Twitter New Follow Button

Twit­ter com­ing of age

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Go right ahead and click it. It’s now so much eas­ier to fol­low a blog’s twit­ter account. Pre­vi­ously users sub­scribe by hav­ing to click-through to Twit­ter and then fol­low­ing the account.

It’s dif­fer­ent from tweet­ing the post or article.

The new “RSS” Feed

How many have heard about RSS feed. This site and in fact nearly every other site have one. You need an RSS reader such as Google Reader to read.

Now with the Twit­ter Fol­low But­ton, it gives a new twist to RSS.

You can orga­nize the twit­ter account by lists or sub­jects. For exam­ple, musi­cians, or pop stars, or blog­gers and you have your own cus­tomize news feed based on your interests.

How to do it

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You’ll get to this page:

Twit­ter Fol­low But­ton Page

Key in your Twit­ter user name, chose to dis­play in light or dark, with or with­out fol­lower count and select your pre­ferred language.

Then copy the HTML code and feel free to apply it to any arti­cle on your web­site or as a side wid­get as I have done on the right. Easy.

I leave it to your imag­i­na­tion where you want to put the button.

What else is Twit­ter up to

I’m using Tweet­Deck on my mobile.

And some­time this week, it will launch its own photo-sharing ser­vice. It will be in direct com­pe­ti­tion with Twit­pic and Flickr.

Good­bye Hoot­suite and Seesmic? Then again these twit­ter clients are still around.