In this week’s episode of The Listening Post, we take a look at the on air video wars following the Gaza flotilla attack and we dip into our archive to give you an excerpt from one of our favourite interviews: Wael Abbas on the Egyptian blogosphere.
I work for a nonprofit and I’m trying to set up something where a visitor can automatically tweet a specific phrase from our blog. For example
"One in two men will get cancer in their lifetime" Tweet this fact now.
Anyone know of any widgets or other ways to do this?
You probably don’t need anything more than this:
"http://Twitter.com/home?status=One in two men will get cancer in their lifetime. See thisblog.org for details"
Print your text – heck, you could put it in a graphic – anchor that URL to it, slap a Twitter button on it and label it "Tweet this." If the user isn’t logged in, Twitter will ask him to sign in.
Like for example, when you Tweet, additional information will appear: "3 minutes ago via Echofon". How do I make that "via Echofon" disappear?
There isn’t a way to make that little line of text go away. It is built into Twitter’s structure. The only way you could edit it any would be to have your own application that interfaced with Twitter’s API and then it would say "via API" as the source.
In this week’s episode of The Listening Post, we take a look at the on air video wars following the Gaza flotilla attack and we dip into our archive to give you an excerpt from one of our favourite interviews: Wael Abbas on the Egyptian blogosphere.
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