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237 bloggers like this post 140 Comments Newer Comments » raditherapy
August 12th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

finally…i’ve been waiting for this…awesome!

Mayu
August 12th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

Yay, that’s awesome!

Egnaldo Oliveira
August 12th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

Great! I hope now for a Facebook Button

starrygirl1
August 12th, 2010 at 3:47 pm

Finally! Thank you so much for this – beats trying to remember to put in a script every time you write a post! Thank you for listening to us!

shoutabyss
August 12th, 2010 at 3:48 pm

I love this!! Not that anyone will ever use it on my blog, though.

Scott Thomas Photography
August 12th, 2010 at 3:50 pm

Slick! Thanks!!!!!

Slik
August 12th, 2010 at 3:51 pm

This is great news I was just reading a blog post that had this tweet button and I was wondering how they got it on their WP.com blog then I went over to twitter to see if that tweet went through from me pressing the button and that’s when I saw that WP.com had an official blog post about this new button via Twitter… Thanks again for all the hard work staff does for WordPress,

ghost301
August 12th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

OMG! I was just thinking whether wp.com will take the initiative to integrate the Twitter button to the post and there it comes! Thanks wp.com! Please consider to integrate other social networks also!

fotdmike
August 12th, 2010 at 3:54 pm

Excellent! Exactly one of the things I’ve been hoping would happen. Well done.

Sara @ Tedious Life
August 12th, 2010 at 3:55 pm

I was actually thinking about starting a Twitter account 5 minutes ago. How weird is that? This may come in handy if I do create an account. Thanks!

T. Mathis-Payne
August 12th, 2010 at 3:55 pm

Very cool!!!!

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bassitone
August 12th, 2010 at 3:56 pm

Does this mean the Tweetmeme shortcode will become obsolete?

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:09 pm

The Tweetmeme shortcode remains the same, you’ll need to decide which one you’d like to use.

timethief
August 12th, 2010 at 3:57 pm

Thank you for this very useful feature. I appreciate it.

Dinesh Wagle
August 12th, 2010 at 3:57 pm

why not enable put an option that lets blog owners to put the tweet button wherever they want like you have done for the rating option that can be put at the top or at the button of the post.

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:08 pm

We may extend it to allow for this in the future.

kkhalifax
August 12th, 2010 at 3:57 pm

Suh-weet. Enabled.

kaitvinson
August 12th, 2010 at 3:58 pm

YESSSSS!!

dhimasln
August 12th, 2010 at 3:58 pm

WOW,, this is what i’ve been waiting for. thank you

Matches Malone
August 12th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Will this post on all my past posts, or only on those in the future?

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:07 pm

It includes all of your past posts.

cOokie
August 12th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Suuperr !! i like it !!

Rookie Photographer
August 12th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Much need functionality, Looks like next stop will be facebook “Like” button

Maria Clara Paulino
August 12th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Hi, It sounds great, but it is not working for me. I added it on extras but no tweet symbol appears on my blog.

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:07 pm

Please check that the option is selected under “Appearance > Extras” then take a look at a single post, you should see it at the bottom as you do on this post.

Randy Osae
August 12th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

You guys at WordPress are incredible!

My http://redlondon.wordpress.com/ works greater now!

sharma24
August 12th, 2010 at 4:01 pm

Nice, comfortable for WordPress audience. Thoughtful. Technology at its best. Thanks!!

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VotingFemale
August 12th, 2010 at 4:01 pm

Great feature addition!!!

just used it and woosh! It worked.

This saves me a lot of time and now I much more inclined now to tweet announce my posts.

joshi daniel
August 12th, 2010 at 4:02 pm

this was something needed

Dan North
August 12th, 2010 at 4:03 pm

Excellent! Will sign up for it immediately.

shivas1regal
August 12th, 2010 at 4:04 pm

Interesting.

rejistania
August 12th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

How can I switch it off?

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:52 pm

It is off by default. Make sure you have the option in “Appearance > Extras” unchecked.

Brendan Locke
August 12th, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Awesome.

Kevin Phillips
August 12th, 2010 at 4:14 pm

Thank you. This is a very nice feature.

I was able to enable it easily as noted in the instructions. However I was bummed to see it not work on my main page http://www.noodleonthis.com because I have the three current posts on my main page. It seems to only work on pages with a single post.

For a future feature request, it would be nice to see it work on a page with multiple posts.

Thanks. Good work!

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:52 pm

We may add this as an option soon.

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richardmpotter
August 12th, 2010 at 4:16 pm

Excellent. I’ve been waiting for this option. You must’ve read my mind. You guys are awesome.

Matthew Guay
August 12th, 2010 at 4:16 pm

Where’s the plugin for self-hosted WordPress.org installs?

Still, great job on the quick integration in WordPress.com!

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

We’ve got a something great in the works, keep an eye out next week for it on the WordPress.org plugin repo.

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Justin A. Peters
August 12th, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Great feature! Thanks for the work involved! Would love to see a Facebook button!

sbafarms
August 12th, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Great, is this available for wpmu buddy press installs on our own domain yet? the tweetmeme is what we are using now. this would be much simpler Thanks you guys rock

Flynn
August 12th, 2010 at 4:25 pm

Neat! With one arm extended to the heavens, I pray that one day to own one of those fancy cellphones so I could `Tweet` at the moment.

सोलु अनलाईन
August 12th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

Its really awesome and I am waiting for “share on facebook” as well.

Barb McMahon
August 12th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

Thank you so much! You guys rock!!!!

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Egnaldo Oliveira
August 12th, 2010 at 4:31 pm

Only for posts? And pages?

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:41 pm

Just for posts at the moment.

craftystaci
August 12th, 2010 at 4:31 pm

I guess it’s time for me to take the Twitter leap. A similar button for Facebook would be nice!

AKHMAD SUDRAJAT
August 12th, 2010 at 4:34 pm

Thank you…
I hope can be done for FaceBook and other social bookmark….

theosophywatch
August 12th, 2010 at 4:34 pm

This is a much sought after plus, thank you guys & gals! But my dreams have more of a “facebook” wish…when can we expect to see that ubiquitous “F” on wordpress blogs right next to tweet?

sathitharan
August 12th, 2010 at 4:35 pm

That is indeed a great function.
But you notice this only when you open a post, but when you are in the home page which displays two of my recent posts, I don’t see the tweet button.
Also it will be great if it would automatically tweet (like it does on facebook) when we post a new post.

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:39 pm

This is just on single post pages. You can use our publicize feature to tweet your new posts automatically.

P&M Equitacion
August 12th, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Wonderful!!!!!

samedifference1
August 12th, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Thank you wordpress… this is brilliant!

Bibson
August 12th, 2010 at 4:39 pm

Keeps getting better and better. Thanks for all the good work.

CurtissAnn
August 12th, 2010 at 4:39 pm

Whoo-hoo! Thank you for simplifying my life!

Don Pezzuto Lighting & Electrical Srvices
August 12th, 2010 at 4:39 pm

Sweet!!!!!

Driving Instructors UK
August 12th, 2010 at 4:43 pm

I don’t have an extras section in my appearance menu.

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

If you go to your blog dashboard you’ll see the “Appearance” menu on the left hand side. Under this menu is the “Extras” menu where you’ll find the setting.

Mary
August 12th, 2010 at 4:43 pm

Awesomeness!

Tarah
August 12th, 2010 at 4:44 pm

i’ll try this out later; it makes the blog look more high-tech.

Joe
August 12th, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Terrific new feature. And placing the button on older posts retroactively is particularly useful. Thanks.

lazarusdodge
August 12th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Good idea and appreciate it. But the Tweet button only shows up if I open the comments section. Would be much more useful if it was available when you open the blog itself with multipages displayed. Similar issue with Like button…why is it hiding?

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

As mentioned above, we’ll likely add this as an option very soon.

Milo
August 12th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Thank you! And Finally! Have been manually adding the tweetmeme shortcode on every post for months. Hope this works as well. That said, it doesn’t appear to visually show (on the button) how many people have tweeted it…

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 5:14 pm

It will show the tweet count by default. I think Twitter are tweaking things on their end right now so the count is a little intermittent.

Sven Frauen
August 12th, 2010 at 4:46 pm

Brilliant feature!!!
Now I would love if you implement native Facebook sharing as well

Matt Thomas
August 12th, 2010 at 4:48 pm

Thank you. This is so cool it almost makes up for the Cutline/Coraline debacle.

nexttolastblog
August 12th, 2010 at 4:55 pm

Cool. Is the button retroactive on older posts or just new ones going forward? Thanks.

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 5:13 pm

All posts, new or old.

Arindom
August 12th, 2010 at 4:56 pm

Thanks for adding this feature. It’s great!!

As you have already mentioned above, will wait to see the Twitter button in the page (main page where all the blog posts appear) also.

Brigid
August 12th, 2010 at 5:01 pm

FINALLY. Thank you thank you thank you!

Aron F. Gibson
August 12th, 2010 at 5:05 pm

Finally, that’s great. thank you!

Madhuri Kumar
August 12th, 2010 at 5:06 pm

Puleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease do a Facebook button sooner too!!

Anne Lessing
August 12th, 2010 at 5:14 pm

How thoughtful! I’m off to add this now!

Thanks for all the awesome features. You make WordPress sinfully easy to love. ^^

lestat546
August 12th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

great wordpress….\m/

Daddy
August 12th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

Hey Andy,
1) I am absolutely astounded that this feature is OFF by default.
Kudos to WP for FINALLY establishing features but not popping things up on our blog without asking us first. It’s nice to be respected that maybe we DON’T want this feature. This is in stark contrast to the “Like” button that popped up on my blog with no forewarning and then my wife asked me WTF was that- as if _I_ had put it there.

2) thanks for being here to respond to comments.

3) thanks for the tweet button. I think, as others do, it should be on each post, not on the site as a whole. I currently do this manually, with GetSOCIAL.

lastly, I hope you guys are still working on the Facebook linking.
It was nice to have at first, but it had no image. Now it pulls an image, which is great, but it still doesn’t have a “Share” button.
If I click on the image in Facebook, it takes me to the blog post.
If I click on the title in Facebook, it takes me to the blog post.
So there’s no reason for the “Read Original Post” which would be a thirdly redundant link to the blog post.

But enabling people to “share” the item on Facebook, gets me a lot more eyeballs, because it can be shared, and shared, and shared…
But right now, it can’t.

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 6:38 pm

We’re working on lots of new ways to share your posts, so look out for more soon.

C.L. Dyck
August 12th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

YESSSS!! Rocks! Okay, I also vote Facebook button too plz.

lestat546
August 12th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

I need facebook button

kendylau
August 12th, 2010 at 5:19 pm

Great news and very excellent function. Hope that we would get facebook button soon enough!!:P

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August 12th, 2010 at 5:22 pm

This is terrific — what a great addition. Thank you so much!

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swordglint
August 12th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

OH THANK YOU. I was wondering when!! And hopefully we’ll be able to add FACEBOOK and other media too soon!!

rretsiem
August 12th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

That’s really great!
Thank you!!

msyoungmd
August 12th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

NIIIIIIICE!!! This is going to be LOVERLY

carsonmatthews
August 12th, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Good Stuff,thanks!

Jafar Al-Hassan
August 12th, 2010 at 5:34 pm

I like the idea.

TeacherMom
August 12th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

Why does it appear so close to the end of the blog post text? It seems very crowded! On your post here, there is a nice double-spaced effect, but on both of my blogs, the button seems to smash into the final paragraph of the post.

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 5:44 pm

I’m looking in to fixing this for you.

plano10
August 12th, 2010 at 5:36 pm

Multumesc!

wendyokill
August 12th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

This is great, I have enabled the tweet button on my blog page

O. Braga
August 12th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

That’s really nice! Thank You!

Eric
August 12th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

YES! Thank you so much for this!!

CheapAppetite
August 12th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

Thanks for the tweet button. Is there a way to move the button up to the top of the post instead of the bottom?

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Not yet, but we’ll look into providing more options in future updates.

r. scott stahl
August 12th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

Thanks for the help. This is another great tool.

The Silent Spectator
August 12th, 2010 at 5:48 pm

Wow!! I’ve been waiting for that! Thanks a lot!

Charlie
August 12th, 2010 at 5:48 pm

I have enabled the twitter button on my blogs but it is not showing yet. Will this take care of itself in a day or so?

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 6:35 pm

No, it should instantly appear at the bottom of single post pages.

Mike Dalgarno
August 12th, 2010 at 5:50 pm

Good start, so any timescales when other social sites (such as Faceache) will be added so people who look can share to their hearts content?

Travis Lambert
August 12th, 2010 at 5:53 pm

Now how about a Facebook button?

Dream Catcher
August 12th, 2010 at 6:00 pm

add FB one too plz

Sajib
August 12th, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Good thing. I think you may add a bunch of other social media icons including Facebook, StumbleUpon.

Lee
August 12th, 2010 at 6:08 pm

Thank you!

Natalie Binder
August 12th, 2010 at 6:21 pm

Brill. Love it. But I would like to see the “Tweet” button at the top of posts instead of the bottom someday. A lot of people won’t read “below the fold”. Thanks WP. <3

Driving Instructors UK
August 12th, 2010 at 6:21 pm

I don’t have an extras section in my appearance menu.
Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 4:45 pm If you go to your blog dashboard you’ll see the “Appearance” menu on the left hand side. Under this menu is the “Extras” menu where you’ll find the setting.

I only have the 4 sub headings: themes widgets menus editor

Andy P
August 12th, 2010 at 6:35 pm

Please contact support and we’ll get this sorted for you. Thanks.

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Jim Ingersoll
August 12th, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Nice! Way 2 go!

Jim

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Corra McFeydon
August 12th, 2010 at 6:55 pm

Thanks for your hard work! I love the new button.

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