Last month Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced Twitter Anywhere, but it wasn’t exactly clear what it was. Now the microblogging platform, which looks pretty busy with all its announcements from its developer conference, is sharing more details about the API that is part display widget and part external login, all controlled via JavaScript. There are three elements to Anywhere: follow buttons, tweet boxes and user logins. There are also some simple ways to bring the interactivity of twitter.com into your site, such as automatically linking usernames and activating hover boxes to get additional information about a user. Twitter has provided great example code. Read on for an overview of each portion. Follow ButtonsIf you want to encourage your visitors to follow you without sending them away from your site, simply embed a follow button on the page. This drops the barrier to a follow, letting the user decide at the moment of interest. This is a small way to put Twitter on your site. Anywhere can go further.Read more: programmable web
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