popular WordPress plugin for the same.
Note: A small difference between the Tweets which the Tweetmeme and the Topsy button send out is that, the Tweetmeme button sends out the tweet with the Title of Post Specified for SEO purposes i.e. The title you specify in the All in One SEO pack. The Topsy button sends out the tweet with Title specified in your Blog post.
Retweet.com Button
It is the official wordpress plugin from Retweet.com showing number of retweets of a post.
Twitter ReTweet
This plugin supports custom URLs, so it is perfect for Google Analytics Campaign Tracking.
Do let me know which one Plugin you use and Why? I am curious to know the reasons..
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Comments (32)
Ramkumar
February 17th, 2010 at 8:50 am
Has the usage of two retweet buttons made any difference mate?
sudharsan @ technoskillonline
February 17th, 2010 at 9:30 am
R u using different title for blog post and Title in All in one seo ????
whether it is good ???
please guide me how to optimize title and 160 words post in All in seo pack ??
I’m giving same title for both
Rohit Sane
February 17th, 2010 at 10:03 am
@Ramkumar: Yeah! It is good in Retweeting same link with different titles, so we know which one do people like.
@Sudharshan: I use different blog title and different All in One SEO title. It is of course good to optimize your blog for Search engines.
I think you are talking about 160 characters meta description in the All in one SEO. Stay tuned to my next posts, I am going to talk about it.
Julius Kuhn-Regnier
February 17th, 2010 at 11:35 am
I don’t use any of the plugins you mentioned but I might start to use one of them soon. I have to think about it.
I personally don’t like to install too many WordPress plugins because they slow WordPress down. I have myself installed a pretty easy to use Twitter button which I think is working. All I did was simply to copy and paste some PHP code into my WordPress theme.
Hernan@TechFC.com
February 18th, 2010 at 2:26 am
I use TweetMeme Button. Sometimes the Tweetmeme doesn’t work, so the Twitter status can not update when you retweet.
Rohit Sane
February 18th, 2010 at 4:59 am
@Julius: I saw the ReTweet function on your blog. Its a good use of PHP code. But you are missing the @ retweet facility there.
@Hernan: This is among the major reasons why I use the Two buttons.
TechOfWeb
February 18th, 2010 at 9:57 am
where is topsy button? I am not able to see iit on your blog. I just see tweetmeme button. Infact tweetmeme is most widely used twitter plugin
Atul
Rohit Sane
February 18th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
@Atul: The Topsy button is just besides the TweetMeMe button. I can’t understand how you missed it.. Anyways, No problem..
Mad Geek @beingPC
February 19th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Does it really helps?
Rohit Sane
February 19th, 2010 at 3:03 am
@Mad Geek: It is helping me for sure!
TechChunks
February 19th, 2010 at 7:19 am
I find it amusing that for some reason Topsy is usually better at tracking all the retweets than Tweetmeme. May be, I should also switch to Topsy button soon.
Agent Deepak
February 19th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
I use Topsy Retweet Button. It is better than other plugi-ns. Different colors. Lots of feature.
Rohit Sane
February 20th, 2010 at 6:22 am
@TechChunks and @Agent Deepak : Because of various options available, people are slowly shifting to Topsy, but maximum users still use TweetMeMe.
kis key
February 20th, 2010 at 7:52 am
I am using TweetMeme button for my blog.It is working good.
RRH
February 25th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Can you tell me how I should add retweet button with code. I don’t like plugins
Gojeg
February 25th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Hi, Backtype Retweet Button is also good plugin for WordPress..
Rohit Sane
February 25th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
@Gojeg: Yeah! I missed that!
Rohit Sane
February 25th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
@RRH : I am going to write about it soon!
Ching Ya
February 26th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Retweet button is my favorite, gotta love it. ^^ Retweet plugin is a must if one is intended to have the blog post shared easily. Make it convenient. Thanks for sharing the various plugins.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
Avi Singh
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:35 am
Nice post Rohit!!
Well, I am using Tweetmeme button on my blog and If I have to tweet someone’s blog post, I never use these buttons……I use Twitterbar Extension.
Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats
March 10th, 2010 at 3:22 am
In my opinion using 2 tweet plugins wont make a good difference.. anyways would love to hear it from you..
Rohit Sane
March 10th, 2010 at 3:48 am
@Rajesh: I am benefiting from the Two Retweet plugins.
NavaPavan
March 10th, 2010 at 5:42 am
I use Tweetmeme button in my blogs.
Ritika
March 16th, 2010 at 12:46 am
Hi,
I use TweetMeme pugin too sometimes the Tweetmeme doesn’t work, so the Twitter status doesn’t update when you retweet.. Any idea why??
Rohit Sane
March 16th, 2010 at 12:52 am
@Ritika: There is some server problem from the Tweetmeme end..Nothing on our part!
Sarah Lee
April 15th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Top post – thanks for this. Tweetmeme didn’t agree with my theme, but Topsy does as I can exclude categories. Excellent!
Violet
June 11th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Truly helpful post – Thank you. I had been looking for the best way to add a re tweet button to my WP blog & automatically thought tweet meme would be best as I had seen it so often on other sites.
Your comment regarding the difference in the way tweetmeme & topsy retweet titles has made me think about paying some attention to seo.
So I m off to research the all in one seo plugin – thanks for the help. I think your blog is certainly going to help me make my blog the best it can be
Cheers
Esthon
July 31st, 2010 at 1:55 am
Hi, how do you get all the share buttons to line up? I want to add twitter, facebook, reddit, digg, etc and there are separate plugins for each one but I would like to have them all lined up. do you have a single plugin for it? I would really really appreciate your help
Rohit Sane
July 31st, 2010 at 2:26 am
@Esthon: use the Digg Digg plugin. It will hep you for such customization!!
kip152
August 15th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Never mind that. How do you get twitter to work with wordpress? There’s a million different things in support, NONE work, or even make any sense. Not just for me, but there’s tons of comments that say the same thing.
List Building
November 9th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
hey,
has adding plugins on your site cause the loading to slow down in anyway?
Rohit Sane
November 10th, 2010 at 4:45 am
@Mivka: It does, So You must install only necessary plugins.
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