Make It Simple for Visitors to Tweet Your Content to Twitter
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Web cruisers are pretty ADD. We don’t like sites that are complicated to navigate and we like things that make our time online simple.
Making it simple for your site visitors to Tweet your content will increase the likelihood of them sharing your information via Twitter; and, giving them a “hey, Twitter me please” reminder in the form of a button doesn’t hurt either!
Have you ever cruised blogs and saw a little button that said “Tweet/Retweet This”? 
Were you deciding if you were going to click that little button before you even really dug into the content? That’s a subliminal message of sorts, and you should have those messages on your page too!
These tools give you that mind power!
Tweet This Does the URL shortening (as do the others), so your visitors click twice and voila, they’ve spread your word. You can also edit some of the settings - I love to be able to choose! (update, I’ve installed this and you can see it at the bottom of the post (customizable buttons) it also allows you to show a list of the Tweets about this post (tweet this so we can see the list!) TweetThis also gives you the option to add other buttons like Plurk, Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Ping.fm, Reddit, and Stumbleupon.
Tweetmeme gives you the button you see at the top of this post (and in the screenshot). You can also use a compact version.
TwitMe also gives you this functionality but it further allows you to notify your Twitter followers of new post. You can also interact with your Twitter account.
TwitThis is another service that gives your readers easy access to posting your content on Twitter.
I think Tweetmeme is my fav and the one I’ll be utilizing here (sending mind power to my own mind…this has been on your to-do list for a while, stop and do it!…update DONE and added TweetThis at the bottom!) You can determine the placements of these buttons.
I use Twitter Tools to show my Tweets in my sidebar so I’m not really in need of the extra functionality of TwitMe.
You can use Twitter’s widget to show off your Twitter on other social sites. I’ve been installing it on some of my clients’ pages and I can stick it on most social profiles so I love that.
So, long story short, it’s important that you not only show off your Tweets via using tools such as Twitter Tools and Widgets everywhere possible but it’s also important to make it simple for your visitors to share your content with their own followers.
~K @areaK
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Categories: Twitter n Tools!
Tags: blog tips, Twitter, twitter buttons, twitter marketing, twitter promotion, twitter resources, twitter tips, twitter tools, twitter viral
One comment to “Make It Simple for Visitors to Tweet Your Content to Twitter”
April 26th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Another good post Karen. This is something that I explain all the time, the easier you make it for people to spread your content, the quicker they’ll do it. It’s all about simplicity, and instead of finding like 10 buttons scattered over a website to share the content, having a good one that stick out, they’ll use it.
Btw, I use the tweetmeme button on my blog, I replaced the “digg” button, to me the tweetmeme button has more power and especially with the buzz about twitter, it’s one of the best times to be using it, keep up the good work.