One of the things I have been looking to add to this blog is the ability to Re-tweet a blog entry directly from that entry.
If you have a WordPress.com blog WordPress does not allow the use of plugins such as the whole slew that can be found on the WordPress.org site that can be used if you have your own instance of WordPress on your own hosting.
In my searching around and looking for a “hack” of some sort I discovered that there is a tweetmeme shortcode – though this is not mentioned that I can find on the wordpress site where all the shortcodes are documented. It is, however documented on the tweetmeme site. Please follow the link if your interested.
This will add that little “retweet” at the right at the top of this post with the number of times the number of times it has actually been sent on. As with all shortcodes it is case sensitive.
One issue however – you need to enable tweetmeme access to your twitter account. So the choice is yours. If Techcrunch can do it, why can’t I ?
Thanks for reading.
