Yesterday Twitter introduced a one-click ‘follow’ button – see examples to the right sidebar of this blog post.
The idea of the button is that you can allow people who are signed into twitter to follow you with one click, from your website, blog or other web page. A very useful tool as it associates the useful content you’re sharing directly with the call to action to follow you on twitter for more.
Many people who blog use feedburner to share the RSS feed from their blog together with sharing buttons and following buttons, and to measure and promote the number of readers their blog has. This follow button is even better because it can be used on any platform where there is HTML and Javascript enabled.
Twitter has produced a simple page to create your own follow buttons.
The page generates HTML text that you can paste onto your website code, blog sidebar or posts etc. It is also possible to edit the text to create follow buttons for any user, which might be useful if you are compiling a list of tweeters to follow.
Here are some of my accounts:
Follow @SuButcher
Follow @ArchitectLeague
Follow @JustProfs
How could you use the ‘follow’ button? Have you got one on your website yet?
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