Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Twitter Follow button launches to compete with Facebook


From some time now Facebook allows site owners to include in   pages like button. Today, to compete with Mark Zuckerberg's social network, Twitter has released a follow button to be implemented by all web pages. The owners of sites that implement the feature will allow users to follow a specific account directly from the page where you are, without opening a twitter.


The code to implement the buttons can be copied here. So far there are few options: the network user can choose between a black or white to show or not the counter of followers in the network. You can also choose a language for the button, but Portuguese is not one of them.

Until now the only button that Twitter had released was the tweet button, which allows the publication of a tweet on the page accessed directly from it.