Update: WordPress Plugin Tweet This

Jason — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:46:47 +0000

I recently added Tweet This to my site, a plugin for WordPress that enables your visitors to easily post a link to your article in their Twitter stream. The key point here, easier is better. One-click goodness will surely get your articles into the Twitterverse.

The plugin was updated yesterday with many more admin features along with options for Digg This, Plunk This and Ping This links. You can see all four at the bottom of this article.

A very welcome addition is customization of how the text is sent to Twitter. The default is ‘[URL] [TITLE]‘ but I followed John Chow’s lead and modified mine to ‘Reading @mesmerlab [TITLE] [URL]‘. I had to modify the plugin code itself when I first installed it.

Thanks go out to Richard X. Thripp for this great upgrade!

Add Video to your Twitter page with BubbleTweet

Jason — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:43:19 +0000

Kevin Sherman over at BubbleTweet has come up with an innovative way to add video to your own Twitter page. Enter a Twitter username on their home page and you get a prompt to add a video with your webcam. Notice I didn’t say ‘your’ username. Check out Housegirl’s page for an example of promoting someone else. Jer979 gives us an idea of what to expect if you follow him.

I like how this service can easily put a real face on your Twitter friends. This is just another step in bringing the cold, electronic internet into a warm and vibrant community.

View some interesting videos on the following Twitter pages:

Barack Obama
John Chow
Kevin Sherman

While writing this article I experienced the infamous fail whale, yet the BubbleTweet video still played. Good job on giving the user something to do while the little birdies haul off the whale.

Mesmer Lab » Twitter

Update: WordPress Plugin Tweet This

Add Video to your Twitter page with BubbleTweet