With just a few lines of code, you can integrate Twitter’s new @Anywhere feature into your business blog or website, promoting a more engaged readership and enabling follows and Tweets right from your site!
“Twitter @Anywhere is an easy-to-deploy solution for bringing the Twitter communication platform to your site. @Anywhere promotes a more engaged user base for your site. Use @Anywhere to add Follow Buttons, Hovercards, linkify Twitter usernames, and build deeper integrations with “Connect to Twitter.” “
Twitter’s @Anywhere brings some of the best features of the ubiquitous microblog platform from their home page right into yours, and it’s quick and easy to implement for those comfortable with adding a couple of snippets of Javascript to a website.
According to Twitter, @Anywhere means “more tweets, more traffic, more follows, more engagement, more users, more insight”.
“Embed a Tweet Box on your site and help your users share what matters to them. Push your content throughout Twitter–from Twitter.com to Google search; from SMS to the tens of thousands of apps. Seamlessly activate Hovercards wherever you mention a Twitter account. Form long-lasting relationships that follow users throughout Twitter. Twitter Connect provides simple Sign In for tens of millions of engaged users. Access a network made of interests: not just friends, but news sources and businesses small and large.”
Features of @Anywhere for site owners:
- The @Anywhere application will ‘linkify’ (convert to a link) any Twitter names mentioned on your site, simply by adding the ‘@’ symbol in front of a username.
- Users who mouse over a Twitter name will see a Hovercard (a small, context-aware tooltip that provides access to data about a particular Twitter user) with a Follow button, enabling following of users right from the page.
- Easily add a ‘Tweet box’ with either pre-filled text or empty for users to fill in, which makes it simple for users to Tweet directly from your post or page.
- Add a ‘smart’ Follow button to your site so that users can follow you without going to your Twitter profile page. The ‘smart’ feature detects whether or not they’re already following you.
See Twitter’s documentation for @Anywhere for more information.
For detailed instructions on integrating Twitter @Anywhere on a WordPress site, check out How to Add Twitter @anywhere in WordPress.
[Derek Markham is a writer, a father, a WordPress addict, and social media butterfly who loves to share what's new and interesting in his world in under 140 characters. Hit him up with an @ reply anytime for help, conversation, or just to say hey!]
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