Posterous Introduces Seamless Retweeting

I've just updated my various Posterous blog themes to support the new Retweet button. I originally used the Addthis share button to cover everything but there are SO many options that it takes a while to find the service you are looking for. I used the single share options landing page because Posterous doesn't support javascript (yet !!).

While I had the lid off I also added a facebook share as it's own external share button, I figure that most of my shares will come from a couple of sources. With the tight integration between Posterous and Facebook, I have a feeling the Facebook share (with share counts) will be included shortly.

I would LOVE to have post-summary (Read More) support in Posterous. While we were traveling we struggled with extremely long load times just to load/browse the latest content. As a general rule I try to put my "expensive" content after the fold to increase load performance. Forcing the reader to the post page also has a nice side benefit.. improved analytics.

I've tried to balance functionality with the clean look of Posterous in my theme designs. On my community blog I try to use [show more] links to keep the clean initial look, while allow allowing easy/direct access to the desirable content. I'd love some feedback on community blog theme and (non-post) content.. What's missing? What should be removed?

What do you think, is the tweet count really necessary? What (non feed based) services do you use to share content?

PS: I love the Posterous tagline "getting better every day".. it sure is!!

Update to the Update: Turns out you don't need to have autopost to twitter enabled, it was just a corner case bug which has already been fixed (gotta love great support). To use the retweet feature you will need to login to twitter via posterous (only once), so they can tweet on your behalf!!

Update: Looks like you need to have twitter autopost enabled to use this feature. I currently use friendfeed to post to twitter so I didn't have it enabled. I wonder why they can't just leave the RT @username off if twitter autopost isn't enabled. Maybe I should have guessed that I needed it enabled (retweet vs tweet), but I was able to set it all up on my blogs without the necessary info to make it fully work.. that's not dead simple!!

I was going to try and whip up my own but the post.ly url isn't available via the theme elements .. {CurrentPostlyURL} please!!

Filed under // posterous social media ttmygh

Posted: November 16, 2009

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Nov 17, 2009

Vincent Chu said...

Chris, thanks for your help in calling the bug to our attention and helping us fix it -- always great to get feedback!

Chris Myles said...

No Vincent, thank you!! I'm used to banging my head against the Google Wall of Silence .. for *months*. Posterous is a very refreshing change and I'm willing to help anytime!!

Dec 26, 2009

Charnita Fance said...

How about adding a Digg button? Is that possible. I'm searching and searching but can't find one without javascript.

Dec 27, 2009

Charnita, You could add the static Digg button to the template or write an iframe wrapper for the dynamic button and pass the url and post title as arguments. I use the general share button to cover all the "other' cases (outside of facebook and twitter).

Dec 29, 2009

Ok! Thank you :)

Feb 24, 2010

Bob Wan-Qi Kim said...

Chris... you rawk man! The javascript didn't work but your code is perfect... I linked over to you from my blog .... thanks!!!

Mar 12, 2010

SelmaTwit said...

how can I make the javascript work with facebook share button to have thumbnails-preview while sharing document on facebook? Please help. Plus when I try to add share button, the "share" button image is not displayed? Help Help Help! Many thanks!