Even though there’s no reblog feature on self-hosted WordPress blogs, I absolutely have to reblog this: Reblogged from WordPress.com News It’s been just over two years since we first launched our Posterous importer and I never could have predicted how the blogging space would evolve so quickly in that time. As you may have seen in the news today, the Posterous team is joining Twitter, which...
An Actual Retweet Button for Jetpack & Sharedaddy
I was thinking about this for quite some time now — an actual retweet button for WordPress, and I wonder why Twitter hasn’t provided one yet, it’s so obvious! Yes, the tweet button is doing a great job these days, but let’s admit, that we content publishers enjoy retweets more than regular tweets to our articles, because: They show your name and your Twitter avatar along...
Announcing the Twitter Embed Plugin for WordPress
Hey there! I just released a brand new WordPress plugin called Twitter Embed. It supports several ways of embedding tweets into your WordPress posts and pages. The new (new-new) Twitter interface has introduced a new link on tweets called “Embed this Tweet” which allows embedding through HTML code, shortcode or link. This plugin implements all of those ways. It will even reverse an...
Foller.me is Back Online, and now Filled with WordPress Goodness!
Foller.me has got a new home, again! I’ve spent a few days working on a complete overhaul since Google App Engine’s pricing model has changed, which made the app consume over $5/week. It’s not big money but I thought I’d rather host the app next to my own blog for free ;) The (yet another) new version of Foller.me is powered by WordPress, so if you’ve got friends who...
My Twitter Account has finally been unsuspended
My Twitter Account has finally been unsuspended this morning. I wrote earlier that my account was suspended for no reason without any notification emails from Twitter support. The funny thing is even though it was unsuspended today, I got no response to the two tickets I filed so I don’t even know the reason why it was suspended in the first place. Oh well…
Twitter Account Suspended
Here’s a Thanksgiving surprise I got from Twitter today. Seriously, I’ve got a dozen accounts for brands and experiments I run using the Twitter API, but never on my own and funny thing, the rest are fine but mine’s suspended, and no single e-mail from them in my inbox! Contacting Twitter support, let’s see what they have to say.
Happy Thanksgiving!
How To: Show Off Your Social Counters in WordPress
You know it’s all about social these days, and this post is about showing off how social you are on your WordPress website. I’m sure you’re using tonnes of social networks and all of them have friends, followers, fans and subscribers metrics, but let’s start from simple: Twitter, Facebook and RSS. We’ll write code in this post, and you may ask me why. Of course there...
A Proposal to Solve the Bilingual Tweeting Problem
I was cleaning my Twitter account last week from unwanted peeps in the following list. It is really damn hard to keep up with a 1000 tweeps tweeting over 20 messages every second, only one of which could be valuable. So after I cleaned it up, I actually got a better stream from my friends, more tweets in Russian, and more personal tweets, rather than titles and links to blog posts via twitterfeed...
Tweet Button Showing Zero Count
I came across this issue a few days ago and started looking for solutions. Didn’t find too many decent ones, which is why I’m writing this post. I’ve implemented Twitter’s Tweet Button on Foller.me last week and noticed that it always shows 0 count, despiting the fact that the page has been tweeted 3-4 times. My friends suggested to wait a while, but that didn’t help...
Twitter Followers Count Snippet for WordPress
Here’s a short snippet to grab and display your twitter followers count in WordPress. You can use this anywhere, sidebar, posts, header, footer. We’ll be firing an anonymous call to the Twitter API for a user profile. This method does not require authentication, unless you’re trying to view a protected profile. To make this slightly easier I’ve used the JSON functions...